Margaretta M. Lovell

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Margaretta M. Lovell is an American art historian who serves as the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching center on the art and history of the United States, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape painting, portraiture, decorative arts, furniture, architecture, food, and forests.

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Biography

Lovell received a B.A. in English from Smith College,[ when? ] an M.A. from the University of Delaware's joint program in Early American Culture with the Winterthur Museum,[ when? ] and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.[ when? ][ citation needed ]

Institutions where she has held faculty appointments include Yale, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, College of William & Mary, and Stanford University in addition to Berkeley. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Huntington Library, and the Terra Foundation for American Art among others. [1]

Awards

Honors she has received include, for Art in a Season of Revolution, the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art [2] and the 2007 Historians of British Art Prize, [3] and, for A Visitable Past, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize of the American Studies Association. The American Antiquarian Society elected her to honorary membership in recognition of scholarly distinction in 2001. [4] She has been recognized for her teaching at both institutional and national levels, receiving UC Berkeley's 2009 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors and the College Art Association's 2014 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award, the profession's highest honor for pedagogy. [5] [6]

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  2. ↑ "Eldredge Prize Announcement, Smithsonian American Art Museum" (PDF). 2006-05-01. Retrieved 2012-07-02.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ "2007 Historians of British Art Book Prize Announcement". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2012-07-02.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ "American Antiquarian Society List of Members" . Retrieved 2014-01-24.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ "2009 UC Berkeley Mentoring Prize Statement Announcement" . Retrieved 2012-07-02.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ "2014 CAA Awards for Distinction announcement". Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2014-01-24.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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