America's Cool Modernism

Katherine M. Bourguignon is Curator at Terra Foundation for American Art, based in Paris. She focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth-century art of the United States and transatlantic artistic relationships. She has organised exhibitions in partnership with museums in the United States and Europe and contributed to their catalogues, including William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master (2016) and Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915 (2007). Lauren Kroiz is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She specialises in modern art of the United States and is the author of Creative Composites: Race, Modernism, and the Stieglitz Circle (2012) and Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era (2018). Currently, she is the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Freie Universität (2017–18). Leo G. Mazow is the Louise B. and J.Harwood Cochrane Curator and Head of the Department of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 2016. He specialises in American art and cultural history and has worked as a curator and professor. Exhibitions he organised at the Palmer Museum of Art include Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art (2010) and Picturing the Banjo (2005). He is the author of Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound (2012). Julie Boulage is Curatorial Associate at the Terra Foundation for American Art. She studied art history at the École du Louvre before specialising in Native American Art at the Sorbonne University, Paris where she earned a Master's degree. She also holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from HEC, Paris. She currently works on exhibition projects related to the Terra Foundation collection.