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Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]

This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (November 2018)

Career

Eleanor Harvey was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, in Art History.[2] She served as curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-2002.[2] In January 2003, she became the curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[3] and served as the museum's Chief Curator from 2003 until 2012. She is currently Senior Curator. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century American art, landscape painting, Alexander von Humboldt, Southwestern abstraction, and Texas art.[4] Her most recent exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum were Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture in 2020-2021, The Civil War and American Art in 2012-13, Variations on America: Masterworks from the American Art Forum Collections in 2007, and An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection in 2006.[5]

Works

• Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780691200804

External video
The Civil War and American Art, C-SPAN, November 15, 2012[6]
Podcast: The Civil War and American Art, Episode 1, Smithsonian American Art Museum[7]

• Eleanor Jones Harvey (2013-02-05). "America's Moral Volcano". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
• The Civil War and American Art. Yale University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780300187335.
• An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006, ISBN 9781904832324
• Avery, Kevin J. & Kelly, Frank (2003). Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780300101843. (includes essay by Harvey)
• Eleanor Jones Harvey, Gerald L. Carr. The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece. Dallas Museum of Art, 2002, ISBN 9780300095364
• The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880. Dallas Museum of Art, 1998. New York: Harry Abrams, 1998, ISBN 9780810963641

References

External links

• Humboldt exhibition videos
• C-SPAN appearances

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