The 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize ($5,000) is 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).

Smith was also recently named the winner of the College Art Association's 2010 Frank Jewett Mather Award, awarded for significant published art criticism that has appeared in publication in a one-year period.

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 prize will be awarded again in 2012.
For information contact: researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize will be awarded every three years 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, published within the last twenty-five years. A cash award of $5,000 will accompany the prize.