University in St. Louis, 1958 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Northeastern University, 1960 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Bates College, 1964 Chevalier de Légion d'Honneur, 1964 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Williams College, 1970 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982 President, Association of Art Museum Directors, 1959–60, 1969–70 Selected bibliography Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "The Rathbone Years," 1972 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Back Bay Boston: The City as a Work of Art," 1969 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "The Age of Rembrandt," 1966 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Max Beckmann," 1964 (with Peter Seltz) City Art Museum, St. Louis, "Westward the Way," 1955 City Art Museum, St. Louis, "Mississippi Panorama," 1950 City Art Museum, St. Louis, "Max Beckmann," 1948 City Art Museum, St. Louis, "Charles Wimar: Painter of the Indian Frontier," 1946 References Dictionary of Art Historians Obituary, New York Times, January 27, 2000 Portrait by Max Beckmann Burt, Nathaniel, "Palaces for the People", Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1977 Meyer, Karl E., "The Plundered Past", New York: Athenaeum, 1977 Whitehill, Walter Muir, "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Centennial History", Vol II, Cambridge, Belknap Press, 1970 External links Harvard University archives Archives of American Art: research collections>oral history interviews, oral history interview with Perry Townsend Rathbone, 1975, Aug. 5th. Perry Townsend Rathbone papers, 1936–1985 at the Archives of American Art 1911 births 2000 deaths People from Philadelphia People from New Rochelle, New York American curators United States Navy personnel of World War II 20th-century American naval officers Military personnel from New Rochelle, New York Harvard College alumni