Francis M. Naumann (born April 25, 1948) is an American scholar, curator, and art dealer, specializing in the art of the

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

movement and the

Surrealist Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

periods. He has an MFA degree in painting from the

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

(1973) and a PhD in art history from the

Graduate Center of the City University of New York The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Division of Graduate Studies at City University ...

(1988). He taught art history at

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

from 1977 through 1990 and is author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogues, including ''New York Dada 1915-25'' (Harry N. Abrams, 1994) and ''Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' (

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1999). In 1996, he organized "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York" for the

Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

of American Art, in 1997, "Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute" for the American Craft Museum in New York, and, in 2003, he co-curated "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray" for the Montclair Art Museum. For nineteen years—from 2001 to 2020—he operated the Francis Naumann Fine Art gallery in New York City which showed the work of artists

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited '' The Blind Man'' and '' Rongwrong'' magazines in New York City with French ...

and

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American naturalized French visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, ...

. He has published ''Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess'', in which the correlation between Duchamp's chess activities and his art is examined and, most recently, ''Naomi Savage: Stretching the Limits of Photography'' published by the Milton Art Bank in 2020. His writings on Marcel Duchamp were published as ''The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp'' (New York: Readymade Press, 2012). In 2019, his autobiographical account of his relationship with art historians

Leo Steinberg Leo Steinberg (July 9, 1920 – March 13, 2011) was an American art critic and art historian. Life Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Jewish lawyer and Socialist Revolutionary Party politician who wa ...

and

John Rewald John Rewald (May 12, 1912 – February 2, 1994) was an American academic, author and art historian. He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th cen ...

(among others) and the artist Beatrice Wood was published as ''MENTORS: The Making of an Art Historian'' (Doppelhouse Press). In 2019, ArtNet described him as "one of the world’s leading experts on Marcel Duchamp".

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Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
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