Mary Morton
Program
Institution
Title
Curator and Head of the Department of French Paintings
Institution at time of Fellowship
Mentor
Mary Morton is curator and head of the French paintings department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in history, and her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19th and early 20th century European painting. Dr. Morton began her curatorial career in the European art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and spent five years as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her exhibition projects include The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (2010); Sur le Motif: Painting in Nature around 1800 (2008); Oudry's Painted Menagerie (2007); Courbet and the Modern Landscape (2006); Focus on the Beck Collection: André Derain's "The Turning Road, L'Estaque" (2002); Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay (2002) and Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow (2002). At the National Gallery, she organized the installation of Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2011), and in January 2012, a reinstallation of the Gallery’s renowned nineteenth century collection. She is currently working on an exhibition of the work of Gustave Caillebotte for 2015, and of Hubert Robert for 2016.
Articles Related to Mary Morton
2014-11-14
CCL Announces 2015 Fellows
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has announced its eighth class of fellows, twelve accomplished curators who have demonstrated that they are poised to be leaders in the field of art museums. The group includes professionals from ten United States institutions and two international museums. For nine of the museums, ... Read More >
2015-06-04
Program Highlights | CCL 2015 Wraps Up in Los Angeles
California Conclusion | Highlights from the Final Week of CCL 2015 Last month, CCL touched down in Los Angeles for the concluding week of the 2015 program. Over the course of seven days, the fellows met with leaders from every corner of the city, studied strategic alignment at the USC ... Read More >