Archives of American Art Journal

In this Issue:

• An American Pre-Raphaelite in New York: William Trost Richards by Linda S. Ferber
  • Explore online: The William Trost Richards Papers
    
    
• Spiral Jetty Through the Camera's Eye by Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo
  • Explore online: The Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt Papers
    
    
• A Painter Writes a Landscape: Arthur Dove’s Prose Poem by Megan McShea
  • Explore online: The Arthur And Helen Torr Dove Papers Online
    
    
• Landscape Studies at the Archives of American Art, by Liza Kirwin
  • Explore online: Images of Landscapes in the Archives of American Art
    
    
• Allan Kaprow’s Tree: A Happening by Moira Roth
  • Explore online: The Caroline Lerner Goldsmith papers related to Allan Kaprow
    
    
• Book Review - George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonneé by Adrienne Baxter Bell
  • Explore online: View Images relating to George Inness
    
    
• Coast to Coast: Land Work between the N.E. Thing Company and Lucy Lippard by James Nisbet
  • Explore online: The Lucy Lippard Papers
    
    
• Artists in the Landscape, A Project by Pamela Golden

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Landscape is the subject of the current Archives of American Art Journal.

The pastel sketch on the cover comes from the Sketchbook of Margaret Casey Gates. It depicts the hills of St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. Gates made this sketch of the island when she visited the Caribbean in 1936 with other artists, including her husband Robert Franklin Gates, Prentiss Taylor, and Steve Dohanos.

St. Thomas had recently been made a territory of the United States, and the artists were on assignment for the Treasury Department, which had commissioned them to make paintings for government buildings there. In John Gernand’s 1979 Oral History Interview, Gernand discusses the artists’ 1936 trip.

In addition to her sketchbooks, The Margaret Casey Gates Papers contain numerous photographs of the islands and of the artists at work and play.