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During 2001-2002 the optically violent variable (OVV) blazar 3C 279 un-derwent the most intense outburst seen during the entire fourteen year historythat this quasar has been studied at Colgate University's Foggy Bottom Obser-vatory (FBO). This study concentrates on ~1600 R-filter images taken duringthis period of activity. This data set includes twenty-nine nights ofmicrovari- ability coverage. The outburst began in March 2001, after 3C 279 hadfaded to its faintest level, R = 15.5, in four years. The source reached itsbrightest level, R = 12.5, in the fourteen years of our study in August 2001,at which time it became unobservable due to its proximity to the Sun. Uponbecoming observable again in mid-December 2001, 3C 279 fluctuated between R =13.9 and R = 14.7, until a dramatic decrease in flux level in June-July 2002brought the source back down to a level comparable to its pre-outburst state.The source exhibited numerous week-long flares of approximately one magnitudeduring the outburst period. Superposed on these flares were night-to-nightvariations of up to one half magnitude and intra-night microvariability of upto 0.13 magnitude in three hours. We use visual inspection of the light curveas well as numerical timescale analysis tools (the autocorrelation function,the structure function, and the power spectrum) to characterize the multipletimescales of variability ranging from 1.5 years to several hours.Comment: 44 pages, 21 figures, 3 tables Accepted for publication in the  Astronomical Journa

The Multiple Timescales of Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 279 during the 2001-2002 Outburst