About Us

The Art History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was established in 1970 within the Department of Art. In 2014, the Program became the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. It is the only program at a public institution in New England that offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field. Our emphasis is on the cultures of Western Europe, North America, Islam, and East Asia.
Interested in an Art History major?

With its broad emphasis on culture and history and its focus on writing, analysis, and research, History of Art and Architecture provides an excellent liberal arts degree for students seeking flexible but rigorous training for a variety of careers.
Graduate Studies

Founded in 1969, the M.A. Program is the only graduate degree program in the field at a public university in New England.

Gallery Talk: Intimate Looking in Sculpture from Auguste Renoir to Niki de Saint Phalle

October 18, 2017

Gülru Çakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at UMass and Guest Curator of A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives, will discuss her...

Interpreting an Anecdote: Frank Lloyd Wright Visits Philip Johnson's Glass House

October 10, 2017

Join us at 1:25 pm in the South College Commons, W360 for our William T. Oedel Faculty Lecture given by Professor Timothy M. Rohan. This talk interprets Paul Rudolph’s eyewitness account about a ...

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Faculty Profile

Professor Walter Denny

Walter B. Denny, Distinguished Professor, joined the faculty of the UMass Amherst Art History Program in 1970. His primary field of teaching and research is the art and architecture of the Islamic world, in particular the artistic traditions of the Ottoman Turks, Islamic carpets and textiles, Islamic imagery in European art, and issues of economics and patronage in Islamic art.

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Interested in an Art History major? With its broad emphasis on culture and history and its focus on writing, analysis, and research, History of Art and Architecture provides an excellent liberal arts degree for students seeking flexible but rigorous training for a variety of careers.

Graduate Studies Founded in 1969, the M.A. Program is the only graduate degree program in the field at a public university in New England.

Gallery Talk: Intimate Looking in Sculpture from Auguste Renoir to Niki de Saint Phalle

October 18, 2017

Interpreting an Anecdote: Frank Lloyd Wright Visits Philip Johnson's Glass House

October 10, 2017

Professor Walter Denny

Interested in an Art History major?

With its broad emphasis on culture and history and its focus on writing, analysis, and research, History of Art and Architecture provides an excellent liberal arts degree for students seeking flexible but rigorous training for a variety of careers.

Graduate Studies

Founded in 1969, the M.A. Program is the only graduate degree program in the field at a public university in New England.