The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book PrizeThe Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize program began in 2009. A cash prize of $5,000 is awarded every three years to the author(s) of a book on some aspect of American modernism (late nineteenth century - present), including architecture, criticism, design, methodology, painting, photography, sculpture, and related subjects, published from the mid-1980s to 2009.
It is awarded to a book that has made a significant contribution to shaping current thinking about the arts that did not receive recognition at the time of its publication. A committee of distinguished American art scholars selects the winner. The award has been funded by several anonymous donors and the Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Foundation. 2012 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize
We are pleased to announce that the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center 2012 Book prize ($5000) has been awarded to Ann Eden Gibson, Professor Emerita, University of Delaware for her book Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Professor Gibson’s book was chosen by a committee of distinguished American art scholars. Jurors: Patricia Hill, Boston University Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania Kathleen Pyne, University of Notre Dame Jonathan Weinberg, Independent scholar and curator On Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. Professor Gibson will be presenting a public lecture to discuss some of the adventures and realizations involved in writing this book. On the following day, Friday, March 22 at 3:00 p.m., there will be a panel discussion with Ann Gibson, which includes Lucy Lippard, Janet Dees, Joseph Traugott, and Kymberly Pinder. For further information regarding these events, please click here. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize program is awarded every three years to a book that has made a significant contribution to shaping current thinking about the arts. It is given to a book written about some aspect of American modernism that was published from the mid-1980s to 2009 and that did not receive recognition at the time of its publication. The award is based on excellence, originality, quality of writing and scholarship, contribution to knowledge, and significance to the field. The award has been funded by several anonymous donors and the Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Foundation. 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize Terry Smith
The 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize ($5,000) was awarded to Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh for Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
Honorable Mentions: Kathleen Pyne, Notre Dame University, for Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America (Austin TX: University of Texas Press,1996) Lucy R. Lippard for Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (The New Press,1990) Jurors: Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania Nancy Mowll Matthews, Williams College Museum of Art Patricia Hills, Boston University Jonathan Fineberg, University of Illinois and Director, Illinois at the Phillips, The Center for the Study of Modern Art The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize will be awarded every three years beginning in 2009 to the author(s) of a book on some aspect of American Modernism (1890s - present), including architecture, criticism, design, methodology, painting, photography, sculpture, and related subjects. A cash award of $5,000 will accompany the prize. The award will be based on excellence, originality, quality of writing and scholarship, contribution to knowledge, and significance to the field, and selection will be made by a committee of scholars not affiliated with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and its Research Center. |
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