Author
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.
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