13 Facts About Eleanor Munro

Eleanor Carroll Munro was an American art critic, art historian, writer, and editor.

Eleanor Munro was known for her work on women artists.

Eleanor Munro received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature in 1988.

Eleanor Munro's mother, Lucile Nadler, was a pianist, and her father, Thomas Munro, an art educator.

Eleanor Munro's family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when her father found a job with the Cleveland Museum of Art as a curator.

Eleanor Munro studied at the Hathaway Brown School and later graduated from Smith College in 1959.

Eleanor Munro studied in Paris at the Sorbonne University before returning to the United States to complete her master's degree at Columbia University.

Eleanor Munro started her career in the 1950s as an associate editor and then managing editor of ARTnews magazine and Art News Annual.

Eleanor Munro later went on to be a contributing editor to The New Republic, The Atlantic, Saturday Review, Vogue, and Ms.

Eleanor Munro was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature in 1988; and the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

In 1991, Eleanor Munro was awarded a residency fellowship at the Bellagio Study Center in Lake Como, Italy.

Eleanor Munro served on the board of directors of the Truro Center for Arts, starting in 1979; the board of The Living Theatre, New York City, starting in 1989; and was a member of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Association, the American International Association Art Critics, and the Authors Guild.

Eleanor Munro died on April 1,2022, in Rye, New Hampshire, from complications of dementia.