Anne Coffin Hanson

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Anne Coffin Hanson (born on 12. December 1921 in Larchmont , New York , died on 1 or 3. September 2004 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American art historian and curator . Her specialty was the European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular she published on the work of Édouard Manet and the painters of Italian Futurism .

Life

Hanson was born in 1921 in Larchmont , New York, to Pastor Francis Joseph Howells Coffin and his wife Annie Roulhac Coffin . After completing school, she first studied painting at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs and later continued her education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . In 1943 she completed her studies there with a bachelor's degree . She then lived in New York City , where she attended the Art Students League of New York until 1945 . In the 1949–1950 school year she taught art at Wagner College on Staten Island . She completed her studies in painting in 1951 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a master's degree. In the following years she taught from 1952 to 1955 students at Miss Fine's School in Princeton . She then taught from 1955 to 1958 at the University at Buffalo .

In 1958 Hanson began studying art history at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia . She graduated in 1962 with a Ph.D. from. She wrote her dissertation on the early Renaissance sculptor Jacopo della Quercia . After completing her studies, she taught art history as an assistant professor at Swarthmore College and from 1964 to 1968 at Bryn Mawr College. Hanson was instrumental in the preparation of the great Edouard Manet retrospective, which was shown from 1966–1967 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago . She also wrote the catalog for the exhibition. In 1968 Hanson moved to the New York Museum of Modern Art , where she was director of the International Study Center .

At Yale University in 1970, she became the first woman to be appointed full tenured professor . From 1974 to 1978 she headed the art history department at the university. Her numerous publications include the 1977 book Manet and the Modern Tradition , for which she was awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Award for art history scholarship . In 1978 she was appointed John Hay Whitney Professor in the History of Art . In the 1980s, Hanson increasingly turned to the art of Italian futurism . She organized the 1983 exhibition The Futurist Imagination: Word + Image in Italian Futurist Painting, Drawing, Collage and Free-Word Poetry at Yale University Art Gallery and wrote the catalog for it. From 1985 to 1987 she was director of the Yale University Art Gallery. There she was co-curator of an exhibition on the graphic work of Umberto Boccioni in 1988 . Hanson finished her work at Yale University in 1992 and took on the Samuel H. Kress professorship at the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC for one year. She then worked on the Severini Futurista exhibition on the Italian Artist Gino Severini , which appeared in 1995 at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth . She then returned to the Yale University Art Gallery and was responsible for European and contemporary art as curator until 1996.

Hanson had been married to Warfield Garson since 1942. From this marriage there were three children. The marriage ended in divorce in the late 1950s. In 1962 she married the student and later art historian Bernard Allen Hanson. This marriage ended in divorce in 1978. Hanson died in New Haven in 2004.

Publications (selection)

  • Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia . Dissertation, Oxford-Warburg studies, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1965.
  • Edouard Manet: 1832-1883 . Exhibition catalog Philadelphia Museum of Art and art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia 1966.
  • Manet and the modern tradition . Yale University Press, New Haven 1977, ISBN 0-300-01954-8 .
  • The Futurist Imagination word + image in Italian futurist painting, drawing, collage and free-word poetry . Exhibition catalog, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1983.
  • Severini futurista: 1912-1917 . Exhibition catalog, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1995, ISBN 0-89467-071-9 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manet expert Anne Coffin Hanson, Yale's first woman professor , obituary in Yale Bulletin and Calender Volume 33, Number 3 of September 17, 2004 on the Yale University website
  2. ^ Obituary in the New York Times, September 4, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Hanson, Anne Coffin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffin, Anne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Larchmont (New York)
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2004 or September 3, 2004
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut)