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Sam Whiting December 21, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 3:05 pm
Susan Landauer, the curator for the Hassel Smith memorial celebration, talks with people who attended at the San Jose Museum of Art in March, 2008. Photo: Kurt Rogers, The Chronicle
Susan Landauer, an art historian and independent curator dedicated to California art and San Francisco abstract expressionism, died Saturday, Dec. 19, at her home in the Montclair district of Oakland. The cause of death was lung cancer, her husband, Carl Landauer, said. She was 62.
Landauer spent 10 years as the chief curator of the San Jose Museum of Art and wrote three books on art history.
“I see her as the foremost historian of California art, deeply dedicated to bringing artists to public attention who are not well known,” said Carl Landauer, who met his wife in graduate school at Yale University, where they were both earning Ph.D. degrees.