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ALA Over the Rainbow Book List

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (Selection – Memoir/Biography – 2011)

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award

• Jackson Pollock di Kirk Varnedoe (2000)

Alice Award

• Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties di Teresa A. Carbone (Vincitore – 2013)

Ambassador Book Award

• de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens (Vincitore – Biography/Autobiography – 2005)

Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year

• Lee Krasner di Lee] Hobbs [Krasner, Robert (Saggistica – 2019)

Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (2011)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (Biografia – 2010)

Canon de la narrativa universal del siglo XX

• My Mortal Enemy di Willa Cather (1926)

Charles C. Eldredge Prize

• Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism di Erika Doss (1993)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (2011)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 di Bram Dijkstra (Silver Medal – Saggistica – 2003)

Eric Hoffer Book Award

• American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey With Artists' Statements, Artwork, and Biographies di Marika Herskovic (Honorable Mention – Art – 2005)

Independent Publisher Book Awards

• Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 di Rebecca Peabody (Gold – Fine Art – 2012)

International Book Awards

• Clyde Singer's America di Mark Albacete (Vincitore – Art: General – 2010)

Lambda Literary Award

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (Finalista – Gay Memoir/Biography – 2011)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens (Vincitore – Biography/Autobiography – 2004)

National Jewish Book Award

• Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 di Norman L. Kleeblatt (Vincitore – Visual Arts – 2009)

The New York Times Best Books of the Year

• de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens (2005)

New York Times bestseller

• John Paul Jones: Prints and Drawings 1948-1963 di John Paul; Et Al Jones (Saggistica – 2003)

Ohioana Book Award

• Clyde Singer's America di Mark Albacete (Finalista – About Ohio or an Ohioan – 2009)

Premio Pulitzer

• John Sloan: Painter and Rebel di John Loughery (Finalista – Biography or Autobiography – 1996)
• de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens (Vincitore – Biography or Autobiography – 2005)
• The man from New York;: John Quinn and his friends di B. L. Reid (Vincitore – Biography or Autobiography – 1969)

Publishing Triangle Awards

• Grant Wood: A Life di R. Tripp Evans (Finalista – Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction – 2011)

LA Times Book Prize

• de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens (Vincitore – Biografia – 2004)

Virginia Literary Awards

• Robert Gwathmey : the life and art of a passionate observer di Michael G. Kammen (Vincitore – Saggistica – 2000)