Virginia M. Mecklenburg | |
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Born | Virginia Helen McCord November 11, 1946 |
Occupation(s) | Art historian Curator |
Spouse | Marion Mecklenburg |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin University of Maryland |
Thesis | American Aesthetic Theory, 1908-1917: Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Elizabeth Johns |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | American art |
Virginia Helen McCord Mecklenburg (born November 11,1946) is an American art historian and curator. Mecklenburg is currently the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,where she has worked since 1979.
Mecklenburg received two English degrees from the University of Texas at Austin:a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and a Master of Arts in 1970. Her master's thesis was titled "An Analysis of Role Playing as a Method of Teaching English to the Disadvantaged Learner." [1] Mecklenburg then continued on to the University of Maryland to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1983. [2] While studying in Maryland,she was hired as a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1979. Mecklenburg wrote a doctoral dissertation titled "American Aesthetic Theory,1908-1917:Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought," supervised by Professor Elizabeth Johns. [3]
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