Joukowsky, Artemis A. W. (1930-2020)
Role: ChancellorDates: 1997 - 1998
Portrait Location: Sayles Hall 108
Artist: Prosperi, Lucia and Warren ()
Portrait Date: 1996
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Brown Portrait Number: 253
Brown Historical Property Number: 2207
Artemis Joukowsky, born in Shanghai to Russian parents, graduated from Brown University in 1955. He devoted his career as an international businessman to American International Group Incorporated, serving the firm worldwide in countries such as Thailand, Turkey, Hong Kong, and Lebanon. He spent ten years in New York in AIG's Special World Markets Division and the Socialist Countries Division before returning to Providence. Joukowsky has served the interests of the Brown community on many fronts. As the co-founder of the Brown Sports Foundation, he strengthened the university's athletic programs. He worked to improve the public and green spaces around campus and chaired the Public Arts Committee, which purchased artwork for the campus. He and his wife Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Professor and Director, Center for Old World Art and Archaeology) endowed a professorship in gastroenterology, and as a tireless fundraiser, he led Brown's most successful capital campaign. Former Chancellor Alva O. Way (BP 271), whom Joukowsky succeeded in that position, said of his colleague, "You are the embodiment of a Brown man born and bred, in New York and New Zealand, in Boston and Beijing, you are a Brown champion."
While Joukowsky served as vice chancellor, President Vartan Gregorian requested the portrait, painted by husband-and-wife team Lucia and Warren Prosperi of Massachusetts. It was unveiled February 14, 1997. Joukowsky was named the eighteenth chancellor of the university the following year.