Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. University of California Press. 2020.
Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the United States, 1850-1900. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. Pub date 2020. Winner of the Bronze Medal for book design from PubWest, 2021.
Film and Modern American Art. The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting. (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies). Routledge. 2019.
The Rockies and The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame and the Romance of the Mountains. [Co-Author with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, with an essay by Patricia Mainardi]. D. Giles Ltd. U.K. 2018
California Mexicana: Missions to Murals 1820-1930. University of California Press. 2017 (Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, and as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.)
Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Seattle, WA: Marquand Press, to appear Fall 2015. [Editor & Author]
Eliza Pratt Greatorex: Becoming a Landscape Painter. [essay by Kathie Manthorne]. Siegel, Nancy [Editor] The Cultured Canvas. New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting. University Press of New England. 2012
Luminist Horizons. The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam. New York: George Braziller, in conjunction with exhibition, National Academy of Design, 2006. Co-author Mark Mitchell.
Early Art Matronage & the American Art Museum, 1870-1900: New York, Chicago & San Francisco. [essay by Katherine Manthorne] Before Peggy Guggenheim. Rosella Momoli-Zorzi [Editor] Marsilio Editori. Venice. 2001.
The Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad. With John Coffey. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
El Barón de Courcy: Ilustraciones de un viaje 1831-1833 (Baron de Courcy: Illustrations from a Voyage) (Spanish Edition) by Pablo Diener and Katherine Manthorne | Jan 1, 2004
“Legible Landscapes: Text and Image in the Expeditionary Art of Frederic Church” [essay by Katherine Manthorne] Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter. American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia. 1999
The Art of Juan Manuel Blanes. Haber, Alicia [Author and editor] Contributors: Assuncao, Octiavio C., Manthorne, Katherine E., and Sullivan, Edward J. Fundacion Bunge y Born. Buenos Aires. In collaboration with the Americas Society. New York. 1994
Tropical Renaissance. North American Artists Exploring Latin America, 1839-1879. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church.[with Fiske, Richard S. and Nielsen, Elizabeth]. Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art. Washington DC. 1985
Exhibition Catalogues & Essays
“Land Icon Nation: Overview,” Picturing the Americas. Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, pp. 18-21.
The Unity of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas. NY: Americas Society, 2014. Nominated for the Alice Award.
“A Woman’s Perspective on the Industrial Sublime,” in The Industrial Sublime: The Hudson River Transformed, 1900-1950. Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013.
Worlds Between: The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot. Catskill, NY: Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2012. Author & guest curator.
“Sweet Destiny: Anglo-American Traveler-Artists in the Caribbean, 1714-1898,” pp. 90-105, in Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012. (This publication accompanied exhibition, El Museo del Barrio)
Hudson River Contemporary. Works on Paper. Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2011. Accompanied exhibition co-organized with James L. McElhinney & Doctoral Students, Grad Center, CUNY.
“Painters, Politics, and Pastries: How New York became a Cultural Crossroads of the Americas, 1848-1899”in Nueva York. NY: New-York Historical Society with Scala Books, 2010.
“Metropolis as Muse,” in Glorious Skies: Herbert Katzman’s New York. NY: Museum of the City of New York, 2010.
Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains. Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2010. Accompanied exhibition of same name at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY. Co-authored with Elizabeth Kornhauser.
Home on the Hudson. Women and Men Painting Landscape, 1825-1875. Garrison, NY: Boscobel House & Garden, 2009. Guest Curator of student-executed exhibition.
“Art School as Contact Zone: Latin American Artists & their Teachers,” Nexus New York: Latin/ American Artists in the Modern Metropolis. NY: El Museo del Barrio, 2009, pp. 46-59.
“John Sloan, Moving Pictures, and Celtic Spirits,” in Seeing the City: John Sloan’s New York. Delaware Art Museum, in conjunction with Yale University Press, 2007.
“Paesaggi tropicali e esotici,” (The Tropical and Exotic Landscape) in America! Storie di pittura dal nuovo mondo (Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, 24 November 2007- 4 May 2008): 187-208. Linea d’Ombra. Treviso. 2008
Explorar el Eden. Paisaje Americano del Siglo XIX. [Essay contributor] Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Madrid. 2001