Winners of Annual Competition for Museum Publications

The Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design

National Gallery of Art (Washington), The Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné: Volumes One and Two

Annual Reports

First prize: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999 Annual Report

Second prize:

• Monterey Bay Aquarium (Calif.), Monterey Bay Aquarium Annual Review 1998: Year of the Ocean
• Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul), 1998-99 Annual Report: An Evolution in the Art of Science

Books

First prize: The Phillips Collection (Washington), The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making

Second prize:

• The Art Museum, Princeton University (N.J.), Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy
• The MIT Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Mapping Boston

Calendars

First prize: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.), Margaret Bourke-White: Images of the 20th Century

Second prize: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Washington), Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian

Calendars of Events

First prize: San Jose Museum of Art (Calif.), Frameworks, Winter 2000

Second prize: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), Transcience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

CD-ROMs

First prize: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Paths Dreams Take: Japanese Art from the Collections of Mary Griggs Burke and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Second prize: Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), Museum of Science and Industry Annual Report 1998

Educational Resources

First prize: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), WAC Pack: A Family Guide to the Art at the Walker Art Center

Second prize:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 20th-Century Art: A Resource for Educators (tote box, binder with images, background information, source materials, discussion strategies, slides, poster set, video, and CD-ROM)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Scents of Time: Perfume from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century

Exhibition Catalogues

First prize: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Clemente

Second prize: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (Washington), Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century

Fund-Raising and Membership Materials

First prize:

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), “Voyage of the St. Louis” catalogue mailing (commemorative portfolio)
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), “Voyage of the St. Louis” catalogue package for members

Second prize:

• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Program distributed to donors to the museum’s capital campaign
• Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington), “Corridos sin Fronteras”: A New World Ballad Tradition (CD-ROM)

Invitations to Events

First prize: Houston Museum of Natural Science, Invitation to private viewing of “Wildlife Photographer,” “Touching Fire,” and “Now You See It!”

Second prize: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Invitations to “Clemente” exhibition (series of three)

Magazines

First prize: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Guggenheim, Fall 1999

Second prize: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Open: The Magazine of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Winter/Spring 2000

Marketing and Public-Relations Materials

First prize: Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), Museum of International Folk Art Bus Panel Display

Second prize: The Jewish Museum (New York), Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture (series of two advertisements)

Newsletters

First prize: Monterey Bay Aquarium (Calif.), Shorelines, Summer 2000

Posters

First prize: Monterey Bay Aquarium (Calif.), Deep Sea

Second prize: San Jose Museum of Art (Austin, Tex.), Stripes & Stars: A Visual History of an American Icon

Press Kits

First prize: The Field Museum (Chicago), “Sue” Press Kit

Second prize: The Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Lincoln From Life: As the Artists Saw Him,

Scholarly Journals

First prize: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 73, No. 1/2

Second prize: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 34, 1999,

Supplementary Materials

First prize: San Jose Museum of Art (Calif.), Stripes and Stars: A Visual History of an American Icon (exhibition pamphlet)

Second prize: Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York), A Tenement Story: The History of 97 Orchard Street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Annual Reports

First prize: Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing (Louisville, Ky.), Report to the Community

Books

First prize: Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City), Catalogo comentado del acervo del Museo Nacional de Arte: Nueva España Tomo I

Exhibition Catalogues

First prize: Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Catonsville), Adrian Piper: A Retrospective

Second prize: Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver, B.C., Canada), Running Fence: Geoffrey James

Invitations to Events

First prize: The Octagon (Washington), Invitation to opening of “Abandonings West: Photographs by Maxwell MacKenzie”

Second prize: Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts (New York), The Masters Series: Tony Palladino/Content Matters

Posters

First prize: Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts (New York), The Masters Series: Tony Palladino/Content Matters

Scholarly Journals

First prize: Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas (Austin), Center 11: Value 2

Supplementary Materials

First prize: Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts (New York), The Masters Series: Tony Palladino/Content Matters (exhibition brochure)

Second prize: University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington), Modern Fiction and Art: Prints by Contemporary Authors (brochure)