Thomas Buechner - Watercolor, Landscape

Buechner, born in New York City in 1926, studied at Princeton University, The Art Student's League in New York, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In Amsterdam, he studied Old Master painting techniques under M.M. van Dantzig, a pupil of Max Doerner. Subsequently, he worked as a designer and graphic artist for the Governor of Puerto Rico, where he specialized in exhibition design. In 1949, shortly after his return to New York, he married Mary Hawkins and began working in the exhibition department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Buechner was the first director of the Corning Museum of Glass (1950–1960) and subsequently director of the Brooklyn Museum (1960–1971). At the same time, he worked as an illustrator for the Chicago Book World.