Prown, Jules David, 1930-, Jules David Prown interview by Karen E. Denavit manuscript, March 1, 2013 - June 26, 2013
- Call Number:
- S013
- Creator:
- Prown, Jules David, 1930-
- Title(s):
- Jules David Prown interview by Karen E. Denavit manuscript
- Date:
- March 1, 2013 - June 26, 2013
- Extent:
- .209 linear feet
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- 1280
- Conditions Governing Access:
- This collection is unprocessed and may not be available for immediate access.
- Biographical/Historical:
- Jules David Prown earned his Bachelor’s degree at Lafayette College (1951), an MA in Early American Culture from the University of Delaware (1956), and an MA (1953) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1961). He was a fellow in the Winterthur Program from 1954-1956. Prown was appointed the Edward R. Bacon Art Scholar at Harvard and completed his dissertation on the formative years of American painter John Singleton Copley. Prown served as Assistant to the Director of the Fogg Art Museum between 1959 and 1961. In 1961, he joined Yale University as an instructor, and he served as curator of Garvan and related collections of American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery from 1963 to 1968. He became Assistant Professor at Yale in 1964 and was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship from 1964-1965. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Smith College from 1966-1967 and was promoted to Associate Professor at Yale in 1967. He became Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art in 1971, and retired from this position emeritus in 1999. Prown served as the founding Director of the Yale Center for British Art from July 1968 to January 1976. He was influential while the Center was being planned in choosing Louis Kahn as the architect. Karen Denavit has served as the Information Analyst at the Yale Center for British Art since 2008.
- Scope and Content:
- This collection consists of the transcript of an interview with Jules Prown by Karen E. Denavit and accompanying color photographs. The interview was conducted at the Yale Center for British art between March 1 and June 26, 2013. In it, Prown discusses his family, education, and time as Director of the Center. Prown edited the interview and wrote a brief introduction, which is included in this manuscript.
- Subject Terms:
- Architecture, ModernArtArt historiansHistory
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated People/Groups:
- Denavit, KarenYale Center for British Art
- Finding Aid Title:
- Jules David Prown interview by Karen E. Denavit manuscript
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5441.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/resources/5441
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/resources/5441?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1