Nancy Mowll Mathews

Who is Nancy Mowll Mathews?

Nancy Mowll Mathews is an American art historian, curator, and author. She was the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art, from 1988 to 2010. She is currently an independent scholar, curator, professor, and host of the television show, "Art World with Nancy Mathews."

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 of several other books on Mary Cassatt, and of 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 raisonné 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.