{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{short description|American art historian}} {{Infobox academic | name = Jules Prown | birth_name = Jules David Prown | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|3|14}} | birth_place = Freehold, New Jersey, US | occupation = Art historian | alma_mater = Lafayette College<br>Harvard University<br>University of Delaware | thesis_title = The English Career of John Singleton Copley, R.A | thesis_url = https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990039067700203941/catalog | thesis_year = 1961 | doctoral_students = Amy Meyers<br>Alexander Nemerov | discipline = American art | workplaces = Yale University }} '''Jules David Prown''' (born March 14, 1930, in Freehold) is an American art historian. Prown is the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University, where he has focused on American art and the art of John Singleton Copley since 1961.
==Career== Born to Max Prown and Matilda Cassileth in Freehold, Prown attended the Peddie School.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117557021/jules-prown-of-peddie-school/ "Shirley Ann Martin To Wed Jules Prown"], ''The Freehold Transcript and The Monmouth Inquirer'', April 12, 1956. Accessed January 30, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. Prown, who is an alumnus of the Peddle School, Hightstown, and Lafayette College, Easton. Pa., received his master's degree from Harvard University."</ref> He received his Bachelor of Arts from Lafayette College (1951). He then continued on to receive two Master of Arts degrees from Harvard University (1953) and the University of Delaware in Early American Culture (1956), respectively. Prown completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Harvard (1961).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arthistory.yale.edu/people/jules-prown |title=Jules Prown |publisher=Yale University |access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> There, his dissertation was titled "The English Career of John Singleton Copley, R.A," in which he studied the painter John Singleton Copley.
Upon graduating from Harvard, Prown began teaching at Yale University, where he has remained throughout his career. He is now the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art. He has also held the posts of Curator of American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and is the Founding Director of the Yale Center for British Art.
In 1964, Prown was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/jules-d-prown/ |title=Jules D. Prown |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref> ==See also== *List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1964 *List of Lafayette College people *List of Harvard University people *List of University of Delaware people
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==External links== *[https://arthistory.yale.edu/people/jules-prown Yale University profile] *[https://arthistorians.info/prownj Dictionary of Art Historians profile]
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