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Anne Wagner

Anne Wagner

American art historian

For the politician and diplomat, see Ann Wagner.

Anne Middleton Wagner, often known as Anne Wagner, is an art historian. Class of 1936 Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, she is now based in London, where in 2013–14 she was Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[1]

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Education, life and work

Wagner attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1971. In 1974 she received her B.A. and went to Harvard University for her Ph.D. which she received in 1980.[2] In 2010 Anne Wagner and her husband T. J. Clark, who is also an art historian and taught at UC Berkeley, retired and moved to London. In 2013 she and Clark co-curated Lowry and the 'Painting of Modern Life', a major exhibition of the British Painter L. S. Lowry at Tate Britain in 2013 "to argue for his achievement as Britain’s pre-eminent painter of the industrial city."[3]

Selected publications

  • Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire, 1986.[4]
  • Three Artists (Three Women), 1996.[5]
  • Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture, 2005.[6]
  • A House Divided: On Recent American Art, 2012.[7]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Prof. Anne Wagner Visiting Professor". University of York. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Anne Wagner Professor Emerita". UC Berkeley History of Art Department.
  3. [3]
    "Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life". Tate.
  4. [4]
    Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux : sculptor of the Second Empire. OCLC 32212142 – via Worldcat.
  5. [5]
    "Three Artists (Three Women)". University of California Press.
  6. [6]
    "Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture". Yale University Press.
  7. [7]
    "A House Divided". University of California Press.
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