{"id":2339,"date":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:02:24","slug":"william-henry-gerdts-jr-art-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"William Henry Gerdts Jr., art historian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.\r\n\r\nAn expert in American Impressionism, he was also well known for his work on nineteenth-century American still life painting.\r\n\r\nGerdts was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Beginning in 1945 he attended Amherst College. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst in 1949, Gerdts attended Harvard Law School, but after four days switched to the Department of Fine Arts. There he earned a master’s degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1966.\r\n\r\nGerdts’ professional positions included that of Curator of Art at the Norfolk Museum and resident director of the Moses Myers House in Norfolk; Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Newark Museum; and associate professor and gallery director at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1966 to 1969. In 1971 he joined the faculty of Brooklyn College, and The Graduate Center at CUNY.\r\n\r\nHe also taught at the University of Maryland, and was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and Washington University. Gerdts received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. In 1992 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Amherst College, and in 1996 Syracuse University made him an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.\r\n\r\nIn 2008-9 Gerdts was Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Advisor for American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.\r\n\r\nGerdts served as Vice President of the Coe Kerr Gallery in New York.\r\n\r\nComplementing his career as an academic, he served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR).\r\n<\/p>

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William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. 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