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Friday, 02 May 2014 11:18

Nan Rosenthal, Former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Met and National Gallery, has Passed Away

Nan Rosenthal helped the Met acquire Jasper Johns' 'White Flag,' 1955. Nan Rosenthal helped the Met acquire Jasper Johns' 'White Flag,' 1955. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nan Rosenthal, a curator who helped bring the 20th century to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 76.

The cause was heart failure, her sister-in-law Wendy Mackenzie said.

Over three decades, Ms. Rosenthal organized exhibitions and oversaw the acquisition of contemporary art, first at the National Gallery, which she joined in 1985, and afterward at the Met, with which she was associated from 1993 until her retirement in 2008.

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