Mary MacGregor ’45

Art and music connoisseur Mary K. MacGregor ’45 died May 16, 2012, in Mount Vernon, Iowa. She was 89.

MacGregor worked as curator of prints and drawings at the Joslyn Art Museum, then was professionally affiliated for many years in New York City with the Museum of Modern Art, the American Federation of Arts, and the galleries Associated American Artists, Jacques Seligman and Co., and the Weyhe Gallery. After her return to Iowa in 1980 she worked at the Print and Drawing Study Room at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. She held an MFA from Columbia University and collected and came to know personally many of the artists represented in the galleries and museums where she worked.

As the daughter of Dean of the College Jay B. MacGregor, she lived in Harlan House, then the home of Cornell’s Dean. Later in life she lived in the home her parents built across from Pauley-Rorem Hall.

She is survived by five nephews and nieces, including Cornellians John M. MacGregor ’67, Paul S. MacGregor ’71 and wife Barbara Martin MacGregor ’70, Laurie MacGregor ’74 and husband Guillermo Cuellar ’76, and great-niece Sarah MacGregor ’99.