Kenworth Moffett


Kenworth W. Moffett was an American art curator, museum director and author. He was the first curator of twentieth-century art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later the director of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, a position he left in order to attend to being the guiding light of the artist group he founded the "New New Painters". From 1968 to 1979, prior to his becoming a museum curator and director, Moffett was a full professor of art history at Wellesley College. Moffett is the author of several books, including; volumes on Jules Olitski, Fairfield Porter"A Realist Painter in the Age of Abstraction" and Morris Louis. He also penned catalogue essays and published Moffett's artletter 2.0.