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Multiple Modernities in American Art.” for Which Orgeman Was the Lead Author, Institute of Arts, Vol Registration Philadelphia Museum of Art. Morton Livingston Schamberg, Presenters Initiatives Registration confirmations are sent via e-mail. in Art and Culture current project is “Charles White: A Retrospective” Fordham University Graduate School of To register on-line: (opening June 8, 2018), the first major retro- Business, Schoelkopf is a past member of the www.modernities.eventbrite.com spective of this important African-American artist board of directors of the Private Art Dealers Painting VIII (Mechanical Abstraction), Painting in several decades. She received her PhD in Association of America and sits on the Art Multiple Modernities By e-mail: Fill in the registration form and send to: American Art from Columbia University and her Show Committee of the Art Dealers Association [email protected]. BA in History from Yale University. of America. The gallery is a member of both in American Art By mail: Return form at least 10 days before the Keely Orgeman, The Alice and Allan Kaplan the Private Art Dealers Association of America conference start date with a check or money order Associate Curator, Department of American and the Art Dealers Association of America. payable to Initiatives in Art and Culture or complete 23RD ANNUAL AMERICAN ART CONFERENCE the credit card information on the form, and mail to Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Nancy Rivard Shaw, Curator Emerita of Initiatives in Art and Culture, 333 East 57th Street, Suite Gallery. She received her PhD from Boston American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and 13B, New York, NY 10022 University (BU) in 2014, writing her disser- 1916. Oil on canvas, 30 Oil on canvas, 1916. an independent scholar specializing in late 19th- FRIDAY – SATURDAY, MAY 18 – 19, 2018 By phone: Using American Express®, Visa® Card, tation on representations of radioactivity in and early 20th-century American art. Among the Discover®, or MasterCard®, call (646) 485-1952. postwar American art. At BU, she received a major exhibitions Shaw has contributed to are: Presidential Fellowship and a Jan and Warren “John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age” Fee: The conference fee is $350 with single-day registration options available. Educators and museum Adelson Fellowship in American Art, organized (1979), “The Quest for Unity: American Art professionals rate $160 (with ID). Student rate $100 1 � the exhibition “Atomic Afterimage: Cold War 8 Between World’s Fairs” (1983), and “American Art (with ID). To receive a discounted rate, you must provide x 20 Imagery in Contemporary Art” (2008) at the from the Manoogian Collection” (1989). She proof of status. ¼ in. BU Art Gallery, and authored the accom- co-organized “From the Hudson River School to Logan Maxwell Hagege, The Rain Falls, The Sun Shines, 2018. Oil on linen, 32 x 43 in. Gerald Peters Gallery, Withdrawal and refunds: Notice of withdrawal must be panying catalogue. Since coming to Yale in Impressionism: American Art from the New York, NY. made in writing to: Initiatives in Art and Culture, 333 fall 2008, she has contributed entries and Manoogian Collection” (1997) and prepared the East 57th Street, Suite 13B, New York, NY 10022 or to the Conference location: This conference will take place at Jessica Todd Smith, Susan Gray Detweiler she completed her doctoral dissertation Nature articles to several museum publications scholarly catalogue that accompanied it. She has Program Office via e-mail at [email protected]. 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Recent was the Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of Library & Museum, and The New-York Historical Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light,” at the publications include contributions to Calm in the Single-day registration options available; please send inquiries to: American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Society and has taught courses on American art Yale Art Gallery and the Smithsonian American Shadow of the Palmetto & Magnolia: Southern – 1919. ca. 1917 [email protected] or call (646) 485-1952. Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, at Baruch College and Seton Hall University. Art Museum in Washington, DC. The Art from the Charleston Renaissance Gallery California. During her tenure at The Huntington, exhibition’s accompanying scholarly catalogue, (2003), American Paintings in the Detroit Karen Wilkin, a New York-based curator and Smith worked on three major expansions of the Please register me for “Multiple Modernities in American Art.” for which Orgeman was the lead author, Institute of Arts, vol. III (2005), and Spot: critic specializing in 20th-century Modernism. American galleries, in addition to exhibitions, Abstraction, The conference fee is $350 with single-day registration options available. featured a foreword by the contemporary light Southern Works on Paper (2008). She is the author of monographs on Stuart publications, and collection development. She Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Please send inquiries to: [email protected] or call (646) 485-1952. artist James Turrell. Suzanne Smeaton, independent frame in Art and Culture earned a BA summa cum laude from Harvard Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Isaac Witkin, Andrew Schoelkopf, co-founder and partner, historian and consultant, Suzanne Smeaton, Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Educators and museum professionals rate $160 (with ID). Student rate $100 University and a PhD from Yale University. Giorgio Morandi, Georges Braque, and Hans Menconi + Schoelkopf. Schoelkopf literally LLC. A certified member of the Appraiser’s Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (with ID). Paul Staiti, Alumnae Foundation Professor of Hofmann, and has organized exhibitions and John Storrs, 16 x 13 4½ in. Stone with black enamel inlay, Vilcek Foundation. —The Oxbow, 1836. Oil on canvas, 51½ x 76 in. grew up in an American painting gallery; his Association of America, Smeaton has been The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gift studying American frames and framing works Fine Arts at Mount Holyoke. He is the author of lectured on the work of these artists inter- of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908 (08.228). Image © The father, Robert Schoelkopf, opened an art nitiatives in Art and Culture I Suite 13B 333 East 57th Street, 10022 New York New York, books and essays on John Singleton Copley, Initiatives gallery on Madison Avenue in 1958 and ran of art for over 35 years. She was formerly nationally. She was a contributing editor, with Metropolitan Museum of Art. Name _________________________________________________________________________ Gilbert Stuart, Samuel F. B. Morse, William the business—which Andrew joined in 1989— Director, Eli Wilner & Co., and through her work William C. Agee, of Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Michael Harnett, and Winslow Homer. He has Address ________________________________________________________________________ until his passing in 1991. After the closing of at that gallery, curated many exhibitions Raisonné (Yale University Press, 2007) and the dedicated to American frames, consulted for lectured at the Louvre and The Metropolitan Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings City _______________________________________________State _______ Zip _____________ the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Schoelkopf joined Christie’s auction house as a specialist numerous private and public collections, and Museum of Art and has been awarded fellowships (Lund Humphries, 2014). Contributing Editor for Affiliation ______________________________________________________________________ in American paintings and became director of framed artworks for many institutions including from the National Endowment for the Art, the Hudson Review and a regular The White House, The Metropolitan Museum of Humanities on three occasions. His last book, Of contributor to The New Criterion and The Wall Day-time phone _________________________________________________________________________ the American Paintings Department in 1995. He subsequently held a number of senior Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Arms and Artists, is concerned with the ways in Street Journal, Wilkin teaches in the New York E-mail address __________________________________________________________________________ positions with Christie’s including director of Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is a which Stuart, Copley, West, Trumbull and Peale Studio School’s MFA program. Recent projects frequent lecturer on the topic of frames and business development for North and South responded, both as citizens and painters, to the include “American Vanguards: John Graham, American frame history and author of related America; in his final position with the firm, he American Revolution; the book will be published Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning articles and essays in The Gilded Edge: The Art served as president of Christie’s Internet by Bloomsbury in October
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