Robert Rosenblum

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Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to twentieth century.^[1]

Rosenblum was born in New York City in 1927. He studied art history at Queens College and Yale University, and in 1956 received his Ph.D. from New York University.^[2]

Rosenblum's many important publications include Cubism and Twentieth Century Art (1960), Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art (1967) and Nineteenth Century Art (co-authored with H.W. Janson, 1984). However, he is perhaps best known for his innovations in curatorial practice, notably his inclusion of non-canonical works and his rejection of standard chronological ordering. ^[3]

Rosenblum held teaching positions at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Yale University, Oxford University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.^[4] He was also the Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.^[5]