Robert Goldwater
Robert Goldwater is a historian of American art born with New York in 1907 and died in 1973.
After having taught with the Queens College in New York of 1934 with 1957, it is named professor with the Université of New York. The same year, he becomes director of the Museum of Primitive art of New York, with the creation of which he contributed an important share, in particular while collecting, with Nelson Rockefeller, required funds.
Known mainly for its work on African art and the modern art, he is the author of many works like Primitivism in Modern Art (1938; nlle. éd.rev., 1967), Rufino Tamayo (1947), Jacques Lipchitz (1954), Gauguin (1957), Sculpture from Africa (1963) and What Is Modern Sculpture? (1970).
He married the sculptor Louise Bourgeois (° 1911) in 1938.
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