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THE 2006 VSA BOOK AWARDS
Presented at the Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO, May 20th, 2006.

THE HENRY-RUSSELL HITCHCOCK AWARD
Named to honor the noted historian and early president of the Society
for a book on architecture or the decorative arts.

Bruce Davies, VSA President; Christof Mauch (co-editor); Dr. Cynthia Field, head Smithsonian Institution Architectural History and Historic Division; John Simonelli, VSA Executive Vice President

Adolph Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America
Co-edited by Alan Lessoff and Christof Mauch

For its international collaboration as well as its introduction of an important architect to the national canon, this book should serve as a model for future scholarship in the field of architecture in the United States.

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RELATED STORIES
□ Goethe-Institut Washington Newsletter
□ Washington Post article
□ 1892 map of Cluss buildings in Washington DC

Did you know?: Adolph Cluss was the only person to be personal friends of both Ulysses S. Grant and Karl Marx.

THE RUTH EMERY AWARD
Named to honor one of the founders of the Society for a book dealing with a regional topic.

Bruce Davies, VSA President; Anna T. D'Ambrosio (author); John Simonelli, VSA Executive Vice President

A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement
by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio.

With its elegant presentation of a dazzling assemblage of American decorative metalwork, this catalog will doubtless serve as a reference on its topic for years to come.

RELATED STORIES
□ Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute

THE W.E. FISCHELIS AWARD
Named to honor named to honor a member, writer, editor of the newsletter and 19th Century magazine
for a book dealing with 19th century art and artists

Tranda Fischelis presented the W.E. Fischelis Award to Ralph Sessions at the 206 Victorian Society Scholarship Fund Tea held at Forbes Gallery, New York. Also pictured John Simonelli (Exec VP) and Christopher Forbes (right).

The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
By Ralph Sessions

For creating a new standard reference for the uniquely American art of wood-carving and for re-asserting the place of this art in the history of American sculpture.

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RELATED STORIES
□ Princeton University Press