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Leo Mazow
Curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art
Affiliate Associate Professor of Art History

Palmer Museum, 3^rd floor
(814) 863-9186
lgm11@psu.edu

Education
Ph.D. in art history (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
M.A. in art history (University of Colorado at Boulder)
B.A. in political science (University of Denver)

Dr. Mazow specializes in American art and cultural history. Since coming to the Palmer Museum in 2002, he has curated and written the catalogues for such exhibitions as Arneson and the Object, John Covert Rediscovered, and Picturing the Banjo. The latter exhibition also traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Boston Athenaeum. Dr. Mazow is the contributing editor of the accompanying volume (Penn State Press, 2005), which was a finalist for the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr Award and The American Musical Instrument Society's Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize. Among the other exhibitions he has curated are George Inness: The 1880s and 1890s, Mary Cassatt, Printmaker, and Specimen: Natural History and American Modernism. Most recently he curated and wrote the catalogue for the focus exhibition, Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways, and he is currently organizing the exhibition Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Painting for 2009-10. His articles on such topics as George Inness, New York Dada, and American art patronage have appeared in such journals as American Art, Winterthur Portfolio, and Railroad Heritage.

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