Colin B. Bailey | |
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Born | Colin Barry Bailey October 20, 1955 |
Occupation(s) | Art historian Museum director |
Spouse | Alan Wintermute (m. 2013) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Aspects of the Patronage and the Collecting of French Painting in France at the End of the Ancien Régime (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Francis Haskell |
Influences | Henri Loyrette [1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art |
Institutions | Philadelphia Museum of Art Kimbell Art Museum National Gallery of Canada Frick Collection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Morgan Library &Museum |
Colin Barry Bailey OAL is a British art historian and museum director. Bailey is currently the Director of the Morgan Library &Museum in New York City. [2] He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art,specifically on the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Born in London to Max and Hilda Bailey,Bailey received his Bachelor of Arts from Brasenose College (1978),Master of Arts (1982),and Doctor of Philosophy (1985),all in Art History from the University of Oxford. His doctoral dissertation was completed under the supervision of Francis Haskell and concerned patronage and collecting of French paintings during the end of the Ancien Régime. [3] Shortly thereafter,Bailey was awarded a fellowship in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. [4]
Bailey moved to the United States to begin his curatorial career as Assistant Curator for European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,where he worked from 1985 to 1989. [5] In that final year,he was appointed Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Kimbell Art Museum,and was promoted to Senior Curator in 1990. Five years later,Bailey was hired as Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Canada,and was appointed Deputy Director and Chief Curator in 1998.
In 2000,Bailey became the Chief Curator of the Frick Collection,and in 2008,he gained his first directorial position after being promoted to Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. Bailey also became an inaugural fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. [6] While at the Center,Bailey held at a residency at the Louvre,closely observing its director,Henri Loyrette.
In 2013,Bailey became the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,overseeing both the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. [7] Two years later,Bailey moved back to New York to become the sixth director of the Morgan Library &Museum,succeeding William Griswold.
Alongside curatorial posts,Bailey has taught art history at a number of institutions,including:the University of Pennsylvania (1988),Bryn Mawr College (1989),Columbia University (2005-2007),and the Graduate Center,CUNY (2009).
In 2013,Bailey married Alan Wintermute in New York City. [8]
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