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