Roberta Jeanne Marie Olson, American Art historian, author, educator. Fellow Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973-1974, Whiting Foundation for Humanities, 1974-1975, National Endowment for Humanities, 1982-1983; grantee National Endowment for Humanities, 1987-1988, American Philosophical Society, 1989, American Council Learned Socs., 1990-1991, Getty senior research grantee, 1994-1995,Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1996.
Books in order of publication:
The Art of Drawing: Selections from the Wheaton College Collection – 1997
Ottocento: Romanticism and Revolution in 19th Century Italian Painting – 2003
Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman – 2015
Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of America – 2024
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