The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a letter (not to exceed one page in length) explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Nominations by authors or publishers for their own books will not be considered.

The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2016. Please send them to:

The Charles C. Eldredge Prize
Research and Scholars Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Nominations will also be accepted by email: eldredgesi.edu or fax: (202) 633-8373.

Further information about the prize may be found at http://americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge/