Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art.
12 Facts About Anne d'Harnoncourt
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Anne d'Harnoncourt was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a post she held from 1982 until her sudden death in 2008.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt was an expert scholar on the works of French artist Marcel Duchamp.
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D'Harnoncourt was born on September 7,1943, in Washington, DC d'Harnoncourt grew up in New York City as the only child of Rene d'Harnoncourt, the director of the Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1967, who was of Austrian, Czech and French descent and Sarah, a fashion designer.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt was a cousin of the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt continued her studies at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she majored in History and Literature of Europe and England since 1740, with additional course work in the history of architecture.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt graduated from there in 1967 with a Master of Arts degree in nineteenth-century painting.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt then came to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1967 through 1969.
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In 1972, Anne d'Harnoncourt returned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a curator of twentieth century art.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt served in the position from 1972 and 1982.
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In 2006, Anne d'Harnoncourt led a successful campaign to keep Thomas Eakins's masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, in Philadelphia by capital fundraising.
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Anne d'Harnoncourt was survived by her longtime husband, Joseph J Rishel, who is a senior curator of European painting before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.