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Ross, Martin Chauncey was born on November 21, 1904 in Moriches, New York, United States. Son of William Edwin and Mary (Rogers) Ross.
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Martin Chauncey Ross
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Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1928, Master of Arts, 1930.
Career
September 1969). Curator mediaeval, subsequent decorative arts Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1934-1952. Deputy adviser monuments fine arts, archives Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, 1944-1945. Chief curator art Los Angeles County Museum, 1952-1955.
Curator Hillwood, Washington, 1959-1973.
Curator Hillwood Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 1974-1977. Fulbright lecturer U. Vienna, 1960-1961.
Author: Catalogue of Exhibition of Byzantine Art, 1947. Catalogue of the Works of West.H. Rinehart, 1948.
The West of Alfred J. Miller, 1951.
The Life of Christ in Masterpieces of Art, 1957. The Art of Karl Faberge and his Contemporaries, 1965. The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, 1967.
Russian Porcelains: Merriwether Post Collection, 1968.
Editor: George Catlin, Last Rambles with the Indians, 1959. Migration Art in the Walters Art Gallery, 1961.
Catalogue of the Byzantine Antiquities in Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volunteer I, 1962, Volunteer II, 1965. Contributor articles to art magazines
Home: Washington, Distric.
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Married Lotus Robb Smith, September 10, 1937 (deceased.
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American