Anthony Lee Wins Eldredge Prize

Professor of Art History and Chair of American Studies Anthony Lee has won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for his book, Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco.

The prize is given annually by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. Said this year's jury of Professor Lee's book, "each of the chapters skillfully intertwines interpretations of Chinatown from within and without the community. We see the various ways in which Chinatown was perceived as a curiosity and, later, as a consumer commodity. In turn, these transformations--viewed in the context of the social and political history of San Francisco--are revealed as expressions of the ever-changing possibilities and difficulties faced by inhabitants of the community." This month, Professor Lee traveled to Washington DC to receive the award and give the Eldredge Prize Lecture at the famed Renwick Gallery.