Delphine Fitz Darby

Delphine Fitz Darby
Born(1902-01-10)January 10, 1902
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedNovember 14, 1995(1995-11-14) (aged 93)
Highlands County, Florida, U.S.
OccupationsArt historian, professor, writer

Delphine Fitz Darby (January 10, 1902 – November 14, 1995) was an American art historian and writer. She was a professor at Smith College and at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research concerned Spanish Baroque painter Francesc Ribalta and his student, Jusepe de Ribera.

Early life and education

Fitz was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles W. Fitz and Elsie Rimmer Long Fitz.[1] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1923,[2] earned a master's degree there in 1925, and completed doctoral studies there in 1929.[3][4] She was the only doctoral student of medievalist Georgiana Goddard King,[5] and won a Carnegie Fellowship to do research in Spain.[6]

Career

Darby was an assistant professor of art at Smith College from 1930 to 1931.[3][7] She also taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.[8] Her scholarship concerned Spanish painter Francesc Ribalta, and his student, Jusepe de Ribera.[9] During World War II, she defended the exhibition of Italian art at the National Gallery.[10]

Publications

  • Francisco Ribalta and His School (1938)[11]
  • "In the Train of a Vagrant Silenus" (1943)[12]
  • "The Wise Man with a Looking Glass" (1948)[13]
  • "Ribera and the Blind Men" (1957)[14]
  • "The Ecstasy of St. Francis, a newly acquired painting by Francisco Ribalta" (1957)[15]
  • "Ribera and the Wise Men" (1962)[16]
  • Juan Sariñena y sus colegas (1967)[17]
  • The Gentle Ribera: Painter of the Madonna and the Holy Family (1978)[18]

Personal life and legacy

Fitz married Navy commander and college professor George O'Dell Switzer Darby in 1928.[19] Her husband died in 1981,[20] and she died in 1995, at the age of 93, in Highlands County, Florida.[21] There is an endowed fund at Bryn Mawr College, named for Darby and designated for the purchase of art history materials.[22] Her photo albums of Pennsylvania landscapes are in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[23]

References

  1. ^ Elsie L. Fitz (death notice), The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 15, 1966): 89; via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Bryn Mawr College. Senior Class (1923). Bryn Mawr College Yearbook. Class of 1923. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College.
  3. ^ a b "New Appointments 1930–1931" Annual Report of the President of Smith College (1930): 61.
  4. ^ "Savant Lays Moral Revolt to Ancients" The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 6, 1929): 9, via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Chance, Jane (2018-05-22). Women Medievalists and the Academy, Two Volumes. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 114, 120. ISBN 978-1-5326-4436-8.
  6. ^ "Interesting Women". The Emporia Gazette. May 5, 1926. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Smith College (1932). Annual Report of the President of Smith College. p. 48.
  8. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz (June 1957). "Harold E. Wethey, Alonso Cano: Painter, Sculptor, Architect: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv + 227; 168 pls. $15.00". The Art Bulletin. 39 (2): 152–155. doi:10.1080/00043079.1957.11408378. ISSN 0004-3079.
  9. ^ Soria, Martin S. (June 1945). "Esteban March Baroque Battle and Portrait Painter". The Art Bulletin. 27 (2): 109–123. doi:10.1080/00043079.1945.11407684. ISSN 0004-3079.
  10. ^ "Showing Italian Pictures Defended; Writer Says Galleries of Other Lands Provide American Precedent". Evening Star. April 11, 1941. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz (1938). Francisco Ribalta and His School. Harvard University Press.
  12. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "In the Train of a Vagrant Silenus." Art in America 31, no. 3 (1943): 140-50.
  13. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "The wise man with a looking glass." Art in America 36 (1948): 113-26.
  14. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz (1957). "Ribera and the Blind Men". The Art Bulletin. 39 (3): 195–217. doi:10.2307/3047713. ISSN 0004-3079.
  15. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz. "The Ecstasy of St. Francis, a newly acquired painting by Francisco Ribalta." Bulletin of the Wadsworth atheneum (1957).
  16. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz (December 1962). "Ribera and the Wise Men". The Art Bulletin. 44 (4): 279–307. doi:10.1080/00043079.1962.10789059. ISSN 0004-3079.
  17. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz. Juan Sariñena y sus colegas. Vol. 18. Servicio de Estudios Artisticos, Institución Alfonso el Magnanimo, Diputación Provincial de Valencia y Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Valencia, 1967.
  18. ^ Darby, Delphine Fitz. The Gentle Ribera: Painter of the Madonna and the Holy Family. J. Claye, 1978.
  19. ^ "June 15, 1928". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Commander George O. Darby". The Tampa Tribune. August 28, 1981. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Delphine F. Darby (death notice)". The Tampa Tribune. November 15, 1995. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Endowed Library Funds D-F". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 2026-03-12.
  23. ^ Delphine Fitz Darby collection of photograph albums of Pennsylvania views, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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