Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship
DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS:  Dec. 1, 2001

Nominations are invited for the Charles C. Eldredge Prize, awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art.  The prize was instituted by the American Art Forum to honor Charles C. Eldredge who founded the membership group during his tenure as the museum's director.  Additional details and previous award winners can be found online at: AmericanArt.si.edu/study/opportunities-eldredge.html.

Single-author, book-length publications * including monographs, exhibition catalogues, catalogues raisonnes, and collected essays * in the field of American art history appearing in the three previous calendar years are eligible.  No work written by an employee of the Smithsonian American Art Museum or produced by its publications' office is eligible. 

Publications devoted to all aspects of the visual arts of the United States collected or exhibited by the Smithsonian American Art Museum may be nominated.  This includes the fields of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, decorative arts, craft and folk art.  Books focusing on methodology, criticism, patronage, iconography, and social history may also be nominated.  Studies of architecture, film, or the performing arts will not be considered.

Books will be judged by three scholars of American art, appointed by the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Nominated books will be reviewed for originality and excellence of research, writing, and methodology, as well as for their significance to the field.

To nominate a book, send a letter explaining the work's importance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author's scholarship and methodology.  Publications may be nominated in more than one competition if published in the eligible years.  Nominations by authors or publishers for their own books will not be considered.

Send letters of nomination to:

The Charles C. Eldredge Prize
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C.  20560-0970

fax: 202/275-1707
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