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Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange Between Britain and the USA (Art History Special Issues)

This co-edited collection was originally published as a special issue of the journal Art History, 34:4 (September, 2011: ISSN: 0141-6790). It was subsequently published as the submitted book in its entirety with the addition of an index. I am co-author of the editors’ 10,000-word introduction, which makes a substantial, original contribution in its own right, ‘Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA’, pp. 8-29, and of the original research reported in the chapter, ‘Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the “Anglo-American” in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan’, pp. 152-173. There were 9 contributors (in addition to the 2 editors), from universities including Yale, California at Irvine, Harvard and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The two graduate students we included have since been appointed to tenure-track positions, respectively at the University of Indiana, Bloomington and at Yale. The collection derived from a 3-day conference held at the University of York (where both editors were then working) in July 2009 with funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the University of York, and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art. The conference in turn was organized as part of my larger research project on American city painting, funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2007-10). My role involved shaping the conference and publication conceptually, defining the scope of the topic, and extensive editorial work on the arguments of the whole and the individual pieces.