Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A specialist in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century American art, notably landscape painting, her most recent exhibition, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture (2020), considered how deeply entwined the heralded naturalist’s ideas were with America’s emerging identity, grounded in an appreciation of nature. Previously, Harvey organized the critically acclaimed The Civil War and American Art (2012). She served as chief curator from 2003 to 2012, and spearheaded the museum’s reinstallation in 2006 following its renovation. From 1992 to 2002, Harvey was curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she organized several exhibitions, including The Voyage of The Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece (2002), Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place (2001), and The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830–1880 (1998). She began her career at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as an Assistant Curator (1989-91). Harvey holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia (1983), and earned both a master’s degree (1985) and doctorate in the history of art (1998) from Yale University.