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created on: 21/01/2015
by: Eva (5519)
 
 

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Born in Philadelphia in 1916 or 1915 of an American father and an English mother, Rosamond Bernier was educated in France, in England and at Sarah Lawrence College. She then lived for some years in Mexico.
After World War II she spent more than twenty years in Paris, initially as the first European features editor for Vogue magazine.
She founded the art magazine L’Oeil in 1955 with her husband.
After returning to the United States in 1971 she began a new career as a lecturer.
Since 1971 she has spoken to audiences around the globe. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she eventually gave over 200 lectures, her annual series routinely sold out months in advance. She has lectured in French in France, at the Grand Palais, the Louvre and the Pompidou Center, in Paris. The governments of India and Israel have invited her to lecture as a state guest.
Madame Bernier is also a practiced television performer, having conducted numerous interviews with leading artists and cultural figures for CBS and Channel THIRTEEN. Narrating scripts by her late husband John Russell, former chief art critic of The New York Times, she made two programs on unfamiliar aspects of the Louvre and a further two on the Pompidou Center.
In recognition of her contributions to French culture, she was made "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government in 1980. In 1999 she was made a "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur." In 1999, King Juan Carlos I of Spain awarded her the "Cross of Isabel la Católica" for her contributions to Spanish culture.
Her numerous other awards include the honorary degree of "Doctor of Humane Letters" from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1991); the "James D. Burke Prize in Fine Arts" by the St. Louis Art Museum (1997); and the "Citation for Achievement" from Sarah Lawrence College (2004).
In 1998 she and John Russell were each named "Fellows for Life" by the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts. In 2004, they were named "National Treasures" by the Municipal Art Society of New York.
Rosamond Bernier was for many years a contributing editor of Vogue, and remains today on the magazine’s masthead. In 1999 she was placed in the International Fashion Hall of Fame and the International Best-Dressed List for life.
Rosamond Bernier has been profiled in The New Yorker, Vogue, and Town & Country, as well on Today (NBC), 60 Minutes (CBS) and World Day (CNN).
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Submitted by : Eva (5519)
on : 21/01/2015