Robert G. Stewart, Senior Curator At The National Portrait Gallery, 74

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Robert G. Stewart, senior curator emeritus at the Smithsonian
Institution's National Portrait Gallery, died of respiratory illness
November 17, 2005, at the Washington Hospice, at the age of 74.

Mr. Stewart, a Washington DC resident, was one of the first three staff
members of the National Portrait Gallery when he arrived in 1964,
according to the Smithsonian archives. He worked there as curator of
paintings and sculpture until 1994.

Robert G. Stewart was one of the first three staff members of the
gallery when he arrived in 1964.

Mr. Stewart was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1956. He
was a director of the Jefferson Barracks Historical Park in St. Louis,
Missouir, and a historic architect for the National Park Service. From
1961 to 1964, he was director of properties for the National Trust for
Historic Preservation.

He was a visiting lecturer at George Washington University from 1967 to
1970 and wrote several books on curating and painting. He was a member
of the Lewes Historical Society, the Walpole Society, the Association
of Historians of American Art, the Four Seasons Garden Club and Zeta
Psi social fraternity.

There are no immediate survivors.

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