Alfred Mansfield Brooks

Alfred Mansfield Brooks (born July 19, 1870 in Saginaw , Saginaw County , Michigan , † December 20, 1963 in Gloucester , Essex County , Massachusetts ) was an American art historian .

Life

Family and education

Alfred Mansfield Brooks, son of lawyer George Byron Brooks (1834-1916) and Abby Davis Mansfield Brooks (1842-1870), studied for his compulsory education art history at Harvard University in Cambridge , in 1894 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts , 1899 that of a Master of Arts . From 1894 to 1895 he studied at the School of Architecture and Planning, a faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Alfred Mansfield Brooks married on August 30, 1910 the Indianapolis- born Ruth Bryce Steele (1887-1970). He died in Gloucester in late 1963 at the age of 93.

Professional background

Alfred Mansfield Brooks joined in 1896 a position as Instructor in Fine Arts at the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University in Bloomington in the US state of Indiana in 1899, he was appointed assistant professor , in 1904 associate professor , 1906 Associate Professor, 1907 Professor appointed. In 1922, Alfred Mansfield Brooks accepted an appointment as Professor of Fine Arts at Swarthmore College , and in 1937 he was retired. He then moved to Gloucester, where he took over the presidency of the Cape Ann Museum in 1940.

Brooks, one of the United States' leading art historians in the first half of the 20th century, was awarded an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Indiana University in 1911.

Publications

• author
• The Newell Fortune. Bodley Head, London, 1906
• Somes House. S. Sunshine, London, 1909
• Architecture and the Allied Arts, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1914
• Dante , How to Know Him. Bobbs, 1916
• Converted and Secret Americans. National Security League, New York City, 1917
• From Holbein to Whistler: Notes on Drawing and Engraving. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1920
• Our Debt to Greek and Roman Architecture. 1923
• Architecture. Longmans Green and Company, London, 1927
• editor
• Great Artists and Their Works: By Great Authors. Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1919
• John Ruskin's Letters to William Ward: With a Short Biography of William Ward. Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1922

literature

• Thomas William Herringshaw: Herringshaw's American Blue Book Of Biography. American Publishers' Association, Chicago, Ill., 1915, p. 168.
• Alberta Chamberlain Lawrence: Who's who Among North American Authors. Volume 4. Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 1930, p. 139.
• Herbert A. Kenny: Cape Ann: Cape America. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1971, pp. 179, 285.
• Who was who in America. Volume 5: 1969-1973. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 88.