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Patricia Leighten

Professor Emerita of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Duke University, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

National American Library Association · 2014 The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Millard Meiss Publication Fund

National College Art Association · 2011 Publication subvention for The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Lansdowne Visiting Distinguished Scholar

National English Department, University of Victoria · 2010

Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize

Scholarly Society College Art Association · 1990 for “The White Peril and L'art nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism,” The Art Bulletin

Art History Prize for best book ms.: mention spéciale

Other Comité Internationale des Négociants en oeuvres d’Art (C.I.N.O.A.) · 1988 for Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914