Reiff, Daniel D. (Daniel Drake)

Daniel Reiff was a student at Harvard University during the mid-1960s. From 1970 until2004 he was a professor of art history at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has authored many books on architecture including: Houses from Books, Treatises, Pattern Books and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1758-1950: A History and Guide,Architecture in Fredonia, New York, 1811-1997,and Small Georgian Houses in England & Virginia.

Daniel Drake Reiff (b. 1941) earned his Harvard AB 1963, Harvard AM 1964, and Harvard Ph.D. 1970.

Daniel Reiff received the B. A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College in 1963; M.A. in 1964 (Harvard); and Ph.D. in 1970 (Harvard). From 1970-2004 he was a professor of art history at the State University of New York, Fredonia. From 1985-1988 he served as chairman of the art department at the State University of New York. In 2004, he retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. Besides teaching, from 1995-1998, Reiff served as president of Fredonia Preservation Society, Inc. He has written many books on architecture including: Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1758-1950: A History and Guide; Architecture in Fredonia, New York, 1811-1997: From Log Cabin to I.M. Pei; and Small Georgian Houses in England & Virginia: Origins and Development Through the 1750s.

Kenneth John Conant received the B.A. from Harvard College in 1915 and taught architecture at Harvard School of Architecture from 1925-1955.

Sidney Freedberg (1914-1997) was trained at Harvard University and subsequently worked for the Department of Fine Arts from 1953-1983. In addition to being the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor he served as Chairman of the Department from 1959-1963, Walter Channing Cabot Fellow from 1973-1976, and as the Acting Director of the Fogg Museum, 1978-1979. Detlef Heikamp was a visiting professor from the Kunsthistoriches Institute in Florence, and specializes in the Medici family. Max Loehr (1903-1988), studied the history of Chinese art, and was trained at the University of Munich. He subsequently studied, and worked in China from 1940-1949, ending his time there as an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University. Upon arriving in the United States he worked at the University of Michigan (1951-1960), and Harvard University (1960-1974). Benjamin Rowland, Jr. (1904-1972) studied and lectured on a wide breadth of art history topics including ancient India, modern America, and pre-modern Europe. He was trained at Harvard University and was brought on staff first as a tutor in 1930. In 1950 he became a full professor, and was appointed Gleason Professor of Fine Arts in 1960. He was also a well known watercolorist with pieces exhibited in diverse museums.