AGO History Fact Sheet : Curator / Director / Chief Curator
Curator
Note: From 1912 until 1948, when the new position of Director was created, the Curator was the administrative head of the Gallery. The title Chief Curator was first used about 1968 or 1969.
1912-1928 : E(dward) R(uthven) Greig (d.1948) [*, CWW 1952/54]
- also held the position of secretary-treasurer until 1 Nov. 1926
1928-1932 : Fred(erick) S(tanley) Haines (1879-1960) [*]
- appointment effective 1 March 1928; resigned December 1932 to become principal of OCA.
1932-1948 : Martin Baldwin (1891-1968) [*, #]
- appointed temporary curator in 1932, curator in 1933; in spring 1948 appointed to the new position of director (see below); retired 1961.
1948-1954 : Sydney J(ames) Key (1918-1956) [#, CWW 1952/54]
- joined the gallery in Sept. 1947 as assistant curator; appointed curator in 1948.
1957-1959 : William S(cott) A(bell) Dale (b.1921) [CWW 1958/60]
- appointment effective 1 Sept. 1957; resigned on 30 April 1959; subsequently director, Vancouver Art Gallery.
1962-1964 : Jean Sutherland Boggs [*, #, CWW 1961]
- took up position on 1 June 1962; resignation effective 1 Sept. 1964
1965-1968 : David S(topford) Brooke (b.1931) [*, #]
- appointed "curator," effective 1 Feb. 1965; by 1968 called "chief curator"; left the Gallery 31 Oct. 1968
Chief Curator
1969-1972 : Mario Amaya (1933-1986) [*, #, CWW 1970]
- appointment effective 3 March 1969 for a period of two years; took up a new position in U.S.A. on 1 April 1972.
1972-1978 : Richard J. Wattenmaker [#]
- appointment effective July 1972; left 30 June 1978.
1978-1992 : Roald Nasgaard (b. 1941) [*, #, CWW 1971]
- joined the gallery in May 1975 as curator of contemporary art; appointed chief curator in November 1978. Assumed the newly formed postion of Senior Curator of Research in September 1992. Took up a new position in the U.S.A. 1993.
1993-1998 : Matthew Teitelbaum (b. 1956) [#]
- appointed Chief Curator effective 15 September 1993 until July 1998, when he was appointed Director to succeed Maxwell Anderson.
1999- : Dennis Reid (b.1943) [#]
- Dennis Reid was appointed [Senior] Curator of Historical Canadian Art on March 30 1979, a position he held until his appointment as Chief Curator on April 1st, 1999 [announced November 24th, 1998]
Director
1948-1960 : Martin Baldwin [*, #]
(see above)
1961-1990 : William J[ohn] Withrow (b. 1926) [*, #]
- joined the gallery in Sept. 1960 as associate director; became director in Jan. 1961
1990-1994/95 : Glenn D. Lowry (b. 1954) [*, #]
- appointment effective Nov.1, 1990. His appointment as the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York was announced on the 16th of November 1994. Lowry assumed the NY position on a part-time basis effective January 1, 1995.
1995-1998 : Maxwell Anderson (b. 1956) [#]
- appointment effective September 1st 1995 [announced in May]. Resigned July 28, 1998, to assume new position as Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, effective Sept. 8, 1998.
1998- : Matthew Teitelbaum (b. 1956) [#]
- appointed Chief Curator in 1993 [see above], Teitelbaum was appointed Director, effective September 8th 1998, upon the resignation of Maxwell Anderson. He also acted as Deputy Director from 1995-1998 (after the departure of Sharilyn Ingram in July 1995).
References
(asterick)* : Archives reference file
(hatch) # : Library reference file
CWW : Canadian Who's Who (in Library)
