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James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was an American curator and writer about modern art. Sweeney graduated from Georgetown University in 1922. From 1935 to 1946, he was curator for the Museum of Modern Art. [1] He was the second director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, from 1952 to 1960.
Apr 15, 1986 · James Johnson Sweeney, an art critic, historian, exhibition organizer and museum director who served in prominent posts at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, died yesterday at his...
As an art historian, curator, and museum director, James Johnson Sweeney was a tireless advocate for the most adventurous strains of modern art. Sweeney traveled to Paris in the early 1920s, took a degree in literature at Cambridge University, and spent the 1930s as an editor for the English-language, Paris-based journal Transition.
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Explore the papers of James Johnson Sweeney, a former curator and director of MoMA, and his contributions to modern art and museum history.
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Curator of the Museum of Modern Art 1935-46 and director of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1952-60. Sweeney was the son of a prosperous importer of laces and textiles whose family had come from Donegal, Ireland. He attended officers’ training school in Louisville, KY, during World War I. He earned a B.A. degree at Georgetown University in Washgin...
and Gallatin, A. E., and Hélion, Jean. Gallery of Living Art: A. E. Gallatin Collection. New York: Gallery of Living art, 1933; African Negro Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935; African Folktales & Sculpture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952; Paul Klee. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1941; and Daix, Pierre. Pierre Soulages. Neuchâtel, Swi...
Glueck, Grace. “James Johnson Sweeney Dies, Art Critic and Museum Head.” New York TimesApril 15, 1986, p. 8.
James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was an American curator, and writer about modern art. Sweeney graduated from Georgetown University in 1922. From 1935 to 1946, he was curator for the Museum of Modern Art. He was the second director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, from 1952 to 1960.
James worked at MoMA from about 1935 to 1947 as Curator and Competition Judge, and he was head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1945–1946 . 11 exhibitions EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
