Women in the art history field
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Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history already in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example.
Notable women art historians
See also: Category:Women art historians Name Nationality Birth date Specialization Profession Phyllis Ackerman American 1893–1977 Persian art, Chinese art, textiles, tapestries Co-founder of Asia Institute, author, interior design Maryan Ainsworth American 14th, 15th and 16th century Northern European painting, particularly in Early Netherlandish painting Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery in Washington DC.[18] She is also a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Svetlana Alpers[19] American b. 1936 Dutch Golden Age Painting Art historian Mouza Sulaiman Mohamed Al-Wardi Oman Silversmithing from Oman Director of the Collections Department at the National Museum (Oman). Amalia Amaki American b. 1949 American art Artist, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 2007 to 2012.[20] Clementina Anstruther-Thomson Scottish 1857–1921 Experimental aesthetics during the Victorian era Author, art theorist, art critic Paola Antonelli Italian b. 1963 Modern Art, design Curator Irina Antonova Soviet, Russian 1922–2020 Impressionist art, modern art Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow from 1961 to 2013. Mildred Archer English 1911–2005 18th- and 19th-century art in British India Caroline Arscott English Victorian art, 19th century art Art historian Muqadamma Ashrafi Tajikistani 1936–2013 Medieval arts and painting of Central Asia Author, researcher Dore Ashton American 1928–2017 Modern Art, contemporary Art Writer, professor, art critic Pamela Askew American 1925–1997 Domenico Fetti and Caravaggio Professor Nurhan Atasoy Turkish b. 1934 Ottoman art and architecture Art historian Erna Auerbach German 1897–1975 Tudor period in England, feminist art Author Myrtilla Avery American 1869–1959 Medieval art Professor, a Monuments men, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum from 1930–1937. Sussan Babaie Iranian b. 1954 Persian art, Islamic art of the early modern period Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, art historian, writer Barbara Baert Belgian b. 1967 Medieval iconology Art historian Mieke Bal Dutch b. 1946 Modern Art, Contemporary Art Cultural theorist, video artist Anna Banti Italian 1895–1985 Italian Baroque, female artists Writer, art historian, art critic, translator Luisa Banti Italian 1894–1978 Etruscan art Archaeologist, art historian, writer Jeannine Baticle French 1920–2014 Spanish art Former Honorary Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre museum. Ruth Barnes English b. 1956 Material culture, South and Southeast Asian Textiles Art historian, curator Leila Cook Barber American 1903–1984 Renaissance art and Medieval art Art historian, professor of art history at Vassar College. Wendy Beckett (aka 'Sister Wendy') English 1930–2018 Catholic art Art historian, Catholic nun Ellen Beer Swiss 1926–2004 Medieval art Art historian, professor Lottlisa Behling German 1909–1989 Medieval art Art historian, professor Mary Berenson[21][22] American 1864–1945 Italian Renaissance Art historian, lecturer Laurence Bertrand Dorléac French b. 1957 Modern and contemporary Art historian, professor, curator Margarete Bieber[23] German 1879–1978 Theatre, sculpture, and clothing of ancient Rome and Greece Art historian, professor Gertrud Bing German 1892–1964 Classical tradition Director of the Warburg Institute[24] Shirley Neilsen Blum[25] American b. 1932 Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art. Art historian, author, gallerist, co-founder of Ferus Gallery, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989). Phyllis Pray Bober[26] American 1920–2002 Renaissance art, classical antiquity, culinary history Author, professor emerita at Bryn Mawr College.[27] Jean Sutherland Boggs [28] Canadian b. 1922 Nineteenth-century French art, Degas Curator, art historian, and first female director of the National Gallery of Canada Alice Boner Swiss 1889–1981 Indian symbols in art history Art historian focused on symbols in Indian art, also an artist Evelina Borea Italian b. 1931 Italian art history Author, curator Norma Broude American b. 1941 Impressionism and feminist art history Art historian, Author and emerita professor at American University Frances Borzello English Feminist art history including; social history of art, female portraiture, and female nudes. Author, scholar, feminist art critic Adelyn Dohme Breeskin American 1896–1986 Mary Cassatt Curator, museum director, and art historian at Baltimore Museum of Art Anita Brookner English b. 1936 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jacques-Louis David Author, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge University,[29] her early work focused on art history and later work was fiction novels Lillian Browse English 1906–2005 Augustus John, Edgar Degas, James Dickson Innes Art dealer, art historian Coosje van Bruggen Dutch, American 1942–2009 Dutch avant-garde art Artist, art historian[30] Palma Bucarelli Italian 1910–1998 avant-garde art Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) from 1942 to 1975, art critic Anneliese Bulling German, American 1900–2004 Sinologist, Chinese art and architecture Art lecturer, art historian Andrianna Campbell American Nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism Art historian, curator Taína Caragol American Latino Art Curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, author Teresa Gisbert Carbonell Bolivian b. 1926 Andean art history Art historian Mary Ann Caws American b. 1933 Modern Art, contemporary art Author, literary critic, art historian Whitney Chadwick American b. 1943 Feminist art critic, contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, gender and sexuality Author, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University Sheng-Ching Chang Taiwanese b. 1963 Chinese art history and cultural interactions Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, journalist, writer Betty Churcher Australian 1931–2015 Art historian, first female director of the National Gallery of Australia[31] Lourdes Cirlot Spanish b. 1949 Spanish and Catalan avant-garde art, 20-century art Alessandra Comini American b. 1934 American women artists, Egon Schiele's portraiture Academic lecturer, writer, a founder of the Women’s Caucus for Art Mildred Constantine American 1913–2008 Poster Art, graphic design Art historian and curator at Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s Lynne Cooke Australian b. 1952 Modern art, contemporary art Curator Julie Crooks Canadian Curator, head of the department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario Anne Crookshank Irish 1927–2016 Irish painting Professor emeritus at Trinity College Dublin. Rosemary Crumlin Australian b. 1932 Indigenous Australian art, religious art Author, Sister of Mercy Alissandra Cummins Barbadian b. 1958 Caribbean art Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society; lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the West Indies. Parisa Damandan Iranian b. 1967 20th century Iranian photography Author, historian Mirella Levi D'Ancona American, Italian 1919–2002 Symbolism and iconography in art from the Late Middle Ages period to the Renaissance Professor emeritus at Hunter College, author, art historian. Félicie d'Ayzac French 1801–1881 Chartres Cathedral Author, poet, archaeology, one of the first female art historians in France. Cécile Debray French b. 1966 modern painting, contemporary painting Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie Élisabeth Décultot French b. 1968 Germanist, German Enlightenment Literary scholar Vidya Dehejia Indian Indian and South Asian art Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. Rocio de la Villa Spanish b. 1959 Spanish feminist art, contemporary art Curator, university professor, president of Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts,[32] a co-founders of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) Sirarpie Der Nersessian Armenian 1896–1989 Armenian art, Byzantine art Professor at Wellesley College, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks. Laurence des Cars French b. 1966 Pre-Raphaelites, English painting Director of the Louvre Museum; former director of Musée d'Orsay, and Musée de l'Orangerie. Yvonne Deslandres French 1923–1986 Costume, adornment Catherine de Zegher Belgium b. 1955 Contemporary art Curator and art historian Jasleen Dhamija Indian b. 1933 Indian textile history, Indian craft history Professor at University of Minnesota and National Institute of Fashion Technology. Elisabeth Dhanens Belgian 1915–2014 Early Netherlandish painting Heritage official Anne d'Harnoncourt American 1943–2008 Marcel Duchamp Curator and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Kamala Dongerkery Indian 1909–1992 Indian embroidery, Indian jewelry, Indian toys Social worker, art historian, author, cultural historian Saryu Doshi Indian Indian miniature paintings, Jain art Founding director of the National Gallery of Modern Art. Layla S. Diba Iranian, American 18th/19th-century and contemporary Persian art and the Qajar period Iranian-American independent scholar and curator. Leah Dickerman American Modern art, Contemporary art Curator, art historian Emilia Dilke English 1840–1904 18th-century French art Author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist.[33] Elizabeta Dimitrova Macedonian b. 1962 Byzantinist, medievalists Lydia Durnovo Soviet, Russian 1885 –1963 Russian painting, Armenian miniatures, Armenian frescoes Staff of the National Gallery of Armenia Sharada Dwivedi Indian 1942–2012 Indian art and architecture history Author of Indian and Mumbaiart and architecture history books
- Joan Evans English 1893–1977 French and English mediaeval art Art historian
- Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes British 1858–1950 Italian Scholar, she participated in the adoption of a modernization of European methods of research.
- Judith V. Field British b. 1943 Geometrical art, mathematical art Scholar, mathematician, research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London
Margaret Henderson Floyd American 1932–1997 Boston architecture including Henry Hobson Richardson, and Longfellow, Alden and Harlow. Professor of Architectural History at Tufts University. Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao Spanish b. 1964 Spanish feminist art, contemporary art, and the works of Sonia Delaunay University professor and researcher, former president of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) María Concepción García Gainza Spanish b. 1937 Contemporary art, Spanish Renaissance Helen Gardner American 1878–1946 Author of Art Through the Ages, an art history textbook Mary Garrard American b. 1940 Italian Baroque art and feminist art history Art historian, Author, emerita professor at American University Catherine Gonnard French b. 1958 Women, gender and art Art historian, journalist, writer, activist Antje von Graevenitz German b. 1940 20th and 21st-century art Art historian, art critic Catherine Grenier French Alberto Giacometti Director of the Giacometti Foundation.[34] Tapati Guha-Thakurta Indian b. 1957 Indian art of the 19th and 20th century Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Navina Najat Haidar Indian, British Islamic art Chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paula Harper American 1930–2012 Feminist art, Camille Pissarro, contemporary art Art historian, art critic, art lecturer, author Liesbeth Heenk Dutch b. 1962 Vincent van Gogh Hayden Herrera[19] American b. 1940 Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky, Joan Snyder Art historian, author, foremost scholar on Kahlo. Lubaina Himid English b. 1954 Contemporary art, United Kingdom’s Black Art movement Professor, curator Ursula Hoff German, Australian 1909–2005 Australian art, the works of Rembrandt Scholar, academic, curator, author, critic, and lecturer. Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1968–1973); London Adviser of the Felton Bequest (1975–83). Meike Hoffmann German b. 1962 Die Brücke art movement, German art history Provenance researcher, author Stina Högkvist Swedish b. 1972 Curator, Director of Collections at National Museum, in Oslo, Norway Candice Hopkins Carcross/Tagish First Nation b. 1977 Indigenous art history Independent curator, writer, and researcher. Michael Ann Holly American Historiography of art history Art historian Agnès Humbert French 1894–1963 French art, Louis David, Henri Matisse Art historian, ethnographer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Heather Igloliorte Inuit b. 1979 Indigenous art history Alice Ming Wai Jim Canadian Contemporary Asian art, contemporary Asian Canadian art, remix culture Professor, art historian, curator Kellie Jones[35] American b. 1959 African-American art and artists Professor, curator, MacArthur Fellow Amelia Jones American b. 1961 Dada, Feminist art, Performance art, Body art Art historian, art theorist, curator, author, university professor, art critic Deborah Kahn American b. 1953 European Medieval art and architecture, Canterbury Cathedral Professor, author Geeta Kapur Indian b. 1943 Indian contemporary art Ebba Koch Austrian Indian art history, Mughal-era (architecture, gardens, painting, applied arts), and connecting imperial symbolism. Professor at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, Austria. Charlotte Klonk German Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Museology Art historian Stella Kramrisch Austrian 1896–1993 Indian art of the 20th-century Professor, curator Rosalind Krauss American b. 1941 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography Author, associate editor of Artforum from 1971 to 1974, professor at Columbia University Annette Kuhn English b. 1945 Feminist film theory, visual culture, cultural memory Author, researcher, historian Miwon Kwon Korean b.1961 Contemporary art, site-specific art, land art Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Polish 18th and 19th century European, contemporary art, feminist and critical theory, Jacques-Louis David Professor at Harvard University. Lynne Lawner American Renaissance Author, scholar, historian with an emphasis on iconographical themes, the meaning of art, as well as social customs. Élisabeth Lebovici French b. 1953 Contemporary art, feminist art, Queer art, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Queer theory scholar, art historian, author, writer Annette Lemieux American b. 1957 Contemporary art Professor, artist Amelia Sarah Levetus English, Austrian 1853–1938 Modern art Author, cultural journalist Samella Lewis American b. 1924 African-American art Art historian, art critic, and printmaker Lucy Lippard[35] American b. 1937 Contemporary art Art critic, curator Marcella Lista French 20th Century art Chief curator at the Centre Pompidou. Catherine Mason Australian, English Computer art, digital art Art historian Jennifer Montagu English b. 1931 Italian Baroque sculpture Art historian Doula Mouriki Greek 1934–1991 Byzantinologist, Historian of Art Professor Claudia Müller-Ebeling German b. 1956 Healing arts, shamanism Author Laura Mulvey English b. 1941 Feminist film theory feminist film theorist, professor at Birkbeck, University of London Joanna Mytkowska Polish b. 1970 Contemporary art Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, curator, art critic Mika Natif Israeli Islamic painting: Central Asia, Iran, India, and the Mediterranean Art historian Linda Nochlin[36] American 1931–2017 Feminist art history Art historian Elizabeth Norton English Tudor period, queens of England Author, specializing in archaeology and anthropology. Nana Oforiatta Ayim Ghanaian Pan-African art Art historian, writer, and filmmaker. Lotte Brand Philip German 1910–1986 Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens French 1934–2018 Chinese objects Heleni Polichronatou Greek b. 1959 Contemporary public art, land art Griselda Pollock[37] English, Canadian b. 1949 Elizabeth Prettejohn American b. 1961 Victorian Art, Pre-Raphaelites Art historian, Professor, curator, author Nancy Princenthal American b. 1955 Shirin Neshat, Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Jackie Ferrara, Joyce Kozloff, Hannah Wilke, Agnes Martin Artist biographer, writer Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir Croatian b. 1969 Croatian museums Arlene Raven American 1944–2006 Feminist art movement in the United States Art historian, art critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building Hilla Rebay German, American 1890–1967 Modern art Co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, abstract artist, art collector Günsel Renda Turkish Ottoman art Professor Trina Robbins American b. 1938 History of comics Artist and writer Barbara Rose American 1936–2020 Anda Rottenberg Polish b. 1944 Kim Sajet Netherlands Museum director of the National Portrait Gallery. Bénédicte Savoy French b. 1972 Modern art, looted art Professor at Technical University of Berlin Bente Scavenius Danish b. 1944 Danish art history Independent scholar, art critic, and author Véronique Schiltz French 1942–2019 Scythian art in the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE Archaeologist, art historian, and literary translator. Johanna Schopenhauer[38] German 1766–1838 Artist, author Nada Shabout[19] American b. 1962 Modern Iraqi art Art historian Kaja Silverman American b. 1947 Film theorist, art historian Alessandra Silvestri-Levy Brazilian Producer and writer Anna Spitzmüller Austrian 1903-2001 Art historian, curator Barbara Maria Stafford American b. 1941 Developments in imaging arts, optical sciences, and performance technologies Art historian, researcher Nina Howell Starr American 1903–2000 American roadside attractions, American folk art, Outsider artists Art historian, photographer, curator, art dealer[39] Kate Steinitz[40] German, American 1889–1975 Artist, art historian Klara Steinweg German 1903–1972 Italian Renaissance Art historian, co-author of the book series Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Kristine Stiles American b. 1947 Art historian, curator Margaret Stokes[41] Irish 1832–1900 Antiquarian Marilyn Stokstad[42] American 1929–2016 Medieval and Spanish art Art historian, professor, author Z. S. Strother American 20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history Professor of African Art at Columbia University Deborah Swallow English b. 1948 Indian art history Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art since 2004. Mary Hamilton Swindler [43] American 1884–1967 Ancient classical painting Archeologist, professor Ann Temkin American b. 1959 Curator American painting and sculpture Dorothy Burr Thompson [44] American 1900–2001 Erica Tietze-Conrat[45] Austrian, American 1883–1958 Contemporary Viennese Art, Renaissance art, the Venetian school Academic lecturer Marjorie Tipping[46] Australian 1917–2009 Historian Jocelyn Toynbee[47] English 1897–1985 Rachida Triki Tunisian b. 1949 North African art Professor at Tunis University. Marcia Tucker[48] American 1940–2006 Eleanor Tufts American 1927–1991 American women artists, works by Luis Egidio Meléndez Academic lecturer, writer Georgiana Uhlyarik Romanian b. 1972 Indigenous Canadian art, women artists Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) Rose Valland French 1898–1980 Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art (during WWII) G. T. van Ysselsteyn Dutch 1892–1975 Dutch textile history Kapila Vatsyayan Indian 1928–2020 Indian art Emily Vermeule American 1928–2001 Ancient Greek art, Mycenaean culture Classical scholar and archaeologist, professor at Harvard University.[49] Cecylia Vetulani Polish 1908–1980 Anne Wagner American b. 1949 Modern and contemporary art Art historian, professor emerita Renate Wagner-Rieger [50] Austrian 1921–1980 Architecture, historicism Academic lecturer Charlotte Weidler German 1895–1983 German expressionism Art dealer, curator, and she held a pivotal role in bringing major works of Germany to the United States; resulting restitution claims concerning the collections of Paul Westheim and Alfred Flechtheim. Evelyn Welch American b. 1959 Renaissance and early modern Art historian, professor Edith Wharton[51] American 1862–1937 Architecture Writer Margaret Whinney[52] English 1897–1975 English art history Academic lecturer Zoé Whitley American, English 1979 Contemporary art, United Kingdom’s Black Art movement, African diaspora Curator, museum director Diana Widmaier Picasso French b. 1974 Modern art, old master drawings Curator, author, gallerist Sylvia Williams American 1936–1996 African art Curator, museum director Deborah Willis (artist) [19] American 1948 African American and Black photographers Curator, author, photographer, educator Sarah Wilson English Pierre Klossowski, Henri Matisse, Post-structuralism Professor at Courtauld Institute, author Juliet Wilson–Bareau English b. 1935 Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet Art historian, scholar, professor at University of Oxford. Rachel Wischnitzer German 1885–1989 Jewish art Architect, professor, author, art historian Margot Wittkower German, American 1902–1995 Neo-Palladian Architecture, Italian Renaissance, Baroque Writer, Interior Design Joanna Woodall English b. 1956 Portraiture, Netherlandish Art Mary Woodall English 1901–1988 Thomas Gainsborough scholar Museum director, curator Frances Yates[53] English 1899–1981 Renaissance Stefania Zahorska Polish 1890–1961 Polish prosaist Hilde Zaloscer Austrian 1903–1999 Coptic Art Art historian, professor at University of Alexandria and Carleton University Ottawa. Marie-Cécile Zinsou French, Beninese b. 1982 Contemporary art in Africa President of Fondation Zinsou and in 2014 she found the Museum of Contemporary Art in Benin, the first museum of art in the country. Rebecca Zorach American b. 1969 Early modern European, contemporary Art historian, professor
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