Obituaries
Obituaries Archive
CAA recognizes the lives and achievements of the men and women whose work has had a significant impact on the visual arts. In addition to publishing a semimonthly roundup of recent deaths in the arts, CAA accepts and publishes texts written especially for this section of the website. Below are obituaries that have been published online since 2008; authored texts from before this date will be added here over the next several months.
In Memoriam
David Craven
Mildred Constantine, a former curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a CAA member since 1938.
David Craven, an art historian, prolific author, and professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Todd DeVriese, an artist, educator, and dean of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Bernard Hanson, a New England-based art historian, art critic, and professor.
John Howett, a professor of art history at Emory University for thirty years.
Michael Kabotie, a Hopi artist, muralist, jeweler, poet, and printmaker whose work promoted understanding of traditional Hopi teachings.
Robert Kaupelis, an artist, art teacher, and author of Learning to Draw.
Karl Kilinski II, a professor of Greek and Egyptian art at Southern Methodist University.
Marvin Lowe, an artist, musician, and longtime professor of printmaking at Indiana University.
Karl Lunde, an art historian who taught for many years at William Paterson University and who directed a New York gallery, the Contemporaries, from 1956 to 1965.
Hans A. Lüthy, a Swiss historian of nineteenth-century French art who organized traveling exhibitions of Swiss art.
Karin Christine Nelson
Karin Christine Nelson, a Bay Area author, administrator, and curator who specialized in textiles.
George Thomas Noszlopy, a Hungarian-born art historian who emigrated to England and taught in Birmingham for many years.
Marlene Park, an artist historian of twentieth-century American art, a public-art preservationist, and a photographer.
Carol Purtle, a professor of art history at the University of Memphis and a scholar of fifteenth-century Flemish art.
Angela Rosenthal, an associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College and a scholar of eighteenth-century European art.
Anne L. Schroder, curator and academic program coordinator at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art.
Nancy Shelby Schuller, senior lecturer and curator of the Visual Resources Collection for the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sylvia Sleigh, a painter, feminist, and the recipient of CAA’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008
Francesca Weinmann, the founder of the Art History Department at the American University in Paris who taught there for three decades.
Stuart Cary Welch Jr., curator emeritus of Islamic and later Indian art at the Harvard Art Museum and former special consultant in charge in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ronald Wiedenhoeft, an art historian whose documentary photographs formed the basis of Saskia, a provider of images for the teaching of art history.
Contact
For more information or to submit an obituary for consideration, please write to Christopher Howard, CAA managing editor.
