Whitney Chadwick
Whitney Chadwick 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 now in its fifth edition. Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University from the School of Art.
Biography
Her undergraduate degree was a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Middlebury College in 1965. She received her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2003.She taught at San Francisco State University in the School of Art and is now a Professor Emerita. Additionally she taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley.
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.