|
Alfred L. Bush (born 1933), curator, writer, editor, and bibliophile, is the retired Curator of Western Americana at the Princeton University Library. He was an editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, where his study of Jefferson images produced ''The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson'' (1962). Bush is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, many of which pertain to Native Americans. ==Career== From 1958 through 1962 Bush was an editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. His publication ''The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson'' (1962)〔Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1987.〕 has subsequently gone through several editions, including two published by the National Gallery of Art, in ''The Eye of Thomas Jefferson''〔1976, ASIN: B000PZHUJE.〕 and ''Jefferson and the Arts'',〔1976, ASIN: B0018Y3E96.〕 both edited by William Howard Adams. Bush discovered the lost 1800 portrait of Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, which was announced in his 1962 monograph.〔Alfred L. Bush, ''The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson'' (Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1962).〕 This image of the president has since eclipsed all others and is the painting most familiar to the public;〔Alfred L. Bush, ''The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson'', rev. ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1987), 37–41.〕 it now hangs in the White House〔http://www.whitehouseresearch.org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset?id=18〕 and is featured on the Jefferson nickel.〔http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/circulatingcoins/?action=CircNickel〕 During Bush’s forty years as Curator of Western Americana at Princeton University Library,〔Stephen Aron, "The Western Man in the Eastern Parlor: Alfred Bush and the Princeton Collections of Western Americana," ''Princeton University Library Chronicle'' LXVII, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 221–24. This entire issue is a tribute to Bush’s curatorial work for the Library.〕 he enlarged the size of the collection tenfold and added a collection of photographs of American Indians and an archival component of papers on twentieth-century American Indian Affairs.〔Aron, "Western Man."〕 In the 1970s he aided Princeton’s recruitment of American Indian students and acted as their undergraduate advisor.〔Alfred L. Bush, "Otterskins, Eagle Feathers, and Native American Alumni at Princeton," ''Princeton University Library Chronicle'' LXVII, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 420–34.〕 After the 1990 enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act he also served as Princeton University’s Curator for Repatriation. Bush taught courses at Princeton University on Native American subjects in the departments of English, Art, and Archaeology, and in 1981 a course on Mayan Literature in the department of Anthropology.〔Princeton University Archives, class listings.〕 In 1971 he taught Art of the American Indian at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.〔Trinity College, Course Offerings, 1971.〕 He was awarded a fellowship to spend a sabbatical year at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.〔Huntington Library Archives, San Marino, California. http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=566.〕 Bush served for three decades on the editorial board of the ''Princeton University Library Chronicle'', and was its editor from 1962 to 1977.〔''Princeton University Library Chronicle'', 1962–77, masthead.〕 He is also the founding editor of ''Princeton History'', first issued in 1971.〔''Princeton History'', Princeton Historical Society, Princeton, NJ, 1971 to present (2014).〕 In retirement Bush advises institutions facing issues of repatriation of American Indian remains and artifacts. He also serves on the visiting committee of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred L. Bush」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|