Books and Catalogues of Exhibitions Curated by Patricia Hills:
Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection. [Co-Curator and co-author with Melissa Renn] Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 2005.
May Stevens. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2005.
Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century. [author and editor] Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Co-author with Teresa A. Carbone. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. In 2000 awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for the most outstanding catalogue published in New York State in 1999.
Stuart Davis. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
John Singer Sargent. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986 [Curator, author of three essays and editor for essays of six other scholars]. In 1987 awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for the most outstanding catalogue published in New York State in 1986.
Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983.
Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s. [author and curator] Boston:Boston University Art Gallery, 1983.[Catalogue of traveling exhibition across USA, including Alaska in 1983-85.]
Raphael Soyer’s New York: People & Places. [author and curator] New York: The Cooper Union, 1983. [Exhibition also traveled to the Boston University Art Gallery.]
May Stevens: Ordinary. Extraordinary. A Summation, 1977-1984. [curator and editor] Boston:Boston University Art Gallery, 1983.
Social Concern in the ’80s: A New England Perspective. [author and curator] Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1983.
Sidney Goodman: Recent Work. [author and curator] Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1981. (Exhibition traveled to the Virginia Art Museum, Richmond.)
Alice Neel: Two Decades of Painting. [author and curator] Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1980.
The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. [Co-curator and co-author with Roberta Tarbell] New York:Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.
Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910. [author and curator] New York:Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.
The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1977. [Published dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1973].
The Painters’ America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910. [author and curator of Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition] New York: Praeger, 1974.
The American Frontier: Images and Myths. [author and curator] New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973. [A smaller version of the exhibition traveled throughout northern Europe under the sponsorship of USIA. Catalogue reprinted by USIA for the European tour.]
Eastman Johnson. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972 [author and curator of Whitney Museumof American Art exhibition]<–>