ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON

'Robert Farris Thompson' (1932 — present) is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Having served as Master of Timothy Dwight College since 1978, he is currently the longest serving master of a residential college at Yale.
Thompson is America's most prominent scholar of African art, and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington D. C.

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★ 1971 ''Black Gods and Kings: Yorubo Art at UCLA''

★ 1974 ''African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katharine Coryton White''

★ 1974 ''African Art and Motion: Art Illustrated Guide to the Exhibition''

★ 1984 ''Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy''

★ 1993 ''Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas''

★ 2005 ''Tango : The Art History of Love''

External links

★ Biography from the Yale Alumni Magazine

★ Timothy Dwight College