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Finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Awards have been announced. The winners, alongside recipients of other Awards for Distinction, will be named in January 2025 and presented on Wednesday, February 12, during Convocation at the CAA 113th Annual Conference, in New York City. Congratulations to all of the finalists! 

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Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Shortlist 

Named in honor of one of the founding members of CAA and first teachers of art history in the United States, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award was established in 1953 to recognize an especially distinguished English-language book in the history of art.  

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus (Duke University Press, 2024) 

Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens by Seth Estrin (Yale University Press, 2023) 

Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions by Janet Catherine Berlo (University of Washington Press, 2023) 

Pearls for the Crown: Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion by Mónica Domínguez Torres (Penn State University Press, 2024) 

Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967–1987 by Faye Raquel Gleisser (University of Chicago Press, 2024) 

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Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Shortlist 

Named for the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art and a scholar of early-twentieth-century painting, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award is presented to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in English by a museum, library, or collection. 

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939, edited by Robyn Asleson (The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Yale University Press, 2024) 

Camille Claudel, edited by Emerson Bowyer and Anne-Lise Desmas (J. Paul Getty Museum/The Art Institute of Chicago, 2023) 

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, edited by Denise Murrell (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024) 

Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper by Adam Greenhalgh (Yale University Press, 2023) 

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, edited by Lynne Cooke (The University of Chicago Press, 2023) 

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Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Shortlist 

Established in 2009, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions is presented to the author(s) of catalogues produced by an institution with an operating budget of less than $10 million. 

A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries, edited by Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl (Print Center New York/Hirmer, 2023) 

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, edited by Joe Baker and Laura Igoe (James A. Michener Art Museum/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 

Younes Rahmoun: Here, Now, edited by Emma Chubb, Omar Berrada, Alexandra Keller, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, et al. (Smith College Museum of Art/Zamân Books & Curating/Kunsthalle Mulhouse/Kulte Editions, 2024)