Margaretta Salinger

American art historian

Margaretta Salinger

Margaretta Salinger, from the 1928 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College

Born| March 22, 1907

New York City

Died| March 8, 1985 (age 77)

New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.

Occupation(s)| Art historian, curator

Margaretta M. Salinger (March 22, 1907 – March 8, 1985) was an American art historian. She was curator of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

## Early life and education

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Salinger was born in New York City, the daughter of Arthur A. Salinger and Adaline Sager Magill Salinger. Her father was a veterinarian. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928.[1]

## Career

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Salinger became a cataloguer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1928. She was a researcher, lecturer and writer for the museum for many years.[2] She gave a popular series of free lectures on art appreciation at the museum in the 1950s,[3] and traveled giving lectures in other cities.[4][5] She chaired the boards of the museum's Scientific Publication Committee, and Editorial Advisory Committee. She was named a curator in 1970, a few years before she retired in 1972.[6][7]

## Publications

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A colleague wrote in 1986 that, "In all of her work, whether spoken or written, Margaretta Salinger strove to express her perceptive ideas with precision and grace."[8] She frequently contributed essays to the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9][10]

* "Piazzetta's Drawing of a Shepherd Boy" (1937)[9]
* "Christ and the Woman of Samaria by Caracciolo" (1937)[11]
* "The Whitsun-Bride by Pieter Brueghel the Younger" (1939)[10]
* A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch and German Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1947, with Harry B. Wehle)[12]
* "Representations of Saint Teresa" (1949)[13]
* The Flower Piece in European Painting (1949)[14]
* Vincent Van Gogh (1952)[15]
* Masterpieces of French Paintings (Fifteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries) (1955)
* Diego Velazquez, 1599-1660 (1956)[16]
* Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (1963)
* French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1966 and 1967, with Charles Sterling)[17]
* Impressionists in the Metropolitan (1968)
* Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986, published posthumously)

## Personal life

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Salinger died in 1985, at the age of 77, in New Britain, Connecticut.[6] There is a collection of her papers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art archives.[7]

## References

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1. ^ Bryn Mawr College. Senior Class (1928). Class of 1928. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library - via Internet Archive.
2. ^ "Metropolitan to Give 6 Courses Covering Most of Art History". The New York Times. September 13, 1959. p. 121. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
3. ^ "Free Lectures on Paintings". The New York Times. September 26, 1951. p. 27. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
4. ^ "Art League to Hear Author". The Times Leader. 1964-05-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-03 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Dutch Painter Lecture Topic". Ledger-Star. 1952-12-03. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-03-03 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ a b "Margaretta Salinger, A Curator Emeritus at the Met Museum". The New York Times. 1985-03-14. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
7. ^ a b Margaretta M. Salinger Records, 1941-1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives.
8. ^ "Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art". MetPublications. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
9. ^ a b Salinger, Margaretta M. (1937). "Piazzetta's Drawing of a Shepherd Boy". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 32 (2): 38–40. doi:10.2307/3255268. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3255268.
10. ^ a b Salinger, Margaretta M. (1939). "The Whitsun-Bride by Pieter Brueghel the Younger". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 34 (4): 88–90. doi:10.2307/3256345. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3256345.
11. ^ Salinger, Margaretta M. (1937). "Christ and the Woman of Samaria by Caracciolo". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 32 (1): 4–6. doi:10.2307/3255289. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3255289.
12. ^ Held, Julius S. (June 1949). "Harry B. Wehle and Margaretta M. Salinger, A Catalogue of Early Flemish, Dutch, and German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, Metropolitan Museum, 1947. 243 pages, 176 illus. $4.50". The Art Bulletin. 31 (2): 139–143. doi:10.1080/00043079.1949.11407861. ISSN 0004-3079.
13. ^ Salinger, Margaretta (1949). "Representations of Saint Teresa". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 8 (3): 97–108. doi:10.2307/3258079. ISSN 0026-1521. JSTOR 3258079.
14. ^ Shane, George (1949-06-12). "Flower Painting/George Shane". The Des Moines Register. p. 31. Retrieved 2024-03-03 - via Newspapers.com.
15. ^ Salinger, Margaretta M. (1952). Vincent Van Gogh. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
16. ^ Velásquez, Diego Rodríguez De Silva Y. (1956). Diego Velazquez, 1599-1660. Text by Margaretta Salinger. [London]; printed in Holland.
17. ^ French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, Nineteenth Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1966.

## External links

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* Sidney J. Waintrob and Abraham L. Waintrob, "Margaretta Salinger" (photograph), in the collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
* WNYC American Art Week, Interview of Margaretta M. Salinger with Georgine Oeri and Louise Averill Svendsen (October 5, 1955), a sound recording available online at the Guggenheim Foundation

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