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George Heard Hamilton (1910 – March 29, 2004) was an American art historian, educator, and curator. Hamilton taught art history at Yale University and Williams College, as well as acting as Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Clark Art Institute.

George Heard Hamilton
Photograph of Hamilton.
Born	1910 (1910) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	March 29, 2004(2004-03-29) (aged 93–94) Williamstown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Art historian Educator Curator
Spouse	Polly Wiggin (m. 1946)
Children	2 (Richard and Jennet)
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University
Thesis	Delacroix and the Orient: Studies in the Iconography of the Romantic Experience (1942)
Academic work
Discipline	Art history
Sub-discipline	Modern and Russian art
Institutions	Yale University Williams College

Career

Born in Pittsburgh to Frank and Georgia Heard, Hamilton received three degrees from Yale University: a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1932, a Master of Arts in History in 1934, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1942.[1] He wrote a doctoral dissertation on the artist Eugène Delacroix. In 1937, Hamilton attended the Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth with lifelong friend Elizabeth Wade White.

Hamilton began his curatorial career as a Research Assistant at the Walters Art Museum from 1934 to 1936, but then, returned to Yale to join the art history faculty.[2] In 1940, he was also named Curator of Modern Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as a stint as Associate Director from 1946 to 1948.[3] Hamilton was named full Professor in 1956 and remained there until 1966.[4] That year, Hamilton joined Williams College as Professor of Art History (until 1975) and Director of their Clark Art Institute (until 1977). He was a scholar of modern art and Russian art, focusing on such artists as Marcel Duchamp and Édouard Manet.

Hamilton died in Williamstown in 2004. Papers from Hamilton's tenure at Yale are held by the Yale University Library.[5]

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship (1958)
• Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge University (1971)
• Wilbur Cross Medal (1976)

See also

• List of people from Pittsburgh
• List of Williams College people
• List of Yale University people

References

External links

• Dictionary of Art Historians profile
• Oxford Reference profile

На других языках

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- [en] George Heard Hamilton

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[ru] Хэмилтон, Джордж Хёрд

Джордж Хёрд Хэмилтон (англ. George Heard Hamilton; 23 июня 1910, Питтсбург, Пенсильвания, США — 29 марта 2004, Уильямстаун, Массачусетс, США) — американский искусствовед и музейный работник, профессор, автор ряда книг по истории искусства[1][2][3].

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