Margaretta M. Lovell is Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of America and its art, including landscape painting, portraiture, furniture, architecture, and forests. She received a B.A. in English from Smith College

Smith College

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, an M.A. from the University of Delaware

University of Delaware

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's joint program with the Winterthur Museum in Early American Culture, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University

Yale University

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. Institutions where she has held faculty appointments include Yale, Harvard University

Harvard University

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, the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, The College of William & Mary and Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in addition to Berkeley. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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, the Rockefeller Foundation

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, the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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, the American Antiquarian Society

American Antiquarian Society

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, The Huntington Library

The Huntington Library

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, and the Terra Foundation for American Art among others. Honors she has received include, for Art in a Season of Revolution, the 2007 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art and the 2007 Historians of British Art Prize, and, for A Visitable Past, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize of the American Studies Association. She was one of five recipients of U.C. Berkeley's 2009 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors, (called "Teaching Assistants" at most other institutions).

Books

• The Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and Winslow Homer (in preparation)
• Journey to the Ruins of Azatlan: In Search of the Scenic and the Prehistoric in Early Nineteenth-Century America (in preparation)
• American Encounters (with Angela Miller, Bryan Wolf, Janet Berlo, David Lubin, Jennifer Roberts)
• Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America
• A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists 1860–1915
• Venice: The American View, 1860–1920
• American Painting 1730–1960: A Selection from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd

External links

• http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/lovell.html
• http://gsi.berkeley.edu/awards/lovell.html
• http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2006/pr_eldredge2006.pdf
• http://www.historiansofbritishart.org/BookPrize.asp?Year=2007
• http://www.huntington.org/uploadedFiles/Files/PDFs/s10perfectstorm.pdf