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|name        = Jean Sutherland Boggs
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| birth_name = Grace Jean Sutherland Boggs
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1922|06|11}}
|birth_place = [[Negritos, Peru|Negritos]], [[Peru]]
|death_date  = {{Death date and age|2014|08|22|1922|06|11}}
|death_place = [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada
|nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]]
|other_names = 
|occupation  = Academic, [[art historian]], and [[civil servant]]
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}}
'''Jean Sutherland Boggs''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|FRSC}} (June 11, 1922 – August 22, 2014) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] academic, [[art historian]] and [[civil servant]]. She was the first female Director of both the [[National Gallery of Canada]] and the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]].<ref name="Salisbury">Salisbury, Stephan. [http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20140905_Jean_Sutherland_Boggs__led_Art_Museum.html "Jean Sutherland Boggs; Led Art Museum"], ''Philly.com''. Retrieved 1 January 2015.</ref> She was also a specialist in the work of [[Edgar Degas]].<ref name=Salisbury/>

==Early life==
Grace Jean Sutherland Boggs was born in Negritos, Peru, on June 11, 1922 to Oliver Desmond and Humia Marguerite (née Sutherland).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/visionary-curator-jean-sutherland-boggs-framed-a-legacy/article20684691/|title=Visionary curator Jean Sutherland Boggs framed a legacy|website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2016-03-28}}</ref> Sutherland Boggs attended [[Alma College]] in [[St. Thomas, Ontario|St. Thomas]], [[Ontario]], graduating in 1938.<ref>"[http://inmagic.elgin-county.on.ca/ask/results.aspx?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/ask/results.aspx&BU=http%3A%2F%2Finmagic.elgin-county.on.ca%2Fask%2F&TN=Descr&SN=AUTO10502&SE=1510&RN=1&MR=10&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=WebRelevance2013&EF=&DF=WebFull2013&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=255&ID=&MF=GENERICENGWPMSG.INI&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=25741&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=utf-8 Alma College Composite Class Photograph, 1938 - Jean Boggs]" Elgin County Archives, Web, 21 October 2014.</ref> Boggs would later receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from the [[University of Trinity College]] in 1942. She received a A.M. in 1946 and a Ph.D. in 1953 from [[Radcliffe College]].<ref name="WhoWho">{{cite web|title=Canadian Who's Who entry |year=1997 |work=[[University of Toronto Press]] |url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=bobye&t=25549&d=1926 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

From 1942 to 1944, she was an education secretary for the Art Association of Montreal (today known as the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]]). In 1948, she joined the faculty of [[Skidmore College]] as an assistant professor. From 1949 to 1952, she was an assistant professor at [[Mount Holyoke College]]. From 1954 to 1962, she was an assistant and associate professor at the [[University of California]]. In 1962, she was appointed curator for the [[Art Gallery of Toronto]]. In 1964, she was appointed Steinberg Professor of Art History at [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref name="WhoWho"/>

==Work==
In 1966, Sutherland Boggs was appointed the first female and fifth director of the [[National Gallery of Canada]]<ref name="Concordia">{{cite press release|url=http://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2000/06/concordia_university_to_award_1.php|title=Concordia university to award five honorary degrees at five ceremonies for 3,300 graduating students|publisher=[[Concordia University (Quebec)|Concordia University]]}}</ref> and served in this position until 1976. From 1976 to 1979, she was a Professor of Fine Arts at [[Harvard University]].

From 1978 to 1982, she was the director of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]].<ref name="WhoWho"/> She succeeded Evan Turner, who had left following a dispute with the Board of Trustees.<ref name=Salisbury/> Under her leadership, the Museum purchased [[Edgar Degas]]'s painting ''After the Bath'', which is now considered to be one of the Museum's most important acquisitions in the post-war period.<ref name="History">[http://www.philamuseum.org/information/45-603-503.html "History: 1980-1990"], Philadelphia Museum of Art, Retrieved 1 January 2015.</ref> She also presided over the Museum during art historian [[Stella Kramrisch]]'s acclaimed 1981 exhibition of Indian art, ''Manifestations of Shiva''.<ref name=History/>

She was chair and chief executive officer of the Canada Museums Construction Corporation from 1982 to 1985, where she directed the construction of both a custom-built National Gallery building and the unique [[Canadian Museum of Civilization]] in collaboration with the architects [[Moshe Safdie]] and [[Douglas Cardinal]].<ref name="Concordia"/> From 1991 to 1993, she was a senior advisor for the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]]. As an art historian, she has written books about the life of [[Edgar Degas]], including ''Portraits By Degas'' (1962).<ref name="WhoWho"/>

Sutherland Boggs died on August 22, 2014 at the age of 92 in [[Ottawa]], Ontario.<ref>Jean Sutherland Boggs http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/1403366/jean-sutherland-boggs-1922-2014-the-national-gallery-of-canada-pays-tribute-to-the-first-woman-to-lead-the-institution</ref>

==Honours==
In 1973, Sutherland Boggs was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] "in recognition of her scholarship and the vision and energy she has displayed in developing the collection and the services of the Gallery". She was promoted to Companion in 1992.<ref>{{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=3000|accessdate=24 May 2010}}</ref> In 1979 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from the [[University of Saskatchewan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary degree recipients|work=[[University of Saskatchewan]]|url=http://www.usask.ca/archives/history/hondegrees.php?id=329&view=detail&keyword=&campuses=}}</ref> In 2000 she was awarded an honorary degree from [[Concordia University (Quebec)|Concordia University]]. Additionally, she received an honorary degree from York University in fall 1976.

==See also==
*[[List of Directors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art]]

==References==
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