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Bibliographic Record Display
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Author/Creator:Hamilton, George Heard.
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Title:George Heard Hamilton papers, 1937-1966 (inclusive).
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Physical Description:1.25 linear ft.
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Yale Holdings
Holdings Record Display
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Notes:Transferred from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1977.
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Access and use:Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Additional information is provided in the finding aid.
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Biographical / Historical note:George Heard Hamilton was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 1910. He received a B.A. (1932), an M.A. (1934), and a Ph.D. (1942) from Yale University. He taught art history at Yale from 1936 until 1966, and was the curator of modern art at the Yale University Art Gallery from 1940 to 1966. He was chairman of the Department of Art from 1959 to 1962, and associate director of the Art Gallery from 1946 to 1948. From 1966 to 1975 he was a professor of art at Williams College, and was the director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown from 1966 to 1977. From 1966 to 1968 Hamilton was the president of the College Art Association of America. Hamilton wrote Manet and his Critics, Art and Architecture of Russia, European Painting and Sculpture 1880-1940, Raymond Duchamp Villon (with W. C. Agee), and 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. He edited the catalogue of the Collection of the Société Anonyme which was published in 1950. Hamilton died in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on March 29, 2004.
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Summary:The papers consist of correspondence, course materials, writings, and newspaper clippings relating to George Heard Hamilton's career as a professor of art history, art gallery curator and administrator, and author. Correspondents include curators of U.S. and European art museums and galleries, colleagues at Yale and at other universities, and members of the international art community.
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Indexes/Finding aids:The finding aid is available in the repository and on the Internet.
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Cite as:George Heard Hamilton Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:Man Ray, 1890-1976.
Dreier, Katherine S. (Katherine Sophie), 1877-1952.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Hamilton, George Heard.
Art Institute of Chicago.
College Art Association of America.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Yale University--Faculty.
Yale University. Art Gallery.
Yale University. School of Art and Architecture. Dept. of Art History.
Art, Modern.
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Occupation:Art historians.
Educators.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/614629