Greenough, Sarah 1951-

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GREENOUGH, Sarah 1951-

PERSONAL: Born May 25, 1951, in Boston, MA; daughter of Malcolm (an author) and Sarah (Browne) Greenough; married Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. (an art historian and curator) June 17, 1978; children: Sophia Greenough. Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1972; University of New Mexico, M.A., 1976, Ph.D., 1984.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Graphic Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 20565.


CAREER: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, researcher in department of prints and photographs, summers, 1976-77; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, instructor in history of photography, 1977; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, guest curator, 1979-84, guest scholar at Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, 1984-86, research curator, 1987—. Instructor at University of New Mexico, 1980.


AWARDS, HONORS: Fellowship from National Gallery of Art, 1978-79; award from Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1983; American Book Award, 1983, for Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings.


WRITINGS:

(With Juan Hamilton) Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings, National Gallery of Art/Callaway Editions (Washington, DC), 1983.

(With Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton) Georgia O'Keefe: Art and Letters, National Gallery of Art/Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1987.

(With David Travis, Joel Snyder, and Colin Westerbeck) On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 1989.

Paul Strand: An American Vision, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 1990.

Walker Evans Subways and Streets, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 1991.

(With Philip Brookman) Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 1994.

Harry Callahan, Bulfinch Press (Boston, MA), 1996.

Alfred Stieglitz, Photographs and Writings, Bulfinch Press (Boston, MA), 1999.

Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 2000.

(With Alfred Stieglitz and Richard Whelan) Stieglitz on Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes, Aperture Foundation (New York, NY), 2000.


Contributor to Essays in Honor of Beaumont Newhall, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1986. Contributor to magazines and newspapers.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, November 1, 1994, Donna Seaman, review of Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 470; July, 1996, Gretchen Garner, review of Harry Callahan, p. 1793.

Insight on the News, July 15, 2002, p. 36.

Library Journal, May 15, 2001, Eric Linderman, review of Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, p. 118.

New York Review of Books, August 12, 1999, John Updike, review of Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings, p. 19.

New York Times Book Review, December 3, 1989, Andy Grundberg, review of On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, p. 20; December 4, 1994, Andy Grundberg, review of Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 40.

Print, September-October, 1995, Marek Bartelik, review of Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 114.*