Anne Wagner Explained

Anne Wagner
Birth Name:	Anne Middleton Wagner
Occupation:	Art Historian
Language:	English
Period:	Modern and Contemporary Art
Subject:	Art History
Notableworks:	Three Women (Three Artists)
Spouse:	T. J. Clark

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]

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

• Women in the art history field

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. Anne Wagner Visiting Professor . . https://web.archive.org/web/20140331145417/https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/wagner/ . March 31, 2014.
2. Web site: Anne Wagner Professor Emerita . UC Berkeley History of Art Department.
3. Web site: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life . Tate.
4. Book: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux : sculptor of the Second Empire . Worldcat. 32212142 .
5. Web site: Three Artists (Three Women) . University of California Press.
6. Web site: Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture . Yale University Press.
7. Web site: A House Divided . University of California Press.