Education
Harvard University; University of California, Los Los Angeles
Harvard University; University of California, Los Los Angeles
Born in Los Angeles, Garrett received a bachelor"s degree in organic chemistry from the University of California, Los Los Angeles He obtained a master"s degree from the present-day Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware and a second master"s degree in American History from Harvard University. Wendell Garrett served as the editor of The Magazine Antiques from 1972 to 1990.
He remained as Antiques editor at large from 1990 until his death in 2012.
Garrett also served as the senior vice president in the American Decorative Arts department at Sotheby"s from 1989 until March of 2009. Wendell Garrett appeared as an appraiser in every season of Antiques Roadshow, beginning with its debut season in 1997, through filming of the 2013 season during the summer of 2012.
In the last month of his life Garrett moved from his Manhattan apartment to a hospice in Williston, Vermont due to declining health. He died at the Williston hospice on November 14, 2012 at the age of 83.
Books published: Apthorp House, 1760-1960 (1960) The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (1961), with L.H. Butterfield Adams Family Correspondence, volumes