Full Name: King, Edward Stauffer
Gender: male
Date Born: 1900
Date Died: 1995
Place Born: Princeton, Merce, NJ, USA
Place Died: Princeton, Mercer, NJ, USA
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): museums (institutions)
Career(s): directors (administrators) and museum directors
Overview
Director, Walters Art Gallery 1931-66. As a child in Baltimore, King grew up with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., later founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He married Tatiana Galitzine (1909-1993) in Philadelphia, 1932.
Selected Bibliography
The Greek Tradition in Painting: Paintings from Themes Derived from Classical Antiquity. The Greek Tradition in Painting and the Minor Arts. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery, 1939; and Ross, Marvin C. Catalogue of the American Works of Art: including French Medals Made for America in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Gallery, 1956.