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American Art Journal

American Art
A journal of the nation's visual heritage

Art Journal cover

Since its founding in 1987, American Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars, collectors, and museum-goers who want to enrich their understanding of the nation's art and culture. American Art encompasses all aspects of the country's visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times. Elegant color plates give the journal a distinctive appearance, and the articles are written in an engaging style.

Articles planned in the coming months include the following:

  • Science and American Art: A package of commentaries

  • Telling Tales: Georgia O'Keeffe as Autobiographer, by Wanda Corn

  • Historical Absence in Quidor's Rip Van Winkle Paintings, Wendy Ikemoto

  • Reform in Redface: The Taos Society of Artists Play Indian, by John Ott

  • An interview with Mark Dion, by Joanna Marsh

  • Photography and Buffalo Shooting at Yellowstone in 1894, by Alan Braddock

  • Thomas Eakins's Wrestlers, by Bruce Robertson and Ilene Fort

  • Sculpture and the Public: A Shifting Relationship by Kirk Savage

A one-year subscription for individuals costs $45, and provides full online access to all back issues of American Art. Members of the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery and the College Art Association receive subscriptions at the discounted price of $35 for one year or $70 for two years. The rate for students is $30. Higher rates apply for institutions.


For information on subscribing, purchasing single issues, or submitting articles to the journal, which is published for the museum by the University of Chicago Press, please visit www.journals.uchicago.edu/AmArt. This link also acts as a portal to the electronic edition of the journal. For information on a new publication prize for foreign scholars, please consult www.americanart.si.edu/research/awards/terra.


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