SARAH LANDAU

1935 - 2023

LANDAU--Sarah Bradford, died February 4, 2023 at a skilled nursing facility in Leeds, Massachusetts, near Northampton, at the age of 87. She suffered from loss of memory and cognitive ability, and died rather suddenly after a brief illness. Sarah was a professor of art history at New York University for many years. She earned a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU as a student of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the noted architectural historian. Her dissertation chronicled the work of the architects Henry Tuckerman Potter and William Appleton Potter, subsequently published. Other published works include Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913 (1996), with Carl W. Condit, George B. Post, Architect (1998), and many journal articles including the pioneering study, The Row Houses of New York's West Side (March 1975), which appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. For nine years she served as a member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. She is survived by her husband Sidney, her children Paul and Amy, Paul's wife Emily and their two children Zoe and Penelope, and her brother Alan, and his wife Mary.