Fall 2025 (11.2)

Features

A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695

November 3, 2025 / Feature Article

Research Notes

The Whitewashing of John Marin

James Denison

“I can’t have a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin’s head on the Justice Building”: Words FDR Never Said

Robert W. Cherny

On White Surfaces: Beauford Delaney and Georgia O’Keeffe at An American Place

Tara Kohn

Colloquium

Why Federally Funded Art?

Jacqueline Francis, Mary Okin

Sargent Johnson’s Athletics: A Modernist Experiment in Public Art

John Bowles

ART/WORK: Civic Imagination and the Legacy of the CETA Arts Programs

Molly Garfinkel, Jodi Waynberg

Growing Up in a CETA City

Makeda Best

Federal Funding, Local Practice, and Teaching Art History Through CETA in San Francisco

Elizabeth Fair

Investing in Artists: Ripples of Return

Deborah Cullinan

Digital Dialogues

Save Our Signs: A Crowdsourced Project to Combat Censorship at US National Park Sites

Lena Bohman, Molly Blake, Jenny McBurney, Amelia Palacios, Henrik Schönemann

Book Reviews

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century

Melissa Geisler Trafton

Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy

Allison Perelman

Eternal Sovereigns: Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome

Yve Chavez

Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism

Eva Hagberg

Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Miriam Kienle

Exhibition Reviews

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

Berit Potter

Southern/Modern

Claire Ittner

Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s

Maggie North

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist

Ebonie Pollock

Dario Robleto: The Signal

Alexander Betz

Call Home

Brittany Myburgh