Magaret Rose Vendryes

We are deeply saddened to shares news of the death of Margaret Rose Vendryes on March 25. An accomplished and admired art historian, visual artist, and curator, she received her MA in Art History from the Newcomb Art Department in 1992, after having received her BA from Amherst and before going on to receive her PhD at Princeton. In her many creative and scholarly projects we see an astonishing array of approaches to thinking about and producing art. Among these, she published a book on Richmond Barthé (Barthé: A Life in Sculpture, 2008), curated Beyond the Blues at the New Orleans Museum of Art in partnership with the Amistad Research Center in 2010, and produced paintings for her African Diva Project series. She was Professor in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts and Director of the Fine Arts Gallery at York College at the City University of New York (CUNY). She was to become Dean of the School of  the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in June. Our thoughts are with the many who knew and loved her.