Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
Annette Stott, chief curatorial advisor for theDutch Utopiaproject, is a professor of art history and the director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver, Colorado. She is the author ofPioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old WestandHolland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture, on which the exhibitionDutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914is based. She has written extensively about the connections between Dutch and American art of the nineteenth century, and she coeditedGoing Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609-2009. Holly Koons McCullough, organizing curator ofDutch Utopia, is the chief curator of fine arts and exhibitions at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. She specializes in nineteenth- and early–twentieth-century American art. She spearheaded the publication of the Telfair’s first catalog of the collection and has published articles and exhibition catalogs on artists ranging from Frederick Carl Frieseke to Savannah’s Christopher A. D. Murphy.