Janet Altic FlintCurator, Authority On 20th Century American Prings, 69

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Janet Altic Flint, an authority on 20th-century American prints and
drawings and a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, died
April 21 of kidney disease at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She was a Falls
Church resident.

Mrs. Flint was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1957 received a
bachelor's degree in art history and painting from the University of
Louisville. She received a master's degree in art history from the
University of Minnesota in 1969.

>From 1959 to 1966, she was assistant curator of prints and drawings at
the Minneapolis [Minnesota] Institute of Arts. She moved to Washington
in 1968 when her husband took a position on the Georgetown University
English faculty.

She became an associate curator of prints and drawings at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. She worked under the
direction of artist and curator Jacob Kaimen; after his retirement in
1970, she took over as curator and produced more than 25 exhibitions.
Her 1983 exhibition and catalog, "Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut
Tradition," highlighted a previously neglected genre of American
prints.

Washington Post reviewer Michael Dirda called her 1982 book, "The
Prints of Louis Lozowick: A Catalogue Raisonne," "a marvelous book on a
neglected artist."

In 1983, Mrs. Flint moved to New York City, New York, to become
director of American prints at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries. She
missed the research-oriented nature of museum work and the Washington
area and returned to the Smithsonian in 1991, where she remained until
her retirement in 1994.

A devoted art researcher until the end of her life, she was an active
member of the Print Council of America. She also enjoyed singing,
buying and selling ceramics on eBay, reading detective novels, watching
tennis and rooting for the Minnesota Vikings.

Her marriage to Roland Flint ended in divorce. A son, Ethan Flint, died
in 1972.

Survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Flint of Washington DC and
Pamela Flint of New York City, New York; and a granddaughter.

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