Francis M. Naumann (born April 25, 1948) is a scholar, curator, and art dealer, specializing in the art of the

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

movement and the

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periods. He has an MFA degree in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago (1973) and a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1988). He taught art history at

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

from 1977 through 1990, and is author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogues, including ''New York Dada 1915-25'' (Harry N. Abrams, 1994) and ''Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' (

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1999). In 1996, he organized "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York" for the

Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

of American Art, in 1997, "Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute" for the American Craft Museum in New York, and, in 2003, he co-curated "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray" for the Montclair Art Museum. For nineteen years—from 2001 to 2020—he operated a gallery in New York City on 57th Street, in the heart of the midtown gallery district. His gallery showed the work of artists

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded and edited ''The Blind Man'' and '' Rongwrong'' magazines in New York City with Fren ...

and

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, although his t ...

among others. He has published ''Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess'', in which the correlation between Duchamp's chess activities and his art is examined and, most recently, a monograph on the photographer Naomi Savage, the niece of Man Ray, published by the Milton Art Bank in 2020. His writings on Marcel Duchamp were published as ''The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp'' (New York: Readymade Press, 2012). In 2019, his autobiographical account of his relationship with art historians Leo Steinberg and John Rewald (among others) and the artist Beatrice Wood was published as ''MENTORS: The Making of an Art Historian'' (Doppelhouse Press).

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Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naumann, Francis Dada Place of birth missing (living people) Parsons School of Design faculty American art dealers Living people 1948 births

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