Alfred H. Barr

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American art historian and museum director (1902-1981)

United States WritersLived 1902 to 1981 · aged 79

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Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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."

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