William Hood is an art historian and the Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art Emeritus at Oberlin College, where he taught from 1974 through 2007. Professor Hood taught the history of Italian Renaissance Art in Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology from 2008 through 2010. He is currently teaching art history seminars at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
His research interests center around Italian Renaissance art, as well as the art of 17th and 18th century France, Italy, and Spain. He has published on a variety of subjects in Renaissance and Baroque art. His book, Fra Angelico at San Marco, published by Yale University Press, won the 1993 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, the 1994 Eric Mitchell Prize and was a finalist in the Premio Salimbeni Competition in Italy. His book-in-progress is entitled Made Men: Afterlives of the Classical Nude.
Professor Hood received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Georgia. He did his doctoral work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in New York and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1977.
William Hood (born 3 November 1914, date of death unknown) was a Northern Irish footballer who played as a defender. Hood made three appearances for Liverpool F.C. during the 1937–38 season as a replacement for the injured full back Tom Cooper. Hood also played for Cliftonville and Derry City in his native Northern Ireland.
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William Hood Dunwoody (March 14, 1841 – February 8, 1914) was an American banker, miller, art patron and philanthropist. He was a partner in what is today General Mills and for thirty years a leader of Northwestern National Bank, today's Wells Fargo.
Dunwoody sold American flour to British bakers, creating an export market and environment in which Minneapolis, Minnesota, became for a time the world's center of flour milling. By 1901, he was one of sixteen millionaires in Minneapolis.
He is remembered today for his bequests that created the Dunwoody Institute (now the Dunwoody College of Technology) and The William Hood Dunwoody Fund of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Of Scottish descent, Dunwoody was a Quaker but he worshiped as a Presbyterian at Westminster Presbyterian Church. In 1684, his maternal ancestors John and Ann Hood and their family emigrated from Castle Donington in Leicestershire, to Pennsylvania. Dunwoody visited the area in 1893, when he and the genealogist he hired tried and failed to find a Quaker meeting place.