Name Frank Mather | Role Art critic | |
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Died 1953, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Education Johns Hopkins University, Williams College Books The collectors, Estimates in art, Homer Martin - poet in la, The Portraits of Dante Co, Do the arts make for peace? | ||
Roberta Smith and Jason Andrew -- The 2019 Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture
Frank Jewett Mather (1868–1953) was an American art critic and professor.
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- Roberta Smith and Jason Andrew The 2019 Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture
- Frank Jewett Mather Award
- References
He was born at Deep River, Connecticut, and graduated from Williams College in 1889 and from Johns Hopkins (Ph. D.) in 1892: he studied also at Berlin and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. From 1893 to 1900 he served as instructor and assistant professor of English and Romance languages at Williams College, and thereafter was professor of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Mather was an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post and assistant editor of the Nation (1901–1906) and art critic for the Post (1905–1906; 1910–1911); from 1904 to 1906 was American editor of the Burlington Magazine; contributed frequently, chiefly on art subjects, to the Nation, the Burlington Magazine, Art and Progress, and other periodicals. He became editor of Art Studies in 1923.
Mather published:
Frank Jewett Mather Award
Since 1963, the College Art Association has presented an annual award for art journalism named in Mather's honor. The award is for "significant published art criticism that has appeared in publication in a one-year period".