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Cleo Rickman Fitch Classical art historian and archaeological artist, born in Texas and reared in Tennessee, Cleo Rickman studied art history at Peabody College (later Vanderbilt University) in Nashville. She married an architect, James Marston Fitch. During World War II she worked for the U.S. Army as an industrial draftsman and afterward she and her husband, recently retired from being architectural editor of House Beautiful magazine spent a year in Florence studying its art and architecture. When Frank Brown, director of the American Academy in Rome, needed an assistant for his excavations at Cosa, Cleo was recommended to him for her experience in drafting. She catalogued the finds and eventually helped design a museum for the site. In all, she spent 21 years associated with the Cosa project, but her work with restoring, drawing and cataloguing the numerous lamps found at Cosa was her major archaeological contribution, resulting in the publication, Cosa: the lamps, for the American Academy of Rome Memoir. Author of biography: Norma Goldman Download biography (in PDF format) Keywords: Carlsbad Texas, draftsman, James Marston Fitch, the classics, Rome, Cosa, American Academy in Rome, Frank E. Brown, Chapel Hill, Tennessee, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Architectural Record, Columbia University, School of Architecture, Otto Brendel, Rudolph Wittkower, U.S. Army, industrial draftsman, garden design, House Beautiful, James Casson, Max Trell, Milton Brown, Larissa Bonfante, Leo Raditsa, Therese Goell, Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, terracotta lamps, Roman lamp industry, New York University, John Stubbs, World Monument Fund, Adele Chatfield Taylor, Lionel Casson, Cyrus Gordon, Classics Study Group, Penny Small, Vincent Bruno |
