Gerald "Jerry" Martin Ackerman OAL (August 21, 1928 – January 1, 2016) was an American art historian and educator.
While studying at the University of California, Berkeley, Ackerman had a brief relationship with poet Robert Duncan.
[3] His doctoral dissertation was on the painter Gian Paolo Lomazzo, supervised by Rensselaer W.
[4] In 1959, while studying at Princeton, Ackerman began his teaching career at Bryn Mawr College as a lecturer.
Six years later, he was hired at Stanford University as assistant professor of art history.