This document lists the publications and exhibitions of an individual. They have authored and edited numerous books on topics related to art history and the Civil War. They have also curated many exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and written over 100 poems and reviews that have been published in various journals.

1. Publications
Books
Call Waiting. Poems (Carcanet [Manchester, England], 2014).
Face Value. Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction (Giles Press, 2014). Coauthor
with Brandon Brame Fortune and Wendy Wick Reaves.
Internal Difference. Poems (Lintott/Carcanet [Manchester, England], 2011).
Hide/Seek. Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (Random House for the Smithsonian
Institution, 2010). Coauthored with Jonathan D. Katz.
“Stonewall Book Award,” American Library Association, 2012; ALICE “People’s
Choice Award,” 2012; SI Secretary’s Research Award, “Exhibition Catalog,” 2012.
Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic (University of California Press,
2004).
Edited Books
Lines in Long Array. A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs (Smithsonian
Institution Press, forthcoming 2013). Coauthor with Frank Goodyear.
The Atlantic Presents the Civil War: A Special Commemorative Issue (2011). With Frank
Goodyear and the editorial staff of The Atlantic Monthly.
The Peale Family Papers. Volume 5: Charles Willson Peale's Autobiography (Yale University
Press, 2000). Coauthor with Sidney Hart.
The Peale Family Papers. Volume 4: The Last Years of Charles Willson Peale, 1820-1827 (Yale
University Press, 1996). Coauthor with Lillian B. Miller, Sidney Hart and Leslie
Reinhardt.
The Peale Family Papers. Volume 3: The Belfield Farm Years, l8l0-l820 (Yale University Press,
l991). Coauthor with Lillian B. Miller and Sidney Hart.
New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991). Coauthor
with Lillian B. Miller.
The Peale Family Papers. Volume 2: The Artist as Museum Keeper, l79l-1810, parts l and 2
(Yale University Press, l988). Coauthor with Lillian B. Miller and Sidney Hart.
Exhibitions
“The Face of Battle. Americans at War, 9/11-Now.” National Portrait Gallery, forthcoming,
2017.
“’The Sweat of Their Face:’ Portraying the American Worker,” [forthcoming, National Portrait
Gallery, after 2015]
“Dark Fields of the Republic. Alexander Gardner’s Photographs, 1859-72,” National
Portrait Gallery September 17, 2015 – March 12, 2016.
“One Life: Grant and Lee, National Portrait Gallery, July 2014- April 2015.
“Face Value. Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction,” National Portrait Gallery, February 2014-
January 2015.
“Poetic Likeness. Modern American Poets,” National Portrait Gallery, October 2012-April 2013.

2. “Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,” National Portrait Gallery, August
2011-October 2012.
“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” National Portrait Gallery,
November 2010-February 2011. And at the Brooklyn Museum, November 2011-
February 2012 and The Tacoma Art Museum, March-June, 2012.
“Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally,” Association of International
Art Critics, 2011.
“The Mask of Lincoln,” National Portrait Gallery, November 2008-July 2009.
“The National Portrait Gallery,” Commissioned a poem by Robert Pinsky, and published
as a limited edition fine art broadside, June 2007 in commemoration of NPG’s
reopening.
“Walt Whitman: a kosmos,”National Portrait Gallery, July 2006-March 2007. Exhibition
concluded with a symposium (Jan. 26, 2007) whose papers were published in
PNR. Poetry Nation Review 176 (July-August 2007).
“American Origins, 1825-1850: “Cultural Identity, Territorial Identity, and Moral Identity,”
National Portrait Gallery, Permanent Collection, 2006—
“The American Century, 1948-Present,” National Portrait Gallery, Permanent Collection, 2006 –
“American Rooms,”U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian Institution, June 2002-March
2003.
“The Spirit of America,” The National Museum of American History, June 2001-March 2002.
“The Peale Family. The Creation of an American Legacy,” 1770-1870, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
November 1996-November 1997.
“Charles Willson Peale and His World,”National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, October 1982 - January 1983.
Articles
“’And the War Came. . .’: Rupture and Contradiction in Mid-Nineteenth Century Visual Culture,
1852-1867,” National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Spring 2016.
“Cephas Thompson’s Portraits of the DeWolfe Family,” forthcoming catalogue, Layton Art
Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Essays on “Frederick Douglass,” “The War Begins,” “Antietam,” “Fort Hell,” and “Robert E.
Lee,” The Civil War at the Smithsonian: 150 Objects (forthcoming Fall 2013).
“George Bellows’ Riverfront, No. 1: The Pestilential City and the Problem of Masculinity,”
Presented to The Bellows Symposium, The National Gallery of Art, October 5, 2012.
“Charles Willson Peale’s Washington at the Battle of Princeton,” Record of the Princeton
University Art Museum 70 (2011).
“’Vaulting Ambition:’ Poetry, Photography and Lincoln’s Self-Fashioning,” PNR. Poetry Nation
Review, 188 (July-August 2009).
“Something Like Nothing: Larkin Again,” The Sewanee Review 114 (October-December
2006).
“The Green Man: Walt Whitman and the Civil War,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 169 (May-
June 2006).
“‘Thou bringest tally:’ Marsden Hartley’s Eight Bells Folly. Memorial to Hart Crane,”

3. PNR. Poetry Nation Review 158 (July-August 2004).
"An Artist's Self-Fashioning: The Forging of Charles Willson Peale," Word & Image 15 (April-
June 1999).
“John Wesley Jarvis," American National Biography (New York, 1999).
"Jacob Eichholtz," American National Biography (New York, 1999).
“Burin and Brush: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry and Painting," PNR. Poetry Nation Review 122
(July-August 1998).
"'Morgenland': The Poetry of Robert Morgan," North Carolina Literary Review 6 (Summer
1997).
"'Love Again': Larkin and Obscenity," The Sewanee Review 105 (Spring 1997).
"Democratic Culture: The Peale Museums, 1780-1845," in The Peale Family.The Creation of
a Legacy, 1770-1870 (exhibition catalogue; New York, 1996).
"Subversion and Illusion in the Life and Art of Raphaelle Peale, 1790-1825," American Art 8
(Summer/Fall 1994). Coauthor with Sidney Hart.
"Celebration of Self: The Portraiture of Charles Willson Peale and Rembrandt Peale, 1823-27,"
American Art 7 (Winter 1993).
"Charles Willson Peale's Farm Belfield: Enlightened Agriculture in the Early Republic," in
Miller and Ward, eds., New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale.
"Poor Sports: Hemingway, Jake Barnes and the Sporting Life in The Sun Also Rises," Aethlon:
The Journal of Sport Literature 6 (1989). And subsequent debate/forum in Aethlon 9 1-2
(1991-1992) and Aethlon 10 (1993).
"The Waning of an Enlightenment Ideal: Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum, l790-
1820," Journal of the Early Republic 8 (Winter l988). Coauthor with Sidney Hart.
"Industrial Workers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South: Family and Labor at the Graniteville
(SC) Textile Mill, l845-80," Labor History 28 (Summer l987).
Essays
“The Thing Itself: Letter from The White House,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 207 (September-
October, 2012).
“Labyrinths of the Mind: Elizabeth Huey as History Painter,” in Elizabeth Huey.
Invisible Affect (exhibition catalog, contemporary Art Center of Virginia, 2010).
“Moving Targets: Art and Culture in the 1950s,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 195 (September-
October 2010).
“Picturing Walt Whitman,” Archives of American Art Journal 46 (2006 [2007]).
“The Real Thing: The Fiction of Realism,” The Sewanee Review 114 (Winter 2006).
“Making Men: Masculinity and Abstract Expressionism,” Archives of American Art Journal
113 (Winter 2005 [2006]).
“Ghost Worlds of the Ordinary: Gerhard Richter and W.G. Sebald,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review
152 (July-August 2003).
“Three Literary Lives,” The Sewanee Review (Winter 2001-2002).
“Seamus Heaney: The Body of Ireland,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 140 (July-August 2001).
“Anne Carson: Addressing the Wound,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 139 (May-June 2001).
“Holding the Line,” The Sewanee Review 109 (Winter 2001).
“The Creative Destruction of Manhattan,” Archives of American Art Journal 40 (2000 [2001]).
“His Name Here: John Ashbery,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 137 (January-February 2001).

4. “Dam and River: Two Ways to Art in the 1950s,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 129 (September-
October, 1999).
“A Certain Slant. Of Light. Eavan Boland’s The Lost Land,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 125
(January-February 1999).
“Synergasm,” PNR. Poetry Nation Review 123 (September-October 1998).
"Eavan Boland: Mazing her way to Poetry," The Sewanee Review 106 (Spring 1998).
"Lighting out for the Territories: American Expatriates, Paris, and Modernism," The Sewanee
Review 105 (Summer 1997).
"Breaking the Closed Embrace: 'Into the nevermore' with Jorie Graham," PNR. Poetry Nation
Review 118 (November-December 1997).
"The Mask of Battle. Charles Wright's Chickamauga," PNR. Poetry Nation Review 110 (July-
August 1996).
"A Black Comedy of Manners. Martin Amis's The Information," The Virginia Quarterly Review
72 (Summer 1996).
"'Guild' Critics and Populism in American Poetry," PNR. Poetry Nation Review 108 (March-
April 1996).
"The New Republic and The New Yorker," The London Quarterly #7 (September-November
1995).
"The Rhetoric of 'Family' in American Politics," The London Quarterly #6 (May 1995).
"Picturing a Nation," Archives of American Art Journal 33 (Winter 1993 [1995]).
"American Iconology," Archives of American Art Journal 33 (Summer 1993 [1994]).
Poetry
Two book length collections and over 100 individual poems published in: PNR. Poetry Nation
Review, Talking River Review, Still, Aethlon, Modern Haiku, Illuminations, Monocacy Valley
Review, Context South, Plainsongs, Poem, Riverrun, Potomac Review, Frogpond, Connecticut
River Review, South by Southeast, Appalachia, Parnassus Literary Journal, Woodnotes, Fan
Magazine, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, The London Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Wind,
Metropolitain, Foolscap, Kentucky Poetry Review; the most recent of which are
“Mr. Casubon Regrets,” Eyewear October 2012) (online at toddswift.blogspot.com).
“Itch,” [in response to Satomi Shirai’s photograph], Insight Photography 6 (2012).
Art
“Daily Photograph(s)” , selection of my street photography in “Bleak is Beautiful”, 2014 on-line
art exhibition, curated by Terry Ward, ArtSpace 99,
http://artspace99.blogspot.com/2014/02/bleak-is-beautiful-david-c-ward-olya.html.

5. “def: Extreme Rendition,” limited edition (#75) fine art poetry broadside, co-created with artist
Julio Grande, 2010.
“Colossus,” art installation and art book, co-curated with Nekisha Durrett, Hillyer Art Space
(DC), September 2008-09.
Reviews
Over 125 books of American and European social, cultural, art, sports, military, literary and
environmental history; biography; memoirs; novels; and poetry reviewed in: Aethlon. The
Journal of Sport Literature, Appalachia Journal, Archives of American Art Journal, Army,
Boston Book Review, Civil War History, History, Journal of American History, Journal of
Military History, The London Quarterly, Maryland Historical Magazine, The New England
Quarterly, New-York History, The New York Times Book Review, Pennsylvania History, The
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, The Philadelphia Inquirer, PN Review,
Profile, Washington History, Winterthur Portfolio.