Lindsay Leard-Coolidge
Lindsay Leard-Coolidge ’87GSAS, ’92GSAS is an art historian whose intellectual development and professional achievements are deeply rooted in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A specialist in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art, she earned her PhD in art history at Columbia and wrote her dissertation on French printmaking of the 1890s.
During her graduate studies, she received several fellowships, including the Reid Hall Fellowship, the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the History of Art, and the Chester Dale Fellowship in the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon completing her doctorate, Leard-Coolidge began her professional career in the Department of Prints at the Museum of Modern Art before relocating to Boston, where she taught art history for two decades—first at Harvard University Extension School and then at Northeastern University. She is the author of several books and numerous scholarly publications on printmaking and American art.
Leard-Coolidge has remained an active alumna of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She served on the GSAS Alumni Board from 2013 to 2021 and as its President from 2018 to 2021. She is currently serving as the GSAS representative on the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee and remains a member of the GSAS Alumni Engagement Committee. She is a member of the 1754 Society and established the Lindsay Leard-Coolidge Fund for the GSAS Reading Center in 2018 to support doctoral students writing their dissertations.