Chandler Rathfon Post
American writer and academic
About Chandler Rathfon Post
Lived 1881 – 1959 (aged 77–78). Chandler Rathfon Post was an American writer, university teacher and art historian.
Biography Post was born on December 14, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, to parents Anne M. Rathfon and William R. Post. In 1909, Post received his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Post was a prolific author and researcher, he started his first visual survey series with, History of European and American Sculpture (1921), which was two volume and is one of the earliest American art surveys published. His last two books in the Spanish painting series were published posthumous by Harold Edwin Wethey.
Post was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
He died November 2, 1959, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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Who was Chandler Rathfon Post?
American writer and academic (1881-1959)
When was Chandler Rathfon Post born?
Chandler Rathfon Post was born on 14 December 1881 in Detroit.
When did Chandler Rathfon Post die?
Chandler Rathfon Post died in 1959 in Foxborough.
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Chandler Rathfon Post was a writer, university teacher and art historian.
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