Dr. Susan Rather

Biography

Susan Rather is a Professor in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in American Art. She holds the Meredith Cornelia Long Chair and serves as the Department Chair. Rather's influential book, 'American School: Artists Status Late Colonial Early National Era,' published by Yale University Press in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, was awarded the 2018 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was shortlisted for the William MB Berger Prize in British Art History. Her research and publications cover a range of topics including modernism and early twentieth-century American and European sculpture. Notably, her early work culminated in 'Archaism, Modernism, Art Paul Manship' published in 1993. Rather has contributed articles and book reviews to numerous reputable journals, including American Art, Art Bulletin, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. She has received grant support from prestigious institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies and has been involved with programs at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Winterthur Museum.

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