Theodore Reff
Theodore Franklin Reff (born 1930 in New York City ) is an American art historian . He is considered an expert on French art at the end of the 19th century.
Life
Theodore Reff was born in 1930 in New York to Irving Reff and his wife Alice, née Pinkowitz. At Columbia University he studied art history until 1952 and then moved to Harvard University , where he completed his studies in 1953 with a Master of Arts . With a scholarship from the university, he traveled to Europe for study purposes from 1955 to 1956. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1957. There he received his doctorate in 1958 under Frederick Deknatel with a thesis on the drawings by Paul Cézanne . In 1961 he married Arlene Gottesman. In 1963, he conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and organized his first exhibition on watercolor paintings by Cézanne at Columbia University. He received his appointment as professor in 1967 and became visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1970 .
The first major exhibition curated by Reff took place in 1976 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the title Degas: the Artist's Mind zu Edgar Degas . In 1977 he worked on the exhibition Cézanne: Late Work at the Museum of Modern Art . This was followed in 1982 by the exhibition Manet and Modern Paris curated by Reff at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Édouard Manet . In the same year he became Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge . Reff is a member of the Société Cézanne .
Awards
- 2010: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Commandeur)
Works (selection)
- Cézanne, the late work , together with William Rubin, Thames and Hudson, London 1978, ISBN 0-500-23279-2 .
- Manet and modern Paris , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1982, ISBN 0-89468-060-9 .
- The notebooks of Edgar Degas , Hacker, New York 1985, ISBN 0-87817-304-8 .
- Degas, the artist's mind , Belknap, Cambridge, Mass. 1987, ISBN 0-674-19543-4 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reff, Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reff, Theodore Franklin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |