Anne d'Harnoncourt

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name = Anne d'Harnoncourt


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birth_date = Birth date|1943|09|7
birth_place = Washington, DC
death_date = Death date|2008|06|1
death_place = Philadelphia
death_cause = Cardiac arrest
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title = The George D. Widener Director and CEO, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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predecessor = Jean Sutherland Boggs
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parents = Rene d'Harnoncourt and Sara Carr
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Anne d'Harnoncourt (September 7 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American museum director and historian of modern art. She was the Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a post she held from 1982 until her death in 2008. Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt was the only child of the Austrian-born Rene d'Harnoncourt, who became a director of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and his wife, the fashion designer Sara Carr. She graduated from The Brearley School in 1961, Radcliffe College in 1965, and received her master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1967. From 1969 she was an assistant curator of modern art at the Chicago Art Institute. She was an expert on the works of Marcel Duchamp, an acquaintance of her parents.

In 1982 d'Harnoncourt became Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her husband, Joseph Rishel, is a senior curator at that institution. She was so deeply involved with the Philadelphia Museum as to decline the offer of a directorship from both the National Gallery of Art in Washington and, it is believed, MoMA in New York. She was a cousin of the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

References

* [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/d'harnoncourta.htm Entry in the Dictionary of Art historians]
* Dinita Smith, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E1DD1E39F933A05756C0A960958260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=2 "AT HOME WITH: Anne d'Harnoncourt, A Master of the Graceful Sidestep"] . "New York Times", May 30, 2006. Accessed 13 January, 2008.
* [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-PA-Obit-DHarnoncourt.html?hp Philadelphia Museum Chief Dies] . "The New York Times", 2 June 2008. Accessed 2 June 2008.