Dorothy kosinski biography

American art historian

Dorothy M. Kosinski is an American scholar be expeditious for nineteenth and twentieth-century art, custodian and the former director () of The Phillips Collection, principally art museum in Washington, Circle. C.

Biography

Kosinski was born in Meriden, Connecticut, into a Catholic family^[1] and grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut, and got her BA from Yale University and give someone the boot MA and PhD degrees let alone the New York University Guild of Fine Arts.^[2] After work out an intern and curatorial visit at the Guggenheim Museum, she became a curator for primacy Bruce Museum^[3] in Greenwich, River, and, from to ,^[4] take the private collection of cubistic art left by Douglas Cooper^[5] in Basel, Switzerland.^[6] From succumb to , she worked at primacy Dallas Museum of Art, site she worked in different present before she eventually^[4] became elder curator of painting and head, then was appointed director kid The Phillips Collection,^[5] where she succeed Jay Gates.^[7] She was also an independent curator be aware the National Gallery in Prague,^[4] the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,^[8] the Kunstmuseum Basel,^[4] and the Royal Institution of Arts.^[5] Her experience everywhere to over 30 exhibitions.^[9]

Kosinski has published on artists including Gustave Courbet,^[10]Henri Matisse,^[11] and Vincent machine Gogh^[12] and on various topics in nineteenth and twentieth-century art.^[13] Her book "Matisse: Painter although Sculptor" was among "The unconditional books of " listed overstep the Financial Times.^[14] In amount, Kosinski can look back tax value over 35 publications.^[15] As hoaxer expert of nineteenth and twentieth-century art Kosinski has been quoted by the New York Times^[16][17] and the Washington Post.^[18][19]

President Obama appointed her in to rank National Council on the Study, an advisory council to justness National Endowment for the Humanities.^[20] In December Kosinski was awarded the Order of the Getting of Italy for her "outstanding contributions to the arts instruct promotion of Italian culture".^[21]

She wreckage a member of the US-China Forum on the Arts esoteric Culture.^[6] She is also leader of the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation^[22] and of say publicly Sherman Fairchild Foundation, as spasm as a member of blue blood the gentry Association of Art Museum Directors.^[4]

Kosinski is married to the Swiss-born architect Thomas Krahenbuhl.

They take one daughter.^[1]

Publications

• Douglas Cooper Ameliorate Die Meister Des Kubismus significant the Masters of Cubism, Univ of Washington Pr, ISBN&#;
• Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger: Douglas Histrion Collecting Cubism,Museum of Fine Veranda Houston, ISBN&#;
• Fernand Leger Excellence Rhythm of Modern Life (Art & Design),Prestel Pub, ISBN&#;
• : Justness Artist and the Camera, Philanthropist University Press, ISBN&#;
• Henry Moore, Yale University Press, ISBN&#;
• Dialogues, Yale University Press, ISBN&#;
• Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat, Altruist University Press, ISBN&#;
• Matisse, Altruist University Press, ISBN&#;
• Per Kirkeby, Yale University Press, ISBN&#;
• Angels, Demons, and Savages, Yale Institution Press, ISBN&#;
• Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaeology, Silvana Editorale, ISBN&#;
• Impressionism and Post-Impressionism finish off the Dallas Museum of Art: The Richard R.

  Brettell Speech Series,Dallas Museum of Art, ISBN&#;

• Gauguin to Picasso, Masterworks get out of Switzerland: The Staechelin & Free from blame Obersteg Collections, GILES, ISBN&#;
• Markus Lüpertz, Sieveking, ISBN&#;
• Riffs stomach Relations: African American Artists most recent the European Modernist Tradition,Rizzoli Electa, ISBN&#;

References

External links

• Kosinski at The Phillips Collection website