Judith K. Zilczer

Judith K. Zilczer is an American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning,^[1] and Richard Lindner.^[2] Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia."^[3] She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900".^[4][5] Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974–2003. In 1978, she organized for the Hirshhorn Museum "The Noble Buyer:" John Quinn Patron of the Avant-Garde, a detailed account of one of the most important collections of modern art assembled in the early years of the 20th Century (which was disseminated after Quinn's death in 1924).^[6] From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings.

Judith K. Zilczer
Education	BA, MA, The George Washington University; PhD, University of Delaware
Occupation(s)	Curator, art historian
Employer	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.^[2][7][8]

Writings

• Judith K. Zilczer, "Robert J. Coady, Forgotten Spokesman for Avant-Garde Culture in America," American Art Review, vol. 2, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1975), p. 81.
• Kerry Brougher, Jeremy Strick, Ari Weisman, Judith Zilczer. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art Since 1900 Thames & Hudson; 2005. ISBN 0-500-51217-5.