Elizabeth B. Johns

Elizabeth Johns died September 12, 2022. Johns was Silfen Term Professor of the History of Art, Emerita, at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of nineteenth-century American painting, Johns wrote Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life (1983), winner of the Mitchell Prize for the most promising first book in the history of art; American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (1991); and Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation (2002), which won the Charles Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian Institution. During her career she held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center.