Jonathan Weinberg

Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. is a painter, art historian and curator has lives with his husband, Nicholas Boshnack, Director of Client Services at APNH, in Wooster Square in New Haven.   He got his BA at Yale in 1978, and returned to Yale in 1989 to teach in the History of Art Department from 1989-2001 and then in Yale’s Art School from 2012-2021. 

Currently, he is Curator and Director of Research of the Maurice Sendak Foundation in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he was an artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Center. His groundbreaking books in queer studies and American art history include Male Desire: The Homoerotic in America Art and Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront. He was the lead curator of the prize-winning touring exhibition, Art After Stonewall: 1969-89 and the 2022-24 touring exhibition, Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak.

 In 2022 his GENESIS paintings and prints were on view at New Haven’s Ely Center of Contemporary Art. He also talks about the design and history of fountain pens on his YouTube channel: “Drawing with Fountain Pens.”