Background
Warner, Malcolm John was born on May 17, 1953 in Aldershot, England. Arrived in United States, 1988. Son of Ronald Henry and Vera Eileen Warner.
Warner, Malcolm John was born on May 17, 1953 in Aldershot, England. Arrived in United States, 1988. Son of Ronald Henry and Vera Eileen Warner.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London on the professional career of John Everett Millais.
Malcolm Warner is now the Director of the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California, and was previously the Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from 2007-2012, having held his position as senior curator since 2002. Previous positions include research curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art, and senior curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Artist He is responsible for the organization of many important exhibitions such as The Victorians.
British painting from 1837-1901 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington District of Columbia (1997), Stubbs and the Horse, an exhibit at the National Gallery of London of paintings, engravings, and detailed anatomical studies of horses done by George Stubbs, This other Eden: paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, The Mirror and the Mask.
Portraiture in the age of Picasso, and Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons, a collection of film installations by Philip Haas. The New York Times review of Warner"s book for The Victorians exhibition said that, in addition to the expected "languidly draped ladies of the popular Pre-Raphaelite painters", readers "may be pleasantly surprised. by some of the other color plates (and substantial explications)".
Member of Association Art Museum Curators, Print. Council American, River Crest Country Club.
Married Sara Anne Ryan, August 6, 1988. Children: Madeline Rose, Charles Godfrey.