Curator's Biography: Wendy A. Cooper
Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture
Winterthur Museum
Serving as curator of furniture at the Winterthur Museum since 1995, Wendy A. Cooper became the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture in 1999. Prior to joining Winterthur, Cooper was curator of decorative arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1987 to 1995. A graduate of Brown University (B.A., 1967, cum laude) and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware (M.A., 1971), she has worked at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. While at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she curated the major traveling exhibition Classical Taste in America, 1800–1840, and wrote the accompanying book of the same title, which was published by Abbeville Press. She has also worked with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, as guest curator on two exhibitions, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts 1640–1840 and The Kaufman Collection of American Furniture. She is presently working on another exhibition and publication for the National Gallery entitled An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum, which opens May 5, 2002.
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