Alex Mann
Former Curator (Prints and Drawings)
Crawford Alexander Mann III was curator of prints and drawings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from April 2017 until October 2021. Mann’s responsibilities included research, exhibitions, and acquisitions related to the museum’s collection of approximately 25,000 prints, drawings, and watercolors dating from the eighteenth century to the present. His research interests included Italian-American artistic exchange on the Grand Tour, artists of the American South, the impact of East Asian watercolor and printmaking traditions on American art, and the evolving visual constructions of masculinity, femininity, and gender. He organized Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano (2021).