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Margaret Scolari Barr (1901—1987) was an art historian, teacher, and the wife of Alfred H. Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In addition to her work as an art history teacher, Margaret worked closely with her husband in his work at the museum.

Childhood and education
Margaret was born to an Irish mother and Italian father in Rome, Italy in 1901. She attended the University of Rome from 1919—1921 and studied humanistic and linguistic studies.

Career
Barr was an art history teacher at the all-girls Spence School in New York for 37 years.

Barr wrote Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), a work about Medardo Rosso, an Italian sculptor, that is widely used today as the primary piece about this artist in English.