page_title: Jean Paul Slusser
section_title: Art criticism
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Paul Slusser / Career / Art criticism
context_page_description: Jean Paul Slusser was a painter, designer, art critic, professor, and director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
context_section_description: Slusser worked as an art critic for the Boston Herald from 1913 to 1915, and the New York Herald from 1921 to 1923. 
  He was known to write letters back and forth with the artist William H. Littlefield.
  He also worked as an art critic for the Ann Arbor News.
caption: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, where Slusser served as the director from 1946 to 1957.
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