Brian Lukacher

Brian Lukacher is professor of art at Vassar College where he has taught since 1986. Lukacher received his M.A. from Williams College, and received his PhD from the University of Delaware. Following his time at Williams College, Lukacher received the Chester A. Dale and Samuel H. Kress Fellowship for 1981 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His research interests relate to the social history and esthetic philosophy of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art and architecture. Lukacher completed his PhD on the architecture of Joseph Gandy about which he subsequently produced a monograph that was published by Thames & Hudson in 2002. In 2001 he gave the annual Soane Lecture on Joseph Gandy.

Lukacher lives in Poughkeepsie with his wife Joanne Martin Lukacher who is a textile historian.