# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-johnson-sweeney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:54:01.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-johnson-sweeney"
name: "James Johnson Sweeney"
slug: "james-johnson-sweeney"
description: "James Johnson Sweeney was an American museum curator and writer about modern art. While working for his family's importing business, Sweeney began to work as an editor, curator, art historian and critic. He was a curator for the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1935 to 1946, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, from 1952 to 1960 and Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1961 to 1967. Trevor Stark, writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called Sweeney \"a tireless advocate for the most adventurous strains of modern art\"."
tagline: "American curator (1900–1986)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900"
deathDate: "1986"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.82
  momentum:             13.04347826086956
  historical:           5.475054666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Johnson_Sweeney"
    title: "James Johnson Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس جونسون سويني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96"
    title: "Джэймс Джонсан Суіні"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Johnson_Sweeney"
    title: "James Johnson Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Johnson_Sweeney"
    title: "James Johnson Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Johnson_Sweeney"
    title: "James Johnson Sweeney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6136905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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