Dedalus Foundation Graduate Research Essay Prize at the Archives of American Art

From 2012-2019, the Archives administered a graduate research essay prize funded by the Dedalus Foundation. The prize recognized original research by a graduate student that engaged deeply with the collections of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.

Winners

2019

Centers of Collaboration and the Rise of the Washington Color School

By Miriam Grotte-Jacobs, PhD candidate in art history, Johns Hopkins University 

2018

Oil Field Art and Alexandre Hogue's Land Ethic  

By Michaela Rife, PhD candidate in art history, University of Toronto

2017

No prize awarded

2016

Triptychs at War: Violet Oakley’s Victory 

By Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, PhD candidate in art history, University of Delaware

2015

“Draw a Straight Line and Follow It (Repeat)”: Walter De Maria’s Cricket Music and Ocean Music, 1964–1968

By Amanda Dalla Villa Adams, PhD candidate in art history, Virginia Commonwealth University

2014

By Christina Weyl, PhD candidate in art history, Rutgers University

2013

By Katherine Jentleson, PhD candidate in art history, Duke University

2012

By Meredith A. Brown, PhD candidate in art history, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

By Jennifer Stettler Parsons, PhD candidate in art history, University of Virginia

Karen Maynor, Photograph of Andy Warhol writing a note on vacuum cleaner at “Art in Process V” exhibition, 1972.
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