Kenneth E. Silver

Kenneth E. Silver is Professor of Art History, New York University, where he received his Bachelor’s Degree.

Silver received his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale, and has taught there, as well as at Vassar and Columbia. For his book, Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914-1925 (Princeton University Press and Thames & Hudson, 1989), Silver won the Charles Rufus Morey Award of the College Art Association and the “Prix du Livre,” from Beaux-Arts magazine, Paris, for its French translation, Vers le retour à l’ordre (Editions Flammarion, 1991). Silver has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and an American Council of Learned Societies Grant; he has also been a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar and a Mellon-Getty Fellow at the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.). Silver is a Contributing Editor of Art for America magazine and is the Adjunct Curator of Art at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, Connecticut).