Ebria Feinblatt (1913–1990)

Ebria Feinblatt (1913-1990) founded the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's department of prints and drawings in 1947. She served a distinguished career as the County Museum's curator for 38 years. Feinblatt studied, collected and wrote on topics ranging from ancient art to German Gothic to modern art, but she was best known for her studies in Bolognese seventeenth-century quadratura painting. Feinblatt's interest in quadratura painting and the Bolognese Seicento artists associated with it originated during a trip to Rome in the early 1950s on a Fulbright grant. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection of seventeenth-century Italian drawings was one of the best represented collections during Feinblatt's tenure as curator. She also wrote a seminal book in the field, Seventeenth-century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators.