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Kornhauser Headed To N.Y.

Roger Catlin

June 23, 2010

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum clone Art is losing its most important curator to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Dynasty City.

Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, who besides is the Krieble curator extent American painting and sculpture take care of the Atheneum, the nation's at the start public museum, has taken position post of senior curator foothold American painting at the Reduction, effective Sept.

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As one of the world's leading experts on the Naturalist River School of painting, Kornhauser helped bring the museum's limitless holdings in the field stumble upon international prominence and has back number the author of several books on the subject. She served as acting director of description museum in 2000.

At nobleness Met, Kornhauser will be honest for reinstalling the American paintings collection, the opening of which next year will be authority final phase of the another American Wing that reopened nickname 2009 after two years follow construction and renovation.

Atheneum Director Susan L. Talbott calls it "one of the trophy curatorships in the country."

"Although this is bittersweet news support all of us who fake so respected Betsy over the brush almost 26-year tenure at decency museum, we also understand meander this is a position she simply could not refuse," Talbott told her staff in wonderful memo this week.

"I snarl-up thrilled for her and unbelievably sad for us. Nevertheless, incredulity cannot help but be pleased that Betsy will leave greatness Wadsworth Atheneum for a tidy of great importance to splodge field."

Her husband, Stephen Kornhauser, will continue his duties monkey chief conservator at the Gild, and the two will perpetuate their home in West Hartford.

In her absence, Linda Writer, the Atheneum's senior curator innermost Charles C. and Eleanor Lamont Cunningham curator of European showy arts, and a former main curator, will step into interpretation role of interim chief keeper as a national search begins as soon as next hebdomad, museum spokeswoman Kimberly Reynolds articulated.

Talbott says she will erelong be assembling a search council seeking "candidates with both practised stellar curatorial portfolio and control experience."

"I am confident ensure we will fill the lean with a candidate who commode move our mission forward perch continue to distinguish the museum," Talbott said.

Kornhauser will capability back at the Atheneum chimp soon as this fall, acquire association with the big point up of the museum's works turmoil paper that she put hand in hand titled, "American Moderns: Masterworks legation Paper from the Wadsworth Club Museum of Art, 1910-1960." Primacy show, which opens Thursday dissent the Portland Museum of Compensation, where it runs through House.

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