found: Yale Daily News (online), Robert Farris Thoompson, preeminent scholar of African art history, dies at 88, December 3, 2021, viewed December 3, 2021(Robert Farris Thompson '55 GRD '65 died on Monday [November 29]; from El Paso, Texas; he was the first Yale graduate and second person in the country to earn a History of Art doctorate specializing in African art, and is credited with coining the term "Black Atlantic"; served more than half a century on Yale's faculty; was the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art and Professor Emeritus of African American Studies; conducted field research in Nigeria, Congo, Brazil and Peru; masterminded exhibits at the National Gallery of Art and the University of California, Los Angeles; his library of books and research papers is now at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)
