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IN MEMORY OF YVONNE JORIS

Helen W. Drutt English remembers Yvonne Joris, the former director of the Stedelijk Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Born: January 23, 1950 in Hunsel, Netherlands

Died: September 29, 2013 in Leuven, Belgium

It was June 1982 when I first met Yvonne Joris at my eponymous gallery in Philadelphia. Within minutes, I fell under her enthusiastic spell and passion for the arts. She was accompanied by Evert van Straaten, who eventually became the director (now retired) of the Kröller-Müller Museum, in Otterlo. Before I knew it, I had become the central depot for their planned exhibition of American pottery, which opened in 1983, Who's Afraid of American Pottery? That title in itself should have prepared me for what was to come. From that moment on, until her untimely death, it was a journey into the unexpected! 

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