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Kirk Varnedoe, historian, curator at N.Y.'s Museum of Modern Art
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NEW YORK--Kirk Varnedoe, an art historian who for more than a
decade was the chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art's department
of painting and sculpture, has died. He was 57.
Mr. Varnedoe died Thursday of colon cancer.
Under his leadership, the museum acquired such works as Andy
Warhol's paintings of soup cans, a portrait by van Gogh of Joseph
Roulin, and a sketch by Picasso for "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon."
Exhibitions he worked on included retrospectives of Jackson Pollock,...
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