Margaret Rickert
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Margaret Rickert (May 5, 1888 – 1973) was an American Art Historian and codebreaker. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1938, having written her dissertation on the reconstruction of an English Carmelite missal.[1] She was the sister of fellow art historian Edith Rickert. Throughout World War II until 1944, she worked as a codebreaker for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Washington, D.C.[2] Her most notable work is the reconstruction of a Carmelite Missal from a scrapbook housed in the British Museum. In 1954, she became the first American and only woman to author a volume in the original series of the Pelican History of Art with her title, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages.[3]
Her papers are housed at the University of Chicago Library.[4]
Published works
Rickert, Margaret J. Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963.
Rickert, Margaret J, and Philip A. Hanrott. The Reconstructed Carmelite Missal: An English Manuscript of the Late XIV Century in the British Museum (additional 29704-5, 44892). London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
Rickert, Margaret J. The So-Called Beaufort Hours and York Psalter. London, 1962.
References
- ^ "Rickert, Margaret [Josephine]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ Chance, Jane (2005). Women medievalists and the academy. Madison, Wis.: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. pp. 285–294. ISBN 9780299207502.
- ^ Thebaut, Nancy. "Margaret Rickert". University of Chicago, Department of Art History. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ^ "Guide to the Margaret Rickert Papers 1918-1967". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
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