| LC control no. | n 50012639 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3620.U315 |
| Personal name heading | Tucker, Marcia |
| Variant(s) | Silverman, Marcia |
| See also | Founded corporate body: New Museum (New York, N.Y.) |
| Biography/History note | American curator, art historian, and art critic; founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, formerly Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| Birth date | 19400411 |
| Death date | 20061017 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Art museum curators Art historians Art museum directors Art critics |
| Found in | Her Robert Morris, 1970. New York times WWW site, Oct. 19, 2006 (Marcia Tucker; b. Marcia Silverman; d. Tuesday [Oct. 17, 2006], Santa Barbara, Calif., aged 66; forceful curator who responded to being fired from the Whitney Museum of American Art by founding the New Museum of Contemporary Art) Tucker, Marcia. A short life of trouble, 2008: eCIP t.p. (Marcia Tucker) data sheet (b. Apr. 11, 1940) Three stories, 2008. Marcia Tucker's Wikipedia page, viewed on July 18, 2013 (Marcia Tucker; born Marcia Silverman; curator and art historian; born April 11 in Brooklyn, New York, 1940; died October 17, 2006 in Santa Barbara, California; founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City from 1977 to 1999; Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1969 to 1977; wrote for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Art in America, Art Forum, and ARTnews, among others; taught at Cornell University, Colgate University, and The Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies) |
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