A boyhood trip to France that included a chance visit to Chartres Cathedral awakened a passion for art and inspired his future career.

from Harvard (1930) and an MFA from Princeton (1932), he was a very close assistant to French visiting scholars at Yale, Marcel Aubert and Henri Focillon.

Many of his students began their freshman year at Williams planning to become doctors, lawyers, and investment bankers, but, upon graduation, found themselves turning to the art world due to Faison's inspirational pedagogy.

You'd be surprised at the number of people who come to Williams, and I think this is generally true of American students, with absolutely no idea of what the word 'shape' means or what you can do with it and why it's important.

He wrote the official top-secret report (see selected publications) on Adolf Hitler's collection of stolen art.

Five years later, he supervised the return of stolen art under the direction of the Department of State to major European cities such as Vienna and Paris.