Background
Soby, James Thrall was born on December 14, 1906 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Charles and Anna (Hazlewood) Soby.
Soby, James Thrall was born on December 14, 1906 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Charles and Anna (Hazlewood) Soby.
Student Williams College, 1924-1926, Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), 1962.
One son, Peter Allyn. Assistant director Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1943-1945, director painting and sculpture trustee, 1942, department chairman painting and sculpture, 1946, became vice president of the museum, 1968. Editor Magazine of Art, Washington.
Author: After Picasso, 1935.
The Early Chirico, 1941. Salvador Dali, 1941; Tchelitchew, 1942.
Romantic Painting in America (with Dorothy Miller), 1943. Georges Rouault: Paintings and Prints, 1945.
The Prints of Paul Klee, 1946.
Ben Shahn, 1946. Contemporary Painters, 1948. (with A. H. Barr, Junior) Twentieth Century Italian Art, 1949.
Amedeo Modigliani, 1951.
Giorgio de Chirico, 1955. Yves Tanguy, 1955; Balthus, 1956. Modern Art and the New Past, 1957.
Ben Shahn, His Graphic Art, 1957.
Juan Gris, 1958; Joan Miro, 1959. Ben Shahn, 1961; Ben Shahn, 1963.
Rene Magritte, 1965. Contributor art articles to national magazines, art journals.
Monthly column art Sat. Review of Literature, 1946-1957.
Married Melissa Wadley, April.