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His visions about contemporary art made lasting contributions to the lives of countless artists and colleagues at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where he worked from to He is said to be the first curator of color at a major American museum and at his retirement he had risen to the position of chief curator at large of painting and sculpture.

Pujadas was president and founder of the League of Women Voters in Trinidad while his father was president of a bank. In , McShine earned a bachelor of arts degree from Dartmouth College , where he studied philosophy. He began graduate studies at University of Michigan in After a brief period of employment, he continued his graduate studies at New York University.

From there, he moved to its department of circulating exhibitions, where he organized a traveling exhibit of work by Robert Motherwell. McShine was Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Jewish Museum [ 3 ] from , [ 4 ] and served as acting director there from After becoming associate curator at the MoMA in , he initiated the Projects series, devoted to emerging, experimental art.

He held the position of associate curator in MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture until , after which he assumed the roles of Curator of Exhibitions from to ; Senior Curator, —; Acting Chief Curator , and Chief Curator at Large from until his retirement in From McShine taught at Hunter College.

Early life and education.

The groundbreaking show was restaged by the Jewish Museum in their exhibition Other Primary Structures. The show posited for the first time that artists may master design rather than a craft. Artist Mark di Suvero called the exhibition "the key show of the s. McShine began MoMA's Projects series that focuses on small scale experimental work by emerging artists.