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James Johnson Sweeney

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Gender Male
Born Brooklyn
New York
United States
Date of died April 14,1986
DiedManhattan
New York
United States
BooksThree Young Rats and Other Rhymes
Joan Miro
Marc Chagall
Irish Illuminated Manuscripts of the Early Christian Period
Plastic Redirections in 20th Century Painting
Five American Sculptors
Calder: The Artist, the Work
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James Johnson Sweeney Life story


James Johnson Sweeney was an American curator, and writer about modern art. Sweeney graduated from Georgetown University in 1922. From 1935 to 1946, he was curator for the Museum of Modern Art. He was the second director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, from 1952 to 1960.

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