Kermit S. Champa

Kermit Swiler Champa (1939–2004)[1] was Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University from 1970 to 2004.

Education

He earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Yale in 1960, where he also played trombone. He would go on to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1965, where he studied under Clement Greenberg and Frederick B. Deknatel.[2]

Career

A specialist of Impressionist paintings, Champa first taught at Yale, before moving to Brown in 1970. At Brown, his students would include the noted art historian Olivier Berggruen.[3]

Selected publications
  • German Painting of the 19th Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970.
  • Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
  • Mondrian Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • The Rise of Landscape Painting in France: Corot to Monet. Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1991.
  • Masterpiece Studies: Manet, Zola, Van Gogh, & Monet. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

References
  1. Champa, Kermit Swiler Dictionary of Art Historians, 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. Kermit S. Champa, 64, Author And Distinguished Art Historian
  3. Champa, Kermit Swiler Dictionary of Art Historians, 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2016.


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