Today is the last day at Museum for Teresa A. Carbone, our esteemed Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Amer
Today is the last day at Museum for Teresa A. Carbone, our esteemed Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art. While we will very much miss Terry and the extremely important role she has played here since joining the Museum in 1985, we are proud and delighted that she will be assuming the position of Program Director for American Art at The Henry Luce Foundation later this summer.Since 2005, Terry has overseen the American art holdings as the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art. She was co-curator of Eastman Johnson: Painting America (1999), and was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for the accompanying catalogue. She served as project director for American Identities: A New Look (2001), an innovative reinstallation of the Museum’s American art galleries. As principal author of the two-volume American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876, she was awarded the College Art Association’s 2006 Alfred H. Barr Prize, and a publication prize from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Dr. Carbone curated the major exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties (2011), and won The Alice, the inaugural publication prize awarded by Furthermore for the accompanying catalogue. She co-curated John Singer Sargent Watercolors (2013), and was the co-curator of Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. In 2014, Terry was the recipient of the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art, presented by the Smithsonian Institution’s Archive of American Art. Beyond these great achievements, over these many years Terry has been totally committed to our exceptional collections of American Art, has overseen its careful growth with major acquisitions and has been the catalyst in the development and success of our Fund for African American Art.We honor Terry with her favorite work in the collection, one of the most striking portraits by the leading New York painted William Merritt Chase, of his talented student and later the successful portrait painter Lydia Field Emmet. -- source link
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