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Past Winners

Below is a list of all past recipients of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant. The program supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy.

2025

• Elise Armani and Katy Siegel, What Was America? Art and Culture at the Bicentennial, Yale University Press
• Kathryn Brush, Arthur Kingsley Porter's Pilgrimage to Romanesque Art: From Frontier to Modernity, 1900–1933, McGill-Queen's University Press
• John Corso-Esquivel, Pharmaceuticals and Pill Culture in Contemporary Art: Pharmaesthetics, Routledge | Taylor & Francis
• Elizabeth Bacon Eager, The Technology of Drawing: Image and Industry in the Early United States, University of Chicago Press
• Christine Garnier, The American Silverscape: Art, Extraction, and Visual Sovereignty, Yale University Press
• Neil Levine, The Sculpture of Donald Judd, Yale University Press
• Sascha Scott, Remembering for the Future, University of Washington Press
• Emily S. Warner, Abstraction Unframed: Murals in Midcentury New York, Yale University Press
• Dagmara Zawadzka, Bryn Tapper, and Oscar Moro Abadía, eds., Rock Art in Canada: Stories, Landscapes, and Practices, University of British Columbia Press
• Joes Segal and Emma Diffley, Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky, The Wende Museum

2024

• Annik Bilodeau, Pasting Up Protest: The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking, McGill-Queen's University Press
• Alice Butler, Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-pieces, Duke University Press
• Yve Chavez, Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, University of Washington Press
• Carolin Görgen, The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West, University of Oklahoma Press
• Harmony Hammond and Tirza True Latimer, Still Dangerous: The Harmony Hammond Reader, Duke University Press
• Robb Hernández, Transplanetary: Speculative Arts of the Americas, Duke University Press
• Joseph Harold Larnerd, Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Long Gilded Age, University of Delaware Press
• Michael Hartman and Jami Powell, eds., Reenvisioning Histories of American Art: Transforming Museum Practice, University of Washington Press
• Jessica Lopez Lyman, Hard Land, U.S.A.: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities, University of Minnesota Press
• Maureen Meister, Arts and Crafts Architecture Across America, Yale University Press
• John Ott, Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration, 1931–1954, University of California Press
• Louis Shadwick, Edward Hopper: Into the Light, Yale University Press
• Jacob Stewart-Halevy, The Casual: Downplaying Art since California Conceptualism, University of Chicago Press
• Nick Yablon, "From the Skyscraper to the Wildflowers": Charles Gilbert Hine's Photographic Survey of Broadway, University of Iowa Press

2023

• Ellen Levy, A Book About Ray, MIT Press
• Ellen Macfarlane, Politics Unseen: Group F.64, Photography, and the Problem of Purity, University of California Press
• Yxta Maya Murray, We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law, Cornell University Press
• Akela Reason, Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York, Yale University Press
• Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams, The Maya Christian Murals of Colonial Yucatán: The Indigenizing of Early Modern Exchange Networks, University of Texas Press

2022

• Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: Temporality, Materiality, and Mining in Climate Breakdown, Duke University Press
• Julia Bailey, Painting and Paranoia: The Specter of Communist Art in Cold War USA, University of Illinois Press
• Janet Berlo, Not Native American Art? Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions, University of Washington Press
• Stephanie Buhmann, Frederick Kiesler: Galaxies, The Green Box, Berlin
• Colby Chamberlain, Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork, University of Chicago Press
• Jessica L. Horton, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973, Duke University Press
• Darren Newbury, American Perspectives in Africa: Photographic Diplomacy and the Cold War Imagination, Penn State University Press
• Louise Siddons, Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin and Navajo Sovereignty, University of Minnesota Press

2021

• Emilie Boone, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography, Duke University Press
• Sarah Cowan, Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction, Yale University Press
• Elizabeth Hamilton, Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Taylor & Francis
• Jacqueline Taylor, Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class, The MIT Press

2020

• Justin Beal, Sandfuture, The MIT Press
• Tina Campt, A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, The MIT Press
• Nikki A. Greene, Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art, Duke University Press
• Aaron M. Hyman, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America, Getty Research Institute
• Laura E. Pérez and Ann Marie Leimer, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Vision, Weaving, Duke University Press
• Jennifer E. Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s, Yale University Press
• Megan A. Smetzer, Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience, University of Washington Press
• Allison M. Stagg, "Prints of a New Kind": Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1830, The Pennsylvania State University Press

2019

• Kimberly Beil, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, Stanford University Press
• Elizabeth Boone, Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth Century Mexico, The University of Texas Press
• Lucy Bradnock, No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud, Yale University Press
• Elizabeth Ferrer, Critical Lens: A History of Latinx Photography, University of Washington Press

2018

• Wendy Bellion, The Great Fall: Iconoclasm in New York City since the American Revolution, Penn State University Press
• M. Elizabeth Boone, "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality": Spain and America at the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915, Penn State University Press
• Mary Coffey, Orozco's American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race, Duke University Press
• Philip Deloria, Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract, University of Washington Press
• Heather Diack, Marks of Contingency: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, University of Minnesota Press
• Katherine Jentleson, Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America, University of California Press
• Anne Monahan, Horace Pippin, American Modern, Yale University Press
• Rebecca A. Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, Yale University Press
• Nicole D. Strathman, Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography, University of Oklahoma Press
• Sue Taylor, Grant Wood's Secrets, University of Delaware Press

2017

• Vivian Fryd, "Against Our Will": Representing Sexual Trauma in American Art, 1970–2014, Penn State University Press
• Emily Moore, For Future Generations: Tlingit, Haida, and American Art in Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks, University of Washington Press
• Asma Naeem, Out of Earshot: Sound and Technology in American Art, 1850–1900, University of California Press
• Julia Sienkewicz, Epic Landscapes, Benjamin Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor, University of Delaware Press
• Christina Weyl, The Women of Atelier 17: Craft, Creativity, and Modernist Printmaking, Yale University Press

2016

• Ella Diaz, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: Mapping a Chicano/a Art History, University of Texas Press
• Jason Hill, Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture, University of California Press
• Wadsworth Jarrell, AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought, Duke University Press
• Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Duke University Press
• Jennifer Josten, Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico, Yale University Press
• Lauren Kroiz, Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era, University of California Press
• Tirza Latimer, Eccentric Modernism: Making Differences in the History of American Art, University of California Press
• Jennifer Van Horn, The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America, University of North Carolina Press

2015

• Anastasia Aukeman, Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association, University of California Press, 2016
• Mary Campbell, Civil Saints: Polygamy, Pornography, and Mormon Citizenship in the Work of Charles Ellis Johnson, University of Chicago Press
• Dale Allen Gyure, Serenity and Delight: The Architecture of Minoru Yamasaki, Yale University Press
• Jessica Horton, Places to Stand: Native American Modernisms on an Undivided Earth, Duke University Press
• Rebecca Peabody, Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race, University of California Press, 2016
• Nizan Shaked, The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art, Manchester University Press

2014

• Bill Anthes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Duke University Press, 2015
• Susan Cahan, Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power, Duke University Press, 2016
• Miguel de Baca, Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture, University of California Press, 2015
• Elizabeth Milroy, The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682–1876, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016

2013

• Ross Barrett, Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheavals in Nineteenth-Century American Art, University of California Press, 2014
• Craig Burnett, Philip Guston: The Studio, Afterall Books, 2014
• Sarah Hamill, David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, University of California Press, 2015
• Sascha T. Scott, A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
• Karen Stanworth, Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, 1820–1910, McGill-Queens University Press, 2014

2012

• Katherine A. Bussard, Unfamiliar Streets: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Yale University Press, 2014
• Melissa Dabakis, A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014
• Michael Lobel, John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration, Yale University Press, 2014
• Amy F. Ogata, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America, University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• John Ott, Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority, Ashgate, 2014
• Rachel Sailor, Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West, University of New Mexico Press, 2014
• George E. Thomas, Frank Furness and the Poetry of the Present: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines, University of Pennsylvania Press

2011

• Amanda Carlson and Robin Poynor, Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State, University Press of Florida, 2014
• Mary K. Coffey, How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State, Duke University Press, 2012
• Mónica Domínguez Torres, Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico, Ashgate, 2013
• Tatiana Flores, Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30!, Yale University Press, 2013
• Sue Rainey, Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn’s Career in Art, University of Massachusetts Press, 2013

2010

• Marianne Kinkel, Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman, University of Illinois Press, 2011
• Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, Children’s Stories and “Child-Time” in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde, Ashgate, 2011
• Leo G. Mazow, Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012
• Maurie D. McInnis, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade, University of Chicago Press, 2011
• Marian Wardle, ed., The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art, University Press of New England, 2011

2009

• Hiroko Ikegami, The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art, MIT Press, 2010
• Kevin D. Murphy, Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier, University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
• David Raskin, Donald Judd, Yale University Press, 2010
• Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

2008

• Carol Clark, Charles Deas and 1840s America, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009
• William Innes Homer, ed., The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins, Princeton University Press, 2009
• Anna Indych-López, Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
• Kirk Savage, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, University of California Press, 2009
• Kristina Wilson, The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934, Yale University Press, 2009

2007

• Joshua Shannon, The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City, Yale University Press, 2009
• Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photographers and Farmworkers in California, 1850 to 2000, University of Minnesota Press, 2008
• Annette Stott, Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West, University of Nebraska Press, 2008

2006

• Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art, MIT Press, 2008
• Mary N. Woods, Beyond the Architect’s Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009

2005

• M. Elizabeth Boone, Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914, Yale University Press, 2007
• Claire Farago and Donna Pierce, Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006
• Julia B. Rosenbaum, Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity, Cornell University Press, 2006