Madlyn M. Kahr

Madlyn Millner Kahr (née Madlyn Millner; 1913–2004) was an American art historian and educator. She specialized in the study of 16th–17th century painting of Dutch, Spanish, and Venetian origins, and feminist art history. Kahr was professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. She authored the books, Velázquez: The Art of Painting, and Dutch Painting In The Seventeenth Century (1982). While attending undergrad, she served as the editor of Barnard Bulletin, the school newspaper. Her dissertation was titled, The Book Of Esther In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (1968, New York University).

In 1936, she married psychiatrist Sidney Kahr, they had two children.

Career Kahr was a professor at the University of California, San Diego, starting in 1976. Kahr also taught at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, CUNY Queens College, and Stanford University.

She was a member of the Women's Caucus for Art in 1979.