Whitney Chadwick (born July 28, 1943) is an American art historian and educator, who has published on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Her book Women, Art and Society was first published by Thames and Hudson in 1990 and revised in 1997; it is now in its fifth edition. Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University from the School of Art.[1]
In 2010–2011 she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, where she worked on In the Company of Women: Female Sexuality and Empowerment in the Surrealist World focusing on surrealist women artists of the 1930s and 1940s.
Chadwick was the second wife of artist Robert Bechtle, until his death in 2020.[4][5]
Publications
In addition to Women, Art and Society (1990), Chadwick has published Leonora Carrington: la realidad de la imaginacion; Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement; Myth in Surrealist Painting; Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks; and contributed to the book authored by Liz Rideal, Mirror Images: Women Surrealism, and Self-Representation.[6][7][8] Chadwick edited with Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership; and with Tirza True Latimer edited The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris between the Wars.[9] Her novel Framed was published in 1998.[10]
↑Garrard, Mary D. (1991). "Reviewed Work: Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick". Woman's Art Journal. 12 (2): 36–38. doi:10.2307/1358283. JSTOR1358283.
↑"Annual Report 2011-2012"(PDF). Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Archived from the original(PDF) on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
