Graham C. Boettcher is the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. He holds a doctorate in the History of Art from Yale University, where his dissertation focused on domestic violence in antebellum American art.

Graham C. Boettcher is the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. He holds a doctorate in the History of Art from Yale University, where his dissertation focused on domestic violence in antebellum American art.Among the exhibitions he has curated are “Framing a Nation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers from the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art” (2006), Pražské noci / Prague Nights: Czech Modern Art from the Hascoe Collection (2007), and Sea Fever: American Art and the Aquatic Imagination (2007). He has contributed to the exhibition catalogues American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880 (Tate Britain, 2002); Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007); and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Art and the American Experience (Yale University Art Gallery, 2008).