Anthony "Tony" Gully

Anthony "Tony" Gully

Born on 28 February 1938, Anthony "Tony" Gully died suddenly on March 17 at his home in Tempe with his wife beside him. After childhood in Riverside and Orange, California, he received degrees in history and art history at the University of California, Riverside, where he met his wife, Anne. They married and spent their first summer on a fire lookout in Lassen National Park. Next he earned a MA at the University of California, Berkeley, with a break to teach in a one-room school in the remote Trinity Alps. After a PhD at Stanford University, he spent his career at Arizona State University. ASU was good to him with sabbaticals in London and over twenty summer sessions in Florence, Italy. He edited journals, helped found organizations, mentored student-curated exhibits at the ASU Art Museum, and lectured at the Phoenix Art Museum where he and Sue Gordon produced the show "John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye." After retirement in 2008, he managed to teach four summers in London for Ohio University. Besides in classrooms large and small, he delighted in showing students art and buildings in the museums and streets of London and Italy. He extended his love for his family to his students.

He is survived by his wife, Anne, daughters Hilary (Brian), Megan (Ken), and Emma (Jayson), six grandchildren, five nieces, two nephews, and two sisters-in-law. Memorial donations may be made to the Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, Az 85008, attn: Allora McChesney, (amcchesney@dbg.org) or the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, attn: Patricia Vitolo, (patricia.vitolo@phart.org). Also, the Anthony L. Gully British Art Travel Fellowship was set up years ago by a student and friend, at the ASU Foundation, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU, P.O.Box 872102, Tempe, AZ 85287 attn: Trent Guerin.