# Mulheres no campo da história da arte

As mulheres tornaram-se profissionalmente ativas na disciplina acadêmica de história da arte no século XIX e participaram da importante mudança no início do século que começou envolvendo um "assunto visual enfaticamente corpóreo", com Vernon Lee como um exemplo notável. Argumenta-se que no século XX as historiadoras da arte (e curadoras), ao escolherem estudar mulheres artistas, "aumentaram dramaticamente" sua visibilidade. Foi escrito que as mulheres artistas antes de 1974 eram historicamente um de dois grupos; historiadoras da arte e autoras que se dirigem conscientemente ao público do ensino médio por meio da publicação de livros didáticos. A relativa "novidade" desse campo de estudo para as mulheres, aliada à possibilidade de foco interdisciplinar, enfatiza a importância da visibilidade de todas as mulheres globais no campo da história da arte.

## Educação e Emprego

Nos Estados Unidos, o emprego profissional e acadêmico para historiadoras da arte não era, no início da década de 1970, compatível com o número de mulheres doutoras em história da arte. Entre 1960 e 1969, 30,1% dos doutorados foram concedidos a mulheres, mas esses números aumentaram significativamente durante esse período: entre 1960 e 1965, foi de 27%, mas entre 1966 e 1967, subiu para 43,5%. Em 1970-1971, as historiadoras da arte em departamentos de arte nos EUA representavam 23,1% dos instrutores, 21,6% dos professores assistentes, 17,5% dos professores associados e apenas 11,1% dos professores titulares. A comparação com os números dos mesmos anos para mulheres nas línguas, de um estudo feito pela Modern Language Association, mostrou que "mulheres em profissões da C.A.A. College Art Association enfrentaram uma discriminação mais severa do que mulheres em campos de M.L.A.". Tendências semelhantes foram relatadas para salário e emprego em ensino de estúdio ("estatísticas preliminares... indicam que mulheres artistas recebem uma parcela desproporcionalmente pequena de empregos de estúdio em tempo integral") e em museus ("particularmente significativa foi a tendência de contratar mulheres com bacharelado para serem secretárias e homens com bacharelado para programas de trainee que rapidamente os promoveram para posições mais desafiadoras).
A história das mulheres na profissão também sugere que a própria educação artística se beneficiou da presença crescente de historiadoras de arte profissionais, uma vez que as estudantes às vezes achavam necessário "refazer" uma educação na qual apenas um ponto de vista masculino havia sido fornecido. Paula Harper, "uma das primeiras historiadoras de arte a trazer uma perspectiva feminista ao estudo da pintura e da escultura", e Moira Roth compartilharam a mesma experiência de um "treinamento unilateral", de se sentirem excluídas. A discriminação contra "mulheres em departamentos de arte de faculdades e universidades e museus de arte" foi, no início da década de 1970, a causa imediata para a fundação do Women's Caucus for Art.
Em um estudo estatístico sobre o emprego nos EUA entre faculdades de arte publicado em 1977, Sandra Packard observa que "nos departamentos de arte o número de mulheres vem diminuindo desde a década de 1930", e que o número de mulheres em faculdades de arte em institutos de ensino superior "diminuiu de 22% em 1963 para um mínimo de 19,5% em 1974", e cita estatísticas sugerindo que "embora as mulheres estejam concentradas nas categorias mais baixas nas faculdades de arte, elas têm mais doutorados do que seus colegas homens".

## Representação

* O Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), uma representação para historiadoras de arte, artistas e curadoras foi fundado na reunião de 1972 da College Art Association (CAA), mas se restabeleceu como uma organização independente em 1974 depois que a CAA disse que não poderiam mais usar o nome CAA. De acordo com Judith Brodsky, a CAA era, na época, uma organização muito dominada por homens; ela observa, no entanto, em um artigo de 1977, que o Caucus recebe espaço e tempo na conferência anual da CAA e no periódico da CAA, Art Journal. Um prêmio pelo conjunto da obra (Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award) foi instalado em 1979. Os objetivos da organização incluem "fornecer às mulheres oportunidades de liderança e desenvolvimento profissional" e "expandir oportunidades de networking e exposição para mulheres", e para esse propósito publica um boletim informativo, organiza sessões em conferências e administra bancos de dados para "arte e ativismo". Em 2012, a WCA comemorou seu 40º aniversário e publicou um panfleto para a cerimônia anual de premiação que também inclui uma série de ensaios históricos e reflexões dos ex-presidentes.
* O Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) opera sob os auspícios da College Art Association e defende a bolsa de estudos feminista. A cada ano, o comitê concede um "Distinguished Feminist Award"
* Em 2019, a jornalista Mona Chalabi concluiu um estudo sobre museus e diversidade nos Estados Unidos, descobrindo que em 18 grandes museus as coleções de arte são representadas por 85% de artistas brancos e 87% de artistas homens. Muitos museus dos Estados Unidos (como a National Portrait Gallery) se comprometeram nos últimos anos a aumentar a diversidade em suas coleções de arte e em contratações. Como resultado, uma nova geração de mulheres historiadoras da arte, muitas das quais também são mulheres de cor, se juntou a instituições importantes.

## Mulheres Historiadoras Notáveis

| Nome | Nacionalidade | Data de nascimento | Especialização | Profissão |
| Ackerman, PhyllisPhyllis Ackerman | Norte-americana | 1893–1977 | Arte persa, Arte da China, Tecido têxtil, Tapeçaria | Co-fundadora do Asia Institute, autora, Design de interiores |
| Ahmady, LeezaLeeza Ahmady | Afegã - Norte-americana | 1972 | Central Asian art, Diáspora | Curadora independente e diretora da Asia Contemporary Art Week |
| Ainsworth, MaryanMaryan Ainsworth | Norte-americana | | Pintura do norte da Europa dos séculos XIV, XV e XVI, especialmente em Pintura flamenga (séculos XV e XVI) | Professora Kress-Beinecke no Centro de Estudos Avançados em Artes Visuais (CASVA) da Galeria Nacional de Arte em Washington, D.C.. Ela também é curadora de pinturas europeias no Museu Metropolitano de Arte, em Nova York.. |
| Alpers, SvetlanaSvetlana Alpers | Norte-americana | 1936 | Pintura do Século de Ouro dos Países Baixos | Historiadora da Arte |
| Al-Wardi, Mouza Sulaiman MohamedMouza Sulaiman Mohamed Al-Wardi | Omã | | Prataria de Oman | Diretora do Departamento de Coleção do National Museum (Oman). |
| Amaki, AmaliaAmalia Amaki | Afro-americana | 1949 | Arte americana | Artista, Professora de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea na University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa de 2007 a 2012. |
| Anstruther-Thomson, ClementinaClementina Anstruther-Thomson | Escocesa | 1857–1921 | Estética experimental durante a Era vitoriana | Autora, Teórica da arte, Crítica de arte |
| Antonelli, PaolaPaola Antonelli | Italiana | 1963 | Arte moderna, design | Curadora |
| Antonova, IrinaIrina Antonova | União Soviética, Rússia | 1922–2020 | Impressionismo, Arte moderna | Diretora do Museu Pushkin em Moscou de 1961 a 2013. |
| Archer, MildredMildred Archer | Inglesa | 1911–2005 | Arte dos séculos XVIII e XIX em Índia britânica | Curadora |
| Arscott, CarolineCaroline Arscott | Inglesa | | Arte vitoriana, Arte do século XIX | Historiadora da arte |
| Ashrafi, MuqadammaMuqadamma Ashrafi | Tajiquistanesa | 1936–2013 | Artes e pinturas medievais da Ásia Central | Autora, Pesquisadora |
| Ashton, DoreDore Ashton | Norte-americana | 1928–2017 | Arte moderna, Arte contemporânea | Escritora, Professora, Crítica de Arte |
| Askew, PamelaPamela Askew | Norte-americana | 1925–1997 | Domenico Fetti e Caravaggio | Professora |
| Atasoy, NurhanNurhan Atasoy | Turca | 1934 | Arte otomana e arquitetura | Historiadora da Arte |
| Auerbach, ErnaErna Auerbach | Alemã | 1897–1975 | Período Tudor na Inglaterra, Arte feminista | Autora |
| Avery, MyrtillaMyrtilla Avery | Norte-americana | 1869–1959 | Arte medieval | Professora na Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, ex-presidente do Departamento de Arte da Wellesley College e diretora do Farnsworth Art Museum de 1930 a 1937. |
| Babaie, SussanSussan Babaie | Iraniana | 1954 | Arte persa, Arte islâmica da Idade Moderna | Professora do Instituto Courtauld, historiadora da arte e escritora |
| Baert, BarbaraBarbara Baert | Belga | 1967 | Medievalista Iconologista | Historiadora da Arte |
| Bal, MiekeMieke Bal | Holandesa | 1946 | Arte moderna, Arte contemporânea | Teoria da Cultura, Videoartista |
| Banti, AnnaAnna Banti | Italiana | 1895–1985 | Barroco italiano, Mulheres artistas | Escritora, Historiadora da Arte, Crítica de Arte, Tradutora |
| Banti, LuisaLuisa Banti | Italian | 1894–1978 | Etruscan art | Archaeologist, art historian, writer |
| Baticle, JeannineJeannine Baticle | French | 1920–2014 | Spanish art | Former Honorary Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre museum. |
| Barnes, RuthRuth Barnes | English | b. 1956 | Material culture, South and Southeast Asian Textiles | Art historian, curator |
| Barber, Leila CookLeila Cook Barber | American | 1903–1984 | Renaissance art and Medieval art | Art historian, professor of art history at Vassar College. |
| Beckett, WendyWendy Beckett (aka 'Sister Wendy') | English | 1930–2018 | Catholic art | Art historian, Catholic nun |
| Beer, EllenEllen Beer | Swiss | 1926–2004 | Medieval art | Art historian, professor |
| Behling, LottlisaLottlisa Behling | German | 1909–1989 | Medieval art | Art historian, professor |
| Berenson, MaryMary Berenson | American | 1864–1945 | Italian Renaissance | Art historian, lecturer |
| Dorléac, Laurence BertrandLaurence Bertrand Dorléac | French | b. 1957 | Modern and contemporary | Art historian, professor, curator |
| Betterton, RosemaryRosemary Betterton | English | b. 1951 | Feminism and contemporary art | Art historian, professor, author |
| Bieber, MargareteMargarete Bieber | German | 1879–1978 | Theatre, sculpture, and clothing of ancient Rome and Greece | Art historian, professor |
| Billeter, ErikaErika Billeter | German, Swiss | 1927–2011 | Latino art, contemporary art | Curator, writer, museum director at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts. |
| Bing, GertrudGertrud Bing | German | 1892–1964 | Classical tradition | Director of the Warburg Institute |
| Blum, Shirley NeilsenShirley Neilsen Blum | American | b. 1932 | Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art. | Art historian, author, gallerist, co-founder of Ferus Gallery, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989). |
| Bober, Phyllis PrayPhyllis Pray Bober | American | 1920–2002 | Renaissance art, classical antiquity, culinary history | Author, professor emerita at Bryn Mawr College. |
| Boggs, Jean SutherlandJean Sutherland Boggs | Canadian | b. 1922 | Nineteenth-century French art, Degas | Curator, art historian, and first female director of the National Gallery of Canada |
| Boner, AliceAlice Boner | Swiss | 1889–1981 | Indian symbols in art history | Art historian focused on symbols in Indian art, also an artist |
| Borea, EvelinaEvelina Borea | Italian | b. 1931 | Italian art history | Author, curator |
| Broude, NormaNorma Broude | American | b. 1941 | Impressionism and feminist art history | Art historian, Author and emerita professor at American University |
| Borzello, FrancesFrances Borzello | English | | Feminist art history including; social history of art, female portraiture, and female nudes. | Author, scholar, feminist art critic |
| Breeskin, Adelyn DohmeAdelyn Dohme Breeskin | American | 1896–1986 | Mary Cassatt | Curator, museum director, and art historian at Baltimore Museum of Art |
| Brookner, AnitaAnita Brookner | English | b. 1936 | Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jacques-Louis David | Author, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge University, her early work focused on art history and later work was fiction novels |
| Browse, LillianLillian Browse | English | 1906–2005 | Augustus John, Edgar Degas, James Dickson Innes | Art dealer, art historian |
| Bruggen, Coosje vanCoosje van Bruggen | Dutch, American | 1942–2009 | Dutch avant-garde art | Artist, art historian |
| Bucarelli, PalmaPalma Bucarelli | Italian | 1910–1998 | avant-garde art | Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) from 1942 to 1975, art critic |
| Bulling, AnnelieseAnneliese Bulling | German, American | 1900–2004 | Sinologist, Chinese art and architecture | Art lecturer, art historian |
| Campbell, AndriannaAndrianna Campbell | American | | Nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism | Art historian, curator |
| Caragol, TaínaTaína Caragol | American | | Latino Art | Curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, author |
| Carbonell, Teresa GisbertTeresa Gisbert Carbonell | Bolivian | b. 1926 | Andean art history | Art historian |
| Caws, Mary AnnMary Ann Caws | American | b. 1933 | Modern Art, contemporary art | Author, literary critic, art historian |
| Chadwick, WhitneyWhitney Chadwick | American | b. 1943 | Feminist art critic, contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, gender and sexuality | Author, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University |
| Chaffee, CathleenCathleen Chaffee | American | | contemporary art | Chief curator at Albright–Knox Art Gallery. |
| Chang, Sheng-ChingSheng-Ching Chang | Taiwanese | b. 1963 | Chinese art history and cultural interactions | Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, journalist, writer |
| Churcher, BettyBetty Churcher | Australian | 1931–2015 | | Art historian, first female director of the National Gallery of Australia |
| Cirlot, LourdesLourdes Cirlot | Spanish | b. 1949 | Spanish and Catalan avant-garde art, 20-century art | |
| Comini, AlessandraAlessandra Comini | American | b. 1934 | American women artists, Egon Schiele's portraiture | Academic lecturer, writer, a founder of the Women's Caucus for Art |
| Constantine, MildredMildred Constantine | American | 1913–2008 | Poster Art, graphic design | Art historian and curator at Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s |
| Cooke, LynneLynne Cooke | Australian | b. 1952 | Modern art, contemporary art | Curator |
| Crooks, JulieJulie Crooks | Canadian | | | Curator, head of the department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario |
| Crookshank, AnneAnne Crookshank | Irish | 1927–2016 | Irish painting | Professor emeritus at Trinity College Dublin. |
| Crumlin, RosemaryRosemary Crumlin | Australian | b. 1932 | Indigenous Australian art, religious art | Author, Sister of Mercy |
| Cummins, AlissandraAlissandra Cummins | Barbadian | b. 1958 | Caribbean art | Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society; lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the West Indies. |
| Damandan, ParisaParisa Damandan | Iranian | b. 1967 | 20th century Iranian photography | Author, historian |
| D'Ancona, Mirella LeviMirella Levi D'Ancona | American, Italian | 1919–2002 | Symbolism and iconography in art from the Late Middle Ages period to the Renaissance | Professor emeritus at Hunter College, author, art historian. |
| Dawson, BarbaraBarbara Dawson | Irish | b. 1957 | Modern art | Director of the Hugh Lane Gallery, author, curator |
| d'Ayzac, FélicieFélicie d'Ayzac | French | 1801–1881 | Chartres Cathedral | Author, poet, archaeology, one of the first female art historians in France. |
| Debray, CécileCécile Debray | French | b. 1966 | modern painting, contemporary painting | Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie |
| Décultot, ÉlisabethÉlisabeth Décultot | French | b. 1968 | Germanist, German Enlightenment | Literary scholar |
| Dehejia, VidyaVidya Dehejia | Indian | | Indian and South Asian art | Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. |
| de la Villa, RocioRocio de la Villa | Spanish | b. 1959 | Spanish feminist art, contemporary art | Curator, university professor, president of Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, a co-founders of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) |
| Der Nersessian, SirarpieSirarpie Der Nersessian | Armenian | 1896–1989 | Armenian art, Byzantine art | Professor at Wellesley College, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks. |
| des Cars, LaurenceLaurence des Cars | French | b. 1966 | Pre-Raphaelites, English painting | Director of the Louvre Museum; former director of Musée d'Orsay, and Musée de l'Orangerie. |
| Deslandres, YvonneYvonne Deslandres | French | 1923–1986 | Costume, adornment | |
| de Zegher, CatherineCatherine de Zegher | Belgium | b. 1955 | Contemporary art | Curator and art historian |
| Dhamija, JasleenJasleen Dhamija | Indian | b. 1933 | Indian textile history, Indian craft history | Professor at University of Minnesota and National Institute of Fashion Technology. |
| Dhanens, ElisabethElisabeth Dhanens | Belgian | 1915–2014 | Early Netherlandish painting | Heritage official |
| d'Harnoncourt, AnneAnne d'Harnoncourt | American | 1943–2008 | Marcel Duchamp | Curator and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Dongerkery, KamalaKamala Dongerkery | Indian | 1909–1992 | Indian embroidery, Indian jewelry, Indian toys | Social worker, art historian, author, cultural historian |
| Doshi, SaryuSaryu Doshi | Indian | | Indian miniature paintings, Jain art | Founding director of the National Gallery of Modern Art. |
| Diba, Layla S.Layla S. Diba | Iranian, American | | 18th/19th-century and contemporary Persian art and the Qajar period | Iranian-American independent scholar and curator. |
| Dickerman, LeahLeah Dickerman | American | | Modern art, Contemporary art | Curator, art historian |
| Dilke, EmiliaEmilia Dilke | English | 1840–1904 | 18th-century French art | Author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist. |
| Dimitrova, ElizabetaElizabeta Dimitrova | Macedonian | b. 1962 | Byzantinist, medievalists | |
| Durnovo, LydiaLydia Durnovo | Soviet, Russian | 1885 –1963 | Russian painting, Armenian miniatures, Armenian frescoes | Staff of the National Gallery of Armenia |
| Dwivedi, SharadaSharada Dwivedi | Indian | 1942–2012 | Indian art and architecture history | Author of Indian and Mumbaiart and architecture history books |
| Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki, ShahinShahin Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki | Iranian | b. 1958 | Persian traditional costume history, Iranian tribal costume history, tribal textile history, Persian embroidery history and craft | Author, curator, department head in a university |
| Ellis, NgarinoNgarino Ellis | Māori | | Māori art history | Associate Professor at University of Auckland, has been the only Māori art historian employed at a New Zealand university. Author. |
| Emery, IreneIrene Emery | American | 1900–1981 | Textile anthropologist | Author, curator of the Textile Museum |
| Joan Evans | English | 1893–1977 | French and English mediaeval art | Art historian |
| Farhad, MassumehMassumeh Farhad | American | | Islamic, Iranian, Turkish art history | Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Asian Art. |
| Ffoulkes, Constance JocelynConstance Jocelyn Ffoulkes | British | 1858–1950 | Italian | Scholar, she participated in the adoption of a modernization of European methods of research. |
| Field, Judith V.Judith V. Field | British | b. 1943 | Geometrical art, mathematical art | Scholar, mathematician, research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London |
| Floyd, Margaret HendersonMargaret Henderson Floyd | American | 1932–1997 | Boston architecture including Henry Hobson Richardson, and Longfellow, Alden and Harlow. | Professor of Architectural History at Tufts University. |
| Fernandez-Cao, Marian LopezMarian Lopez Fernandez-Cao | Spanish | b. 1964 | Spanish feminist art, contemporary art, and the works of Sonia Delaunay | University professor and researcher, former president of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) |
| Gainza, María Concepción GarcíaMaría Concepción García Gainza | Spanish | b. 1937 | Contemporary art, Spanish Renaissance | |
| Gardner, HelenHelen Gardner | American | 1878–1946 | | Author of Art Through the Ages, an art history textbook |
| Garrard, MaryMary Garrard | American | b. 1940 | Italian Baroque art and feminist art history | Art historian, Author, emerita professor at American University |
| Gonnard, CatherineCatherine Gonnard | French | b. 1958 | Women, gender and art | Art historian, journalist, writer, activist |
| Graevenitz, Antje vonAntje von Graevenitz | German | b. 1940 | 20th and 21st-century art | Art historian, art critic |
| Grenier, CatherineCatherine Grenier | French | | Alberto Giacometti | Director of the Giacometti Foundation. |
| Guha-Thakurta, TapatiTapati Guha-Thakurta | Indian | b. 1957 | Indian art of the 19th and 20th century | Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. |
| Haidar, Navina NajatNavina Najat Haidar | Indian, British | | Islamic art | Chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| Harper, PaulaPaula Harper | American | 1930–2012 | Feminist art, Camille Pissarro, contemporary art | Art historian, art critic, art lecturer, author |
| Heenk, LiesbethLiesbeth Heenk | Dutch | b. 1962 | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Herrera, HaydenHayden Herrera | American | b. 1940 | Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky, Joan Snyder | Art historian, author, foremost scholar on Kahlo. |
| Hills, HelenHelen Hills | British | b 1960 | architecture and gender; female conventual architecture in southern Italy; social class and gender and religious devotion and visual art; the baroque south | Professor, curator, writer |
| Himid, LubainaLubaina Himid | English | b. 1954 | Contemporary art, United Kingdom's Black Art movement | Professor, curator |
| Hoff, UrsulaUrsula Hoff | German, Australian | 1909–2005 | Australian art, the works of Rembrandt | Scholar, academic, curator, author, critic, and lecturer. Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1968–1973); London Adviser of the Felton Bequest (1975–83). |
| Hoffmann, MeikeMeike Hoffmann | German | b. 1962 | Die Brücke art movement, German art history | Provenance researcher, author |
| Högkvist, StinaStina Högkvist | Swedish | b. 1972 | | Curator, Director of Collections at National Museum, in Oslo, Norway |
| Hopkins, CandiceCandice Hopkins | Carcross/Tagish First Nation | b. 1977 | Indigenous art history | Independent curator, writer, and researcher. |
| Holly, Michael AnnMichael Ann Holly | American | | Historiography of art history | Art historian |
| Humbert, AgnèsAgnès Humbert | French | 1894–1963 | French art, Louis David, Henri Matisse | Art historian, ethnographer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. |
| Igloliorte, HeatherHeather Igloliorte | Inuit | b. 1979 | Indigenous art history | |
| Jim, Alice Ming WaiAlice Ming Wai Jim | Canadian | | Contemporary Asian art, contemporary Asian Canadian art, remix culture | Professor, art historian, curator |
| Jones, KellieKellie Jones | American | b. 1959 | African-American art and artists | Professor, curator, MacArthur Fellow |
| Jones, AmeliaAmelia Jones | American | b. 1961 | Dada, Feminist art, Performance art, Body art | Art historian, art theorist, curator, author, university professor, art critic |
| Kahn, DeborahDeborah Kahn | American | b. 1953 | European Medieval art and architecture, Canterbury Cathedral | Professor, author |
| Kapur, GeetaGeeta Kapur | Indian | b. 1943 | Indian contemporary art | |
| Ebba Koch | Austrian | | Indian art history, Mughal-era (architecture, gardens, painting, applied arts), and connecting imperial symbolism. | Professor at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, Austria. |
| Klonk, CharlotteCharlotte Klonk | German | | Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Museology | Art historian |
| Kramrisch, StellaStella Kramrisch | Austrian | 1896–1993 | Indian art of the 20th-century | Professor, curator |
| Krauss, RosalindRosalind Krauss | American | b. 1941 | 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography | Author, associate editor of Artforum from 1971 to 1974, professor at Columbia University |
| Kuhn, AnnetteAnnette Kuhn | English | b. 1945 | Feminist film theory, visual culture, cultural memory | Author, researcher, historian |
| Kwon, MiwonMiwon Kwon | Korean | b.1961 | Contemporary art, site-specific art, land art | |
| Kuo, MichelleMichelle Kuo | American | b.1977 or 1978 | | Historian, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, editor-in-chief of Artforum from 2010 to 2017 |
| Lajer-Burcharth, EwaEwa Lajer-Burcharth | Polish | | 18th and 19th century European, contemporary art, feminist and critical theory, Jacques-Louis David | Professor at Harvard University. |
| Lawner, LynneLynne Lawner | American | | Renaissance | Author, scholar, historian with an emphasis on iconographical themes, the meaning of art, as well as social customs. |
| Lebovici, ÉlisabethÉlisabeth Lebovici | French | b. 1953 | Contemporary art, feminist art, Queer art, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, | Queer theory scholar, art historian, author, writer |
| Lemieux, AnnetteAnnette Lemieux | American | b. 1957 | Contemporary art | Professor, artist |
| Levetus, Amelia SarahAmelia Sarah Levetus | English, Austrian | 1853–1938 | Modern art | Author, cultural journalist |
| Lewis, SamellaSamella Lewis | American | b. 1924 | African-American art | Art historian, art critic, and printmaker |
| Lippard, LucyLucy Lippard | American | b. 1937 | Contemporary art | Art critic, curator |
| Lista, MarcellaMarcella Lista | French | | 20th Century art | Chief curator at the Centre Pompidou. |
| Mason, CatherineCatherine Mason | Australian, English | | Computer art, digital art | Art historian |
| Mayer Thurman, Christa C.Christa C. Mayer Thurman | German, American | b. 1934 | Textiles | Curator and chair of the textiles department at the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Montagu, JenniferJennifer Montagu | English | b. 1931 | Italian Baroque sculpture | Art historian |
| Mouriki, DoulaDoula Mouriki | Greek | 1934–1991 | Byzantinologist, Historian of Art | Professor |
| Müller-Ebeling, ClaudiaClaudia Müller-Ebeling | German | b. 1956 | Healing arts, shamanism | Author |
| Mulvey, LauraLaura Mulvey | English | b. 1941 | Feminist film theory | feminist film theorist, professor at Birkbeck, University of London |
| Mytkowska, JoannaJoanna Mytkowska | Polish | b. 1970 | Contemporary art | Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, curator, art critic |
| Natif, MikaMika Natif | Israeli | | Islamic painting: Central Asia, Iran, India, and the Mediterranean | Art historian |
| Nochlin, LindaLinda Nochlin | American | 1931–2017 | Feminist art history | Art historian |
| Norton, ElizabethElizabeth Norton | English | | Tudor period, queens of England | Author, specializing in archaeology and anthropology. |
| Oforiatta Ayim, NanaNana Oforiatta Ayim | Ghanaian | | Pan-African art | Art historian, writer, and filmmaker. |
| Philip, Lotte BrandLotte Brand Philip | German | 1910–1986 | | |
| Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, MichèleMichèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens | French | 1934–2018 | Chinese objects | |
| Polichronatou, HeleniHeleni Polichronatou | Greek | b. 1959 | Contemporary public art, land art | |
| Pollock, GriseldaGriselda Pollock | English, Canadian | b. 1949 | | |
| Prettejohn, ElizabethElizabeth Prettejohn | American | b. 1961 | Victorian Art, Pre-Raphaelites | Art historian, Professor, curator, author |
| Princenthal, NancyNancy Princenthal | American | b. 1955 | Shirin Neshat, Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Jackie Ferrara, Joyce Kozloff, Hannah Wilke, Agnes Martin | Artist biographer, writer |
| Ratković Aydemir, Dragana LucijaDragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir | Croatian | b. 1969 | | Croatian museums |
| Raven, ArleneArlene Raven | American | 1944–2006 | Feminist art history, Feminist art movement in the United States | Art historian, art critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building |
| Rebay, HillaHilla Rebay | German, American | 1890–1967 | Modern art | Co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, abstract artist, art collector |
| Renda, GünselGünsel Renda | Turkish | | Ottoman art | Professor |
| Robbins, TrinaTrina Robbins | American | 1938–2024 | History of comics | Artist and writer |
| Rose, BarbaraBarbara Rose | American | 1936–2020 | | |
| Predefinição:Sort name | English, American | 1933–2021 | Feminist art history | Author, professor of art history at Mills College in Oakland, California, and taught at the University of California, San Diego |
| Rottenberg, AndaAnda Rottenberg | Polish | b. 1944 | | |
| Ryan, Tina RiversTina Rivers Ryan | American | | New media art, digital art, internet art, NFTs | Curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery. |
| Sajet, KimKim Sajet | Netherlands | | | Museum director of the National Portrait Gallery. |
| Savoy, BénédicteBénédicte Savoy | French | b. 1972 | Modern art, looted art | Professor at Technische Universität Berlin |
| Scavenius, BenteBente Scavenius | Danish | b. 1944 | Danish art history | Independent scholar, art critic, and author |
| Schiltz, VéroniqueVéronique Schiltz | French | 1942–2019 | Scythian art in the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE | Archaeologist, art historian, and literary translator. |
| Schopenhauer, JohannaJohanna Schopenhauer | German | 1766–1838 | | Artist, author |
| Shabout, NadaNada Shabout | American | b. 1962 | Modern Iraqi art | Art historian |
| Sheriff, MaryMary Sheriff | American | 1950–2016 | eighteenth-century art | Art Historian |
| Silverman, KajaKaja Silverman | American | b. 1947 | | Film theorist, art historian |
| Silvestri-Levy, AlessandraAlessandra Silvestri-Levy | Brazilian | | Producer and writer | |
| Sorkin, JenniJenni Sorkin | American | b. 1977 | American craft history | Author, curator, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Spitzmüller, AnnaAnna Spitzmüller | Austrian | 1903-2001 | | Art historian, curator |
| Stafford, Barbara MariaBarbara Maria Stafford | American | b. 1941 | Developments in imaging arts, optical sciences, and performance technologies | Art historian, researcher |
| Starr, Nina HowellNina Howell Starr | American | 1903–2000 | American roadside attractions, American folk art, Outsider artists | Art historian, photographer, curator, art dealer |
| Steinitz, KateKate Steinitz | German, American | 1889–1975 | | Artist, art historian |
| Steinweg, KlaraKlara Steinweg | German | 1903–1972 | Italian Renaissance | Art historian, co-author of the book series Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. |
| Stiles, KristineKristine Stiles | American | b. 1947 | | Art historian, curator |
| Stokes, MargaretMargaret Stokes | Irish | 1832–1900 | | Antiquarian |
| Stokstad, MarilynMarilyn Stokstad | American | 1929–2016 | Medieval and Spanish art | Art historian, professor, author |
| Strother, Z. S.Z. S. Strother | American | | 20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history | Professor of African Art at Columbia University |
| Swallow, DeborahDeborah Swallow | English | b. 1948 | Indian art history | Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art since 2004. |
| Swindler, Mary HamiltonMary Hamilton Swindler | American | 1884–1967 | Ancient classical painting | Archeologist, professor |
| Temkin, AnnAnn Temkin | American | b. 1959 | Curator | American painting and sculpture |
| Thompson, Dorothy BurrDorothy Burr Thompson | American | 1900–2001 | | |
| Tietze-Conrat, EricaErica Tietze-Conrat | Austrian, American | 1883–1958 | Contemporary Viennese Art, Renaissance art, the Venetian school | Academic lecturer |
| Tipping, MarjorieMarjorie Tipping | Australian | 1917–2009 | | Historian |
| Tovar Martín, VirginiaVirginia Tovar Martín | Spanish | 1929–2013 | Architecture and urban planning of Madrid during the Baroque period | Spanish art historian, author, and professor |
| Toynbee, JocelynJocelyn Toynbee | English | 1897–1985 | | |
| Triki, RachidaRachida Triki | Tunisian | b. 1949 | North African art | Professor at Tunis University. |
| Tucker, MarciaMarcia Tucker | American | 1940–2006 | | |
| Tufts, EleanorEleanor Tufts | American | 1927–1991 | American women artists, works by Luis Egidio Meléndez | Academic lecturer, writer |
| Uhlyarik, GeorgianaGeorgiana Uhlyarik | Romanian | b. 1972 | Indigenous Canadian art, women artists | Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) |
| Valland, RoseRose Valland | French | 1898–1980 | | Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art (during WWII) |
| van Ysselsteyn, G. T.G. T. van Ysselsteyn | Dutch | 1892–1975 | Dutch textile history | |
| Vatsyayan, KapilaKapila Vatsyayan | Indian | 1928–2020 | Indian art | |
| Vermeule, EmilyEmily Vermeule | American | 1928–2001 | Ancient Greek art, Mycenaean culture | Classical scholar and archaeologist, professor at Harvard University. |
| Vetulani, CecyliaCecylia Vetulani | Polish | 1908–1980 | | |
| Wagner, AnneAnne Wagner | American | b. 1949 | Modern and contemporary art | Art historian, professor emerita |
| Wagner-Rieger, RenateRenate Wagner-Rieger | Austrian | 1921–1980 | Architecture, historicism | Academic lecturer |
| Wechsler, JudithJudith Wechsler | American | b. 1940 | 19th century French art | Documentary filmmaker; professor emerita |
| Weidler, CharlotteCharlotte Weidler | German | 1895–1983 | German expressionism | Art dealer, curator, and she held a pivotal role in bringing major works of Germany to the United States; resulting restitution claims concerning the collections of Paul Westheim and Alfred Flechtheim. |
| Welch, EvelynEvelyn Welch | American | b. 1959 | Renaissance and early modern | Art historian, professor |
| Wescher, HertaHerta Wescher | German, French | 1899–1971 | European modern art, abstract art and collage | Journalist, art critic |
| Wharton, EdithEdith Wharton | American | 1862–1937 | Architecture | Writer |
| Whinney, MargaretMargaret Whinney | English | 1897–1975 | English art history | Academic lecturer |
| Whitley, ZoéZoé Whitley | American, English | 1979 | Contemporary art, United Kingdom's Black Art movement, African diaspora | Curator, museum director |
| Widmaier Picasso, DianaDiana Widmaier Picasso | French | b. 1974 | Modern art, old master drawings | Curator, author, gallerist |
| Williams, SylviaSylvia Williams | American | 1936–1996 | African art | Curator, museum director |
| Willis (artist), DeborahDeborah Willis (artist) | American | 1948 | African American and Black photographers | Curator, author, photographer, educator |
| Wilson, SarahSarah Wilson | English | | Pierre Klossowski, Henri Matisse, Post-structuralism | Professor at Courtauld Institute, author |
| Wilson–Bareau, JulietJuliet Wilson–Bareau | English | b. 1935 | Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet | Art historian, scholar, professor at University of Oxford. |
| Wischnitzer, RachelRachel Wischnitzer | German | 1885–1989 | Jewish art | Architect, professor, author, art historian |
| Wittkower, MargotMargot Wittkower | German, American | 1902–1995 | Neo-Palladian Architecture, Italian Renaissance, Baroque | Writer, Interior Design |
| Woodall, JoannaJoanna Woodall | English | b. 1956 | Portraiture, Netherlandish Art | |
| Woodall, MaryMary Woodall | English | 1901–1988 | Thomas Gainsborough scholar | Museum director, curator |
| Yates, FrancesFrances Yates | English | 1899–1981 | Renaissance | |
| Zahorska, StefaniaStefania Zahorska | Polish | 1890–1961 | | Polish prosaist |
| Zaloscer, HildeHilde Zaloscer | Austrian | 1903–1999 | Coptic Art | Art historian, professor at University of Alexandria and Carleton University Ottawa. |
| Zinsou, Marie-CécileMarie-Cécile Zinsou | French, Beninese | b. 1982 | Contemporary art in Africa | President of Fondation Zinsou and in 2014 she found the Museum of Contemporary Art in Benin, the first museum of art in the country. |
| Zorach, RebeccaRebecca Zorach | American | b. 1969 | Early modern European, contemporary | Art historian, professor |