Margaret Scolari Barr

[3] At Vassar College, she was introduced to the young art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. by her colleague Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

At this time, she was offered a position at the Smith College Art Museum, but turned it down to move closer to Barr.

She was integral to a number of Barr's projects at his workplace, MoMA, including the 1936–37, exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism.

[11] Scolari Barr was allowed into the Triennale early, before its public opening, because of her connections to the Ghiringhelli brothers, the owners of the important Milanese Galleria del Milione.

[12] When war came to Europe, Scolari Barr and her husband worked within the Museum of Modern Art to help bring artists being persecuted by the National Socialist regime to safety in the US.

[13][14] Their friend, the collector and curator Peggy Guggenheim, also helped bring her soon-to-be-husband Max Ernst to the USA.

[18] In the 1960s, Scolari Barr also lectured on topics of contemporary art at Milton Academy, where her daughter had attended as a child.