Mary Garrard

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." ==Work==

From 1974 to 1976, Garrard served as the second national president of the Women’s Caucus for Art. ==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==