Obituary: Somers Native John Keefe, A Curator At New Orleans Museum of Art

John Keefe, a native of Somers, NY and the curator of decorative arts at New Orleans Museum of Art, died on January 31. An obituary published on February 2, 2011 is at the New Orleans Times-Picayune web site and can be read here. A brief excerpt follows:

John Keefe, a New Orleans Museum of Art curator who brought high amounts of knowledge and enthusiasm to exhibits he organized on such varied items as antique glass, Wedgwood china, Fabergé eggs and extravagant perfume bottles, was found dead Monday at his Covington home. He was 69.

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A native of Somers, N.Y., Mr. Keefe started collecting when he was a child, said his brother, Chris Keefe. “He filled up his bedroom, he filled up mine and the barn, and he was off and running. “He just somehow felt that this was filling a void in his life, and the more he collected, the more he knew. He was the kind of kid who was reading ‘War and Peace’ when he was 12, so it was not a stretch for him to get interested in furniture and its provenance and everything about it.”

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http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/02/john_keefe_69_curator_of_decor.html#comments