Ann Lee Morgan is a member of the Princeton Research Forum, an independent scholars’ association in Princeton, New Jersey, where she lives. Previously, she taught for 10 years at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and more briefly at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and elsewhere. She also worked for some years as an editor of art books and periodicals. Her master’s thesis at Florida State University investigated the content of abstract expressionism. She earned her PhD in art history at the University of Iowa with a dissertation on the American modernist painter Arthur Dove. Since then, she has specialized particularly in American art of the early twentieth century but has also ranged more broadly over the visual arts from the American colonial period to the present.
She is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (2007; online rev. ed., 2017) and Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue Raisonné (1984). She also prepared Dear Stieglitz, Dear Dove (1988), an annotated edition of the correspondence between Alfred Stieglitz and Arthur Dove. She served as editor of Contemporary Designers (1984) and the International Contemporary Arts Directory (1985) and co-edited Contemporary Architects (2nd ed., 1987). In addition, she has published essays in books as well as numerous periodical articles and reviews.