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Robert Goldwater (November 23, 1907 – March 26, 1973) was an American art historian, African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, from 1957 to 1973. He was married to the French artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
A prolific writer on modern art, Goldwater published Artists on Art from the XIV to the XX Century (1945), one of the first compendiums of artists’ writings, as well as several monographic studies of painters and sculptors, including Rufino Tamayo (1947), Vincent van Gogh (1954), Jacques Lipchitz (1954), and Paul Gauguin (1957).
Mar 27, 1973 · Robert Goldwater, a leading American art critic, scholar and teacher, died yesterday at his home here. He was 65 years old and lived at 347 West 20th Street. Mr. Goldwater had been...
The next stop on our 150th anniversary tour of the libraries of The Met is The Robert Goldwater Library. Tucked away in a mezzanine level of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, the library is nonetheless one of the Museum's largest departmental libraries, supporting the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
The Publications of Robert Goldwater (1907-1973) T H E PASSING of Robert Goldwater is a sad loss to the world of art, and particularly to all who personally knew and admired this great critic and scholar. His pioneering research and writing on the role of primitive art in the development in modern art was at once widely recognized as a landmark.
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Robert Goldwater (November 23, 1907 – March 26, 1973) was an art historian, African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, from 1957 to 1973. He was married to the French-born American artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
GOLDWATER, ROBERT J. Appointed for a study of the tradition of myth, allegory and imaginative painting and sculpture as it has evolved during the past fifty years; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1944. Born November 23, 1907, in New York City.
