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Cahill, Holger
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originally Sveinn Kristján Bjarnarson
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| Art expert and writer, born in Snaefellsnessysla, Iceland. A childhood emigrant to Canada, he moved to New York City as a teenager determined to become a writer. He studied at New York University, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research. At the Newark Art Museum (1922–31) he became an authority on American art and wrote the seminal American Folk Art (1932). His outstanding leadership of the Federal Art Project (1935–43), including compiling the Index of American Design, helped nurture a generation of American artists. He became a novelist in his later years. |
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