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Emily Genauer (July 19, 1911 – August 23, 2002) was an Americanart critic for theNew York World, theNew York Herald Tribune, andNewsday. She won thePulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1974.
She was born onStaten Island in 1911, to a delicatessen-owning father who was an amateur sculptor. After studying atHunter College andColumbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she went to work as a writer for theNew York World, eventually becoming a critic in the 1930s. After she married Frederick Gash, she retained her maiden name as her byline.
She was instrumental in introducing modern artists to her readers, championingMarc Chagall,Diego Rivera andPablo Picasso. She quit the newspaper (which had become theNew York World-Telegram after a merger) in 1949, during theCold War, whenWorld-Telegram presidentRoy W. Howard complained that she was promoting left-wing artists. Genauer joined theNew York Herald Tribune, where she was the art critic through 1967. She then went to work forNewsday, which syndicated her work.
Genauer also wrote books and served on theNational Council on the Humanities from 1966 to 1970.
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