MILLON, Henry Armand Architectural Historian Henry Armand Millon passed away peacefully at home on Monday, April 2, 2018. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1927, the second of three sons. His father was an aerial photographer; his mother, a daughter of the published of a French language newspaper in New York. In March 1944 he entered a U.S. Navy ROTC program at Tulane University where, after active duty in 1946, he returned to obtain sequential undergraduate degrees in English, Physics, and Architecture. Thereafter he attended Harvard University where he received a Master's in Architecture and Urban Design, and a Master's and Ph.D. in History of Art. After three years in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome preparing a dissertation, he returned to Cambridge in 1960 to teach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Professor. From 1974 to 1977 he was director of the American Academy in Rome. He was appointed the first dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, in 1979 and presided over the Center for 21 years, having set an international standard of excellence for research institutes in the history of art and architecture. He is survived by his wife Judith Rice Millon; four children, Henri, Hadrian, Phoebe, and Aaron; and four grandchildren, Julia, Nicholas, Giovanni and Luca. The funeral service will be held on Sunday, April 8, at 3:30 pm. at St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC.

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Published by Boston Globe from Apr. 7 to Apr. 8, 2018.

Memories and Condolences
for HENRY MILLON

10 Entries

William C. Zoller '63

April 1, 2022

The summer of `62, between my fourth and fifth years, I had asked Hank if he knew anyone in Paris with whom I might get a summer job. He gave me Serge Menil's name, whom he had known when he was a student at the American Academy in Rome. I wrote to Menil, who said "Yes", and I spent that summer in Paris. It was my first trip to Europe, and, thanx to Hank, it was one of the most memorable of my life. Forever grateful to Hank!

William Zoller

December 27, 2018

I was so shocked to learn Hank had died. I was one of his first students at MIT, and the art/architecture history I learned from him is still much with me. I will be going to Northern Italy in the fall, and I pulled out my Key Monuments book to review my must-revisits. So many memories, so sad he is gone. My condolences to Judith and to the family. A classmate and I saw Hank and Judith off on the ship from NY that took him to his post as Director of the American Academy in Rome....so long ago, now...but like yesterday.

April 25, 2018

Roger Mandle

April 10, 2018

Hank was a dear friend and colleague at the National Gallery - always seeking the high road, seeing the big picture, and sharing his adorable sense of humor. His twinkling eyes belied his always keen observation and sense of distance through which he understood the day in terms of its presence in history.
The creation of CASVA through Hank's terms meant that scholars, curators and staff always were welcome around his big table as he served espresso and questions that fomented great discussions. He connected everyone to his concept of what learning, discourse and exchange could mean in terms of knowledge, understanding and peace.
Hank was also a great member of the Clark Art Institute Board, challenging us to think in larger terms about the meaning of the place - nestled in the Berkshires - in ways that helped to connect its programs to the world. It was through Hank that the Clark begat its own research/residency program that mirrored in many ways CASVA, and became its progeny.
Hank was an exceptional leader in his own quiet, creative and forceful way, and an inspiration to know through the years!

Barbara Piquet Villafranco

April 8, 2018

With deepest sympathy to Judy and the Millon family. Hank will be missed by many, including dear friends and neighbors from Colonial Village. He was such an interesting and delightful person. Be comforted that he rests in peace.
Fondly, Barbara Piquet Villafranco

April 8, 2018

To his family and friends. My condolence. May our heavenly father bring great comfort to you. Psalms 9:9

Amy Meyers

April 7, 2018

Working for Hank as a pre-doc and post-doc at CASVA proved the most formative professional experience of my career. A consummate scholar and gentleman, Hank fostered an inimitably welcoming and engaging environment for academic exchange, providing support and encouragement for staff members, fellows, and visiting scholars alike. Countless friendships, spanning the globe, were forged under his stewardship, and those dear partnerships all were marked by Hank's spirit of generosity, his intellectual rigor, his wide-ranging curiosity, his creativity, and his moral conviction. Indeed, all who were part of CASVA's broad community were influenced by his incredible zest for life, and the pleasure that he took in all that is best about being human. It is this gift that I feel so deeply privileged to have received, and it is one that I will treasure forever. Judy, please know that your own wonderful spirit carries forward in us all, as well, and Jack and I send you our love and deepest condolences.

Bunny Harvey

April 7, 2018

Hank changed our lives by being the most wonderfully challenging and smart Director while we were at the American Academy in Rome from '74-76. He made the Rome Prize fellowship a stimulating , rich, varied and enlightening time for all of us . His laugh has stayed with me all these years and I heard and saw it it my mind's eye again, as we got the sad news from Phoebe on our last day in Rome this year. Dear dear Hank and Judy... we are forever grateful.

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