Named to honor former member, writer/editor of the Society newsletter, and  managing editor of 19th Century magazine, is given occasionally to an outstanding book dealing with 19th century art and artists, in recognition of Mr. Fischelis' great contribution and interest in this field.

2007 Winner-Americans in Paris 1860-1900
by Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg

A model of international collaboration and innovative scholarship, this catalog beautifully illustrates cross-cultural influences at a transformative time in American history and culture.

2006 Winner-The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
by Ralph Sessions

For creating a new standard reference for the uniquely American art of wood-carving and for re-asserting the place of this art in the history of American sculpture.
 

2004 Winner--Whistler, Women, & Fashion
by Margaret F. MacDonald, Susan Grace Galassi & Aileen Ribeiro, with Patricia de Montfort
(Yale University Press)

For a work whose authors have explored the painter's lifelong fascination with the world of fashion and have produced a delightful book with an intelligence and elegance that is a worthy match for its formidable subject.

2003 Winner--J.W. Waterhouse

by Peter Trippi

An intensively researched, gracefully lucid book, which is complemented by a multitude of accurately colored, splendid reproductions of Waterhouse's oeuvre.