The Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington has promoted its acting interim executive director to hold the position on a permanent basis.
The museum’s trustees and board of governors on Tuesday announced it appointed Anna Swinbourne as executive director and CEO. Hill-Stead features a collection of impressionist paintings spanning over 400 years at a 33,000-square-foot home, at 35 Mountain Road.
Swinbourne has served as the museum’s acting interim executive director since August, and as a museum trustee since 2018.
She was previously an independent art historian, art advisor and curator.
From 1999 to 2009, Swinbourne served on the curatorial staff at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Prior to her stint at MoMA, she was an assistant vice president in the impressionist and modern art department of Sotheby’s Auction House in New York.
Swinbourne is currently a member of the art advisory committee of nonprofit King Baudouin Foundation United States, and is a visiting assistant professor of art history at Hartford’s Trinity College.
Established more than 100 years ago, Hill-Stead, sitting on a 152-acre property, says it houses some of the top impressionist paintings in the world, including works by artists Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet.
