Deb Markow went to graduate school to get a Ph.D. in art history when she was already a wife and mother of two young children. She began her studies because she was enraptured by the beauty of the art she had discovered on her travels as well as the art works she had seen in the museums of New York. She realized her desire to learn more and, in turn, began to communicate her knowledge to others. Deb knows how to describe a picture, a building, or a sculpture so that you can see it for yourself. And then, she can fill in any missing pieces so that you understand the art in its context. Her enthusiasm is contagious and her communication skills come from an instinctive ability to find the main point. She's been called a "natural-born teacher" and a "font of knowledge", a "funny woman" and "more fun than Sister Wendy, with a better smile". Deb is now writing an occasional column called Art in Paris for the electronic journal www.BonjourParis.com

ARTalks Tours - May 2004 to the Present

At the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Gerard ter Borsch
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
J.M.W.Turner and Edward Hopper

At the Guggenheim Museum, NY
Brancusi
Spanish Painting: ElGreco to Picasso

Baltimore MD
Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore Museum of Art

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Byzantium
American Art and Architecture
Rubens Drawings
Gilbert Stuart
Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams
Lippi to Piero: Fra Carnavale
Van Gogh Drawings
Fra Angelico
French Drawings from the British Museum
Prague: Bohemian Art
Hatshepsut
Anne-Louis Girodet
Venice and the Islamic Worls
The New Roman ARt Galleries
The Clark Brothers Collect
Cezanne to Picasso:Ambroise Vollard
Americans in Paris 1860-1900
Set in Stone:The Face in Medieval sculpture
Lewis Comfort Tiffany at Laurelton Hall

Neue Galerie
Egon Schiele

European ARTalks
Amsterdam: The Golden Age of Dutch Art and more

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