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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
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