Harvey, Eleanor J. 1960-

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Harvey, Eleanor J. 1960-

PERSONAL:

Born September 20, 1960, in Washington, DC; daughter of Charles Roy, Jr. (a lawyer) and Margaret (a teacher) Jones; married Stephen Harvey (a government employee), October 10, 1992; children: Caroline Lanier, Duncan Shepperd. Education: University of Virginia, B.A., 1983; Yale University, M.A., 1985, Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Arlington, VA. Office— Smithsonian American Art Museum, MTC 970, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012. E-mail— [email protected].

CAREER:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, assistant curator, 1989-91; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, curator of American art, 1992-2002; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, chief curator, 2003—.

MEMBER:

College Art Association of America, American Association of Museums, Texas Art Collectors Organization.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Henry Russell Hitchcock Book Award, Victorian Society in America, 1999, for The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880.

WRITINGS:

(With Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., and others) The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1992.

The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Jean Clair and others) Cosmos, from Goya to de Chirico, from Friedrich to Kiefer: Art in Pursuit of the Infinite, Bompiani/RCS Media Group (Milan, Italy), 2000.

Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place, Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX), 2001.

The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2002.

(With Kevin Avery, Frank Kelly, and Heidi Applegate) Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2003.

Contributor to art journals, including Southwest Art, Magazine Antiques, and American Art Review.