Anna Gruetzner Robins is a Canadian art historian who is a professor at the University of Reading. She is a specialist in the art of Walter Sickert about which she has written three books. She completed her BA at the University of Toronto and her MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[1]
In 2011, Gruetzner Robins identified 23 unsigned watercolours at Princeton University as being by the artist Gwen John[2][3]
Gruetzner Robins was married to the journalist and sociologist, David Robins.[4]
Selected publications edit
- Walter Sickert: Drawings. Theory and practice: Word and image, Scolar Press, 1996.
- Modern art in Britain 1910 -1914. Merrell Holberton, London, 1997.
- Walter Sickert. The complete art criticism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
- A fragile modernism: Whistler and his impressionist followers. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2007.
References edit
- ^ "Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins - University of Reading". Reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ "Gwen John watercolours found at Princeton University". BBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins uncovers new paintings. Reading Art. University of Reading, 20 December 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Ian Buruma. "Obituary: David Robins | Media". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
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