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Art historian George Heard Hamilton was a 19th and 20th century art expert. He directed the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

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Art historian George Heard Hamilton was born in 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. From 1936 to 1966, he taught a Yale. In 1966, became the director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and stayed there until 1977. Hamilton was an expert on 19th and 20th century art. He died in 2004.

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Art historian, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Yale (1932 BA; 1934 MA; 1942 PhD), and Cambridge (1971 MA). He taught at Yale (1936-66) and Williams College (from 1963), and became the director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (1966-77). He specialized in 19th-c and 20th-c art history.

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