Judy Goffman Cutler
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Judy Goffman Cutler is an art dealer
, art collector, co-founder of the National Museum of American Illustration
, and founder and Executive Director of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC, the premier gallery showcasing major original artworks from the 'Golden Age of American Illustration'. Their collection includes works by Norman Rockwell
, Maxfield Parrish
, Elizabeth Shippen Green
, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle
, Jessie Willcox Smith
, Howard Chandler Christy
, JC Leyendecker, Violet Oakley
, James Montgomery Flagg
, and many other illustrators. Judy is the co-founder and Advisory Director to ARTShows and Products, Corp. (ASaP) and is the co-founder of The Alliance for Art and Architecture LLC. 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.
with a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts and American Civilization and a Masters of Arts degree in education.
, Maxfield Parrish
, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle
and JC Leyendecker. The gallery has been at the vanguard of what has become one of the most exciting markets in American art with the reawakening of the "Golden Age" in American Illustration. Cutler supervises all appropriate conservation, provenance research, and presentation for each of the artworks.
(NMAI), a nonprofit independent, educational, and aesthetic organization administering and operating the Museum. It is located at Vernon Court
(1898) in Newport
, a Beaux Arts 18th century French chateaux listed on the National Register of Historic Places and considered one of “the ten most beautiful mansions in America.” The NMAI Advisory Board includes Sen. Claiborne Pell
(ret.); Yale Prof. Emeritus Vincent Scully Jr.; entertainer Whoopi Goldberg
; the late J. Carter Brown
, Director Emeritas of the Natl. Gallery of Art; author Tom Wolfe
; Today Show Host Matt Lauer
; former Secretary of the Navy, Amb. William Middendorf; and artist Jamie Wyeth
; amongst 45 other notables.
The American Imagist Collection housed at the National Museum of American Illustration
comprises the largest private collection of Norman Rockwell
, N.C. Wyeth, J.C. Leyendecker, Charles Dana Gibson
, Maxfield Parrish
and many other major illustrators from the 'Golden Age of American Illustration.' The 'Golden Age" of American Illustration can be loosely defined as the art created between 1865 to 1945, ultimately ending with the original Saturday Evening Post. Cutler describes her collection as "art that culturally and socially defined its own times within the confines of what was happening chronologically in the United States."
, is a co-founder of the American Civilization Foundation, a nonprofit organization established as an independent, educational and aesthetic organization created for the public enlightenment in art, architecture and landscape architectural projects.
and Newport, Rhode Island
.
Art dealer
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...
, art collector, co-founder of the National Museum of American Illustration
National Museum of American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration , founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork....
, and founder and Executive Director of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC, the premier gallery showcasing major original artworks from the 'Golden Age of American Illustration'. Their collection includes works by Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
, Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
, Elizabeth Shippen Green
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Elizabeth Shippen Green was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine....
, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
, Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books....
, Howard Chandler Christy
Howard Chandler Christy
Howard Chandler Christy was an American artist and illustrator famous for the "Christy Girl", similar to a "Gibson Girl".He was born in Morgan County and attended early school in Duncan Falls, Ohio...
, JC Leyendecker, Violet Oakley
Violet Oakley
Violet Oakley was an American artist known for her murals and her work in stained glass. She was a student and later a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.-Life:...
, James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters....
, and many other illustrators. Judy is the co-founder and Advisory Director to ARTShows and Products, Corp. (ASaP) and is the co-founder of The Alliance for Art and Architecture LLC. She has authored and co-authored over fifty exhibition catalogues and art books published by Bison Books/Crescent Books (Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
), Harry N. Abrams, and Pomegranate Artbooks.
Education
Cutler graduated from the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
with a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts and American Civilization and a Masters of Arts degree in education.
Career
Cutler began her career as an art dealer/ collector by recognizing the value of illustration as an integral part of our national heritage and its significant role in the fine arts spectrum. In the 1960s, she collected the original paintings of the greatest artists of the period commonly known as 'The Golden Age of Illustration.'American Illustrators Gallery
In 1965, Cutler founded the American Illustrators Gallery in New York City, which features the finest original artworks of the greatest illustration artists and is the premier exhibitor, buyer and seller of American Illustration art. These renowned illustrators include Norman RockwellNorman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
, Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
and JC Leyendecker. The gallery has been at the vanguard of what has become one of the most exciting markets in American art with the reawakening of the "Golden Age" in American Illustration. Cutler supervises all appropriate conservation, provenance research, and presentation for each of the artworks.
National Museum of American Illustration
In 1998, Cutler and husband Laurence, founded the National Museum of American IllustrationNational Museum of American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration , founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork....
(NMAI), a nonprofit independent, educational, and aesthetic organization administering and operating the Museum. It is located at Vernon Court
Vernon Court
Vernon Court is a Gilded Age mansion, located at 492 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its design is an adaptation of an 18th century French château, Château d'Haroué.-History:...
(1898) in Newport
Newport
Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
, a Beaux Arts 18th century French chateaux listed on the National Register of Historic Places and considered one of “the ten most beautiful mansions in America.” The NMAI Advisory Board includes Sen. Claiborne Pell
Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S. college students. A Democrat, he was that state's longest serving senator.-Early years:Pell...
(ret.); Yale Prof. Emeritus Vincent Scully Jr.; entertainer Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
; the late J. Carter Brown
J. Carter Brown
John Carter Brown III , director of the U.S. National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992 and a leading figure in American intellectual life. Under Brown's direction, the National Gallery became one of the leading art museums in the United States, if not the world...
, Director Emeritas of the Natl. Gallery of Art; author Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
; Today Show Host Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer
Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...
; former Secretary of the Navy, Amb. William Middendorf; and artist Jamie Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
James Browning Wyeth is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth...
; amongst 45 other notables.
The American Imagist Collection housed at the National Museum of American Illustration
National Museum of American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration , founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork....
comprises the largest private collection of Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
, N.C. Wyeth, J.C. Leyendecker, Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century....
, Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
and many other major illustrators from the 'Golden Age of American Illustration.' The 'Golden Age" of American Illustration can be loosely defined as the art created between 1865 to 1945, ultimately ending with the original Saturday Evening Post. Cutler describes her collection as "art that culturally and socially defined its own times within the confines of what was happening chronologically in the United States."
Other
Cutler, along with her husband Laurence S. CutlerLaurence S. Cutler
Laurence S. Cutler AIA, RIBA is an architect, urban designer, historic property developer, author, educator, and advertising executive. Cutler, along with his wife, Judy Goffman Cutler, is co-founder of the National Museum of American Illustration at Vernon Court in Newport, RI; the first...
, is a co-founder of the American Civilization Foundation, a nonprofit organization established as an independent, educational and aesthetic organization created for the public enlightenment in art, architecture and landscape architectural projects.
Works Authored and Co-Authored
- J.C. Leyendecker by Laurence Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- Harry N. Abrams, 2008
- Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagist by Laurence Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- The Wellfleet Press, Easton, NJ and Regency House Publishing, London, 2007
- Maxfield Parrish by Laurence Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, 2001
- Maxfield Parrish: Treasures of Art by Laurence Cutler and Judy A.G. Cutler
- Gramercy Books, New York and Regency House Publishing Limited, London, 1999
- A Treasury of Poems by Laurence S. Cutler, Judy Goffman Cutler, and Maxfield Parrish
- Pomegranate, 1998
- Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective by Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995
- Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words and Art by Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- Pomegranate Communications, 1995
- Maxfield Parrish by Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler
- Japanese Traveling Exhibition Catalogue, 1995
- Great American Illustrators by Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler
- Japanese Traveling Exhibition Catalogue, 1994
- Maxfield Parrish by Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler
- Brompton Books, 1993
- Norman Rockwell by Judy Goffman
- Japanese Traveling Exhibition Catalogue, 1992
- Norman Rockwell by Judy A. Goffman
- Electra Editrice, Italy, 1990
- Norman Rockwell: A Great American Storyteller by Judy Goffman
- Traveling Exhibition Catalogue, 1989-1990
- Norman Rockwell: An American Tradition by Judy A. Goffman
- Judy Goffman American Paintings, 1986
Personal
Cutler currently spends her time with her husband, Laurence S. Cutler, between New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...
.