Curatorial career
Mecklenburg became a curator of painting and sculpture at the National Museum of American Art,later the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM),in 1979. [2] A scholar of American art,Mecklenburg has written publications on such artists as George Bellows,Richard Estes,William Glackens,Edward Hopper,Robert Indiana,Georgia O'Keeffe,John Sloan,and Robert Vickrey. [2] Exhibitions organized or co-organized by Mecklenburg include "The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection:American Abstraction 1930-1945" (1989); [4] "Edward Hopper:The Watercolors" (1999); [5] "Earl Cunningham's America" (2008), [6] "Telling Stories:Norman Rockwell From the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg" (2010), [7] "African American Art:Harlem Renaissance,Civil Rights Era and Beyond" (2012); [8] "Richard Estes' Realism" (2014); [9] and "Subversive,Skilled,Sublime:Fiber Art by Women" (2024). [10]
At SAAM,Mecklenburg rose from associate curator [11] [12] to chief curator. [13] Stephanie Stebich,who became SAAM director in 2017,effectively demoted Mecklenburg to "senior curator" in 2019;Stebich was subsequently removed from the director position by Smithsonian Institution management in mid-2024,after years of declining staff morale and complaints about workplace environment. [13]
Mecklenburg retired from SAAM in April 2024. [13]
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