Pauline Simmons

Pauline Simmons (May 19, 1893 – October 1985) was an American curator. After acquiring a collection of Chinese textiles while an expatriate in China, she was hired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and became a curator of East Asian textiles there. She co-authored Chinese Textiles with Alan Priest and was a 1957 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography Simmons was born on May 19, 1893, in Clarks Mills, Pennsylvania. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for studies of 7th and 8th century Chinese and Japanese textiles". She also lectured on East Asian textiles, having once lectured about Chinese court robes at the Royal Ontario Museum in November 1946.

Simmons died in October 1985.

Works (with Alan Priest) Chinese Textiles (1934)