Belinda Rathbone is a biographer and fine arts journalist based in Cambridge, MA. She is the author of Walker Evans: A Biography (1995), The Guynd: A Scottish Journal (2005), and The Boston Raphael (2014).
While at MacDowell, Rathbone worked on a non-fiction book, tentatively titled Middleman: Curt Valentin and the Business of Art in wartime New York. Valentin was a German Jewish refugee who became one of the most influential modern art dealers in New York at mid-century, and whose reputation has undergone fresh scrutiny in the current restitution era. The work is in its early stages of development, and during residency, she established a structure and advanced the research and writing.
