Thursday 8 July 2010

The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2009

The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2009 of £5000 was awarded to Diana  Donald and Jane Munro for Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts at a reception at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London on Wednesday 7 July 2010, and was presented by The Hon Lady Roberts, Royal Librarian.




SHORT LIST

Mark Girouard Elizabethan Architecture
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300093865 £50 pp 280 150 col

Paul O’Keeffe A Genius for Failure. The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
Bodley Head
ISBN number 9780224062473 £25 568 pp 13 col 20 bw

Patrick Noon Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300134216 £85 450 illustrations 360 pp

Diana Donald and Jane Munro, ed, Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge/Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press
ISBN 9780300148268 £40 288 pp 100 bw 150 col

David Solkin Turner and the Masters
Tate Publishing
hb ISBN 978 1 85437 865 1 £35 pb ISBN 978 1 85437 798 2 £25 240 pp 170 col

Edward Impey, ed., The White Tower
Yale University Press in association with Historic Royal Palaces
ISBN 9780300112931 £45 256 pp 120 bw 40 col


Assessors
Dr Timothy Standring, Denver Art Museum; Dr Robin Simon, Editor, The British Art Journal; Dr Ann Bermingham, University of California at Santa Barbara; Katharine Eustace, Editor, The Sculpture Journal; Rosemary Hill, All Souls College, Oxford; Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Survey of The Queen's Pictures; Angus Trumble, Yale Center for British Art




LONG LIST

Mikael Ahlund, ed, including an essay by Martin Barnes, The Pre-Raphaelites
Nationalmuseum Stockholm
ISBN 978917100 809 1

Sam Smiles Richard Stephens, et al. Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius
Sansom & Co. with The University of Plymouth and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2009
ISBN 9781906593407 £24.99 200 pp 43 bw 105 col

Roger Baynton-Williams Art of the Printmaker 1500-1860
A&C Black
ISBN 9781408112663 £30 192 pp 140 illus

Cinzia Maria Sicca, ed, John Talman: An Early Eighteenth Century Connoisseur
YaleUniversity Press/Yale Center for British Art/The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Studies in British Art 19)
ISBN 9780300123357 £45 304 pp 108 col

David Boyd Haycok A Crisis of Brilliance. Five Young British Artists and the Great War
Old Street Publishing
ISBN 978-1905847846 £20 320 pp ill

John Ingamells, Dulwich Picture Gallery – British Catalogue
Unicorn Press
9781906509019 £24.95 287 pp ill

Katharine Lochnan and Carol Jacobi, ed, Holman Hunt and The Pre-Raphaelite Vision
Art Gallery of Ontario in association with Manchester Art Gallery
ISBN 978 0 300 14832 9

James Knox, Cartoons & Coronets. The Genius of Osbert Lancaster
ISBN 9780711229389 £15 pb 224 pp over 200 col

Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan The Intimate Portrait. Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN number 978 1 906270 14 8 £25 272 pp 225 col

Peter Trippi, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Robert Usptone, Patty Wageman, J.W. Waterhouse, The Modern Pre-Raphaelite
Royal Academy of Arts London
ISBN 978 1 905711 36 9 (hb) 978-90-8586-489-9 (pb) hb £35 pb £18.95 242 pp 180 ills

Susan E James, The Feminine Dynamic in English Art 1485-1603. Women as Consumers, Patrons and Painters
Ashgate
ISBN 978-0-7546-6381-2 £65 pp 376 ills 52 bw January 2009

Magdalen Evans Utmost Fidelity: The Painting Lives of Marianne and Adrian Stokes
Sansom & Co
hb ISBN 978-1-904537-01-8 pb ISBN 978-1-904537-85-4 hb £35 pb £24.95 pp 72 bw 17 col 98

Iain Mackintosh and Marcus Risdell The Face & Figure of Shakespeare
ISBN number ISBN 1 902643 10 0 £7 64 pp 67 col

Rachel Stewart The Town House in Georgian London
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300152777 £30 pp 272 ill

Sarah Cash and Richard Ormond Sargent and the Sea
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art
ISBN 9780300143607 £30 pp 192 30 bw 100 col

Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts Mrs Delany and Her Circle
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art
ISBN 9780300142792 £40 10 pp 416 ills 10 bw 300 col

Michael Snodin Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art
ISBN 9780300125740 £40 356 pp 300 col

Caroline Arscott, William Morris and Edward Burne Jones: Interlacings
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978-0300140934 £40 260 pp

Diana Donald and Jane Munro, ed, Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge/Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press
ISBN 9780300148268 £40 288 pp 100 bw 150 col

Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray John Singer Sargent Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913
[vol 6 in catalogue raisonné]
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300141405 £50 18 bw 256 col 272 pp

Shena Mason Matthew Boulton. Selling What All the World Desires
Yale University Press 9780300143584 £40 304 pp 50 bw 300 col

Mark Girouard Elizabethan Architecture
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300093865 £50 pp 280 150 col

Edward Impey, ed., The White Tower
Yale University Press in association with Historic Royal Palaces
ISBN 9780300112931 £45 256 pp 120 bw 40 col

Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art ISBN 9780300150933 £30 192pp 120 col

Scott Wilcox Sun, Wind and Rain: The Art of David Cox
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art in association with Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery ISBN 9780300117448 £40 272 pp 220 col

Susan Bennett, ed, Cultivating the Human Faculties James Barry (1741-1806) and the Society of Arts
Lehigh University Press 162 pp HB

Tessa Murdoch The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections
Adamson
ISBN 978-0-09524322-7-2 £30 pp 128 42 col 8 bw

Brian Keeble Cecil Collins
Golgonooza Press

Christopher Newall et al, Frederic, Lord Leighton
Prestel
ISBN: 978 3 7913 43839 £25 192 pp 130 col

Christopher Baker, David Howarth and Paul Stirton The Discovery of Spain: British arttists and Collectors Goya to Picasso
National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN number 978 1 906270 18 6 £14.95 160 pp 135 col 5 bw

Silvano Levy and Tanja Pirsig Marshall, ed British Surrealism in Context, A Collector’s Eye
Leeds Museums & Galleries
ISBN 9780901981820 £34.99 pp 224 227 ills 9 July 2009

Peter Lord, The Meaning of Pictures. Images of personal, social and political identity
University of Wales Press
ISBN 978-0708322215 £40 256 pp illus

Veronica Franklin Gould Tennyson at Farringford
Tennyson House Publications ISBN 978 0 9563223 0 2 £15.50 96 pp; ills 69

Patrick Noon Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300134216 £85 450 illustrations 360 pp

Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant G.F. Watts: Victorian Visionary
Yale University Press ISBN 9780300142570 £40 224 pp 220 col

Helen Pierce Unseemly Pictures. Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300142549 £35 224 pp 100 bw

David Hill Turner and Leeds
Jeremy Mills Publishing
ISBN 9781906600310 £34.99 208 pp 145 ill

Judith A. Neiswander The Cosmopolitan Interior. Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 9780300124903 £35 256 pp 70 bw

Paul O’Keeffe A Genius for Failure. The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon
Bodley Head ISBN number 9780224062473 £25 568 pp 13 col 20 bw

The Duchess of Rutland with Jane Pruden Belvoir Castle
Frances Lincoln
ISBN 9780711230521 £30 224 pp 200 col

Karen Hearn, ed, Van Dyck and Britain
Tate Publishing ISBN 978-1854377951 £40 240 pp ill

Malcolm Millais Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture
Frances Lincoln
ISBN 9780711229747 £18.99 296 pp 405 bw

Emma Rutherford Silhouette
Rizzoli 9780847830770 £40.00 256 pp 300 ills

David Solkin Turner and the Masters
Tate Publishing
hb ISBN 978 1 85437 865 1 £35 pb ISBN 978 1 85437 798 2 £25 240 pp 170 col

William Feaver Frank Auerbach
Rizzoli
ISBN 9780847830589 £100 360 pp 900 col 200 bw

Christopher Frayling Horace Walpole’s Cat
ISBN 9780500514917 14.95 80pp 15 col 7  bw