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Phillip Earenfight, PhD 1999, won the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association for the catalogue he edited in conjunction with his exhibition entitled, A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion. Dr. Earenfight was a student of Sarah McHam and is currently the Director of the Trout Gallery at Dickinson College where he is also Associate Professor of Art History.

Kiowa’s Odyssey reconstructs a sketchbook of drawings that chronicle the experiences of seventy-two Southern Plains Indians who were exiled during the Plains Wars and imprisoned for three years (1875-1878) at Fort Marion, Florida. The sketchbook was illustrated by Etahdleuh Doanmoe, one of the Kiowa warriors held captive at the fort, and illustrates his capture, trek to Florida, and experiences there. A Kiowa’s Odyssey reunites the now-scattered pages of the original sketchbook and reconstructs their history and context. The exhibition tour retraced the historic events represented in the sketchbook with venues in the Southern Plains and the Florida coast. Published by the University of Washington Press (Seattle, 2007), the catalogue included contributions by Phillip Earenfight, along with Janet Berlo, Brad Lookingbill and George Miles.

The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship was established in 1980, in honor of the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art and a scholar of early twentieth-century painting. This award is presented to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published under the auspices of a museum, library or collection. Beginning with the 2009 award year, a second Barr award will be presented to the author(s) of catalogues from institutions whose operating budgets are below $10 million—the category of Kiowa’s Odyssey . All of us in the art history department warmly congratulate Phillip Earenfight.

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