AWARDS AND
RECOGNITION
2023
AMERICAN'S COLLECTION NYC BIG BOOK AWARD VIRGINIA HART
NYC Big Book Award Winner Co-Author Virginia B Hart and Elliot B. Davis
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2020
NEW YORK CITY DESIGN AWARDS
NYC 20 Gold Award for
Pop-Ups, Display, Exhibit and Set Design
NORTON ART + Contemporary Art App,
Norton Museum of Art and Local Projects
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Harleston Parker Award for the Most Beautiful Building in the City of Boston for the Past Decade
Art of the Americas Wing,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2013
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
ALFRED H. BARR, Jr. AWARD, FINALIST
Kimberly Jones, ed., Degas/Cassatt. Co-author for catalogue essay, “A Place in the World of Art: Cassatt, Degas, and American Collectors,”
National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2013.
2010
ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS
Annual Exhibition Prize for Outstanding Permanent Collection Installation
Art of the Americas Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2010
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL FOR AESTHETIC RESEARCH
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Best Historical Show
People's and Critics Choice
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Art of the Americas Wing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2003
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION DIVISION
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Outstanding Academic Title
(Selected from over 23,000 titles submitted.)
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Elliot Bostwick Davis, et. al.,
American Paintings Highlights.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Publications, 2003.
2000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, 25 MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2000
​Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. Elliot Bostwick Davis, author of essay, “Currency of Culture.”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY
Theodore Rousseau Travel Grant,
1996-1998.
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Janet and Morgan Whitney Fellow,
1991-1992.
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Chester Dale Fellow,
1990-1991.
1986-1988
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY
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President’s Fellow for Academic Excellence
1986
GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE (D.A.A.D)
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Summer Fellow
1985
Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association (MSRA, now New York
Squash)
President’s Prize
1980-1984
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, VARSITY SQUASH TEAM
HOWE CUP
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National Women’s Championship Team, 1983 - 1984