Full Name: Rowley, George
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Subject Area(s): East Asian
Overview
The father of Princeton University’s studies in Far Eastern art (Rensselaer W. Lee). Began his career at Bryn Mawr under Georgiana Goddard King. Taught at Columbia university. Charles Parkhurst, consider Rowley,”one of the great, perhaps somewhat unheralded teachers at Princeton.”
Sources
[Lee quotation:] Leitch, Alexander. A Princeton Companion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1978; mentioned, Interview with Charles Parkhurst Pennington, Buck, interviewer. Archives of American Art. Washington, DC October 27, 1982, http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/parkhu82.htm.