James Johnson Sweeney

James Johnson Sweeney (May 30, 1900 – April 14, 1986)

MoMA and Guggenheim He was appointed to the Executive Committee of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1931, He also was an editor for the journal Transition from 1936 to 1938.

Later years He was Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1961 to 1967 and was later a consultant there. In the 1970s, Sweeney was Art Adviser and Chairman of the Executive Committee at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and he continued to write articles and contribute to catalogues for exhibitions.