Jann Haynes Gilmore , PhD is an art historian, writer, and watercolorist. She directed the Museums Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books and numerous articles, as well as independent curator of exhibitions of forgotten American women artists. Gilmore is also collector of art by American women artists 1850 to 1950. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, but spends extensive time each year in Maine and Santa Fe.