Judith K. Zilczer Explained

Judith K. Zilczer
Education:BA, MA, The George Washington University; PhD, University of Delaware
Employer:Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Occupation:Curator, art historian

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,[1] and Richard Lindner.[2] Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia."[3] She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900".[4] [5] 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).[6] From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings.

Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.[2] [7] [8]

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Notes and References

  1. Online NewsHour: In Remembrance: Willem de Kooning. 2012-05-25. 1997-03-19.
  2. Web site: Zilczer. Judith. SIA Acc. 04-028, Judith K. Zilczer Papers, 1975-2003. Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2012-05-25.
  3. Web site: (the teeming void): Synesthesia and Cross-Modality in Contemporary Audiovisuals. 2 October 2008. 2012-05-25.
  4. Web site: Past Exhibitions - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden . 2012-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120623053533/http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/past-exhibitions-3/#detail=/bio/visual-music/&collection=past-exhibitions-3. dead. 2012-06-23.
  5. News: Gopnik. Blake. Music to Your Eyes. Washington Post. Arts & Living. 2012-05-25. 2005-06-23.
  6. For reviews, see Douglas Cooper, "The Erratic Magpie," The New York Review of Books (December 7, 1978), pp. 32-33, and Piri Halasz, "A Rich Attorney who Collected Art and Bohemians," Smithsonian Magazine (July 1978), pp. 76-83.
  7. Web site: Zilczer. Judith. SIA Acc. 07-162, Judith K. Zilczer Papers, 1984-2005. Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2012-05-25.
  8. Web site: Zilczer. Judith. SIA Acc. 98-024, Judith K. Zilczer Papers, c. 1974-1997 . Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2012-05-25. Web site: Zilczer. Judith. SIA Acc. 96-089, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Dept. of Painting and Sculpture, (Judith K. Zilczer) Records, c. 1979-1995. Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2012-05-25.

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