Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Art, 1983-1990
James Ackerman (November 8, 1919 – December 31, 2016) was born in San Francisco in November 1919. He studied at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California...
Jean Sutherland Boggs (June 11, 1922 – August 22, 2014) was born to Canadian parents in Negritos, Peru. In 1942, she earned her Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts... Read more about Jean Sutherland Boggs
Norman Bryson served as Professor of Art History at Harvard from 1990 - 1999. He graduated with a Ph.D from Cambridge University in 1977. Following this,...
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, 1980-2003
Professor Pramod Chandra (November 20, 1930 – February 19, 2016) earned his B.S. degree in 1951 at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service...
Timothy J. Clark completed his undergraduate studies at St John's College, Cambridge, he obtained a first-class honours degree in 1964. He received his...
Professor of History of Art and Architecture, 1991-2003 Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, 1991-2003
James Cuno currently serves the J. Paul Getty Trust as president and CEO. A national and international museum leader and scholar, Cuno was president and...
Professor of History of Art and Architecture, 2005-2013
Frank Fehrenbach studied art history, history and philosophy in Tübingen and Basel, was a fellow in the working group on the cultural history of nature at...
Oleg Grabar (November 3, 1929 – January 8, 2011) attended the University of Paris, where he studied ancient, medieval, and modern history, before moving...
Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professorship, 1935-1953
From 1903 to 1907 he studied art history in Strasbourg, Bonn and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1906 under the early Vienna school art historians...
Curator and Director of Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1930-1968; Professor of Fine Arts, 1949-1953
Charles Kuhn (1902-1985) acted as curator and director of the the Busch-Reisinger Museum from 1930 to 1968. Professor Kuhn acquired many works removed... Read more about Charles L. Kuhn
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art, 1960-1974
Max Loehr (December 4, 1903 - September 16, 1988) earned his Ph.D. in Far Eastern art from the University of Munich in 1936. Afterward, he became an...
Cyril Mango (14 April 1928 – 8 February 2021) was a British scholar of the history, art, and architecture of the Byzantine Empire and celebrated as one of...