CAA Awards for 2002 - Artworld - College Art Association

Art in America, March, 2003 by Stephanie Cash, David Ebony

The College Art Association recently presented its 2002 awards during its annual conference, held in February in New York. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith is the winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism.

The first award for distinguished lifetime achievement for art writing was presented to Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University. Special awards for lifetime achievement were given to Rudolf Arnheim, a pioneer in the field of the psychology of art, and Art News publisher Milton Esterow.

The winner of the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship is Thomas P. Campbell, associate curator of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the catalogue Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Met in spring 2002

The awards for the distinguished teaching of art and art history went to artist Harvey Breverman of SUNY-Buffalo and Renaissance scholar John T. Paoletti of Wesleyan University, respectively. Boston College professor Jonathan M. Bloom won the Charles Rufus Morey Award for a distinguished art history book for Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World.

The distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement went to Alison Knowles. Artist Fred Wilson won the award for distinguished body of work for his traveling survey organized by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The winner of the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for a distinguished article in the Art Bulletin is Andrew M. Shanken, assistant professor at Oberlin College, for "Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World War II." The winner of the Art Journal Award is Rainer Usselmann, of the Arts Institute in Bournemouth and the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in England, for "18.Oktober 1977: Gerhard Richter's Work of Mourning and Its New Audience." Ernst van de Wetering, art history professor at the University of Amsterdam, won the CAA/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and conservation for his book Rembrandt: The Painter at Work.