Art historian Allan T. Kohl is Visual Resources Librarian at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, where he has taught courses in the history of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art. He also teaches special topics art history courses for the College of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota.

His location photographs have been included in major scholarly resources such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's ARTstor project and the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. His articles appear in a number of publications, ranging from journals to reference books to web-based resources.

A member of the Visual Resources Association , he received the organization's 2003 Nancy DeLaurier Award for distinguished achievement in the visual resources field. He serves on the VRA's Intellectual Property Rights Committee, with a particular interest in copyright issues as they affect the educational use of images documenting works of art and visual culture. He collaborated in the formulation of the VRA's Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections, and was principal author and designer of the Copy Photography Computator: an interactive decision-making guide to assessing legal rights in images of art works, both available as resources for educators through the VRA website.

Allan is also a baseball umpire, historical re-enactor, and one-time Jeopardy champion. His wife, Katherine, is a theatrical costume designer. They have two grown sons, and recently became grandparents for the first time with the arrival of little Belén Carolina.




Allan with Katrina: In Memoriam (1986-2006).
For nearly twenty years, she was always there to welcome me home from my travels to interesting places. Rest well, little friend.


Other recent projects and articles:

John Tenniell and the American Civil War

The Sculptural Program of St. Gilles-du-Gard: A Virtual Tour