Potter, Margaret, 1926-1998
Variant namesArt historian and curator at Museum of Modern Art and Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art; New York, N.Y. Died 1992.
From the description of Margaret Potter papers, 1954-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333563
Margaret ("Meg") Potter was Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art between September 1, 1968 and September 10, 1971. Prior to this, from 1959 to 1968, she was Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York. She graduated from Barnard College (1952) and received her M.A. in medieval art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1959). Born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 21, 1931, Potter also worked for the Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums and did extensive research on the collections of Huntington Hartford and David Rockefeller. She served a one-year term as director of the Vassar College Art Gallery in 1978-79 and collaborated with Douglas Cooper in 1977 on the catalogue raisonné of Juan Gris. Potter died in New York on May 6, 1992.
From the description of Margaret Potter papers, 1896-1974. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 670394192
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| creatorOf | Potter, Margaret. Margaret Potter papers, 1896-1974. | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | |
| creatorOf | Margaret Potter papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Archives pamphlet file : Potter, Margaret : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library |
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| associatedWith | Braque, Georges, 1882-1963. | person |
| associatedWith | Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906. | person |
| associatedWith | Cooper, Douglas, 1911- | person |
| associatedWith | Gallery of Modern Art Including the Huntington Hartford Collection. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Gris, Juan, 1887-1927. | person |
| associatedWith | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
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| New York (State)--New York |
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Birth 1926-06-21
Death 1998-08-26
