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Annette Blaugrund, former director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, has published and lectured widely on diverse subjects in American art. She was the academy’s chief administrator, overseeing development, marketing, facility improvements, exhibitions, educational programs, art school activities, and interaction with other institutions as well as the governing council and advisory board. While at the Academy she raised millions of dollars through federal, state, and municipal grants as well as private foundations. Currently she sits on several boards and committees and has juried numerous exhibitions and competitions. She has also participated in accreditation reviews for the American Association of Museums and consults privately with museums and foundations across the country. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1987), where for six years she taught a summer school seminar surveying the history of American art.

Among Dr. Blaugrund’s many curatorial projects was an exhibition and catalogue called The Tenth Street Studio Building: Artist-Entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American Impressionists, organized for The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N. Y. and the National Academy Museum. For this show, the Victorian Society of America granted her an award in May 1998. With Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., et al, she wrote and edited John James Audubon: The Watercolors for The Birds of America (October 1993, Villard Books, Random House), the book that accompanied a major traveling exhibition of the same name. This project was organized for The New-York Historical Society where she was the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of paintings, drawings, and sculpture from 1989 to 1995 and Director of Institutional Planning in her last year there. Before working at the Historical Society, Dr. Blaugrund was Guest Curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she curated the exhibition Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, and edited the corresponding book for which the French government named her Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in June 1992. As Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (1980-85), she coordinated one of their then largest exhibitions, The Great East River Bridge, celebrating the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Essential Audubon was published by The Wonderland Press of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 1999. Since then, Dr. Blaugrund has written essays for the catalogue of the Fort Wayne Museum 2008 biennial exhibition; the introduction to The Abstract Impulse for the National Academy in 2007; and “The Figural Present” for an exhibition catalogue, St Anselm College, 2009. Based on research for her latest biography she published “Painting the Extraordinary Harriet Hubbard Ayer,” an article for The Magazine Antiques, Summer 2010. Her book, Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer, was released in April 2011 by The History Press, Charleston, SC.

From 1012 on, she has worked as a consulting curator for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. For that institution she has curated the following exhibitions and written the accompanying catalogues: Albert Bierstadt in New York and New England (2013); Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect (2016); and is currently working on a Martin Johnson Heade exhibition and catalogue. She has also worked with the Brandywine River Museum of Art and is currently the author of their forthcoming catalogue George A. Weymouth: A Restropective (Rizzoli 2017).