Pamela Gutman

Pamela Gutman (1944 – 31 March 2015) was an Australian researcher, art historian, and civil servant. Specialised in ancient Burmese art, she was considered an authority in the domain. In 1972, she began field research in Burma (now Myanmar) for her PhD thesis, Ancient Arakan, with Special Reference to Its Cultural History, 5th to 12th Centuries, completed in 1977.

Throughout her career, she advised many galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and Asia Society in New York.

Death

Gutman died on 31 March 2015 from cancer. She was survived by her daughter, three grandchildren, and two sisters. At the time of her death, she had not yet completed a planned second edition of Burma’s Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan, and a biography of Gordon Luce, a British scholar of Burmese history.

Publications

Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan (2001)