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Honoring the Life of Anne d'Harnoncourt.
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WHEREAS, The Council of the City of Philadelphia deeply mourns the loss of noted civic leader, cultural advocate, and Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art ("Art Museum"), Anne d'Harnoncourt, and is proud to hereby honor her remarkable legacy; and
WHEREAS, As a national and international leader in the arts, Anne d'Harnoncourt was known for her steadfast devotion to the advancement, enjoyment, and educational impact of art and culture throughout the City of Philadelphia, the region, the United States, and the world; and
WHEREAS, Born on September 7, 1943 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Manhattan by her father, René d'Harnoncourt, who was a painter and Director of the Museum of Modern Art for twenty years, and her mother, Sarah Carr d'Harnoncourt, Anne d'Harnoncourt attended the Brearley School and Radcliffe College, where she majored in European and British history and literature and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and attended London University's Courtauld Institute of Art, earning a Master's Degree; and
WHEREAS, Ms. d'Harnoncourt began her career at the Art Museum in 1967 as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, and became the Assistant Curator of 20th Century Art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969, where she met her future husband, Joseph J. Rishel; and
WHEREAS, In 1972, Anne d'Harnoncourt returned to Philadelphia as the Art Museum's Associate Curator of 20th Century Art, and as curator, organized and co-organized numerous ground-breaking exhibitions, including Marcel Duchamp in 1973, Violet Oakley in 1979, and Futurism and the International Avant-garde in 1980, and as a scholar, advanced an understanding and appreciation of art and artists through museum catalogues and publications; and
WHEREAS, Ms. d'Harnoncourt became the A...
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