About APW Art Curating

Ann Prentice Wagner, PhD, is the APW of APW Art Curating. Dr. Wagner earned her PhD in art history at the University of Maryland at College Park. She wrote her dissertation on early drawings and watercolors by Georgia O’Keeffe. She also has an MA from Boston University and a BA from the George Washington University. Dr. Wagner began as a studio artist, so her work incorporates that understanding of the creative process.

Dr. Wagner has curated exhibitions and collections at the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center (now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts), the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere. Her overlapping specialties include American art, modernism, contemporary art, nineteenth-century art, Dutch Baroque art, and prints and drawings. She has curated major shows and published on American modernists John Marin and Herman Maril, and contemporary artists Susan Schwalb, Robert Patierno, and Alonzo Ford.

Dr. Wagner has undertaken projects for an impressive array of institutions and organizations, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY; Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, AR; R B Fine Art, Little Rock, AR; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the Herman Maril Foundation, Provincetown, MA; the Archives of American Art Journal, Washington, DC; the USS Constitution Museum, Boston, MA; the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; The University of Maryland, College Park, MD; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Towson University, Towson, MD; the Figge Art Museum,  Davenport, IA; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; and the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI.