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 Born
in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1941, John David Summers
graduated from Brown University in 1963 and received
both his M.A. (1965) and his Ph.D. (1969) from Yale
University. A distinguished art historian and author
of many books, articles and papers, Professor Summers
recently published Vision, Reflection, and Desire
in Western Painting (Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 2007).
He was awarded the Morris D. Forkasch Prize for
the best book in intellectual history in 1987 by
the Journal of the History of Ideas for his book
The Judgment of Sense. Renaissance Naturalism and
the Rise of Aesthetics. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David Summers is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
of History of Art at the University of Virginia.
During his many years at the University, he has
served on (among others) the President's Council
for the Arts, as Department Chair, and on the Bayly
Museum Acquisitions Committee.
Before his appointment to the University of Virginia
in 1981, Professor Summers taught at Yale University,
the University of Pittsburgh and Bryn Mawr College,
He has been a visiting scholar at the University
of Washington (Seattle) and the University of Colorado.
He and his wife Nancy have been married for 37 years
and have three grown children.
"Although I only occasionally exhibit, painting
occupies a significant portion of my attention,
and accounts for the way in which I spend substantial
time."
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