Background

McKim-Smith, Anne Gridley was born on March 14, 1943 in Clinton, Iowa, United States. Daughter of John Wilson and Anne (Templeton) McKim.

Education

Bachelor, Tulane University, 1965; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.

Career

Curator of collections Museum Art, U. Kansas, 1972-1975; assistant professor department history of art, U. Kansas, 1972-1975; curator, planner Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, 1979-1980; assistant professor of history of art department, Bryn Mawr College, 1982-1988; associate professor, Bryn Mawr College, 1985-1992; professor of history of art department, Bryn Mawr College, since 1992. Visiting assistant professor Newcomb College, Tulane University, 1976-1979, American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1980-1981. Visiting senior fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National.Gallery, 1982.

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala visiting professor of Spanish Art, department fine arts Harvard University, spring 1989.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Spanish baroque drawings in North American collections (Kansas. University. Museum of Art. Miscellaneous publications)

    (Exhibition catalogue.)

  • Spanish baroque drawings in North American collections: [exhibition] October 19-November 24, 1974 (Miscellaneous publication of the Museum of Art)

• Other Work

  • Author: (with others) Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, 1969, Examining Velázquez, 1988, Ciencia e historia del arte: Velázquez en el Prado, 1993. Author: Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections, 1974.

Membership

Member College Art Association (committee member to select winner scholarship 1992-1993), American Society for Hispanic Art History Studies (commission to select winner publication award 1992-1993), American Institute for Conservation, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Benjamin Franklin Smith, April 5, 1969 (deceased 1990).