"We are sympathetic to the artist who feels his work is being displaced," said Lori Fogarty, the San Francisco museum's deputy director for curatorial affairs.

I'm very careful about curatorial affairs.

Both are the work of that museum's assistant director for curatorial affairs, Jeffrey Wechsler.

"I've loved this picture for a long time, ever since it was in the show," said John Elderfield, the Modern's deputy director for curatorial affairs.

Ms. Gribbon, 56, joined the museum as assistant director for curatorial affairs in 1984.

John Elderfield, for example, the museum's chief curator at large, was named deputy director of curatorial affairs.

Both are the work of Judy Collischan, assistant director of curatorial affairs.

The first is a small group of large paintings compiled by Judy Collischan, the museum's assistant director for curatorial affairs.

Meanwhile, Kevin Stayton, the senior curator of decorative arts at the museum, will also become the museum's chief curator and vice director of curatorial affairs.

Before his work in Chicago, he was associate director for curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.