Name Judy Cutler Spouse Laurence S. Cutler | Role Art dealer | |
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Residence Newport, Rhode Island, New York City Occupation Museum Director, Curator and Co-Founder of the National Museum of American Illustration/ Executive Director of the American Illustrators Gallery Website www.americanillustration.org Education University of Pennsylvania Books Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists Nominations Locus Award for Best Art Book | ||
Judy Goffman Cutler, The Drexel InterView (Season 14)
Judy Goffman Cutler is an American art dealer, co-founder of the National Museum of American Illustration, and founder and Executive Director of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC. She has authored and co-authored over fifty exhibition catalogues and art books published by Bison Books/Crescent Books (Random House), Harry N. Abrams, and Pomegranate Artbooks.
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Education and career
Cutler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization and Art History and a Masters of Science degree in education.
In 1969, Cutler founded the American Illustrators Gallery in New York City, focusing on illustrators including Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle and JC Leyendecker.
In 1998, Judy and husband Laurence Cutler, founded the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) and the American Civilization Foundation, a nonprofit, educational organization that administers and operates the Museum. Located at Vernon Court (1898) in Newport, a Beaux Arts 18th century French chateaux, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1904 was considered one of “the ten most beautiful mansions in America.”
In 1994, Cutler co-founded ARTShows and Products (ASaP), exhibition organizers, fine art publishers, licensors, and derivative art developers, operating in 42 countries as ASaP Worldwide. ASaP represents JC Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne, and others.