Theodore Sizer

Theodore Sizer (March 19, 1892 – June 21, 1967) was an American professor of the history of art at Yale University and a director of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. He was named the first Pursuivant of Arms for Yale University in 1963.

Biography His parents, Robert Ryland Sizer, a lumber industry executive, and Mary T. Thomsen, were married in 1890. Theodore, their first child, was born in New York City on March 19, 1892. During his early life, he was given the nickname "Tubby". He was graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1915. On October 14, 1916, he married Caroline Wheelwright Foster. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 for Fine Arts Research. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1948.

Sizer became an expert in heraldry and was commissioned in 1953 by the secretary of Yale, Carl A. Lohmann, to design banners for ten Yale colleges and schools for commencement. In 1963, he was named Yale's first Pursuivant of Arms.

Sizer published over 160 items, especially about the life and works of the American artist John Trumbull.

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