Professor
Linda Nochlin
(
–
)
1931
2017
Yale University
;
New Haven, CT
Historian (art); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
1992
Art historian. Professor Emerita, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Prominent feminist art historian. Her seminal 1971 article "Why Have Their Been No Great Women Artists?" is considered the pioneering essay of feminist art history and feminist art theory. Explores institutional obstacles preventing women from success in the arts in the West. Her critical attention has been drawn to investigating the ways in which gender affects the creation and apprehension of art, as evidenced by her 1994 essay "Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins". Besides feminist art history, she is best known for her work on Realism, specifically on Gustave Courbet.
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