Anglo-American curator and design historian
Meyric R. Rogers (1893–1972) was an Anglo-American curator and design historian.
Life.
Meyric Reynold Rogers was born to Reynold and Elizabeth Rogers in Kings Norton, England on January 8, 1893. In his youth, he moved to the US and attended Sommerville High School. He attended Harvard College and graduated in 1916. After graduation, he continued his studies in the Architecture School, while teaching in the Harvard Fine Arts School and working as the Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum. He received his Masters in Architecture in 1919. Rogers married Anne Strother Kirk in 1928. They had two children, Edith Elizabeth "Beth" (born 1929) and Meyric Kirk "Myke." The couple divorced in 1948.
Career.
After completing his Masters at Harvard, he received a teaching position at Smith College. In 1927, Rogers took the position of Director of the Baltimore Museum. After his work at Smith and the Baltimore Museum, Rogers accepted a position at Harvard University as an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and acting Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Division of Fine Arts. He served as the Director of City Art Museum of St. Louis from 1929–1939. Rogers became the appointed AIC Curator of Decorative Arts Department in 1939. In 1950, he served as a juror for the canonical "Good Design" exhibition, organized by MoMA. After his position at AIC, Rogers was named the Art Curator at Yale University in 1957. In 1959, Rogers created the American Furniture Study Center at Yale.
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