Martha Tedeschi

Martha P. Tedeschi (born April 1, 1958) is an American art historian and curator. Tedeschi currently serves as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.

Tedeschi is a specialist on British and American prints and drawings. She has published extensively on artists such as Winslow Homer, John Marin, and James McNeill Whistler.

On March 9, 2016, Tedeschi was named the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. She will begin her tenure effective July 1.

Tedeschi received her BA in art history from Brown University. She then received a MA in art history and museum studies in 1982 from the University of Michigan. Her thesis focused on Girolamo Mocetto and was titled The Calumny of Appelles: An Early Sixteenth-Century Engraving by Girolamo Mocetto. In 1994, she received her PhD in art history from Northwestern University. Her dissertation was titled How Prints Work: Reproductions, Originals, and Their Markets in England, 1840–1900.

• Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983, 1985, ISBN 9780933920699
• The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, with Nesta R. Spink et al., 1998, ISBN 9780865591509
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, with Kristi Dahm et al., 2008 ISBN 9780865592261
• John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, with Kristi Dahm et al., 2010, ISBN 9780300166378