George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

Given by Art Libraries Society of North America

145 Works 12,676 Books 74 Reviews 4.3
Since its foundation in 1974, Art Libraries Society of North America has made an annual award to recognize excellence of content and production in North American art publications. Initially called show more the Art Publishing Award, it was renamed in 1980 to honor George Wittenborn (1905-1974), the influential New York art book dealer and publisher. The award is presented annually for outstanding publications in the visual arts and architecture which combine the highest standards of scholarship, design, and production. https://www.arlisna.org/about/awards-honors/71-george-wittenborn-award show less
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Winner 113

WorkYear
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories by Pamela Parmal2021
Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent by Nathaniel Silver2020
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe by Karen Patterson2019
Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen by Naomi Beckwith2018
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill2017
17th-Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Family Collection by Stephen Little2016
Kongo: Power and Majesty by Alisa LaGamma2015
Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century by Arthur Wheelock2014
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers2013
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute by Sarah Lees2012
Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 (Art Institute of Chicago) by Peter Zegers2011
Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles by Mary Hunt Kahlenberg2010
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art) by Mark Laird2009
Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes (Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Michael R. Taylor2009
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe by David Joselit2008
Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) by Ani Boyajian2007
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection by Cindi Strauss2007
Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (National Gallery Of Art, Washington) by John Oliver Hand2006
Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Barbara Drake Boehm2005
Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 by Kerry Brougher2005
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage by Keith F. Davis2005
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (American Art in the Princeton Univ by Cary Y. Liu2005
Guide To The Literature Of Art History 2 by Max Marmor2005
The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome by Alison Wright2005
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University by Stephan Wolohojian2004
Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs [2-volume set] by Sarah Greenough2003
Jacob van Ruisdael : A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Seymour Slive2002
Complete Jacob Lawrence by Michelle Dubois2001
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference by Pat Kirkham2001
The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet by Roger S. Wieck2001
E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer by E. W. Godwin2000
Portraits by Ingres by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres2000
Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 by Robert A. Sobieszek2000
Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas by David Anfam1999
The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: Vol. 1: A Catalogue Raisonne; Vol. 2: Correspondence and Technical Studies (v. 1) by Martha Tedeschi1999
Printed Stuff: Prints, Poster, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonne 1958-1996 by Richard H. Axsom1998
Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia by Kate Fitz Gibbon1998
American Windsor Chairs by Nancy Goyne Evans1997
Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection by Donald L. Fennimore1997
The Salon album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky by John E. Bowlt1996
Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945 by Wendy Kaplan1996
Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy by William Lloyd MacDonald1996
A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman1995
Eakins and the photograph : works by Thomas Eakins and his circle in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by Susan Danly1995
Odilon Redon : prince of dreams, 1840-1916 by Douglas W. Druick1995
Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950 by Felice Ficsher1995
Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson1995
Rodin: The Shape of Genius by Ruth Butler1994
Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio by Janet Cox-Rearick1994
History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by Francis Haskell1994
Fra Angelico at San Marco by William Hood1994
The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humfrey1994
The Modernist Garden in France by Dorothee Imbert1994
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner1994
Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch by Maud Lavin1994
Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) by Marcia Pointon1994
The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s: 2 Volumes by Jane Davidson Reid1994
The last descendant of Aeneas : the Hapsburgs and the mythic image of the emperor by Marie Tanner1994
National Homage, José María Velasco, 1840-1912 by José María Velasco1994
The Century of Tung Ch'i-Ch'ang 1555-1636 by Wai-kam Ho1993
Fay Jones : the architecture of E. Fay Jones, FAIA by Robert Adams Ivy Jr.1993
Puerto Rico 1900 by Jorge Rigau1993
Pintura y escultura en Nueva España (1557-1640) by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa1993
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany by Stephanie Barron1992
Holabird & Roche & Root: An Illustrated Catalogue of Works, 1911-1927 (Volume II) by Robert Bruegmann1992
Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was by Paul Johnson1992
A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John Richardson1992
Exiles Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler by Stephanie Barron1991
Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting by William H. Gerdts1991
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 by Guy C. McElroy1991
Greek Sculpture: An Exploration by Andrew Stewart1991
Lisette Model by Ann Thomas1991
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte1991
Minor White: The Eye That Shapes by Peter C. Bunnell1990
The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr by Garth Clark1990
The New Vision, Photography Between the World Wars: Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Maria Morris Hambourg1990
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators: New Edition by Hugh Honour1990
Eames Design by John Neuhart1990
Issey Miyake by Nicholas Callaway1989
American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue by Benno M. Forman1989
Fluxus Codex by Jon Hendricks1989
The Art of Graphic Design by Bradbury Thompson1989
Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis by Dorothy K. Washburn1989
The Art That Is Life: The Art & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920 (Art That is Life) by Wendy Kaplan1988
The Eloquent object: The evolution of American art in craft media since 1945 by Marcia Manhart1988
Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Hastings Falk1987
Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta (Cone Collection) by Brenda Richardson1987
Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace by Martha A. Sandweiss1987
European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Two Volumes by Edith A. Standen1987
Karl Bodmer's America by Karl Bodmer1986
Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work by Arthur A. Cohen1986
The Société anonyme and the Dreier bequest at Yale University : a catalogue raisonné by Robert L. Herbert1986
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean V. Bony1985
Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925-1950 by Robert Judson Clark1985
In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres by Patricia Condon1985
Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980 by David McFadden1984
Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939 by Richard Pare1984
Macmillan encyclopedia of architects by Adolf K. Placzek1984
Guide to the Literature of Art History by Etta Arntzen1983
Photograph Collector's Guide by Lee D. Witkin1983
Edouard Manet and the Execution of Maximilian by Kermit S. Champa1982
Hans Baldung Grien - Prints and Drawings by James H. Marrow1982
Alexander Liberman by Barbara Rose1982
Mexican masks by Donald Bush Cordry1981
Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin1981
Imogen Cunningham : a portrait by Imogen Cunningham1980
Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family : a catalogue raisonné by Diane DeGrazia1980
The Plan of St. Gall : a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery by Walter Horn1980
Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian art world by David Allan Robertson1979
Serlio on Domestic Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio1979
Georgia O'Keeffe, a portrait by Alfred Stieglitz1979
The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by Arthur Drexxler1978
The spirit of fact: The daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, 1843-1862 by Robert A. Sobieszek1977

Honorable Mention 16

WorkYear
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger2018
Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard (Phillips Collection) by Elizabeth Easton2011
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes by Aimee Brown Price2010
Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library by Elaine Wright2008
The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820 (The Frank L. Horton Series) by Bradford L. Rauschenberg2004
Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization by Robert Bagley2002
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South by Douglas W. Druick2002
Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec by Elizabeth Hill Boone2001
Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens at Winterthur (Winterthur Book) by Donald L. Fennimore2001
Steichen's Legacy by Joanna Steichen2001
Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages by Julien Chapuis2000
The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making by Erika D. Passantino2000
Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature by Loren R. Lerner1998
The Art of the Print: Masterpieces, History, Techniques by Fritz Eichenberg1977
Georgia O'Keeffe by Georgia O'Keeffe1977
The Book of Kells : reproductions from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin by Françoise Henry1975

Special Mention 8

WorkYear
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure1999
A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories by John Szarkowski1998
Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space by Kim Williams1998
The Photographic Experience 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes by Heinz K. Henisch1997
Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book) by Michael Sullivan1997
Grandmother's Garden: The Old-Fashioned American Garden 1865-1915 by May Brawley Hill1996
Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne (Vol. 1-3) by Gail Levin1996
Corporal Politics by Helaine Posner1993

Special Reference Award 2

WorkYear
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art (2 Vol. Set) by Helene E. Roberts1999
The Dictionary of Art by Jane Turner1997

Special Letters 2

WorkYear
The Savage Mirror: The Art of Contemporary Caricature by Steven Heller1993
Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era by Karrie Jacobs1993

First Prize 3

WorkYear
Henri Matisse : Paper Cut-Outs by Jack Cowart1978
The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné by Dan Burne Jones1976
Camera work: a critical anthology by Jonathan Green1974

Second Prize 1

WorkYear
Maxfield Parrish by Coy Ludwig1974

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