Dora Jane Janson, née Heineberg (1916-2002) was an American art historian, who collaborated with her husband Horst W. Janson.[1]

Life

Dora Jane Heineberg was born in Philadelphia.[1] She studied art history at Radcliffe College, where she met Horst W. Janson, an émigré graduate student at Harvard University.[2] The couple married after he had gained his PhD in 1941. Janson "never denied that she consciously sacrificed her career to raise children".[1] She helped her husband with his 1952 monograph Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, providing an "exemplary index".[3] She also collaborated as co-author with her husband on The Story of Painting for Young People (1954) and History of Art (1962). History of Art entirely excluded women painters.[4]

Dora Janson's From slave to siren (1971), an extensive catalog of a Duke University Museum of Art exhibition on Victorian women's jewellery, related the jewelry to changing 19th-century ideals of feminine beauty and behaviour,[5] reflected in cameo portraiture.[6]

Janson died in Devon, Pennsylvania. Her son Anthony Janson is also an art historian.[1]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d Janson, Dora Jane, in Lee Sorenson, ed., Dictionary of Art Historians. Accessed 9 February 2020.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Sears and Charlotte Schoell-Glass, 'An Émigré Art Historian and America: H. W. Janson', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 95. No. 2 (June 2013), pp.219-242
  3. ^ 'Notes on Publications', Renaissance News, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1952).
  4. ^ D. Fairchild Ruggles (2014). Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand: Making Art and Architecture in Modern India. Zubaan. p. 13. ISBN 978-93-83074-78-5.
  5. ^ Gabriel P. Weisberg; Elizabeth K. Menon (2013). Art Nouveau: A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England, and the United States. Routledge. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-135-02313-3.
  6. ^ Jean Arnold (2011). Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4094-2127-6.


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