Dear Colleagues,

 

I am pleased to announce the release of the summer 2019 issue of American Art (vol. 33, no. 2), the scholarly journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press. This issue includes the following articles:

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Commentaries:

·        Preface: Collaboration², by Robin Veder

·        Toward a History of Modernism in Washington: The 1933 Display of Art by African Americans at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Gallery of Art, by Charles Brock

·        Perspectives on the 1933 Exhibition: Herring, Locke, and Porter, by Tobias Wofford

·        Exhibiting the Negro: Art and Anthropology in the National Museum, 1929–33, by Michèle Gates Moresi

·        Student Art in the United States National Museum: Progressive Education on Display, by Seth Feman

·        Politics of the Press: Newspapers and the Representation of Art by African Americans in the Nation’s Capital, by John A. Tyson

Feature Articles:

·        Synergizing Space: Sculpture, Architecture, and Richard Lippold at Lincoln Center, by Marin R. Sullivan

·        Harnett’s Habit: Still Life Painting and Smoking Culture in the Gilded Age, by Ross Barrett

·        Fighting for a Free World: Ben Shahn and the Art of the War Poster, by Christof Decker

 

To access the new issue, please visit: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/amart/current. 

 

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Best wishes,

Marie Ladino

 

 

 

 

Marie Ladino

Managing Editor, American Art

Research and Scholars Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum