Victoria Wyatt (born August 3, 1956) is an
ethnographer and
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
specializing in
Northwest Coast Native American art.
Wyatt was educated at
Kenyon College (BA) and
Yale University (MA, M.Phil., Ph.D.). She is a professor in the Department of History in Art at
University of Victoria, in
British Columbia, Canada.
Her books include ''Shapes of Their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art'', and ''Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter and Pond''(with Lloyd Winter and Percy Pond).
[Reviews of ''Images from the Inside Passage'':
*
*
*] Wyatt taught previously at the
University of Washington in Seattle, and served as curator of the Northwest Coast Art collection at the university's
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
References
1956 births
Living people
American art historians
Women art historians
American ethnographers
Kenyon College alumni
Yale University alumni
American women historians
American women anthropologists
21st-century American women
{{ethnographer-stub