| 1 | 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? : | Deceased | ||
| 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. | |||