Barbara Haskell (born 1946) is an American art historian and a museum curator.
Barbara Haskell is currently a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she has worked since 1975. She has previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum. Among the landmark thematic exhibitions she has curated are The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-1950 (1999), and BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (1984). In addition, she has curated retrospectives and authored accompanying scholarly monographs on a range of early-20th-century and post-war American artists. Her past exhibitions and catalogues include H.C. Westermann (1978), Marsden Hartley (1980), Milton Avery (1982), Ralston Crawford (1985), Charles Demuth (1987), Red Grooms (1987), Donald Judd (1988), Burgoyne Diller (1990), Agnes Martin (1992), Joseph Stella (1994), Edward Steichen (2000), Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life (2003), Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color (2005-2006), Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction (2009), and Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of World (2011).
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Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011.
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2009.
Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2003.
Edward Steichen. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000.
Milton Avery: The Metaphysics of Color. Neuberger Museum of Art, 1994.
Joseph Stella. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1994.
Agnes Martin. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992.
Yoko Ono: Arias and Objects. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1991.
Donald Judd. W.W. Norton in association with The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988.
Ralston Crawford. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1985.
H.C. Westermann. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1978.
Arthur Dove. New York Graphic Society, Ltd., Boston, Massachusetts, 1974.
John Mason: Ceramic Sculpture. Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1974.
Larry Bell. Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1972.
Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument. Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1971.
Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World (2011)
Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection (2011)
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time (2009)
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction (2010)
Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, from the Archives of American Art, 2005
Henry Allen Moe Prize awarded to catalogues of distinction in the arts, for the monograph Charles Demuth, 1987.