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Article: S. Lane Faison, 1907-2006.(Notes & Comments: December 2006)(In memoriam)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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We cannot mention "loss" without thinking of S. Lane Faison, the influential art critic and teacher who died last month a few days shy of his ninety-ninth birthday. As art critic for The Nation in the early 1950S and as a teacher--at Yale in the 1930s and then at Williams College from 1936-1976--Faison was an immense and beneficent presence in the life of American art. He helped track down hordes of art looted by the Nazis and, in the early 1950S, helped to organize the first retrospective of work by Jackson Pollock. As a young assistant professor at Yale, Faison team-taught courses with the French scholars Marcel Aubert and Henri Focillon in alternate semesters. They ...
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