Awards
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award
Past Award Recipients2003 Thomas P. Campbell for Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Yale University Press, 2002)
Committee: Richard Vinograd, Chair, Stanford University; Marilyn Brown, Tulane University; Carolyn Wilson, independent scholar, Houston; Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum
2002 Stephen Little for Taoism and the Arts of China
Committee: Elizabeth Ferrer, independent scholar, Austin, Texas, Chair; Marilyn Brown, Tulane University, New Orleans; Richard Vinograd, Stanford University, California; Carolyn Wilson, independent scholar, Houston, Texas
2001 Yve-Alain Bois for Matisse and Picasso
Committee: Elizabeth W. Easton, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chair; Gail Feigenbaum, New Orleans Museum of Art; Elizabeth Ferrer, Austin Museum of Art; Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University; Richard Vinograd, Stanford University
2000 Pepe Carmel and Kirk Varnedoe for Jackson Pollock
Committee: Elizabeth Easton, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chair; Gail Feigenbaum, New Orleans Museum of Art; Elizabeth Ferrer, Austin Museum of Art; Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University
1999 Helen Ibbitson Jessup and Thierry Zéphir, eds., for Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Committee: Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary, chair; Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum; Elizabeth W. Easton, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Gail Feigenbaum, New Orleans Museum; Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
1998 Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts for Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History
Committee: Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary, chair; Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum; George Shackelford, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
1997 Rebecca Zurier, Robert Snyder, and Virginia Mecklenberg for Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
Committee: Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary, chair; Ann Gunter, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum; George Shackelford, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1996 Henry A. Millon, National Gallery, and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (catalogue for an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice)
Committee: Joneath Spicer, chair, Walters Art Gallery; David Binkley, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art; Ann Gunter, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Peter Selz, University of California, Berkeley; George Shackleford, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995 Richard Barnhart,Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School (Dallas Museum of Art, with essays by Mary Ann Rogers and Richard Stanley-Baker)
Committee: Joaneath Spicer, chair, Walters Art Gallery; Judi Freeman, Portland Museum of Art; Ann Gunter, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Peter Selz, University of California, Berkeley; Sidra Stich, Berkeley, California
1994 Raymond Bellour and Mary Lea Bandy, for Jean-Luc Godard: Son + Image (Museum of Modern Art)
Committee: Kevin Consey, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, chair; Judi Freeman, Portland Museum of Art in Maine; Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Gallery; Sidra Stich, Berkeley
1993 Stephanie Barron, ed., with contributions by Peter Guenther, et. al., for "Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams Press)
Committee: Judith Stein, chair, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Kevin Consey, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; Judi Freeman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Sidra Stich, independent curator
1992 Julia Brown Turrell for Rule Without Exception: Lewis Baltz (Des Moines Art Center in association with University of New Mexico Press)
Committee: Judith Stein, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Chair; Kevin Consey, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Harry Rand, National Museum of American Art, S.I.
1991 Elizabeth Broun for Albert Pinkham Ryder (Smithsonian Institution Press)
Donna DeSalvo for "Success is a Job in New York...": The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol (Grey Art Gallery, N.Y.U. and Carnegie Museum of Art)
Committee: Kenneth Silver, New York University, chair; Mari Carmen Ramirez-Garcia, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Univ. of Texas; Judith Stein, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1990 Keith Christiansen, Lawrence Kanter, Carl Brandon Strehlke for Painting in Renaissance Siena: 1420-1500 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, dist. Harry N. Abrams)
Committee: Edith Tonelli, Wight Art Gallery, U.C.L.A., chair; Samuel Sachs; Lowery Sims, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989 Jonathan Wordsworth, Michael C. Jaye, Robert Woof, with the assistance of Peter Funnell for William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romantics
Committee: George Goldner, chair; Linda Ayres; Charles Moffett
1988 Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller for The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
Committee: Maryan Ainsworth, Metropolitan Museum of Art, chair; George Goldner; Jan Muhlert
1987 Angelica Zander Rudenstine for Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Committee: Joel Isaacson, chair; Patricia Condon; Thomas Kren
1986 Peter Sutton for Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Committee: H. Diane Russell, chair; Joseph Rishel; Sherman Lee
1985 Patricia Condon for In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres
Committee: Clifford Ackley, chair; Tom Freudenheim; Robert Hobbs
1984 H. Diane Russell for Claude Lorraine, 1600-1682
Committee: Margaret Frazer, chair; Wayne Begley; Hayden Maginnis 1983 Clifford Ackley for Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt
Committee: Ann Sutherland Harris, chair; Thomas W. Leavitt; Patrick M. de Winter
1982 Wen Fong, et al for Great Bronze Age of China
Committee: Henry Hopkins, chair; Frederick Cummings; Alan Rosenbaum
1981 Kurt Weitzmann, Margaret English Frazer, et al for Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century
Committee: Johns Walsh, Jr., chair; Hilton Kramer; Thomas Lawton
