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Anne Poulet

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Anne Poulet
Born
Anne Litle Poulet

(1942-03-20) March 20, 1942 (age 82)
United States
Alma materSweet Briar College, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Occupation(s)Museum curator, museum director at The Frick Collection
Known forFirst woman museum director at The Frick Collection
SpouseFrançois Poulet

Anne Litle Poulet (born March 20, 1942) is a retired American art historian. Poulet is an expert in the area of French art, particularly sculpture. In her career, she organized two major monographic exhibitions on the French sculptors Clodion and Jean-Antoine Houdon, respectively.

Early life

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On March 20, 1942, Poulet was born in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]

Education

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In 1964, Poulet earned a B.A. degree from Sweet Briar College, a private all women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Poulet graduated cum laude. In 1970, Poulet completed graduate studies at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. In 1993, Poulet earned a certificate of graduation from Museum Management Institute in Berkeley, California.[1][2][3]

Career

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Poulet served for twenty years as a Curator Emerita in the department of decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Boston, Massachusetts.[4][5] While Poulet was the curator, she was responsible for adding many acquisitions to the museum, including the Firestone Collection of French silver, Frits and Rita Markus Collection of ceramics and enamel, William A. Coolidge Collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts and Edward Pflueger Collection of ceramics.[2]

In October 2003, Poulet was appointed as the director of The Frick Collection, a museum in New York. Poulet became the first female director in the museum's history.[1] In 2011, Poulet created and published The Frick Collection, a general guide to the museum's collection.[6] In 2011, Poulet retired as the museum director, and was succeeded by Ian Wardropper.[4][5][7]

In September 2011, Poulet joined the Institute of Fine Arts' Board of Trustees at New York University.[8]

In 2019, Poulet was a judge in the French Heritage Society Book Award.[9]

Lectures

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List of Poulet's art lectures.

  • November 6, 2003, The First Statuary in the World: Jean-Antoine Houdon. The Getty Center.[10]
  • November 2011 A Gallery of Worthies: Thomas Jefferson and Jean Antoine Houdon. University of Georgia - Lamar Dodd School of Art.[11][12]
  • November 2012 On the Run: Clodion's Bacchanalian Figures. Dallas Museum of At.[13]

Awards and recognitions

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Works

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  • Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1979, ISBN 9780878461349.
  • Clodion, 1738-1814, 1992, ISBN 9782711823529.
  • Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment, 2003, ISBN 9780894683015.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Alumnae featured in Wall Street Journal". sbc.edu. December 17, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Awards in Italian Culture 2008". fiacfoundation.org. 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  3. ^ "Alumni Donor to the Institute". nyu.edu. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Mosaïque's Fifth Anniversary Celebration - An Evening With Renowned Art Historian Anne Poulet". frenchculturalcenter.org. November 9, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "People in the News (08/10/03): Appointments & Promotions". philanthropynewsdigest.org. August 10, 2003. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  6. ^ "The Frick Collection, New York". goodreads.com. 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  7. ^ "Anne Poulet 2010" (PDF). frick.org. 2010.(PDF file)
  8. ^ "News Archive". New York University. March 9, 2018. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018.
  9. ^ "French Heritage Society to host the third edition of its French Heritage Society Book Award". residentpublications.com. 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  10. ^ "Press Release". getty.edu. November 3, 2003. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  11. ^ Flurry, Alan (November 7, 2011). "Shaheen Lecture will focus on French sculpture". uga.edu. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  12. ^ Long, Judy (October 31, 2011). "Anne Poulet: Shouky Shaheen Lecturer". patch.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  13. ^ "On the Run: Clodion's Bacchanalian Figures". dma.org. November 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  14. ^ "Iris Awards - Past Awardees - 2000". bgc.bard.edu. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  15. ^ "Anne Litle Poulet Joins the Institute of Fine Arts' Board of Trustees" (PDF). Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. September 1, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2012.
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Cultural offices
Preceded by
Samuel Sachs II
 Director The Frick Collection
2003 – 2011 		Succeeded by
Ian Wardropper
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