Ann Birgitta Sutherland Harris (born 4 November 1937) is a British-American art historian specializing in

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

art,

Modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

, and in the history of women's art.

Career

Harris is an educator, having held her first position in 1965 as an Assistant Professor in the department of Art and Archeology,

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. She was then appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at

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(1971–1973). Harris was next hired as Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Albany. Following that she held the Arthur Kittridge Watson Chair for Academic Affairs at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

from 1977–1981. Harris received a Senior Research Fellowship in 1981-82 from the

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and in 1982, was named the

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Distinguished visiting Professor of Art History at the

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before accepting the position of Mellon Professor of Art History at the

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. She is now Professor emerita of Italian Baroque art at that institution. Harris and the feminist art historian

Linda Nochlin Linda Nochlin (''née'' Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art h ...

co-curated the exhibition, '' Women Artists: 1550-1950'' at the

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in 1976. There was a book written by Harris and Nochlin that accompanied the exhibition, in which Harris proposed that art produced by women from the time of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution was infrequently written about or collected. She argues that an aspect of bias was that women did not have access to the same academic training as men, thus causing their dismissal as "dilettantes". The American art collector

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sought advice regarding placement of her private collection of works by women artists; it was Harris who suggested Holladay found the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...

Selected bibliography

* ''Selected Drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini''. New York: Dover Publications, 1977 * ''Andrea Sacchi: Complete Edition of the Paintings with a Critical Catalogue''. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977 * ''Landscape Painting in Rome, 1595-1675'': a Loan Exhibition. New York, NY: R. L. Feigen Gallery, 1985 * ''Women Artists: 1550-1950''. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/New York: Random House, 1976 * ''Elizabeth Murray: Drawings, 1980-1986''. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery/New York: Harper and Row, 1986 * ''Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture''. London aurence King 2005; 2nd ed., 2008

Awards and honors

Harris has received several honors and awards for her work, including a

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award The Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award was established under the presidency of Lee Ann Miller (1978–80). Joan Mondale, artist and wife of vice-president Walter Mondale, helped to secure approval for a national award honoring women' ...

; grants from the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...

, the

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, the

, and the

J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood, Los Angeles, Brentwood neighborhood ...

References

External links

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