Delia Gaze Explained

Delia Gaze
Birth Date:	March 1951
Nationality:	British
Education:	Courtauld Institute of Art
Occupation:	Art historian and editor

Delia Dorothy Gaze FSA (born March 1951) is an English art historian and freelance editor, based in Deptford, south-east London.^[1] She is best known for her work as editor of the Dictionary of Women Artists, first published in 1997, containing entries on 550 women painters, sculptors, photographers and workers in the applied arts. The book focuses on Western women artists from the medieval period onwards, and includes essays which place the artists in their historical context.^{[2] [3]}

She has also written biographical entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Photographs by Delia Gaze are held in the Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and are currently undergoing a digitisation process as part of the Courtauld Connects project.^[4] She has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since March 2017.^[5] She has also served as Secretary of the London branch of the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales.^[6]

Publications

As editor

• Dictionary of Women Artists, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.^[7] Later editions of the book, in two volumes, are published by Routledge.^{[8] [9]}
• The Art of Holy Russia: Icons from Moscow, 1400-1660 (with Robin Cormack and Bettina-Martine Wolter), London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1998.^[10]
• Bronwen Brown, Understanding Art: A Reference Guide to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque Periods (2 vols.), London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.^[11]
• Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, New York: Routledge, 2011.^[12]

As contributor

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[13]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Delia Dorothy GAZE - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House). 2020-07-29. beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. en.
2. Brown. Bronwen. 1998. Dictionary of Women Artists. Reference Reviews. en. 12. 4. 36. 10.1108/rr.1998.12.4.36.213. 0950-4125.
3. Nolan. Liesel M.. 1998. Dictionary of Women Artists. Reference & User Services Quarterly. 37. 4. 351.
4. Web site: 2020-06-30. Who made the Conway Library?. 2020-07-28. Digital Media. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/. dead.
5. Web site: Ms Delia Gaze. 2020-07-28. Society of Antiquaries of London. en-GB.
6. Web site: EWTN. 2013-10-15. Catholic Writers Of Tomorrow…. 2020-07-29. Catholic Journalist In London. en.
7. Book: Gaze, Delia. Dictionary of women artists. 1997. Fitzroy Dearborn. 978-1-884964-21-3. London. en. 185867951.
8. Book: Gaze, Delia. Dictionary of women artists Volume 1. 2017. Taylor & Francis . 978-1-884964-21-3. en. 1142098811.
9. Book: Gaze, Delia. Dictionary of women artists Volume 2. 2017. Taylor & Francis . 978-1-884964-21-3. en. 1142098974.
10. Book: Wolter. Bettina-Martine. The art of holy Russia: icons from Moscow, 1400-1660. Cormack. Robin. Gaze. Delia. Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. 1998. Royal Academy of Arts. London. en. 960051726.
11. Brown. Bronwen. 2000. ed. Delia Gaze, Understanding Art: A Reference Guide to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque Periods, London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1999. 2 vols. 310 pp, : 0 7656 8024 6. Reference Reviews. en. 14. 1. 34. 0950-4125. 5702947643.
12. Book: Gaze, Delia. Concise dictionary of women artists. 2011. Routledge. 978-1-57958-335-4. New York. en. 1131586488.
13. Web site: Results for 'delia gaze oxford' [WorldCat.org]]. 2020-07-28. www.worldcat.org. en.