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Biography of James H. Duff |
 James
H. Duff has been director of the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds
Ford, PA, since 1973 and executive director of the museum's parent
organization, the Brandywine Conservancy, since 1976. He has published
articles related to the museum profession and also articles and books
regarding American art and the art of members of the Wyeth family,
including An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art (Little,
Brown, 1987). Beginning in 1986, he prepared a traveling exhibition
of the same title which appeared in Leningrad and Moscow, Washington,
Chicago, Dallas, Tokyo, Milan, Cambridge in England, and Chadds Ford
during 1987 and 1988. He has also organized a variety of exhibitions
on American artists. He lectures often on American art history, especially
as it relates to the Brandywine River Valley. From 1986 to 1995, he
was a member of the National Museum Services Board which oversees
the Institute of Museum Services, a federal agency. He is a past president
of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums and in 1992 received that
organization's Katherine Coffey Award. He is a recent past president
of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and serves on boards
of foundations and other non-profit organizations. Currently, he is
chairman of a committee of the AAMD charged with revising that organization's
document, Professional Practices in Art Museums. |
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