Jane Campbell Hutchison

Jane Campbell Hutchison (July 20, 1932 – July 12, 2020) was an American art historian specialising in the old master prints of the Northern Renaissance. She was best known for her 1990 biography of Albrecht Dürer, which was translated into German and Japanese.[1]

She was born in Washington, D.C.. After studying art history at Oberlin College, Hutchison in 1964 obtained a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a dissertation on the Master of the Housebook supervised by James Watrous.[2] She taught at the University of Wisconsin for almost 50 years, from 1964 to 2012.[2] She died, aged 87, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Publications
  • The Master of the Housebook (1972)
  • Early German Artists: Martin Schongauer, Ludwig Schongauer, and Copyists (The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 8, part 1)
  • Early German Artists: Wenzel von Olmütz, Mair von Landshut and Monogrammists (The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 9, part 2)
  • Albrecht Dürer: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 1990)[3][4][5]
  • Albrecht Dürer: A Guide to Research (New York, Garland, 2000)

References
  1. College obituary, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  2. Marsely Kehoe. "In Memoriam: Jane Campbell Hutchison". HNA News. Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. Review by Charles Talbot in Print Quarterly, 8:4 (1991), pp. 448-450.
  4. Review by Colin Eisler in Renaissance Quarterly, 45:1 (1992), pp. 163-166.
  5. Review by Ellen Schultz, The New York Times, November 18, 1990.
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