Eleanor Jones Harvey
Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Career
Eleanor Harvey was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, in Art History.[2]
She served as curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-2002.[2]
In January 2003, she became the curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [3] and served as the museum's Chief Curator from 2003 until 2012.
Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century American art, landscape painting, southwestern abstraction and Texas art. Her most recent exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are The Civil War and American Art in 2012-13, Variations on America: Masterworks from the American Art Forum Collections in 2007 and An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection in 2006.[4]
Works
- Eleanor Jones Harvey (2013-02-05). "America's Moral Volcano". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
- The Civil War and American Art. Yale University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780300187335.
- Eleanor Jones Harvey, Gerald L. Carr, The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece, Dallas Museum of Art, 2002, ISBN 9780300095364
- The painted sketch: American impressions from nature, 1830-1880, H.N. Abrams, 1998, ISBN 9780810963641
- An impressionist sensibility: the Halff collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006, ISBN 9781904832324
- Avery, Kevin J., & Kelly, Frank (2003). Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780300101843. (has essay by Harvey)
References
- ↑ "Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian Art Museum". Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships Research Staff Listing. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
- 1 2 "Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey Receives Appointment as Dallas Museum of Art's Curator of American Art". Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Dallas Texas. 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
- ↑ Smithsonian Names: Eleanor Jones Harvey
- ↑ Smithsonian American Art Museum Staff Biography, Smithsonian American Art Museum Press Room, August 2012, retrieved February 19, 2013.
- ↑ "The Civil War and American Art". C-SPAN. November 15, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ↑ "The Civil War and American Art, Episode 1". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
External links
The Civil War and American Art, C-SPAN, November 15, 2012[5]