Ann Bermingham

American art historian

Not to be confused with Anne Bermingham.

Ann Bermingham

Born|

Ann Cathleen Bermingham

May 1948 (age 76)

United States

Occupation(s)| Art historian
educator
Academic background
Alma mater| Manhattanville College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Harvard University
Thesis| The Ideology of Landscape: Gainsborough, Constable, and the English Rustic Tradition (1982)
Academic work
Discipline| Art history
Sub-discipline| Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art
Institutions| University of California, Santa Barbara
Influenced| Romita Ray[1]

Ann Cathleen Bermingham (born May 1948) is an American art historian and educator. A specialist on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, Bermingham is Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

## Career

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Bermingham graduated from Manhattanville College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1969. She then earned a Master of Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1982.[2] Bermingham wrote a doctoral dissertation on English landscape painting, focusing especially on the artists John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough.[3] She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi.

Bermingham has taught exclusively within the University of California system throughout her career, namely at Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara. She joined the latter in 1993, eventually becoming Professor of Art History Emeritus upon retirement.[4]

## Selected works

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* Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860, 1986 ISBN 0520052870
* The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text, 1995 ISBN 0415121353
* Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art, 2000 ISBN 978-0300080391
* Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, 2005 ISBN 978-0300110029

## See also

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* List of Harvard University people
* List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
* List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni

## References

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1. ^ "The painted Raj: The art of the Picturesque in British India, 1757-1911". ProQuest. ProQuest 304541044.
2. ^ "Ann Bermingham | History of Art and Architecture - UC Santa Barbara".
3. ^ "Dissertation. The ideology of landscape : Gainsborough, Constable and the English rustic tradition". Office for Information Systems. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
4. ^ "Critical Inquiry".

## External links

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* University of California profile

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