Margaretta M. Lovell is an American art historian who serves as the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr.
Her research and teaching center on the art and history of the United States, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape painting, portraiture, decorative arts, furniture, architecture, food, and forests.
from the University of Delaware's joint program in Early American Culture with the Winterthur Museum,[when?]
The American Antiquarian Society elected her to honorary membership in recognition of scholarly distinction in 2001.
[4] She has been recognized for her teaching at both institutional and national levels, receiving UC Berkeley's 2009 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors and the College Art Association's 2014 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award, the profession's highest honor for pedagogy.