The Early Years of Art History in the United States

by Smyth, Craig Hugh; Lukehart, Peter M.

• ISBN13: 9780691036458
• ISBN10: 0691036454
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Dept of Art &

Summary

The essays in this volume focus on departments, teaching, and scholars of art history in the United States from 1865 to the mid 1930s, the years when the history of art became established as an academic discipline in American higher education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Glimpses of Some Early Departments of the History of Art in the United States
Introduction to Part I	p. 5
Princeton: The Beginnings under Marquand	p. 7
Appendix I: Venturi's Letter to Marquand	p. 11
Appendix II: E. Baldwin Smith, The Study of the History of Art in the Colleges and Universities of the United States (1912)	p. 12
The Princeton Department in the Time of Morey	p. 37
An Undergraduate's Experience of Fine Arts at Harvard University in the 1920s	p. 43
Harvard and the Fogg	p. 47
The Harvard Fine Arts Department	p. 51
Harvard Postscript	p. 55
The Department of Art at Vassar: 1865-1931	p. 57
The Study of Art at Smith College	p. 65
Arts at Yale University	p. 69
The Department of Fine Arts for Graduate Students at New York University	p. 73
History of Art at Columbia University	p. 79
Three Decades of Art History in the United States (1910-1940): Five Figures
Introduction to Part II	p. 87
Bernard Berenson	p. 89
Arthur Kingsley Porter: Life, Legend and Legacy	p. 97
Concerning Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955)	p. 111
American Backgrounds: Fiske Kimball's Study of Architecture in the United States	p. 123
Richard Offner and the Ineffable: A Problem of Connoisseurship	p. 133
Institutionalizing Art History: The Early Discipline in the United States
Introduction to Part III	p. 147
The Departments of Art, Wellesley College, and the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1875-1914	p. 151
The Beginnings of Art History at Harvard and the "Fogg Method"	p. 161
Formulating Art History at Princeton and the "Humanistic Laboratory"	p. 175
Virtue and Good Manners: Toward a History of Art History Instruction	p. 183
Index	p. 195
Plates	p. 207
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