Roy C. Craven (Roy Curtis Craven, Jr.) was (born in Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama on July 29, 1924.^[1] - May 30, 1996)^[2] He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the University of Florida.^[3]

Roy C. Craven authored, co-authored, and co-created (as with contributing the prologue and serving as photographer for Indian Art of Ancient Florida^[4] ) numerous scholarly books and publications on art (which are used in class syllabi^[5] and cited in other scholarly publications), including:

• Indian Art: A Concise History
• From the ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present
• Ceremonial centers of the Maya
• Ten contemporary painters from India
• A treasury of Indian miniature paintings
• Ramayana: Pahari Paintings
• A Concise History of Indian Art, "The World of Art Library" series
• The Art of India from Florida Collections
• Los Olmecas : the parent civilization of Mesoamerica
• Indian sculpture in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
• Arts of India : selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art collection, University of Florida
• Pre-Columbian pottery of Peru from the collection of the University Gallery
• From fabled fields : selections from the Paddock family collection of Pre-Columbian art : an exhibition organized by the Norton Museum of Art, November 19, 1994-January 8, 1995
• Of sky and earth : art of the early Southeastern Indians : October 1-November 28, 1982, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia