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Mary Morton named curator of French painting at National Gallery of Art, Washington
Release Date: July 31, 2009, National Gallery of Art Press Office
Washington, DC – Mary Morton has been named curator and head of the department of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art by Director Earl A. Powell III. Morton's appointment becomes effective in early January 2010, when she will oversee one of the world's outstanding public collections of approximately 575 French paintings dating from the 17th to the early 20th century, as well as an active program of related exhibitions and acquisitions.
"Mary Morton brings to the National Gallery of Art a rich background steeped in academia and distinguished by curatorial positions at top museums, where she has been deeply involved in scholarly exhibitions and catalogues," said Powell.
Morton received her M.A. in 1992 and her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture in 1998 from Brown University, Providence; her dissertation was entitled "Naturalism and Nostalgia: Hippolyte Taine's Lectures on Art History at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1865–1869." Her area of specialization was 19th- and early 20th-century European art. In 1987 she earned her B.A. in history with departmental honors from Stanford University, CA, where she focused on European intellectual history.
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http://www.nga.gov/press/2009/morton.shtm
New Author, Alumna Adriana Zavala
Adriana Zavala, an alum of the Brown History of Art and Architecture, is the author of the recently published Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition : Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art. Adriana Zavala is Associate Professor of Art History at Tufts University.