biography
| name: |
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr
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pronunciation:
[mather]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1953)
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| biography:
| Art historian and museum director, born in Deep River, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Williams College (1889 BA), Johns Hopkins (1892 PhD), and in Paris (1897–8). He taught at Williams (1893–1900), then became a journalist in New York City (1901–6) and Italy (1906–10). Considered the foremost American art critic of his day, he published on a variety of subjects, from History of Italian Painting (1923) to Modern Painting (1927). He taught at Princeton (1910–33), and became the director of the Museum of Historic Art (now Princeton University Art Museum) (1922–46), a repository of his collection. |
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