Roy C. Craven

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rdf:langString Roy C. Craven (Roy Curtis Craven, Jr.) was (born in Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama on July 29, 1924. - May 30, 1996) He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the University of Florida. Roy C. Craven authored, co-authored, and co-created (as with contributing the prologue and serving as photographer for Indian Art of Ancient Florida ) numerous scholarly books and publications on art (which are used in class syllabi and cited in other scholarly publications), including: * Indian Art: A Concise History * From the ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present * Ceremonial centers of the Maya * Ten contemporary painters from India * A treasury of Indian miniature paintings * Ramayana: Pahari Paintings * A Concise History of Indian Art, "The World of Art Library" series * The Art of India from Florida Collections * Los Olmecas : the parent civilization of Mesoamerica * Indian sculpture in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art * Arts of India : selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art collection, University of Florida * Pre-Columbian pottery of Peru from the collection of the University Gallery * From fabled fields : selections from the Paddock family collection of Pre-Columbian art : an exhibition organized by the Norton Museum of Art, November 19, 1994-January 8, 1995 * Of sky and earth : art of the early Southeastern Indians : October 1-November 28, 1982, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia