Now in its seventh edition, it has remained a standard volume on the modern period.
[citation needed] In New York, he worked at the Frick Collection and at Hunter College.
In Minnesota, Arnason became director of the Walker Art Center in 1951, holding that position for ten years, with a brief stint as a Carnegie Foundation visiting professor at the University of Hawaiʻi in 1959.
[3] In 1936, he married Elizabeth Hickox Yard, whose father was director of religion and a member of the department of political science at Northwestern University.
His daughter, the writer Eleanor Arnason, credits growing up in the company of avant-garde artists was a formative influence in her literary career.