| 2026 | Winner | Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture | Carolyn Dean | University of Texas Press |
| 2026 | Winner | Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream | Beverly Adams, Christophe Cherix | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2025 | Winner | Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies | Dalila Scruggs | University of Chicago Press |
| 2025 | Winner | Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America | Inés Katzenstein, María Del Carmen Carríon,, Madeline Murphy Turner | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2024 | Winner | Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility | Henrike Christiane Lange | Cambridge University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World | Noémie Ndiaye, Lia Markey | ACMRS Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World | Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts,, Sara E. Cole | Getty Publications |
| 2023 | Winner | The Villa Farnesina: Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome | James Grantham Turner | Cambridge University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Cézanne Drawing | Jodi Hauptman, Samantha Friedman | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2022 | Winner | Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna | Babette Bohn | Penn State University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | A History of Arab Graphic Design | Bahia Shehab, Haytham Nawar | The American University in Cairo Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins | Ariane Thomas, Timothy Potts | Getty Publications |
| 2020 | Winner | Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World | Elizabeth Morrison, Larisa Grollemond | Getty Publications |
| 2020 | Winner | Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered | Carmen C. Bambach | Yale University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment | Karl Kusserow, Alan Braddock | Yale University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920 | James Parry | The American University in Cairo Press |
| 2018 | Winner | Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas | Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts,, Kim N. Richter | Getty Publications |
| 2018 | Winner | The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance | Kathryn Blair Moore | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom | Mary Anne Fitzgerald, Philip Marsden | The American University in Cairo Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | William Blake and the Age of Aquarius | Stephen F. Eisenman | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life | Joseph Leo Koerner | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road | Neville Agnew, Marcia Reed, Tevvy Ball | Getty Publications |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Degas: A Strange New Beauty | Jodi Hauptman | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Hubert Robert | Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Yuriko Jackall | National Gallery of Art |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven | Barbara Drake Boehm, Melanie Holcomb | Yale University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise: Humanism, History, and Artistic Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance | Amy R. Bloch | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp | Elena Filipovic | MIT Press |
| 2016 | Winner | Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300 | Suzanne Preston Blier | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World | Jens M. Daehner, Kenneth Lapatin | Getty Publications |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Art and Vision in the Inca Empire: Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca | Adam Herring | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Kongo: Power and Majesty | Alisa LaGamma with contributions by Josiah Blackmore, Christine Giutini, James Green, Ellen G. Howe, Phyllis M. Martin, Adriana Rizzo, John K. Thornton, Kristen Windmuller-Luna | Yale University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence | Gretchen A. Hirshauer, Dennis Geronimus with Virginia Brilliant, David Franklin, Alison Luchs, Serena Padovani, Elizabeth Walmsley | National Gallery of Art |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts | Marc Michael Epstein | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | The Miracle of Analogy, or The History of Photography, Part 1 | Kaja Silverman | Stanford University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | Gauguin: Metamorphoses | Starr Figura, Elizabeth Childs, Hal Foster, Erika Mosier | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2015 | Winner | The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence | Stephen Houston | Yale University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums | Cantor Arts Center | Stanford University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile | Megan R. Luke | University of Chicago Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Image of the Black in Western Art | David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Harvard University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century | Conrad Rudolph | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North | Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene,, Scott Manning Stevens | University of Chicago Press |
| 2013 | Winner | The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200-1400 | Jacqueline E. Jung | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization | Jean-Luc Pilon, Nicholette Prince | University of Toronto Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 | Anne Umland with essays by Stephanie D’Alessandro, Michael Draguet, Claude Goormans,, Josef Helfenstein | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Mexico and American Modernism | Ellen G. Landau | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Winner | Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art | Leah Dickerman | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2012 | Winner | Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City | Daniel Savoy | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism | Catherine Craft | University of Chicago Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line | Marian Bisanz-Prakken | Getty Publications |
| 2008 | Winner | Chinese Calligraphy | Zhongshi Ouyang, Wen C. Fong, et al | Yale University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Daring to Look: Dorthea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field | Anne Whiston Spirn | University of Chicago Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Enchanted Objects, Enchanted Lives: American Women Collectors & the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 | Dianne Sachko Macleod | University of California Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Language of the Muses: Hellenized Roman Sculpture | Miranda Marvin | Getty Publications |
| 2007 | Winner | Dynamic Splendor | Ann Terry, Henry Maguire | Penn State University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne | Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski | Yale University Press |
| 2006 | Winner | Pictures of Nothing | Kirk Varnedoe | Princeton University Press |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | Other Icons | Henry Maguire, Eunice Dauterman-Maguire | Princeton University Press |
| 2005 | Winner | Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites | Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadoulous, Lindsey S. Stewart,, Szegedy-Maszak | Getty Publications |
| 2005 | Honorable mention | Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects | Robert Hobbs | MIT Press |