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Rosalie B

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Green

Aug 20, 1917 — Feb 24, 2012

Obituary

Rosalie Green, 94, of Princeton, NJ died Friday, February 24, 2012 at her residence. Rosalie was born in Yonkers, N.Y. on August 20, 1917, to her now late parents, Sidney Green, businessman and Freda Braunstein Green.

She moved to New York City at age 5 attending public schools before enrolling in the Pratt Institute. She worked briefly for textile designers and in vocational service until leaving New York for good in 1938. At the University of Chicago, Rosalie earned her B.A. (1939), M.A. (1941) and Ph.D. (1948). From 1943-1946, she was a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University. In 1946, she was a Reader at the Princeton University Index of Christian Art and served as Director from 1951-1981. Miss Green was a member of the College Art Association and Mediaeval Academy of America, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Director for the Warburg Institute.

Rosalie published Studies in Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic Art and with Isa Ragusa, published Meditations on the Life of Christ, an Illustrated Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century. She was involved in the translation of the Harrad of Hohenbourg Hortus Deliciarum and read and indexed The Art Bulletin: An Index of Volumes
I-XXX.

Miss Green has no immediate survivors.
Private services were under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.
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