Ernest Wayne Craven

Wayne Craven (elected October 1987) died May 7, 2020. Craven taught at numerous colleges and universities before arriving at the University of Delaware, where he was named the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Assistant Professor of Art History. As a curator, Craven organized exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art and, at the request of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the sculpture section of “The Creative American” at the White House in 1965. His books include Colonial American Portraiture (1986).