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Professional: National Gallery of Art, assistant to the director, 1961-'63; assistant director, 1964-'68; deputy director, 1968-'69; director, 1969-present. His favorite painting at the gallery: "I will quote a Baltimore relation, a great-uncle, who used to say about women, 'I love them all, but I adore the one I'm with.' It's very hard to choose between your children."
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for exhibitions and donations. During his 23 years as director of the National Gallery, he added over 20,000 works to the collection. As many museums and cultural institutions lost public funding, Brown worked with Congress to increase the Gallery's operating budget year after year. He inherited a
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Seated from left to right: Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, nautical archaeologist Dr. George Bass, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics Gary S. Becker, CEO of Hearst Corporation Frank A. Bennack, Jr., CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos, and director of the National Gallery of Art J. Carter Brown at
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Born: Oct. 8, 1934, Providence, R.I. Home: Georgetown in Washington. Family: Separated from second wife, Pamela Drexel Brown. Children: , 13, and Elissa Lucinda Rionda Brown, 7. Education: B.A., Harvard, 1956; M.B.A., Harvard, 1958; European studies, 1958-1960; M.A., New York University, 1961.
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Through his high-profile leadership of the National Gallery, Brown became one of the leading public intellectuals in American and the champion of American art. His contacts in Washington politics and New York society aided him in his work at the museum. He also served as a trustee of the
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After leaving the National Gallery in 1992, Brown became chairman of Ovation, a cable television arts network that furthered his ambition to "bring the arts into people's living rooms." He remained involved in many cultural organizations, including the
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2001: Awards Council member and soprano Kathleen Battle presents the Golden Plate Award to J. Carter Brown during the American Academy of Achievement's Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in San Antonio,
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One of Brown's ambitions as director was to attract larger crowds to the nation's art museum. He was known for bringing "blockbuster" exhibitions to the museum. The National Gallery became a rival of the
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John Carter Brown III was born on 8 October 1934 in Providence, RI, a descendant of both the state's founder Roger Williams and the manufacturer/philanthropist who endowed Brown University. ...
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budget of $ 3 million in 1969 and increased that to $ 52 million when he retired in 1992. During the same period, the Gallery's endowment grew from $ 34 million to $ 186 million.
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to allow for taller buildings, saying President Washington's "vision is unpolluted as yet by the pressures of economic greed." He also supported the erection of the
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from 1969 to 1992 and a leading figure in American intellectual life. Under Brown's direction, the National Gallery became one of the leading art museums in the
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the honoree reception prior to the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies during the American Academy of Achievement's 2001 Summit held in San Antonio.
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Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience.
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and served as professors, administrators, and benefactors of the school in its early years. His father,
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Institute of Fine Arts. After completing his master's degree, he decided not to complete a
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at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. In 2001, he received the Golden Plate Award of the
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as "kitsch," comparing the monument to "a great piece of Ivory Soap carved."
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Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
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in 1992 and 1993, respectively. In 1993 he was presented with the
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with a major in History and Literature and was president of the
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presented by Awards Council member and operatic soprano
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at Brown University and as chairman of the jury for the
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In 1976, he married Pamela Braga Drexel (1947–2005) in
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Near the end of his life, he became engaged to marry
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Carter Brown Biography and Interview" 572:Mellon) Byers (1941–1983), a daughter of 568:In 1971, Brown married Constance Barber ( 602:Elissa Lucinda Rionda Brown (born 1983). 1410:Harris & Carroll Sterling Masterson 1256:"Brown left monumental accomplishments" 1040:"Richard K. Mellon, Financier, Is Dead" 915:American Academy of Arts & Sciences 633: 2144:Writers from Providence, Rhode Island 826:. Cfa.gov. 2009-05-14. Archived from 542:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 327:Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) 7: 2164:Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts 1195:Mayhew, Augustus (9 January 2014). 769:"CARTER BROWN, PERSONALLY SPEAKING" 646:Kimmelman, Michael (19 June 2002). 2159:20th-century American male writers 996:"Jeffrey P. Bezos Biography Photo" 767:Kastor, Elizabeth (2 April 1992). 447:Kennedy Center for Performing Arts 14: 2169:American male non-fiction writers 1356:National Medal of Arts recipients 1254:Kilian, Michael (June 27, 2002). 1092:"J. C. 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Index

John Carter Brown II
Director of the
National Gallery of Art

John Walker
Earl Alexander Powell III
Providence
Rhode Island
Boston
Massachusetts
John Nicholas Brown II
Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown
Groton School
Alma mater
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
New York University
National Medal of Arts
Honor Award
U.S. National Gallery of Art
United States
Providence, Rhode Island
John Nicholas Brown II
Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown
American Revolution
Brown University
John Nicholas Brown II
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)
Harry S. Truman
Nightingale-Brown House
Arizona Desert School
Tucson

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