Colton Klein

Colton Klein studies the visual culture of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries with research interests in materiality and ecocriticism. His recent essay on turpentine and the site-specific landscapes of North Carolina artist Minnie Evans won the Friends of Art Best Paper Award at the 48^th Annual Cleveland Symposium and is forthcoming in the spring 2024 issue of American Art. He previously worked as Curatorial Assistant in Prewar Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he collaborated on exhibitions including Henry Taylor: B Side (2023–24), Edward Hopper’s New York (2022–23), At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism (2022–23), and Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950 (2021–22), and as Project Manager of the Marsden Hartley catalogue raisonné. Colton is a Whitney Humanities Center Fellow in the Environmental Humanities at Yale and a graduate of Columbia University’s MA program in Art History.