SAAM :: Press Releases

Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, 1989—2008

Jessica Stockholder Wins the 2007 Lucelia Artist Award (PDF, 28K) Preview Images (PDF, 87K)

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Lucelia Artist Award Nominees for 2007 (PDF, 19K)

Matthew Coolidge, Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation Wins the 2006 Lucelia Artist Award (PDF, 32K)

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Lucelia Artist Award Nominees for 2006 (PDF, 28K)

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Lucelia Artist Award Nominees for 2005

Kara Walker Wins the 2004 Lucelia Artist Award

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Lucelia Artist Award Nominees for 2004

Rirkrit Tiravanija Wins 2003 Lucelia Artist Award

Liz Larner Wins 2002 Lucelia Artist Award

Jorge Pardo Wins the 2001 Lucelia Artist Award

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Lucelia Artist Award

JoAnne Mancini Is Awarded the 20th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book on the Origins of American Modernism (PDF, 28K)

Rebecca Zurier Is Awarded the 19th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book on the Ashcan School's Urban Vision (PDF, 20K)

Margaretta M. Lovell Awarded the 18th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book on Artists and Patrons in Early America (PDF, 36K)

Elizabeth Johns Awarded the 17th Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Biography of Winslow Homer

16th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for Exploration of Popular Images of John F. Kennedy

15th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for Examination of Censorship in 20th-Century American Art

14th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for New Study of San Francisco's Chinatown

13th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for Pioneering Look at Joseph Cornell and the Cinema

Further information about the Eldredge Prize and a complete list of past winners is available at AmericanArt.si.edu/education/opportunities-eldredge.cfm.

Ellen G. Landau Receives Fourth Annual Frost Essay Award (PDF, 26K)

Michael Clapper Receives Third Annual Frost Essay Award (PDF, 20K)

Sue Taylor Receives Second Annual Frost Essay Award (PDF, 20K)

Sally Stein Receives First Annual Frost Essay Award (PDF, 22K)

"Eye Level," the Smithsonian American Art Museum's blog, won a silver medal at the American Association of Museums' Muse Awards (PDF, 20K)

"America's Art," the Smithsonian American Art Museum's new collection catalog, has been awarded the Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design by the American Association of Museums (PDF, 20K)