Roberta Olson

Roberta Jeanne Marie Olson (born 1947)[1] is an American historian of art.

[2] Her 1975 doctoral dissertation was Studies in the Later Works of Sandro Botticelli.

[3] She taught at Wheaton College for 25 years; after retiring as professor emerita, she became curator of drawings at the New-York Historical Society in 2000.

[2] Olson's books include: Olson's book Audubon’s Aviary won the 2013 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts of the New York State Historical Association.

[13] Minor planet 471301 Robertajmolson is named for Olson, in recognition of her identification of the star in a painting of the Adoration of the Magi by Giotto (circa 1303) as the 1301 apparition of Halley's Comet.