Awards
Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize
Past Award Recipients2003 Andrew M. Shanken, for "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II" (March 2002)
Committee: John Davis, Smith College, Chair; Alison Hilton, Georgetown University; Alfred Acres, Princeton University; Jacqueline Jung, Middlebury College
2002 Jonathan M. Reynolds for "Ise Shrine and a Modernist Construction of Japanese Tradition" (June 2001)
Committee: Alfred Acres, Princeton University; John Davis, Smith College; Michael Davis, Mt. Holyoke College; William Diebold, Reed College, Chair
2001 Jacqueline Jung for "Beyond the Barrier: The Unifying Role of the Choir Screen in Gothic Churches" (December 2000)
Committee: Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania, Chair; Michael Davis, Mt. Holyoke College; Ruth E. Iskin, University of British Columbia; William Diebold, Reed College
2000 Michael Cole for "Cellini's Blood" (June 1999)
Committee: Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania, chair; Michael Davis, Mt. Holyoke College; William Diebold, Reed College; Ruth Iskin, University of California, Los Angeles
1999 Alfred Acres for "The Columba Altarpiece and the Time of the World" (September 1998)
Committee: Irving Lavin, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University, chair; Ruth E. Iskin, University of California, Los Angeles; Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania
1998 Robert Lubar for "Unmasking Pablo's Gertrude: Queer Desire and the Subject of Portraiture: (March 1997) and Jennifer L. Shaw for "Imaging the Motherland: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France" (December 1997)
Committee: Irving Lavin, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, chair; Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University; William Tronzo; Tulane University
1997 Holly Pittman for "The White Obelisk and the Problem of Historical Narrative in the Art of Assyria" (June 1996)
Committee: John R. Clarke, University of Texas, Austin, chair; Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University; Judith Oliver, Colgate University
1996 Ladislav Kesner for "Likeness of No One: (Re)presenting the First Emperor's Army" (March 1995)
Committee: Irving Lavin, chair; Hollis Clayson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Judith Oliver
1995 Anne Burkus-Chasson's "Elegant or Common? Chen Hongshou's Birthday Presentation Pictures and His Professional Status" (June 1994)
Committee: Walter S. Gibson, chair, Case Western Reserve University; Françoise Forster-Hahn, University of California, Riverside; Judith Oliver, Colgate University; Joseph Siry, Wesleyan University
1994 Roger Benjamin for "The Decorative Landscape, Fauvism, and the Arabesque of Observation" (June 1993)
Committee: Walter S. Gibson, chair, Case Western Reserve University; Aimée Brown Price, New York; Joseph Siry, Wesleyan University
1993 Mary Jackson Harvey for "Death and Dynasty in the Bouillon Tomb Commissions" (June 1992) and Andrew Morrogh for "The Magnifici Tomb: A Key Project in Michelangelo's Architectural Career" (December 1992)
Committee: Patricia Leighten, chair, University of Delaware, Newark; Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University; Walter S. Gibson, Case Western Reserve University; Joseph Siry, Wesleyan University
1992 Joseph Siry for "Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and Architecture for Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885-1909" (June 1991)
Committee: Patricia Leighten, University of Newark, Delaware, chair; Charles Edwards, University of Texas, Austin; Linda Hults, College of Wooster
1991 Patricia Leighten for "The White Peril and L'Art nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism" (December 1990)
Committee: Suzanne Preston Blier, The Getty Center for the History of Art & the Humanities, chair; John R. Clarke, University of Texas, Austin; Linda Hults, College of Wooster
1990 Lynn F. Jacobs for "The Marketing and Standardization of South Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces: Limits on the Role of the Patron" (1989) Committee: Edward Kaufman, chair; Thalia Gouma-Peterson; Debra Pincus
1989 Edward Kaufman for "E.B. Lamb: A Case Study in Victorian Architectural Patronage" (1988)
Committee: John Russell, chair; Elizabeth Johns; Thomas Reese
1988 John Malcolm Russell for "Bull's for the Palace and Order in the Empire: The Sculptural Program of Sennacherib's Court VI at Nineveh" (1987)
Committee: Keith Christiansen, chair; James Cahill; Franklin Toker
1987 Keith Christiansen for "Caravaggio and 'L'esempio davanti del naturale" (1986)
Committee: Henry Adams, chair; Kathryn Linduff; David Van Zanten
1986 Henry Adams for "John La Farge's Discovery of Japanese Art: A New Perspective on the Origins of Japonism" (1985)
Committee: Hayden B.J. Maginnis, chair; Ruth Butler; Catherine Wilkinson Zerner
1985 Hayden B.J. Maginnes for "Pietro Lorenzetti: A Chronology" (1984)
Committee: Kathleen J. Shelton, chair; William I. Homer; Charles Parkhurst
1984 Kathleen J. Shelton for "The Consular Muse of Flavius Constantius" (1983)
Committee: Eve Twose Kliman and Jeffrey M. Muller, co-chairs; Walter Gibson; Penelope Mason; Jane Rosenthal
1983 Eve Twose Kliman for "Delacroix's Lions and Tigers: A Link between Man and Nature" (1982) Jeffrey M. Muller for "Rubens' Theory and Practice of the Imitation of Art (1982)
Committee: Nina Athanassoglou, chair; Larry Ayres; Joseph Connors; Francis L. Richardson
1982 Peter Humfrey for "Cima da Conegliano, Sebastiano Mariani, and Alvise Vivarini at the East End of S.Giovanni in Bragora in Venice" (1980)
Committee: Suzanne Spain, chair; Marcel M. Franciscono; Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
1981 Suzanne Spain for "'The Promised Blessing': The Iconography of the Mosaics of S.Maria Maggiore" (1979)
Committee: Franklin Toker and Ulrich Hiesinger, co-chairs; Jonathan Brown; Charles Cohen; Dick Randall
1980 Ulrich Hiesinger for "The Paintings of Vincenzo Camuccini, 1771-1844 Florence Cathedral: The Design Style" (1978) and "Franklin K. B. Toker for Florence Cathederal: The Design Stage"
Committee: Ann Sutherland Harris, chair; Vincent Bruno; Margaret Frazer; Barbara Stafford
1979 David Summers for "Contrapposto: Style and Meaning in Renaissance Art" (1977)
Committee: Ann Sutherland Harris, chair; Vincent Bruno; Margaret Frazer; Barbara Stafford
1978 Elizabeth Cropper for "On Beautiful Women, Parmigianino 'Petrarchismo,' and the Vernacular Style" (1976)
Committee: Herbert Kessler, chair; Ann Sutherland Harris; Angelica Z. Rudenstine; Lawrence A. Silver
1977 Catherine Wilkinson for "The Escorial and the Invention of the Imperial Staircase" (1975)
Committee: Herbert Kessler, chair; Ann Sutherland Harris; Angelica Z. Rudenstine; Lawrence A. Silver
1976 Robert Deshman for "Anglo-Saxon Art After Alfred" (1974) and Marie Tanner for "Chance and Coincidence in Titian's 'Diana and Actaeon'" (1974)
Committee: Andrée Hayum, chair; Carl Baldwin; Herbert Kessler
1975 Lawrence A. Silver for "The 'Sin of Moses': Comments on the Early Reformation in a Late Painting by Lucas van Leyden" (1973)
Committee: Andrée Hayum, chair; Carl Baldwin; Herbert Kessler
1974 David Summers for "Michelangelo on Architecture" (1972)
Committee: Marvin Trachtenberg, chair; Svetlana Alpers; Albert Boime
1973 Albert Boime for "The Second Republic's Contest for the Figure of the Republic" (1971)
Committee: Jonathan Brown, chair; Marvin Trachtenberg; Barbara Novak
1972 Jonathan Brown for "Hieroglyphs of Death and Salvation: The Decoration of Hermandad De La Caridad, Seville" (1970)
Committee: Theodore Reff, chair; Caecilia Davis; Charles I. Minott
1971 Charles Ilsley Minott for "The Theme of the Merode Altarpiece" (1969)
1970 Irving Lavin for "Five New Youthful Sculptures by Gianlorenzo Bernini and a Revised Chronology of His Early Work" (1968) and Charles Dempsey for "Et Nos Cedamus Amori': Observations on a Farnese Gallery" (1968)
Committee: James Snyder, chair; Curtis Shell; Nathan T. Whitman
1969 No Committee
1968 Linda Nochlin for "Gustave Courbet's Meeting: A Portrait of the Artist as a Wandering Jew" (1967)
Committee: George Levitine; Donald E. Gordon; Alfred Moir
1967 Donald E. Gordon for "Kirchner in Dresden" (1966)
Committee: Joachim Gaehde, chair; Staale Sinding-Larsen; James Holderbaum
1966 Staale Sinding-Larsen for "Palladio's Redentore; A Compromise in Composition" (1965)
Committee: Irving Lavin; Iris H. Cheney; Ramsey MacMullen
1965 Ramsay MacMullen for "Some Pictures in Ammianus Marcellinus" (1964)
Committee: Iris H. Cheney
1964 Iris Hoffmeister Cheney for "Francesco Salviati's North Italian Journey" (1963)
Committee: Marvin Eisenberg; Rosalie Gree; John Martin
1963 Irving Lavin for "The House of the Lord: Aspects of the Role of Palace Triclinia in the Architecture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" (1962)
Committee: James E. Snyder; William C. Loerke; Dorothy Minor
1962 William C. Loerke for "The Miniatures of the Trial in the Rossano Gospels" (1961)
Committee: Irving Lavin
1961 James E. Snyder for "The Early Haarlem School of Painting" (1960)
Committee: Mary Ann Graeve; Lorenz Eitner; Harry Bober
1960 Irving Lavin for "The Sources of Donatello's Pulpits in San Lorenzo" (1959)
1959 Mary Ann Graeve for "The Stone of Unction in Caravaggio's Painting for the Chiesa Nuova" (1958)
1958 Lillian M.C. Randall for "Exempla as a Source of Gothic Illumination" (1957)
