Harold Edwin Wethey (April 10, 1902 ― September 22, 1984) was an American art historian and educator.
[3] In 1949, he won the inaugural Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
From 1982 to 1983, Wethey held the post of Samuel Henry Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art.
[4] Wethey was a scholar on Spanish art and wrote a number of publications on artists such as Alonso Cano and El Greco.
Since then, the discovery of the Dormition of the Virgin by El Greco and other research in the academic world confirmed that the assessments made by Wethey were not entirely correct.