 | Susan D. Greenberg |
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation has awarded a grant of $750,000 to support a junior curatorial position at the Yale University Art Gallery.
The position, to be named the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, is currently held by Susan D. Greenberg.
Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the gallery, said, "This generous gift is an enormous boost to our efforts to endow all our junior curatorial positions, giving younger art historians the resources to advance this teaching museum's central mission in a meaningful way.
"It is particularly gratifying and appropriate," he added, "that the grant supports the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, since William Slaughter, Yale Class of 1975, now an attorney and managing director of the Goldsmith Foundation, was a member of the team of undergraduate students who assisted the Yale Art Gallery in organizing the 1975 exhibition of contemporary art titled 'Richard Brown Baker Collects!' Baker's massive holdings of contemporary art have since come to Yale by gift and bequest, and now reside in the gallery as a perpetual resource for further viewing, study and enjoyment."
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation grant award has been matched with funds from the $5 million Twigg-Smith Challenge Grant, created in 2002 by Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith, Yale Class of 1942, to encourage the endowment of four new junior curatorial and conservation positions in the Yale Art Gallery, as well as program funds for its nine curatorial departments.
Susan D. Greenberg, the first Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, received her Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale in 2001. Before returning to Yale in 2002, she worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Greenberg is a lecturer in the Department of the History of Art and has published numerous catalogues and articles on 19th-century French art, as well as organizing exhibitions of sculpture and paintings.
The Yale Art Gallery's holdings of modern and contemporary art include masterpieces by van Gogh, most notably his "Night Café," and by Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Degas, Picasso and Pollock, as well as the Société Anonyme Collection of modernist art assembled by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp.
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