Congratulations to Lara Yeager-Crasselt on her appointment as the Inaugural Curator of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection at the Clark!
“We are delighted to welcome Lara Yeager-Crasselt back to the Clark and we feel incredibly fortunate to be able to entrust the Aso O. Tavitian Collection to her stewardship,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “She is an ideal person to manage this collection, and we feel confident that Lara will play a major role in shaping the many ways in which we share these remarkable works of art with our visitors in the years ahead.”
Yeager-Crasselt’s curatorial experience includes a rich array of international exhibitions including Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art (Baltimore Museum of Art); Exchanging Words: Women and Letters in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting (Timken Museum of Art, San Diego); Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre (Louvre Abu Dhabi); The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection (Pushkin Museum, Moscow and The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia), and Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado at the Clark.
“It is a tremendous honor to represent Aso O. Tavitian’s collection and his legacy at the Clark, as well as a great privilege and joy to be able to care for these extraordinary objects in my new role,” Yeager-Crasselt said. “I am truly thrilled to be returning to the Clark after these many years, and eager to join the team there in realizing the new Tavitian Wing and the first presentation of the collection this summer.”
Text excerpted from the press announcement at the Clark. For the full announcement, click here.