Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg in 2015.
Mecklenburg in 2015.
Born
Virginia Helen McCord

(1946-11-11) November 11, 1946
Occupation(s)Art historian
Curator
SpouseMarion Mecklenburg
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
University of Maryland
ThesisAmerican Aesthetic Theory, 1908-1917: Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought (1983)
Doctoral advisorElizabeth Johns
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineAmerican art

Virginia Helen McCord Mecklenburg (born November 11, 1946) is an American art historian and curator. Mecklenburg is currently the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she has worked since 1979.

Career

Mecklenburg received two English degrees from the University of Texas at Austin: a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and a Master of Arts in 1970. Her master's thesis was titled "An Analysis of Role Playing as a Method of Teaching English to the Disadvantaged Learner."[1] Mecklenburg then continued on to the University of Maryland to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1983.[2] While studying in Maryland, she was hired as a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1979. Mecklenburg wrote a doctoral dissertation titled "American Aesthetic Theory, 1908-1917: Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought," supervised by Professor Elizabeth Johns.[3]

A scholar of American art, Mecklenburg has written publications on such artists as George Bellows, Richard Estes, William Glackens, Edward Hopper, Robert Indiana, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Sloan, and Robert Vickrey.

See also

References

  1. โ†‘ https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991050022539706011
  2. โ†‘ "Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Senior Curator | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
  3. โ†‘ "PDS Sso".
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