THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Anne Coffin Hanson, Ph.D.
December 12, 1921 – September 3, 2004
“I’m fairly aggressive with the way I go about selling myself, so I’ve never had trouble getting a job.”
Art historian, professor, author and curator. First woman director of the International Studies Center at the Museum of Modern Art. First woman president of the College Art Association, a professional organization of 7000 Art historians and professors. The first woman to be hired as a full tenured professor at Yale.
More About Anne:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- “Her life is a portrait of non-stop activity,” November 1981
- “She Chairs Yale Art History Department,” April 1974
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 199
