Projects Supported by SPAM
2021
Caroline M. Riley, MOMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art. University of California Press, forthcoming.
Shelburne Museum, Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light, exhibition catalogue, forthcoming Summer 2022.
2020
Monica Bravo, Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico. Yale University Press, 2021.
The Columbus Museum, Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful. The Columbus Museum and Chrysler Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2021.
Jennifer Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s. Yale University Press, 2022.
Susan Richmond, "The Craft of Anne Ryan’s Collages," Art History, 9 December 2020.
Christa Noel Robbins, Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
2019
Katherine Jentleson, Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America. University of California Press, 2020.
Sue Taylor, Grant Wood’s Secrets. University of Delaware Press, 2020.
Rebecca VanDiver, Negotiating Traditions: Lois Mailou Jones and the Composite Aesthetics of Blackness. Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming.
Course Development Grant: Shana Klein, Native Modernisms: Native American Art and American Modernism. Kent State University, fall semester, 2019.
2018
Marissa S. Hershon, "Maria Regnier: Rediscovering a Modernist Silversmith." Silver Magazine, November/December 2018.
Monica E. Jovanovich and Melissa Renn, Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
Monica Steinberg, "Uncivil Obedience: Lowell Darling Follows the Law," American Art 34, no. 1 (Spring 2020).
2017
Cynthia Fowler, The Modern Embroidery Movement. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
K.L.H. Wells, Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York. Yale University Press, 2019.
Christina Weyl, interactive research website in conjunction with the book, The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York, Yale University Press, 2019.
2016
Jennifer A. Greenhill, "Flip, Linger, Glide: Coles Phillips and the Movements of Magazine Pictures." Art History, Vol. 40, No. 3 (June 2017).
Linda Kim, Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Anne Monahan, Horace Pippin, American Modern. Yale University Press, 2020.
2015
Miguel de Baca, Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture. University of California Press, 2016.
Keri Watson, "Difference and Disability in the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White," in Disability and History. Routledge, 2017.
2014
Andrianna Campbell, "One World or None: Hints of the Future in Norman Lewis's Abstract Expressionism," in Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/University of California Press, 2015.
John Ott, "Battle Station MoMA: Jacob Lawrence and the Desegregation of the Armed Forces and the Art World." American Art, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Fall 2015).
Michael Schreyach, Pollock's Modernism. Yale University Press, 2017.
Jason D. Weems, Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
2013
Isadora A. Helfgott, Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945, Temple University Press, 2015.
Diana Linden, Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, Wayne State University Press, 2015.
Dawn V. Rogala, Hans Hofmann: The Artist's Materials. Getty Conservation Institute, 2016.
Sandra Zalman, "Modern Art Inc.: The Museum of Modern Art v. Huntington Hartford," Grey Room 53 (Fall 2013).
2012
Michael Lobel, John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration. Yale University Press, 2014.
Melissa Renn, "Life's Pioneer Painters: Dorothy Seiberling and American Art in Life Magazine, 1949-1968" in The Mediatization of the Artist. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Katherine Roeder, Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Stefanie Sobelle, Thais Thayer.
2011
Lauren Kroiz, Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle. University of California Press, 2012.
Ellen Landau, Mexico and American Modernism. Yale University Press, 2013.
Katherine Manthorne, "Made in New Mexico: Modern Art & the Movies, 1910s." American Arts Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Fall 2013).
Kelly Quinn, Modern Architecture on the Colorline: A Critical Biography of Hilyard R. Robinson.
2010
Robin Veder, The Living Line: Modern Art and the Economy of Energy. Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture Series, Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England, 2015.
Kenneth Haltman, translator and editor, The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting, by Rene Brimo. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Tom Folland, "Rauschenberg's Queer Modernism: The Early Combines and Decoration." Art Bulletin, Vol. 92, No. 4 (December 2010).
2009
Ezra Shales, Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Kim Theriault, Rethinking Arshile Gorky. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
Phoebe Wolfskill, "Caricature and the New Negro in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Palmer Hayden." Art Bulletin, September 2009.
Course Development Grant: Lana Ann Burgess, History of African-American Art. University of South Carolina.
2008
Betsy Fahlman, New Deal Art in Arizona. University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Patricia Hills, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence. University of California Press, 2009.
Newark Museum, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s, exhibition catalogue, 2010.
Lois Rudnick, Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009.
2007
Debra Bricker Balken, Harold Rosenberg, A Critic’s Life. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Kirsten Hoving, Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Elizabeth Lee, "Ivan Albright's Ida and the 'Object Congealed around a Soul.'" American Art, 2015.
Justin Wolff, Thomas Hart Benton: A Life. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012.
2006
Victoria Grieve, "John Cotton Dana and the New Museum Movement," Mid-Atlantic Almanack.
Ann Harlow, AMB and AMB: The Artistic Lives of San Francisco's Anne Bremer and Albert Bender.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism, exhibition catalogue, 2007.
2005
Samantha Baskind, "Allegory versus Authenticity: The Commission and Reception of Howard Chandler Christy’s The Signing of the Constitution of the United States." Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2012).
Jay Bochner, An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz’s New York Secession. MIT Press, 2005.
Mark Cooper and Lisa Sjostrom, Making Art Together: How Collaborative Art-Making Can Transform Kids, Classrooms, and Communities. Beacon Press, 2006.
Maren Stange, Photography and the End of Segregation.
2004
The Adirondack Museum, Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston’s Adirondack Art. Syracuse University Press and the Adirondack Museum, 2005.
Bill Anthes, Native Moderns. Duke University Press, 2006.
Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Theresa Leininger-Miller, Sculpting the New Negro: The Life and Work of Augusta Savage (1892-1962).
Alexandra Griffith Winton, “Warmth and Weft: The Modernist Textiles of Dorothy Liebes.” Modernism, September 2004.
2003
Marie Clifford, Built By Beauty: Helena Rubinstein's Art Collection, Fashion, and the American Reception of Modern Art.
Janice M. Coco, John Sloan's Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision. University of Delaware Press, 2004.
Elvehjem Museum of Art, With Friends: The Art and Lives of Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965. Exhibition catalogue, 2005.
A. Joan Saab, For the Millions: The Transformation of American Art. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Kristina Wilson, "The Intimate Gallery and the Equivalents: Locating Spirituality in the 1920s Work of Alfred Stieglitz." The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, No. 4 (December 2003).
Rebecca Zurier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School. University of California Press, 2006.
2002
Memorial Art Gallery, Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock. Exhibition catalogue, 2003.
Montclair Art Museum, Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray, by Gail Stavitsky and Francis M. Naumann. Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Karen Quinn, "Edward Weston in Los Angeles."
Sue Taylor, "The Artist and the Analyst: Jackson Pollock's Stenographic Figure." American Art, Fall 2003.
James Wechsler, "Embracing the Specter of Communism: The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert."
2001
Vivien Green Fryd, Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Julia Foulkes, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
2000
Rachael Arauz, "Naming American Modernism: The Semiotics of Charles Demuth's Early Poster Portraits."
Judith Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism As Alternative Modernism. University of New Hampshire Press of University Press of New England, 2005.
Patricia Hills, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century. Prentice Hall, 2000.
Diana Linden, "Charles Alston's Harlem Hospital Murals: Cultural Politics in Depression Era Harlem." Prospects, Vol. 26, 2002.
1999
Wanda M. Corn, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity 1915-1935. University of California Press, 1999.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg, "Edward Hopper's Houses." The Magazine Antiques, Vol. 156, No. 5 (November 1999).
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Line Dance: Abraham Walkowitz Drawings of Isadora Duncan. Exhibition catalogue, October 2000.
1998
Avis Berman, editor, The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, by Katharine Kuh. Da Capo, 2000.
Randall R. Griffey, "Marsden Hartley's Lincoln Portraits." American Art, Summer 2001.
1997
Laurette E. McCarthy, "Modernists on Tour: A New Look at a Historic Show." Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 37, Nos. 3&4, 1997.
Sordoni Art Gallery, Jimmy Ernst, Shadow to Light, Paintings 1942-1982. Exhibition catalogue, October 1997.
1996
Helen A. Harrison, "Arthur Dove and the Origins of Abstract Expressionism." American Art, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1998).
Eliza Jane Reilly, "Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven." Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1997).
