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Kermit S Champa

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Name
  
Kermit Champa


Died
  
July 22, 2004, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Books
  
"Masterpiece" Studies: Manet, Zola, Van Gogh, & Monet

Education
  
Harvard University (1965), Yale University

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Kermit Swiler Champa (1939–2004) was Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University from 1970 to 2004.

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Education

He earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Yale in 1960, where he also played trombone. He would go on to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1965, where he studied under Clement Greenberg and Frederick B. Deknatel.

Career

A specialist of Impressionist paintings, Champa first taught at Yale, before moving to Brown in 1970. At Brown, his students would include the noted art historian Olivier Berggruen.

Selected publications

  • German Painting of the 19th Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970.
  • Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
  • Mondrian Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • The Rise of Landscape Painting in France: Corot to Monet. Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1991.
  • Masterpiece Studies: Manet, Zola, Van Gogh, & Monet. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

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