Aaron Sheon *66

Aaron Sheon, professor emeritus of modern art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, died Nov. 8, 2015, at age 78.

Sheon graduated from the University of Michigan in 1960 with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in art history. Then he earned an MFA in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1966 in art from Princeton. In 1962, he received a Fulbright award for research at the Sorbonne, and from 1963 to 1965 he worked at the UNESCO office in Paris.

In 1966, Sheon began his 37-year career as professor of modern art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired in 2003 as professor emeritus. He was an undergraduate adviser and curated several of the first exhibitions in that university’s art gallery. In 1968 and from 1978 to 1979, he was chair of Pittsburgh’s Frick fine arts department.

Between 1984 and 1985, he was the Herodotus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Sheon received numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship. He curated and wrote catalogs for many exhibitions of artists and architects.

He is survived by his wife, Jill; two children; two granddaughters; two stepsons; and one step-granddaughter.

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