Mary Sheriff

Mary D. Sheriff is an American art historian, and W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specializes in Eighteenth century French art, decorative arts, gender studies, and material culture. ^[1]

Sheriff is a leading scholar in promoting the Rococo Rococo period.

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim fellowship^[2]

Works

• J.-H. Fragonard: Art and Eroticism, University of Chicago Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-75273-0
• The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art. University of Chicago Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-226-75282-2. ^[3]
• Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France. University of Chicago Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-226-75287-7. ; 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-75288-4
• Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time. University of Delaware Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0874139341. 

Edited

• Mary D. Sheriff, ed. (2006). Antoine Watteau: perspectives on the artist and the culture of his time. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-934-1. 
• Mary D. Sheriff (ed.) Cultural contact and the making of European art since the age of exploration, University of North Carolina Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8078-3366-7

References

External links

• Scholar Profile: Mary Sheriff, Enfilade, July 18, 2010
• Historian's publications