Milo C. Beach
Milo Cleveland Beach is an American
art historian and the former director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art
.
Beach is a historian of
Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[3] He is an authority on Mughal painting of the Akbar to Shah Jahan periods and has published important catalogues on the subject including The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660 (Williamstown, 1978), now a classic in its field.[1]
He served as the chair of the art department at
Topkapi Museum, and the Hermitage Museum. A $26 million renovation of the Freer also took place during his tenure.[3] Beach curated numerous exhibitions, including the collection of painter Howard Hodgkin, Japanese pop art, the art of Hiroshima Kazuo, and contemporary pottery.[3]
In 1993, Beach published his research on the British Royal Collection's 17th-century manuscript of the Padshahnama. The Royal Librarian described the publication as the "best catalogue ever produced for an exhibition from Windsor Castle."[3] In October, 2001, Beach retired as the director of both the Sackler and the Freer Gallery of Art. Beach returned to research, specifically focusing on the work of the Mughal Empire.[3]
References
- ^ Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
- ^ "Director at Sackler and Freer Named". The New York Times. 24 October 1988. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Richard, Paul (20 March 2011). "Sackler, Freer Director To Retire; Milo Beach to Return To Art Scholarship". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Beach to Head Sackler Gallery". Record Unit 371, Box 4, "The Torch," April 1984, p. 1. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
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