Biographical Sketch
| Fiske
Kimball Biographical Sketch |
During Kimball's brief tenure at the University of Virginia
(1919-1923)
he
presented a series of lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
resulting in
Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early
Republic
(1922). In the summer of 1923 Fiske and Marie moved to New York City
where he created the graduate program at the Institute of Fine Arts, New
York University. Two years after arriving in New York he was appointed
Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later Philadelphia Museum
of Art), a position he retained until shortly before his death in 1955.
Portrait
of
Fiske Kimball, ca. 1925, courtesy of the
Philadelphia Museum
of Art.
