George R. Goldner is an American curator in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints from 1993 to 2015.
[1][2] He left Occidental for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where he was first head of the photo archives in 1979, then founded the drawings department in 1981 and was named its curator in 1983 by then-director John Walsh.
[5] He also has made important additions of works by Canaletto, Gerrit van Honthorst, Edouard Manet, and Peter Paul Rubens.
"[2] In 1993, Goldner was hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Prints.
Over the next 21 years, he led his team in making 8,200 acquisitions and strengthened the collection "to the point where it is the most comprehensive and best in the US" with major works by Leonardo, Pontormo and Albrecht Altdorfer.