19 Facts About Joan Kerr

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

Joan Kerr 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joan Kerr 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.

Joan 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.

Increasingly aware of women's contributions to Australia's cultural heritage, in 1982, Joan 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 : Our Great Victorian Architect.

Joan 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.

Joan Kerr taught art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts from 1994 to 1997.

Joan Kerr were co-recipients of the 1995 National Trust senior heritage award.

Joan Kerr published Past Present, 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.

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

Joan Kerr was posthumously made a Member of the Order of Australia 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".