Work by James Dabbert Nominated for College Art Association Award
Professor James Dabbert's The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley (University of Illinois Press, 2006) has been nominated for the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award given by the College Art Association. The book, co-authored by Dabbert with J. Ronald Engel, Joan Gibb Engel, Wendy Greenhouse, and William H. Gerdts, offers the first comprehensive examination of a widely collected, much loved, and ecologically significant artist. Dudley (1868-1957) was a native of Wisconsin who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before going on to establish a long exhibition record both there and across the country.
The Barr Award, a major national award for museum scholarship, was established in 1980 in honor of the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The award is presented annually to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in the English language under the auspices of a museum, library or collection.
Dabbert's showing of Frank Dudley paintings at Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana, was acknowledged as one of two "Best Museum Shows of 2006" by Chicago Artists' News. The catalog for the show was further described as being a "model of its kind, beautiful reproduction[s], with several thoughtful essays."
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