Mary DuBose Garrard (born 1937) is an American art historian and emerita professor at American University. She is recognized as "one of the founders of feminist art theory" and is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Education Garrard earned her B.A. degree at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in 1958, her M.A. degree at Harvard University 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 Women’s Caucus for Art.
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, Garrard co-authored and edited several books on art history and curated an exhibition, Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators, in 2007 at the Katzen Arts Center.
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), Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy (University of California Press, 2010), Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe (Reaktion, 2020),
With Norma Broude Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (Harper & Row, 1982), The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (Icon Editions, 1992), The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (Harry N. Abrams, 1996), 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, Women’s Caucus for Art, 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 Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1999 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 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 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1991–92 J. Paul Getty Foundation, 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 American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1978–79 American Council of Learned Societies, 1978–79 Fulbright scholar, Italy, 1963–64
References
External links Mary Garrard at American University Norma Broude and Mary Garrard papers, 1970-2000 at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art