William Pierson, Jr.
(1911-2008)
American artist and art historian
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William Harvey Pierson Jr. (June 4, 1911 – December 3, 2008) was an American painter and art historian. Teaching studio art and art history at Williams College for most of his career, Pierson was in large part responsible for the development of the cadre of Williams-educated museum curators and art historians now known as the Williams Art Mafia, including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, James N. Wood of the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Trust and Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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William Harvey Pierson Jr. 4 June 1911 Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
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3 December 2008 (aged 97) Williamstown, Massachusetts. USA
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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