Awards
- awarded Grand Decoration of Honor by the Republic of Austria (1990)
- named University Distinguished Professor of Art History (1983 to 2005)
- Comini Lecture Series in Art History established by Southern Methodist University’s Division of Art History (2005)
- nominated to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame (2002)
- graduate scholarship in her name (1997)
- awarded United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (1996)
- awarded the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Caucus for Art (1995)
- awarded Distinguished Teaching Prize of the Meadows School of the Arts (1985-1986)
- voted Outstanding Professor by her students (17 times)
- undergraduate scholarship in her name (1984)
- nominated for the National Book Award (Egon Schiele’s Portraits, 1974)
- awarded College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award(Egon Schiele’s Portraits, 1976)
- Awarded Medal of Honor by Veteran Feminists of America, Dallas, 2010
- Given Distinguished Alumna Award, Barnard College, New York, 2011