Wendy Jean Katz is professor of art history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of several books on nineteenth-century New York artists and their reception in the popular press, including A True American: William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century Art and Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City’s Penny Press. She has also written on seventeenth-century Anglo-American portraits, African American art, world fairs, regionalism, and Walt Whitman.