Delphine Fitz Darby
Delphine Fitz Darby | |
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| Born | January 10, 1902 Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | November 14, 1995 (aged 93) Highlands County, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupations | Art historian, professor, writer |
Delphine Fitz Darby (January 10, 1902 – November 14, 1995) was an American art historian and writer. She was a professor at Smith College and at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research concerned Spanish Baroque painter Francesc Ribalta and his student, Jusepe de Ribera.
Early life and education
[edit]Fitz was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles W. Fitz and Elsie Rimmer Long Fitz.[1] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1923,[2] earned a master's degree there in 1925, and completed doctoral studies there in 1929.[3][4] She was the only doctoral student of medievalist Georgiana Goddard King,[5] and won a Carnegie Fellowship to do research in Spain.[6]
Career
[edit]Darby was an assistant professor of art at Smith College from 1930 to 1931.[3][7] She also taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.[8] Her scholarship concerned Spanish painter Francesc Ribalta, and his student, Jusepe de Ribera.[9] During World War II, she defended the exhibition of Italian art at the National Gallery.[10]
Publications
[edit]- Francisco Ribalta and His School (1938)[11]
- "In the Train of a Vagrant Silenus" (1943)[12]
- "The Wise Man with a Looking Glass" (1948)[13]
- "Ribera and the Blind Men" (1957)[14]
- "The Ecstasy of St. Francis, a newly acquired painting by Francisco Ribalta" (1957)[15]
- "Ribera and the Wise Men" (1962)[16]
- Juan Sariñena y sus colegas (1967)[17]
- The Gentle Ribera: Painter of the Madonna and the Holy Family (1978)[18]
Personal life and legacy
[edit]Fitz married Navy commander and college professor George O'Dell Switzer Darby in 1928.[19] Her husband died in 1981,[20] and she died in 1995, at the age of 93, in Highlands County, Florida.[21] There is an endowed fund at Bryn Mawr College, named for Darby and designated for the purchase of art history materials.[22] Her photo albums of Pennsylvania landscapes are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[23]
References
[edit]- ↑ Elsie L. Fitz (death notice), The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 15, 1966): 89; via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Bryn Mawr College. Senior Class (1923). Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1923. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College.
- 1 2 "New Appointments 1930–1931" Annual Report of the President of Smith College (1930): 61.
- ↑ "Savant Lays Moral Revolt to Ancients" The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 6, 1929): 9, via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Chance, Jane (2018-05-22). Women Medievalists and the Academy, Two Volumes. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 114, 120. ISBN 978-1-5326-4436-8.
- ↑ "Interesting Women". The Emporia Gazette. May 5, 1926. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Smith College (1932). Annual Report of the President of Smith College. p. 48.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz (June 1957). "Harold E. Wethey, Alonso Cano: Painter, Sculptor, Architect: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv + 227; 168 pls. $15.00". The Art Bulletin. 39 (2): 152–155. doi:10.1080/00043079.1957.11408378. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ↑ Soria, Martin S. (June 1945). "Esteban March Baroque Battle and Portrait Painter". The Art Bulletin. 27 (2): 109–123. doi:10.1080/00043079.1945.11407684. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ↑ "Showing Italian Pictures Defended; Writer Says Galleries of Other Lands Provide American Precedent". Evening Star. April 11, 1941. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz (1938). Francisco Ribalta and His School. Harvard University Press.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "In the Train of a Vagrant Silenus." Art in America 31, no. 3 (1943): 140-50.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "The wise man with a looking glass." Art in America 36 (1948): 113-26.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz (1957). "Ribera and the Blind Men". The Art Bulletin. 39 (3): 195–217. doi:10.2307/3047713. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "The Ecstasy of St. Francis, a newly acquired painting by Francisco Ribalta." Bulletin of the Wadsworth atheneum (1957).
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz (December 1962). "Ribera and the Wise Men". The Art Bulletin. 44 (4): 279–307. doi:10.1080/00043079.1962.10789059. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz. Juan Sariñena y sus colegas. Vol. 18. Servicio de Estudios Artisticos, Institución Alfonso el Magnanimo, Diputación Provincial de Valencia y Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Valencia, 1967.
- ↑ Darby, Delphine Fitz. The Gentle Ribera: Painter of the Madonna and the Holy Family. J. Claye, 1978.
- ↑ "June 15, 1928". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Commander George O. Darby". The Tampa Tribune. August 28, 1981. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Delphine F. Darby (death notice)". The Tampa Tribune. November 15, 1995. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Endowed Library Funds D-F". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 2026-03-12.
- ↑ Delphine Fitz Darby collection of photograph albums of Pennsylvania views, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
