Salvesen, Magda 1944-

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Salvesen, Magda 1944-

PERSONAL:

Born June 20, 1944, in Edinburgh, Scotland; naturalized U.S. citizen; daughter of Harold Keith (in business) and Marion Eleanora (a homemaker) Salvesen; married Jon Schueler (an artist), 1976. Education: University of St. Andrews, M.A., 1966; Courtauld Institute of Art, London, M.A., 1968. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Visiting museums, travel, horticulture.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY. E-mail—msalvesen@earthlink.net.

CAREER:

Scottish Arts Council, exhibition officer in Scotland, 1969-71; Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, New York, NY, executive administrator, 1985-88; New School University, New York, NY, lecturer, beginning 1988. Lecturer at New York Botanical Garden, beginning 1990, and Bard College, 2006; curator of Jon Schueler Estate, beginning 1992. Queens Botanical Garden, board member, beginning 2003.

MEMBER:

Art Table.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Diane Cousineau) Jon Schueler, The Sound of Sleat (autobiography), Picador USA (New York, NY), 1999.

(Editor, with Diane Cousineau) Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, Rutgers University Press (Piscataway, NJ), 2005.

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