Wednesday, June 22, 2011

OBIT IN LOS ANGELES TIMES

VIRGINIA FIELDS, 1952 - 2011
MESOAMERICAN SCHOLAR AT LACMA
By Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times, June 20, 2011

Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture - partly by organizing major exhibitions such as last year's "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico" - had died...

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1 comment:

Stacey said...

To those of us in the field of Pre Columbian art and artifacts, her passing was a sad occasion. She shed much light on an important field.

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