Germany, the French Third Republic in its final years, and America in the latter half of the 20th century. He is famous not only for his solid scholarship, and the ground-breaking treatment of his subject, but also for the beauty and lucidity of his prose which, invariably sober and scholarly, never departing from the factual, rises at times to a culminating lyricism. In 1983, Theodore Reff, Professor of Art History at Columbia University commented: "He is more responsible than anyone else for putting the study of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism on solid scholarly foundations. What he set out to do, he did more thoroughly and scrupulously than anybody else, and he did it first." Complementing his career as an academic, he served as one of the founding members of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Art Research. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Rewald, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 600+ works in 1,400+ publications in 24 languages and 33,000+ library holdings. Cézanne et Zola (1936) Maillol (1939) Georges Seurat (1943) History of Impressionism (1946) Paul Cézanne (1948) Pierre Bonnard (1948) Les Fauves (1952) History of Post-Impressionism: From van Gogh to Gauguin (1956) Studies in Impressionism (1986) Studies in Post-Impressionism (1986) Cézanne, a Biography (1986) Seurat, a Biography (1990) Camille Pissarro (1963) The Impressionist Brush (1973/74) Cézanne, the Steins, and their Circle (1987) Cézanne in America (1989) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald in collaboration with and Jayne Warman (1996) Edited works Paul Cézanne, Letters (1941) Paul Gauguin, Letters (1943) Camille Pissarro, Letters to his Son Lucien (1943) The Woodcuts of Aristide Maillol (1943), catalogue raisonné Renoir, Drawings (1946) Paul Cézanne, Carnets de Dessins (1951) The Sculptures of Edgar Degas (1957), catalogue raisonné Gauguin, Drawings (1958) Notes References "Rewald, John." (1993) The Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th Edition. New York: Columbia University Press. "Rewald, John ...," Dictionary of Art Historians. 1912 births 1994 deaths American people of German-Jewish descent German emigrants to the United States University of Paris alumni Princeton University faculty University of Chicago faculty City University of New York faculty American art historians German art historians 20th-century American historians German male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers