Board of Directors and Staff
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Agnes “Mougouch” Gorky Fielding, Gorky’s widow
Secretary: Maro Gorky Spender, Gorky’s daughter
Treasurer: Natasha Gorky Young, Gorky’s daughter
Assistant Treasurer: Ralph E. Lerner, Withers Bergman LLP
Hayden Herrera
Hayden Herrera is an art historian who has written several articles on Gorky as well as the biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (2003). Her additional publications include Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983), Mary Frank (1990), Frida Kahlo: The Paintings (1991), and Matisse: A Portrait (1993).
Matthew Spender
Matthew Spender, Gorky’s son-in-law, is a sculptor and writer. His publications include Within Tuscany (1992), From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (1999) and a new compilation of primary sources on Gorky called Arshile Gorky Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letters and Documents (2009).
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the curator of the exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (2009 – 2010). His publications include Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne (2002), The Dalí Renaissance: New Perspectives on His Life and Art After 1940 (ed., 2008) and Marcel Duchamp: Ètant donnés (2009).
Sarah Whitfield
Sarah Whitfield is an art historian, writer and curator. She is co-author of the René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné and a member of the Comité Magritte, the authentication committee set up by the Fondation Magritte in 2000. In addition to her advisory role at the Arshile Gorky Foundation, she is currently editing the Catalogue Raisonné of William Scott and serves on the authentication committee for the Estate of Francis Bacon.
STAFF
Melissa Kerr, Managing Director
Melissa Kerr is the author of the chronology of Gorky’s life in the exhibition catalogue Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (2009). Before her appointment to the Foundation in 2006, she spent almost six years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, first serving as an Exhibition Research Assistant for Barnett Newman (2002) and later as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.