Robert Spencer Olpin

Robert S. Olpin (August 30, 1940 - November 5, 2005) was an American art historian. He was a professor of Art History at the University of Utah, and the (co-)author of several books.

Life Olpin was born on August 30, 1940, in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1958, followed by the University of Utah, where he bachelor's degree in 1963, and Boston University, where he earned master's degree in 1965 and a PhD from Boston University in 1971. He was also the department chair, and the dean of its College of Fine Arts.

Olpin was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he was sealed to his wife, née Mary Florence Reynolds, in the Oakland California Temple in 1964; they had gotten married in Boston in 1963. The couple had four daughters. Olpin died on November 5, 2005, at age 65.

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