William Ivins Jr.
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William Mills Ivins, Jr. (1881 – 1961) was American curator and connoiseur of visual culture. His best-known book is Prints and Visual Communication, first published in 1953.
Career
After nine years' legal practice, he was asked to take on the conservation and interpretation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art print collection from its founding in 1916 until 1946. He built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote many prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces which were later collected and published.
Biography
The son of William Mills Ivins, Sr. (1851 – 1915), a New York public utility lawyer, Ivins studied at Harvard College and the University of Munich before graduating in law from Columbia University in 1907.
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