Walter S. Gibson
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Walter S. Gibson was an American art historian and university professor whose studies focused primarily on the artists Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. His work is well-regarded in the art historical community and the archive of his work was acquired by the Rubenianum, a research institution and archive for Flemish art, in 2018.
Life
Walter Gibson dedicated his life to studying the art from the Northern Renaissance period, particularly focusing on the artists Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. He graduated cum laude with his BFA from Ohio State University and went on to study at Harvard University. He eventually worked as a professor at Case Western Reserve University.
Select publications
The Paintings of Cornelis Engebrechtsz. Harvard, 1969.
Bruegel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977
Hieronymus Bosch: An Annotated Bibliography. Boston : G. K. Hall, 1983
Mirror of the Earth: The World Landscape in Sixteenth-century Flemish Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989
Bruegel and Netherlandish Landscape Painting from the National Gallery Prague. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1990
Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Awards
- 1960/61: Fulbright-Award
- 1978: Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
- 1978: Guggenheim-Stipendium
External links
Dictionary of Art Historians: http://arthistorians.info/gibsonws