Welcome
...to the website of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA), a membership organization and an affiliated society of the College Art Association (CAA).
Founded in 1979, AHAA fulfills its mission of promoting scholarship in the
historical art of the United States through several means. We sponsor two
sessions at the CAA annual meeting. Our semiannual Newsletter, issued in
spring and fall, is filled with information about current exhibitions,
publications, and other news and also includes book
reviews; the current Newsletter's contents are
offered here. And our Membership Directory, an exclusive members'
benefit, is an invaluable guide to current scholars of American art.
We invite you to join our collegial international community of scholars by
becoming a member of AHAA as we seek to develop a lively and
accessible forum for the exchange of information and ideas.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Himmel, ca. 1914-1915. Oil on canvas.
Gift of the Friends of Art. 56-118
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AHAA travel grant
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About the Images
The works of art shown on this website are from the American art collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. The extensive collection, with strengths in paintings, watercolors, drawings, and decorative arts, includes more than 600 works of American art dating from the colonial period through World War II. Featuring works by many of the country’s most renowned artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, George Caleb Bingham, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Raphaelle Peale, and John Singer Sargent, the Nelson-Atkins American collection will be reinstalled in renovated and expanded galleries in April 2009.
