Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (6 July 1868 – 11 November 1953) was an American art critic and professor. He was the first "modernist" (i.e., post-classicist) professor at the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.[1] He was a direct descendant of Richard Mather a Puritan minister in 17th century Boston.[2][3]
From 1893 to 1900 he served as instructor and assistant professor of English and Romance languages at Williams College. In 1910, he became professor of art and archaeology at Princeton. From 1922 to 1946 he was the director of Princeton University's art museum.[4]
Mather was an editorial writer for the New YorkEvening Post and assistant editor of the Nation (1901–1906) and art critic for the Post (1905–1906; 1910–1911); from 1904 to 1906 was American editor of the Burlington Magazine; contributed frequently, chiefly on art subjects, to the Nation, the Burlington Magazine, Art and Progress, and other periodicals. He became editor of Art Studies in 1923.
Western European Painting of the Renaissance (1939)
Frank Jewett Mather Award
Since 1963, the College Art Association (CAA) has presented an annual award for art journalism named in Mather's honor. The award is for "significant published art criticism that has appeared in publication in a one-year period".[8]
^"Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. 1868–1953: In Memoriam". Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University. 13 (1): 19. 1954. doi:10.2307/3774344. JSTOR3774344.
^"Frank Jewett Mather". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
E. E. C. (Winter 1954). "New & Notable". The Princeton University Library Chronicle. 25 (2). Princeton University Library: 160–175. doi:10.2307/26409659. JSTOR26409659.