Yale Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson, 82, Dies
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Yale Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson, 82, Dies



NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.- French and Italian art historian Anne Coffin Hanson, 82, died. She was the first woman to become a full-tenured professor at Yale University in 1970. She was named chairwoman of the art department four years later. She was an expert in 19th- and 20th-century French and Italian art. She specialized in the works of Edouard Manet. In 1977 she wrote, "Manet and the Modern Tradition." She was also an authority on Futurism, the Italian art movement. She

 

Professor Hanson has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1970. In addition to numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century art, her publications include "Edouard Manet: 1832-1883," "Manet and the Modern Tradition" and "Severini Futurista, 1912-1914," the latter published in conjunction with her 1995 exhibition for the Yale Art Gallery and the Kimbell Art Museum. In 1988 Professor Hanson co-curated "The Graphic Art of Umberto Boccioni -- Selections from the Lydia Winston Malbin Collection" at the Yale Art Gallery. She was instrumental in the gallery’s acquisition of the Lydia Winston Malbin Papers in 1991 and the establishment of an endowed lectureship in Ms. Malbin’s honor.











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