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Anthony Lee
Art Building, Room 209
413-538-2243

Education:

  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.A.
  • University of California, Davis, M.A.
  • Holy Cross College, B.A.

Joined MHC: 1998

"Some of the most experimental painting and photography that now hangs silently on the museum walls once upon a time had a relationship with such loud concerns as radical politics, immigrant societies, and organized labor. I try to get my students to see and hear those relationships."

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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 LeeAnthony 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

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