Phyllis Pray Bober

Phyllis Barbara Pray was born on December 2, 1920, in Portland, Maine, to parents Lea Arlene (née Royer) and Melvin Francis Pray who were of French-Canadian ancestry. She attended Cape Elizabeth High School, graduating in 1937. Phyllis Pray and Harry Bober married in 1943, he was a medievalist student in her graduate school. In 1946, Bober completed her Ph.D. in Archaeology at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. After graduation she travelled with Harry Bober to Europe for the first time, visiting France, Belgium, and London. == Career ==

In 1947, the Bobers were at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, and at the suggestion of Fritz Saxl, she started working on the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. In 1979, Bober was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in Fine Art Research. She served as president (1988–1990) of the College Art Association (CCA). Bober was elected in 1995 to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, to the American Philosophical Society in 1999 and to the Dames d'Escoffier in 1995. She died at age 81, on May 30, 2002, in her home in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. == Publications ==