Book Prize
The Center offers a biennial book prize for an unpublished manuscript presenting new research in modern or contemporary art from 1780 to the present. Preference is given to applicants whose research focuses on subjects related to the Phillips’s areas of collecting, especially French and American Impressionism, American Modernism, African American art, and modern and contemporary photography. Scholars who received their PhDs within the past five years are strongly encouraged to apply. The winning book will be published by the University of California Press, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and The Phillips Collection. The winning author also receives a $5,000 cash prize.
The 2020 Book Prize has been canceled. Please check back for information about the 2022 Book Prize.
Alicia Volk, In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art
Terri Weissman, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott
André Dombrowski, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life
Lauren Kroiz, Creative Composites, Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle
Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art
Charles F.B. Miller, Radical Picasso: The Use Value of Genius
Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography
Lynda Klich, The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1921-1927)
Caitlin Beach, Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery