George Harold Edgell (March 4, 1887 – June 29, 1954) was a renowned American architectural and fine arts historian, author, and expert on Sienese paintings.

He served as dean of the Harvard University School of Architecture and director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edgell prepared for college at the Cutler School in New York City and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1909 with a Bachelor of Arts.

Upon his return to the United States in 1913, Edgell became the first person to receive a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University.

[3] In 1935, Edgell resigned from his professorship at Harvard to become curator of paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a position he held until 1939.

[1] During the period of U.S. participation in World War I, Edgell was requested by the Federal Committee on Public Information to represent the United States as American commissioner of the Commissione Centrale Interalleate per Propaganda, a commission attached to the general headquarters of the Italian Army at Padua.