Barbara Knowles Debs
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Barbara Knowles Debs (born 1931) is an American art historian who was the president of Manhattanville College from 1975 to 1985.[1][2] She was the president of the New-York Historical Society from 1989 to 1992.[3][4][5] She is on the board of directors of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Foreign Policy Association and the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation.[6]
Biography
Barbara Jean Knowles was born in 1931 to Stanley Freeman Knowles of Cranston, Rhode Island. In 1953 she was a Fulbright scholar to Italy. She studied art history in both Pisa and Rome, She then earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University.[6]
On July 20, 1958 she married Richard A. Debs in Orleans, Massachusetts.[7][8] They have a daughter, Elizabeth Anderson Debs.[9]
By 1971 she was an assistant professor of art history at Manhattanville College.[10] She was named president of the college in 1975 and she served until 1985.[1] She was named president of the New-York Historical Society in 1989 and served until 1992.[3][11] In 1995 she and her husband endowed the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall.[12][13]
She was awarded the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal in 2002.[6]
Publications
- Sebastiano Del Piombo, the Venetian Works (1967)
References
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- Manhattanville University faculty
- 1931 births
- Living people
- Directors of museums in the United States
- American women museum directors
- New York Historical
- Harvard University alumni
- American art historians
- American women art historians
- Vassar College alumni
- Historians from New York (state)
- 21st-century American women