The William C. Seitz Collection

Abstract

William C. Seitz (1914-1974) was a remarkably gifted man: an artist, a museum curator of international importance and prestige, a scholar whose contributions to the history of art have revised our ideas about the past and heightened our awareness of the present, and a dedicated teacher who stimulated and encouraged the ideas and talents of the young.Bill Seitz was a vital and much loved member of the Princeton community, where he lived with his wife Irma from 1949 to 1960. He came to the University as a graduate student, receiving his degree in 1955. One-man shows of Seitz' paintings were held at the Princeton University Art Museum in 1949 and 1950, and in 1953 he joined the faculty of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology. During his years at the University, Professor Seitz gave generously of himself as a teacher, historian, critic, and painter.