Sam Wagstaff
Curator, Collector
1921 – 1987
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Who was Sam Wagstaff?
Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. was an American art curator and collector as well as the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and poet-punk rocker Patti Smith. Wagstaff is known in part for his support of Minimalism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Earthworks, but his aesthetic acceptance and support of photography presaged the acceptance of the medium as a fine art.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1921
New York City - Also known as
- Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr.
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Polish American
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- The Hotchkiss School
- New York University Institute of Fine Arts
- New York University
- Lived in
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Died
- Jan 14, 1987
New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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