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Bio: Katherine E. Manthorne, PhD.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(scroll down for a downloadable PDF)<\/p>\n

AUTHOR: Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex<\/em>. University of California Press. Pub date January 2021.<\/p>\n

Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the United States, 1850-1900.\u00a0<\/em>Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. Pub date Fall 2020.<\/p>\n

Buio e Luce: <\/em>From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898<\/em>. April 2, 2019. [Co-Editor, with Rosella Mamoli-Zorzi]. April 2019<\/p>\n

Film and Modern American Art. The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting<\/em>. (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies). Routledge. 2019.<\/p>\n

The Rockies and The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame and the Romance of the Mountains<\/em>. [Co-Author with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, with an essay by Patricia Mainardi]. D. Giles Ltd. U.K. 2018<\/p>\n

California Mexicana: Missions to Murals 1820-1930<\/em>. University of California Press. 2017\u00a0(Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, and as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA\/LA.)<\/p>\n

Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin Americafrom the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.\u00a0<\/em>Seattle, WA: Marquand Press. Fall 2015. [Editor & Author]<\/p>\n

Sweet Fortunes: Sugar Trade & Art Patronage in America.\u00a0<\/em>(This project is in research stage.)<\/p>\n

Luminist Horizons. The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam.\u00a0<\/em>New York: George Braziller, in conjunction with exhibition, National Academy of Design, 2006. Co-author Mark Mitchell.<\/p>\n

El Bar\u00f3n de Courcy: Ilustraciones de un viaje 1831-1833 (Baron de Courcy: Illustrations from a Voyage) (Spanish Edition) by Pablo Diener and Katherine Manthorne. Artes de M\u00e9xico. Cuidad M\u00e9xico. Jan 1, 2004<\/p>\n

The Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad.\u00a0<\/em>With John Coffey. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Tropical Renaissance. North American Artists Exploring Latin America, 1839-1879.\u00a0<\/em>Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church.<\/em>[with Fiske, Richard S. and Nielsen, Elizabeth]. Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art. Washington DC. 1985<\/p>\n

\u00a0AUTHOR:<\/strong>Exhibition Catalogues & Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLand Icon Nation: Overview,\u201d\u00a0Picturing the Americas. Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic.\u00a0<\/em>New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, pp. 18-21.<\/p>\n

The Unity of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas<\/em>. NY: Americas Society, 2014. Nominated for the Alice Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Woman\u2019s Perspective on the Industrial Sublime,\u201d in\u00a0The Industrial Sublime: The Hudson River Transformed, 1900-1950.\u00a0<\/em>Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013.<\/p>\n

Worlds Between: The Landscapes of Louis R\u00e9my Mignot.\u00a0<\/em>Catskill, NY: Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2012. Author & guest curator.<\/p>\n

\u201cSweet Destiny: Anglo-American Traveler-Artists in the Caribbean, 1714-1898,\u201d pp. 90-105, in\u00a0Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World.\u00a0<\/em>New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012. (This publication accompanied exhibition, El Museo del Barrio)<\/p>\n

Hudson River Contemporary. Works on Paper.\u00a0<\/em>Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2011. Accompanied exhibition co-organized with James L. McElhinney & Doctoral Students, Grad Center, CUNY.<\/p>\n

\u201cPainters, Politics, and Pastries: How New York became a Cultural Crossroads of the Americas, 1848-1899\u201d in\u00a0Nueva York.\u00a0<\/em>NY: New-York Historical Society with Scala Books, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cMetropolis as Muse,\u201d in\u00a0Glorious Skies: Herbert Katzman\u2019s New York.\u00a0<\/em>NY: Museum of the City of New York, 2010.<\/p>\n

Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains. Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica.\u00a0<\/em>Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2010. Accompanied exhibition of same name at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY. Co-authored with Elizabeth Kornhauser.<\/p>\n

Home on the Hudson. Women and Men Painting Landscape, 1825-1875.\u00a0<\/em>Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2009. Guest Curator of student-executed exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt School as Contact Zone: Latin American Artists & their Teachers,\u201d\u00a0Nexus New York: Latin\/ American Artists in the Modern Metropolis<\/em>. NY: El Museo del Barrio, 2009, pp. 46-59.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Sloan, Moving Pictures, and Celtic Spirits,\u201d in\u00a0Seeing the City: John Sloan\u2019s New York.\u00a0<\/em>Delaware Art Museum, in conjunction with Yale University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cPaesaggi tropicali e esotici,\u201d (The Tropical and Exotic Landscape) in\u00a0America! Storie di pittura dal nuovo mondo\u00a0<\/em>(Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, 24 November 2007- 4 May 2008): 187-208. Linea d\u2019Ombra. Treviso. 2008<\/p>\n

AUTHOR: Articles and Essays: Refereed<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf not for France: The Evolving Art-Education of Eliza Pratt Greatorex\u201dColloque Faire-Oeuvre<\/em>,\u00a0 Musee d\u2019Orsay, Paris. September 19, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurating the Nation & the Hemisphere: Mexico and Brazil at the US Centennial,\u201d\u00a0Journal of Curatorial Studies\u00a0<\/em>v. 3(October 2014)<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking Big: Reiss & Muralism in America\u201d in Frank Mehring, ed.\u00a0Winold Reiss\u00a0<\/em>(under press consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Double Life of Louis Mignot,\u201d\u00a0Fine Arts Connoisseur<\/em>May\/June 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cEliza Pratt Greatorex: Becoming a Landscape Painter,\u201d in\u00a0Cultured Canvas.\u00a0<\/em>Nancy J. Siegel, ed. Durham, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cEliza Greatorex and her Artistic Sisterhood in the Collection of Martha Reed Mitchell, 1863-1877,\u201d\u00a0Women\u2019s Studies\u00a0<\/em>39:6 (2010): 518-35. [expanded version of FAC below]<\/p>\n

\u201cMartha Reed Mitchell: Early Champion of Women Artists,\u201d\u00a0Fine Art Connoisseur\u00a0<\/em>(March\/April 2010): 57-61.<\/p>\n

\u201cEliza Greatorex and old New York, 1869,\u201d\u00a0The Magazine Antiques\u00a0<\/em>November 2009<\/p>\n

\u201cBavarian Beginnings of Eliza Greatorex,\u201d in\u00a0American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes.\u00a0<\/em>Christian Fuhrmeister, ed. Berlin and Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. English and German editions.<\/p>\n

\u201cDarwin\u2019s Ear: Dialogues between American Visual Artists and Darwin in the 1863-1877,\u201d\u00a0American Art\u00a0<\/em>23 (Summer 2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cReconstructing Landscape, 1863-1877,\u201d in\u00a0Cultured Canvas. Social History of the Hudson River School,\u00a0<\/em>a collection of essays edited by Nancy Siegel, University of New England Press, planned for 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cMexican Modern: Masters of the 20th<\/sup>Century:\u00a0<\/em>Book Review,\u201d\u00a0New Mexico Historical Review\u00a0<\/em>83 (Fall 2008): 552-3.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemapping American Art,\u201d\u00a0American Art\u00a0<\/em>22 (Fall 2008): 112-117.<\/p>\n

\u00a0AUTHOR: Articles & Essays, Non-Refereed<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Lady with the Pen\u2019: The Graphic Art of Eliza Greatorex,\u201d\u00a0American Arts Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>(Fall 2012): 11-20.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019The Voice of Nature\u2019: The Art of Fidelia Bridges in the 1870s,\u201d\u00a0American Arts Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>(Winter 2011\/12): 27-34.<\/p>\n

\u201cHudson River: Global Thoroughfare,\u201d\u00a0American Arts Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>v. 26 (Fall 2009): 34-41.<\/p>\n

AUTHOR: Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review of Edward J. Sullivan,\u00a0From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller & Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism, Journal of Art,<\/em>to appear Dec. 2015.<\/p>\n

Review of\u00a0Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Waldeck: Artist of Exotic Mexico<\/em>by Esther Pasztory (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011) in\u00a0The Americas\u00a0<\/em>69 (Oct. 2012).<\/p>\n

Refereed and Invited Conference Participation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cScholarship Reviewed,\u201d\u00a0Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of Cartographic Exploration in the Americas,\u00a0<\/em>Newberry Library, Chicago, June 20-21, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtist in Search of an\u00a0American\u00a0<\/em>Subject: Eastman Johnson\u2019s Lake Superior Suite,\u201d Culture at the Canada-US Border \u201cStraddling Boundaries\u201d Conference, Sault-St.-Marie, May 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cMercy Otis Warren & the Art Women\u2019s Republic,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Association of Art Historians, Reading, UK, April 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cFilmic Fantasies: The Art of Arthur B. Davies & Cinema,\u201d\u00a0Modern Movements: Exploring the Body in Modern American Art.\u00a0<\/em>Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA., March 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaces, Finances, and Female Photographers: Boston, 1860-1890,\u201d\u00a0Early Photography in New England: From Heliography to the Handheld Kodak, 1830-1900,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Deerfield, MA, March 9, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaintbrush Politics: Brazil & Mexico at the Philadelphia Centennial, 1876,\u201d College Art Association Conference, New York, Feb. 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmbas Americas,\u201d Chair of Round Table Discussion, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 2012<\/p>\n

\u201cTravel Artists & Transnationalism: Frederic Church & Louis Mignot,\u201d at European\u00a0Perspectives on American Art<\/em>, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin, Dec. 2011. Conference organized by Manthorne, funded by Terra Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou Ought to be in Pictures:\u00a0<\/em>Movies & American Modernism,\u201d American Studies Research Colloquium, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin, Dec. 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking Big: Reiss & Muralism in New York,\u201d\u00a0Winold Reiss Conference,\u00a0<\/em>John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin<\/p>\n

\u201cCinematic New York,\u201d\u00a0Nature\u2019s Nation Revisited.\u00a0<\/em>University of Tuebingen, Germany, Nov. 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cAmbas Americas: A Proposal for Studying the 19th<\/sup>Century,\u201d\u00a0Ambas Americas: Artistic Exchange between the United States & Latin America,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cEliza Greatorex and the Razing of Old New York,\u201d War & Architectural Destruction Conference, University of Ireland, Maynooth, scheduled April 23-24, 2010; postponed to May 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cSallie Gibbons Gallery: Nexus for New York Art Women, 1875-1885,\u201d College Art Association Conference, Commercial Gallery Session, NYC, Feb. 10, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cEliza Pratt Greatorex\u2019s Re-Construction of Old New-York (1875),\u201d Historic Fictions Print Conference, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Nov. 12-13, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cUprooting the Family Tree: Eliza Greatorex and the Women\u2019s Art Nexus, 1848-1876,\u201d Feminist Art Conference, American University, Washington, D.C. Nov. 5-6, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucas, Rockwell, Spielberg & the Art-Film Dialogue,\u201d Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell in the Collection of Lucas and Spielberg Conference, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sept. 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen, Modern Art & the Movies,\u201d Modern Art Series, Newark Museum, July 2010.<\/p>\n

19th<\/sup>c. Women Artists: A Panel Discussion, Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum, March 5, 2010<\/p>\n

\u201cMemory Panels: Women Preserving the History of Old New York,\u201d UNESCO Conference, Azores, Portugal, May 29-31, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumboldt as Pictorial Muse,\u201d Vanderbilt University, Jan. 15-16, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cComisi\u00f3n Corografica (1850-1859) of Colombia: Foundations of Republicanism & Landscape Art,\u201d International Congress of Art History; Melbourne, Australia, January 2008<\/p>\n

Keynote Address: \u201cLabor Pains: Women Collectors and the Birth of the New York Art World,\u201d\u00a0Power Underestimated<\/em>:\u00a0American Women Art Collectors.<\/em>Venice, April 17-18, 2008. Jointly sponsored by the University of Venice & Frick Art Collection.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Art Women\u2019 and Native Peoples c.1876,\u201d Conference on the Image of the Indian, 1600-2000, Washington, D.C.: Museum of the American Indian & National Gallery of Art, Dec. 4-5, 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cBavarian Beginnings of Eliza Greatorex: Munch-New York Dynamic in the 1870s,\u201d\u00a0American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes.<\/em>Munch, Oct. 9-11, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cVinnie Ream, Vixen or Victim? Women & theCulture of Reconstruction,\u201d\u00a0U.S.Capitol Research Conference<\/em>. 26 October 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cLust for Looking: John Sloan and Cinema,\u201d\u00a0Life\u2019s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artist\u2019s Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925.\u00a0<\/em>Conference to accompany exhibition, New-York Historical Society, December 1, 2007.<\/p>\n

Museums<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curator. (In collaborator with Chief Curator Amy Galpin, PhD.) Transitional Nature<\/em>: Hudson River School Paintings from the Collection of David and Laura Grey<\/em>. Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum. Florida International University. Miami Florida. January 25-May 17, 2020<\/p>\n

Curator,\u00a0Mexico\/California, 1820-1930,\u00a0<\/em>Laguna Museum of Art, part of Pacific Standard Time 2 LA\/LA funded by Getty, to open Sept. 2017.<\/p>\n

Co-Curator,\u00a0Rockies & the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance with the Mountains.\u00a0<\/em>Newark Museum, NJ. To open Feb. 2017.<\/p>\n

Tyson Resident Scholar, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2014.<\/p>\n

Advisor and Author,\u00a0Landscape of the Americas,\u00a0<\/em>Art Gallery of Ontario\/ Terra Foundation, opened Summer 2015.<\/p>\n

Director, Research Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum and<\/p>\n

Executive Editor of the journal\u00a0American Art\u00a0<\/em>Washington, D.C. 1997-1999.<\/p>\n

Curator, American Art Dept., the Brooklyn Museum, 1983-85.<\/p>\n

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Fields of Specialization in Art History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art of the United States, 1750-1945; Hemispheric Dimension of the Americas, including Latin American Art, 1820-1920; History of Photography.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Columbia University Dept. of Art History and Archaeology,<\/p>\n

Doctor of Philosophy 1986; Master of Philosophy 1981; Master of Arts, 1979.<\/p>\n

Barnard College, Bachelor of Arts, 1974.<\/p>\n

Awards & Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terra Visiting Prof, American Art, Free University, Berlin, DR, Fall 2011<\/p>\n

Society for the Preservation of American Modernism, Fellowship, 2011<\/p>\n

Baird Library Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 2009-2010<\/p>\n

ARTstor Travel Award, 2010<\/p>\n

Listed in\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in America\u00a0<\/em>2009<\/p>\n

U.S. Capitol Historical Society Fellowship, 2006-2007<\/p>\n

Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Fellow, Graduate Center, 2001-2002<\/p>\n

Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Venice, 1998<\/p>\n

Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor of Modern Art of the Americas. Art History Program. Graduate Center, City University of New York, starting Jan. 2000.<\/p>\n

Deputy Executive Officer 2002-4; 2006 to present.<\/p>\n

Chairperson, Art History Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992-1997; Associate Prof. 1988 on; Assistant Prof, 1985-1987.<\/p>\n

Professional Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mellor Prize Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2014; Chair 2015; Advisory Board, ARTstor, 2009 on; Board of Directors, College Art Association, 2006-2010; Executive Committee, 2007on; Advisory Board, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY 2006-2008 Juror, Frost Prize for Best Article in the journal\u00a0American Art<\/em>2006.<\/p>\n

Advisory Council, Archives of American Art, 2000 on.\u00a0<\/em>Member<\/strong>: College Art Association; International Association of Art Critics; Fulbright Association; Association of Latin American Art; Association for Historians of American Art, American Studies; Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2013 on.<\/p>\n

Downdloadable PDF<\/strong>: Website CV Katherine Manthorne<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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