From the David B. Lawall Collection

David B. Lawall grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, where he attended Oberlin College and was introduced to the world of Art Museums by then director Ellen Johnson. He went on to write his PhD at Princeton University on the Hudson River School painter Asher Durand. Lawall joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1964, and in 1971 took on the task of resurrecting the University's Art Museum in the Thomas H. Bayly building (now the Fralin Museum of Art). First as curator and later as director, he built the Museum's diverse collection ranging from Mediterranean and Asian antiquities right through...