UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 33, Page 4
May 26, 1994
Library Associates to sponsor lecture

   The University of Delaware Library Associates will sponsor a
lecture on "Edith Wharton: Architecture as Symbol in Her Literature
and Her Society" by E. Wayne Craven, H.F. du Pont Professor of Art
History, at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 7, in the lecture room of the
Hugh M. Morris Library.
   Craven is a nationally recognized authority on American sculpture
and painting. His most recent work is the book, American Art: History
and Culture, published this year by Harry N. Abrams, New York.
   He is the author of the definitive work, Sculpture in America,
first published in 1968 by Crowell, with a revised edition published
by the University of Delaware Press in 1984. Craven is the creator of
"The Index of American Sculpture," which is the basis for a
computerized sculpture archive at the National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
   The lecture is by invitation. To request a printed invitation, call
831-2231. Response is due by Thursday, June 2.