Linda Dalrymple Henderson


Linda Dalrymple Henderson is a historian of art whose research involves the connections between modern art, science and technology, and the occult. She is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Education and career

Henderson entered Dickinson College planning to study mathematics, but graduated in 1969 with a major in art history. She earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. From 1974 to 1977 she was Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. In 1999 the university gave her their Robert W. Hamilton Book Award for her book on Marcel Duchamp.

Books

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