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ID: 500057030
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500057030

 

Record Type: Person
Beckett, Sister Wendy (British art historian and nun, 1930-2018)

Note: British Carmelite nun and art historian, narrator and star of PBS television series, Sister Wendy's Story of Painting, 1997, and two later iterations of the same series. She also authored 25 books, her first published in 1988.

Names:
Beckett, Sister Wendy (preferred,V,index)
Sister Wendy Beckett (V,display)
Beckett, Sister Wendy Mary (V)
Beckett, Wendy (V)
Beckett, Wendy Mary (V)
Sister Wendy (V)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
South African

Roles:
art historian (preferred)
scholar
nun

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Johannesburg (Gauteng, South Africa) (inhabited place)
Died:  East Harling (Norfolk county, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Beckett, Sister Wendy (I)

Biographies:
(British art historian and nun, 1930-2018) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRL]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Beckett, Sister Wendy ........ [VP Preferred]
...........................................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
...........................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 88073717
Beckett, Sister Wendy Mary ........ [VP]
....................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Beckett, Wendy ........ [VP]
..............................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
Beckett, Wendy Mary ........ [VP]
.......................................  New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. accessed 15 January 2019
Sister Wendy ........ [VP]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Sister Wendy Beckett ........ [VP]
.........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [Gallery Systems, GRL, VP]
....................  Becket and Pattison, Pains of Glass (1996)
....................  Beckett, Beckmann and the Self (1997)
....................  Beckett, Sister Wendy's story of painting (1997)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n88073717
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
....................  Her Contemporary women artists, 1988:
....................  John, Abbot of Ford, Sermons on the final verses of the Song of Songs (1977-1984)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n88073717
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 88073717
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. accessed 15 January 2019
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