James F. O'Gorman
American art historian
James F. O'Gorman (born 1933) is a leading American architectural historian , author, lecturer, editor, and consultant who taught for many years at Wellesley College . O'Gorman received a B.Arch. degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis in 1956 and an M.Arch. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign , in 1961. He earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University in 1966.[ 1]
O'Gorman is particularly known for his research and writing on the nineteenth-century American architects Henry Hobson Richardson , Frank Furness , Hammatt Billings , Isaiah Rogers , and Gervase Wheeler . He is also known for his popular introduction to architecture: ABC of Architecture . O'Gorman has retired from teaching and currently resides in Portland, Maine .
He was named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians in 2007.
Books
O'Gorman, James F., ABC of Architecture , University of Pennsylvania Press , Philadelphia 1998, ISBN 0-8122-3423-5
O'Gorman, James F., Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874 , University of Massachusetts Press , Amherst 1998, ISBN 1-55849-148-1
O'Gorman, James F., The Architecture of Frank Furness , Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia 1973
O'Gorman, James F., editor, Aspects of American Printmaking, 1800-1950 , Syracuse University Press , Syracuse 1988, ISBN 0-8156-2427-1
O'Gorman, James F., Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields , University of Pennsylvania Press , Philadelphia 2002, ISBN 0-8122-3670-X
O'Gorman, James F., H. H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society, University of Chicago Press , Chicago 1987, ISBN 0-226-62069-7
O'Gorman, James F., H. H. Richardson and His Office: Selected Drawings, David R. Godine, Boston 1974, ISBN 0-914630-00-8
O'Gorman, James F., Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson, Simon & Schuster, NY 1997, ISBN 0-684-83618-1
O'Gorman, James F., On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects , University of Pennsylvania Press , Philadelphia 1989, ISBN 0-8122-8170-5
O'Gorman, James F., Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915 , University of Chicago Press , Chicago 1991, ISBN 0-226-62071-9
O'Gorman, James F., The Architecture of the Monastic Library in Italy 1300-1600 , New York University Press , New York 1972
O'Gorman, James F., This Other Gloucester , Boston 1976
O'Gorman, James F., The Landscape & Architecture of Wellesley College , Wellesley 2000
O'Gorman, James F., The Perspective of Anglo-American Architecture , Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1995
O'Gorman, James F., American Architects and Their Books to 1848 , University of Massachusetts Press , Amherst 2001
O'Gorman, James F., The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston , University of Massachusetts Press , Amherst 2004
O'Gorman, James F., Henry Austin , Wesleyan University Press , Middletown 2009
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