The Archives of American Art Graduate Research Essay Prize Funded by the Dedalus Foundation, Inc. continues for its fifth year. The prize rewards excellence in research in any period of American art history with the stipulation that the author draws from our collections. The winner receives $1,000. The award-winning essay will be forwarded to the editor of the Archives of American Art Journal for peer review and possible publication.

Further details about the prize including criteria and directions for submission are on our website: www.aaa.si.edu/essay

The deadline is July 1, 2016.


Previous winners are listed below:
- 2015: Amanda Dalla Villa Adams, PhD student, Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, "'Draw a Straight Line and Follow It (Repeat)': Walter De Maria's Cricket Music and Ocean Music, 1964-1968"
- 2014: Christina Weyl, PhD Candidate in Department of Art History at Rutgers University, "Networks of Abstraction: Postwar Printmaking and Women Artists of Atelier 17"
- 2013: Katherine Jentleson, PhD Candidate in American Art History, Duke University, "'Not as rewarding as the North': Holger Cahill's Southern Folk Art Expedition"
- 2012: Meredith A. Brown, PhD Candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, "'The Enemies of Women's Liberation in the Arts Will be Crushed': A.I.R. Gallery's Role in the American Feminist Art Movement" and Jennifer Stettler Parsons, PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, University of Virginia, "Absence and Presence: Arthur Dove's Paintings 'From the Radio'"