{"id":56532,"date":"2013-12-18T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56532"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:39:27","slug":"patricia-hills","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/patricia-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Hills teaches 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: \u00a0<em>Painting Harlem Modern:<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Art of Jacob Lawrence<\/em>\u00a0(2010), \u00a0<em>Syncopated Rhythms:\u00a0 20<sup>th<\/sup>-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection<\/em>\u00a0(coauthored, 2005),<em>\u00a0May Stevens<\/em>\u00a0(2005),\u00a0<em>Modern Art in the USA:\u00a0 Issues and Controversies of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century<\/em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<em>Eastman Johnson:\u00a0 Painting America<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored, 1999),\u00a0<em>Stuart Davis<\/em>(1996),\u00a0<em>John Singer Sargent<\/em>\u00a0(1986),\u00a0<em>Alice Neel<\/em>\u00a0(1983),\u00a0<em>Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s<\/em>\u00a0(1983),\u00a0<em>The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored, 1980),\u00a0<em>Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs<\/em>, 1890-1910 (1977),\u00a0<em>The Painters\u2019 America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910<\/em>\u00a0(1974),\u00a0<em>The American Frontier: Images and Myths<\/em>\u00a0(1973),\u00a0<em>Eastman Johnson<\/em>\u00a0(1972). She has also contributed essays to catalogues of major exhibitions, such as\u00a0<em>Over the Line:\u00a0 The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence<\/em>\u00a0(2000),\u00a0<em>Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series<\/em>\u00a0(1993),<em>Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective 1950-1990<\/em>\u00a0(1992),\u00a0<em>The West as America<\/em>\u00a0(1991),<em>Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket<\/em>\u00a0(1990). Her articles have appeared in<em>American 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,<em>Romare Bearden, American Modernist<\/em>\u00a0(2011),\u00a0<em>Pressing the Fight:\u00a0 Print, Propaganda and the Cold War<\/em>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0<em>Blaze:\u00a0 Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0<em>The Social and the Real:\u00a0 Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere<\/em>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0<em>Looking High and Low:\u00a0 Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture<\/em>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0<em>Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850 (1998), Redefining American History Painting<\/em>\u00a0(1995).\u00a0<em>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.<\/p>\n<p>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, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum Research Center, and from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2011 she received the \u201cDistinguished Teaching of Art History\u201d award from the College Art Association.\u00a0 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\u00a0<em>John S. Sargent:\u00a0 Portraits in Praise of Women<\/em>, ed. by Paul S. D\u2019Ambrosio (Cooperstown, NY:\u00a0 Fenimore Art Museum, 2010).\u00a0\u00a0<strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Professor Hills received the Distinguished Teaching of Art History award from the College Art Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56532\/revisions\/70868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}