Awards
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Finalists
Below are the names of authors, their book titles, and publisher information for the finalists of the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from 1996 to 2012. You may also read a list of all winners of the award from 1981 to the present.
2012 Finalists
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010).
Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250–1500 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010).
Second Barr Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, or Collections
James T. Tice and James G. Harper, Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour (Eugene: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 2010).
2011 Finalists
Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, eds., Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2009).
Xiaoneng Yang, ed., Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China (Milan, Italy: 5 Continents Editions, 2010).
2010 Finalists
Andrea Bayer, ed. Art and Love in Renaissance Italy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2008).
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Steidl, 2009).
2009 Finalists
Wolfram Koeppe and Annamaria Giusti, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2008).
Terese Tse Bartholomew and John Johnston, eds., The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan (Chicago: Serindia Publications, in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Kingdom of Bhutan, 2008).
Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson, eds., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in association with Yale University Press, 2008).
Second Barr Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, or Collections
Ella Reitsma, assisted by Sandrine Ulenberg, Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science (Zwolle, the Netherlands: Waanders, in association with the Rembrandt House Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008).
2008 Finalists
John Oliver Hand, Catherine Metzger, and Ron Spronk, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2006).
Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, Erina Duganne, eds., Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Joseph J. Rishel, with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820 (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2006).
2007 Finalists
Beth Cohen, The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006).
Leo G. Mazow, ed., Picturing the Banjo (University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
Peter Parshall and Rainer Schoch, Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2005).
2006 Finalists
Wendy Kaplan, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World (New York: Thames and Hudson, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004).
Robert Thomson, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Mary Weaver Chapin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Richard F. Townsend and Robert V. Sharp, eds., Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, in association with Yale University Press, 2004).
2005 Finalists
John C. Huntington and Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art (Chicago: Serindia Publications, in association with the Columbus Museum of Art, 2003).
Mary Miller and Simon Martin, Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004).
Jenifer Neils and John H. Oakley, Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2003).
2004 Finalists
Paul Arnett, William Arnett, John Beardsley, Jane Livingston, and Alvia Wardlaw, Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts (Atlanta: Tinwoods Books; Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002).
Joan Aruz, ed., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003).
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, et al., Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003).
2003 Finalists
Shelley Bennett and Robyn Asleson, British Paintings at the Huntington (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in association with Yale University Press, 2001).
Douglas Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001).
Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak, Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2001).
2002 Finalists
Andreas Blühm and Louise Lippincott, Light! The Industrial Age 1750–1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001).
Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001).
Gloria Groom, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
2001 Finalists
Lawrence Berman and Kenneth J. Bohac, Catalogue of Egyptian Art (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999).
Julien Chapuis, Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1999).
Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, eds., Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999).
2000 Finalists
Norman L. Kleeblatt and Kenneth E. Silver, Chaim Soutine: An Expressionist in Paris (New York: Prestel, in association with the Jewish Museum, 1998).
Stuart W. Pyhrr and José-A. Godoy, Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999).
Paul Hayes Tucker with George T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, Monet in the Twentieth Century (London: Royal Academy of Arts; Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in association with Yale University Press, 1998).
1999 Finalists
Anne Baldassari, Picasso and Photography: The Dark Mirror (Paris: Flammarion, in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1997).
Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, eds., The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, AD 843–1261 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997).
1998 Finalists
Janet Catherine Berlo, ed., Plains Indian Drawing, 1865–1935 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with American Federation of Arts and the Drawing Center, 1996).
Money L. Hickman, ed., Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Dallas Museum of Art, 1996).
Carol C. Mattusch, The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996).
Carolyn C. Wilson, Italian Paintings, XIV–XVI Centuries, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in association with Rice University Press and Merrell Holberton, 1996).
1997 Finalists
Wendy Kaplan, ed., Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885–1945 (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995).
Ellen D. Reeder, et al., Pandora: Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, in association with Princeton University Press, 1995).
Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton et al., The Women of the Pleasure Quarter: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, in association with Hudson Hills, 1996).
1996 Finalists
Maryan W. Ainsworth with Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994).
Douglas Druick et al., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840–1916 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; London: Royal Academy of Arts; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994).
Alexandra Munroe, Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
