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| | 21 | Name: | Dr. Robert L. Herbert | | | Institution: | Mount Holyoke College | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | December 17, 2020 | | | | | | |
Robert L. Herbert was a world-renowned Impressionism scholar and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. Perhaps the leading American scholar of French painting of the late 19th century, Dr. Herbert possesses the unique ability to analyze individual paintings, a flair for lucid, fluid prose, and a mastery of the social and economic milieu of the period. A prolific author, he has published major works on individual artists including Jean-François Millet and Georges Seurat. Dr. Herbert received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Yale University, where he later served as assistant professor (1960-63), associate professor (1963-66), professor (1966-74) and Robert Lehman Professor of History of Art (1974-90) before joining the faculty at Mount Holyoke as Professor of Art History. A gifted teacher, Dr. Herbert has trained two generations of excellent scholars in his field, and he is a recipient of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he is also an Officer dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French government. He died on December 17, 2020. | |
| 22 | Name: | Dr. Thorkild Jacobsen | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1962 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 5/2/93 | | | | |
| 23 | Name: | Dr. Joseph Kerman | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | March 17, 2014 | | | | | | |
Joseph Kerman was a central figure in American musicology during the discipline's ascendancy in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a student of Oliver Strunk at Princeton; major influences were D.F. Tovey, William Arrowsmith, and E.T. Cone. After joining the University of California, Berkeley in 1951, he worked to consolidate its leading position in musicological studies. In 1972-74 he held the Heather Professorship of Music at Oxford and in 1987-88 delivered the Charles Eliot North Lectures at Harvard (published as Concerto Conversations). A self-described "critic and musicologist", he always addressed general readers as well as specialists; his first book, Opera as Drama, reached a broad readership. He wrote for general readers in Hudson Review (1948-62) and New York Review (1970-). He also urged that criticism should assume a role within "official" musicology; the hasty evolution of the discipline in the 1980s was spurred both by his polemical book Contemplating Music and his editorship of the innovative journal 19th Century Music. He wrote on a variety of topics in classical music up to the twentieth century, with specialties in Elizabethan music and the music of Beethoven (books: The Elizabethan Madrigal and The Masses and Motets of William Byrd; Beethoven, with Alan Tyson, and The Beethoven Quartets). Other books are The Art of Fugue, a critical edition of Beethoven's "Kafka" sketchbook, the long-running textbook Listen, and the essay collections Write All These Down and Opera and the Morbidity of Music. Joseph Kerman died March 17, 2014, at the age of 89 in Berkeley, California. He had been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 24 | Name: | Dr. Ernst Kitzinger | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | January 22, 2003 | | | | |
| 25 | Name: | Dr. Richard Krautheimer | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 11/1/94 | | | | |
| 26 | Name: | Dr. George A. Kubler | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 10/3/96 | | | | |
| 27 | Name: | Dr. Mabel Louise Lang | | | Institution: | Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | July 21, 2010 | | | | | | |
An archaeologist and scholar of classical Greek and Mycenaen culture, Mabel Louise Lang was the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek Emeritus at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943, after which time she joined the faculty, becoming professor of Greek in 1959. Early on, Dr. Lang mastered what became known as Greek Linear B, and she has written extensively on the Jn Formulas and on the usages of Athenian democracy. An expert on weights, tokens, measures and recondite archaeological artifacts, she was the author of a number of celebrated works, including Abacus and the Calendar (1964-65), Graffiti and Dipinti (1976), Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (2005), The Palace of Nestor at Pylos, and several books on classical Greek law. In addition to her brilliant archaeological and historical work, Dr. Lang was known as an inspiring teacher and willing collaborator. Mabel Lang died on July 21, 2010, at the age of 92 in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. | |
| 28 | Name: | Dr. Kenneth Levy | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | August 15, 2013 | | | | | | |
Kenneth Levy was Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus at Princeton University. Well known for his work in medieval music, particularly Byzantine and Latin plainchant, he was considered among the world's leading musicologists. A Guggenheim fellow who worked with Frederick R. Mann at Brandeis University, Dr. Levy joined the Princeton faculty in 1966 and was named chairman of the music department a year later. In 1983 he received Princeton's Berhrman Award in recognition of his scholarship and success in the teaching of music and putting the history of music into a culturally historical context. He is the author of works including Music: A Listener's Introduction and Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988. Kenneth Levy died on August 15, 2013, at the age of 86 in Princeton, New Jersey. | |
| 29 | Name: | Dr. Sabine G. MacCormack | | | Institution: | University of Notre Dame | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | June 16, 2012 | | | | | | |
Sabine MacCormack was a historian of the Roman empire, late antiquity and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in the peoples and cultures of the Andes. She had worked on the reasons for, and consequences of, political and religious change, focusing on the impact of Christianity in the Roman Mediterranean and in the Andes. Another interest was the interrelation between word and image, language and visual culture in the Roman empire and early modernity. She worked on the impact of the classical tradition as formulated in Spain and of memories of the Inca empire on the development of early modern political cultures in the Andes. Her interest in teaching was focused on the nature of knowledge: on what we think we know, and why, and what we might actually know. She was the Theodore M. Hesburgh Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame at the time of her death June 16, 2012, at the age of 71. , Dr. MacCormack had previously taught at Stanford University and the University of Michigan. She earned B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. | |
| 30 | Name: | Dr. John Rupert Martin | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | July 26, 2000 | | | | |
| 31 | Name: | Dr. Georges May | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | February 28, 2003 | | | | |
| 32 | Name: | Dr. Bruce M. Metzger | | | Institution: | Princeton Theological Seminary | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | February 13, 2007 | | | | |
| 33 | Name: | Dr. Henry A. Millon | | | Institution: | National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | April 3, 2018 | | | | | | |
Henry A. Millon was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1927. His father was an aerial photographer; his mother, a daughter of the publisher of a French language newspaper in New York. In March 1944 he entered a U.S. Navy ROTC program at Tulane University where, after active duty in 1946, he returned to obtain sequential undergraduate degrees in English, physics, and architecture. Thereafter he attended Harvard University where he received a Master's in Architecture and Urban Design, and a master's and Ph.D. in History of Art. After three years in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome preparing a dissertation, he returned to Cambridge in 1960 to teach at MIT, where he continued as a visiting professor. From 1974-77 he was director of the American Academy in Rome. In 1980 he became the first dean of the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art, a post held until is retirement at the close of 2000. Professor Millon's work concentrated on the history of architecture. His publications include Baroque and Rococo Architecture (1961), Key Monuments of the History of Architecture (1964), Filippo Juvarra. Drawings from the Roman Period, Part I, (1984, Part II, with A. Griseri, et al (1999), three exhibition catalogues, Michelangelo Architect, with C.H. Smyth (1988), The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, with V. Lampugnani (1984), The Triumph of the Baroque (1999), and numerous articles. Dr. Millon had held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Research Institute, and a Senior Fulbright. He had received awards from the American Institute of Architects: Academie des sciences morale et politique, Institut de France as well as the College Art Association. Dr. Millon served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians; Convener of the Architectural Drawings Advisory Group; President of the Foundation for Documents of Architecture; Committee for the History of Art; Vice-Chair of the Council on American Overseas Research Centers; Chair of the Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellows Committee, Program in History of Landscape Architecture; President of the International Union of Academies of Archaeology, History and History of Art in Rome; President of the University Film Study Center; Vice-Chair of the Boston Landmarks Commission; and Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Cambridge Architectural Historical Survey. Elected a member in 1989, he served as Curator of Fine Arts for the American Philosophical Society 1998 to 2015. Henry A. "Hank" Millon died April 3, 2018 at the age of 91 at home in Washington, DC. | |
| 34 | Name: | Dr. Edmund S. Morgan | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | July 8, 2013 | | | | | | |
Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, wrote dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history. Acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience, his books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988), which won Columbia University's Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989, and American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), which won the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association's Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books, Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958) were for decades required reading in many school history courses. Dr. Morgan's other works include biographies of Ezra Stiles and Roger Williams as well as a book on George Washington. He is a truly significant interpreter of the colonial period of American history whose skills of analysis and presentation encompass political, intellectual and social history. Edmund Morgan died July 8, 2013, at the age of 97 in New Haven, Connecticut. | |
| 35 | Name: | Dr. Linda Nochlin | | | Institution: | Institute of Fine Arts, New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | October 29, 2017 | | | | | | |
One of the most important and influential art historians of the later twentieth century, Linda Nochlin was a pioneer in the feminist approach to art history. Functioning both as a scholar and as a role model for younger art historians, Dr. Nochlin conducted important research in the field of late nineteenth and early twentieth century French art. Her writings on Courbet are essential to the bibliography on this important painter, and in a series of important essays she explored with erudition and great eloquence questions of the relationship between art and power, particularly in the areas of politics and gender. Deeply versed in theoretical approaches to the field, Dr. Nochlin's work is informed by a profound humanity and generosity of spirit, qualities which have made her an inspiring teacher and mentor to many students and younger scholars. She was the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Dr. Nochlin has also taught at Yale University (1990-92), Vassar College (1963-80) and the City University of New York (1980-90). She is the author of books including Realism (1972); Gustave Courbet: A Study of Style and Society (1976); Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics (1978); Courbet Reconsidered (1988); Women, Art, Power & Other Essays (1988); and The Politics of Vision (1990). Linda Nochlin died October 29, 2017, at the age of 86 in Manhattan. | |
| 36 | Name: | Dr. Heiko A. Oberman | | | Institution: | University of Arizona | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | April 22, 2001 | | | | |
| 37 | Name: | Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan | | | Institution: | American Academy of Political and Social Science & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | May 13, 2006 | | | | |
| 38 | Name: | Dr. Henri M. Peyre | | | Institution: | Yale University & City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 1953 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 12/9/88 | | | | |
| 39 | Name: | Dr. Frederick A. Pottle | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 5/16/87 | | | | |
| 40 | Name: | Dr. Charles Welles Rosen | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | December 9, 2012 | | | | | | |
Born in New York City, Charles Rosen enrolled at the Juilliard School at the age of six, leaving five years later to study with Moriz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt, and his wife, Hedwig Kanner, a pupil of Leschetizky. In 1951, the same year that Mr. Rosen received widespread critical acclaim for his New York debut, he received his Ph.D. in French literature from Princeton University and made his first recording, the world premiere on disc of Debussy's Etudes. The breadth of Dr. Rosen's endeavors reflected a remarkable synthesis of performing musician, scholar, writer and lecturer. First and foremost, however, he was one of the most widely respected pianists of his time. He earned international acclaim for his performances and recordings of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach to works by this century's most important composers. He was particularly renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven and the Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. Dr. Rosen wrote extensively in the fields of music, art, literature and intellectual history. Among his most celebrated books is The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and has been translated into seven languages. His books include Beethoven's Pianos Sonatas: A Short Companion (2002) and Piano Notes: The Hidden Life of the Pianist. Dr. Rosen held distinguished chairs and visiting professorships at leading universities in the United States and abroad, including the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetics at Harvard University, and the University of Chicago, Oxford University, and the University of California. Among the awards he has received are an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Cambridge University, the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America from the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and the 2011 National Humanities Medal. Dr. Rosen was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995. | |
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