{{short description|Art historian}} {{distinguish|Anne Gunter}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation =Art historian | period = | known_for = | title = Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = Bryn Mawr College<br>Columbia University<!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = Northwestern University <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works =''Greek Art and the Orient'' | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }}
'''Ann C. Gunter''' is an art historian and Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on visual and material culture of the ancient Near East and neighboring parts of the eastern Mediterranean.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ann Gunter: Department of Art History - Northwestern University|url=http://www.arthistory.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/ann-gunter.html|website=www.arthistory.northwestern.edu|publisher=Northwestern University|access-date=7 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>
== Education == Gunter attended Bryn Mawr College,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Massumeh Farhad and Ann Gunter Assume Leadership Roles at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery|url=https://asia.si.edu/press-release/massumeh-farhad-and-ann-gunter-assume-leadership-roles-at-the-freer-gallery-of-art-and-arthur-m-sackler-gallery/|access-date=2020-12-08|website=Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery|language=en-US}}</ref> graduating magna cum laude in 1973.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Gunter|first=Ann|date=2016|title=Ann C. Gunter|url=https://arthistory.northwestern.edu/documents/faculty-cv/GunterAnn_CV_2016.pdf}}</ref> She went on to Columbia University where she earned an M.A. (1975), M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980).<ref name=":1" />
== Career == Gunter joined the Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler galleries in 1987 as Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, and in 1992 was appointed Associate Curator.<ref name=":0" /> She was also a visiting assistant professor at Emory University and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.<ref name=":0" /> She was Director of the American Research Institute in Turkey at Ankara and an adjunct associate professor in Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.<ref name=":0" />
Gunter became Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Freer and Sackler in 2004 and served until 2008, while also serving as Head of Scholarly Publications and Programs.<ref name=":1" /> In 2008 she joined Northwestern University as Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities.<ref name=":1" />
== Works == * ''Greek Art and the Orient'' (Cambridge University Press, 2009)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Aurigny|first=Hélène|date=2011|title=Ann C. Gunter, Greek Art and the Orient (2009)|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/topoi_1161-9473_2011_num_17_2_2422|journal=Topoi. Orient-Occident|volume=17|issue=2|pages=523–527}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Whitley|first=James|date=October 2010|title=Greek Art and the Orient, by Anne C. Gunter, 2009. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83257-1 hardback £50 & US$99; xviii+398 pp., 100 figs.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/abs/greek-art-and-the-orient-by-anne-c-gunter-2009-new-york-ny-cambridge-university-press-isbn-9780521832571-hardback-50-us85-xiv258-pp-51-figs-4-maps-art-and-identity-in-dark-age-greece-1100700-bce-by-susan-langdon-2008-new-york-ny-cambridge-university-press-isbn-9780521513210-hardback-50-us93-xviii388-pp-119-figs-4-tables-art-and-society-in-cyprus-from-the-bronze-age-into-the-iron-age-by-joanna-s-smith-2009-new-york-ny-cambridge-university-press-isbn-9780521513678-hardback-50-us99-xviii398-pp-100-figs/F36FBD95BFE22C4C2F2FB2ED53B59909|journal=Cambridge Archaeological Journal|language=en|volume=20|issue=3|pages=460–463|doi=10.1017/S0959774310000557|s2cid=193921888 |issn=1474-0540|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * "Beyond 'Orientalizing': Encounters among Cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean," in ''Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age'', eds. J. Aruz, S. B. Graff, and Y. Rakic (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2014) * "Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean" in ''Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art'', eds. B. A. Brown and M. H. Feldman (DeGruyter, 2014) * "The Etruscans, Greek Art, and the Near East" in ''A Companion to the Etruscans'', eds. S. Bell and A. Carpino (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016)
== See also ==
* Massumeh Farhad * Women in the art history field
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