Sarah Cash

Sarah Cash is Associate Curator, Department of American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art, and former Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. At the Corcoran, she completed the award-winning Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945 and curated the traveling exhibition Sargent and the Sea. She also organized Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms: Paintings that Inspired a Nation; Albert Bierstadt’s California Scenery, Sunset View; and The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921. She has lectured widely, authored and edited numerous publications, and is currently developing exhibitions about John Singer Sargent's travels to Spain and Frederic Church's depictions of Niagara Falls. 

Prior to arriving at the Corcoran Cash directed the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and, previously, was assistant curator at the Amon Carter Museum. She also has worked at Yale University Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. Cash received an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a B.A. in Art History from Smith College; she attended the Museum Management Institute in 1996 and CCL in 2014. She serves on the National Advisory Council of Reynolda House Museum of American Art. 

“CCL was a truly transformative experience for me, and came at a particularly good time when the Corcoran Gallery of Art was undergoing enormous transition. I will be forever grateful for the tools I learned and the new colleagues I met during the CCL sessions and mentorships.”

“CCL was a truly transformative experience for me, and came at a particularly good time when the Corcoran Gallery of Art was undergoing enormous transition. I will be forever grateful for the tools I learned and the new colleagues I met during the CCL sessions and mentorships.”

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2013-11-07

CCL Announces 2014 Fellows

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) named its 2014 class of Fellows, recognizing twelve art museum curators with a track record of exceptional work and the potential for even more significant contributions as future leaders in the field. This is the seventh class of CCL Fellows and the largest to date with individuals ... Read More >

2016-10-11

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  Eva Respini began as the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) in March 2015. Since then, she has been mounting an ambitious program of temporary exhibitions alongside installations drawn from the ICA’s growing permanent collection. Respini’s current exhibition, First Light: A Decade of Collecting ... Read More >

2018-04-30

Curatorial Chat | Zoë Ryan at the helm of the Art Institute’s architecture and design department

Zoë Ryan joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 as the inaugural Neville Bryan Curator of Design, and in 2011 was named chair of the Department of Architecture and Design. Ryan’s tenure marked an expanded scope for the museum and its collection with the introduction of design to the ... Read More >

2020-01-02

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) Named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) has been named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum. Futter joins the Brooklyn Museum from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where she has been a member of the curatorial staff since 2002, first as the Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Curator ... Read More >

2020-08-25

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) has been named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.  Zoë will join the ICA in November following 14 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, most recently serving as the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design. A curator ... Read More >