Jean C. Harris

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Jean Collins Harris (born December 4, 1927 in Cairo ; died August 5, 1988 in Holyoke , Massachusetts ) was an American art historian and museum director.

Life

Jean C. Harris was born in Cairo in 1927 to Erdman and Harriette Pope Harris. Her father was a theology professor and was teaching philosophy at the University of Cairo at the time . After finishing school, Jean C. Harris studied art history at Smith College in Northampton until 1949 . She then attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and graduated with a Master's and Doctor of Philosophy degrees . Since 1957 she worked at Mount Holyoke College , where she presented an exhibition exclusively with contemporary female artists in 1962, which was very unusual at the time. In 1971 she was appointed full professor . She then headed the art department of the university for several years before heading the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum as director from 1978 to 1983 . Harris, she specialized in 19th century French painting. She published numerous articles on this and worked on various exhibition catalogs. In 1970 she published the catalog of the graphic works of Édouard Manet ; In 1984 she published the Guide to the Collections of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Harris died in Holyoke in 1988. In her memory, a purchase budget for the collections of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum was established with the Jean C. Harris Fund .

Publications (selection)

  • Edouard Manet graphic works: a definitive catalog raisonné , Collectors Edition, New York 1970.
  • Collegiate collections . Exhibition catalog Mount Holyoke College, The College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1976.
  • The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum: Handbook of the collection . The Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1984.
  • together with Steven Kern, Bill Stern: Lasting impressions. French and American Impressionism from New England museums . Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 20, 1928.
  2. ↑ Garce Glueck: Jean C. Harris, 60, Ex-Museum Director And Professor of Art Article in the New York Times August 10, 1988 (accessed July 11, 2019)
  3. ↑ See examples on the website of the Collections Database of the Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Jean C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harris, Jean Collins (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1988
Place of death Holyoke (Massachusetts)