About me
Maureen Cross is a Senior Lecturer in the Conservation Department at the Courtauld Institute of Art, she was appointed in 2005. She has a joint BA Hons. in Sociology and Economics from Michigan State University and a BA Hons. in the History of Art from Hunter College: City University of New York. She worked in the curatorial department at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, before undertaking conservation fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum-Smithsonian Institution as well as work in private conservation studios in New York City. In 1996 she moved to the UK to study easel paintings conservation at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, completing her MA with Distinction in 1998. She has since worked as a professional conservator at the National Museums of Liverpool, Manchester Galleries, Tate before joining the Courtauld.
