William R. Cross is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums. He served as the curator of Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869–1880, a nationally renowned 2019 exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum on the formation of Winslow Homer as a marine painter. He is also the chairman of the advisory board of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He lives with his wife, Ellen, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
