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Corcoran Curators

Sarah Cash
Bechhoefer Curator of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art

As the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Curator of American art, Sarah Cash is responsible for the museum’s collection of American paintings and sculpture from 1740 through 1945. She has organized numerous exhibitions from the Corcoran’s permanent collection and four major traveling exhibitions of American art. A scholar of late 19th century American paintings, Ms. Cash focuses on the work of Thomas Eakins and Martin Johnson Heade.

Ms. Cash has also co-authored American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art , A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art and edited several publications. Currently she is working on a major scholarly catalogue of the Corcoran’s collection of American paintings and sculpture. She is also preparing a series of exhibitions and catalogues focusing on such Corcoran masterpieces as Albert Bierstadt’s painting Last of the Buffalo and Hiram Powers’ sculpture The Greek Slave.

Ms. Cash received her M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a B.A. in Art History from Smith College. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Museum Management Institute in Berkeley, California, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust administered by the American Federation of Arts.

Previous Exhibitions

Sargent and the Sea

Picturing the Banjo

The Impressionist Tradition in America

Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms:
Paintings that Inspired a Nation

The Gilded Cage:
Views of American Women, 1873 - 1921

Norman Rockwell:
Pictures for the American People

To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Universities and Colleges