Peter W Kunhardt, Jr

Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. is the Executive Director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation and the Gordon Parks Foundation. Recent museum exhibitions in which he has been involved include Gordon Parks: The Making of An Argument with the New Orleans Museum of Art, Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 with the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Lincoln, Life-Size with the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kunhardt served as co-editor with Paul Roth on the multi-volume publication Gordon Parks: Collected Works. With his father, Peter W. Kunhardt, and his uncle Philip B. Kunhardt III, he coauthored Lincoln, Life-Size and Looking for Lincoln: The Making of American Icon. He is responsible for the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation’s acquisition of the archive of Life photographer Ed Clark, which was donated in 2009. Kunhardt has established seven scholarships granted annually to young artists at SUNY Purchase, the Ghetto Film School, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the National YoungArts Foundation, and The Harlem School of the Arts. He lives in New York City and works in Pleasantville, New York.