Frederick Mortimer Clapp

Head, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh.
Born at New York, N. Y., July 26, 1879. Son of Washington F.
and Mary (Carroll) Clapp. Married Maud Caroline Ede (painter
and etcher), Florence, Italy, 1908. Educated, Yale University
(A.B., 1901; Learned Fellow of Yale in English, 1902; M.A., Yale).
University of Paris (Docteur (es lettres) de l'Universite de
Paris, 1914. Also attended lectures at University of Munich
and studied at Lausanne. Member of the Accademia di San Luca,
Rome, Italy; College Art Association.

Author: "On Certain Drawings of Pontormo" (brochure), 1911;
"Un ritratto di Alessandro de' Medici nella Raccolta Johnson a
Filadelfia," Rassegna d'Arte, XIII, 1913; "On the Overland," 1914;
"Les Dessins de Pontormo," 1914; "On the Overland and Other Poems,"
1916; "Jacopo Carucci, His Life and Work," 1916; "New York and
Other Verses," 1918; "History of the 17th Aero Squadron," 1921;
"Joshua Trees," 1922; "A letter to Pontormo" (in Art Studies),
1923; "Two Snow Laden Pines: Okyo" (in same), 1924; "Arhats in
Art" (in same), 1925; "Vecchietta" (in same), 1926. Other articles
such as: "A Radioview of the International Exhibition of 1927";
Aims of the Department of Fine Arts," 1927; "Some New Departures
in American Sculpture"; "Drawings Old and New"; "Chinese Art";
"What Can We Know about Modern Art," 1928; etc.

Head of preparatory Greek Department, C.C.N.Y. 1904-1905.
Lectured on Russian and Elizabethan Literature, University of
California. Lectured on Italian Art, the same, 1907, 1914.
Also lectured before various clubs and at Fogg Museum, Harvard.
Organized the Department of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh,
1926 and collected for it a library of over 15,000 volumes,
16,000 slides, 50,000 photos. Have travelled much in Europe,
1904-1926. Visited also China, Japan, Korea.

War Record: 1st Lieutenant Signal Corps Reserve. Trained
at University of Toronto, Camp Borden, Canada, Fort Worth, Texas.
Adjutant 22nd Aero Squadron, December - January, 1918; Camp
Romsey, England. At front with 211th Royal Naval Air Squadron
as raid officer. On northern and Cambrai fronts, as adjutant,
17th Aero Squadron, which was detached to British armies, until
close of War. Disch. St. Aignan, France.

First sketch showing
circulation according
to second phase of
third solution.
Dotted lines
imply new
construction

Clapp
Nov. 4, '31

71st

Street

First sketch showing
circulation according
to fourth solution

71st

Street

Boucher boudoir.
Whistler room, etc.
to be erected here

Entrance