{"id":5282,"date":"2015-07-28T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&p=5282"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:43:36","slug":"patricia-hills","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/patricia-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Hills taught courses on American art and visual culture, and is a specialist in the history of American painting, African American art, and art and politics. Major books and catalogues for exhibitions she organized include: \u00a0Painting Harlem Modern:<\/em>\u00a0The Art of Jacob Lawrence <\/em>(2010), <\/em>Syncopated Rhythms:\u00a0 20th<\/sup>-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection<\/em>(co-authored, 2005),\u00a0May Stevens<\/em>\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Modern Art in the USA:\u00a0 Issues and Controversies of the 20th<\/sup>Century<\/em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Eastman Johnson:\u00a0 Painting America<\/em>\u00a0(co-curated, 1999),\u00a0Stuart Davis<\/em>\u00a0(1996),\u00a0John Singer Sargent<\/em>\u00a0(1986),\u00a0Social Concern in the \u201880s:\u00a0 A New England Perspective<\/em> (1984), Alice Neel<\/em>\u00a0(1983),\u00a0Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s<\/em>\u00a0(1983),\u00a0The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored, 1980),\u00a0Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs<\/em>, 1890-1910 (1977),\u00a0The Painters\u2019 America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910 <\/em>(1974),\u00a0The American Frontier: Images and Myths<\/em>\u00a0(1973),\u00a0Eastman Johnson<\/em>\u00a0(1972).<\/p>\n

She currently is Director of the Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, a project for which the long-term steward will be the National Academy of Design (founded in NYC in 1825).\u00a0 Funding has come from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, and the Boston University Retired Faculty Association.\u00a0 The launch of the EJCR website will be April 2021.<\/p>\n

She has also contributed book chapters for anthologies and essays to catalogues of major exhibitions, such as The Routledge Companion to African American Art History <\/em>(2020), For America:\u00a0 Paintings from the National Academy of Design <\/em>(2019),\u00a0 Perfectly American:\u00a0 The Art-Union & Its Artists <\/em>(2011), Romare Bearden, American Modernist<\/em>\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Pressing the Fight:\u00a0 Print, Propaganda and the Cold War<\/em>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0Blaze:\u00a0Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0The Social and the Real:\u00a0Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere<\/em>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0Looking High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture<\/em>\u00a0(2006), Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence<\/em>\u00a0(2000), Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850 (1998), Redefining American History Painting<\/em>(1995), \u00a0Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series<\/em>\u00a0(1993), Berlin-New York, Like and Unlike: Essays on Architecture and Art from 1870 to the Present<\/em> (1993), \u00a0Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990<\/em>\u00a0(1992),\u00a0The West as America<\/em>\u00a0(1991),\u00a0Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket<\/em>\u00a0(1990). Der Spanische B\u00fcrgerkrieg und die bildenden K\u00fcnste<\/em> (1989), The Rural Vision:\u00a0 France and America in the Late Nineteenth Century <\/em>(1987), Essays from the Lowell Conferences on Industrial History, 1982 and 1983<\/em> (1985), Das Andere Amerika:\u00a0 Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur der amerikanischen Arbeiterbewegung <\/em>(1983).<\/p>\n

Her articles have appeared in\u00a0American Art, Oxford Art Journal, Prospects, Archives of American Art Journal, Dictionary of Women Artist, The Encyclopedia of New York City, American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 2, Art New England, Journal of the Early Republic, Arts, Art News, Antiques, African American Review, Journal of American Studies, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eastman Johnson: Painting America<\/em>\u00a0(1999), co-curated with Brooklyn Museum of Art curator Teresa A. Carbone, won the Henry Allen Moe Prize for most outstanding exhibition catalogue in the State of New York for the year 1999.\u00a0 John Singer Sargent<\/em>\u00a0(1986), won the Henry Allen Moe Prize for most outstanding exhibition catalogue in the State of New York for the year 1986.<\/p>\n

She has held both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, both of Harvard University, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum Research Center, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.<\/p>\n

In February 2011 she received the \u201cDistinguished Teaching of Art History\u201d award from the College Art Association.<\/p>\n

In May 2011 she and co-author Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz received the William Fischelis Book Award presented by the Victorian Society in America for\u00a0\u00a0John S. Sargent:\u00a0 Portraits in Praise of Women<\/em>, ed. by Paul S. D\u2019Ambrosio (Cooperstown, NY:\u00a0 Fenimore Art Museum, 2010).<\/p>\n

Latest project launched in July 2021: National Academy of Design: Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

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