Martha P. Tedeschi (born April 1, 1958) is an American art historian and

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. Tedeschi currently serves as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the

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. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century

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and

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prints and drawings, especially works by artists such as

Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in ...

, John Marin, and James McNeill Whistler.

Career

Born to John and Anne, Tedeschi received a

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from Brown University in 1980, and a

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in Art History and Museum Studies from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1982. Her thesis at Michigan focused on Girolamo Mocetto and was titled "The Calumny of Appelles: An Early Sixteenth-Century Engraving by Girolamo Mocetto." In 1994, Tedeschi received a

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in Art History from

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. Her dissertation, supervised by S. Hollis Clayson and Nancy J. Troy, was titled "How Prints Work: Reproductions, Originals, and Their Markets in England, 1840–1900." In 1999, Tedeschi was named the Print Trust Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2012, she was promoted to Deputy Director for Art and Research. Four years later, she was named the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the

, succeeding

Thomas W. Lentz Thomas "Tom" Woodward Lentz Jr. (born June 11, 1951) is an American art historian and curator. Lentz served as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums from 2003 to 2015. He was the ninth director in its history. Ca ...

. Tedeschi is a member of the

Association of Art Museum Curators The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) was founded in New York in 2001 to support the role of curators in shaping the mission of art museums in North America. History The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts was founded in 179 ...

, the

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, and has served as President of the

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from 2009 through 2013. She has published extensively within the academic journal ''

Print Quarterly ''Print Quarterly'' is an international academic journal devoted to the history and art of printmaking, from its origins to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is published in London four times a year, in March, June, September, and Decemb ...

''.

Personal life

Tedeschi is married to Michael Lukasiewicz, with whom she has two children: Samuel and Jacob.

Select works

*''Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983,'' 1985, *''The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler'', with Nesta Spink, 1998, *''The "Writing" of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and U.S., 1850-1940'', with Elizabeth Helsinger, 2008, *''Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light'', with Kristi Dahm et al., 2008, *''John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism'', with Kristi Dahm et al., 2010, *''Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England'', with Elizabeth Athens et al., 2017,

References

External links

Harvard Art Museums profile
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Career

Personal life

Select works

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