biography
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Sweeney, James Johnson
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–86)
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| biography:
| Museum director, art historian, and critic, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Georgetown University (1922 BA) and at several other institutions. In Paris during the 1920s he was an editor on the literary magazine Transition. He then worked as a journalist in Chicago (1931–2), was director of exhibitions at the University of Chicago (1933–4), and lectured at New York University (1935–40). He was curator at the Museum of Modern Art (1945–6), director of the Guggenheim Museum (1952–9), and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1961–8). In the 1970s he chaired the executive committee of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. His speciality was 20th-c avant-garde art, and his many publications include the book Plastic Redirections in Twentieth Century Art (1934). |
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