The Center for the Study of Modern Art offers a biennial book prize for an unpublished manuscript presenting new research in modern or contemporary art from 1780 to the present.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. Scholars who received their PhDs within the past five years are strongly encouraged to apply. The winning author receives $5,000, and his or her manuscript will be published by the University of California Press as part of a series of first books sponsored by the Center.

Winners of the Phillips 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

The next application deadline is in 2014.

For questions and additional information contact:

Meg Clark, Manager of Center Initiatives
mclark@phillipscollection.org
202-387-2151 x286.