BIOGRAPHY A Michigan native, Allison Whiting spent 28 years with Christie’s Museum Services department where she served as Director for over two decades. During her tenure she managed sales of over $1b of art sold by non-profit institutions including museums, libraries, academic institutions and foundations.
Prior to joining Christie’s, Allison was Assistant Director for Museum Administration at The New-York Historical Society. Prior to that she was a gallery assistant at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.
She serves on the board of the George Rickey Foundation and has served on the Board of the Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar, as well as the Board of the Friends of the Brown University Libraries.
Allison has tutored in English as a Second Language and served on the Kinderhook Memorial Library’s Committee for Sustainability.
Allison has a BA in art history from Vassar College and an MA, also in art history, from Brown University.
SELECT CLIENTS Museums include Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Institute of Chicago, Bonnet House, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Edsel + Eleanor Ford House Museum, Everson Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Springfield (MA) Museums, and Seattle Art Museum among hundreds of others.
Academic Institutions include Bennington College, Brown University, Grove City College, Harvard University, La Salle University, Loyola University, Mills College, RISD, Southern Methodist University, University of Miami, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, Vassar College and Yale University.
Libraries include the American Antiquarian Society, Boston Athenaeum, Free Library of Philadelphia, Providence Athenaeum, Redwood Library, Rosenbach Library and Southworth Library.