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For the Australian philanthropist, see Robert Storr (banker).

Robert Storr (born 1949) is an American curator, critic, painter, and writer.

Biography

Storr received his B.A. in History and French from Swarthmore College in 1972, and earned an M.F.A. in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.^[1]

Art and curating career

From 1990 to 2002 Robert Storr was curator, then senior curator, in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

As a curator, Storr made his mark early with a number of major exhibitions at the museum and elsewhere, which enhanced the public prominence of such artists as Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith and Robert Ryman.

He also organized several reinstallations of MoMA's permanent collection, covering such topics as abstraction and the modern grotesque. From 2002 to 2006 he was the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute