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Department of Painting and Sculpture

1929–now


Heads of Department

  1. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.  American, 1902–1981
    1929–1940 • as Director of the Museum • 53 exhibitions
  2. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.  American, 1902–1981
    1940–1943 • as Director of the Museum and Curator of the Department • 53 exhibitions
  3. James Thrall Soby  American, 1906–1979
    1943–1945 • 19 exhibitions
  4. James Johnson Sweeney  American, 1900–1986
    1945–1946 • 11 exhibitions
  5. Dorothy C. Miller  American, 1904–2003
    1946–1949 • 49 exhibitions
  6. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.  American, 1902–1981
    1947–1967 • as Director of Museum Collections • 53 exhibitions
  7. Andrew Carnduff Ritchie  American, born Scotland, 1907–1978
    1949–1957 • 24 exhibitions
  8. Peter Selz  American, born Germany 1919
    1958–1965 • 20 exhibitions
  9. Bates Lowry  American, 1924–2004
    1968–1969 • 2 exhibitions
  10. William S. Lieberman  American, 1923–2005
    1969–1971 • 100 exhibitions
  11. William S. Rubin  American, 1927–2006
    1969–1971 • as Chief Curator • 39 exhibitions
  12. William S. Rubin  American, 1927–2006
    1971–1988 • 39 exhibitions
  13. Kirk Varnedoe  American, 1946–2003
    1988–2001 • 3 exhibitions
  14. Kynaston McShine  American, born Trinidad 1935
    2001–2003 • 29 exhibitions
  15. John Elderfield  British, born 1943
    2003–2008 • 18 exhibitions
  16. Ann Temkin  American, born 1959
    2008–now • no exhibitions