Outstanding Permanent Collection Catalogue

(full list of authors  and publishers will be posted March 15^th)

 

African Art: a Century at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum

 

The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas Museum of Art 

 

Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art

 

British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection , John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 

 

James Tissot, The Life of Christ: The Complete Set of 350 Watercolors, Brooklyn Museum

 

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Catalogue Raisonne, The Museum of Modern Art 

 

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, North Carolina Museum of Art

 

Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art

 

Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue

(full list of authors and publishers to be posted March 15^th)

 

Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California

 

Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Bauhaus 1919- 1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art

 

Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Saint Louis Art Museum

 

The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Cezanne and American Modernism, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ and The Baltimore Muuseum of Art, Maryland

 

Cezanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art 

 

Cutters, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College/The Hunterdon Art Museum

 

Dike Blair: Now and Again, Weatherspoon Art Museum/UNCG

 

Drawn to Italian Drawings: The Goldman Collection, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick, New-York Historical Society and The Bard Graduate Center

 

Gabriel Orozco, The Museum of Modern Art

 

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

 

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Chrales Burchfield, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

 

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976, The Museum of Modern Art

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

James Ensor, The Museum of Modern Art

 

Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

 

The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

 

Long Island Moderns:  Art and Architecture on the North Shore and Beyond, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island

 

Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts

 

Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs of Mexico and California, 1948-1955, Getty Gallery at Los Angeles Public Library

 

Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance, J. Paul Getty Museum

 

Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

 

Picasso and the Allure of Language, Yale University Art Gallery

 

The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press

 

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press

 

Prendergast in Italy, Williams College Museum of Art 

 

Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, Worcester Art Museum

 

Sacred Spain. Art and Belief in the Spanish World, Indianapolis Museum of Art

 

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978, Seattle Art Museum

 

Time and Tide: The Changing Art of the Asmat of New Guinea, Minneapolis Institute of Arts 

 

William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Norton Museum of Art

 

Outstanding Article, Catalogue Essay, or Extended Catalogue Entry

(complete bibliographic entries to be posted in March)

 

Anne Verplanck , "The Silhouette and Quaker Identity in Early National Philadelphia," Winterthur Portfolio 43:1 (Spring 2009), 41-78.

 

Colin B. Bailey, "Looking Closely at Renoir's La Parisienne,” American Federation of Arts.

 

Emily Braun, "Paint Made Flesh,” Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.

 

Emily J. Peters, "Systems and Swells: The Collective Lineage of Engraved Lines, 1480-1650," in The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650 (2009), Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

 

Lauren Lessing with Mary Schafer, "Unveiling Raphaelle Peale’s Venus Rising from the Sea – A Deception” in Winterthur Portfolio.

 

Mark Rosenthal, "William Kentridge: Five Themes,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Norton Museum, Yale University Press.

 

Marybeth De Filippis, "Margrieta van Varick's 'East Indian' goods: A possible influence on colonial American silver," The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. 176, no. 3 (September, 2009).

 

Keith Christiansen, "The Genius of Andrea Mantegna”

 

Nancy Mathews, "Prendergast in Italy" in Prendergast in Italy 

 

Philip K. Hu, "Sail Returning from Distant Shore: Chinese Themes and Styles on Japanese Folding Screens," in Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum, edited by Janice Katz (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2009), pp. 57 - 71.

 

Walter Liedtke, "The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer,” Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

Will South, "A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.

 

Outstanding Exhibition/Installation

**EASTERN**

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, The Jewish Museum

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art

Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Discoveries in Detail: Jacques Le Moyne and Theodor DeBry, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick, Bard Graduate Center in collaboration with the NY Historical Society

Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art

James Ensor, The Museum of Modern Art

Picasso and the Allure of Language, Yale University Art Gallery

Prendergast in Italy, Williams College Museum of Art

Tara Donovan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874, University of Michigan Museum of Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

William Kentridge: Five Themes, The Norton Museum of Art

**CENTRAL**

Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth, The Art Institute of Chicago

Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons: Film Installations by Philip Haas, The Kimbell Art Museum

Chance Aesthetics, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University

Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, The Art Institute of Chicago

**PACIFIC/MOUNTAIN**

Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia, Museum of International Folk art

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, Hammer Museum

Illusion: The Painting of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierced,Orange County Museum of Art

Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance, J. Paul Getty Museum

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949 -1978, Seattle Art Museum