Eleanor Jones Harvey
Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Career. Eleanor Harvey was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, in Art History. She served as curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-2002. In January 2003, she became the curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and served as the museum's Chief Curator from 2003 until 2012. She is currently  Senior Curator. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century American art, landscape painting, Alexander von Humboldt, Southwestern abstraction, and Texas art. Her most recent exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum were "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture" in 2020-2021, "The Civil War and American Art" in 2012-13, "Variations on America: Masterworks from the American Art Forum Collections" in 2007, and "An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection" in 2006.