Eleanor Tufts
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Eleanor May Tufts (February 1, 1927 – December 2, 1991) was an American art historian, feminist and professor of
Her work as an author, historian and lecturer was key to the opening of the
Early and personal life
Tufts was born in
In 1974 Tufts befriended Texas art historian Alessandra Comini;[4] they developed a shared feminist approach toward art and made a shared home together in Dallas as life partners.[5] They spent summers tracking down works by women artists, for their books to raise curatorial awareness of important works by women that had been relegated in storage.[6]
Career
After earning her master's degree in 1957, the
In 1964, she obtained her first faculty position, assistant professor of art history at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. In 1966, she became associate professor of art history at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
Tufts received her Ph.D. from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1971. She defended her dissertation on Spanish artist Luis Egidio Meléndez under the direction of José Lopez-Rey. After receiving her doctorate, she was appointed full professor of art history and chair of the Division of Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.[2]
In 1985, she helped organized a Meléndez exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York City.[7] In 1987 the first director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Anne-Imelda Radice, asked Tufts to curate the traveling exhibition, "American Women Artists, 1830–1930", a show that received extensive and controversial coverage.[8][9]
Tufts served as a member of the editorial board of the Woman's Art Journal until the end of her life, and was replaced by Comini after her passing.[10]
Tufts died of
Publications
- Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists (1974)
- Luis Melendez, 18th-Century Master of the Spanish Still Life (1985)
- American Women Artists, 1830-1930, with introductory essays by Gail Levin, Alessandra Comini and Wanda M. Corn (1987)
See also
References
- ^ Tufts, Eleanor. "Eleanor Tufts papers A Guide to the Collection". legacy.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
- ^ a b c d e Sorensen, Lee. "Tufts, Eleanor May". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ "Eleanor Tufts, Art History Professor, 64". The New York Times. 10 Dec 1991.
- ^ "Eleanor Tufts 1927-1991." Woman's Art Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 55
- ^ "Alessandra Comini". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- ^ NEH Grant details: Women Artists of Bologna in the Reaniassance (sic) and Baroque Periods. National Endowment for the Humanities. February 5, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ "Eleanor Tufts, Art History Professor, 64." The New York Times. December 10, 1991, p B20
- ISBN 9780807615232
- ^ Eleanor Tufts papers at SMU. Texas Archival Resources. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ "Eleanor Tufts 1927-1991". Woman's Art Journal. 13 (1): 5. 1992.