{{Short description|American art historian (1926–1979)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Whitney Halstead |birth_date = 1926 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death year and age|1979|1926}} |death_place = |education = School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, MFA) }} '''Whitney Halstead''' (1926 - 1979) was an American art historian, and artist.

He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a B.F.A and M.F.A. He taught art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/whitney-b-halstead-papers-9542|title = A Finding Aid to the Whitney Halstead papers, 1920-1982}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!84015!0|title = SOVA: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives}}</ref>

Halstead was the primary supporter of the work of Joseph Yoakum and has been noted as an influential teacher by many of the Chicago Imagists and painters Barbara Grad, Paul Lamantia and David Sharpe.<ref name=Newman>Christine Newman, "When Jim Met Gladys", "Chicago" Magazine, Vol. 60 No. 2, February 2011, pp. 78-81,92,146-148,164</ref>

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==External links== *http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/6927

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