About Joseph Rishel
Lived 1940 – 2020 (aged 80). Joseph Rishel was an American curator, art historian and exhibition curator.
Joseph J. Rishel (May 15, 1940 – November 5, 2020) was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a specialist in the art of Paul Cézanne. He retired in May 2016 and was a curator emeritus of European Painting.
He was married to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, until her death in 2008.
Rishel was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Selected publications Cézanne in Philadelphia collections. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1983. Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2012. (Contributor and editor)
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Who was Joseph Rishel?
American curator (1940-2020)
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Joseph Rishel was born on 15 May 1940.
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Joseph Rishel died on 5 November 2020.
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Joseph Rishel was a curator, art historian and exhibition curator.
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