Olivier Meslay

Olivier Meslay is the Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. He is the fifth director of the Clark.

Biography

Meslay was born in Rabat, Morocco. He attended Université Paris-Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre.

From 1993 to 2006 he served as curator of British, American, and Spanish paintings at the Musée du Louvre. A noted scholar Olivier Meslay has published extensively on British Art in France. From 2006 to 2009 he was the chief curator in charge of the Louvre Lens project. He is a member of the editorial board of The British Art Journal, London, and is a member of the Société d’Histoire de l’Art Français, Paris.

From 2009 to 2016 he served as associate director of curatorial affairs, senior curator of European and American art, and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). In 2016, he became the fifth director of the Clark Art Institute.

Meslay is married to scholar Laure de Margerie.

Awards

Publications

 
   Olivier Meslay, Arlette Sérullaz et Barthélémy Jobert, D'Outre-Manche, l'art britannique dans les collections publiques françaises, Paris, RMN, 1994
   Olivier Meslay et Pierre Messmer, L'art anglais dans les collections de l'institut de France, Sompgy, 2004
   (en) Olivier Meslay, British painting in France before 1802, vol. IV no 2, British Art Journal, été 2003
   (en) Olivier Meslay, J. M. W. Turner: The Man Who Set Painting on Fire, 'New Horizons' series, London: Thames & Hudson, 2005
   (en) Olivier Meslay, Exported art from Lowry to Spencer, British artists exhibiting in Paris 1900-1940, vol. I no 2, The British Art Journal. Spring, p. 55-58
   Olivier Meslay, Dominique Serres, peintre de marine du roi George III d'Angleterre, Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Gers, mars 1997, p. 288-321
   Olivier Meslay, Les Dessins britanniques dans les collections du musée Magnin, Bulletin des Musées de Dijon (no 4), 1998
   Olivier Meslay, La Collection de Sir Edmund Davis, 48/14, La revue du Musée d'Orsay (no 8)
   Olivier Meslay, Les collections de peintures et de dessins britanniques du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Bulletin des Musées de Dijon, 2000
   (en) Olivier Meslay, Sir Thomas Lawrence and France, the portrait of the duc de Richelieu, vol. III no 2, The British Art Journal, printemps 2002
   (en) Olivier Meslay, Romney in France, vol. IX, Transactions of The Romney Society, 2004
   Olivier Meslay, La mélancolie des tueurs élizabetains » essai et notices, exp. Grand Palais, Paris, 10 octobre 2004 - janvier 2005, Mélancolie
   Olivier Meslay, Reynolds et l'influence de Hyacinthe Rigaud, Le portrait de Jacques Gauthier de 1752, vol. VII no 2, British Art Journal, automne 2006
   Olivier Meslay, Henry-Pierre Danloux (1753-1809), sa carrière avant l’exil en Angleterre, Paris, Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de l’Art Français, 2007 (année 2006), p. 209-244
   Olivier Meslay, L’enrichissement d’un fonds ancien de la collection Jacques Doucet : les archives Portalis et Danloux, Les Nouvelles de l’INHA, décembre 2009, p. 18-21
   Olivier Meslay, La famille d’Etigny et le peintre Henri-Pierre Danloux, Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Gers, avril 2004, p. 459-465
   (en) Olivier Meslay, Scott Barker, David Lubin et Alexander Nemerov, Hotel Texas, an art exhibition for the president and Mrs J.F. Kennedy, Yale University Press, 2013
   Olivier Meslay et al., "Catalogue des peintures des écoles britanniques et américaines, catalogue des peintures espagnoles, portugaises et mexicaines", dans Catalogue des peintures britanniques, espagnoles, germaniques, scandinaves et diverses du musée du Louvre, Coordination editorial d'Elizabeth Foucart-Walter, Gallimard-Louvre, Paris, 2013.
   (en)Olivier Meslay, "Motley's Paris Missed Opportunities", in Archibald Motley Jazz Art Modernist, Richard J. Powell editor, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2014.
   (en)Olivier Meslay, Bill Jordan, "Mind´s eye", Yale University Press, 2014.
   (en)Olivier Meslay, Martha MacLeod, "From Chanel to Reves, La Pausa and its collections", Dallas Museum of Art, 2015

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References
  1. "Olivier Meslay named as next director of The Clark". The Berkshire Eagle. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  2. "Clark Art Institute names new director - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
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