Eleanor Munro

Eleanor Munro (born 1928) is an American art critic, writer and editor.

Eleanor Munro
Born1928
Cleveland, Ohio
EducationSmith College, BA, art history
Columbia University, MA, comparative literature
Known forAssociate editor, art writer and reviewer, ArtNews
New Republic,
The Atlantic,
Saturday Review,
Vogue,
Ms. Magazine
Notable work
Originals: American Women Artists, Simon & Schuster
MovementContemporary art, Feminist art, art by women and people of color
Spouse(s)Alfred Frankfurter
AwardsCleveland Arts Prize for Literature, 1988
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award

Munro's published books include The Encyclopedia of Art (1961), Originals: American Women Artists (1979); Memoirs of a Modernist's Daughter (1988), Through the Vermillion Gates (1971); On Glory Roads: a Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage (1988).[1][2][3] She was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature in 1988. She is known for her published interviews with women artists of note including Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Jennifer Bartlett, Julie Taymor, Louise Nevelson, Maya Lin and Kiki Smith.[4][5]

Early life

Munro was born in 1928 to a pianist mother, Lucile Nadler and an art educator father, Thomas Munro.[6]

Editorial achievements

Munro worked as Associate editor and then Managing editor of ArtNews magazine and Art News Annual. She was a contributing editor to the New Republic, The Atlantic, Saturday Review, Vogue, Ms. Magazine, among others.[7]

Awards, honors

Munro was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature, 1988; and the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003.[8] Since 1990, she has been a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Federation, Princeton, New Jersey. In 1991, Munro was awarded a residency Fellowship at the Bellagio Study Center, Lake Como, Italy. In 1984, she received a residency fellowship to Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Service to community

Munro's service to community includes Board of Directors at Truro Center for Arts, (Massachusetts) since 1979; Board of The Living Theater, New York City, since 1989; Member of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Association, the American International Association Art Critics, and the Authors Guild.[9][10][11]

Bibliography
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1979). Originals: American women artists. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-23109-5.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1988). Memoir of a modernist's daughter. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-81605-7.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1989). Wedding readings: centuries of writing and rituals on love and marriage. New York, N.Y.: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-81088-8.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1987). On glory roads: a pilgrim's book about pilgrimage. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-24127-1.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1971). Through the vermilion gates; a journey into China's past. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-82034-7.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (2000). Readings for remembrance: a collection for funerals and memorial services. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-028064-7.
  • Munro, Eleanor C; Rudorff, Raymond (1961). Art treasures of the world: an illustrated history in colour ; with short biographies of artists ; painting, sculpture, architecture, and ornament, from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. London; New York: Hamlyn.
  • Munro, Eleanor C; Rudorff, Raymond; Vandegrift, Kate (1964). Art treasures of the world: an illustrated history in color. London.
  • Munro, Eleanor C (1961). The encyclopedia of art; painting, sculpture, architecture, and ornament, from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. New York: Golden Press.

References
  1. Johnson, Joyce (August 21, 1988). "Love Among the Ism's". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  2. Kriel, Margot (Spring–Summer 1980). "Reviewed Works: Originals: American Women Artists by Eleanor Munro;". Woman's Art Journal. 1 (1): 60–63. doi:10.2307/1358021. JSTOR 1358021.
  3. "Eleanor Munro". New York Institute for the Humanities. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. "Eleanor Munro, author". clevelandartprize.org. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  5. "Eleanor Munro papers, circa 1880-2011, bulk 1950-2011 Munro, Eleanor, 1928- Writer". American Archive of Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  6. Solomon, Deborah (September 1988). "Daddy Dearest: A review of Night Studio by Musa Mayer & Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter by Eleanor Munro". The New Criterion. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  7. "The Virtues of Staying at Home/About Eleanor Munro". Cincinnati Magazine: 64. August 1980. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  8. "The National WCA Presents the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Awards". nationalwca.org. National Women's Caucus for Art. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  9. "Eleanor Munro papers, circa 1880-2011, bulk 1950-2011". Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  10. "A Finding Aid to the Eleanor Munro Papers, circa 1880-2011, bulk 1950-2011, in the Archives of American Art" (PDF). Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  11. "Truro Center for the Arts". Board of Directors, Honorary Board. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
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