William Fagaly, Curator Who Concentrated on African Art, Dies at 83
When William A. Fagaly was a graduate student in art heritage at Indiana College in the early 1960s, the professor in his place of concentration nicknamed him Intrepid. That delighted Mr. Fagaly, while he by no means recognized how the term applied to him.
A single purpose could have been that the professor, Roy Sieber, was the to start with particular person in the United States to make a doctorate in African artwork background and a progenitor of the subject Mr. Fagaly was one of his initial learners. Dr. Sieber would implement the nickname to subsequent college students, perhaps since he realized he was sending them where by couple of publish-grads experienced gone just before.
In his e-book “The Nightcrawler King: Memoirs of an Artwork Museum Curator,” published soon right before his demise on Could 17 at 83, Mr. Fagaly (pronounced FAH-gah-lee) expressed his affection for Dr. Sieber, with