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Angelica Zander Rudenstine

b. 1935

Art historian and director of numerous cultural institutions

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Born 1935. Angelica Zander Rudenstine is an art historian and adviser.

Angelica Zander Rudenstine (born May 24, 1937) is an American curator, art historian, and arts administrator. She worked as a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with her work including Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (1985). She is a 1983 Guggenheim Fellow and a 1994 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Biography Angelica Zander was born on May 24, 1937, in Germany. She attended the University of Oxford, where she got a BA in Honours in 1959 and an ΜA in 1961. She also worked at New York University Institute of Fine Arts as an adjunct professor.

In 1976, she published the two-volume The Guggenheim Museum Collection: Paintings, 1880-1945. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a conceptual and historical study of museums of modern art".

She was appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994.

Personal life In 1960, she married Neil Rudenstine, whom she met through mutual friends when he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; he would later serve as president of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001. Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia (1981, with Margit Rowell) Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (1985) Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture (1989)

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Guggenheim Fellowship
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art historian and director of numerous cultural institutions

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