Colin B. Bailey Explained

Colin B. Bailey
Birth Name:Colin Barry Bailey
Birth Date:20 October 1955
Birth Place:London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation:Art historian
Museum director
Spouse:Alan Wintermute (m. 2013)
Alma Mater:University of Oxford
Thesis Title:Aspects of the Patronage and the Collecting of French Painting in France at the End of the Ancien Régime
Thesis Url:https://library.frick.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/1qqhid8/alma991007880389707141
Thesis Year:1985
Doctoral Advisor:Francis Haskell
Influences:Henri Loyrette[1]
Discipline:Art history
Sub Discipline:Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art
Workplaces:Philadelphia Museum of Art
Kimbell Art Museum
National Gallery of Canada
Frick Collection
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Morgan Library & Museum

Colin Barry Bailey is a British art historian and museum director. Bailey is currently the Director of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.[2] He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art, specifically on the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Early life

Born in London to Max and Hilda Bailey, Bailey received his Bachelor of Arts from Brasenose College (1978), Master of Arts (1982), and Doctor of Philosophy (1985), all in Art History from the University of Oxford. His doctoral dissertation was completed under the supervision of Francis Haskell and concerned patronage and collecting of French paintings during the end of the Ancien Régime.[3] Shortly thereafter, Bailey was awarded a fellowship in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[4]

Career

Bailey moved to the United States to begin his curatorial career as Assistant Curator for European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he worked from 1985 to 1989.[5] In that final year, he was appointed Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Kimbell Art Museum, and was promoted to Senior Curator in 1990. Five years later, Bailey was hired as Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and was appointed Deputy Director and Chief Curator in 1998.

In 2000, Bailey became the Chief Curator of the Frick Collection,[6] and in 2008, he gained his first directorial position after being promoted to Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. Bailey also became an inaugural fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.[7] While at the Center, Bailey held at a residency at the Louvre, closely observing its director, Henri Loyrette.

In 2013, Bailey became the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[8] overseeing both the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.[9] Two years later, Bailey moved back to New York to become the sixth director of the Morgan Library & Museum, succeeding William Griswold.[10] [11]

Alongside curatorial posts, Bailey has taught art history at a number of institutions, including: the University of Pennsylvania (1988), Bryn Mawr College (1989), Columbia University (2005-2007), and the Graduate Center, CUNY (2009).

Personal life

In 2013, Bailey married Alan Wintermute in New York City.[12]

Awards and honors

Select works

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colin Bailey - CCL Class of 2008 .
  2. News: Colin Bailey is Named the New Director of Morgan Library . The New York Times . 16 April 2015 . Kennedy . Randy .
  3. Web site: Aspects of the patronage and collecting of French painting in France at the end of the Ancien Régime . 2023-02-01 . library.frick.org . en.
  4. Web site: Bringing up Bailey: New Chief at FAMSF . 13 June 2013 .
  5. Web site: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20201202224939/https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/1990/annenberg.html . 2 December 2020 . 29 January 2021 .
  6. News: June 9, 2000 . Chief curator of National Gallery leaves for small but important Frick museum in New York . National Post . B7 . .
  7. Web site: Attention Museum Headhunters: Tinterow and Bailey Have Directorial Aspirations . 4 October 2007 .
  8. Web site: Finkel . Jori . October 23, 2014 . Colin Bailey Revamps San Francisco Art Museums . February 8, 2024 . The New York Times . 0362-4331 .
  9. Web site: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Appoint Colin B. Bailey as Director . 26 March 2013 .
  10. Web site: Pobric . Pac . April 16, 2015 . Colin Bailey named head of the Morgan Library and Museum . April 28, 2024 . The Art Newspaper – International art news and events .
  11. News: Kennedy . Randy . April 16, 2015 . Colin Bailey Is Named the New Director of Morgan Library . April 28, 2024 . The New York Times . 0362-4331 .
  12. Web site: Colin Bailey ready to lead Fine Arts Museums . 24 June 2013 .
  13. Web site: France Honors Colin B. Bailey with the Medal of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters .
  14. Web site: Colin B. Bailey, Chief Curator, Awarded Prestigious Mitchell Prize. The Frick Collection. 8 August 2016.
  15. Web site: FIAC Foundation. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150129013133/http://www.fiacfoundation.org:80/awards.html . 2015-01-29 . 2020-11-20. www.fiacfoundation.org/awards.html.
  16. Web site: Les lauréats Académie française. 2020-11-20. www.academie-francaise.fr.