Georgiana Goddard King
Illustration — Professor Georgiana Goddard King at Bryn Mawr College (ca 1910) • Illustration — Georgiana Goddard King (1905), by Charles W. Hawthorne Georgiana Goddard King (August 5, 1871 – May 4, 1939) was an American pioneer Hispanist and medievalist, as well as a photographer and teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where she was educated (B.A. 1896), and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art.
Georgiana Goddard King
Department of State · Passport Applications, January 2, 1906–March 31, 1925. NARA Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C. 19 · Public domain
- Born
- 1871 · West Columbia.
- Died
- 1939 · Hollywood.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- university teacher · photographer · art historian
- Fields
- art history
- Education
- Bryn Mawr College
- Languages
- English · French · Spanish
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Illustration — Professor Georgiana Goddard King at Bryn Mawr College (ca 1910) • Illustration — Georgiana Goddard King (1905), by Charles W. Hawthorne Georgiana Goddard King (August 5, 1871 – May 4, 1939) was an American pioneer Hispanist and medievalist, as well as a photographer and teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where she was educated (B.A. 1896), and later taught creating the Department of Art History, the first in the United States that specialized in Spanish art.
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Georgiana Goddard King studied at Bryn Mawr College. The recorded working language is English, French and Spanish. The field of work recorded is art history. Anna Brownell Jameson and Robert Browning are recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with Bryn Mawr College.
King was born August 5, 1871, in West Columbia, West Virginia. She was a member of the Hispanic Society of America and of the Royal Galician Academy. She was a traveling companion of M. Carey Thomas and had a friendship with Gertrude Stein. King died on May 4, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College's Old Library (previously M. Carey Thomas Library and College Hall).
Articles
Articles
• "Early churches of Spain" in Bulletin of the Pan-American Union. Nov.- Dec., 1918. • "Three unknown churches in Spain" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXII (1918). • Spanish Abbeys (Washington, 1919). • "The Cardona tomb at Bellpuig" in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. XXV (1921). • Some Churches in Galicia en Art Studies I (Nueva York, 1923). • "Algunos rasgos de influjo oriental en la arquitectura espafiola de la Edad Media" in Arquitectura, Vol. V (1923) • Fact and Inference in the Matter of Jamb Sculpture en Art Studies VI (Princeton, 1926).
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In collaboration with others
• Heart of Spain (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1941) • A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories (George W. Jacobs, 1901)
Bryn Mawr College Yearbook of 1934 dedication to Georgiana Goddard King
Unidentified photographer · Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1934 (screenshot page 6)
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Georgiana Goddard King - Edith H. Lowber
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West Columbia.
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Hollywood.
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• Comedies and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys and Girls (1904) • The Way of Perfect Love (1908). • George Edmund Street, Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1914, edited and enlarged by Georgiana G. King) • George Edmund Street, Unpublished notes and reprinted papers, with an essay by Georgiana Goddard King (1916) • The Way of Saint James (1920) • A Brief Account of the Military Orders in Spain (1921) • The Play of the Sibyl Cassandra (1921) • A Citizen of the Twilight (1921) • Sardinian Painting (1923) • Pre-Romanesque Churches of Spain (1924) • Mudéjar (1927)
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