Ann Bermingham | |
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Born | Ann Cathleen Bermingham May 1948 (age 75) |
Occupation(s) | Art historian educator |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Manhattanville College University of Massachusetts, Amherst Harvard University |
Thesis | The Ideology of Landscape: Gainsborough, Constable, and the English Rustic Tradition (1982) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art |
Institutions | University of California,Santa Barbara |
Influenced | Romita Ray [1] |
Ann Cathleen Bermingham (born May 1948) is an American art historian and educator. A specialist on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art,Bermingham is Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
Bermingham graduated from Manhattanville College,where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1969. She then earned a Master of Arts from the University of Massachusetts,Amherst and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1982. [2] Bermingham wrote a doctoral dissertation on English landscape painting,focusing especially on the artists John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. [3] She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi.
Bermingham has taught exclusively within the University of California system throughout her career,namely at Irvine,Los Angeles,Riverside,Santa Cruz,and Santa Barbara. She joined the latter in 1993,eventually becoming Professor of Art History Emeritus upon retirement. [4]
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