The 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.

Please submit a letter of nomination with the title and author by mail or email before March 1, 2012 to Book Prize, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501. For additional information, please contact the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center at: 505.946.1002; researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.

Deadline:  March 1, 2012.
Requested:  Letter of nomination with the title and author.
To:  Book Prize, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501 or researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.

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.

Please submit nominations before March 1, 2011 for the 2012 award, which will be made in September 2012. Submit them to:
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center,
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501.

For additional information, please contact the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center at: 505-946-1002; researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.