Michael R. Taylor is a curator, author, and expert in modern and contemporary art with a focus on Dada, Surrealism, and the work of Marcel Duchamp. With a Ph.D in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, he was a Curator of Modern Art at the

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...

from 1997 until 2011, and Director of the

Hood Museum of Art The Hood Museum of Art is owned and operated by Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth dates to 1772, making the collection among the o ...

at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire from 2011 until 2015 In May 2015, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced its appointment of Dr. Taylor as Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education.

Selected bibliography

* ''Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés'', New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. * ''Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective'', New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. * ''Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007. * Co-Author (with

Dawn Adès Josephine Dawn Adès, (''née'' Tylden-Pattenson; born 6 May 1943), also known as Dawn Adès, is a British art historian and academic. She is professor emeritus of art history and theory at the University of Essex. Early life and education Ad ...

), ''Salvador Dalí: The Centennial Retrospective'', Milan: Bompiani, and New York: Rizzoli, 2004. * ''Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia'', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum Bulletin series, 2004. * ''Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne'', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, and London: Merrell Publishers, 2002. * Co-author (with Ann Temkin and Susan Rosenberg), ''Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art'', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Michael R. Living people American art historians Directors of museums in the United States Dartmouth College faculty Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Year of birth missing (living people)