Everett Fahy (1941–2018)

Everett Philip Fahy Jr. was born in Darby, Pennsylvania on March 29, 1941. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He turned his dissertation into a book entitled Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, which was show more published in 1975. He was hired in 1968 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a consultant to Thomas Hoving on European paintings, but he left after a year. Fahy taught at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts for a year before accepting an offer to become the Met's curator in charge of European paintings. In 1973, he left the Met for the Frick and stayed there for 13 years. He returned to the Met in 1986 as chairman of the museum's department of European paintings. He retired in 2009. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on April 23, 2018 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less