Robert R. Wark

Robert R. Wark (7 October 1924 – 8 June 2007) was a Canadian art historian who was curator of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens from 1956 to 1990. He is known for editing the authoritative 1959 edition of Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art.

Early life

Robert R. Wark was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on 7 October 1924.[1]

Career

Wark is known for editing the authoritative 1959 edition of Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on art published by Yale University Press.

Wark was curator of the Huntington Museum of Art from 1956 to 1990. His successor was John Murdoch.

Death

Wark died in Edmonton on 8 June 2007.

Selected publications
  • Reynolds, Joshua. (1959) Discourses on art. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1959. (Editor)[2]
  • Early British Drawings in the Huntington Collection, 1600-1750. University of California Press, 1969.
  • Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection. University of California Press, 1975. ISBN 0873280652
  • Charles Doyle's fairyland. 1980.
  • British portrait drawings, 1600-1900: Twenty-five examples from the Huntington Collection. 1982.
  • British landscape watercolors from Southern California private collections. 1986.
  • Musings of an art curator, 1956-1990. 1993.
  • Best loved painting: The Blue Boy [and] Pinkie. University of California Press, 1998. ISBN 0873281705
  • The revolution in eighteenth-century art: Ten British pictures, 1740-1840. Huntington Library Press, 2001. ISBN 0873281926
  • The Huntington art collections: A handbook. Multiple editions.
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See also

References
  1. https://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/12/local/me-wark12
  2. http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300073270

Further reading
  • British Art, 1740-1820: Essays in Honor of Robert R. Wark


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