position at Washington University in St. Louis, and organized his first major retrospective in the USA at the St. Louis Museum. He was a champion of modern art, and along with Joseph Pulitzer Jr., and Morton May, stimulated many other collectors of modern art in St. Louis. Rathbone added key works to the permanent collection in St. Louis, including Winslow Homer's "The Country School", David Smith's "Cockfight", Montorsoli's "Reclining Pan," and a Sumerian bull's head. He was also responsible for many popular exhibitions, some of regional interest, such as "Mississippi Panorama" and "Westward the Way", others international, such as the 1949 blockbuster "Treasures from Berlin", which attracted an average of 12,634 visitors per day. In 1955 Rathbone left St. Louis to become director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). In Boston he formed the first "Ladies Committee" for the museum with Frances Weeks Hallowell, a successful strategy for increasing membership and broadening the MFA's base of support. Rathbone staged unprecedented loan exhibitions such as "European Art of Our Time" and "The Age of Rembrandt", renovated more than fifty galleries, and increased the annual sale of publications by 1000 per cent. As temporary head of the paintings department while also serving as the museum's director, he added notable works to the collection such as Rosso Fiorentino's Dead Christ with Angels, Claude Monet's "La Japonaise", Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's "Time Unveiling Truth", and the anonymous fifteenth-century Flemish Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus. Arriving at the MFA in the mid-fifties, Rathbone was the first director to build their collection of modern and contemporary art, including the museum's first Picasso oil, "Standing Figure, 1908", first painting by Edvard Munch, "The Voice", and first Jackson Pollock, "Number 10", 1949. He attracted gifts from important collectors such as Maxim Karolik and Alvan Fuller, and the Forsyth Wickes collection of eighteenth-century French art. He also acquired, in 1969, a small portrait thought to be by Raphael, which was subsequently returned to Italy amidst a storm of controversy over its exportation and attribution to Raphael. This incident led to Rathbone's early retirement from the MFA. After resigning from the MFA in 1972 Rathbone was made head of the New York offices of Christie's, and in 1977 when the firm began to hold auctions in New York, was made Museums Liaison Officer. He retired in 1985. Honors Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1958 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Washington