Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

found: His Defining modern art, 1986:CIP t.p. (Alfred H. Barr) CIP galley (d. 1981)

found: Annual obituary, 1981:p. 513-515 (Alfred Hamilton Barr; dir. of New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1929-1943; art historian; b. 1/28/1902, Detroit, Mich.; d. 8/15/1981, Salisbury, Conn.)

found: Wikipedia, 30 Oct. 2021(Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. born January 28, 1902, died August 15, 1981; an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_H._Barr_Jr.

found: New York times, Oct. 19, 2021:in an article entitled, "A 'Holy Grail' of Folk Art, Hiding in Plain Sight" on page C3 (William Edmondson; lived and died in Nashville, Tenn.; the first Black artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1937; Edmondson was self-taught, he began sculpting in 1934, when he was about 60; he came to the art world's attention around 1936 when a neighbor, the writer Sidney Mttron Hirsch, came across Edmondson's vast sculpture collection. Hirsch's friends introduced Edmondson to several of their artist friends, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe, a photographer for Harper's Bazaar magazine in New York. She brought Edmondson's work to the attention of Alfred H. Barr Jr., the director of the Museum of Modern Art)

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