Kelsey Wingel is Associate Conservator of Paintings at the Yale University Art Gallery. She graduated with a B.A. in Art History and Art Conservation from the University of Delaware and an M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Before and during her graduate coursework, Kelsey treated paintings and painted surfaces at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Shelburne Museum, and the Gianfranco Pocobene Studio. Kelsey is particularly interested in 18th- and 19th-century American paintings and much of her recent work focuses on the technical research and conservation treatment of preparatory paintings by Edwin Austin Abbey.