Oliver W. Larkin

Oliver Waterman Larkin (1896–1970) was an American art historian and educator who taught at Smith College for decades, rising to full professor. He is best known for his seminal work Art and Life in America (1949, revised 1960), which won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History—the first for a visual arts history—and traced American art's development amid cultural and democratic contexts. Other notable works include Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art and Daumier, Man of His Time.