Dr. Barry Ira Wind

Wind, Barry Ira, Dr. Retired professor, who taught in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for thirty-three years, died Thursday, April 10, 2008, at Seven Oaks in Glendale, Wisconsin after a long illness. He was 66 years old and had lived in Whitefish Bay. Dr. Wind, a leading authority on genre painting from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth century, published numerous articles on Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English art in the principal journals of art history, both here and abroad. His books include Velazquez Bodegones: A Study in the Seventeenth-century Genre Painting (1967); Genre in the Age of the Baroque (1991); and A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of "Freaks" in Baroque Art (1998). Born in the Bronx, New York, on 29 May 1942, Barry Wind graduated from the City College of New York in 1962. In 1964 he completed the Masters degree at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he pursued his doctoral studies. He earned the PhD in 1972, receiving also the New York University Founders Day Award for outstanding scholarship in 1973. Before coming to Wisconsin in 1971, Dr. Wind taught at the University of Georgia (1967-1971). During his long, distinguished career at U.W.M., he taught a broad range of courses in Renaissance and Baroque art, comic and satirical art, and museum training for graduate as well as undergraduate students. He took special pride and delight in the art history classes he offered for the Honors Program. Upon his retirement in 2004, the college of Letters and Science duly noted that he was a "superb teacher" and "a beacon of scholarship". Dr. Wind is survived by his wife, Geraldine Dunphy Wind of Whitefish Bay, WI; two sons, James G. of Sheboygan, WI and Clifford D. of Sturgeon Bay, WI; and three grandchildren. Also surviving is a sister, Dr. Marion Wind Pisick of Newton, MA. Private services were held. Contributions to the Barry Wind Essay Prize (Honors College, U.W.M. College of Letters and Science, Garland Hall 302, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201) would be greatly appreciated. FEERICK FUNERAL HOME Shorewood 414-962-8383 Condolences can be sent to: www.feerickfuneralhome.com