Nancy Matthews Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1947 -

NANCY MATHEWS is a Czech-American art historian, curator and author. She was the Eugenie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art from 1988 to 2010, and is currently an independent scholar, curator, professor and host of the television show "Art World with Nancy Mathews." Mathews was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1947. She graduated from Goucher College and went on to complete an MA in art history at Case Western Reserve University and a PhD at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Before joining the Williams College faculty in 1988, she was a professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College from 1977 to 1987. Mathews is the author of Mary Cassatt: A Life and Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life. She curated the exhibition Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 and edited the related book of the same title. She co-authored the catalogue raisonne of the works of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, as well as several other books and exhibitions on the American artist-brothers, under the auspices of the Prendergast Archive and Study Center at the Williams College Museum of Art.