by Jon Lackman | 8 August 2006 | Contemporary
From the New York Times: “Arlene Raven, a pioneering historian and advocate of women’s art, died Tuesday at her home in Brooklyn. She was 62 … Ms. Raven wrote or edited nine books, including the important anthology ‘Feminist Art Criticism’ (1988), with Cassandra L. Langer and Joanna Frueh as co-editors … She also wrote monographs on the artists June Wayne, Betye Saar, Michele Oka Doner, and [Nancy] Grossman … She published widely as a critic and essayist. During the mid-1980’s, she was chief art critic for The Village Voice … and she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism from the College Art Association in 2001 … Ms. Raven held a doctorate in art history from John Hopkins University. Beginning in 2000, she was critic in residence at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, which has established an art history scholarship in her name.”
