Nancy Mowll Mathews (born 1947 in Baltimore) is a Czech-American art historian, curator and author.
[2] She is currently an independent scholar, curator, professor and host of the television show Art World with Nancy Mathews.
She graduated from Goucher College and went on to complete an MA in art history at Case Western Reserve University and a PhD at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
[4][5] She curated the exhibition "Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910" and edited the related book of the same title.
She co-authored the catalogue raisonné of the works of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, as well as several other books and exhibitions on the American artist-brothers, under the auspices of the Prendergast Archive and Study Center at the Williams College Museum of Art.