The 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize ($5,000) is awarded to Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh for Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America (University of Chicago Press, 1993).

Honorable Mentions:
Kathleen Pyne, Notre Dame University for Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America (Austin TX: University of Texas Press,1996) and Lucy R. Lippard for Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (The New Press,1990).

Jurors:

• Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
• Nancy Mowll Matthews, Williams College Museum of Art
• Patricia Hills, Boston University
• Jonathan Fineberg, University of Illinois and Director, Illinois at the Phillips, The Center for the Study of Modern Art

The prize will be awarded again in 2012.
For information contact: researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.

$5,000 Book Prize Awarded Every Three Years

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center is delighted to announce that it has received funding from several anonymous donors to help fund a major book prize. The first award of $5,000 will be given in 2009. All are invited to submit nominations for this prestigious and important award.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize will be awarded every three years to the author(s) of a book on some aspect of American Modernism (1890s - present), including architecture, criticism, design, methodology, painting, photography, sculpture, and related subjects, published within the last twenty-five years. A cash award of $5,000 will accompany the prize.

The award will be based on excellence, originality, quality of writing and scholarship, contribution to knowledge, and significance to the field.  The winner will be selected by a committee of scholars not affiliated with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center.

Please submit a letter of nomination with the title and author by mail or email before March 1, 2009 for the first award, which will be made in September of 2009, to Book Prize, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501.  For additional information, please contact the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center at: 505-946-1002; researchcenterbookprize@okeeffemuseum.org.