Awards

awarded Grand Decoration of Honor by the Republic of Austria (1990)
named University Distinguished Professor of Art History (1983 to 2005)
Comini Lecture Series in Art History established by Southern Methodist University’s Division of Art History (2005)
nominated to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame (2002)
graduate scholarship in her name (1997)
awarded United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (1996)
awarded the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Caucus for Art (1995)
awarded Distinguished Teaching Prize of the Meadows School of the Arts (1985-1986)
voted Outstanding Professor by her students (17 times)
undergraduate scholarship in her name (1984)
nominated for the National Book Award (Egon Schiele’s Portraits, 1974)
awarded College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award(Egon Schiele’s Portraits, 1976)
Awarded Medal of Honor by Veteran Feminists of America, Dallas, 2010
Given Distinguished Alumna Award, Barnard College, New York, 2011