Mary Garrard

Mary Garrard
Born1937 (age 86–87)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArt historian
AwardsLifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for Art (2005)
Academic background
EducationJohns Hopkins University
Harvard University
Academic work
DisciplineFeminist art history
InstitutionsAmerican University
Main interestsArtemisia Gentileschi
Notable worksArtemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1989)
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (1996)

Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at American University.[1][2] She is recognized as "one of the founders of feminist art theory"[2] and is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.[3]

  1. ^ Love, Barbara J., ed. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0252031892.
  2. ^ a b Gopnik, Blake (5 October 2008). "Expanded Text of Mary Garrard Interview". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  3. ^ Pollock, Griselda (1990). "Rev. of Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi". The Art Bulletin. 72 (3): 499–505. doi:10.2307/3045754. JSTOR 3045754.