Jere Abbott
Jere Abbott (1897–1982), was the first associate director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Career
Abbott earned his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College before he studied physics at Harvard University, along with the museum's first director, Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr.. He then taught at Bowdoin from 1921 to 1922 before he studied art history classes at Princeton University. After helping to establish a department of fine arts at Wesleyan University in 1929, he helped establish the museum in New York. He became the associate director of the museum at the time of its founding in 1929 and retained that position until 1932 when he became the director of the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts. He remained at Smith, both as the museum's director and as an art history teacher, until he retired in 1946.
External links
- https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/22/obituaries/jere-abbott-84-dies-art-museum-director.html
- http://arthistorians.info/abbottj
- http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/japg.shtml
- American art historians
- Directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Bowdoin College alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Bowdoin College faculty
- Princeton University alumni
- Wesleyan University faculty
- Smith College faculty
- 1897 births
- 1982 deaths
- People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
- American art historian stubs