Victor Koshkin-Youritzin

David Ross Boyd Professor:
Art History

Office: 217 FJC
405-325-3317
vky@ou.edu

Educated at Williams College, Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Professor Youritzin was a Ford Foundation Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught at Vanderbilt and Tulane universities before joining the OU faculty in 1972. He teaches Understanding Art, 19th-Century Art, Cézanne to 1950, American Art, and Museum Studies. Author of Photographs by Charles Henri Ford (2006), Pavel Tchelitchew (2002), Five Contemporary Russian Artists (1992), Oklahoma Treasures (1986), and other exhibition catalogues, he is also co-author of American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Abrams, 1991; a Book-of-the-Month-Club Selection). His scholarly and critical articles have appeared in such internationally important publications as ARTnews, ARTS, Art Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and the Sunday Los Angeles Times. He has not only lectured at museums and universities across the United States - including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and New York Studio School - but has also lectured in England, France, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Program for Art on Film (MMA/Getty Trust). He has curated numerous art exhibitions and has served on many museum committees and boards. As an artist and prize-winning photographer, Youritzin has exhibited paintings in the juried 27th Annual Louisiana State Art Exhibition for Professional Artists (State Capitol, Baton Rouge, 1971) and in museum and other venues. His photographs have appeared in the Italian ELLE magazine (January 2005) and in books in English, Spanish, and Japanese. His photography has been acquired by numerous museums and public institutions, among them: the Bibilothèque Nationale de France (Paris); the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France); the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford); the New York Public Library, Main Branch (Wallach Divison of Art, Prints, and Photographs); Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh); The Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin; The Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe); The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; The United States Air Force Collection, The Pentagon; The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, St. Gregory's University (Shawnee, OK); The Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa); The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma (Norman); The Oklahoma Historical Center (Oklahoma City); and The State Art Collection of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City). He received the Oklahoma Governor's Arts and Education Award (1992), an Honorable Citation from the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1993), and, at OU, the Baldwin Award (1987) and twice the University of Oklahoma Student Association's Award as the Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Fine Arts (1989, 1994). In 1997 the University awarded him its highest teaching honor, a David Ross Boyd Professorship, and in 2002 he received the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts Award. He also received a 2001-2002 Most Inspiring Faculty Award from OU's scholar-athletes and the 2002 Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Fine Arts. Youritzin is listed in Who's Who in American Art and the 2006 Who's Who in the World.