About: Myra Orth

Myra Orth (born Myra Dickman: 4 October 1934 - 30 November 2002) was an American art historian. After graduating from Cornell University she married and relocated with her husband to Europe where for much of the time she lived - apart from three years in Australia and Japan - between 1956 and 1982, while remaining fully networked with academic peers in the United States. Her post-graduate degrees were acquired in part "by correspondence"; while the renaissance manuscript illuminations, on which she became a leading international authority, were located for the most part in western Europe, and particularly in Paris where she worked frequently, and lived between 1976 and 1982. Her published contributions to scholarship appeared primarily in the United States, France and England.