AKIRA SUWA / Staff Photographer
Timothy Rub, new director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at the Great Stair Hall last night."I think he'll hit the ground running," said H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, who chairs the museum board.
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Art museum names Rub new director
Education: B.A. in art history, Middlebury College; master's in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University; master's in public and private management from Yale University; Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors, 1997-98.
Experience: Director and CEO, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006-09; director, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2000-06; director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1991-99; curator, Cooper Hewitt Museum, 1983-87.
Specialization: Architecture and modern and contemporary art.
Other love: Music; studied violin for more than a decade.
Family: Married to graphic designer Sally Rub; children Peter, 23, and Katherine, 19.
A Few of Rub's Favorite Philadelphia Things ...
"The great Roger van der Weyden Crucifixion in the Johnson Collection . . . remains one of my favorite paintings in any collection in this country and still moves me deeply whenever I see it.
"Cezanne's great Bathers and Renoir's Large Bathers are both, although in very different ways, exceptional works and landmarks in the careers of these two painters.
"I also never fail to to go to that great chapellike space in which the museum's incomparable holdings of Brancusi's sculpture are shown in conjunction with the many wonderful paintings by Mondrian in the PMA's collection.
"I could also mention a number of American paintings, including the many great paintings by Eakins and Charles Willson Peale that are in the collection.
"In citing just these few things, I am not, of course, being fair to the many other areas of the collection - American decorative arts, Asian art, prints and drawings, to cite just a few - that are also extraordinarily rich and deep."
- Timothy Rub
Contact culture writer Peter Dobrin at 215-854-5611 or pdobrin@phillynews.com.
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