African Art Scholar - Sylvia Ardyn Boone - New Haven, CT - Occupational/Hobby Grave Stones on Waymarking.com

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“Sylvia Ardyn Boone was born September 30, 1940. She attended Brooklyn College as an undergraduate and received a graduate degree in social sciences from Columbia University.

After a period at the University of Ghana, she returned to the United States and earned degrees in art history at Yale University in the 1970s. Her doctoral dissertation won the Blanshard Prize in 1979.

She joined the faculty of Yale in 1979, and received tenure in 1988. Topics of her courses included African art and the aesthetics of female imagery in African art.

In 1989, Boone was active in the organization of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 1839 Amistad Affair.

Death and legacy

Boone died April 27, 1993. In 1996, Yale University’s History of Art and African and African-American Studies departments awarded the first Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize.[4] It has been awarded annually since then.”

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On the front of her grave is a drawing of an African woman.
On the back is a quote from one of her books, as well as the West African Adinkra symbol for greatness.

Is Gravestone Showing Occupation or Hobby?: Occupation What is depicted occupation or hobby?: African Art Professor Date of birth: 09/30/1940 Date of death: 04/30/1993 Access hours and days: The cemetery is open from 9 am to 4 pm daily.

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