Whitney Chadwick Biography

Whitney Chadwick is an art historian 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. 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. She received her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg. Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University.