Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at

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. She is recognized as "one of the founders of feminist art theory" and is particularly known for her work on the

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painter

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Education

Garrard earned her

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degree at

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in 1958, her

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degree at

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in 1960, and her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1970. writing her dissertation on "The Early Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino—Florence and Rome."Mary DuBose Garrard. "The Early Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino: Florence and Rome." PhD diss.The Johns Hopkins University, 1970.

Work

From 1974 to 1976, Garrard served as the second national president of the

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. Garrard's feminist scholarship began with articles in the 1970s, including "Of Men, Women and Art: Some Historical Reflections" ('' Art Journal'', 1976) and "Feminism: Has It Changed Art History?" ('' Heresies'', 1978). With

Norma Broude Norma Broude (born 1 May 1941) is an American art historian and scholar of feminism and 19th-century French and Italian painting. She is also a Professor Emerita of art history from American University. Broude, with Mary Garrard, is an early leade ...

, Garrard co-authored and edited several books on art history and curated an exhibition, ''Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators'', in 2007 at the

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Selected publications

*''Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989),
''Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity''
(University of California Press, 2001), *''

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's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy'' (University of California Press, 2010), *''Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe'' (

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, 2020),

With
Norma Broude Norma Broude (born 1 May 1941) is an American art historian and scholar of feminism and 19th-century French and Italian painting. She is also a Professor Emerita of art history from American University. Broude, with Mary Garrard, is an early leade ...

''Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany''
(Harper & Row, 1982), *''The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History'' (Icon Editions, 1992),

(Harry N. Abrams, 1996), * ttps://books.google.com/books?id=JacwDwAAQBAJ ''Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism''(University of California Press, 2005), *''Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators'' (American University, 2007)

Awards

* Lifetime Achievement Award,

, 2005 * Faculty Legacy Award, American University, voted by CAS alumni as professor who had greatest influence on their lives, 2002 * Award from College Art Association, Committee on Women, for “pioneering feminist scholarship” (with Norma Broude), 2000 * Honorary doctorate of humane letters, awarded by

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, Jackson, Mississippi, 1999 *

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Award (with Norma Broude), 1995 * Mid-Career Achievement Award, National Women’s Caucus for Art, 1991 * AU College of Arts and Sciences award, Outstanding Scholarship, Research & Other Professional Contributions, 1990 * AU College of Arts and Sciences award, Outstanding Teaching, 1989

Grants and sponsored research

* American University Mellon Fund Travel Award, September 1998 *

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, Fellowship, 1991–92 * J. Paul

Getty Foundation The Getty Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California at the Getty Center, awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts".Getty FoundationAbout the Foundation. Retrieved September 18, 2008. In the past, it funded the ...

, subvention to Princeton University Press to support publication of ''Artemisia Gentileschi'', 1987 * Mina Shaughnessy Scholars Program Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Department of Education, 1982 *

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Fellowship, 1978–79 *

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, 1978–79 *

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, Italy, 1963–64

References

External links

Mary Garrard
at American University
Norma Broude and Mary Garrard papers, 1970-2000
at the

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