Professor, Art History
ottjw@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Dr. John Ott is a Professor of Art History in the School of Art, Design, and Art History. His areas of expertise include art history of the US before 1960 and African-American art history. He is a member of the Association for Critical Race Art History, the Association of Historians of American Art, the American Studies Association, the College Art Association, and the Southeastern College Art Conference.
Affiliation
Publications
Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority (2014, 2016)
"African American Art Beyond the Harlem Renaissance" (2020)
"Art and Economics" (2019)
"Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Private Gain at the Genesis of the American Art Museum" (2018)
