American art historian
John Elderfield
(born 25 April 1943)
[1]
was Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the
Museum of Modern Art
,
New York
, from 2003 to 2008.
[1]
He served as the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator at the
Princeton University Art Museum
and Lecturer in the
Princeton University
Department of Art and Archaeology from 2012 to 2019.
[2]
[3]
Career
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Elderfield studied the history of art at the
University of Manchester
and the
University of Leeds
. He received his PhD from the
Courtauld Institute of Art
in 1975.
[4]
In 1974, Elderfield edited and introduced the diary of the Zurich
Dada
artist
Hugo Ball
,
Hugo Ball: the flight out of time
. This publications was revised in 1996.
Elderfield joined the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 1975. He served the Museum as Chief Curator at Large from 1993 to 2003. As Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum, he reinstalled that collection in 2004 in its newly rebuilt premises.
Elderfield had published studies of
Henri Matisse
,
Kurt Schwitters
,
Helen Frankenthaler
,
Richard Diebenkorn
,
Howard Hodgkin
,
[1]
and
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
. In 1986, Elderfield received the Eric Mitchell Prize for his book on Schwitters.
Elderfield contributed a catalog essay to the exhibition of
Bob Dylan's
paintings at the
National Gallery of Denmark
from September 2010 until April 2011
[5]
[6]
He served on the board of the
Dedalus Foundation
, the Members’ Board of the
Phillips Collection
, Washington, D.C, the American Advisory Committee of the
Courtauld Institute of Art
, the American Committee of the
Praemium Imperiale
, and the Advisory Committee of the
Kate Weare Dance Company
; was a Member of the
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
, and an Honorary Member of Proyecto Armando Reveron, Caracas.
[7]
Recognition
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Elderfield received the award of
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
from the French Government. In 2005,
Time Magazine
included Elderfield on their list of the 100 most influential people of 2005.
Bibliography
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- Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
, by Hugo Ball, edited with an introduction and notes by John Elderfield (University of California Press, 1974; revised 1996).
ISBN
978-0-520-20440-9
- Kurt Schwitters
(New edition 1987), Thames & Hudson.
ISBN
978-0-500-27474-3
- Modern Painting And Sculpture: 1880 to Present at the Museum of Modern Art
, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
ISBN
0-87070-576-8
- Henri Matisse: A Retrospective
, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992.
ISBN
0-87070-432-X
- Helen Frankenthaler
, Harry N. Abrams, 1987.
ISBN
0-8109-0916-2
- Language of the Body: Drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
, Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
ISBN
0-8109-3585-6
- Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximilian
, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
ISBN
0870704230
- Cezanne Portraits
, Princeton University Press, 2017.
ISBN
978-0691177861
References
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a
b
c
Who’s Who 2011
, A&C Black, 2011
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"News at Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum names Elderfield distinguished curator, lecturer"
. www.princeton.edu. December 22, 2014
. Retrieved
April 17,
2015
.
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"John Elderfield, Former Chief Curator at Museum of Modern Art, to Join the Princeton University Art Museum"
. artmuseum.princeton.edu. December 19, 2014
. Retrieved
April 17,
2015
.
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"People | Department of Art and Archaeology"
.
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Battersby, Matilda (September 2, 2010).
"Bob Dylan paintings at Danish National Gallery"
.
The Independent
. London
. Retrieved
September 9,
2010
.
- ^
"Bob Dylan. The Brazil Series"
. Statens Museum for Kunst.dk. September 1, 2010. Archived from
the original
on July 9, 2011
. Retrieved
April 23,
2011
.
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John Elderfield
Archived
2012-01-31 at the
Wayback Machine
Dedalus Foundation, New York.
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