Sarah Cash
Bechhoefer Curator of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
As the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s
Curator of American art, Sarah Cash is responsible for the museum’s collection
of American paintings and sculpture from 1740 through 1945. She has organized
numerous exhibitions from
the Corcoran’s permanent collection and four major traveling exhibitions
of American art. A scholar of late 19th century American paintings, Ms. Cash
focuses on the work of Thomas Eakins and Martin Johnson Heade.
Ms. Cash has also co-authored American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery
of Art , A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery
of Art and
edited several publications. Currently she is working on a major scholarly
catalogue of the Corcoran’s collection of American paintings and sculpture.
She is also preparing a series of exhibitions and catalogues focusing on such
Corcoran masterpieces as Albert
Bierstadt’s painting Last of the
Buffalo and Hiram
Powers’ sculpture The Greek Slave.
Ms. Cash received her M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the
History of Art and a B.A. in Art History from Smith College. Additionally,
she is a graduate of the Museum Management Institute in Berkeley, California,
a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust administered by the American Federation
of Arts.
Previous Exhibitions
Picturing the Banjo
The Impressionist Tradition in America
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms:
Paintings that Inspired a Nation
The Gilded Cage:
Views of American Women, 1873 - 1921
Norman Rockwell:
Pictures for the American People
To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Universities and Colleges
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