Fall 2024 (10.2)

Editor's Welcome: Tenth Anniversary Issue (10.2)

Special Anniversary Issue

A graphic displaying five years—1995, 1998, 2014, 2017, 2020—each with two associated topics

A Look Back: Thirty Years of AmArt-L

Keidra Daniels Navaroli
Three contemporary paintings, two depicting stylized maps of the United States, hang on white walls in an art gallery with a curved bench on a light wood floor.

Americanist Questionnaire

Jenni Sorkin, Mia L. Bagneris, Maggie A. Cao, Sarah Burns, Adrienne L. Childs, Robert (Bob) Cozzolino, Erika Doss, Jennifer Greenhill, Eleanor Harvey, Amy Von Lintel, Elaine Yau, Sylvia Yount

Research Notes

A 1925 painting by Ellen Emmet Rand depicts the artist from behind, looking into a mirror that reveals her reflection.

In the Aggregate: Women Artists, Museum Work, and the Paths We Tread

Annelise K. Madsen
Janet Sobel's abstract painting, featuring an all-over composition of colorful, intricate lines and patterns.

Janet Sobel’s All Over, Everywhere

Natalie Dupêcher

Colloquium

Digital Dialogues

A woven textile sample by Dorothy Liebes featuring a plaid-like pattern of beige yarn, green and teal threads, metallic gold and silver, and horizontal white and teal rods.

Closer to Mainstream: Dorothy Liebes Goes Digital

Analisa Coats Sato
Book cover with an abstract geometric design in fuchsia and shades of gray surrounding a black-and-white photographs of diners in a restaurant. Above are the letters HURBBGR; below are the words "A Generated / Family of Man"

Zombie Humanism, Generative AI Images, and Photography

Helen Lewandowski

Book Reviews

An 18th-century British North American embroidered landscape depicts a harvest scene with a dancing woman, two men, animals, and a distant windmill.

Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770

Elizabeth Bacon Eager
Portrait of John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution.

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution

Paul Staiti
An illustration depicting an Arctic expedition with men hauling a boat through an icy landscape, topped with the words "A VISUAL HISTORY".

The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History

Katherine Manthorne
An artwork by Eduardo C. Fernandez depicts a child in a barbed-wire-wrapped box, surrounded by maps of the US and Central America, and symbolic figures, addressing migration from the Northern Triangle.

Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

Mary K. Coffey

Exhibition Reviews

An exhibition display for "Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums" featuring a portrait of the nineteenth-century abolitionist and activist Harriet Hayden.

Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums

Anne Strachan Cross
The entrance to the "Georgia O'Keeffe: My New Yorks" exhibition, with the title displayed in large text on opposing pink and orange walls as visitors walk through.

Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks”

Lee Ann Custer
Five stylized sculptures of human heads and busts by Sargent Claude Johnson, in various colors, are displayed on dark pedestals.

Sargent Claude Johnson

Christine Garnier
An abstract painting by Janet Sobel featuring a vibrant, layered composition of dripped and splattered paint in various colors and organic patterns.

Janet Sobel: All Over

Sandra Zalman
Pacita Abad's vibrant textile artwork, a colorful reinterpretation of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch against a radiating rainbow background.

Pacita Abad

Marissa Vigneault