Charles "Charlie" Child Eldredge (born April 12, 1944 in Boston) is an American art historian, educator, and curator.
Eldredge was born to Henry and Priscilla Marion Bateson in Boston, but was raised in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
In 1989, the Smithsonian Institution named an annual award for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art after Eldredge.
"[1] Eldredge has also been named an honorary member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (1990) and Phi Beta Kappa (2004).
[2] In addition to O'Keeffe, Eldredge has written books on such artists as John Steuart Curry, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Rex Slinkard, and Charles Walter Stetson.