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Whitney Chadwick

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Whitney Chadwick
Born (1943-07-28) July 28, 1943 (age 82)
EducationMiddlebury College (BA)
Pennsylvania State University (PhD)
Notable workWomen, Art and Society (1990)
MovementContemporary Art
Modern Art
Surrealism
Feminist Art
Gender and sexuality in art
SpouseRobert Bechtle (m. 1982–2020; death)
Websitewhitneychadwick.com

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 in its fifth edition. Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University from the School of Art since 2009.[1]

Biography

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Her undergraduate degree was a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Middlebury College in 1965.[2] She received her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University.[3] Chadwick was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2003.[3]

She taught at San Francisco State University in the school of art starting in 1978, and is a professor emerita since 2009.[1][4] Additionally she taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley.[2]

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.[5][6]

Publications

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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.[7][8][9] 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.[10] Her novel Framed was published in 1998.

Exhibition catalog essays

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Chadwick has published exhibition catalog essays about Maria Elena Gonzalez, Mona Hatoum, Nalini Malani, and Sheila Hicks, among others.

Honors, and awards

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Chadwick received many awards and honors including serving as a fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2002);[2] the Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology at Uppsala University, and a fellowship/residency from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University (2010–2011).[11][12] In 1999 she was given the Award of Distinction by the National Council of Arts Administrators.[11]

Publications

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  • Chadwick, Whitney (1985). Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780821215999.[13][14]
  • Chadwick, Whitney (1990). Women, Art and Society. New York City, NY: Thames and Hudson.[15][16]
  • Chadwick, Whitney; De Courtivron, Isabelle, eds. (1993). Significant Others: Creativity & Intimate Partnership. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500015667.[17]
  • Chadwick, Whitney; Carrington, Leonora (1994). Leonora Carrington: la realidad de la imaginacion (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. ISBN 9789682964282.
  • Chadwick, Whitney (1998). Framed. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333719503.
  • Chadwick, Whitney (2017). The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism. ISBN 9780500239681.[18][19]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Whitney Chadwick". SFSU School of Art. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  2. 1 2 3 "Artist, Patron, Model and Muse Subjects of Art Symposium". The Middlebury Campus. March 12, 2002. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  3. 1 2 "Fellow: Whitney Chadwick". radcliffe.harvard.edu. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Emeritus-Emerita Faculty". San Francisco State University Bulletin.
  5. ↑ Kurutz, Steven (2020-09-30). "Robert Bechtle, Photorealist Painter of Suburbia, Dies at 88". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  6. ↑ "Interview with Robert Bechtle". walkerart.org. Walker Art Center. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  7. ↑ "Whitney Chadwick". W.W. Norton & Company. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Hirst, Christopher (May 3, 2007). "Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick". Independent. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  9. ↑ 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. JSTOR 1358283.
  10. ↑ "Pioneering scholar and acclaimed author Whitney Chadwick at IMMA". Irish Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Distinguished Visiting Art Historian to Give Public Lecture at Clark Art Institute". Williams College. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  12. ↑ "Annual Report 2011-2012" (PDF). Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  13. ↑ Butler, Stephen (1986). "Review of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement". Oxford Art Journal (book review). 9 (1): 85–89. ISSN 0142-6540.
  14. ↑ Taylor, Robert (December 18, 1985). "The women of Surrealism". The Boston Globe (book review). p. 82. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Newton, Diane (June 24, 1990). "Men Take Credit For Women's Success In Art". The Wichita Eagle (book review). p. 28. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ Lubbock, Tom (April 8, 1990). "Putting women back in the picture". The Independent (book review). p. 47. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ Barker, Elspeth (July 10, 1993). "BOOK REVIEW / Unequal partners who shared and shared alike:". The Independent (book review). Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  18. ↑ Black, Holly (January 28, 2018). "Sunday Read: The Militant Muse". Elephant. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  19. ↑ Deller, Rose (November 24, 2017). "Book Review: The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick". LSE Review of Books (book review). London School of Economics. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
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