Anne d'Harnoncourt
| Anne d'Harnoncourt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 7, 1943 Washington, DC, US |
| Died | June 1, 2008 (aged 64) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Cause of death | Cardiac arrest |
| Title | Director and CEO, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Predecessor | Jean Sutherland Boggs |
| Successor | Timothy Rub |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Rishel |
| Parent(s) | René d'Harnoncourt and Sarah Carr |
Anne d'Harnoncourt (September 7, 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), a post she held from 1982 until her sudden death in 2008. She was also an expert scholar on the works of French artist Marcel Duchamp.
Anne Julie d’Harnoncourt was born on September 7, 1943 in Washington DC. d'Harnoncourt grew up in New York City as the only child of René d'Harnoncourt, the director of the Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1967, who was of Austrian, Czech and French descent and Sarah (née Carr), a fashion designer. She was a cousin of the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. From 1949-1961 she attended The Brearley School in New York City. She 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. Her BA thesis compared the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Friedrich Hölderlin. She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe in 1965.
D'Harnoncourt's first museum experience was at the Tate Gallery, London where she worked for six months as part of an MA degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, preparing full catalog entries on thirty Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings in the collection in 1966-67. She graduated from there in 1967 with an Master of Arts degree in nineteenth-century painting. She then came to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1967 through 1969. During this time she helped oversee the installation of one of Marcel Duchamp's greatest and last major art installations, the Étant donnés (1968) along with the coordination of Duchamp's wife Alexina Duchamp and his step-son Paul Matisse. In 1969 she was hired as assistant curator of twentieth-century art by the Art Institute of Chicago, a position she held until 1971. In that year she also married Joseph J. Rishel, who was also an Assistant Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago at the time.
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