“Art Through The Ages” by Helen Gardner

Art Through The Ages

By Helen Gardner Harcourt Brace Co

3rd Edition 1948

Helen Gardner (1878–1946) was an American art historian and educator. Her Art Through the Ages remains a standard text for American art history classes. Gardner’s initial edition was ahead of its time in that along with the Western canon of European art it examined the art of India, Aboriginal America, China, and Japan. This approach was maintained for the first three editions that were all edited by Helen Gardner. The second edition was published in 1936 and the 3rd came out in 1948, a year after Gardner died.