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Virginia Museum Curator Receives Getty Research Grant for Work on James McNeil Whistler
Dr. David Park Curry, curator of American arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is one of the first 10 recipients of research grants awarded by the Getty Grant Program. Curry will use the grant to fund three months of work on a monograph titled "James McNeil Whistler: A Visual Synthesis."
Getty
Curatorial Research Fellowships totaling more than $100,000 support professional
scholarly development by allowing curators time off from their regular duties
to take on short-term research or study projects. (left: Dr. David
Park Curry, Photo by Katherine Wetzel, © 2000 Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts)
Recipients of the grants are from eight American and two European institutions -- the Musee National du Moyen Age, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Scripps College, Claremont, Calif.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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