John Shearman
John Kinder Gowran Shearman (pronounced "Sherman"; 24 June 1931 – 11 August 2003
Early life and education
Born in 1931 to Charles E. G. Shearman, a British army brigadier,
Career
Shearman remained at the Courtauld after completing his studies firstly as a lecturer, becoming Fellow of the
Five years after his failure to become Director of the Courtauld Institute Shearman returned to Princeton,[13] where he was chair of the art and archaeology department from 1979.[14] Shearman moved to Harvard University in 1987 as professor of fine arts and, in 1989, he received the William Dorr Boardman Professorship becoming chair of the Fine Arts Department from 1990 to 1993. In 1994, until his retirement in 2002, he was Charles Adams University Professor.[15][16]
Often involved in identifying and conserving works of art, Shearman worked with the Italian and Vatican authorities on issues including the damage after the
In 2001, he identified an Andrea del Sarto altarpiece that had been lost for 350 years.[9] He also served on various editorial boards, including The Burlington Magazine (1968–2003), L’Arte (1969–73), Art Quarterly (1969–72), RILA/BHA (1971–99), Art 562 Benjamin Paul History (1977–78), and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1984–89).[8]
His book Raphael in Early Modern Sources 1483 to 1600, which he announced he was working on at a conference in honour of Raphael’s five hundredth birthday at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome in 1983, was completed shortly before his death and published posthumously in 2003. The dedication of the book to his teachers at the Courtauld, Anthony Blunt and Johannes Wilde, reflects, as Benjamin Paul said in his obituary for the British Academy, that Shearman “had come full circle and truly completed his life’s work”.[8] A festschrift, aptly named Coming About…a Festschrift for John Shearman,[19] making reference to Shearman’s love of sailing, was published in 2001 with contributions from no fewer than fifty-three of his students,[8] honouring his status as “a consummate scholar-teacher”.[20]
Honours
1976 Fellow of the British Academy
1979 The Serena Medal for Italian Studies, British Academy
1979 Fellow Accademia del Disegno, Florence[21]
1983 Bronze Medal of the Collège de France[14]
1993 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences[22]
1994 The Charles Rufus Morey Award for his book Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance[23]
1995 Fellow Accademia si San Luca, Rome[21]
2000/2001 Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art[12]
He was also a Fellow of the Accademia Raffaello (Urbino)[16]
Private life
Shearman was married three times; in 1957 to Jane Dalrymple Smith (d.1982)[6] with whom he had four children (one son, Michael and three daughters, Juliet, Niccola and Sarah).[16] Shortly after his first wife’s death, he married Sally Roskill, the first wife of the art historian Mark Roskill, although they divorced in 1997, and, in 1998, he married fellow art historian Kathryn Brush, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario.[5]
He was a keen sailor,[24] interested in yacht and dinghy sailing,[6] and a member of the Bembridge Sailing Club.[5]
John Shearman died of a heart attack near
Publications
His publications include:
- Andrea del Sarto Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965
- Mannerism, London, Penguin/Baltimore, MD, 1967
- Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. London: Phaidon, 1972; edited, and Hirst, Michael. Wilde, Johannes.
- The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decorations. British Academy Italian Lecture 1971. London: Oxford University Press, 1972
- Michelangelo: Six Lectures. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978
- The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983
- Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, A. W. Mellon lecturesin the Fine Arts 1988 Bollingen Series 35, 37. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992
- Raphael in Early Modern Sources 1483–1602, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09918-5(Updated edition)
Notes
- ^ "Professor SHEARMAN | | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Harvard Gazette
- ^ Independent; from the author biography of the 1984 Penguin edition of Mannerism, he was already "working on" the Quattrocento book, which the Dictionary of Art Historians says was "left uncompleted". On the series, now published by Yale University Press, see Yale UP website.
- ^ Independent
- ^ a b c d "Professor John Shearman". The Independent. 21 August 2003. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Obituary: John Shearman". The Guardian. 6 September 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : SHEARMAN, Brig Charles Edward Gowran (1889-1968)". kingscollections.org. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1515/24_Shearman_1820.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b c d e admin (21 February 2018). "Shearman, John Kinder Gowran". Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Dictionary of Art Historians entry for Lasko
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Special collections". The Courtauld. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Dictionary of Art Historians; dates are 1974–78 per New York Times.
- ^ JSTOR 24413410.
- ^ Independent, Dictionary
- ^ a b c Office, Ken Gewertz Harvard News (18 September 2003). "Obituary: John Shearman". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ LA Times, Independent
- ^ Andrea Shen FAS Communications (1 February 2001). "History springs to life in restored Faculty Room". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-891771-11-8.
- ^ "Obituary John Shearman" (PDF). Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology Newsletter. Spring 2004: 7.
- ^ a b "John K. G. Shearman - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/academy/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterS.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Awards for Distinction | Programs | CAA". www.collegeart.org. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- (subscription required). Retrieved on 6 April 2009.
- ^ Harvard Gazette, The New York Times, Independent
References
- Dictionary of Art Historians Archived 8 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Gardner, Julian (22 August 2003). "Professor John Shearman". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 12 April 2009.[dead link]
- Obituary New York Timesby Douglas Martin, 29 August 2003.
- Obituary Los Angeles Times by Claudia Luther, 30 August 2003
- Obituary, The Harvard Gazetteby Ken Gewertz, 18 September 2003
- Obituary The Independent by Julian Gardner, 22 August 2003