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Ewell L. Newman Award

To recognize and encourage outstanding publications enhancing appreciation of American prints before 1900, the award consists of a framed citation and $500. Small and large works, those of narrow scope and those with broad general coverage are equally considered. Original research, fresh assessments, and the fluent synthesis of known material will all be taken into account. The emphasis is on quality and on making an outstanding contribution to the subject. Exhibition catalogues, monographs, articles, and works based on local sources are eligible.

 

Recipients

• 2009 - Christopher W. Lane for A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views
• 2008 - John W. Reps for John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
• 2007 - Jane R. Pomeroy for Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870, Wood Engraver and Illustrator, and Annotated Bibliography
• 2006 - Jay T. Last for The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography
• 2005 - Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries
• 2004 - David Tatham for Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press
• 2003 - Joseph Goddu for John James Audubon & Robert Havell, Jr.: Artist's Proofs for THE BIRDS OF AMERICA
• 2002 - Gary L. Bunker for From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865
• 2001 - Katharine Martinez and Page Talbot for Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy
• 2000 - Mark Neely and Harold Holzer for The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North
• 1999 - Caroline Mastin Welsh for Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild
• 1998 - Sue Rainey and Roger B. Stein for Shaping the Landscape Image, 1865-1910 : John Douglas Woodward
• 1997 - Rosemarie L. Tovell for A New Class of Art: The Artist's Print in Canadian Art, 1877-1920
• 1996 - Sue Rainey for Creating Picturesque America and Ellen G. Miles for Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America
• 1995 - Ron Tyler for Prints of the West
• 1994 - Ann Shelby Blum for Picturing Nature: American 19th Century Zoologial Illustration
• 1993 - No award
• 1992 - Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. for American Political Prints, 1766-1876 and Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. for Popular Images of the Presidency, from Washington to Lincoln
• 1991 - Martha A. Sandweiss, Rick Stewart, and Ben W. Huseman for Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848
• 1990 - John Reps for St. Louis Illustrated: 19th Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis
• 1989 - E. McSherry Fowble for Two Centuries of Prints in America and Gloria G. Deak for Picturing America, 1497-1889

Ewell L. Newman Award
Call for Entries

Publications remain eligible for a period of roughly two years after they first appear. Once a work has been passed on by the Jury it will not be considered again except in a substantially revised edition. Jurors include collectors, authors, and scholars, of American historical prints.

To submit a book to the Jury for consideration, please mail to the Jury chairperson at: Cottonwood Press Books, Attn. William Huntington, P.O. Box 24337, Omaha, NE 68124.

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