Jacqueline Moss
Jacqueline E. Moss (1927–2005) was an American art historian, lecturer, writer and critic. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cooper Union and a Master’s in art history from Queens College in 1980; her master’s thesis on Gertrude Greene is archived at the Smithsonian.
For about fifteen years, Moss was the curator of education at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where she led seminars and developed programming with a strong focus on women artists. She also ran Jacqueline Moss Museum Tours, organizing specialized art and architecture trips around the world.
Her travels took groups to Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including private collections, artists’ studios and major museums such as the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. She led trips to Norway (visiting a stave church in Borgund) and, on a second visit to China, followed the Silk Road to the Mogao Caves. She visited Egypt, Japan, and many European countries, and continued tours until the late 1980s, though plans in China were affected by political unrest in 1989.
Moss taught at the University of Bridgeport and Housatonic Community College, and lectured at the Kansas City Art Institute, The New School, Bard College and the Smithsonian Institution. She was the art critic for The Advocate and contributed to The Christian Science Monitor and Arts Magazine; her April 1981 Arts cover story profiled Gertrude Greene. She wrote about the women’s movement and how it spurred new work by women artists such as Judy Chicago and May Stevens, and she organized Aldrich’s series “Art by Contemporary Women Artists.”
Jacqueline Moss was the daughter of Jacob Eisenberg, a musician and writer, and Ruth Brewer Eisenberg, known as the “Ivory” of Ebony and Ivory.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 05:07 (CET).