John Edwin Canaday was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.
11 Facts About John Canaday
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John Canaday was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, to Franklin and Agnes F Canaday.
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John Canaday's family moved to Dallas when Canaday was seven and later moved to San Antonio, where he attended Main Avenue High School.
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John Canaday served as a lieutenant in an air-warning squadron in the Pacific until the end of World War II, after which he returned to the University of Virginia.
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From 1950 to 1952, John Canaday headed the art school at Newcomb College in New Orleans.
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John Canaday worked as chief of the educational division at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1953 to 1959.
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In 1959, John Canaday began a 17-year career as a leading art critic for The New York Times.
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In 1974, John Canaday stepped down from his post as art critic in order to devote more time to writing books, although he continued to write restaurant reviews for the Times until his retirement in 1977.
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John Canaday taught several courses as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas in the spring of 1977.
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John Canaday continued to lecture and to write for such publications as Smithsonian magazine, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine until his death.
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John Canaday died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on July 19,1985.