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WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM of ART Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM of ART WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART Contents 3 From the President 4 Report: the Year in Review 6 The Future of Cities with Hartford in Mind 10 The Landscape of Milton Avery’s Connecticut Years 18 Exhibitions & Acquisitions 32 Program Highlights 50 Governance, Philanthropy & Professional Staff 74 Financials From the President In March 2020, here in Connecticut, we began to witness an almost complete shutdown of businesses of all kinds including the mainstays of our culture, the performing and visual arts institutions. The Wadsworth, too, closed its doors, but we continued to operate and to keep our staff fully engaged. This was only the beginning of quarantining and the ensuing weeks and months of unfathomable uncertainties. On behalf of the entire board, I want to recognize the museum staff, all of whom remained home and worked Cover: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “The Beautyful Ones” Series #9, 2018. Acrylic, colored pencil, charcoal, transfers, and collage on paper. The Douglas Tracy Smith and Dorothy Potter Smith Fund, 2019.29.1. remotely to keep the museum’s momentum moving © Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner. forward. It has been a remarkable feat to witness and I am personally grateful to each and every one of our staff and the dedicated volunteers who may not have been visible but were enormously productive, imaginative, and instrumental to the museum’s eventual reopening over Labor Day weekend. We are all reflecting upon the lessons learned during the shutdown and are focused on a renewal of efforts to fulfill the Wadsworth’s mission and present exhibitions and programs which can offer a meaningful experience for everyone. Connecting more people to art is our goal and meeting the changing interests of the people in the Greater Hartford community and beyond is the challenge we embrace. William R. Peelle, Jr. President, Board of Trustees 2 3 Report: the Year in Review “Best laid plans” is a turn of phrase many have invoked but was on view especially in Savor: A Revolution in Food • Emphasize strategic planning. While volatility, over these past months of crisis and ambiguity, often Culture. To learn that slow food, vegetarianism, and uncertainty, and complexity were buffeting us all, times throwing up their hands in exasperation. Yet farm-to-table were not only markers of our own time the museum would need to summon the energy and it can also be a call to recognize that plans exist not but also themes in 18th century European life was a attention that the long-term future requires of us. only for marking a path forward, but as a catalyst for revelation for many. The more we could see the distant horizon, the better clear thinking about intentions. In reflecting on the informed our immediate and mid-range decision 2019–2020 operating year of the Wadsworth, I find Another exhibition platform blossomed last autumn. The making would be. myself more focused on the latter: what was it we intimate gallery we reclaimed on the second floor of the were trying to accomplish, and how? Inevitably my Avery Memorial for the display of Giorgione’s La Vecchia • Maintain continuity. Whether it was keeping to our thoughts turn to taking measure of how our plans in spring 2019 has proven an ideal spot for fostering regularly scheduled meeting regimen or recognizing helped guide our thinking and doing in completely a series of single object stories around masterpiece the seasonal habits and rhythms of life, we needed unpredictable situations. objects this past year. In rapid succession this series of to stay engaged and productive, in any circumstance. collection icons brought forth an 1890s Charles Worth Most visible in the first half of the past year was our court gown made for Countess Sofie Benckendorff, a • Commit to a full year of recovery. No matter if the work as activator of public conversations through our pair of identical chest-on-chests whose designs by crisis lasted two months (as originally thought) exhibition program. Summer 2019’s featured exhibition, late 18th-century Connecticut furniture joiner Eliphalet or much longer, it was clear that we would need Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall marked Chapin were driven by his understanding of classical a substantial period of time once we reopened to an important anniversary in American society while proportions, and Isamu Noguchi’s experimentations reorient ourselves and listen to our community so recognizing the watershed moment that connected in aluminum—at once Space Age and traditional—that that we can be evermore of service in our work. street photography and the pop aesthetic to the gave birth to his seminal monolith, Sesshu (1958). In Each of these principles has withstood the test of time human rights movement. Our preparations for Be Seen parallel, we were able to host a special presentation of and situation. My most heartfelt thanks to everyone transcended the assembly of important loans as we Rebrandt van Rijn’s Titus in a Monk’s Habit (1660) in our who has worked so hard to keep this museum systematically added to our already rich collection in early Baroque gallery beside the museum’s well-known together and going in the right direction amid truly time for the show. Later in the summer we mounted masterpieces including Caravaggio’s Saint Francis of extraordinary conditions. an installation of renowned Ballets Russes material, Assisi in Ecstasy (c. 1595) and Zurbarán’s Saint Serapion presented Khalil Joseph’s multimedia project BLKNWS (1628). Each of these focused engagements was a fresh Even now, writing at the distance of half-a-year since after it electrified audiences at the 58th Venice Biennale, view on these outstanding accomplishments of human the emergency closure of the offices on March 13th installed a selection of our most distinguished Italian creativity, exceptionally fine and truly innovative objects. (and the museum overall that weekend), many things Old Master drawings, and debuted our homage to the are still unclear, yet we welcome the public anew And then all our routines stopped, abruptly. Lively centennial of the founding of the Bauhaus with works of and address our future planning systematically and galleries filled with the sights and sounds of school art and bespoke furniture from that movement’s leading thoughtfully. There is so much hope and dedication children experiencing the museum fell silent and still, designers. But dwarfing these important projects in both to be found throughout the organization. My greatest a causality of a terrifying global health emergency and its size and ambition was Afrocosmologies: American wish is that we will be able to recognize and do justice its subsequent social, political, and economic crisis. Reflections, a transhistorical exploration of new ideas to the contributions of each one of you who continue about spirituality, identity, and the environment in Early in the COVID-19 pandemic we set four principles to to make this institution an inspiring and transcendent ways that move beyond traditional narratives of Black guide our decision-making as an institution. They were, place for art on Main Street, now and into the future. Christianity. A collaborative effort of the Wadsworth, The Amistad Center, and the Petrucci Family Foundation • Preserve human capital. From the staff to our Thomas J. Loughman, Ph.D. Collection and installed across multiple spaces, this volunteers and supporters, we aimed to keep as Director and CEO impactful exhibition created a dynamic platform for the many members of the Wadsworth community public to engage with not only the 120+ works on view engaged and productive, knowing that the museum but also connect with 17 of the living artists included in would need a functioning core as we returned to the show. A spirit of thinking differently and sparking operation. public interest carried through all our larger projects, 4 5 The Future of Cities with Hartford in Mind Some months ago, iHeart Radio’s Renee DiNino offered the round-table format as a platform to discuss topics of widespread civic concern. Expert voices from urban planning and development joined Wadsworth Director Tom Loughman to talk about the role of pillar institutions in the future of American cities, particularly at this critical moment. Moderator RD: Tom, with the Wadsworth being a historical, planning process to celebrate Hartford’s four hundredth everything that Kim just mentioned. That influx started Renee DiNino legendary landmark here in our capital city, you anniversary, which is in just about 15 years. Through before COVID and I think that’s true of a number of cities iHeart Radio DJ and host of obviously are very invested in the growth of not only the that process, we saw that arts and culture was one of nationwide. Because my work involves the relationship Community Access, a show that city, but the entire region. Let’s get this program started. the biggest drivers, one of the things that people love between the institution of the university and the city in provides all kinds of lifestyle most about Hartford. It’s for that reason, that I have a lot which it resides, the goal is to find mutually beneficial information, health tips, family TL: Thank you, Renee. Throughout history, large cities of optimism that Hartford is going to come back after relationships. In the process, institutions are going to events, and public service have accounted for most of our country’s economic this pandemic much stronger than ever. change and I don’t think they’re going to go back to announcements visibility and vitality, as well as been civic hubs. Cities normal. The idea that cities will rebound and things are the places where innovation happens, where RD: Looking back through history, we see these cycles.
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