Roy C. Craven Explained

Roy C. Craven (Roy Curtis Craven, Jr.) was (born in Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama on July 29, 1924.^[1] - May 30, 1996)^[2] He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the University of Florida.^[3]

Roy C. Craven authored, co-authored, and co-created (as with contributing the prologue and serving as photographer for Indian Art of Ancient Florida^[4]) numerous scholarly books and publications on art (which are used in class syllabi^[5] and cited in other scholarly publications), including:

• Indian Art: A Concise History
• From the ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present
• Ceremonial centers of the Maya
• Ten contemporary painters from India
• A treasury of Indian miniature paintings
• Ramayana: Pahari Paintings
• A Concise History of Indian Art, "The World of Art Library" series
• The Art of India from Florida Collections
• Los Olmecas : the parent civilization of Mesoamerica
• Indian sculpture in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
• Arts of India : selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art collection, University of Florida
• Pre-Columbian pottery of Peru from the collection of the University Gallery
• From fabled fields : selections from the Paddock family collection of Pre-Columbian art : an exhibition organized by the Norton Museum of Art, November 19, 1994-January 8, 1995
• Of sky and earth : art of the early Southeastern Indians : October 1-November 28, 1982, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

External links

• About the University Gallery at UF
• Roy Craven's graduate thesis
• Oral history with Roy C. Craven by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
• Guide to the Roy C. Craven, Jr. Photograph Collection housed in the UF Smathers Libraries

Notes and References

1. Web site: Craven. Roy. A Study of Indian Painting (MA Thesis). University of Florida. 6 December 2013.
2. Web site: Craven. Roy C.. Social Security Death Index. www.genealogybank.com/. genealogybank. 25 January 2015.
3. Web site: University Gallery's Roy Craven to be Honored. The Gainesville Sun. 6 December 2013.
4. Book: Purdy, Barbara A.. Indian Art of Ancient Florida. 1996. University Press of Florida. Gainesville, FL. 9780813014623.
5. Web site: Kobayashi. Hiromitsu. Introduction to Asian Art Syllabus. Sophia University. 1 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200342/http://www.fla.sophia.ac.jp/sites/default/files/2012/ART230_Kobayashi_1.pdf. 2 January 2014.