Background
Shestack, Alan was born on June 23, 1938 in New York City. Son of David and Sylvia P. (Saffran) Shestack.
(Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition o...)
Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560 Prepared by a Graduate Seminar in the History of Art under the Direction of Charles Talbot and Alan Shestack, October 9, 1969-March 24, 1970 by Charles Talbot and Alan Shestack. Foreword by Andrew Carnuff Ritchie and Walter B. Cahn. 1969 paperback published by Yale University Press. The exhibition was shown at Yale University Art Gallery, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Shestack, Alan was born on June 23, 1938 in New York City. Son of David and Sylvia P. (Saffran) Shestack.
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, 1961; Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Wesleyan University, 1978; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1963.
Mus. curator graphic art, National Gallery Art, Washington, 1965-1967;
associate curator prints and drawings, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, 1967-1968;
curator prints and drawings, Yale Art Gallery, 1968-1971;
director, Yale Art Gallery, 1971-1985;
adjunct professor of history of art, Yale University, 1971-1985;
director, Minneapolis Institute Art, 1985-1987;
director, Boston Museum Fine Arts, 1987-1993;
deputy director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, since 1994. Member of advisory committee Art Museum, Princeton, 1972-1975. Member visiting committee Harvard University Art Museum, 1990-1995, Davis Museum Wellesley College, since 1997.
Member music panel National Endowment for the Arts, 1974-1977. Member committee prints and illustrated books Museum Modern Art, New York City, since 1972. Member Federal Arts and Artifacts Indemnification Panel, 1979-1983.
(Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition o...)
(LTD PRINT book of art collection)
Member Print Council American (board directors, vice president 1970-1971), College Art Association (board directors 1972-1976), American Association Museum, American Federation Arts (trustee 1981-1994), Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Nancy Jane Davidson, September 24, 1967.