Helen Huss Parkhurst

Helen Huss Parkhurst (January 3, 1887 – April 14, 1959) was an American philosopher of art who published two aesthetics books, Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life and Cathedral: A Gothic Pilgrimage (1936). She was a professor at Barnard College for decades.

Biography

Helen Huss Parkhurst was born in New York City on January 3, 1887. She studied at Dwight-Englewood School in nearby Englewood, New Jersey, and she graduated as part of the Class of 1905. After receiving her AB and MA at Bryn Mawr College, she continued her studies abroad at the University of Cambridge (where Bryn Mawr invited her to be a visiting fellow) and University of Paris (1913–1914), before returning to the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University (1915–1916). and eventually professor emeritus. during said travels, she visited Southeast Asia where she personally observed the Angkor Wat and Borobudur.

Publications

Beauty: An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life (1930)

Cathedral: A Gothic Pilgrimage (1936)