BOOKS
Fidelia Bridges: Nature into Art. Lund Humphries. London, England. UK. 2023
Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. University of California Press. Pub date fall 2020.
Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the United States, 1850-1900. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. Pub date 2020.
Film and Modern American Art. The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting. (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies). Routledge. 2019.
The Rockies and The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame and the Romance of the Mountains. [Co-Author with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, with an essay by Patricia Mainardi]. D. Giles Ltd. U.K. 2018
California Mexicana: Missions to Murals 1820-1930. University of California Press. 2017 (Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, and as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.)
Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Seattle, WA: Marquand Press, to appear Fall 2015. [Editor & Author]
Eliza Pratt Greatorex: Becoming a Landscape Painter. [essay by Kathie Manthorne]. Siegel, Nancy [Editor] The Cultured Canvas. New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting. University Press of New England. 2012
Luminist Horizons. The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam. New York: George Braziller, in conjunction with exhibition, National Academy of Design, 2006. Co-author Mark Mitchell.
Early Art Matronage & the American Art Museum, 1870-1900: New York, Chicago & San Francisco. [essay by Katherine Manthorne] Before Peggy Guggenheim. Rosella Momoli-Zorzi [Editor] Marsilio Editori. Venice. 2001.
The Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad. With John Coffey. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
El Barón de Courcy: Ilustraciones de un viaje 1831-1833 (Baron de Courcy: Illustrations from a Voyage) (Spanish Edition) by Pablo Diener and Katherine Manthorne | Jan 1, 2004
“Legible Landscapes: Text and Image in the Expeditionary Art of Frederic Church” [essay by Katherine Manthorne] Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter. American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia. 1999
The Art of Juan Manuel Blanes. Haber, Alicia [Author and editor] Contributors: Assuncao, Octiavio C., Manthorne, Katherine E., and Sullivan, Edward J. Fundacion Bunge y Born. Buenos Aires. In collaboration with the Americas Society. New York. 1994
Tropical Renaissance. North American Artists Exploring Latin America, 1839-1879. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church.[with Fiske, Richard S. and Nielsen, Elizabeth]. Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art. Washington DC. 1985
Exhibition Catalogues & Essays
“Land Icon Nation: Overview,” Picturing the Americas. Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, pp. 18-21.
The Unity of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas. NY: Americas Society, 2014. Nominated for the Alice Award.
“A Woman’s Perspective on the Industrial Sublime,” in The Industrial Sublime: The Hudson River Transformed, 1900-1950. Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013.
Worlds Between: The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot. Catskill, NY: Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2012. Author & guest curator.
“Sweet Destiny: Anglo-American Traveler-Artists in the Caribbean, 1714-1898,” pp. 90-105, in Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012. (This publication accompanied exhibition, El Museo del Barrio)
Hudson River Contemporary. Works on Paper. Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2011. Accompanied exhibition co-organized with James L. McElhinney & Doctoral Students, Grad Center, CUNY.
“Painters, Politics, and Pastries: How New York became a Cultural Crossroads of the Americas, 1848-1899” in Nueva York. NY: New-York Historical Society with Scala Books, 2010.
“Metropolis as Muse,” in Glorious Skies: Herbert Katzman’s New York. NY: Museum of the City of New York, 2010.
Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains. Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2010. Accompanied exhibition of same name at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY. Co-authored with Elizabeth Kornhauser.
Home on the Hudson. Women and Men Painting Landscape, 1825-1875. Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2009. Guest Curator of student-executed exhibition.
“Art School as Contact Zone: Latin American Artists & their Teachers,” Nexus New York: Latin/ American Artists in the Modern Metropolis. NY: El Museo del Barrio, 2009, pp. 46-59.
“John Sloan, Moving Pictures, and Celtic Spirits,” in Seeing the City: John Sloan’s New York. Delaware Art Museum, in conjunction with Yale University Press, 2007.
“Paesaggi tropicali e esotici,” (The Tropical and Exotic Landscape) in America! Storie di pittura dal nuovo mondo (Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, 24 November 2007- 4 May 2008): 187-208. Linea d’Ombra. Treviso. 2008
Explorar el Eden. Paisaje Americano del Siglo XIX. [Essay contributor] Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Madrid. 2001