AHPCS presented the 2022 Newman Book Award to Georgia Barnhill for Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785-1885 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021), an in-depth study of the varying relationships between artist, author, and publisher from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.
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Winners of the Ewell L. Newman Book Award, 1989-2021
2021 – Cape Ann Museum, Laid Down on Paper: Printmaking in America, 1800-1865 (Gloucester, Massachusetts: Cape Ann Museum, 2020)
2020 – Dr. Robert Emlen for Imagining the Shakers: How the Visual Culture of Shaker Life was Pictured in the Popular Illustrated Press of Nineteenth-Century America (Clinton, N.Y.: Richard W. Couper Press, 2019)
2019 – Charlotte Rubinstein (Diann Benti, ed.) for Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018)
2018 – Lauren B. Hewes, Kayla H. Hopper, Laura Wasowicz for Radiant with Color & Art: McLoughlin Brothers and the Business of Picture Books, 1858-1920 (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2017)
2017 – No Award
2016 – Helena E. Wright for The First Smithsonian Collection. The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015)
2015 – Michael Twyman for A History of Chromolithography. Printed Colour for All (London: British Library, 2013)
2014 – Sue Rainey for Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn’s Career in Art (Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013)
2013 – Erika Piola, ed. for Philadelphia on Stone: Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press and Library Company, 2012)
2012 – Amanda Lett, Patricia Hills, Peter John Brownlee, Randy Palmer for Perfectly American. The Art-Union & Its Artists (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum, 2011)
2011 – David G. Wright for Domestic and Wild: Peter Moran’s Images of America (Baltimore, Md.: Creo Press, 2010)
2010 – Nancy Finlay for Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880
2009 – Christopher W. Lane for A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views
2008 – John W. Reps for John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
2007 – Jane R. Pomeroy for Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870, Wood Engraver and Illustrator, and Annotated Bibliography
2006 – Jay T. Last for The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography
2005 – Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries
2004 – David Tatham for Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press
2003 – Joseph Goddu for John James Audubon & Robert Havell, Jr.: Artist’s Proofs for THE BIRDS OF AMERICA
2002 – Gary L. Bunker for From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln’s Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865
2001 – Katharine Martinez and Page Talbot for Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy
2000 – Mark Neely and Harold Holzer for The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North
1999 – Caroline Mastin Welsh for Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild
1998 – Sue Rainey and Roger B. Stein for Shaping the Landscape Image, 1865-1910 : John Douglas Woodward
1997 – Rosemarie L. Tovell for A New Class of Art: The Artist’s Print in Canadian Art, 1877-1920
1996 – Sue Rainey for Creating Picturesque America and Ellen G. Miles for Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America
1995 – Ron Tyler for Prints of the West
1994 – Ann Shelby Blum for Picturing Nature: American 19th Century Zoologial Illustration
1993 – No award
1992 – Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. for American Political Prints, 1766-1876, and Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. for Popular Images of the Presidency, from Washington to Lincoln
1991 – Martha A. Sandweiss, Rick Stewart, and Ben W. Huseman for Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848
1990 – John Reps for St. Louis Illustrated: 19th Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis
1989 – E. McSherry Fowble for Two Centuries of Prints in America and Gloria G. Deak for Picturing America, 1497-1889