The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Support Grant is awarded annually to a scholar or researcher in the field of 20th Century British painting. The grant is for £2,000 to assist with travel, subsistence and other research costs and will be administered by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Details of the award will be found on the Fellowships and Grants pages of their website at www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk and the closing date for applications will be 15 September each year.

The successful candidate for 2009 was John Curley of Wake Forest University who is continuing his research on ‘The Art that Came in from the Cold: Painting, Photography and Cold War Visuality’.

The 2010 recipient of the Support Grant is Emma Acker, who is researching a comparative analysis of the aerial landscape-based abstractions of Peter Lanyon and Richard Diebenkorn. She is using the scholarship funds to travel to, and conduct research in, Washington DC, London and St Ives.