Aug
05
A MoMA Curator’s Art-Filled Mansion Is On Sale for $6.5 million
ByWilliam Rubin was known for his art collection, less so for his Westchester estate. Maybe that will change.
William Rubin (1927-2006), the head of the Museum of Modern Art’s prestigious painting and sculpture department in the 1970s and 1980s, is largely credited with transforming the institution’s collection from a treasure into a powerhouse.
By the mid 1990s, he’d become the department’s director emeritus and was busy working on what would be his last major show, Picasso and Portraiture, which opened in April 1996 with more than 220 artworks…
A MoMA Curator’s Art-Filled Mansion Is On Sale for $6.5 million
