Virginia Mecklenburg

American art historian

Virginia M. Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg in 2015.

Born|

Virginia Helen McCord

(1946-11-11) November 11, 1946 (age 77)

United States

Occupation(s)| Art historian
Curator
Spouse| Marion Mecklenburg
Academic background
Alma mater| University of Texas at Austin
University of Maryland
Thesis| American Aesthetic Theory, 1908-1917: Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought (1983)
Doctoral advisor| Elizabeth Johns
Academic work
Discipline| Art history
Sub-discipline| American art

Virginia Helen McCord Mecklenburg (born November 11, 1946) is an American art historian and curator. Mecklenburg is currently the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she has worked since 1979.

## Career

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Mecklenburg received two English degrees from the University of Texas at Austin: a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and a Master of Arts in 1970. Her master's thesis was titled "An Analysis of Role Playing as a Method of Teaching English to the Disadvantaged Learner."[1] Mecklenburg then continued on to the University of Maryland to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1983.[2] While studying in Maryland, she was hired as a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1979. Mecklenburg wrote a doctoral dissertation titled "American Aesthetic Theory, 1908-1917: Issues in Conservative and Avant-Garde Thought," supervised by Professor Elizabeth Johns.[3]

A scholar of American art, Mecklenburg has written publications on such artists as George Bellows, Richard Estes, William Glackens, Edward Hopper, Robert Indiana, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Sloan, and Robert Vickrey.

## See also

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* List of University of Maryland, College Park people
* List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

## References

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1. ^ McCord, Virginia Helen (1970). An analysis of role playing as a method of teaching English to the disadvantaged learner (Masters thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 50190354.
2. ^ "Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Senior Curator | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
3. ^ "PDS Sso".

## External links

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* Smithsonian profile

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* ISNI
* VIAF
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* Germany
* Israel
* United States
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