Warren Robbins Wins Rothko Award

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Summary

Museum of African Art director Warren Robbins is awarded the Rothko Chapel International Human Rights Award for "his role in founding the Museum and for his efforts to develop it to the point where it became a branch of the Smithsonian."

Subject

  • Robbins, Warren M
  • Museum of African Art (U.S.)
  • National Museum of African Art (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," August 1981, p. 6.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1981

Topic

  • Honor
  • Awards
  • Art museums
  • Art museum directors

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