Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy

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Dates:

Active 1939

Active 1996

Biographical notes:

Elizabeth Easby was born Mar. 20, 1925. Trained as an archaeologist and art historian, Easby worked as a research assistant at the Museum of the American Indian before becoming acting curator of the Primitive Art department of the Brooklyn Museum (N.Y.) 1965-1968; there, in 1966, she organized an exhibition, Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff. She left her position to work on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's centennial exhibition of 1969. Easby died in October 1992 in Philadelphia.

From the description of Works of art in the Pre-Columbian collection of the Metropolitan Museum : typescript / Elizabeth K. Easby. February 1956 (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 665069432