Ellen Prokop

Ellen Prokop is a specialist in the Department of Image Collections at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the former Digital Art History Lead at The Frick Collection, New York. Her research on Spanish art has appeared in the Hispanic Research Journal and in several edited volumes, including El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master (2017). Her work in digital art history has been published in Art Documentation, Å¿ivot umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, and The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Most recently, she co-authored the chapter “Artificial Intelligence and Discovering the Digitized Photoarchive” in Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections (2022). Her essay “Spanish Primitives at the Gardner Museum” is forthcoming in Spain and Boston: Cultural Crosscurrents in the Age of Isabella Stewart Gardner (2026). During her doctoral studies at New York University, she held a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her postdoctoral research has been supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.