Daniel Robbins (art historian)

Daniel Robbins
BornJanuary 15, 1932
Brooklyn New York
DiedJanuary 14, 1995
NationalityAmerican
Known forArt history, Modernism, Exhibition curation
MovementCubism, Modernism

Daniel J. Robbins (pseudonyms, Jeremiah Drummer and George Gregory Dobbs;[1] January 15, 1932 – January 14, 1995) was an American art historian, art critic, and curator, who specialized in avant-garde 20th-century art and helped encourage the study of it. Robbins' area of scholarship was on the theoretical and philosophical origins of Cubism.[1] His writings centered on the importance of artists such as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier and Jacques Villon.[2][3] He was a specialist in early Modernism, writing on Salon Cubists (the Section d'Or group) and championed contemporaries such as Louise Bourgeois and the Color Field painters.[4] Art historian Peter Brooke referred to Robbins as "the great pioneer of the broader history of Cubism".[5]

  1. ^ a b Dictionary of Art Historians
  2. ^ Daniel J. Robbins, Rhode Island School of Design Museum Notes 83 (1996): 2–3 [obituary]
  3. ^ "Harvard University Library, OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System, 2010". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  4. ^ Kimmelmann, Michael, Daniel Robbins, 62; Was Art Historian And a Modernist, The New York Times, January 18, 1995
  5. ^ Peter Brooke, On "Cubism" in context, Gleizes, Metzinger and 'Salon Cubism', online June 2012