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Established | 1953 [1] |
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Location | Katonah, New York |
Coordinates | 41°15′46″N 73°40′24″W / 41.2628°N 73.6733°W |
Director | Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe [2] |
Website | https://www.katonahmuseum.org |
The Katonah Museum of Art is a non-collecting institution geared towards visual arts, located in Katonah, New York. It does not have a permanent collection, but holds temporary exhibitions. [1] [3] [4]
The museum was founded in 1953, in one room at the local library. [1] In 1990 it moved to a separate building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. [3] [5] The cost of the new building was $5.3 million. [3]
In 1993 The New York Times said that the museum had 50,000 visitors a year. [1]
The museum uses the services of volunteers. [3] [6]
At the time of moving to the new building in 1990, George G. King was the director of the museum. [3] He was succeeded by Susan H. Edwards in 1998. [3] [6] In 2022, Michael Gitlitz was reported to have been the museum's Executive Director until 2021. [2] Leslie Griesbach Schultz was Interim Executive Director from 2021 to 2022. [2] Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe was appointed as Executive Director in 2022. [2]