Dorothy Mayhall Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Through a mutual friend, she met Ralph E. Ogden and his wife, who had built Storm King, and they became friends. Mayhall became the director of the Storm King Art Center in 1972. Located in upstate New York, about an hour north of New York City, it had few galleries, but had extensive grounds suitable for displaying monumental art. Part of Mayhall’s job was to organize the installation of art that weighed tons.

Mayhall had a solo exhibition of her own work at the Sachs Gallery in New York in 1972.

Once released from active duty in the army, she moved to New York and got a job at the Museum of Modern Art after working briefly at Time-Life.In the mid-1960s, Larry Aldrich offered her the job of director at his new museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She was the first director of the “Old Hundred”, as the museum was briefly called. The name was changed to the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art before being changed again to its present name. Mayhall stayed at the Aldrich Museum for six years before leaving to work at Storm King. She later returned to the Aldrich.

Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) was an American museum director and sculptor. She worked at art museums in New York and Connecticut, primarily exhibiting contemporary art.