Angelica Zander Rudenstine

Angelica Zander Rudenstine
Born
Angelica Zander
(1937-05-24) May 24, 1937
Germany
Occupations
  • Curator
  • art historian
  • arts administrator
Spouse
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(m. 1960)​
FatherWalter Zander
Relatives
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1983)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Institutions

Angelica Zander Rudenstine (born May 24, 1937) is an American curator, art historian, and arts administrator. She worked as a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with her work including Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia (1981) and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (1985). She is a 1983 Guggenheim Fellow and a 1994 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Biography

Angelica Zander was born on May 24, 1937, in Germany.[1] Her father, legal scholar Walter Zander, is Jewish, and his wife Margaret is a Dutch Protestant.[2] The family fled to England later that year due to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.[3] She attended the University of Oxford, where she got a BA in Honours in 1959 and an ΜA in 1961.[1] She also obtained an MA from Smith College in 1961.[1]

She worked as a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Department of European Paintings from 1960 to 1968.[1][4] From 1965 to 1968, she served as editor of the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, as well as editor-in-chief of the museum's publications.[1] She freelanced as an editor at the Museum of Modern Art (1968-1969).[1] In 1969, she joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a consultant.[1] She served at the museum research curator from 1973 to 1980 and as adjunct curator from 1980 to 1981.[1] She later chaired the Harvard University Department of Fine Arts' supervisory committee and worked at the Mellon Foundation as senior advisor of museums and art conservation.[5][6] She also worked at New York University Institute of Fine Arts as an adjunct professor.[4]

In 1976, she published the two-volume The Guggenheim Museum Collection: Paintings, 1880-1945.[7] In 1981, she and Margit Rowell prepared Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia for the Guggenheim's exhibition of George Costakis' art.[a] In 1983,[8] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a conceptual and historical study of museums of modern art".[1] She later wrote a 1985 catalogue of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and authored the fourth volume of Harvard University Art Museum's Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected By Emily and Joseph Pulitzer Jr.,[b][c] winning a 1988 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art for the latter.[9]

She was appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994.[10]

Personal life

In 1960, she married Neil Rudenstine, whom she met through mutual friends when he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; he would later serve as president of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001.[2] They had three children.[2] As of 1991, she lived in Princeton, New Jersey, commuting daily by train to work in New York City.[2]

Her brothers are legal scholar Michael Zander and conductor Benjamin Zander, and her brother-in-law is legal scholar David Rudenstine.[2]

Publications

Notes

  1. ^ abReviews of this book: [11][12][13][14]
  2. ^ abReviews of this book: [15][16][17]
  3. ^ abReviews of this book: [18]

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijReports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1981. p. 101.
  2. ^ abcdefAnderson, Peter (February 4, 1992). "Harvard's Commoner King". The Boston Globe. p. 48 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^Steinberg, Martin (March 28, 2004). "Zander spreads the world - the classics are open to all". Potomac News. Associated Press. p. 64 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ ab"Harvard University names president". North Adams Transcript. Associated Press. March 25, 1991 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^Butterfield, Fox (March 24, 1991). "Harvard Finds a Replacement for Its President". The New York Times. p. A22. ProQuest 428003533.
  6. ^Abel, David (April 6, 2001). "Rudenstine to join digital art project". The Boston Globe – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ abWallach, Amei (April 11, 1976). "The Guggenheim Adds Up Its Collection". Newsday – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^"Angelica Z. Rudenstine". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  9. ^"Pulitzer Art Cataloger Is Honored". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 12, 1988 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^"Angelica Zander Rudenstine". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. September 23, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
  11. ^Janecek, Gerald (1983). "Review of The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art; Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, Angelica Zander Rudenstine". The Slavic and East European Journal. 27 (1): 124–126. doi:10.2307/307266. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 307266.
  12. ^Mc Kaskell, Robert (1982). "Review of The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives; Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection". RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 9 (1/2): 119–121. ISSN 0315-9906. JSTOR 42630044.
  13. ^"Review of Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection". The Print Collector's Newsletter. 12 (6): 188–189. 1982. ISSN 0032-8537. JSTOR 44131775.
  14. ^Roman, Gail Harrison (1982). "Review of Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection". Art Journal. 42 (4): 361–363. doi:10.2307/776702. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 776702.
  15. ^Bois, Yve-Alain (1987). "Review of Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice". The Art Bulletin. 69 (3): 481–485. doi:10.2307/3051075. ISSN 0004-3079. JSTOR 3051075.
  16. ^Grieve, Alastair (1987). "Review of Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice". The Burlington Magazine. 129 (1009): 258–259. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 883045.
  17. ^Russell, John (October 27, 1985). "ART VIEW; A MONUMENTAL TREASURY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART". The New York Times. p. A29. ProQuest 425564366.
  18. ^"Review of Modern Painting. Drawing & Sculpture. Collected by Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Volume IV". The Burlington Magazine. 131 (1033): 305–305. 1989. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 883848.
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