Professor
Robert Louis Herbert
(
–
)
1929
2020
Yale University
;
New Haven, CT
Historian (art); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
1978
He is known as an influential tewcher of art history at Yale University until 1990, thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and as the author of key publications in the social history of art, including such issues as rural and industrial subjects in French art, artists and anarchism, and the writings of Ruskin, Renoir, and twentieth-century artists. In numerous books and articles he has studies David, Barbizon art, Millet, Impressionism, Monet, Renoir, and Lger. He has also curated exhibitions devoted to Barbizon art, Millet, Seurat, Neo-Impressionism, and Lger.
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