Goldwater, Robert (1907–1973)

US art historian. A specialist in primitivism and contemporary art, he was the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City (1957–73). He was born in New York City, and studied at Columbia, Harvard, and New York universities, gaining his PhD in 1937. He taught at New York University (1934–39), and at Queens College (1939–56). His wife is Louise Bourgeois.