DANES, GIBSON A.

Gibson A. Danes, born in 1910, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936, and earned a Bachelor of Science (1937) and a Master's degree (1938) from Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1949. Danes began teaching art history at Yale in 1947. He was dean of the Yale School of Architecture and Design from January to June of 1958, and of the School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1967. He was acting chairman of the Department of Art from 1962 to 1963. In 1968 Danes became dean of visual arts at the State University College at Purchase, New York, a position he held until his retirement in 1978. Danes co-authored Looking at Modern Painting. He died in Litchfield, Connecticut on December 4, 1992.