Taylor, Joshua C. (Joshua Charles), 1917-1981
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Biographical notes:
Museum director, art historian; Washington, D.C.
Taylor was born in Oregon and received his B.A. from Reed College in 1939. He taught theater and served in World War II before completing his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Art History at Princeton. For more than twenty years he was professor of art history and humanities at the University of Chicago. In 1970 he became the director of the National Museum of American Art (then the National Collection of Fine Arts) a position he held until his death in 1981.
From the description of Joshua Charles Taylor papers, 1931-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83458592
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Subjects:
- Art, American
- Art historians
- Art museum directors
- Art museums
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Places:
- Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
- Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
