William Rubin

William Rubin
Born William Stanley Rubin
(1927-08-11)August 11, 1927
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died January 22, 2006(2006-01-22) (aged 78)
Pound Ridge, New York, United States
Occupation Art curator

William Stanley Rubin (August 11, 1927  January 22, 2006) was an American art scholar.

Career

From 1968 to 1988, he was a curator and director of the painting and sculpture department at the Museum of Modern Art, located in New York City, New York. He played a key role in building the museum's collection of abstract-expressionism works and organized many exhibitions, including Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage (1968), Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (1984), and Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (1989).[1][2]

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Frank Stella 1970-1987 MOMA

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