Helen Gardner studied art history.
Gardner 's Art Through the Ages is an American textbook on the history of art , with the 2004 edition by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya . Helen Gardner (art historian) . After an interval as a teacher , she returned to the same university to study art history , and received a master 's degree in 1918 . The next year she started to teach an art history course at the School of the Art Institute . In 1936 , she published a second edition of Art Through the Ages , with its content expanded .