Arthur Everett Austin Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetArthur Everett Austin Jr.
American museum director
Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1900
Date of Death: 29-Mar-1957
Profession: curator
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Arthur Everett Austin Jr.
- Arthur Everett "Chick" Austin Jr.
- (December 18, 1900 – March 29, 1957) was the innovative and pacesetting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 through 1944.
- Austin's visionary gift included persistence in the introduction of then-modern theater and modern design and especially contemporaneous art.
- Salvador DalÃ, Alexander Calder, and Gertrude Stein benefited from his advocacy. Chick Austin helped alter the way Americans looked at and thought about modern art.
- For starters, he organized the first Picasso retrospective in the United States, put on the first show of Surrealist art and, with Kirstein, helped engineer the immigration of choreographer George Balanchine and sow the seeds for Balanchine's School of American Ballet.
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