Coke, Van Deren, 1921-2004

found: New York times, July 27, 2004(Van Deren Coke; curator, teacher, author, photographer; b. Frank Van Deren Coke on July 4, 1921 in Lexington, Ky.; d. July 11 at hospital in Albuquerque, aged 83 and had lived in Santa Fe, N.M.)

found: New York Times, online, published July 27, 2004 viewed Aug. 14, 2015(historian and teacher of art and photography at the University of New Mexico; curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; founding director, University of New Mexico Art Museum; 1979-1987, director of the San Francisco Museum's department of photography; Studied history and art history, University of Kentucky; studied photography in New York with Nicholas Haz and Clarence H. White School of Photography; entered Navy in 1942; masters degree in art history and master of fine arts in sculpture, Indiana University, 1958; studied for doctorate in art history at Harvard; photgrapher since 1936; assistant professor, University of Florida, 1958; associate professor, Arizona State University, 1961. professor and director of art museum, University of New Mexico 1962-1979)