Gerald W. R. Ward

Curator, Museum of Fine Arts

**Gerald W. R. Ward** is the Senior Consulting Curator and the Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has served as the assistant curator at the Yale University Art Gallery and as an editor at the Winterthur Museum. Ward is a past president of the Decorative Arts Society, a Fellow of The Pilgrim Society, a Proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, a member of the National Council of the Newport Historical Society, and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Winterthur Portfolio and American Furniture. Photo: [AFA News](http://www.afanews.com/home/item/2094-winterthur-establishes-wendell-d-garrett-award "AFA News")