{{More footnotes|date=May 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Short description|American art professor, historian (born 1963)}} {{about|the art historian|the movie character|The Sum of All Fears (film)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Alexander Nemerov | birth_date = | birth_place = Bennington, Vermont, US | occupation = Art historian | parents = Howard Nemerov (father) | relatives = Frank Russek (great-grandfather)<br>Diane Arbus (aunt)<br>Amy Arbus (cousin)<br>Doon Arbus (cousin) | alma_mater = Yale University | thesis_title = Past Knowing: Frederick Remington’s Old West | thesis_url = https://openpublishing.psu.edu/ahd/content/past-knowing-frederick-remingtons-old-west | thesis_year = 1992 | doctoral_advisor = Jules Prown | discipline = Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art | workplaces = Stanford University<br>Yale University }}
'''Alexander Nemerov''' is an American art historian. He is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. He specializes in American art dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alexander Nemerov {{!}} Department of Art & Art History |url=https://art.stanford.edu/people/alexander-nemerov |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=art.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== Nemerov received his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Vermont in 1985. He graduated cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then continued on to Yale University, where he received two degrees in art history: a master's in 1987 and a PhD in 1992. Nemerov wrote a dissertation on Frederic Remington, under the supervision of Jules Prown.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Past Knowing: Frederick Remington's Old West |url=https://openpublishing.psu.edu/ahd/content/past-knowing-frederick-remingtons-old-west |website=Penn State Libraries Open Publishing|date=1992 |last1=Nemerov |first1=Alexander }}</ref>
After receiving his doctorate, Nemerov began his teaching career at Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Art History. He was promoted to full Professor in 2000, and a year later, moved to his alma mater Yale to become the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art. In 2012, Nemerov transferred back to become the Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nemerov Confirms Move to Stanford |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/02/29/nemerov-confirms-move-to-stanford/ |last=Zorthian |first=Julia |date=February 29, 2012 |work=Yale Daily News |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref>
Throughout his career, Nemerov has focused primarily on the study of American art dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a variety of media. He has published on artists such as Wilson Bentley, Helen Frankenthaler, Lewis Hine, Jasper Johns, Deana Lawson, Raphaelle Peale, John Quidor, Clifford Ross, and Remington (the subject of his doctoral dissertation).<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Nemerov |url=https://art.stanford.edu/people/alexander-nemerov |work=Stanford University |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> Additionally, he has worked to organize exhibitions on artists such as William Rush at the Wistar Institute (2002) and Remington at the Norman Rockwell Museum (2006).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Institution |first=Smithsonian |title=Frederic Remington and the American Civil War : a ghost story / Alexander Nemerov |url=https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_807181 |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref> In 2011, he has organized "To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America" exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America |url=https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/ault |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}</ref>
In 2017, Nemerov gave the annual A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art. His talk was titled "The Forest: America in the 1830s."<ref>{{cite web |title=A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts |url=https://www.nga.gov/research/casva/meetings/mellon-lectures-in-the-fine-arts.html |work=National Gallery of Art |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> The lectures were developed into a book of the same name, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE FOREST: A FABLE OF AMERICA IN THE 1830S |website=Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alexander-nemerov/the-forest-nemerov/ |date=24 October 2022 |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
Nemerov's 2021 biography of painter Helen Frankenthaler, ''Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York'', was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.<ref>{{cite web |last=Beer | first=Tom |title=Finalists for the 2022 NBCC Awards Are Announced |website=Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/finalists-for-the-2022-nbcc-awards-are-announced/ |date=19 January 2022 |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
==Personal life== Nemerov is the son of the poet Howard Nemerov, who was the grandson of the businessman Frank Russek, co-founder of the Russeks store chain.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Nemerov, Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov |url=https://collectordaily.com/alexander-nemerov-silent-dialogues-diane-arbus-howard-nemerov/ |last= Woodward |first= Richard B. |date=April 16, 2015 | work= Collector Daily |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> Howard's sister is the photographer Diane Arbus, who married the actor Allan Arbus. Their children are the photographer Amy Arbus and the writer Doon Arbus.
==Awards== * Smithsonian Institution Material Culture Fellowship, National Museum of American Art (1989-1991) * Stanford University Dean's Award (1998-1999)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nemerov CV|url=https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/viewCV?facultyId=55694&name=Alexander_Nemerov | work= Stanford University |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> * Stanford University Internal Faculty Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-1999) * ''The Stanford Daily'' Top-Ten Professors (2014)<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10: Professors|url=https://stanforddaily.com/2014/01/17/top-ten-professors/ | date=January 17, 2014| work= The Stanford Daily |access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> * National Gallery of Art A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (2017) * Archives of American Art Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History<ref>{{cite web | title=Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art to Honor Artist Howardena Pindell, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Art Historian Alexander Nemerov at 2019 Gala in New York City | website=Archives of American Art|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/news/2019-gala |date=30 September 2019|access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>
==Works== *''Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America'', 1995 {{ISBN|978-0300055665}} *''The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824'', 2001 {{ISBN|978-0520224988}} *''Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures'', 2005 {{ISBN|978-0520241008}} *''Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War,'' 2010 {{ISBN|978-0520251861}} *''To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America,'' 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-300-17239-3}} *''Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s,'' 2012 {{ISBN|978-0691145785}} *''Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov'', 2015 {{ISBN|978-1881337416}} *''Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine'', 2016 {{ISBN|978-0691170176}} *''Ralph Eugene Meatyard, American Mystic,'' 2017 {{ISBN|978-1881337447}} *''Summoning Pearl Harbor'', 2017 {{ISBN|978-1941701652}} *''Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York'', 2021 {{ISBN|978-0525560180}} *''The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s'', 2023 {{ISBN|978-0691244280}}
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==External links== *[https://art.stanford.edu/people/alexander-nemerov Stanford University profile]
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