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Joan Kerr (Eleanor Joan Lyndon) was born on 21 February, 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian academic and cultural preservationist. Discover Joan Kerr's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Eleanor Joan Lyndon
Occupation art historian, preservationist, academic
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 21 February, 1938
Birthday 21 February
Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death 22 February, 2004
Died Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1870

She wrote books on Australia's historic architecture, feminist artists, cartoonists and her major life work was producing the Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870.

Her work on the book with Falkus brought her an awareness of how little was known about Australia's artists and led her to compile her magnum opus, the Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870.

Using both professional and amateur researchers, Kerr spent thirteen years working on the project, which contained nearly 2500 entries, when it was published by Oxford University Press in 1992.

1938

Joan Kerr (1938–2004) was an Australian academic and cultural preservationist.

Initially her interest was sparked in preserving the architectural heritage of Australia, but over time her interests spread to art history and Australian culture in general.

She taught at many universities throughout the country and was involved in Historical Societies and Preservation Trusts in a variety of the territories.

Eleanor Joan Lyndon was born on 21 February 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

She was the eldest child of Edna and Bob Lyndon and had five siblings.

1951

In 1951, her parents returned to their native Queensland, where Lyndon attended school at Somerville House in Brisbane.

She obtained a bachelor's degree at the University of Queensland in English literature and drama.

1960

In 1957, Lyndon met James Semple Kerr and after a three-year courtship, they married on 30 November 1960 in Brisbane, moving to Sydney almost immediately.

Jim worked for Qantas and Joan was employed as a junior reporter at the magazine Weekend.

1963

The couple had two children in Australia before moving to Switzerland in 1963.

1966

In 1966, her husband's career transferred them to London, and Kerr enrolled in a medieval art and architecture class at Courtauld Institute of Art.

She earned a two-year diploma and attended evening lectures on art history at the Warburg Institute.

Her biggest influence came from a class she enrolled both she and her husband in taught by Nikolaus Pevsner at Birkbeck College and which encouraged them both to devote their lives to architectural history and heritage conservation.

1968

Between 1968 and 1969, she returned to Australia and completed her Master of Arts at the University of Sydney.

After graduation, she was offered a position tutoring students at the Power Institute of Fine Arts, which she continued for the next 25 years.

1974

In 1974, both she and her husband enrolled in Doctorate courses at the University of York, but spent the first year of their degree program carrying out architectural fieldwork in Australia.

1975

Between August 1975 and December 1977, the couple completed their PhDs in England and then returned that same month for James to take up a position at Australian Heritage Commission in Canberra.

Joan applied for a job at the Australian National University (ANU) and was accepted as a tutor.

As the job was not full-time, she continued to work in Sydney as well.

1978

From 1978 forward, Kerr joined and served on committees for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, the National Trust for the Australian Capital Territory, and the Royal Australian Historical Society.

She was working as a postdoctoral fellow at ANU, tutoring and lecturing in the History Department there and lecturing in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Canberra.

1979

One significant project during this time was a collaboration on the inaugural exhibition in 1979 at the Elizabeth Bay House.

1980

In 1980, she co-authored, with James Broadbent Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales.

By the mid-1980s Kerr was a major figure in not only teaching about Australia's art and architectural history, but in how that cultural heritage should be preserved.

1981

Kerr was offered a lectureship in 1981 at the Power Institute of Fine Arts and that same year she was made a member of the National Trust of Australia's Architectural Advisory Panel.

1982

Increasingly aware of women's contributions to Australia's cultural heritage, in 1982, Kerr published with Hugh Falkus, From Sydney Cove to Duntroon: a family album of early life in Australia and in 1983, she produced Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817–1883): Our Great Victorian Architect.

1993

Kerr was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1993 and in the mid-1990s, took a position at the University of New South Wales, as a research professor of art history.

1994

She taught art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts (CoFA) from 1994 to 1997.

1995

She and J. S. Kerr were co-recipients of the 1995 National Trust senior heritage award.

1997

In 1997, when the ANU launched a program in the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Australian art, she returned to their employ.

1999

She published Past Present (1999), an anthology of essays on Australia's feminist artists and that same year a catalog, Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White about the cultural contributions of cartoonists.

2003

In 2003, Kerr became the second woman granted an honorary life membership to the Royal Australian Historical Society for her cultural contributions.

Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with cancer.

2004

Kerr died on 22 February 2004 in Sydney.

Kerr was posthumously made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to education and to the arts, particularly through research in the fields of architecture and art history, and through encouraging the study and recognition of Australian women artists".