Carrie Rebora Barratt is an American

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

specializing in museum

administration Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal: the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. ** Administrative assistant, traditionally known as a se ...

and collaborative nonprofit leadership. She has worked in this domain in

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since the 1980s. Barratt was Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture (1989–2009), and Manager of the

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Center for the Study of American Art (1989–2009) and Deputy Director for Collections (2009-2018) at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

. She served as the Chief Executive Officer and William C. Steere Sr. President of The

New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...

2018-2020 during a transitional period. Prior to that, she spent over thirty years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a curator and administrator.

Education

Barratt was born in Chicago and holds a BA in history of art and architecture from the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

. She completed a masters in art history from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

, and a PhD in art history from the

Graduate Center of the City University of New York The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Division of Graduate Studies at City University ...

Career

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Barratt joined the

in 1984 as a summer intern. In subsequent years, she received a

Chester Dale Chester Dale (May 3, 1883 – December 16, 1962) was an American banker and art collector. Dale earned his wealth from the New York Stock Exchange, which then allowed him to become a major collector of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French pa ...

Fellowship in 1987 and an

Andrew W. Mellon Andrew William Mellon (; March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. The son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon ...

Fellowship in 1988 to write her doctoral dissertation. Barratt was Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture (2001–2009), and Manager of the

Center for the Study of American Art (1989–2009). In 2009 she was named Deputy Director for Collections and Administration at the

, a position she held until 2018.

The New York Botanical Garden

On July 1, 2018, Barratt became the CEO and President of The New York Botanical Garden, the ninth person and first woman to lead the organization in this role. On July 8, 2020, Barratt announced that she would step down from her position at the end of the summer of 2020.

Selected publications

*
Jasper Cropsey Watercolors: Catalogue and Essay
', National Academy of Design (New York, New York), 1985. *
The Art of Henry Inman
', National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), 1987. *
John Singleton Copley in America
', Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York), 1995. *
John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th-Century America
', Putnam Foundation (San Diego, California), 1998. *
Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully
', Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey), 2000. *
Gilbert Stuart
', Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rebora Barratt, Carrie 1960 births Living people 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American historians American art historians American women art historians American art curators American women curators Writers from Chicago University of Illinois Chicago alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni CUNY Graduate Center alumni Historians from Illinois