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S. Lane FaisonS. Lane Faison was a legendary art history professor at Williams College. Faison headed the art history department at Williams from 1940 to 1969 and remained on the full-time faculty until 1976. Several of his students went on to direct major museums including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He was himself trained at Williams by Karl E. Weston, who inspired an earlier generation of art scholars in the 1920s. In 2004 the following quote appeared in the New York Times: I always stressed two things. One has to do with the connection of art to history, with the fact that every work of art was done somewhere and some when, and that this is very important to understand. The other side has to do with the medium of art, which is quite different from the subject. What we're talking about is color and shape. You'd be surprised at the number of people who come to Williams, and I think this is generally true of American students, with absolutely no idea of what the word 'shape' means or what you can do with it and why it's important. They have easily mastered the medium of language, but many of them know very little about the medium of art. Source - The New York Times, March 31, 2004 Wednesday, Late Edition - Final, Section G; Column 1; Museums; Pg. 10; LEGACY, 1434 words, One College's Long Shadow: Looking Back at the 'Williams Mafia', By STEPHEN KINZER, CHICAGO
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