Carolyn Kinder Carr

DR. CAROLYN KINDER CARR is formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.While at the Portrait Gallery, Dr. Carr organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a publication. These include Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture, Then and Now: American Portraits of the Past Century from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and her last exhibition at the Portrait Gallery was Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections,...See more

DR. CAROLYN KINDER CARR is formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.While at the Portrait Gallery, Dr. Carr organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a publication. These include Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture, Then and Now: American Portraits of the Past Century from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and her last exhibition at the Portrait Gallery was Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections, co-curated with Ellen Miles. Her book Alice Neel's Women, served as the basis for the exhibition she organized for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Dr. Carr also served as the chief curator at the Akron Art Museum in Ohio from 1978 through 1983 and has lectured extensively in the United States as well as in Japan, Korea, Great Britain and Singapore. See less