Anna Gruetzner Robins is a Canadian art historian who is a professor at the
University of Reading. She is a specialist in the art of
Walter Sickert about which she has written three books. She completed her BA at the
University of Toronto and her MA and PhD at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
In 2011, Gruetzner Robins identified 23 unsigned watercolours at
Princeton University as being by the artist
Gwen John
Gruetzner Robins was married to the journalist and sociologist,
David Robins
David Nathan Robins (17 November 1944 – 6 October 2007) was a British journalist, author, and sociologist who was closely associated with the 1960s and 70s counter-culture. Later he became involved in youth work and write several books on youth ...
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Selected publications
*''Walter Sickert: Drawings. Theory and practice: Word and image'', Scolar Press, 1996.
*''Modern art in Britain 1910 -1914''. Merrell Holberton, London, 1997.
*''Walter Sickert. The complete art criticism''.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
*''A fragile modernism: Whistler and his impressionist followers''.
Yale University Press for the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2007.
References
External links
Walter Sickert: Art Critic for the New Age. Anna Gruetzner Robins, Tate.
Academics of the University of Reading
Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
University of Toronto alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian art historians
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