Joseph A. Baird, Jr. (1922-1992)
Professor Emeritus (Years of Service: 1953-1985)
Ph.D., Art History, Harvard University, 1951
M.A., Art History, Harvard University, 1947
B.A., Oberlin College, 1944
Richard Cramer (1919-2000)
Professor Emeritus (Years of Service: 1956-1981)
B.A., Amherst College, 1941
Appointed in 1956 to Department of Home Economics.
Transfered to Department of Fine Arts in 1963.
Chair: 1966-1981.
Daniel Crowley (1921-1998)
Professor Emeritus
Non-western Art and Art History
Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1956
M.A., Art History, Bradley University, 1948
B.A., Northwestern University, 1943
Appointed 1961 to Art and Anthropology Departments
Emeritus 1992
Publications
I Could Talk Old-Story Good: Creativity in Bahamian Folklore (1966; reprinted 1983)
African Folklore in the New World (ed.) (1977, French edition 1988)
African Myth and Black Reality in Bahian Carnaval (1984)
Robert J. Grigg (1939-2022)
Professor Emeritus
Medieval Art History
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Appointed 1973, Program in Art History
Emeritus 1994
Selected Publications
“Byzantine Credulity as an Impediment to Antiquarianism” in Gesta: International Center of Medieval Art. Vol. 26 (1987) pp. 3-9
“Flemish Realism and Allegorical Interpretation” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 46 (1987) pp. 299-300
“Studies on Dürer’s Diary of His Journey to the Netherlands: the Distribution of the Melencolia I” in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 9 (1986) pp. 398-409
“Relativism and Pictorial Realism” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 42 (1983/1984) pp. 397-408
“Inconsistency and Lassitude: The Shield Emblems of the Notitia Dignitatum” in The Journal of Roman Studies. Vol. 73 (1983), pp. 132-142.
“‘Symphōnian Aeidō tēs’: an Image of Imperial Harmony on the Base of the Column of Arcadius” in Art Bulletin, ed. John Shapley. Vol. 59 (1977) pp. 469-482
“Constantine the Great and the Cult Without Images” in Viator. Vol. 8 (January 1, 1977)
“The Constantinian Friezes: Inferring Intentions from the Work of Art” in B.J.A., Vol. 10 (January 1970) pp. 3-10
Seymour Howard (1928-2018)
Professor Emeritus
Ancient and Modern Art History
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Appointed 1958, Department of Art and Art History
Emeritus 1993
Bio
Seymour Howard’s research interests included Classical art and its afterlife; restoration and fabrication of ancient sculpture; major issues of forms, dynamics and meanings in art history, theory, criticism, psychology and perception. He lectured widely at international, national, and sectional archaeological and art historical congresses and museums, including the Louvre, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Hermitage, the National Gallery, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, as well as major universities in the United States and abroad. He also created paintings, posters, and sculpture in various media which he exhibited nationally and internationally since 1952.
Selected Publications
Art and Imago: Essays on Art as a Species of Autobiography (London: Pindar Press, 1997)
“Some Eighteenth-Century ‘Restored’ Boxers” in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, ed. G. H. Gombrich. 56 (1993) pp. 238-255
“The Revival of Ancient Archaic Art in the Late Eighteenth Century and the Use of Archaising Postures and Modes in Drama and Living Sculpture” in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 192, Blake, No. 1900 (1980)
A Classical Frieze by Jacques Louis David: Sacrifice of the Hero: the Roman Years (Sacramento, Calif.: Crocker Art Museum, 1975)
“An Antiquarian Handlist and Beginnings of the Pio-Clementino” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 7 (1973)
“The Lansdowne Bust of the Athena of Velletri” in Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1965)
Mary H. Fong (1924–2015)
Professor Emerita
Chinese Art History
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A., Hunter Graduate School
B.A., St. John’s University
Appointed 1976, Department of Art and Art History
Emeritus 1994, Art History Program
Bio
Mary Fong’s primary research interest focused on the art of the human figure found in the murals of Tang dynasty (618-906) tombs. She pioneered and established the required curriculum and increased the department’s book and slide collections on Asian art history. Her courses covered Oriental painting, Buddhist sculpture, Chinese and Indian architecture, as well as Chinese ceramics and Japanese prints. They offered a fundamental knowledge of the full spectrum of Asian art from Neolithic to modern times.
Professor Emeritus Mary Fong passed away November 24, 2015, at the Health Care Center of the University Retirement Community in Davis, California. She was 91.
Interview with Mary Fong for the UC Davis Emeriti Association Oral History project
Selected Publications
“Images of Women in Traditional Chinese Painting” in Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring-Summer, 1996), pp. 22-27
“‘Chuanshen’ in Pre-Tang Human Figure Painting as Evidenced in Archaeological Finds” in Oriental Art, N.S., Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 4-21
“Wu Daozi’s Legacy in the Popular Gods (Menshen) Qin SHubao and Yuchi Gong” in Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 42 (1989) pp. 6-24
“The Origin of Chinese Pictorial Representation of the Human Figure” in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 49, No. 1-2 (1988) pp. 5-38
“T’ang Line-Engraved Stone Reliefs from Shensi” in Ars Orientalis, Vol. 17 (1987) pp. 41-71
“Tang Tomb Murals Reviewed in the Light of Tang Texts on Painting” in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 45, No. 1 (1984) pp. 35-72
“Antecedents of Sui-Tang Burial Practices in Shaanxi” in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 51, No. 3-4, 1981), pp. 147-198
“Art Monuments in New China” in Apollo, Vol. 111, No. 220 (June 1980), pp. 432-439
“New Discoveries in Ch’in and Han Representational Art” in Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 32 (1979) pp. 27-38
The Technique of ‘Chiaroscuro’ in Chinese Painting from Han Through T’ang (Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae, 1976), pp. 91-127 (reprint from Artibus Asiaer, Vol. 38 No. 2/3)
Four Chinese Royal Tombs of the Early Eighth Century (Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae, 1973) pp. 307-334 (reprint from Artibus Asiae, Vol. 35, Pt. 4)
Book review: Views From Jade Terrace in Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring-Summer 1996) pp. 41-43