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Beeke Marie Sell Tower (March 16, 1948 - September 14, 2006) Born in Schleswig, Germany, Beeke Sell Tower came to the United States to study art history at Brown University in 1969. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1978, Dr. Sell Tower held positions as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Connecticut College, Brown University, and the University of California, Davis. Her scholarship focused on twentieth-century German art. From 1987 to 2006, she worked as the Program Coordinator for Art, Literature, and Politics at the Goethe Institut, Boston, where her work focused on international cultural exchange. During her years at the Goethe Institut, Dr. Sell Tower served as the curator for "Envisioning America: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by George Grosz and His Contemporaries, 1915-1933" at the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University (1990) and "Looking to America: Americanism in Art and Culture of Weimar Germany, 1918-1933" at the Boston Public Library and elsewhere. An avid reader and collector of books, it was Beeke's sincerest wish that her collection be given to Brown University.

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