Judith Wechsler (née Glatzer; born December 28, 1940) is an American art historian and filmmaker.

She is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor Emerita at Tufts University, specializing in nineteenth-century French painting, drawing, and caricature.

Wechsler attended Crown Heights Yeshivah in Brooklyn, New York and public schools in Watertown, Massachusetts.

in art history from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in art history at the University of California at Los Angeles, writing her thesis on "Major Trends in Cézanne Interpretations,"[3] which she later published as The Interpretation of Cézanne in 1981.

[4] Wechsler taught art history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for seven years in the Department of Architecture and for two years as a fellow in the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.