Roy C. Craven (Roy Curtis Craven, Jr.) was (born in
Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama
Cherokee Bluffs is an unincorporated community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. The bluffs were a landmark in Tallapoosa County, and they were chosen as the first site on the Tallapoosa River for the creation of a dam and reservoir.
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on July 29, 1924. - May 30, 1996) He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
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Roy C. Craven authored, co-authored, and co-created (as with contributing the prologue and serving as photographer for ''Indian Art of Ancient Florida'' ) numerous scholarly books and publications on art (which are used in class syllabi
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''
References
External links
About the University Gallery at UFRoy Craven's graduate thesis
Oral history with Roy C. Craven
by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is the official oral history program at the University of Florida. With over 6,500 interviews and more than 150,000 pages of transcribed material, it is one of the premier oral history programs in ...
Guide to the Roy C. Craven, Jr. Photograph Collection
housed in the UF Smathers Libraries
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1924 births
1996 deaths
People from Tallapoosa County, Alabama
University of Florida faculty
American art historians
Historians of Indian art