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Alfred Barr
Born: January 28, 1902
Died: August 15, 1981 (aged 79)
Bio: Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr., known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Known for:
- Cubism and abstract art (1936)
- What is modern painting? (1943)
- Art in Our Time
- Picasso, fifty years of his art
- Matisse, His Art and His Public (1951)