Emily Genauer (July 19, 1911 – August 23, 2002) was an American

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for the '' New York World'', the '' New York Herald Tribune'', and '' Newsday''. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1974.

Biography

She was born on

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in 1911, to a delicatessen-owning father who was an amateur sculptor. After studying at

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and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she went to work as a writer for the '' New York World'', eventually becoming a critic in the 1930s. After she married Frederick Gash, she retained her maiden name as her byline. She was instrumental in introducing modern artists to her readers, championing Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera and

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. She quit the newspaper (which had become the '' New York World-Telegram'' after a merger) in 1949, during the

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, when ''World-Telegram'' president Roy W. Howard complained that she was promoting left-wing artists. Genauer joined the '' New York Herald Tribune'', where she was the art critic through 1967. She then went to work for ''Newsday'', which syndicated her work. Genauer also wrote books and served on the National Council on the Humanities from 1966 to 1970.

External links

“Emily Genauer, Critic and Champion of 20th-Century Art, is Dead at 91’’
by Robert F. Worth, ''New York Times'', Aug. 25, 2002.
“Emily Genauer, crítica e campeã da arte do século 20’’
(in Portuguese), ''O Explorador'', July 20, 2022. 1911 births 2002 deaths American art critics Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners American women journalists Writers from New York City American women critics People from Staten Island Curtis High School alumni Journalists from New York City 20th-century American women 20th-century American people {{US-journalist-1910s-stub