List of female art museum directors
Appearance
This is a list of notable female museum directors.
List of female art museum directors by name
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q, R, S – T, U, V – W, X, Y, Z
Lists by decade
1900–1919
- Cornelia B. Sage (1876 or 1880–1936) (Albright-Knox Gallery)[1]
- Lulu F. Miller (1916-1930) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI) [2]
1920s
- Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox (Honolulu Museum of Art)
- Katherine Innes (Montclair Art Museum)
- Florence Nightingale Levy (1870–1947) (Baltimore Museum of Art)
- Gertrude Herdle Moore (1896–1993) (Memorial Art Gallery)
- Beatrice Winser (Newark Museum)
1930s
- Adelyn (Dohme) Breeskin (1896–1986) (Baltimore Museum of Art)
- Juliana R. Force (1876–1948) (Whitney Museum of American Art)
- Dr. Grace McCann Morley (1900–1985) (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
- Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967) (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
1940s
- Katherine Coffey (Newark Museum)
- Alice Kendall (Newark Museum)
- Agnes Mongan (1905–1996) (Harvard Art Museums)
- Isabel Spaulding Roberts (Brooklyn Museum)
- Esther I. Seaver (Dayton Art Institute)
- Ala Story (1907–1972) (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
1950s
- Katherine Hanna (Taft Museum of Art)
1960s
- Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (National Gallery of Canada
- Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Storm King)
1970s
- Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- Muriel B. Christison (Krannert Art Museum)
- Suzanne Delehanty (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (Contemporary Museum Houston) (Center for the Fine Arts, Miami)
- Cathleen Gallander (Art Museum of South Texas)
- Kathryn E. Gamble (1933–2011) (Montclair Art Museum)
- Alana Heiss (born 1943) (P.S.1 now MoMA PS1)
- Shirley Reiff Howarth (born 1944) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Museum 1975-1979; Tampa Art Museum, 1979-1981)
- Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Storm King Art Center)
- Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942)(University of Iowa Museum of Art)
- Hsio-Yen Shih (1933–2001) (National Gallery of Canada)
1980s
- Linda Bantel (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
- Jacquelynn Bass (Hood Museum of Art) (University Art Museum, Berkeley)
- Jane Bledsoe (Georgia Museum of Art)
- Elizabeth Broun (National Museum of American Art)
- Mary Schmidt Campbell (born 1948) (Studio Museum in Harlem)
- Linda Cathcart (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)
- Priscilla Colt (University of Kentucky Art Museum)
- Kinshasha Homan Conwill (Studio Museum in Harlem)
- Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Frye Art Museum)
- Barbara Knowles Debs (New-York Historical Society) [3]
- Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943–2008) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- Mary Gardner Gates (Yale University Art Gallery) (Seattle Art Museum)
- Adelheid M. Gealt (Indiana University Art Museum)
- Barbara Gibbs (Crocker Art Museum) (Cincinnati Art Museum)
- Constance W. Glenn (Art Museum, California State University)
- Anne Hawley (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
- Marilyn Hoffman (Currier Museum of Art)
- Holly Hotchner (New-York Historical Society)
- Janet Kardon (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (American Craft Museum)
- Emily Kass (Fort Wayne Museum of Art) (Tampa Museum of Art) (University of New Mexico Art Museum) (Fort Wayne Museum of Art)
- Lyndel King (Weisman Art Museum)
- Mary H. Kujawski (University of Iowa, Museum of Art)
- Marcia Manhart (Philbrook Museum of Art)
- Ursula E. McCracken (Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.))
- Ruth Meyer (Taft Museum of Art)
- Marena Grant Morrisey (Orlando Museum of Art)
- Andrea S. Norris (Spencer Museum of Art)
- Barbara S. Nosanow (Portland Museum of Art)
- Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall (Oakland Museum of Art) (Norton Museum of Art) (Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Merribell Parsons (Columbus Museum of Art)
- Carol A. Phillips (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
- Dianne Pilgrim (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)
- Joan Rosenbaum (Jewish Museum (Manhattan))
- Linda Shearer (Williams College Museum of Art, CAC)
- Innis Shoemaker (Ackland Art Museum)
- Rochelle Slovin (Museum of the Moving Image)[4]
- Nancy Spector, Deputy Director (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
- Lisa M. Taylor (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)
- Shirley Thomson (1930-2010) (National Gallery of Canada)
- Edith Tonelli (Wight Art Gallery)
- Marcia Tucker (1940–2006) (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Julia Brown Turrell (Des Moines Art Center)
- Barbara A. Tyler (McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
- Katherine J. Watson (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)
- Sylvia H. Williams (National Museum of African Art)
1990s
- Kathy Halbreich (Walker Art Center)
- Holly Hotchner (Museum of Art and Design)
- Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942) (Amon Carter Museum) (Palmer Museum of Art)
- Ann Philbin (Hammer Museum)
- Kimerly Rorschach (Smart Museum of Art)
- Mary Sue Sweeney (Newark Museum)
- Elsie McCabe Thompson (Museum for African Art)
- Roslyn Walker (National Museum of African Art)
2000 to present
- Hope Alswang, Norton Museum of Art
- Rael Artel, Tartu Art Museum
- Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries (which includes Manchester Art Gallery and Gallery of Costume)
- Ivy Barsky, Director and Chief Executive Officer (National Museum of American Jewish History)[5]
- Kathleen Bartels (Vancouver Art Gallery)
- Annette Blaugrund (National Academy Museum and School)
- Holly Block (Bronx Museum of the Arts)
- Nathalie Bondil, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Patricia Bovey (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
- Leslie Greene Bowman (Winterthur Museum)
- Betsey Bradley, Mississippi Museum of Art
- Karen Brosius, Columbia Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Broun, Smithsonian American Art Museum[6]
- Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
- Laurene Buckley (Queens Museum)
- Janet Carding, Royal Ontario Museum
- Melissa Chiu (born 1972) (Asia Society)
- Johnnetta Cole, National Museum of African Art
- Lisa Corrin, Williams College Museum of Art, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
- Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art
- Suzanne Cotter, Serralves
- Silvia Karma Cubina, Bass Museum of Art
- Suzanne Delehanty, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Center
- Graciela de la Torre (Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte)
- Donna de Salvo, Deputy Director (Whitney Museum of American Art)
- Jill Deupi, Lowe Art Museum
- Gretchen Dietrich, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Jenny Dixon (Noguchi Museum)
- Janice Driesbach (Sheldon Museum of Art) (Dayton Art Institute)
- Tina Dunkley, Clark Atlanta University Galleries
- Susan Edwards, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
- Kristin Evenden, Glenbow Museum
- Lori Fogarty, Oakland Museum of California
- Adelheid M. Gealt, Indiana University Art Museum
- Thelma Golden (born 1966) (Studio Museum in Harlem)
- Claudia Gould (born 1956) (Institute of Contemporary Art) (Jewish Museum)
- Judy Greenberg, founding director of Kreeger Museum[6]
- Deborah Gribbon (J. Paul Getty Museum)
- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Gallery
- Saralyn Reece Hardy, Spencer Museum of Art
- Kathleen Harleman (Krannert Art Museum)
- Rebecca Alban Hoffberger (American Visionary Art Museum)
- Holly Hotchner, Museum of Arts and Design
- Mercedes Itube (Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes)
- Kathleen Jameson, Mint Museum
- Lial Jones (Crocker Art Museum)
- Emily Kass (Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina)
- Dr. Dorothy Kosinski (The Phillips Collection)
- Susan Krane, San Jose Museum of Art
- Georgianna Lagoria (The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu)
- Marilyn Laufer, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art
- Cathy Leff (Wolfsonian)
- Diane Lesko (Telfair Museum of Art)
- Peggy Loar, Corcoran Gallery of Art[6]
- Susan Longhenry (Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM)
- Elsie Crum McCabe (New Africa Center Museum for African Art)
- Nannette Maciejunes (Columbus Museum of Art)
- Kate Markert, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
- Jill Medvedow (Institute of Contemporary Art)
- Amy Meyers (Yale Center for British Art)
- Louise Mirrer (New-York Historical Society)
- Marena Grant Morrisey, Orlando Museum of Art
- Laurie Norton Moffat (Norman Rockwell Museum)
- Alexandra Munroe (Japan Society)
- Rebecca Nagy, Samuel Harn Museum
- Jessica F. Nicoll, Smith College Museum of Art
- Judith H. O’Toole, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
- Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum)
- Sharon Patton (born 1944) (Allen Memorial Art Museum)
- Lisa Phillips (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Center
- Ellen Plummer (Arkansas Art Center)
- Jordana Pomeroy [Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum]
- Anne Poulet (The Frick Collection)
- Renee Price (Neue Galerie New York)
- Lourdes I. Ramos, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
- Danielle Rice, Delaware Art Museum
- Andrea Rich (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
- Kimerly Rorschach (Seattle Art Museum) (Nasher Art Museum)
- Amy Sadao, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia [7]
- Kim Sajet, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Estela Sandrini, Oscar Niemeyer Museum
- Kate Sellers (Wadsworth Atheneum)
- Bonnie Speed (Michael C. Carlos Museum)
- Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum
- Susan Fisher Sterling, National Museum of Women in the Arts[6]
- Lowery Stokes Sims (Studio Museum in Harlem)
- Terrie Sultan, Parrish Art Museum
- Lora Urbanelli, Montclair Art Museum
- Roxana Velasquez (Museo National de Arte) (San Diego Museum of Art)
- Olga Viso (Hirshorn Museum) (Walker Art Center)
- Simone Wicha, The Blanton Museum of Art
- Karol Wight, Corning Museum of Glass
- Stephanie Wiles (Allen Memorial Art Museum) (Herbert F. Johnson Museum)
- Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery
- Lynn Zelevansky, Carnegie Museum of Art
- Heidi Zuckerman Jacobsen, Aspen Art Museum
References
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- ^ "History - Muskegon Art Museum". Muskegon Museum of Art. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
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