ABOUT THE JUDGE MARILYN SYMMES
Marilyn Symmes is a New York City-based curator with expertise in prints, drawings, and photographs. After starting her career at the Smith College Museum of Art, followed by the Detroit Institute of Arts, she was the curator in charge of graphic arts collections at the Toledo Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Her books include Impressions of New York, Prints from the New-York Historical Society (2005) and the monograph Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints (2011), as well as other publications on prints, drawings, photographs and artist-illustrated books. Selected recent projects include serving as a curatorial consultant on prints for the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation’s future on-line catalogue raisonné; volunteer cataloguing of American and British prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and contributing an essay to the book, Only Human/Judy Dater (2017).
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