DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART APPOINTS NEW CURATOR OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that Nicole R. Myers has been appointed The Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Myers will begin her new post at the end of this month, and comes from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, where she has worked since 2011 as associate curator of European painting and sculpture. She was also previously a curatorial researcher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Myers will oversee all aspects of the Modern European collection at the Dallas Museum, and organize special exhibitions, conduct original research on the museum’s collection for scholarly publication, research Nazi-era provenance of artworks, oversee permanent gallery installations, and recommend new works of art for acquisition.

While at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Myers curated “Rodin: Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation” (2011); “Town and Country: French Types in the 19th Century”(2012); and “Gérôme and the Lure of the Orient” (2014). She also served as the project director, author, and editor of French Paintings 1600–1900: The Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, a catalogue featuring essays on more than 100 paintings and pastels, to be published online beginning in 2018.

She has a master’s and Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis.