Katherine ManthorneKatherine Manthorne is Professor of Modern Art of the Americas at the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and previously headed the Research Center at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, where she also served as exeutive editor of American Art. Prior to that she was professor and chairperson of art history at the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana. Recipient of various awards and fellowships, she was a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow and the first professor of American art at the University of Venice, Italy. She has collaborated on museum exhibitions and publications including The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad; El Barón de Courcy: Ilustraciones de un viaje, 1831-1833; Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church; and currently Sand and Fog: The Luminist Paintings and Collection of James Suydam. Read More Read Less