Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.
Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996
Modernist art historian
Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.
Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.
American theologian, author, and activist
Polish historian and the first woman to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Zurich
French art historian and ethnographer Agnès Humbert was also a member of the French Resistance during World War II.