American art critic, curator, professor, and television host
Nancy Mowll Mathews (born 1947 in Baltimore) is a Czech-American art historian, curator and author. She was the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art[1] from 1988 to 2010.[2] She is currently an independent scholar, curator, professor and host of the television show Art World with Nancy Mathews.
She graduated from Goucher College and went on to complete an MA in art history at Case Western Reserve University and a PhD at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.[1] Before joining the Williams College faculty in 1988, she was a professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College from 1977 to 1987.[3]
Mathews is the author of Mary Cassatt: A Life and of several other books on Mary Cassatt, and of Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life (2001).[4][5] She curated the exhibition "Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910" and edited the related book of the same title. She co-authored the catalogue raisonné of the works of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, as well as several other books and exhibitions on the American artist-brothers, under the auspices of the Prendergast Archive and Study Center at the Williams College Museum of Art.
^ ab"Williams College Museum of Art Announces Retirement of Senior Curator". Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
^"Prendergast in Italy: Curator Biographies". Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
^Mowll, Slava Matejkas; Matthews, Nancy Mowll (2008). The Matejkas: my Czech parents make an American life in Baltimore. New York: iUniverse. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-595-70508-5.
^Smith, Roberta (14 December 2001). "Books of the Times; The Artist as Bully and Self-Described Sex Machine". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
^Solomon, Barbara Probst (16 December 2001). "Art and Ardor". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
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