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Frank Jewett Mather

Frank Jewett Mather Jr. was an American art critic and Princeton University's first modernist art history professor.

Lived
1868–1953
Nationality
American
Era
Modernist
Language
English

Frank Jewett Mather Jr. was an American art critic and academic who helped shape the study of art history in the United States. He served as a professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, where he held the distinction of being the institution's first "modernist"—or post-classicist—professor.\n\nIn addition to his academic and critical career, Mather possessed deep historical roots in America. He was a direct descendant of Richard Mather, a notable seventeenth-century Puritan minister who settled in Boston.