Charles C. Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship in American Art
DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS:  December 1, 1996

Nominations are invited for the Charles C. Eldredge Prize, awarded
annually by the National Museum of American Art 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 a list of previous award winners can be found online at
<http://www.nmaa.si.edu/deptdir/ressub/rescdir/eldprz.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 National
Museum of American Art 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 National Museum of American Art may be
nominated.  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 National Museum of American Art.  Nominated books will
be reviewed for originality and excellence of research, writing, and
methodology, as well as 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
Research and Scholars Center
National Museum of American Art - MRC 210
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.  20560

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