Eleanor Munro


Eleanor Munro is an American art critic, writer and editor.
Munro's published books include The Encyclopedia of Art, Originals: American Women Artists ; Memoirs of a Modernist's Daughter, Through the Vermillion Gates ; On Glory Roads: a Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage. She was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature in 1988. She is known for her published interviews with women artists of note including Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Jennifer Bartlett, Julie Taymor, Louise Nevelson, Maya Lin and Kiki Smith.

Early life

Munro was born in 1928 to a pianist mother, Lucile Nadler and an art educator father, Thomas Munro.

Editorial achievements

Munro worked as Associate editor and then Managing editor of ArtNews magazine and Art News Annual. She was a contributing editor to the New Republic, The Atlantic, Saturday Review, Vogue, Ms. Magazine, among others.

Awards, honors

Munro was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature, 1988; and the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003. Since 1990, she has been a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Federation, Princeton, New Jersey. In 1991, Munro was awarded a residency Fellowship at the Bellagio Study Center, Lake Como, Italy. In 1984, she received a residency fellowship to Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Service to community

Munro's service to community includes Board of Directors at Truro Center for Arts, since 1979; Board of The Living Theater, New York City, since 1989; Member of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Association, the American International Association Art Critics, and the Authors Guild.