RARE "Renowned Museum Curator" Judith K. Zilczer Hand Signed TLS Dated 1983 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "The Noble Buyer" Judith K. Zilczer Hand Signed TLS Dated 1983.  

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Judith K. Zilczer is an American

art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists

such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer

was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as

"the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia." She curated an exhibit titled "Visual

Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900". Zilczer served at

the Hirshhorn

Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from

1974-2003. In 1978, she organized for the Hirshhorn Museum "The

Noble Buyer:" John Quinn Patron of the Avant-Garde, a detailed account

of one of the most important collections of modern art assembled in the early

years of the 20th Century (which was disseminated after Quinn's death in 1924). From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of

Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution

Archives.