Dorothy M. Kosinski is an American scholar of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, curator and the former director (2008--2023) of The Phillips Collection, an art museum in Washington, D. C. Kosinski was born in Meriden, Connecticut, into a Catholic family[1] and grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut, and got her BA from Yale University and her MA and PhD degrees from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
[2] After being an intern and curatorial assistant at the Guggenheim Museum, she became a curator for the Bruce Museum[3] in Greenwich, Connecticut, and, from 1985 to 1997,[4] for the private collection of cubist art left by Douglas Cooper[5] in Basel, Switzerland.
[9] Kosinski has published on artists including Gustave Courbet,[10] Henri Matisse,[11] and Vincent van Gogh[12] and on various topics in nineteenth and twentieth-century art.
[15] As an expert of nineteenth and twentieth-century art Kosinski has been quoted by the New York Times[16][17] and the Washington Post.
[20] In December 2017 Kosinski was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy for her "outstanding contributions to the arts and promotion of Italian culture".