# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-h-barr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:07:56.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-h-barr"
name: "Alfred H. Barr"
slug: "alfred-h-barr"
description: "Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was \"a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination.\""
tagline: "American art historian and museum director (1902-1981)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-01-28"
deathDate: "1981-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.30212666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
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    title: "الفرد اتش بار جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Barr"
    title: "Alfred Barr"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_H._Barr_Jr."
    title: "Alfred H. Barr Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Barr"
    title: "Alfred Barr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Barr"
    title: "Alfred Barr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hamilton_Barr_Jr."
    title: "Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredus_Hamilton_Barr"
    title: "Alfredus Hamilton Barr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_H._Barr_Jr."
    title: "Alfred H. Barr Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Барр, Алфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_H._Barr_Jr."
    title: "Alfred H. Barr Jr."
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump