Sylvia Yount

Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge Sylvia Yount joined the American Wing in September 2014, after holding curatorial leadership positions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In addition to completing pivotal collection reinstallations, she has organized major exhibitions with accompanying publications on Cecilia Beaux, Maxfield Parrish, and American modernism, among other late 19th- and 20th-century topics. She received her PhD and MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Italian from New York University.