Eleanor Jones Harvey

Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[1]

Eleanor Harvey with the Henry Berger bust of Humboldt, owned by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Eleanor Jones Harvey, with Frederic Edwin Church's painting Aurora Borealis (1865)

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 to 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. She is currently Senior Curator. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century American art, landscape painting, Alexander von Humboldt, Southwestern abstraction, and Texas art.^[4] Her most recent exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum were Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture in 2020–2021, 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.^[5]

Her book, The Civil War and American Art, which accompanied the exhibit of the same name, won the 2012 Southeastern Book Festival Award for Best Art or Photography Book.^[6][7]

For her book, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, (also accompanying an exhibit of the same name) she was awarded the Secretary's Distinguished Research Prize from the Smithsonian Congress of Scholars in 2021. This award targets Smithsonian Museum researchers and carries a $2000 cash prize to be utilized for further research.^[8][7]

Works

• Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780691200804

External videos
The Civil War and American Art, C-SPAN, November 15, 2012[9]
Podcast: The Civil War and American Art, Episode 1, Smithsonian American Art Museum[10]

• Eleanor Jones Harvey (2013-02-05). "America's Moral Volcano". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
• The Civil War and American Art. Yale University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780300187335.
• An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection. 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. (includes essay by Harvey)
• 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. Dallas Museum of Art, 1998. New York: Harry Abrams, 1998, ISBN 9780810963641

References

1. "Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian Art Museum". Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships Research Staff Listing. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
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. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
3. Smithsonian Names: Eleanor Jones Harvey
4. "Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator". SAAM. March 1, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
5. Smithsonian American Art Museum Staff Biography Archived 2013-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Smithsonian American Art Museum Press Room, August 2012, retrieved February 19, 2013.
6. "Eleanor | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
7. "In good company: Robert S. Duncanson and American Landscape…". NBMAA. 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
8. Institution, Smithsonian. "The Secretary's Research Awards". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
9. "The Civil War and American Art". C-SPAN. November 15, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
10. "The Civil War and American Art, Episode 1". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2012.

External links

• Humboldt exhibition videos
• C-SPAN appearances