Martha Tedeschi

Martha Tedeschi
Born	Martha P. Tedeschi (1958-04-01) April 1, 1958
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University University of Michigan Northwestern University
Occupation(s)	Art historian Curator
Employer	Harvard Art Museums

Martha P. Tedeschi (born April 1, 1958) is an American art historian and curator. Tedeschi currently serves as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.

Career

Tedeschi received a Bachelor of Arts in art history from Brown University, and a Master's degree in art history and museum studies from the University of Michigan. Her thesis focused on Girolamo Mocetto and was titled The Calumny of Appelles: An Early Sixteenth-Century Engraving by Girolamo Mocetto. In 1994, she received her Doctor of Philosophy in art history from Northwestern University. Her dissertation was titled How Prints Work: Reproductions, Originals, and Their Markets in England, 1840–1900.

Tedeschi is a specialist on British and American prints and drawings. She has published extensively on artists such as Winslow Homer, John Marin, and James McNeill Whistler.

On March 9, 2016, Tedeschi was named the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.

Works

• Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983, 1985, ISBN 9780933920699
• The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, with Nesta R. Spink et al., 1998, ISBN 9780865591509
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, with Kristi Dahm et al., 2008, ISBN 9780865592261
• John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, with Kristi Dahm et al., 2010, ISBN 9780300166378

External links

• Harvard profile