Andrew Oliver (archaeologist)

Andrew Oliver, Jr. (* 1936 ) is an American classical archaeologist .

After graduating from Harvard University in 1958, Andrew Oliver worked at the Greek and Roman Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1960 to 1970 , initially as an assistant curator and later as an associate curator . From 1973 to 1974 he worked at the Brooklyn Museum . In 1974 he received his MA with the thesis The Reconstruction of Two Apulian Tomb Groups at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . From 1975 to 1981 he was director of the Textile Museum in Washington, DC From 1982 to 1994 he was director of the museum program of the National Endowment for the Arts .

He was married to the classical archaeologist Diana Buitron-Oliver .