Gary Tinterow

After graduating from Harvard, Tinterow was hired at Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he would remain until 2012. There, he served as the Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. During that tenure, Tinterow was part of a group of curators to help formalize the Association of Art Museum Curators.

In 2012, Tinterow returned to his native Texas and was named Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, following the death of the preceding director, Peter Marzio.^[4]

In 2000, Tinterow was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 2003 and 2012, respectively, Tinterow was named Chevalier and Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France.^[5] In 1986, King Juan Carlos I of Spain named Tinterow an Oficial of the Orden del Merito Civill; and in 2015 King Felipe VI made Tinterow an Oficial of the Orden de Isabel la Catolica.

Personal life

Tinterow is married to Christopher Gardner, an antiquarian. Tinterow is also a first cousin once removed of Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas, through his mother's side.

See also

• List of Brandeis University people
• List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: T–V
• List of Harvard University people
• List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• List of people from Houston

References

External links

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston profile