1. Kenneth Clark, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy from 1964 until his death in 1983, was a preeminent art historian of his generation. He was a director of the National Gallery, a Surveyor of the King's Pictures, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and the author of many books, including “Leonardo da Vinci” (1939), “Landscape Painting” (1950), “The Nude” (1956), and “Civilization” (1969), a bestselling companion to his renowned BBC television series of the same name. “The artist grows...