Carrie Rebora Barratt

Carrie Rebora Barratt (born April 9, 1959) is an American art historian specializing in American art and museum administration. She has worked in this domain in New York City since the 1980s. Barratt was Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture (1989–2009), and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art (1989–2009) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has been the Chief Executive Officer and William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden since 2018; prior to that, she spent over thirty years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a curator and administrator.

Education

Barratt was born in Chicago and holds a BA in history of art and architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed a masters in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in art history from the City University of New York.

Career

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Barratt joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984 as a summer intern. In subsequent years, she received a Chester Dale Fellowship in 1987 and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in 1988 to write her doctoral dissertation.

Barratt was Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture (2001–2009), and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art (1989–2009). In 2009 she was named Deputy Director for Collections and Administration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a position she held until 2018.

The New York Botanical Garden

On July 1, 2018, Barratt became the CEO and President of The New York Botanical Garden, the ninth person and first woman to lead the organization in this role.

Selected publications

• Jasper Cropsey Watercolors: Catalogue and Essay, National Academy of Design (New York, NY), 1985.
• The Art of Henry Inman, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), 1987.
• John Singleton Copley in America, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1995.
• John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th-Century America, Putnam Foundation (San Diego, CA), 1998.
• Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2000.
• Gilbert Stuart, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2004.