Goya Center

Meet the Team

Dr. Patrick Lenaghan, Co-Director of the Goya Research Center

An internationally acclaimed scholar, Patrick Lenaghan received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. He has worked at The Hispanic Society since 1995 as Head of the Department of Prints and Photographs. Dr. Lenaghan has organized numerous exhibitions, including Gilded Figures (2021) and Picasso and the Spanish Classics (2023) at the Hispanic Society and Imágenes del Quijote at the Museo Nacional del Prado. He has written widely on Spanish Renaissance and Baroque sculpture (Luisa Roldán. Escultora Real, Pedro de Mena Granatensis Malacae, and Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Brown). Dr. Lenaghan has also studied the history of the Hispanic Society collection, particularly its sculpture and its relation to Seville (Madrider Mitteilungen, José Gestoso y Sevilla, Visiones de España). In 2018, Dr. Lenaghan was named a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Sta. Isabel de Hungría in Seville, delivering his discurso de ingreso on March 17, 2018. Goya has featured consistently in Dr. Lenaghan’s work at the museum from acquisitions to publications and exhibitions. He has published on the artist’s graphic works, including in From Goya to Picasso: A Century of Spanish Printmaking, catalogue entries for Tesoros de la Hispanic Society of America, and an extended review of Nigel Glendinning’s Goya y sus críticos (y otros ensayos).

Kirk Swinehart, Photographer

Kirk Davis Swinehart is a New York-based artist specializing in architectural, interior, cultural heritage, and industrial photography. He is also a professional historian and former university professor with formal curatorial training. Kirk trained at the Winterthur Museum as a specialist in the decorative arts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America and Britain, completing his M.A. at Winterthur in 1995. Kirk earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from Yale where he studied the arts and history of British North America with an emphasis on early-modern Ireland and on the Iroquois peoples of colonial New York. Following a year-long stint at the University of Cambridge as the Mellon Research Fellow in American History, Kirk joined the faculty at Wesleyan University, where he taught for nine years. Kirk’s writing and research have been supported by major fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library, among others. His photographic and written work have appeared in Elle Décor, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.