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Hawes, Harriet Ann Boyd

Full Name: Hawes, Harriet Ann Boyd

Other Names:

  • Harriet Ann Boyd
  • Harriet Boyd

Gender: female

Date Born: 11 October 1871

Date Died: 31 March 1945

Place Born: Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA

Place Died: Washington, DC, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): Classical

Career(s): art historians

Institution(s): Smith College


Overview

Archaeologist of classical antiquity; first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. Born Harriett Boyd, her father was Alexander Boyd, a leather merchant, and her mother Harriet Wheeler (Boyd) in 1871, the final of five children and the only girl. Her mother died when she was 10 months old and was raised solely by her father. Boyd received her early education from Prospect Hill School in Massachusetts where she graduated in 1888. From 1892 to 1896 she taught Classics in various schools in both North Carolina and Delaware. She was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in Classics from Smith College in 1892 as Phi Beta Kappa. In 1896 she did her graduate work with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Starting in 1898 she received a fellowship from the ASCSA school. During the Greco-Turkish war when the Turkish army defeated the Greek army, displacing many Greek citizens, Hawes took nursing training to assist them. She was later decorated by Greece for her work in the war. She volunteered as a nurses’ aid the following year for soldiers wounded the Spanish American War. In 1899 she received the $1000 Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship, created by the ASCSA to address limitations placed on women in the archaeological field. However, the School did not accept women on their digs and she was recommended to work as a librarian. Boyd used the Hoppin fund to finance a dig herself. Arthur Evans, working at Knossos, advised her to dig at Kavousi in eastern Crete. Only digging for four months, she uncovered houses and tombs from the Geometric period. She was the first woman to ever lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. She returned to Smith in 1900 to lecture, incorporating her findings into a master’s thesis at Smith College in 1901. In 1902, she was the first woman to address the Archaeological Societies, which subsequently granted her a fellowship. In 1904 she began her excavation of Gournia in Crete, assisted by Blanche Emily Wheeler (1870-1936), the final recipient of the Hoppin Fellowship. There she discovered a Minoan city, and in later excavations, Minoan tombs on the hill of Sphoungaras nearby.

She visited Athens in 1905 to attend the International Congress of Archaeology where she met the archaeologist and anthropologist Charles Henry Hawes (1867-1943) of Cambridge University. In 1906 Charles and Harriet were married, though purportedly she had rejected his proposal seven previous times (Boston Globe), giving up her Smith lecturing position the same year. She and her husband lived in Madison, Wisconsin where he lectured at the University there, 1907-1909. Her first book, written with her husband, Crete, the Forerunner of Greece , appeared in 1909. It covered the life of the Minoan people in Crete including details as complex as the clothing style of the female population. Charles received an appointment at Dartmouth in 1910 where the couple moved. She received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Smith College the same year. Hawes returned to nursing work during World War I. From 1917 to 1918 she was the organizer and the first director of Smith College’s relief unit in France. From 1918 to 1920 she was a nurse’s aide with the YMCA at the American Hospital in Longchamps, France. Starting in 1920 (through 1936) she was a lecturer at Wellesley College in art history. A 1922 essay on Boston’s ‘Ludovisi Throne.’ Hawes’ inventory of the tombs continues to inspire archaeological study, Hawes was in Czechoslovakia in 1938 during the German take-over of Sudetenland, and was briefly detained by the German authorities. She died in a nursing home on March 31, 1945 in Washington DC at the age of 74. Her memoirs were published posthumously in two articles in 1965.

Hawes produced books which, by and large, addressed a broad audience, such as her Crete, the Forerunner of Greece. However, in articles such as A Gift of Themistocles: The ‘Ludovisi Throne’ and the Boston Relief she contextualized the Ludovisi Throne dissenting from previous historians, arguing that the pieces were part of a couch-altar which once stood in the sanctuary that Themistocles restored for the Lycomids. Hawes also kept meticulous notes with drawings and photographs. She published these documents in memoirs that give the full historical context to the archaeological exhibitions she worked on including photographs of the Greek people involved in the work.


Selected Bibliography

  • Crete, the Forerunner of Greece Harper’s Library of Living Thought. London: Harper 1909;
  • “A Gift of Themistocles: The ‘Ludovisi Throne’ and the Boston Relief” American Journal of Archaeology 26, no. 3 (1922): 278–306;
  • “Memoirs of a Pioneer Excavator in Crete” Archaeology 18, no. 2 (1965): 94–101;
  • Part II Memoirs of a Pioneer Excavator in Crete” Archaeology 18, no. 4 (1965): 268–276.

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Contributors: Caitlin Childers


Citation

Caitlin Childers. "Hawes, Harriet Ann Boyd." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/hawesh/.


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Archaeologist of classical antiquity; first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. Born Harriett Boyd, her father was Alexander Boyd, a leather merchant, and her mother Harriet Wheeler (Boyd) in 1871, the final of five children and

Hewitt, Mary Jane

Full Name: Hewitt, Mary Jane

Other Names:

  • M.J. Hewitt

Gender: female

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: 2017

Place Born: Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): African American, American (North American), Black (general, race and ethnicity), and Modern (style or period)

Career(s): activists and publishers

Institution(s): Los Angeles Museum of African American Art and Occidental College


Overview

Expert on African-American art; Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles. Mary Jane Hewitt’s birth is undocumented, but likely in the 1920s. She was the youngest of four children in a single-mother household. She was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, by her mother to whom she accredited her strong will and intolerance of discrimination (Ehrhart-Morrison). Hewitt first earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota before traveling to Paris, France in the 1950s. In France, Hewitt worked as a French interpreter and translator for the U.S. government. Initially planning to live in Paris permanently due to the discrimination in America, Hewitt changed her mind after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955 on a bus during the Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by Parks’ actions, Hewitt returned to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.

In the 1960s with the rise of black consciousness at universities, Hewitt became a program director at UCLA and worked under Abbott Kaplan (1912-1980) to develop classes on race. Hewitt was involved in the campus’ Black Student Union and was promoted to run UCLA’s High Potential and Equal Opportunity Program in 1968. Hewitt advised UCLA’s High Potential Program (Hi-Pot), which enrolled minority groups in preparatory education so they could qualify to attend UCLA. After becoming frustrated with the coordination of the program, Hewitt resigned from UCLA in December 1969 and joined the faculty of Occidental College as an American Studies professor.

Hewitt taught at Occidental College from 1969 to 1978 where she offered courses on race, literature, and the Caribbean. She founded a campus committee on multicultural education and brought musicians and poets to campus. In 1976, Hewitt won $5,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to complete a Master’s and Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from the University of West Indies in Jamaica. Hewitt decided to study in Jamaica as she wanted to “be part of the majority for once,” and wrote her doctoral thesis comparing Zora Neale Hurston and Louise Bennett, two diaspora women writers.

In 1978, Hewitt was denied a promotion for the third time at Occidental College. As the only African-American professor at the university, advisory council members accused her of grading Black students with extra leniency. Hewitt resigned that year, and, although she never stated her reasoning, Occidental College students have argued that institutional racism forced her resignation (Tranquada).

After leaving Occidental College, Hewitt opened the Los Angeles Museum of African American Art with friend and fellow art historian Samella Lewis. Initially a buildingless museum, Hewitt and Lewis arranged for exhibitions including a collaboration with UCLA’s Visual and Performing Arts Academy. Eventually, Hewitt and Lewis expanded the museum’s board to include Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Catlett, artists, and music industry professionals—over time raising enough money to construct a museum. Hewitt worked at the Museum of African American Art until the late 1980s.

Outside of academia, Hewitt ran Samjai Fine Arts, Inc. and was the Associate Editor of The International Review of African American Art, a quarterly publication for African-American artists. She was on the editorial board and an artistic consultant for Black Art and Vice Chairman of the California Art Council’s Multicultural Advisory Panel. Hewitt helped create the Emmy-Award-winning television series “The Negro in American Culture” where she spoke with Maya Angelou about how American culture is rooted in African-Americans. In 1985, Hewitt won the Vesta Award to honor her outstanding achievements in the arts. In 2017, an anonymous gift of $500,000 endowed the Mary Jane Hewitt Department Chair in Black Studies at Occidental College to honor Hewitt as the first Black woman to serve as a tenured faculty member.

Hewitt was married twice. Her second husband, Edward Rubin (d. 2011), was a businessman, and together they had an early bi-racial marriage.


Selected Bibliography

  • [dissertation] Hewitt, Mary Jane. “A Comparative Study of the Careers of Zora Neale Hurston and Louise Bennett as Cultural Conservators.” Ph.D. University of the West Indies, 1986;
  • 1973. Cultural nationalism and Africa. Waltham: Asa;
  • “Freedomways.” Freedomways 20, no. 3 (January 3, 1980): 1–132. https://jstor.org/stable/10.2307/community.28037052;
  • “The Long Black Line.” California History 60, no. 1 (1981): 12–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/25158017;
  • Lewis, Samella S., and Jacob Lawrence. 1982. Jacob Lawrence. Santa Monica, Calif: Museum of African American Art;
  • 1989. “The eye music of Gordon Parks”. International Review of African American Art. 8: 50-63;
  • Howard, M. (1992). Mildred Howard: TAP : investigation of memory : November 16 – December 31, 1992. New York, INTAR Latin American Gallery;
  • 1999. Beyond the veil: art of African American artists at century’s end : [exhibition]. Winter Park, Fla: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College;
  • Lewis, Samella S., and Floyd W. Coleman. 2006. African American art and artists. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Contributors: Eleanor Ross


Citation

Eleanor Ross. "Hewitt, Mary Jane." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/hewittm/.


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Expert on African-American art; Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles. Mary Jane Hewitt’s birth is undocumented, but likely in the 1920s. She was the youngest of four children in a single-mother household.

Hauttmann, Max

Full Name: Hauttmann, Max

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown


Overview

His students included Henri (Heinrich) Stern.

 






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His students included Henri (Heinrich) Stern.
 

Heil, Walter

Full Name: Heil, Walter

Gender: male

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Subject Area(s): European, Medieval (European), and seventeenth century (dates CE)

Institution(s): California Palace of the Legion of Honor


Overview

Art historian, curator and collector of medieval and 17th-century European art. Heil left Germany to become curator of European art at the Detroit Institute of Art in1926.  In 1933 he was appointed dual director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M.H de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco (today merged as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).  There, in 1934 he hired the German expatriate Elizabeth Moses to be the curator of the arts and crafts at the de Young. With the United States in the height of the Depression, the same year he also took on the job of the Region 15 Director (Northern California, Nevada, and Utah) of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) until 1936.  In 1939 he was named director of the de Young, solely, which he served until 1961.

Heil brought the museum to international recognition through early exhibitions of Max Beckmann (1949),Oskar Kokoschka (1950) and Edvard Munch (1951). Among his personal art collections was a self-portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, today in the British Museum.




Archives

Watler Heil papers, Archives of American Art. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/walter-heil-papers-7706



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Art historian, curator and collector of medieval and 17th-century European art. Heil left Germany to become curator of European art at the Detroit Institute of Art in1926.  In 1933 he was appointed dual director of the California Palace of the Leg

Howell, R’lene

Full Name: Howell, R'lene LaFleur

Other Names:

  • R'lene LaFleur Howell
  • Rlene LaFleur Howell
  • Rlene L. Howell
  • R'lene L. Howell
  • Rlene Howell Dahlberg

Gender: female

Date Born: 1926

Place Born: MI, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): decorative art (art genre) and Modern (style or period)

Institution(s): Metropolitan Museum of Art


Overview

American woman of letters; wrote art history; teacher; poet. R’lene LaFleur Howell was born in Michigan in 1926. She attended the University of Chicago for her doctorate; her dissertation was titled American Art in the Stream of Realism. She worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an assistant, penning and article, “Craftsmanship in Wrought Iron” in 1950. As she published, the aspiring novelist Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) courted her—calling her daily and dedicating works such as “The Parables” and The Flea of Sodom to her. On October 14th, 1950 Dahlberg published this tribute to R’lene, then divorcing his second wife Winifred to marry her. R’lene changed her name to Rlene H Dahlberg, dropping the apostrophe and taking her husband’s last name. Together, they moved throughout Majorca, Montpellier, and Torremolinos, eventually settling in Majorca. As Edward gained more recognition for his writings, R’lene continued to act as his editor. She then taught English at UCLA and Grover Cleveland High School, staying friends with Edward after they divorced in 1967. R’lene became a poet, author, and publisher at Pequod Press, publishing “Elsie John and Joey Martinez” in 1979 and penning Emma Goldman in 1983. Through her editorial work, she became a close friend of the writer Herbert Huncke (1915-1996)—a poet and author who coined the term “The Beat Generation.” Later on, R’lene became an English teacher in New York at Stuyvesant High School. An R’lene Howell Dahlberg scholarship was created to honor her.

Howell Dahlberg published comparatively little as an art historian. However, her meeting the nascent writer Francis “Frank” McCourt (1930-2009), through her husband, led her to become his advocate. McCourt’s publication of his famous Angela’s Ashes, 1996, was due in part to her championing it.


Selected Bibliography

  • [dissertation:]American art in the stream of realismUniversity of Chicago, 1948;
  • (as Howell) “Craftsmanship in Wrought Iron.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 9, no. 3 (1950): 83-86;
  • “The Colonial Style.” The Freeman. December 1, 1952;
  • (as Dahlberg). Emma Goldman. New York: Pequod Press;
  • and Aubrey Schwartz. 2001. Twelve from the cemetery of Soller: poems.

Sources

  • David, Lester. “Rariatrics . . . World’s Most Fabulous Hobby.” Mechanix Illustrated. August 1951;
  • DeFanti, Charles. The Wages of Expectation: a Biography of Edward Dahlberg. New York: New York University Press, 1978;
  • Maeroff, Gene I. “Stuyvesant Teacher End Boycott after Ultimatum.” The New York Times. October 8, 1981.


Contributors: Eleanor Ross


Citation

Eleanor Ross. "Howell, R’lene." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/howellr/.


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American woman of letters; wrote art history; teacher; poet. R’lene LaFleur Howell was born in Michigan in 1926. She attended the University of Chicago for her doctorate; her dissertation was titled American Art in the Stream of Realism. She

Heredia Moreno, Maria del Carmen

Full Name: Heredia Moreno, Maria del Carmen

Gender: female

Date Born: 1830

Date Died: 1890

Place Born: Seville, Andalusia, Spain

Place Died: Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

Home Country/ies: Spain

Subject Area(s): Baroque, metal, metalwork (visual works), metalworking, Spanish (culture or style), and twentieth century (dates CE)

Institution(s): Universidad de Alcalá


Overview

Spanish Art Historian. She received undergraduate degrees in philosophy and English at the University of Seville. Heredia Moreno wrote her doctorate thesis La orfebrería en la Provincia de Huelvaat the University of Seville as well in 1976 receiving her doctorate in Art History. During this time, she began teaching at the university as an assistant professor at the Chair of History of Hispanic-American Art. Between the years of 1976 and 1983, she was an interim adjunct professor in the Art department of the University of Navarra. At the University of Alcalá, she was a professor in the department of history and art history and was a faculty member of philosophy and English in which she taught many subjects such as history of baroque art, History of spanish art from 1600 to 1750, and Imagination, Creativity and Form in Modern Spain. Her research and investigation were focused on Spaniard and Hispanic silversmith artworks. She also researched the study of cataloging, guilds, and study of artistic heritage.


Selected Bibliography

  • And García Gainza, María Concepción with others. Catálogo monumental de Navarra (v. I-II* and III) Merindad de Pamplona: Príncipe de Viana,1980, 1982, 1984, 1985;
  • La orfebrería en la provincia de Huelva. Huelva:  Diputación Provincial, 1980;
  • “La Custodia del Corpus de la Catedral Magistral de Alcalá de Henares, una posible interpretación del templo de Salomón” Boletín del Seminario de Arte y Arqueología de la Universidad de Valladolid. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid , 1998, pg 326-336;
  • Lopez-Yarto, Amelia. La Edad de Oro de la Platería Complutense (1500-1650). Madrid: Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2001;
  • De Arfe Villafañe, Juan and Serlio, Sebastiano. Archivo Español de Arte. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá 2003;
  • De Obre Sivatte, Mercedes and De Orbe Sivatte, Asunción Arte Hispanoamericano en Navarra :plata, pintura, y escultura. Pamplona : Gobierno de Navarra, Departamento de Educación y Cultura, 1992;
  • Varias tabaqueras de plata del siglo XVIII. Pamplona: Principe de Viana / Diputación Foral de Navarra, 1986;
  • “Arquetas nobiliarias de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI para el servicio de la Iglesia”. Archivo Español de Arte. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de H. del Arte “Diego Velaźquez”, Centro de Estudios Históricos, 2010;

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Contributors: Sofia Silvosa


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Sofia Silvosa. "Heredia Moreno, Maria del Carmen." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/herediamorenom/.


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Spanish Art Historian. She received undergraduate degrees in philosophy and English at the University of Seville. Heredia Moreno wrote her doctorate thesis La orfebrería en la Provincia de Huelvaat the University of Seville as well in 197

Hildebrandt, Edmund

Full Name: Hildebrandt, Edmund

Gender: male

Date Born: 29 April 1872

Date Died: c. 1939

Place Born: Berlin, Germany

Place Died: Unknown

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): eighteenth century (dates CE) and sculpture (visual works)

Institution(s): Universität Berlin


Overview

Edmund Hildebrandt’s parents were Franz Hildebrandt, a prosperous Jewish merchant turned Christian, and Theone Wolkoff (Hildebrandt).  After graduating with his abitur in 1891 from the Berlin Fridericianum gymnasium he spent some time away from the classroom (assisting his father’s business?) before electing to student philology and art history in college.  Hildebrandt heard lectures in Berlin by the art historian  Karl Frey, the literary historian Erich Schmidt (1853-1913), the classical philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848 -1931) and the art historian Hermann Grimm.  He completed his dissertation under Grimm on the topic of the eighteenth-century sculptor Friedrich Tieck (1776-1851) in 1898.  For the next ten years it’s unclear what Hildebrandt did next, but part was certainly researching his habilitation, likely also from Berlin, which he received in 1908.  This allowed him to be a privatdozent at the Berlin University where he rose through the ranks to become a full professor in Berlin in 1921. Among his notable students was the aesthetician Rudolf Arnheim. Hildebrandt suffered from agoraphobia and as a consequence lecture only in small auditoriums.  The assumption of the Nazis to power in Germany beginning in 1933 spelled trouble for those like Hildebrandt who were hereditary Jews.  He lost his Venia Legendi in 1937, declared a “non-Aryan”. Although his death is undocumented, it is believed he perished in one of the holocaust extermination camps.

 


Selected Bibliography

  • [dissertation:] Friedrich Tieck: ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte im Zeitalter Goethes und der Romantik.  Leipzig : K.W. Hiersemann, 1906;
  • [habilitation:] Leben, Werke und Schriften des Bildhauers E.-M. Falconet, 1716-1791. Strassburg, J.H.E. Heitz, 1908;
  • Antoine Watteau. Berlin: Propylän-Verlag, 1922;
  • Malerei und Plastik des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts in Frankreich. Wildpark-Potsdam: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1924;
  • Leonardo da Vinci, der künstler und sein werk.  Berlin: G. Grote, 1927.

Sources

  • Arnheim, Rudolf,  “A Maverick in Art History.”  The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, p. 105;
  • Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 300-305.


Contributors: Lee Sorensen


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Lee Sorensen. "Hildebrandt, Edmund." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/hildebrandte/.


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Edmund Hildebrandt’s parents were Franz Hildebrandt, a prosperous Jewish merchant turned Christian, and Theone Wolkoff (Hildebrandt).  After graduating with his abitur in 1891 from the Berlin Fridericianum gymnasium he spent some time away from th

Harper, Paula

Full Name: Harper, Paul Hays

Other Names:

  • Paula Hays Fish

Gender: female

Date Born: 1930

Date Died: 2012

Place Born: Scituate, Plymouth, MA, USA

Place Died: Miami, Miami-Dade, FL, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): feminism and Modern (style or period)

Career(s): educators

Institution(s): University of Miami


Overview

Art historian, feminist lecturer, and Miami University professor. Fish was born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1930 though her family moved to Philadelphia thereafter. In her 20’s, she moved to New York City to join the modern dance company Munt-Brooks (later known as “The Changing Scene”) dancing with the group until a dance injury caused her resignation. Fish was married and divorced twice, but kept her married name, Harper. Harper earned her bachelor’s degree and master’s in art history at Hunter College in Manhattan. She then received her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1976. In the early 1970s, she worked as a lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts. She was foundational in the creation of the first feminist arts program at this institute. Harper introduced her students to women that had long been forgotten in the art world. She inspired artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro to make the “Womanhouse,” an art installment about the meanings of domesticity and home for women. In 1980, she co-authored a major biography of Camille Pissarro, “Pissarro: His Life and Work,” with Ralph E. Shikes. This was the first comprehensive biography on this Impressionist painter, using interviews with relatives, the artist’s letters, and any unpublished material. In the early 1980’s, Harper worked as a visiting professor at Mills College, becoming close friends with journalist Judith Robinson. From 1982 to 1987, Harper lived in Miami, working for the Miami News and ‘Art in America’ as an art critic. She also wrote catalogs for regional exhibitions. Harper divided her time between New York, directing the Hunter College art gallery and and Florida teaching contemporary art at the University of Miami from 1983 to her retirement in 2011. In 2007, as an expert on Christo’s fabric-wrapped environmental art, Harper was invited to speak at the Solomon B. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Harper died from a rare form of skin cancer in 2012.


Selected Bibliography

  • Harper, Paula Hays. “California Art for Peace: May 1970.” Art Journal 30, no. 2, 1970: 163-64. doi:10.2307/775431;
  • Harper, Paula Hays and Shikes, Ralph E. Pissarro: His Life and Work. Horizon, 1980;
  • Harper, Paula Hays. “The First Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980s.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10, no. 4, 1985. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/494182?journalCode=signs.

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Contributors: Kerry Rork


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Kerry Rork. "Harper, Paula." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/harperp/.


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Art historian, feminist lecturer, and Miami University professor. Fish was born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1930 though her family moved to Philadelphia thereafter. In her 20’s, she moved to New York City to join the modern dance company Munt-Br

Herrera, Hayden

Full Name: Herrera, Hayden

Other Names:

  • Hayden Philips

Gender: female

Date Born: 1940

Place Born: Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA

Home Country/ies: United States

Subject Area(s): Latin American and Modern (style or period)


Overview

Art historian; author of biographies on artists Frida Kahlo and Arshile Gorky. Hayden Phillips was born in Boston, the daughter of Elizabeth and John Phillips and the grand niece of William Phillips (1878-1968) Ambassador of Italy from 1917-1941. She attended North Country School and Putney School in Vermont. During her senior year, she traveled abroad with her mother to France, attending American Community School of Paris. She entered Radcliffe college, but left to pursue painting. In 1958, Herrera was a member of the Junior Assembly, a group in charge of debutante balls in New York. In 1961, Philips married a Guatemalan French, Phillip Herrera, who graduated magna cum laude at Harvard in 1956, from a prominent family in Guatemalan history. Hayden Herrera graduated with a BA from Barnard College in 1964 continuing for her MA at Hunter College. As a graduate student, she visited Mexico City to witness an exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s work.

Herrera wrote an article titled Frida Kahlo in 1976 which led to a publishing agency requesting a full book. She received her Ph.D. from City University of New York, writing a Kahlo for her thesis, in 1981. Herrera published a form of her thesis as 1983 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, to resounding success. Her next book, Mary Frank, appeared in 1990 and Matisse: A Portrait in 1993. In 1996, Herrera was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship award in the field of biography. Herrera later published her 2003 book Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, later nominated for a Pulitzer. In 2005, Herrera published Joan Snyder. In 2015, Herrera published Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi, later receiving the Book Award for biography for this work. After her divorce, she married Desmond Heath (b. 1931), a British New York psychiatrist. Herrera continues to write articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, and the New York Times. She teaches Latin American art at NYU and art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Herrera’s Kahlo book was the inspiration for Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida.


Selected Bibliography

  • [dissertation:] Frida Kahlo: her Life, her Art. 1981
  • Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Mary Frank. Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
  • Frida Kahlo: Paintings. HarperCollins, 1991.
  • Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
  • Joan Snyder. Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
  • Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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Contributors: Kerry Rork


Citation

Kerry Rork. "Herrera, Hayden." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/herrerah/.


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Art historian; author of biographies on artists Frida Kahlo and Arshile Gorky. Hayden Phillips was born in Boston, the daughter of Elizabeth and John Phillips and the grand niece of William Phillips (1878-1968) Ambassador of Italy from 1917-1941.

Hintze, Erwin

Full Name: Hintze, Erwin

Gender: male

Date Born: 31 December 1876

Date Died: 01 August 1931

Place Born: Strasbourg, Grand Est, France

Place Died: Breslau, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Home Country/ies: Germany

Subject Area(s): painting (visual works)

Institution(s): Stadtschloss (Wrocław)


Overview

Hintze was the son of the mineralogist Carl Hintze (1851-1916). From 1897 to 1901 he studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Wrocław. Beginning in October, 1901, he worked as a research assistant under Karl Masner (1858-1936) at the Silesian Museum of Decorative Arts and Antiquities in Wrocław. In 1913 he was appointed professor. From 1926 he directed the Palace Museum in the Wrocław City Palace, from 1929 until his death he was the director of the Municipal Museums in Wrocław. While director, he hired Ernst Scheyer as an assistant.

His area of interest was the history of the arts and crafts, especially goldsmithing and tin foundry.


Selected Bibliography

  • Der Einfluss der Mystiker auf die ältere Kölner Malerschule, den ‘Meister der Madonna mit der Bohnenblüte’ und Stephan Lochner. Dissertation Breslau 1901;
  • Die Breslauer Goldschmiede. Eine archivalische Studie. Breslau 1906;
  • Schlesische Goldschmiede. Breslau 1912–1916;
  • Die deutsche Zinngießer und ihre Marken. 7 Bände. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1921–1931;
  • Nürnberger Zinn. Leipzig 1921;
  • Gleiwitzer Eisenkunstguß. Breslau 1928.

Sources

  • Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, p. 605, mentioned;
  • Piotr Łukaszewicz: Hintze, Erwin. In: Encyklopedia Wrocławia. Breslau 2000, S. 270.


Contributors: Cassandra Klos


Citation

Cassandra Klos. "Hintze, Erwin." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/hintzee/.


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Hintze was the son of the mineralogist Carl Hintze (1851-1916). From 1897 to 1901 he studied art history and classical archeology at the University of Wrocław. Beginning in October, 1901, he worked as a research assistant under Karl Masner (1858-1