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Walter B. Denny | |
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| Born | Walter Bell Denny |
| Occupations | Art historian Educator |
| Spouse | Alice Robbins |
| Children | 1 (Matthew) |
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| Alma mater | Oberlin College Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Ceramics of the Mosque of Rüstem Pasha and the Environment of Change (1971) |
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| Discipline | Art history |
| Sub-discipline | Islamic art |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Website | wbdenny |
Walter Bell Denny is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of Islamic art,Denny is a University Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]
Denny graduated cum laude from Oberlin College with a B.A. in 1964. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard in 1971. His revised doctoral dissertation was published as The ceramics of the Mosque of Rüstem Pasha and the environment of change in 1977. [2] [3]
Denny has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1970,and was named University Distinguished Professor of Art History in 2014. Throughout his career,Denny has been a scholar of Islamic art,studying such subjects as the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Saz style. He became emeritus in 2023. [3]
He has been affiliated with many organizations:trustee of the Textile Museum at George Washington University;honorary curator at the Harvard Art Museums,senior scholar and member of visiting committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,governor of the Institute of Turkish Studies,and consults for many other institutions. [3]
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