IN MEMORIAM
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance Art, died in Boston on November 30, 1968. Vitally associated with the Department at Smith from the mid-twenties when she assisted her husband Clarence Kennedy with his courses until, and indeed beyond, her official retirement in 1961, she established a high reputation among Smith students of nearly four decades as a beloved and pre-eminent teacher, erudite, inspiring, and humane, and one who wore her great learning with disarming lightness. For her dedicated teaching both at Smith and in Italy, her able scholarship, and her passionate concern for every aspect of Italian culture, she was admired and honored in this country and abroad. From 1958 until her death she was an active and valued member of the editorial board of Renaissance News and Quarterly, which herewith records its gratitude for ten years of wise counsel.
The history of art was not at first her chosen subject. After two years at Berkeley - this was her independent effort to avoid being a provincial Easterner and an early sign of a breadth of view maintained all her life- she graduated in 1919, Phi Beta Kappa, from Radcliffe with a Magna cum laude in Economics and during three of the next four years, which included a year at Oxford where she received a Diploma in Economics with first-class honors, she taught this subject at Smith. But already her marriage in 1921 to Clarence Kennedy, who was soon to acquire an international reputation as a highly gifted and scholarly photographer of Greek and Italian Renaissance sculpture, marked her inner conversion to the history of Italian art. She spent three successive summers in Greece with her husband - valuable propaedeutic for her later studies - and in 1929 President Neilson of Smith sent them to Florence for three years where they established the Smith College Graduate …
Rensselaer W. Lee
Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1969), pp. 206-208
KENNEDY PROFESSORS
Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professorship in Renaissance Studies
The Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment at Smith College was established in 1973 to honor two emeritus members of the faculty of the Department of Art, Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy and Clarence Kennedy who taught the art of the European Renaissance for more than three decades.
Since their interests embraced all academic disciplines focusing on the Renaissance, the professorship in their names has been held by visiting scholars in many departments at Smith, but especially in the Department of Art.
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance Art, died in Boston on November 30, 1968. Vitally associated with the Department at Smith from the mid-twenties when she assisted her husband Clarence Kennedy with his courses until, and indeed beyond, her official retirement in 1961, she established a high reputation among Smith students of nearly four decades as a beloved and pre-eminent teacher, erudite, inspiring, and humane, and one who wore her great learning with disarming lightness. For her dedicated teaching both at Smith and in Italy, her able scholarship, and her passionate concern for every aspect of Italian culture, she was admired and honored in this country and abroad. From 1958 until her death she was an active and valued member of the editorial board of Renaissance News and Quarterly, which herewith records its gratitude for ten years of wise counsel.
The history of art was not at first her chosen subject. After two years at Berkeley - this was her independent effort to avoid being a provincial Easterner and an early sign of a breadth of view maintained all her life- she graduated in 1919, Phi Beta Kappa, from Radcliffe with a Magna cum laude in Economics and during three of the next four years, which included a year at Oxford where she received a Diploma in Economics with first-class honors, she taught this subject at Smith. But already her marriage in 1921 to Clarence Kennedy, who was soon to acquire an international reputation as a highly gifted and scholarly photographer of Greek and Italian Renaissance sculpture, marked her inner conversion to the history of Italian art. She spent three successive summers in Greece with her husband - valuable propaedeutic for her later studies - and in 1929 President Neilson of Smith sent them to Florence for three years where they established the Smith College Graduate …
Rensselaer W. Lee
Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1969), pp. 206-208
KENNEDY PROFESSORS
Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professorship in Renaissance Studies
The Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment at Smith College was established in 1973 to honor two emeritus members of the faculty of the Department of Art, Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy and Clarence Kennedy who taught the art of the European Renaissance for more than three decades.
Since their interests embraced all academic disciplines focusing on the Renaissance, the professorship in their names has been held by visiting scholars in many departments at Smith, but especially in the Department of Art.
IN MEMORIAM
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance Art, died in Boston on November 30, 1968. Vitally associated with the Department at Smith from the mid-twenties when she assisted her husband Clarence Kennedy with his courses until, and indeed beyond, her official retirement in 1961, she established a high reputation among Smith students of nearly four decades as a beloved and pre-eminent teacher, erudite, inspiring, and humane, and one who wore her great learning with disarming lightness. For her dedicated teaching both at Smith and in Italy, her able scholarship, and her passionate concern for every aspect of Italian culture, she was admired and honored in this country and abroad. From 1958 until her death she was an active and valued member of the editorial board of Renaissance News and Quarterly, which herewith records its gratitude for ten years of wise counsel.
The history of art was not at first her chosen subject. After two years at Berkeley - this was her independent effort to avoid being a provincial Easterner and an early sign of a breadth of view maintained all her life- she graduated in 1919, Phi Beta Kappa, from Radcliffe with a Magna cum laude in Economics and during three of the next four years, which included a year at Oxford where she received a Diploma in Economics with first-class honors, she taught this subject at Smith. But already her marriage in 1921 to Clarence Kennedy, who was soon to acquire an international reputation as a highly gifted and scholarly photographer of Greek and Italian Renaissance sculpture, marked her inner conversion to the history of Italian art. She spent three successive summers in Greece with her husband - valuable propaedeutic for her later studies - and in 1929 President Neilson of Smith sent them to Florence for three years where they established the Smith College Graduate …
Rensselaer W. Lee
Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1969), pp. 206-208
KENNEDY PROFESSORS
Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professorship in Renaissance Studies
The Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment at Smith College was established in 1973 to honor two emeritus members of the faculty of the Department of Art, Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy and Clarence Kennedy who taught the art of the European Renaissance for more than three decades.
Since their interests embraced all academic disciplines focusing on the Renaissance, the professorship in their names has been held by visiting scholars in many departments at Smith, but especially in the Department of Art.
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance Art, died in Boston on November 30, 1968. Vitally associated with the Department at Smith from the mid-twenties when she assisted her husband Clarence Kennedy with his courses until, and indeed beyond, her official retirement in 1961, she established a high reputation among Smith students of nearly four decades as a beloved and pre-eminent teacher, erudite, inspiring, and humane, and one who wore her great learning with disarming lightness. For her dedicated teaching both at Smith and in Italy, her able scholarship, and her passionate concern for every aspect of Italian culture, she was admired and honored in this country and abroad. From 1958 until her death she was an active and valued member of the editorial board of Renaissance News and Quarterly, which herewith records its gratitude for ten years of wise counsel.
The history of art was not at first her chosen subject. After two years at Berkeley - this was her independent effort to avoid being a provincial Easterner and an early sign of a breadth of view maintained all her life- she graduated in 1919, Phi Beta Kappa, from Radcliffe with a Magna cum laude in Economics and during three of the next four years, which included a year at Oxford where she received a Diploma in Economics with first-class honors, she taught this subject at Smith. But already her marriage in 1921 to Clarence Kennedy, who was soon to acquire an international reputation as a highly gifted and scholarly photographer of Greek and Italian Renaissance sculpture, marked her inner conversion to the history of Italian art. She spent three successive summers in Greece with her husband - valuable propaedeutic for her later studies - and in 1929 President Neilson of Smith sent them to Florence for three years where they established the Smith College Graduate …
Rensselaer W. Lee
Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1969), pp. 206-208
KENNEDY PROFESSORS
Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professorship in Renaissance Studies
The Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment at Smith College was established in 1973 to honor two emeritus members of the faculty of the Department of Art, Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy and Clarence Kennedy who taught the art of the European Renaissance for more than three decades.
Since their interests embraced all academic disciplines focusing on the Renaissance, the professorship in their names has been held by visiting scholars in many departments at Smith, but especially in the Department of Art.
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