Robert Louis Herbert

Robert Louis Herbert was known as an influential teacher of art history at Yale University until 1990, thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and as the author of key publications in the social history of art, including such issues as rural and industrial subjects in French art, artists and anarchism, and the writings of Ruskin, Renoir, and twentieth-century artists. In numerous books and articles he studied David, Barbizon art, Millet, Impressionism, Monet, Renoir, and Léger. He also curated exhibitions devoted to Barbizon art, Millet, Seurat, Neo-Impressionism, and Léger.