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A lecture by Dr. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, January 23, 2pm
Published on January 19, 2010
Goya’s Disasters of War: Desolation, Depravity and Death. Is There Hope Amidst Horror?
Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2pm @ Battat Contemporary (In English)
Dr. Hilliard T. Goldfarb has been a curator at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) since 1998.
Dr. Goldfarb has curated major international exhibitions such as, Richelieu: Art and Power / Richelieu : l’art et le pouvoir, (September 2002 – April 2003; MMFA and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne) and From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century (1989–90) for the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the National Gallery of Canada. He also organized, among other projects for the MMFA, the exhibition Italian Old Masters From Raphael to Tiepolo: The Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and many prints and drawings exhibitions. Most recently he organized the large international project, Expanding Horizons: American and Canadian Landscape Painting and Photography, 1860 – 1917 (Montreal and Vancouver, 2009-2010).
Prior to joining the MMFA, Dr. Goldfarb served as chief curator of collections at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston (1991–98), curator for European Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1985–90), where he organized the exhibition Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War (1990), and assistant curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Cleveland Museum of Art (1980–85). He also held the post of Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland during those years.
In 2009, Dr. Goldfarb was made an Officer in the Ordre of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. Among his other honors and awards are grants from the Florence Gould Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.