Program Officer

Angelica Zander Rudenstine is responsible for grantmaking in Museums and Art Conservation.

She received her B.A. and M.A. with honors at Oxford University, and M.A. with distinction in Classical Archaeology at Smith College.

In 1961 she joined the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was responsible for research in European paintings.  In 1969 she was commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to catalogue the Museum’s permanent collection, serving as Research Curator until 1982, and subsequently continuing in a freelance capacity to prepare a catalogue of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.  In 1983 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and in 1985-86 she served as adjunct professor, Institute of Fine Arts New York University, while also preparing a catalogue of the Pulitzer Collection.  She has served as curator or co-curator of several major exhibitions, including The George Costakis Collection at the Guggenheim Museum and several other venues; Kazimir Malevich at the National Gallery, Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Piet Mondrian at the National Gallery, Washington, DC and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association; the editorial board of the Art Bulletin and of The American Scholar; the Millard Meiss Publications Committee; the Publications Committee of the J. Paul Getty Trust; Chairman of the Visiting Committee to the Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University; Chairman of the Visiting Committee to the J. Paul Getty Museum; a member of the Advisory Board of the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities; a member of selection panels at the NEH and the NEA; Trustee of the American Academy in Rome and co-chair of its Fine Arts Committee.  She currently serves on the Board of Marlboro Music and of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. 

Ms. Rudenstine’s publications include The Guggenheim Museum Collection: Paintings 1880-1945 (1976); Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection (1981); Art of the Avante-Garde in Russia, co-author, exhibition catalogue (1981); Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice (1985, received the Alfred H. Barr Award for the outstanding museum catalogue of the year); Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture from the Collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (1988, awarded the Mitchell Prize for 20th Century Art);  Piet Mondrian, exhibition catalogue (ed.) (1994).