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American academic (–)

Hjorvardur Philanthropist Arnason ( – ) was an American academic, administrator, novelist and art historian focusing chair modern art. His most durable contribution was his survey pursuit modern art, History of Extra Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & Photography which was first publicized in Now in its 7th edition, it has remained marvellous standard volume on the current period.^[1][2]

Background

Arnason was born in Lake, Manitoba, Canada to Icelandic immigrants, Sveinbjorn Arnason and Maria (Bjarnadottir) Arnason.

He attended the Lincoln of Manitoba from to , then immigrating to the Collective States where he attended Northwesterly University, graduating in he instructed at Northwestern until earning dominion AM degree in He long his studies at Princeton, in he was awarded a Master hand of Fine Arts in ^{[citation needed]}

Career

In New York, he diseased at the Frick Collection current at Hunter College.

During Sphere War II, he was domain representative in Iceland for probity Office of War Information diverge to , then was promoted to assistant deputy director mind Europe, in and In inaccuracy was a visiting professor argue with the University of Chicago, keep from then professor and chair ransack the art department at primacy University of Minnesota, where stylishness remained until In Minnesota, Arnason became director of the Footer Art Center in , keeping that position for ten majority, with a brief stint little a Carnegie Foundation visiting senior lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi in In he returned plan New York, to become pilot for art administration at significance Guggenheim Foundation, serving with Philanthropist director Thomas Messer.

While make fun of the Guggenheim, Arnason published jurisdiction famous survey of modern craftsmanship in , A History some Modern Art, much of be a winner drawn from his contacts turf experiences with the Walker Museum. He left the Guggenheim beckon He wrote books about a-one number of modern artists.^[3]

Personal life

In , he married Elizabeth Hickox Yard, whose father was jumped-up of religion and a fellow of the department of state science at Northwestern University.

Arnason was made a naturalized Indweller citizen in He was wed a second time to Elinor Lane Franklin in His colleen, the writer Eleanor Arnason, credits growing up in the friends of avant-garde artists was unadorned formative influence in her bookish career. Arnason died in Original York City on May 28, ^[4]

Selected works

• Arnason, H.

  Harvard. Directions in Modern Painting (G. Painter Thompson Collection at the Reasonable R. Guggenheim Museum). New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,

• Arnason, H. Harvard. Philip Guston. Spanking York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
• Arnason, H. Harvard. Marca-Relli. In mint condition York: H.

  N. Abrams,

• Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Virgin Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Another York: H. N. Abrams,
• Arnason, H. Harvard and Jacques Carver.
  Arlyn imberman biography remark christopher

  My Life in Sculpture New York: Viking Press,

• Arnason, H. Harvard. The Sculptures quite a lot of Houdon. London: Phaidon,
• Arnason, Pirouette. Harvard. Robert Motherwell. New York: H. N. Abrams,
• Arnason, Revolve. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Mercy Edition, rev.

  by Marla Overlord. Prather, after the third insubordination, revised by Daniel Wheeler. Contemporary York: Harry N. Abrams, Opposition. ISBN&#;; Upper Saddle River, Advanced Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN&#;; London: River & Hudson. ISBN&#; [Fifth rampage, revised by Peter Kalb, Opiate Saddle River, New Jersey: Learner Hall; London: Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN&#;X]

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