Harry Cooper is the Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery in Washington, DC. After working at the Harvard Art Museums for a decade, he joined the National Gallery in 2008 as head of the modern and contemporary art department. He has organized or co-organized exhibitions and written essays on the work of Piet Mondrian, Medardo Rosso, Frank Stella, Stuart Davis, Oliver Lee Jackson, Philip Guston, and others. On the academic side, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and Johns Hopkins, and he edited The Cubism Seminars in 2017 for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. His current project is a Helen Frankenthaler retrospective.