Royal Cortissoz

LC name authority rec. #n50018132

Biography:

US art critic. He was the art critic for the New York Tribune 1891–1944. A classicist by training and nature, he was opposed to modernism, as seen in such publications as Art and Common Sense (1913) and American Artists (1923).

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated locally; he worked for the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.

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D.H.L., Wesleyan Univ. and Bowdoin Coll.; m. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (died Aug. 13, 1933). Art editor New York Herald-Tribune since 1891, literary editor, 1897-1913. Chevalier Order of Leopold (Belgium). Mem. Am. Acad. Arts and Letters; hon. fellow Am. Inst. Architects, Met. Mus. of Art, Architectural League, Nat. Sculpture Soc., Soc. American Etchers, trustee American Academy in Rome, Hispanic Soc. Am. Clubs: Century, Players, Coffee House, Garden City Golf. Author: Augustus St. Gaudens, 1907; John La Farge, 1911; Art and Common Sense, 1913; Life of Whitelaw Reid, 1921; Nine Holes of Golf, 1922; The New York Tribune, 1923; American Artists, 1923; Personalities in Art, 1925; The Painter’s Craft, 1930; An Introduction to the Mellon Collection, 1937. Editor: Don Quixote; The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; Whitelaw Reid’s American and English Studies. Home: 167 E. 82d St. Office: 230 W. 41st St., New York, N.Y. Death: Died Oct. 17, 1948.

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