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Mecklenburg, Virginia

Fellowship Advisor

Smithsonian American Art Museum staff

Positions

Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1979 -

Twentieth-century American art: Ashcan art; New Deal and abstract art of the 1930s; art of the 1960s and 1970s.

education and training

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. in English, Education, University of Texas Austin , College of Education, Department of English, Role Playing as a Method of Teaching English to Non-Reading High School Students 1968 - 1970
B.A. in English, History, University of Texas Austin 1966 - 1968

selected publications

article
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2015. "Jesus Moroles (1950-2015)." American Art (3): 136. 2015
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2014. "Commentaries on the Artworks [artist entries for Asco (pg. 98-101); Roberto Chavez (pg. 140-143), Emanuel Martinez (pg. 216-219); Amelia Mesa-Bains (pg. 238-241) and Jesus Moroles (pg. 258-261)." in Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, edited by Ramos, E. Carmen., Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, London. 2014
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2013. "Multiple Modernisms." in The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, edited by Colby College Museum of Art., 274-304. Colby College Museum of Art. 2013
book
- Jacob, John P., Augustin, Laura, Mince, Stacy, and Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2016. Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2016
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M., Lemmey, Karen, Moser, Joann G., and Ramos, E. Carmen. 2015. Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection. Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with D. Giles Ltd. 2015
- Truettner, William H., Mecklenburg, Virginia M., Harvey, Eleanor Jones, and Broun, Elizabeth. 2015. Nineteen American Masterworks from the Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Collection. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2015
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M., Powell, Richard J., Broun, Elizabeth, and Cleary, Mary J. 2012. [Exhibition catalog] African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. Rizzoli. 2012
- O'Neil, Dennis, Mecklenburg, Virginia M., and Wolk, Douglas. 2011. Star Wars Art: Comics. Abrams. 2011
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. and McCarthy, Todd. 2010. [Exhibition catalog] Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Abrams, in association with Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2010
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. and Farrell, Tiffany D. 2008. [Exhibition catalog] Modern Masters: American Abstraction at Midcentury from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with D. Giles, Ltd. 2008
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M., Garrett, Wendell, and Weekley, Carolyn. 2007. Earl Cunningham's America. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2007
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Moser, Joann G., Mecklenburg, Virginia M., Gurney, George, and Speer, George. 2007. Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections. D. Giles Limited. 2007
chapter
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2013. "Slouching Toward Modernism : American Art at the Armory Show." in The Armory Show at 100 : modernism and revolution, edited by Kushner, Marilyn Satin, Orcutt, Kimberly, and Blake, Casey Nelson., Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2013
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2009. "Edward Hopper: House with Big Pine." in Art at Colby: celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, edited by Newland, J., 218. Colby College Museum of Art. 2009
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. 2008. "Foreword." in Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism, edited by Eliasoph, Philip., 13-16. Hudson Hills Press. 2008