NEW CURATOR FOR GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART

William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, has announced the appointment of Lynn Boland as the museum’s new Pierre Daura curator of European art. Boland began working at the museum yesterday.

Boland previously worked as a curator for the Creative Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin and was a graduate intern in the department of modern and contemporary art at the university’s Blanton Museum of Art. He has also been an assistant instructor and guest lecturer on twentieth-century European, Renaissance, and modern art while at the University of Texas at Austin. His top priority at the Georgia Museum of Art will be the development of the “Cercle et Carré” catalogue and exhibition, tentatively scheduled for October 2011 to January 2012.

Boland will also direct the activities of the Pierre Daura Center, established at the museum with a gift from Martha Randolph Daura in honor of her father, Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura, who was one of the three founders of the artistic group Cercle et Carré. The gift consists of a collection of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Daura, the artist’s archives, and an endowment fund to support the center and the accompanying curatorship.