Art Historian : Lane Faison : oral history transcript / interviewed by Richard Candida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

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Faison, Lane. Art Historian : Lane Faison : oral history transcript / interviewed by Richard Candida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

Art Historian : Lane Faison : oral history transcript / interviewed by Richard Candida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215385686

Faison discusses his childhood, travels, studies at Williams, and at Harvard and Princeton; teaching at Yale, 1932-1936, and at Williams, 1936-1976; Marcel Aubert, Henri Focillon, and medieval art; Williams College students, art history program, graduate program, women at; thoughts on German emigre approach to art history; OSS training and inventory of Nazi art collections in Germany; director, Williams College Museum of Art, 1948-1976, professional museum associations, collecting; interest in Renaissance and American art; art critic for the Nation and interest in abstract expressionists, Jackson Pollock, others; scholars Karl Weston, Whitney Stoddard, others.

43Transcript: 1 v. (x, 291 leaves) : port. ; 28 cm.

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