May 19 – June 15, 2001
Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery
Wayne Art Center is honored to have Sam Hunter jury the 2001 National Spring Open Juried Exhibition. Sam Hunter is Emeritus Professor of art history at Princeton University, where he taught from 1969 through 1991, and also served during that period as Curator of Modern Art in the University Art Museum, before taking an early retirement to pursue his critical writing and independent scholarship. Sam attended Williams College from 1940-1943, and later received a graduate fellowship for travel in Europe from Williams. He worked as regular art critic on The New York Times from 1947 to 1949. In the years 1953 to 1956, he worked as senior art editor for Harry M. Abrams, Inc., and wrote numerous art exhibition reviews and art monographs.
Professor Hunter organized the first Jackson Pollock museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and a David Smith one-man retrospective there as well in the years 1956-58, when he was Exhibitions Curator. Moving on to The Minneapolis Museum of Art (1958-60), he was appointed Chief Curator, and then Acting Director. From 1960-65, he worked as the founding Director of the Rose Art Museum and Associate Professor in the Art Department at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1965 to 1968, he was the Director of the Jewish Museum in New York. Over the years Sam Hunter has organized more than fifty exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, and written their accompanying catalogues. He recently published a book entitled, “Modern Art” Painting, Sculpture, Architecture” and is currently working on a monograph of Leonard Nelson, a member of the New York School who is known as the “bridge” between Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. (Leonard Nelson’s work will be on display for a special viewing at the Wayne Art Center on May 12, 2001 from 4-7pm.)
Image: Elaine Lisle Yellow Umbrellas Downtown
