William Rubin | |
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Born |
William Stanley Rubin August 11, 1927 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Died | January 22, 2006 Pound Ridge, New York, United States |
(aged 78)
Occupation | Art curator |
William Stanley Rubin (August 11, 1927 – January 22, 2006) was an American art scholar.
From 1968 to 1988, he was a curator and director of the painting and sculpture department at the Museum of Modern Art, located in New York City, New York. He played a key role in building the museum's collection of abstract-expressionism works and organized many exhibitions, including Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage (1968), Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (1984), and Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (1989).
. Frank Stella 1970-1987 MOMA