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Gerald Nordland

American museum director and art critic

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Source revisionMar 23, 2023
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Gerald Nordland (1927–2019) was an American museum director and art critic.

Biography

Nordland was dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960–64), then at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art (1964–1966), the San Francisco Museum of Art (1966–1973), and director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (1977–1985), and the UCLA New Wight Art Gallery (1973–1977). He co-founded Artforum magazine and authored over 60 publications.

Awards and honours

1985 Guggenheim Fellow – for Fine Arts Research

Publications

Including co-authored books, and exhibition catalogues:

Gaston Lachaise, 1882–1935: sculpture and drawings (Los Angeles, 1964)

Gaston Lachaise, 1882–1935 (Ithaca, NY, 1974)

Ray Parker (Washington, 1966)

Gaston Lachaise: the man and his work (New York, 1974)

Fourteen abstract painters (Los Angeles, 1975)

Catalog of the UCLA collection of contemporary American photographs (Los Angeles, 1976)

Richard Diebenkorn Monotypes (Los Angeles, 1976)

Alberto Burri: a retrospective view, 1948–77 (Los Angeles, 1977)

Reuben Nakian: recent works (New York, 1982)

Ulfert Wilke, a retrospective (Salt Lake City, 1983)

Richard Diebenkorn (New York, 1987)

Ynes Johnson (1996)

Twentieth century American drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation collection (Little Rock, Ark, 1998)

Reuben Diebenkorn: revised and expanded (New York, 2001)

Jon Schueler: to the North (London, 2002)

Uncompromising Vision: The art of Jack Jefferson (2004)

References

External links

Loyola University Chicago. Archives & Special Collections.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gerald Nordland” as american museum director and art critic. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927, 2019, 1960, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1927-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Gerald, Nordland and American can be independently traced.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q109688654. VIAF identifies the subject as 1331154260375724480007. The Library of Congress control number is n79059826. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 2019, 1960 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gerald Nordland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.