Archives of American Art Journal, volume 58, no. 1 (spring 2019)

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the editorial team at the Archives of American Art Journal, I am pleased to announce the publication of volume 58, no. 1 (spring 2019). This issue features new research on African American modernist painting and politics, the social practice of gift-giving in the art world of the 1960s, and the economics of nineteenth-century art. Commissioned essays reflect on medical discourse and American art history and on the challenge of reading artists’ correspondence across archives.

The longest-running scholarly journal devoted to the history of American art, the AAAJ aims to showcase new approaches to and out-of-the-box thinking about primary sources. It contains both commissioned and peer-reviewed research articles that engage with the vast holdings of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. To explore current and back issues of the journal, please go to www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/aaa.html. The University of Chicago Press website includes information regarding subscriptions and submissions. I encourage potential authors to discuss their research and manuscripts by writing to SheehanTsi.edu.

Regards,

Tanya Sheehan
Executive Editor, Archives of American Art Journal
SheehanTsi.edu
http://www.aaa.si.edu
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Archives of American Art Journal
Volume 58, no. 1 contents

Editor’s Note
Tanya Sheehan

In This Issue

NEW RESEARCH

Cut Aesthetics: William H. Johnson’s Scrapbook History Paintings
Makeda Best

A Thank-You Note from H. C. Westermann
David McCarthy

When Data Meet the Archive: Earl Shinn and Sample Bias
Diana Greenwald

ARCHIVE MATTERS

Diagnosing the Archive
Elizabeth Lee

The Challenge of the Halfalogue
Erica E. Hirshler

ACQUISITIONS

Lee Hall Papers
Josh T. Franco

Senga Nengudi Papers
Erin J. Gilbert

Christine Burgin Gallery Records
Annette Leddy

Ilene Segalove Papers
Matthew Simms

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