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Eldredge Prize Recipients

2008: J. M. Mancini
Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Amory Show. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

2007: Rebecca Zurier
Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

2006: Margaretta M. Lovell
Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

2005: Elizabeth Johns
Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

2004: David M. Lubin
Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

2003: Richard Meyer
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

2002: Anthony W. Lee
Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

2001: Jodi Hauptman
Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

2000: Wanda M. Corn
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

1999: Caroline A. Jones
Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

1998: Sarah Burns
Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

1997: Sue Rainey
Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994.

1996: Michael Leja
Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

1995: Angela L. Miller
The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825–1875. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

1994: Sally M. Promey
Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth Century Shakerism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

1993: Erika Doss
Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

1992: Richard P. Wunder
Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805–1873. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.

1991: Michele Bogart
Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

1990: (2 winners)
Michael Fried
Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Alan Trachtenberg
Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.

1989: Edward J. Nygren
Views and Visions: American Landscape Before 1830. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986.