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  • Archives of American Art Journal

    Cover image of the Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 47, Numbers 3-4

    Current Issue: War (Vol. 47 Nos. 3-4)

    Current issue now available in print; online version will be available June 2009.

    In this Issue:

    Anna Coleman Ladd and the First World War: Masks, Mutilation, and Modernity by David M. Lubin

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    Anna Coleman Ladd Papers

    I Rember the Day Varry Well: Horace Pippin’s War by Anne Monahan

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    Horace Pippin Notebooks and Letters

    S. Lane Faison, Jr., and “Art under the shadow of the Swastica” by Nancy H. Yeide and Patricia A. Teter-Schneider

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    S. Lane Faison, Jr., Interview 14 December 1981
    Charles Parkhurst Interview 27 October 1982
    Photographs (looted art) from the James J. Rorimer Papers

    Payback Was a Painting: Jack Levine’s Welcome Home by David McCarthy

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    Emily Genauer Papers
    Jack Levine Papers
    Downtown Gallery Records

    Drawing Flak: George Biddle and the Army’s World War II Art Unit by Christopher Hanson

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    Forbes Watson Papers

    Collecting Leaves, Assembling Memory: Jane Hammond’s Fallen and the Function of War Memorials by Amanda Potter


    COVER ART: Civil War Soldiers on Battlefield, ca. 1862, pencil-and-ink drawing, from the Charles Scribner’s Sons Art Reference Dept. records, 1839-1962.

    This large drawing of Civil War soldiers was made by an unidentified artist. A note on the reverse states that it was published in Scribner’s Popular History of the United States.

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    Past Issues

    cover of the Journal, volume 46 number 1-2

    Spring 2007 (PDF 1.56 MB)
    Vol. 46, Nos. 1-2

    cover of the Journal, volume 46 number 3-4

    Fall 2007 (PDF 3.09 MB)
    Vol. 46, Nos. 3-4

    cover of the Journal, volume 47 number 1-2

    Spring 2008 (PDF coming soon)
    Vol. 47, Nos. 1-2

    Past issues published prior to 2003 can be accessed through the Archives of American Art Journal in JSTOR.

    Print copies of current or back issues can also be ordered for $15 per copy.


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    The Archives of American Art Journal is provided to all Members of the Archives of American Art.

    The Journal is also available by subscription:

    Individual rate
    (w/ Archives Membership)
    $65 for 1 year
    ($30 tax deductible)
    Student rate $25 for 1 year
    Institutional rate $50 for 1 year
    $90 for 2 years
    $120 for 3 years

    For subscriptions, or to order single and back issues, contact:

    Journal Staff
    The Archives of American Art
    P.O. Box 37012, MRC 937
    Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

    or call (202) 633-7971


    About the Journal

    Since 1964 the Archives of American Art has published the Journal for the benefit of scholars, collectors, artists, researchers, Archives members and the interested public.

    Readers will find interpretive articles, full color reproductions of original documents and images, creative contributions from contemporary American artists, interviews from the Archives’ Oral History Program, and much more.

    The Journal is currently published twice a year.


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