Luce Center Curator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
MRC 970
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
harveye@saam.si.edu
Research Interests
American Art; 19th century landscape painting; Civil War and Reconstruction era art; Texas and Southwestern Regionalism
Current Research Projects
Henry Luce Center research and installation for the reopening of SAAM in 2006: miniatures, medals, folk art, contemporary crafts, 18th-20th century painting and sculpture
Recent Publications
"Tastes in Transition: Sanford Gifford's Patrons," essay in "Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford Robinson GIfford" (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003)
"The Voyage of 'The Icebergs': Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece" (New Haven: Yale University Press for the Dallas Museum of Art, 2002)
"Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place" (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2001)
"In Context: Painting in Dallas, 1889-1945" (Dallas: McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 1999)
"rediscovering Carl Rungius" article in 'Southwest Art Magazine" (June 2000)
"Carl Rungius in Context," article with Lyle C. Gray in "Antiques Magazine" (November 1999)
"The Artistic Conquest of the Far North," essay in "Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, 1801-2001" (Montreal: Musee de Beaux-Artes, 1999)
"The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880" (NY: Harry N. Abrams for the Dallas Museum of Art, 1998)