The Charles C. Eldredge Prize

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2018     The American school : artists and status in the late colonial and early national era by Susan Rather
2017     Transporting visions : the movement of images in early America by Jennifer L. Roberts
2016     John Sloan : drawing on illustration by Michael Lobel
2015     Isamu Noguchi's Modernism : negotiating race, labor, and nation, 1930–1950 by Amy Lyford
2014     Citizen spectator : art, illusion, and visual perception in early national America by Wendy Bellion
2013     Thomas Hart Benton and the American sound by Leo Mazow
2012     Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade by Maurie D. McInnis
2011     The modern eye : Stieglitz, MoMA, and the art of exhibition, 1925–1934 by Kristina Wilson
2010     Monument wars : Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape by Kirk Savage
2009     Pop L.A. : art and the city in the 1960s by Cécile Whiting
2008     Pre-modernism : art-world change and American culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show by J. M. Mancini
2007      Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School by Rebecca Zurier
2006     Art in a season of revolution : painters, artisans, and patrons in early America by Margaretta M. Lovell
2005     Winslow Homer : the nature of observation by Elizabeth Johns
2004     Shooting Kennedy : JFK and the culture of images by David M. Lubin
2003     Outlaw representation : censorship and homosexuality in twentieth-century American art by Richard Meyer
2002     Picturing Chinatown : art and orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee
2001     Joseph Cornell : stargazing in the cinema by Jodi Hauptman
2000     The great American thing : modern art and national identity, 1915-1935 by Wanda M. Corn
1999     Machine in the studio : constructing the postwar American artist by Caroline A. Jones
1998     Inventing the modern artist : art and culture in Gilded Age America by Sarah Burns
1997     Creating picturesque America : monument to the natural and cultural landscape by Sue Rainey
1996     Reframing abstract expressionism : subjectivity and painting in the 1940s by Michael Leja
1995     The empire of the eye : landscape representation and American cultural politics, 1825–1875 by Angela L. Miller
1994     Spiritual spectacles : vision and image in mid-nineteenth century Shakerism by Sally M. Promey
1993     Benton, Pollock, and the politics of modernism : from regionalism to abstract expressionism by Erika Doss
1992     Hiram Powers : Vermont sculptor, 1805–1873 by Richard P. Wunder
1991     Public sculpture and the civic ideal in New York City, 1890–1930 by Michele Bogart
1990     Realism, writing, disfiguration : on Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried
            Reading American photographs : images as history : Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg
1989     Views and visions : American landscape before 1830 by Edward J. Nygren, Bruce Robertson, Amy Meyers, Theresa O'Malley, and John Stilgoe