The Schulman and Bullard Article Prize
The Association of Print Scholars invites applications for the tenth Schulman and Bullard Article Prize. The Prize is given annually to an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on fine art prints or printmaking. The award, which carries a $2,000 prize, is generously sponsored by Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard. Following the mission of the Association of Print Scholars, articles can feature aspects of printmaking across any geographic region and all chronological periods. Articles will be evaluated by a panel of advanced scholars on the author’s commitment to the use of original research and the article’s overall contribution to the field of print scholarship.
The Association of Print Scholars invites nominations and self-nominations for the 2025 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize meeting the criteria outlined below:
Nomination Criteria:
– Authors must have graduated with an MA, MFA, or PhD fewer than 10 years prior to article publication and have less than 10 years of experience as a practicing professional in an academic or museum institution or as an independent scholar. Eligibility can be extended for reasons such as parental leave, illness, caring duties, or other circumstances leading to time spent outside the field. If you have questions about your eligibility, please contact the APS Grants Committee (grants@printscholars.org).
– Authors must be current members of APS.
– Articles must have been published in a journal, exhibition catalogue, or anthology between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Online publications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
– Articles must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and references.
– Entries for consideration must be in English, though the text of the original article may be in any language.
To submit an article for consideration, please send the completed nomination form along with an electronic copy of the article to the APS Grants Committee (grants@printscholars.org) by January 31, 2025.
Winners of the Schulman and Bullard Article Prize
2024 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Shaun Midanik, “Picture Bound: Customized Books of Prints and the Myth of the Ideal Series,” in Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700, edited by Walter Melion and Christopher Fletcher (Leiden: Brill, 2024).
2023 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Natalia Lauricella, “The Master Printer’s Labor: Crafting the Color Art Lithograph in Fin-de-Siècle France,” Nouvelles de l’estampe (no. 267).
Honorable Mention:
Maureen Warren, “What Wonders, What News! Political Prints in the Dutch Republic,” in Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, ed. Maureen Warren (Champaign, IL: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022).
2022 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Anastasia Belyaeva, “A Limited Run: How the Scarcity of Drypoint Facilitated the Unprecedented Rise in its Practice in the 19th Century,” in Histoire de l’art, no 88, 2021/2.
Honorable Mention:
Talitha Maria G. Schepers, “Art and Diplomacy: Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s 1533 Journey to Constantinople,” in Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630, ed. Tracey A. Sowerby and Christopher Markiewicz (Routledge 2021).
2021 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Tatiana Reinoza, “War at Home: Conceptual Iconoclasm in American Printmaking.” In ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, ed. E. Carmen Ramos. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 105-127.
Honorable Mention:
Mechella Yezernitskaya, “Civilians Seeing the War: Olga Rozanova’s and Aleksei Kruchenykh’s 1916 War.” In Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, ed. Sally Debra Charnow (Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, 2020), 155-182.
2020 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Elizabeth Savage, “Identifying Hans Baldung Grien’s Colour Printer, c. 1511-12.” In The Burlington Magazine, volume 161 (October 2019): 830-839.
Honorable Mention:
Tomasz Grusiecki, “Michal Boym, the Sum Xu, and the Reappearing Image.” In Journal of Early Modern History, volume 23, issue 2-3 (May 2019): 296-324.
Erin Sullivan Maynes, “Making Money: Notgelt and the Material Experience of Inflation in Weimar Germany.” In Art History, volume 42, no. 4 (September 2019): 678-701.
2019 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Shira Brisman, “A Matter of Choice: Printed Design Proposals and the Nature of Selection, 1470-1610.” In Renaissance Quarterly, volume 71 (2018) pp. 114-64.
Honorable Mention:
Lorenzo Gigante, “The Madonna del Sangue: A Miraculous Print in Bagno di Romagna.” In Print Quarterly, volume XXXV, no. 4 (2018).
2018 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Rebecca Capua, “Japonisme and Japanese Works on Paper: Cross-cultural and hybrid materials.” In Adapt and Evolve: East Asian Materials and Techniques in Western Conservation, proceedings from the International Conference of the Icon Book & Paper Group, London 8-10 April 2015.
Honorable Mentions:
Paris Amanda Spies-Gans, “A Princely Education through Print: Stefano della Bella’s 1644 Jeux de Cartes Etched for Louis XIV.” Getty Research Journal, no. 9 (2017): 1-22.
Sileas Wood, “Moving Pictures: Nineteenth-Century British Mechanical Prints” Print Quarterly 34, no. 2 (June 2017): 162-176.
2017 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Jonas Beyer, “Pictures in Flux: Degas’s monotypes and some notes on their relation to other media.” In Perspectives on Degas, ed. Kathryn Brown (London: Routledge, 2016): 164-176.
Honorable Mentions:
Shira Brisman, “Relay and Delay: Dürer’s Triumphal Chariots in the Era of the Post.” Art History volume 39, no. 3. (June 2016): 437-465.
2016 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Joyce Zelen, “The Venetian Print Album of Johann Georg I Zobel von Giebelstadt.” Rijksmuseum Bulletin volume 63, no. 4 (2015): 3-25.
Honorable Mentions:
Jamie Gabbarelli, “Phillippe Thomassin and Giulio Mancini’s Art Collection.” Print Quarterly volume 32, no. 4 (2015): 379-394.
2015 Prize (press release)
Winner:
Morgan Ng, “Milton’s Maps.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry volume 29, no. 4 (2013*): 428-442.
* The 29th volume of Word & Image has an official publication year of 2013, although this issue was released in March 2014 both online and in print.
Honorable Mentions:
Marisa Anne Bass, “Hieronymous Bosch and His Legacy as ‘Inventor.” In Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print. St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2015: 8-29.
Alexandra Onuf, “Old Plates, New Impressions: Local Landscape Prints in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp.” Art Bulletin volume 96, no. 4 (Dec. 2014): 424-440.