Robert L Stahl

Robert L. Stahl, M.D. is a retired hematologist-oncologist and a palliative care physician specializing in hospice care, who practiced thirty years in Atlanta, GA, including more than a decade as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University. From 2003–2021 he was the Director of the James Fitzgerald Legacy, the estate of the artist, serving as a volunteer at the Monhegan Museum of Art and History, ME, where he also fulfilled the roles of Associate Director and Co-Director. Responsible for the management of all aspects of the Fitzgerald estate, Stahl oversaw the development of the artist’s Catalogue Raisonné which now includes a detailed database of more than 2,400 of his works. He has lectured and written extensively on Fitzgerald, and is the author of the two-volume Selections From the Catalogue Raisonné, with the first volume focusing on the artist’s drawings and sketches and the second on his watercolors. In 2009 he oversaw the restoration of Monhegan’s 1850 Lighthouse, for which he received the 2010 Maine Historic Preservation Honor Award. Stahl is first generation American-born, the son of German Jewish immigrants who fled the Holocaust in 1938. He divides his year between Portland and Monhegan Island, Maine.