Lynn Gamwell (born 1943) is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on

art history 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 ...

, the

history of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

, the history of science, and their connections. Gamwell has a bachelor's degree from the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...

, an MFA from

Claremont Graduate School The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate ( Pomona College, Claremont McKenna C ...

, and a PhD from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

. She is also a faculty member at the

School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. History This school was started by ...

, and has curated exhibits for institutions including the

Freud Museum The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and s ...

New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It is the fourth oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization wi ...

, and Loyola University Museum of Art. Her books include: *''Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities'' (catalog for exhibit ''The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past'', Sigmund Freud Museum, 1989) *''Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914'' (with Nancy Tomes, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Cornell University Press, 1994). *''Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind'' (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000) *''Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History'' (Princeton University Press, 2016) *''Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual'', revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gamwell, Lynn 1943 births Living people American art historians American women art historians University of Illinois Chicago alumni Claremont McKenna College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni School of Visual Arts faculty Historians from California