| Wardwell, Allen | |||||||
| type | Collector Scholar/Critic/Expert | ||||||
| dates | 1935-1999 | ||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||
| state | NY | ||||||
| other cities | New Haven, CT; Chicago, IL; | ||||||
| sex | M | ||||||
| history |
Allen Wardwell was a scholar, collector and curator of Northwest Coast Indian, Oceanic and African art. Wardwell was the head of the Primitive Art Department at The Art Institute of Chicago (1960-1973) and also served as acting curator of its Decorative Arts Department (1964-1970). He served as the director of the Asia Society Gallery (1974-1984) and the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in New York (1986-1990). Later he was an independent consultant, a curatorial consultant for African and Oceanic art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and a senior consultant in American Indian art and tribal art at Christie's auction house in New York. |
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| decades | 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:25 | ||||||
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