William Innes Homer

William Innes Homer ( born November 8, 1929 in Merion (Pennsylvania ); † July 8, 2012 in Greenville, Delaware ) was an American academic, art historian and author. Homer was an expert on the life and work of Thomas Eakins.

Academic career

Homer became in 1951 the title of B. A. at Princeton University. At Harvard University, his MA in 1954 reached Homer and 1961, the Ph.D. 1961 Homer Assistant Professor in the Art and Archaeology Department of Princeton. In 1964 he became associate professor of Art History at Cornell University. In 1966, Homer at the University of Delaware where he was Chairman of the Art History Department and remained until 1981. Another term of office lasted from 1986 to 1993. Between 1984 and 1999 he was H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Art History, and left in January 2000 after his retirement, the faculty. Even in retirement he remained scientifically active.

Homer wrote numerous books and articles, including Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant -Garde, Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art and The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins. He also advised various exhibitions and film projects.