NCAW Spring 2026, Vol. 25, Issue 1

Table of Contents
Editors’ Welcome
Articles
"Outsiders: Black Harem Eunuchs in Gérôme’s Orient"
by Brigid M. Boyle
"Harriet Hosmer and the Anatomy of Neoclassical Sculpture"
by Elizabeth Keto
Recipient of the 2025 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize, of the Dahesh Museum of Art
“'Complete Cut-Off-Ness': John Singer Sargent’s Tyrolean Sojourn"
by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll
"Emil Holub’s African Exhibitions, Colonialism, and National Emancipation"
by Tomáš Winter
Practicing Art History
The Evolving Archive, part 2
Organized by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Kim Orcutt, and Isabel L. Taube
Reviews
In Memoriam: Gabriel P. Weisberg (1942–2026), Co-Founding Editor and First Reviews Editor
Book Reviews
Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture
by Rachel Stephens
Reviewed by Jenny Carson
Jewish Country Houses
edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green
Magnates and Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain
by John Hilary
Reviewed by Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
by Elizabeth L. Block
Reviewed by Susan Hiner
Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens
by Nancy Locke
Reviewed by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with the research assistance of Susan E. Stebbins
Reviewed by Kim Orcutt
Fourteen Recent Exhibitions of Impressionist Art
Introduction by David O’Brien
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Van Gogh Inside
Love, Vincent
Garden
Reviewed by Jung E. Choi
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet: In the Light
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men / Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World
Manet: A Model Family
Mary Cassatt at Work
Paris 1874. Inventer l’impressionnisme (Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment)
Reviewed by Alexis Clark
Berthe Morisot à Nice. Escales impressionnistes (Berthe Morisot in Nice. Impressionist Stages) / Impression, Morisot
Discover Degas & Miss La La
Paris 1874. Inventer l’impressionnisme (Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment)
Women Impressionists / Impressionismen og dens oversete kvinder
Reviewed by Allison Deutsch
Impressionnisme: La modernité en mouvements (Impressionism: Pathways to Modernity)
Post-impressionnisme: Au-delà des apparences (Postimpressionism: Beyond Appearances)
Reviewed by Dalila Meenen
Exhibition Reviews
Manet & Morisot
Reviewed by Lynne D. Ambrosini
Monet and Venice
Reviewed by Willam Barcham
Millet: Life on the Land
Reviewed by Barbara Dayer Gallati
Raimundo de Madrazo
Reviewed by Andrew Ginger
Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900
Reviewed by Margaret MacNamidhe
José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
Reviewed by Emmanuel Ortega
Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor
Reviewed by Gretchen Sinnett
Lifeblood—Edvard Munch
Reviewed by A. David Smith

Sargent in Paris / John Singer Sargent Éblouir Paris (Sargent. Dazzling Paris)
Reviewed by Isabel L. Taube