A Curator Undercover at the Museum Info Desk
As the Getty Museum’s senior curator of paintings, I feel it is incumbent on me to walk through the galleries almost every day, speaking... Read More
All Posts by Scott Schaefer
In 1964 I visited my first museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as a high school student; 16 years later I would become its first curator of paintings. I went on to become senior vice-president at Sotheby's New York, working first as Director of Museum Services, then in Old Master Paintings, and finally as Head of Old Master Drawings. In 1999 I was named the fourth curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where I'm currently senior curator of the department—and proud to have presented 55 paintings and pastels for acquisition.