Background
Opperman, Hal N. was born on October 18, 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Halbert Hoover and Anna Clara (Niedermeyer) Opperman.
Opperman, Hal N. was born on October 18, 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Halbert Hoover and Anna Clara (Niedermeyer) Opperman.
Bachelor, Knox College, 1960; AM, University of Chicago, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1972.
Assistant professor art history, U. Washington, Seattle, 1967-1974;
associate professor art history, U. Washington, Seattle, 1974-1983;
professor art history, U. Washington, Seattle, 1983-1994;
professor emeritus, U. Washington, Seattle, since 1994;
chair comparative history of ideas, U. Washington, Seattle, 1979-1982;
general editor fine arts, Corbis Corporation, Bellevue, Washington, 1991-1996;
departmental editor, Birding, since 1998. Member Art Bulletin Advisory Board, 1990-1994. Member Gottschalk Prize Committee, 1985, chair, 1986.
Member of national screening committee Fulbright Grant Program, 1992-1994. Member editorial advisory board Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1993-1996.
Member American Birding Association, American Ornithologists' Union, Western Field Ornithologists, Washington Ornithological Society (editor journal., board directors since 1989), American Society Eighteenth-Century Studies, College Art Association, Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, Seattle Audubon Society (board directors since 1996).
Married Isabelle Catherine Noiret, July 4, 1966 (divorced January 1985). Children: Anne Elisabeth Opperman Reese, F. Lucien. Married JoLynn Edwards, September 5, 1989.