John Walford

Dr. E. John Walford is Professor of Art History. Born in England, he was educated at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and received the Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was the Wolfson College Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art, 1976-80. He is author of Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1991, 243 pp, 201 illustrations), as well as an introductory, college art history textbook Great Themes in Art (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002, 528 pp., approx. 500 illustrations). His current research is focused on Incarnational Theology and Renaissance Visual Culture. He has also lectured widely on issues relating to Christianity and art. He was named Senior Teacher-of-the-Year at Wheaton College in 1997 and received Wheaton's Senior Scholar Achievement Award in 2002. John began teaching at Wheaton in 1981.