A Land called Crete : a symposium in memory of Harriet Boyd Hawes / [introd. by Phyllis
Williams Lehmann ; with essays by J. Walter Graham, T. Leslie Shear, Emily Townsend
Vermeule, ...[et al.], 1968
Internet, alt.obituaries, 2004-10-19
Information trouvée : décès 2004 : Phyllis Williams Lehmann, an archaeologist and art historian known for
reuniting the hand of one of the icons of Western art, the Winged Victory of Samothrace,
with two of its long-lost fingers, died on Sept. 29 at her home in Haydenville, Mass.
She was 91. Phyllis Williams was born Nov. 30, 1912, in Brooklyn. he received a bachelor's
degree from Wellesley in 1934, and for the next two years worked at the Brooklyn Museum
as an assistant in charge of the Classical collection. In 1936, she began her graduate
work at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, which ran the excavation on
Samothrace. She received her Ph.D. in 1943, and married Mr. Lehmann, the excavation's
director, the next year. He died in 1960.
LC Main cat., 1980