Francis Valentine O'Connor

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Francis Valentine O'Connor (born February 14, 1937 in New York City , † November 20, 2017 there ) was an American art historian .

Life

O'Connor was born in 1937 as the son of bank clerk Frank J. O'Connor (1904–1974) and his wife Blanche Valentine (1900–1974). He attended Manhattan College , where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1959 . He then studied at Johns Hopkins University and obtained a master's degree in creative writing in 1960 . He then began a doctorate in art history with Christopher Gray with a thesis on Jackson Pollock's early years , which he completed in 1965. The findings led to a catalog for the Pollock retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art in 1967 , which summarized the research from the dissertation.

In 1964 he began teaching at the University of Maryland as an assistant professor and in 1966 moved to the Johns Hopkins' Evening College. In the same year he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and conducted research on the New Deal program in the field of the fine arts in New York State . In 1970 O'Connor went to the National Collection of Fine Arts , now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum , as a research fellow . He has also been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, American University, and Corcoran College of Art and Design . From 1972 to 1977 he was an associate professor at the Union Graduate School and a lecturer in the study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art . From 1972 he formed a commission to assess the authenticity of thousands of works by the artist Jackson Pollock together with the art dealer Eugene V. Thaw, the Pollock widow Lee Krasner , the curator William S. Lieberman and the art dealer Donald McKinney. This activity resulted in a four-volume catalog raisonné in 1978 . In 1995 a supplementary volume was published.

In the 1980s, O'Connor studied the history of American murals and received a grant from the United States Capitol Historical Society for his research . In 1982 he was a co-founder of the Association of Independent Historians of Art ( AIHA ). In 1990 he was Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College , and in 1993 he was Visiting Professor of Art History at George Washington University in Washington, DC

Works

  • Jackson Pollock . The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967
  • The New Deal Art projects. An Anthology of Memoirs . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1972
  • with Eugene Thaw: Jackson Pollock: A Catalog Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works . 4 volumes, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1978
  • Jackson Pollock: The Black Pourings, 1951 to 1953 . Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1980
  • Jackson Pollock: A Catalog Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works . Supplement, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 1995
  • Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism . Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announces the loss of Francis V. O'Connor (1937– 2017), the distinguished scholar of Jackson Pollock , The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, February 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME O'Connor, Francis Valentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2017
Place of death New York City