Anthony Lee

Associate Professor of Art; Chair of Art and Art History

Specialization
Modern and contemporary European and American art; alternative histories of modernist art; history of photography; American visual culture

Anthony W. Lee is an art historian, critic, curator, and photographer.  As a critic and scholar, he writes about American photography and modernist painting. As a photographer, he documents ethnic and immigrant communities.  He is the recipient of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, given by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, and the Cultural Studies Book Prize, given by the Association of Asian American Studies.  He is founder and editor of the acclaimed series Defining Moments in American Photography. Of the many books he has written, A Shoemaker's Story--about photography, French Canadian and Chinese immigrants, and dastardly factory owners in 1870s Massachusetts--is his favorite.

 "Lee, Lipman, Morgan, and Smith to Receive Faculty Awards," College Street Journal, April 19, 2002

"New Faculty: Art Historian Anthony Lee," College Street Journal, October 16, 1998