William H. Gerdts

William H. Gerdts ( born 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American art critic and was a professor of art history, American Painting and Sculpture to 1999 at the University of Maryland. He was also City curator at the Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and in Newark, New Jersey, as well as gallery director at the University of Maryland and Vice President of the Coe Kerr Gallery in New York.

Gerdts in 1966 received his doctorate at Harvard University, in 1971 he became a member of Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center ( CUNY ). He was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University and Washington University, he is a member of the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from Amherst College in 1996 and from the University of Syracuse. Gerdts 1999 became Professor Emeritus.

Works

• The Color of Modernism: The American Fauves. Hollis Taggert Gallery, 1997.
• Art Across America. Two Centuries of Regional Painting: 1710-1920, 3 volumes, Abbeville Press, 1990.
• The Art of Henry Inman. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1987.
• American Impressionism. Abbeville Press, 1984.
• Masters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801-1930. University of Missouri Press, 1981.
• American Neo -Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection. Viking Press, 1973.