Gary Tinterow

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Gary Tinterow (* in Houston ) is an American art historian. He has headed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , since 2012 .

Life

Gary Tinterow was born in Houston to violinist Bobby Tinterow and his wife Dariece W. Tinterow. His brother Chaya Tinterow is also a musician and Gary Tinterow plays the harpsichord in his spare time. His cousin Ann Richards was governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 . Tinterow's mother was friends with the art collector Audrey Jones Beck , whose works of art he met in her home in Houston. He also saw Dominique de Ménil's private collection, also in his hometown, in his youth .

Tinterow attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire (Texas) until 1972 . He then studied art history at Brandeis University until 1976 and then art history and museology at Harvard University , where he graduated in 1983. He also holds a diploma from the Center for Curatorial Leadership at Columbia University Business School since 2008 .

Tinterow began his professional career as an assistant curator at various museums in Germany and abroad. These included the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, where he later worked as a curator himself, and the Fogg Art Museum , where he assisted in the department for works on paper. He also worked at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and worked as a guest curator at the Tate Gallery in London. Another stop was the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, where he was to return several decades later as director.

In 1983 Tinterow began his work as a curator for European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Here he specialized in the art of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the following years he was instrumental in the conception of important exhibitions. These included retrospectives on the work of the painters Edgar Degas (1988), Georges Seurat (1991), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1996), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1999) and Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (2006). He also showed exhibitions on major collections such as those of Louisine W. Havemeyer (1993), Degas' private collection (1997), and the Leo and Gertrude Stein collection (2012). Further exhibitions were devoted to the origins of Impressionism (1994), French and English Romantic painting (2003) and the influence of Spanish painting on French art (2003).

In 2004 the departments for art of the 19th century were merged with the departments for modern and contemporary art. In 2008 he became director of this department ( Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art ). This was followed by exhibitions on Tony Oursler (2005), Santiago Calatrava (2005), Kara Walker (2006), Neo Rauch (2007), the textile works by Henri Matisse (2005), the art dealer Ambroise Vollard (2006) and a retrospective on Francis Bacon (2009). The exhibition with works by Pablo Picasso (2010) was one of the museum's most successful exhibitions with around 700,000 visitors. Some of these exhibitions were created in collaboration with other museums and were also shown in other houses. Tinterow was one of the co-initiators of the so-called On the Roof exhibitions. Since 2005, sculptures have been shown on a roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum for a period of six months. This series of exhibitions, which was particularly successful with the public, included works by Frank Stella (2006), Cai Guo-Qiang (2007), Jeff Koons (2008) and Roxy Paine (2009) and Anthony Caro (2011). In Berlin he played a key role in the exhibition The Most Beautiful French Come From New York , which in 2007 showed French masterpieces of the 19th century from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

Numerous significant new acquisitions of works of art fell during Tinterow's tenure. These included paintings from the 19th century by Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix , Théodore Géricault , Georges Seurat, Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh . In the field of modern and contemporary art, the museum acquired works by Stanley Spencer , Robert Rauschenberg and George Condo , as well as sculptures by Barbara Hepworth , Jean Tinguely and Anish Kapoor during his tenure .

Since January 2012 Tinterow has been director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. He was also founding president of the Association of Art Museum Curators , an association of American museum curators.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ France Honors Gary Tinterow at www.frenchculture.org
personal data
SURNAME Tinterow, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston