Kenworth Moffett

Kenworth W. Moffett (born 1934 in East Orange, New Jersey – June 21, 2016) [1][2] was an American art curator, museum director and author. He was the first curator of twentieth-century art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later the director of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (1987–1997), a position he left in order to attend to being the guiding light of the artist group he founded the "New New Painters".[3] From 1968 to 1979, prior to his becoming a museum curator and director, Moffett was a full professor of art history at Wellesley College. Moffett is the author of several books, including; volumes on Jules Olitski,[4] Fairfield Porter"A Realist Painter in the Age of Abstraction" (co-authored John Ashberryamong others to accompany the 1983 retrospective exhibition of Porter's work Moffett organized at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of the American realist's work)[5][6] and Morris Louis.[7] He also penned catalogue essays and published Moffett's artletter 2.0.

References
  1. death notice
  2. https://www.artforum.com/news/id=61363
  3. "Director Quits To Follow Dream - tribunedigital-sunsentinel". articles.sun-sentinel.com. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  4. https://www.amazon.com/Jules-Olitski-Kenworpth-Moffet/dp/0810914034/184-2836643-8689159?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
  5. https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Fairfield-Porter--an-American-classic-6954
  6. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1983/3/12/preppy-perspective-pbfbairfield-porter-28-lived/
  7. http://www.alibris.com/Morris-Louis-in-the-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-Boston-Kenworth-W-Moffett/book/4470071
  • Moffett's Artletter 2.0 - 0
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