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Sue Rainey is an esteemed scholar who has focused her research and writing on artists who prepared book and magazine illustrations during the latter half of the nineteenth century, especially John Douglas Woodward and Harry Fenn. Her book, Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape (Applewood Books, 1994 and 2001), was the first study of that landmark 1872–1874 publication and won the 1997 Charles C. Eldredge Prize of the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian) for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. In 1997, she and Roger B. Stein curated an exhibit of Woodward's work at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, whose catalog, Shaping the Landscape Image, 1865–1910; John Douglas Woodward (Bayly Art Museum/University of Virginia, 1997) won the Award for an Outstanding Publication of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, as did her Creating a World on Paper: Harry Fenn's Career in Art (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). For more than thirty years, Rainey has served as the volunteer curator of the Woodward collection owned by Shrine Mont, an Episcopal conference center in Orkney Springs, Virginia.
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