Frank Jewett Mather

He was born at Deep River, Connecticut, to parents Caroline Arms Graves and lawyer Frank Jewett Mather, Sr. (1835–1929). Mather graduated from Williams College in 1889 and from Johns Hopkins with a Ph. D. in 1892 in English philology and literature. Additionally he studied also at Berlin and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

From 1893 to 1900 he served as instructor and assistant professor of English and Romance languages at Williams College. In 1910, he became professor of art and archaeology at Princeton. From 1922 to 1946 he was the director of Princeton University's art museum.{{cite journal|journal=Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University|title=Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. 1868–1953: In Memoriam|year=1954|volume=13|issue=1|page=19|doi=10.2307/3774344|jstor=3774344}}

Mather was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1931 and the American Philosophical Society in 1940.{{Cite web |title=Frank Jewett Mather |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/frank-jewett-mather |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Frank+J.+Mather&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}

Mather was an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post and assistant editor of the Nation (1901–1906) and art critic for the Post (1905–1906; 1910–1911); from 1904 to 1906 was American editor of the Burlington Magazine; contributed frequently, chiefly on art subjects, to the Nation, the Burlington Magazine, Art and Progress, and other periodicals. He became editor of Art Studies'' in 1923.

• {{Cite book|last=Mather|first=Frank Jewett|url=https://archive.org/details/conditionalsente00math|title=The Conditional Sentence in Anglo-Saxon|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|year=1892|type=dissertation}}
• {{Cite book|last=Mather|first=Frank Jewett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUpJAQAAMAAJ|title=Homer Martin, Poet in Landscape|year=1912}}
• {{Cite book|last1=McComb|first1=Arthur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIVDAAAAYAAJ|title=Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern|last2=Marquand|first2=Allan|last3=Cook|first3=Walter W. S.|last4=Smith|first4=E. Baldwin|last5=Clapp|first5=Frederick Mortimer|last6=Mather|first6=Frank Jewett|publisher=Princeton University Press|others=Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University; Department of Fine Arts, Princeton University|year=1924|author-link2=Allan Marquand|author-link3=Walter William Spencer Cook|author-link5=Frederick Mortimer Clapp}}
• The Collectors (1912), a volume of short stories
• Estimates in Art (1916)
• The Portraits of Dante (1921)
• A History of Italian Painting (1923)
• Modern Painting: 1664–1914 (1927) Garden City Publishing Co., inc
• Western European Painting of the Renaissance (1939)

Since 1963, the College Art Association (CAA) has presented an annual award for art journalism named in Mather's honor. The award is for "significant published art criticism that has appeared in publication in a one-year period".{{cite web|url=http://www.collegeart.org/awards/mather |title=Frank Jewett Mather Award |year=2010 |publisher=College Art Association |access-date=11 October 2010}}

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