Mulheres no campo da história da arte

Linda Nochlin, 2012

As mulheres tornaram-se profissionalmente ativas na disciplina acadêmica de história da arte no século XIX e participaram da importante mudança no início do século que começou envolvendo um "assunto visual enfaticamente corpóreo", com Vernon Lee como um exemplo notável. Argumenta-se que no século XX as historiadoras da arte (e curadoras), ao escolherem estudar mulheres artistas, "aumentaram dramaticamente" sua visibilidade. Foi escrito que as mulheres artistas antes de 1974 eram historicamente um de dois grupos; historiadoras da arte e autoras que se dirigem conscientemente ao público do ensino médio por meio da publicação de livros didáticos. A relativa "novidade" desse campo de estudo para as mulheres, aliada à possibilidade de foco interdisciplinar, enfatiza a importância da visibilidade de todas as mulheres globais no campo da história da arte.

Educação e Emprego

Nos Estados Unidos, o emprego profissional e acadêmico para historiadoras da arte não era, no início da década de 1970, compatível com o número de mulheres doutoras em história da arte. Entre 1960 e 1969, 30,1% dos doutorados foram concedidos a mulheres, mas esses números aumentaram significativamente durante esse período: entre 1960 e 1965, foi de 27%, mas entre 1966 e 1967, subiu para 43,5%. Em 1970-1971, as historiadoras da arte em departamentos de arte nos EUA representavam 23,1% dos instrutores, 21,6% dos professores assistentes, 17,5% dos professores associados e apenas 11,1% dos professores titulares. A comparação com os números dos mesmos anos para mulheres nas línguas, de um estudo feito pela Modern Language Association, mostrou que "mulheres em profissões da C.A.A. College Art Association enfrentaram uma discriminação mais severa do que mulheres em campos de M.L.A.". Tendências semelhantes foram relatadas para salário e emprego em ensino de estúdio ("estatísticas preliminares... indicam que mulheres artistas recebem uma parcela desproporcionalmente pequena de empregos de estúdio em tempo integral") e em museus ("particularmente significativa foi a tendência de contratar mulheres com bacharelado para serem secretárias e homens com bacharelado para programas de trainee que rapidamente os promoveram para posições mais desafiadoras).

A história das mulheres na profissão também sugere que a própria educação artística se beneficiou da presença crescente de historiadoras de arte profissionais, uma vez que as estudantes às vezes achavam necessário "refazer" uma educação na qual apenas um ponto de vista masculino havia sido fornecido. Paula Harper, "uma das primeiras historiadoras de arte a trazer uma perspectiva feminista ao estudo da pintura e da escultura", e Moira Roth compartilharam a mesma experiência de um "treinamento unilateral", de se sentirem excluídas. A discriminação contra "mulheres em departamentos de arte de faculdades e universidades e museus de arte" foi, no início da década de 1970, a causa imediata para a fundação do Women's Caucus for Art.

Em um estudo estatístico sobre o emprego nos EUA entre faculdades de arte publicado em 1977, Sandra Packard observa que "nos departamentos de arte o número de mulheres vem diminuindo desde a década de 1930", e que o número de mulheres em faculdades de arte em institutos de ensino superior "diminuiu de 22% em 1963 para um mínimo de 19,5% em 1974", e cita estatísticas sugerindo que "embora as mulheres estejam concentradas nas categorias mais baixas nas faculdades de arte, elas têm mais doutorados do que seus colegas homens".

Representação

• O Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), uma representação para historiadoras de arte, artistas e curadoras foi fundado na reunião de 1972 da College Art Association (CAA), mas se restabeleceu como uma organização independente em 1974 depois que a CAA disse que não poderiam mais usar o nome CAA. De acordo com Judith Brodsky, a CAA era, na época, uma organização muito dominada por homens; ela observa, no entanto, em um artigo de 1977, que o Caucus recebe espaço e tempo na conferência anual da CAA e no periódico da CAA, Art Journal. Um prêmio pelo conjunto da obra (Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award) foi instalado em 1979. Os objetivos da organização incluem "fornecer às mulheres oportunidades de liderança e desenvolvimento profissional" e "expandir oportunidades de networking e exposição para mulheres", e para esse propósito publica um boletim informativo, organiza sessões em conferências e administra bancos de dados para "arte e ativismo". Em 2012, a WCA comemorou seu 40º aniversário e publicou um panfleto para a cerimônia anual de premiação que também inclui uma série de ensaios históricos e reflexões dos ex-presidentes.

• O Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) opera sob os auspícios da College Art Association e defende a bolsa de estudos feminista. A cada ano, o comitê concede um "Distinguished Feminist Award"

• Em 2019, a jornalista Mona Chalabi concluiu um estudo sobre museus e diversidade nos Estados Unidos, descobrindo que em 18 grandes museus as coleções de arte são representadas por 85% de artistas brancos e 87% de artistas homens. Muitos museus dos Estados Unidos (como a National Portrait Gallery) se comprometeram nos últimos anos a aumentar a diversidade em suas coleções de arte e em contratações. Como resultado, uma nova geração de mulheres historiadoras da arte, muitas das quais também são mulheres de cor, se juntou a instituições importantes.

Mulheres Historiadoras Notáveis

Nome	Nacionalidade	Data de nascimento	Especialização	Profissão
Ackerman, PhyllisPhyllis Ackerman	Norte-americana	1893–1977	Arte persa, Arte da China, Tecido têxtil, Tapeçaria	Co-fundadora do Asia Institute, autora, Design de interiores
Ahmady, LeezaLeeza Ahmady	Afegã - Norte-americana	1972	Central Asian art, Diáspora	Curadora independente e diretora da Asia Contemporary Art Week
Ainsworth, MaryanMaryan Ainsworth	Norte-americana		Pintura do norte da Europa dos séculos XIV, XV e XVI, especialmente em Pintura flamenga (séculos XV e XVI)	Professora Kress-Beinecke no Centro de Estudos Avançados em Artes Visuais (CASVA) da Galeria Nacional de Arte em Washington, D.C.. Ela também é curadora de pinturas europeias no Museu Metropolitano de Arte, em Nova York..
Alpers, SvetlanaSvetlana Alpers	Norte-americana	1936	Pintura do Século de Ouro dos Países Baixos	Historiadora da Arte
Al-Wardi, Mouza Sulaiman MohamedMouza Sulaiman Mohamed Al-Wardi	Omã		Prataria de Oman	Diretora do Departamento de Coleção do National Museum (Oman).
Amaki, AmaliaAmalia Amaki	Afro-americana	1949	Arte americana	Artista, Professora de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea na University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa de 2007 a 2012.
Anstruther-Thomson, ClementinaClementina Anstruther-Thomson	Escocesa	1857–1921	Estética experimental durante a Era vitoriana	Autora, Teórica da arte, Crítica de arte
Antonelli, PaolaPaola Antonelli	Italiana	1963	Arte moderna, design	Curadora
Antonova, IrinaIrina Antonova	União Soviética, Rússia	1922–2020	Impressionismo, Arte moderna	Diretora do Museu Pushkin em Moscou de 1961 a 2013.
Archer, MildredMildred Archer	Inglesa	1911–2005	Arte dos séculos XVIII e XIX em Índia britânica	Curadora
Arscott, CarolineCaroline Arscott	Inglesa		Arte vitoriana, Arte do século XIX	Historiadora da arte
Ashrafi, MuqadammaMuqadamma Ashrafi	Tajiquistanesa	1936–2013	Artes e pinturas medievais da Ásia Central	Autora, Pesquisadora
Ashton, DoreDore Ashton	Norte-americana	1928–2017	Arte moderna, Arte contemporânea	Escritora, Professora, Crítica de Arte
Askew, PamelaPamela Askew	Norte-americana	1925–1997	Domenico Fetti e Caravaggio	Professora
Atasoy, NurhanNurhan Atasoy	Turca	1934	Arte otomana e arquitetura	Historiadora da Arte
Auerbach, ErnaErna Auerbach	Alemã	1897–1975	Período Tudor na Inglaterra, Arte feminista	Autora
Avery, MyrtillaMyrtilla Avery	Norte-americana	1869–1959	Arte medieval	Professora na Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, ex-presidente do Departamento de Arte da Wellesley College e diretora do Farnsworth Art Museum de 1930 a 1937.
Babaie, SussanSussan Babaie	Iraniana	1954	Arte persa, Arte islâmica da Idade Moderna	Professora do Instituto Courtauld, historiadora da arte e escritora
Baert, BarbaraBarbara Baert	Belga	1967	Medievalista Iconologista	Historiadora da Arte
Bal, MiekeMieke Bal	Holandesa	1946	Arte moderna, Arte contemporânea	Teoria da Cultura, Videoartista
Banti, AnnaAnna Banti	Italiana	1895–1985	Barroco italiano, Mulheres artistas	Escritora, Historiadora da Arte, Crítica de Arte, Tradutora
Banti, LuisaLuisa Banti	Italian	1894–1978	Etruscan art	Archaeologist, art historian, writer
Baticle, JeannineJeannine Baticle	French	1920–2014	Spanish art	Former Honorary Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre museum.
Barnes, RuthRuth Barnes	English	b. 1956	Material culture, South and Southeast Asian Textiles	Art historian, curator
Barber, Leila CookLeila Cook Barber	American	1903–1984	Renaissance art and Medieval art	Art historian, professor of art history at Vassar College.
Beckett, WendyWendy Beckett (aka 'Sister Wendy')	English	1930–2018	Catholic art	Art historian, Catholic nun
Beer, EllenEllen Beer	Swiss	1926–2004	Medieval art	Art historian, professor
Behling, LottlisaLottlisa Behling	German	1909–1989	Medieval art	Art historian, professor
Berenson, MaryMary Berenson	American	1864–1945	Italian Renaissance	Art historian, lecturer
Dorléac, Laurence BertrandLaurence Bertrand Dorléac	French	b. 1957	Modern and contemporary	Art historian, professor, curator
Betterton, RosemaryRosemary Betterton	English	b. 1951	Feminism and contemporary art	Art historian, professor, author
Bieber, MargareteMargarete Bieber	German	1879–1978	Theatre, sculpture, and clothing of ancient Rome and Greece	Art historian, professor
Billeter, ErikaErika Billeter	German, Swiss	1927–2011	Latino art, contemporary art	Curator, writer, museum director at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts.
Bing, GertrudGertrud Bing	German	1892–1964	Classical tradition	Director of the Warburg Institute
Blum, Shirley NeilsenShirley Neilsen Blum	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).
Bober, Phyllis PrayPhyllis Pray Bober	American	1920–2002	Renaissance art, classical antiquity, culinary history	Author, professor emerita at Bryn Mawr College.
Boggs, Jean SutherlandJean Sutherland Boggs	Canadian	b. 1922	Nineteenth-century French art, Degas	Curator, art historian, and first female director of the National Gallery of Canada
Boner, AliceAlice Boner	Swiss	1889–1981	Indian symbols in art history	Art historian focused on symbols in Indian art, also an artist
Borea, EvelinaEvelina Borea	Italian	b. 1931	Italian art history	Author, curator
Broude, NormaNorma Broude	American	b. 1941	Impressionism and feminist art history	Art historian, Author and emerita professor at American University
Borzello, FrancesFrances Borzello	English		Feminist art history including; social history of art, female portraiture, and female nudes.	Author, scholar, feminist art critic
Breeskin, Adelyn DohmeAdelyn Dohme Breeskin	American	1896–1986	Mary Cassatt	Curator, museum director, and art historian at Baltimore Museum of Art
Brookner, AnitaAnita Brookner	English	b. 1936	Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jacques-Louis David	Author, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge University, her early work focused on art history and later work was fiction novels
Browse, LillianLillian Browse	English	1906–2005	Augustus John, Edgar Degas, James Dickson Innes	Art dealer, art historian
Bruggen, Coosje vanCoosje van Bruggen	Dutch, American	1942–2009	Dutch avant-garde art	Artist, art historian
Bucarelli, PalmaPalma Bucarelli	Italian	1910–1998	avant-garde art	Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) from 1942 to 1975, art critic
Bulling, AnnelieseAnneliese Bulling	German, American	1900–2004	Sinologist, Chinese art and architecture	Art lecturer, art historian
Campbell, AndriannaAndrianna Campbell	American		Nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism	Art historian, curator
Caragol, TaínaTaína Caragol	American		Latino Art	Curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, author
Carbonell, Teresa GisbertTeresa Gisbert Carbonell	Bolivian	b. 1926	Andean art history	Art historian
Caws, Mary AnnMary Ann Caws	American	b. 1933	Modern Art, contemporary art	Author, literary critic, art historian
Chadwick, WhitneyWhitney Chadwick	American	b. 1943	Feminist art critic, contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, gender and sexuality	Author, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University
Chaffee, CathleenCathleen Chaffee	American		contemporary art	Chief curator at Albright–Knox Art Gallery.
Chang, Sheng-ChingSheng-Ching Chang	Taiwanese	b. 1963	Chinese art history and cultural interactions	Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, journalist, writer
Churcher, BettyBetty Churcher	Australian	1931–2015		Art historian, first female director of the National Gallery of Australia
Cirlot, LourdesLourdes Cirlot	Spanish	b. 1949	Spanish and Catalan avant-garde art, 20-century art
Comini, AlessandraAlessandra Comini	American	b. 1934	American women artists, Egon Schiele's portraiture	Academic lecturer, writer, a founder of the Women's Caucus for Art
Constantine, MildredMildred Constantine	American	1913–2008	Poster Art, graphic design	Art historian and curator at Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Cooke, LynneLynne Cooke	Australian	b. 1952	Modern art, contemporary art	Curator
Crooks, JulieJulie Crooks	Canadian			Curator, head of the department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Crookshank, AnneAnne Crookshank	Irish	1927–2016	Irish painting	Professor emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.
Crumlin, RosemaryRosemary Crumlin	Australian	b. 1932	Indigenous Australian art, religious art	Author, Sister of Mercy
Cummins, AlissandraAlissandra 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.
Damandan, ParisaParisa Damandan	Iranian	b. 1967	20th century Iranian photography	Author, historian
D'Ancona, Mirella LeviMirella 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.
Dawson, BarbaraBarbara Dawson	Irish	b. 1957	Modern art	Director of the Hugh Lane Gallery, author, curator
d'Ayzac, FélicieFélicie d'Ayzac	French	1801–1881	Chartres Cathedral	Author, poet, archaeology, one of the first female art historians in France.
Debray, CécileCécile Debray	French	b. 1966	modern painting, contemporary painting	Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie
Décultot, ÉlisabethÉlisabeth Décultot	French	b. 1968	Germanist, German Enlightenment	Literary scholar
Dehejia, VidyaVidya Dehejia	Indian		Indian and South Asian art	Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University.
de la Villa, RocioRocio 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, a co-founders of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV)
Der Nersessian, SirarpieSirarpie Der Nersessian	Armenian	1896–1989	Armenian art, Byzantine art	Professor at Wellesley College, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks.
des Cars, LaurenceLaurence 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.
Deslandres, YvonneYvonne Deslandres	French	1923–1986	Costume, adornment
de Zegher, CatherineCatherine de Zegher	Belgium	b. 1955	Contemporary art	Curator and art historian
Dhamija, JasleenJasleen Dhamija	Indian	b. 1933	Indian textile history, Indian craft history	Professor at University of Minnesota and National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Dhanens, ElisabethElisabeth Dhanens	Belgian	1915–2014	Early Netherlandish painting	Heritage official
d'Harnoncourt, AnneAnne d'Harnoncourt	American	1943–2008	Marcel Duchamp	Curator and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dongerkery, KamalaKamala Dongerkery	Indian	1909–1992	Indian embroidery, Indian jewelry, Indian toys	Social worker, art historian, author, cultural historian
Doshi, SaryuSaryu Doshi	Indian		Indian miniature paintings, Jain art	Founding director of the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Diba, Layla S.Layla S. Diba	Iranian, American		18th/19th-century and contemporary Persian art and the Qajar period	Iranian-American independent scholar and curator.
Dickerman, LeahLeah Dickerman	American		Modern art, Contemporary art	Curator, art historian
Dilke, EmiliaEmilia Dilke	English	1840–1904	18th-century French art	Author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist.
Dimitrova, ElizabetaElizabeta Dimitrova	Macedonian	b. 1962	Byzantinist, medievalists
Durnovo, LydiaLydia Durnovo	Soviet, Russian	1885 –1963	Russian painting, Armenian miniatures, Armenian frescoes	Staff of the National Gallery of Armenia
Dwivedi, SharadaSharada Dwivedi	Indian	1942–2012	Indian art and architecture history	Author of Indian and Mumbaiart and architecture history books
Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki, ShahinShahin Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki	Iranian	b. 1958	Persian traditional costume history, Iranian tribal costume history, tribal textile history, Persian embroidery history and craft	Author, curator, department head in a university
Ellis, NgarinoNgarino Ellis	Māori		Māori art history	Associate Professor at University of Auckland, has been the only Māori art historian employed at a New Zealand university. Author.
Emery, IreneIrene Emery	American	1900–1981	Textile anthropologist	Author, curator of the Textile Museum
Joan Evans	English	1893–1977	French and English mediaeval art	Art historian
Farhad, MassumehMassumeh Farhad	American		Islamic, Iranian, Turkish art history	Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Asian Art.
Ffoulkes, Constance JocelynConstance Jocelyn Ffoulkes	British	1858–1950	Italian	Scholar, she participated in the adoption of a modernization of European methods of research.
Field, Judith V.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
Floyd, Margaret HendersonMargaret Henderson Floyd	American	1932–1997	Boston architecture including Henry Hobson Richardson, and Longfellow, Alden and Harlow.	Professor of Architectural History at Tufts University.
Fernandez-Cao, Marian LopezMarian 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)
Gainza, María Concepción GarcíaMaría Concepción García Gainza	Spanish	b. 1937	Contemporary art, Spanish Renaissance
Gardner, HelenHelen Gardner	American	1878–1946		Author of Art Through the Ages, an art history textbook
Garrard, MaryMary Garrard	American	b. 1940	Italian Baroque art and feminist art history	Art historian, Author, emerita professor at American University
Gonnard, CatherineCatherine Gonnard	French	b. 1958	Women, gender and art	Art historian, journalist, writer, activist
Graevenitz, Antje vonAntje von Graevenitz	German	b. 1940	20th and 21st-century art	Art historian, art critic
Grenier, CatherineCatherine Grenier	French		Alberto Giacometti	Director of the Giacometti Foundation.
Guha-Thakurta, TapatiTapati Guha-Thakurta	Indian	b. 1957	Indian art of the 19th and 20th century	Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Haidar, Navina NajatNavina Najat Haidar	Indian, British		Islamic art	Chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harper, PaulaPaula Harper	American	1930–2012	Feminist art, Camille Pissarro, contemporary art	Art historian, art critic, art lecturer, author
Heenk, LiesbethLiesbeth Heenk	Dutch	b. 1962	Vincent van Gogh
Herrera, HaydenHayden Herrera	American	b. 1940	Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky, Joan Snyder	Art historian, author, foremost scholar on Kahlo.
Hills, HelenHelen Hills	British	b 1960	architecture and gender; female conventual architecture in southern Italy; social class and gender and religious devotion and visual art; the baroque south	Professor, curator, writer
Himid, LubainaLubaina Himid	English	b. 1954	Contemporary art, United Kingdom's Black Art movement	Professor, curator
Hoff, UrsulaUrsula 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).
Hoffmann, MeikeMeike Hoffmann	German	b. 1962	Die Brücke art movement, German art history	Provenance researcher, author
Högkvist, StinaStina Högkvist	Swedish	b. 1972		Curator, Director of Collections at National Museum, in Oslo, Norway
Hopkins, CandiceCandice Hopkins	Carcross/Tagish First Nation	b. 1977	Indigenous art history	Independent curator, writer, and researcher.
Holly, Michael AnnMichael Ann Holly	American		Historiography of art history	Art historian
Humbert, AgnèsAgnès Humbert	French	1894–1963	French art, Louis David, Henri Matisse	Art historian, ethnographer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Igloliorte, HeatherHeather Igloliorte	Inuit	b. 1979	Indigenous art history
Jim, Alice Ming WaiAlice Ming Wai Jim	Canadian		Contemporary Asian art, contemporary Asian Canadian art, remix culture	Professor, art historian, curator
Jones, KellieKellie Jones	American	b. 1959	African-American art and artists	Professor, curator, MacArthur Fellow
Jones, AmeliaAmelia Jones	American	b. 1961	Dada, Feminist art, Performance art, Body art	Art historian, art theorist, curator, author, university professor, art critic
Kahn, DeborahDeborah Kahn	American	b. 1953	European Medieval art and architecture, Canterbury Cathedral	Professor, author
Kapur, GeetaGeeta 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.
Klonk, CharlotteCharlotte Klonk	German		Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Museology	Art historian
Kramrisch, StellaStella Kramrisch	Austrian	1896–1993	Indian art of the 20th-century	Professor, curator
Krauss, RosalindRosalind Krauss	American	b. 1941	20th-century painting, sculpture and photography	Author, associate editor of Artforum from 1971 to 1974, professor at Columbia University
Kuhn, AnnetteAnnette Kuhn	English	b. 1945	Feminist film theory, visual culture, cultural memory	Author, researcher, historian
Kwon, MiwonMiwon Kwon	Korean	b.1961	Contemporary art, site-specific art, land art
Kuo, MichelleMichelle Kuo	American	b.1977 or 1978		Historian, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, editor-in-chief of Artforum from 2010 to 2017
Lajer-Burcharth, EwaEwa Lajer-Burcharth	Polish		18th and 19th century European, contemporary art, feminist and critical theory, Jacques-Louis David	Professor at Harvard University.
Lawner, LynneLynne Lawner	American		Renaissance	Author, scholar, historian with an emphasis on iconographical themes, the meaning of art, as well as social customs.
Lebovici, ÉlisabethÉlisabeth Lebovici	French	b. 1953	Contemporary art, feminist art, Queer art, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero,	Queer theory scholar, art historian, author, writer
Lemieux, AnnetteAnnette Lemieux	American	b. 1957	Contemporary art	Professor, artist
Levetus, Amelia SarahAmelia Sarah Levetus	English, Austrian	1853–1938	Modern art	Author, cultural journalist
Lewis, SamellaSamella Lewis	American	b. 1924	African-American art	Art historian, art critic, and printmaker
Lippard, LucyLucy Lippard	American	b. 1937	Contemporary art	Art critic, curator
Lista, MarcellaMarcella Lista	French		20th Century art	Chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.
Mason, CatherineCatherine Mason	Australian, English		Computer art, digital art	Art historian
Mayer Thurman, Christa C.Christa C. Mayer Thurman	German, American	b. 1934	Textiles	Curator and chair of the textiles department at the Art Institute of Chicago
Montagu, JenniferJennifer Montagu	English	b. 1931	Italian Baroque sculpture	Art historian
Mouriki, DoulaDoula Mouriki	Greek	1934–1991	Byzantinologist, Historian of Art	Professor
Müller-Ebeling, ClaudiaClaudia Müller-Ebeling	German	b. 1956	Healing arts, shamanism	Author
Mulvey, LauraLaura Mulvey	English	b. 1941	Feminist film theory	feminist film theorist, professor at Birkbeck, University of London
Mytkowska, JoannaJoanna Mytkowska	Polish	b. 1970	Contemporary art	Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, curator, art critic
Natif, MikaMika Natif	Israeli		Islamic painting: Central Asia, Iran, India, and the Mediterranean	Art historian
Nochlin, LindaLinda Nochlin	American	1931–2017	Feminist art history	Art historian
Norton, ElizabethElizabeth Norton	English		Tudor period, queens of England	Author, specializing in archaeology and anthropology.
Oforiatta Ayim, NanaNana Oforiatta Ayim	Ghanaian		Pan-African art	Art historian, writer, and filmmaker.
Philip, Lotte BrandLotte Brand Philip	German	1910–1986
Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, MichèleMichèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens	French	1934–2018	Chinese objects
Polichronatou, HeleniHeleni Polichronatou	Greek	b. 1959	Contemporary public art, land art
Pollock, GriseldaGriselda Pollock	English, Canadian	b. 1949
Prettejohn, ElizabethElizabeth Prettejohn	American	b. 1961	Victorian Art, Pre-Raphaelites	Art historian, Professor, curator, author
Princenthal, NancyNancy Princenthal	American	b. 1955	Shirin Neshat, Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Jackie Ferrara, Joyce Kozloff, Hannah Wilke, Agnes Martin	Artist biographer, writer
Ratković Aydemir, Dragana LucijaDragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir	Croatian	b. 1969		Croatian museums
Raven, ArleneArlene Raven	American	1944–2006	Feminist art history, Feminist art movement in the United States	Art historian, art critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building
Rebay, HillaHilla Rebay	German, American	1890–1967	Modern art	Co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, abstract artist, art collector
Renda, GünselGünsel Renda	Turkish		Ottoman art	Professor
Robbins, TrinaTrina Robbins	American	1938–2024	History of comics	Artist and writer
Rose, BarbaraBarbara Rose	American	1936–2020
Predefinição:Sort name	English, American	1933–2021	Feminist art history	Author, professor of art history at Mills College in Oakland, California, and taught at the University of California, San Diego
Rottenberg, AndaAnda Rottenberg	Polish	b. 1944
Ryan, Tina RiversTina Rivers Ryan	American		New media art, digital art, internet art, NFTs	Curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery.
Sajet, KimKim Sajet	Netherlands			Museum director of the National Portrait Gallery.
Savoy, BénédicteBénédicte Savoy	French	b. 1972	Modern art, looted art	Professor at Technische Universität Berlin
Scavenius, BenteBente Scavenius	Danish	b. 1944	Danish art history	Independent scholar, art critic, and author
Schiltz, VéroniqueVéronique Schiltz	French	1942–2019	Scythian art in the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE	Archaeologist, art historian, and literary translator.
Schopenhauer, JohannaJohanna Schopenhauer	German	1766–1838		Artist, author
Shabout, NadaNada Shabout	American	b. 1962	Modern Iraqi art	Art historian
Sheriff, MaryMary Sheriff	American	1950–2016	eighteenth-century art	Art Historian
Silverman, KajaKaja Silverman	American	b. 1947		Film theorist, art historian
Silvestri-Levy, AlessandraAlessandra Silvestri-Levy	Brazilian		Producer and writer
Sorkin, JenniJenni Sorkin	American	b. 1977	American craft history	Author, curator, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Spitzmüller, AnnaAnna Spitzmüller	Austrian	1903-2001		Art historian, curator
Stafford, Barbara MariaBarbara Maria Stafford	American	b. 1941	Developments in imaging arts, optical sciences, and performance technologies	Art historian, researcher
Starr, Nina HowellNina Howell Starr	American	1903–2000	American roadside attractions, American folk art, Outsider artists	Art historian, photographer, curator, art dealer
Steinitz, KateKate Steinitz	German, American	1889–1975		Artist, art historian
Steinweg, KlaraKlara Steinweg	German	1903–1972	Italian Renaissance	Art historian, co-author of the book series Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting.
Stiles, KristineKristine Stiles	American	b. 1947		Art historian, curator
Stokes, MargaretMargaret Stokes	Irish	1832–1900		Antiquarian
Stokstad, MarilynMarilyn Stokstad	American	1929–2016	Medieval and Spanish art	Art historian, professor, author
Strother, Z. S.Z. S. Strother	American		20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history	Professor of African Art at Columbia University
Swallow, DeborahDeborah Swallow	English	b. 1948	Indian art history	Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art since 2004.
Swindler, Mary HamiltonMary Hamilton Swindler	American	1884–1967	Ancient classical painting	Archeologist, professor
Temkin, AnnAnn Temkin	American	b. 1959	Curator	American painting and sculpture
Thompson, Dorothy BurrDorothy Burr Thompson	American	1900–2001
Tietze-Conrat, EricaErica Tietze-Conrat	Austrian, American	1883–1958	Contemporary Viennese Art, Renaissance art, the Venetian school	Academic lecturer
Tipping, MarjorieMarjorie Tipping	Australian	1917–2009		Historian
Tovar Martín, VirginiaVirginia Tovar Martín	Spanish	1929–2013	Architecture and urban planning of Madrid during the Baroque period	Spanish art historian, author, and professor
Toynbee, JocelynJocelyn Toynbee	English	1897–1985
Triki, RachidaRachida Triki	Tunisian	b. 1949	North African art	Professor at Tunis University.
Tucker, MarciaMarcia Tucker	American	1940–2006
Tufts, EleanorEleanor Tufts	American	1927–1991	American women artists, works by Luis Egidio Meléndez	Academic lecturer, writer
Uhlyarik, GeorgianaGeorgiana Uhlyarik	Romanian	b. 1972	Indigenous Canadian art, women artists	Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Valland, RoseRose Valland	French	1898–1980		Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art (during WWII)
van Ysselsteyn, G. T.G. T. van Ysselsteyn	Dutch	1892–1975	Dutch textile history
Vatsyayan, KapilaKapila Vatsyayan	Indian	1928–2020	Indian art
Vermeule, EmilyEmily Vermeule	American	1928–2001	Ancient Greek art, Mycenaean culture	Classical scholar and archaeologist, professor at Harvard University.
Vetulani, CecyliaCecylia Vetulani	Polish	1908–1980
Wagner, AnneAnne Wagner	American	b. 1949	Modern and contemporary art	Art historian, professor emerita
Wagner-Rieger, RenateRenate Wagner-Rieger	Austrian	1921–1980	Architecture, historicism	Academic lecturer
Wechsler, JudithJudith Wechsler	American	b. 1940	19th century French art	Documentary filmmaker; professor emerita
Weidler, CharlotteCharlotte 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.
Welch, EvelynEvelyn Welch	American	b. 1959	Renaissance and early modern	Art historian, professor
Wescher, HertaHerta Wescher	German, French	1899–1971	European modern art, abstract art and collage	Journalist, art critic
Wharton, EdithEdith Wharton	American	1862–1937	Architecture	Writer
Whinney, MargaretMargaret Whinney	English	1897–1975	English art history	Academic lecturer
Whitley, ZoéZoé Whitley	American, English	1979	Contemporary art, United Kingdom's Black Art movement, African diaspora	Curator, museum director
Widmaier Picasso, DianaDiana Widmaier Picasso	French	b. 1974	Modern art, old master drawings	Curator, author, gallerist
Williams, SylviaSylvia Williams	American	1936–1996	African art	Curator, museum director
Willis (artist), DeborahDeborah Willis (artist)	American	1948	African American and Black photographers	Curator, author, photographer, educator
Wilson, SarahSarah Wilson	English		Pierre Klossowski, Henri Matisse, Post-structuralism	Professor at Courtauld Institute, author
Wilson–Bareau, JulietJuliet Wilson–Bareau	English	b. 1935	Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet	Art historian, scholar, professor at University of Oxford.
Wischnitzer, RachelRachel Wischnitzer	German	1885–1989	Jewish art	Architect, professor, author, art historian
Wittkower, MargotMargot Wittkower	German, American	1902–1995	Neo-Palladian Architecture, Italian Renaissance, Baroque	Writer, Interior Design
Woodall, JoannaJoanna Woodall	English	b. 1956	Portraiture, Netherlandish Art
Woodall, MaryMary Woodall	English	1901–1988	Thomas Gainsborough scholar	Museum director, curator
Yates, FrancesFrances Yates	English	1899–1981	Renaissance
Zahorska, StefaniaStefania Zahorska	Polish	1890–1961		Polish prosaist
Zaloscer, HildeHilde Zaloscer	Austrian	1903–1999	Coptic Art	Art historian, professor at University of Alexandria and Carleton University Ottawa.
Zinsou, Marie-CécileMarie-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.
Zorach, RebeccaRebecca Zorach	American	b. 1969	Early modern European, contemporary	Art historian, professor