Brooklyn Museum. Office of the Director.
Philip N. Youtz was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1895. He received a B.A. degree from Amherst College in 1918, where he had served as curator of the Mather Art Museum since 1916, and an M.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1919. During the early 1920s he taught and practiced architecture in China and from 1926-29 taught at Columbia University and Columbia Teacher's College and was in charge of adult education programs in fine arts at the People's Institute. In 1930, he was appointed curator of the 69th Street Branch of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art and in 1932 as curator of exhibitions at the main building.
Youtz was appointed Assistant Director of The Brooklyn Museum, under William Henry Fox, in May 1933, Acting Director in January 1934, and full Director on Fox's retirement in April of that year. His tenure at the Museum lasted only until April 1938, when he resigned to become Director of the Pacific Area and Pacific House at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Subsequently he travelled; served in various World War II government agencies involved with war production; practiced architecture; and served as Dean of the College of Architecture, University of Michigan (1957-65).
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