T. S. R. Boase
Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase
Early life and education
Thomas Boase was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Charles Millet Boase (d. 1921), operator of a bleaching mill at Claverhouse, outside Dundee, of which the Boase family were part-owners,[4] and his wife Anne.[5] Boase was educated at a day preparatory school and then at Rugby School in England (1912–17).
Oxford
He won a scholarship to Oxford for an essay on Lorenzo de' Medici.
Involvement in World War I and II
World War I
He fought on the
World War II
During
Career
Courtauld Institute of Art
From 1937 to 1947, Boase was Director of the
Later life
From 1947 to 1968, Boase was
Death
His obituary for The British Academy was written by J.J.G.Alexander, another Conway Library photographer.
Partial Bibliography
- Boniface VIII, Series: Makers of the Middle Ages, Constable, 1933.
- St. Francis of Assisi, Series: Great Lives (74), Duckworth, 1936.
- English Romanesque Illuminations, Oxford University Press, 1951.
- The Oxford History of English Art : Vol III. English Art, 1100–1216, Oxford University Press, 1953.[15]
- English Illumination of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1954.
- The York Psalter in the Library of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1962.
- Macklin and Bowyer, Warburg Institute, 1963.
- Castles and Churches of the Crusading Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1967.
- St Francis of Assisi, Thames & Hudson, 1968.
- Kingdoms and Strongholds of the Crusaders, Thames and Hudson, 1971.
- Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment and Remembrance, Thames and Hudson, 1972.
- Nebuchadnezzar: 34 paintings and 18 drawings, (with Arthur Boyd), Thames and Hudson, 1972.
References
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- ^ "Boase & Co LTD, Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee – Archives Hub".
- ISSN 0068-1202.
- ^ admin (21 February 2018). "Boase, T. S. R." Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 510; Stoye, John. Dictionary of National Biography; Alexander, Jonathan J. G. "Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase, 1898–1974." Proceedings of the British Academy 101 (1998): 353–362; Boase, Thomas S. R. [unpublished memoir], Magdalen College, Oxford University archives; Folda, Jaroslav "Introduction." Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 12–14; Carter, Miranda. Anthony Blunt: His Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001, pp. 216, 219–220; Zarnecki, George. "T. S. R. Boase." Burlington Magazine 117, no. 873 (December 1975): 809; "Dr. T. S. R. Boase, Former President of Magdalen College, Oxford." The Times (London) 15 April 1974, p. 8; [a particularly warm addendum] Blunt, Anthony. "Dr. T. S. R. Boase." The Times (London) 20 April 1974, p. 14. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ admin (21 February 2018). "Boase, T. S. R." Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 510; Stoye, John. Dictionary of National Biography; Alexander, Jonathan J. G. "Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase, 1898–1974." Proceedings of the British Academy 101 (1998): 353–362; Boase, Thomas S. R. [unpublished memoir], Magdalen College, Oxford University archives; Folda, Jaroslav "Introduction." Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 12–14; Carter, Miranda. Anthony Blunt: His Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001, pp. 216, 219–220; Zarnecki, George. "T. S. R. Boase." Burlington Magazine 117, no. 873 (December 1975): 809; "Dr. T. S. R. Boase, Former President of Magdalen College, Oxford." The Times (London) 15 April 1974, p. 8; [a particularly warm addendum] Blunt, Anthony. "Dr. T. S. R. Boase." The Times (London) 20 April 1974, p. 14. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "History". The Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ History of the Courtauld, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
- ^ Tate. "Samuel Courtauld Memorial Exhibition – Exhibition at Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Sir Philip Hendy | Directors | National Gallery, London". nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Oxford Slade Professors, 1870–present" (PDF). University of Oxford. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ "English Art, 1100–1216 by T. S. R. Boase, 1953". Archived from the original on 25 September 2020.
External links
- BOASE, Thomas Sherrer Ross (1898–1974) archive, Courtauld Institute of Art. (Includes a biography.)
- Books by Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase from Alibris.