Theodore Sizer (art historian)

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Theodore Sizer
Born(1892-03-19)March 19, 1892
New York City, US
DiedJune 21, 1967(1967-06-21) (aged 75)
Art historian
  • author
  • SpouseCaroline Wheelwright Foster
    ChildrenTed Sizer

    Theodore Sizer (March 19, 1892 – June 21, 1967) was an American professor of the history of art at

    Pursuivant of Arms for Yale University in 1963.[1][2]

    Biography

    His parents, Robert Ryland Sizer, a lumber industry executive, and Mary T. Thomsen, were married in 1890.

    B.S. degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1915.[5] On October 14, 1916, he married Caroline Wheelwright Foster.[4]

    In

    first lieutenant and served in Philadelphia loading transports. After his discharge from the Army in January 1919, he made several trips to South America for his employer. In 1922, he was named curator of prints and of Asian art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he worked until 1927.[4][5]

    Sizer joined Yale in 1927 as an associate professor of art history and an associate director of the

    professor emeritus. He served as director of the gallery from 1940 to 1947.[1]

    In World War II, he served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program as a lieutenant colonel.[1] He was the first chief of the program operations for Germany in March 1944. He had to stop this effort due to illness and received a medical discharge in May 1944. For his work, he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy with rank of Commander from the Italian government in 1945.[6] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 for Fine Arts Research.[7] He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1948.[8]

    Flag of St. Louis, Missouri

    Sizer became an expert in

    Pursuivant of Arms.[1][2]

    He designed a

    St. Louis, Missouri that was officially adopted on February 3, 1964.[2][10]

    Sizer published over 160 items, especially about the life and works of the American artist John Trumbull.[11]

    Works

    • Sizer, Theodore (1950). The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution. Yale University Press.
    • Sizer, Theodore, ed. (1953). The Autobiography of Colonel John Trumbull, Patriot–Artist, 1756–1843. Yale University Press.[12]
    • Sizer, Theodore (1967). The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution. with the assistance of Caroline Rollins (Revised ed.). Yale University Press. .

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