er Volume 5, Number 4 December 1980
annual meeting official opening announcements
In the past, annual meetings have pretty much drifted into being. A few people milled about Art Journal: Call for Contributions the registration area. Then more people milled about the registration area. Long-lost friends As stated in the spring 1980 issue of the Art spotted long-lost friends and then searched about for an empty bench or barstool where they Journal, the Editorial Board welcomes sug could talk about old times. The opening minutes of the opening sessions were spent in looking gestions from the membership both for topics for former professors, looking for former students, or looking for former colleagues (a difficult and for guest editors of thematic issues. Pro feat with the slide projectors going), all of whom were invariably seated at the opposite end of posed topics should focus on critical and the room. aesthetic issues in the visual arts of our time. In order to provide a more congenial means mon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Wallace At present, the Editorial Board is attempt for people to get together, and also, quite J. Tomasini, University of Iowa. ing to organize issues on the following topics: frankly - in order to involve more CAA mem NOMINATING COMMIITEE. Those nominated Edward Hopper; Constructivism; The Edu bers in the Annual Members Meeting, at to serve on the 1981 Nominating Committee cation of the Artist; Futurism; Auto-Portrait, which the official business of the Association (which selects those Directors who will be or AutO-Image; and Earthworks: Past and is conducted - the San Francisco Annual elected in 1982) are: Benny Andrews, Present_ Mee6ng will open, if not with a Big Bang, at N.Y.C., Chair; George Bunker, University Articles on these topics are invited for con least with an Official Opening. of Houston; Beatrice Farwell, University of sideration of the guest editors. They should be The official opening will take place at 1 :00 California, Santa Barbara; Henry Millon, sent, along with xeroxes of the illustrative P.M. on Thursday afternoon, February 26, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, material, to Managing Editor, Art Journal, an hour before the start of CAA program ses National Gallery of Art; and Linda Nochlin, College Art Association, 16 East 52nd Street, sions. It will be held in Continental Parlor #3 Graduate Center, G.U.N.Y. N.Y.C. 10022. Those wishing immediate (Ballroom Floor) of the San Francisco Hilton. Procedures for placing additional can confirmation that their articles have bee,! Harried travellers who have not had time to didates in nomination are described in the received should enclose a stamped, self· stop for lunch are invited to bring their brown Notice of Meeting, which will be mailed addressed postcard. bags; coffee will be served. Highlights of the separately. For those who will be unable to coming program as well as the Association's attend the Annual Members Meeting, proxies C.I.N.O.A. Art History Award activities over the past year will be reviewed. will be included with the Notice of Meeting. A $5,000 publication subvention is offered by III Continued on p. 2, col. 1 Elections
Everyone will no doubt be delighted to learn that this year no increases in dues are pro posed. The major item on the agenda of the 2S·year index to The Art Bulletin Annual Members M~eting is elections. OFFICERS. The Board of Directors proposes The second twenty-five year Index to The discussed in the text and footnotes. The the following to serve as officers for 1981: Art Bulletin, covering Volumes XXI-LV Tables of Contents of Volumes XXXI -LV are President: Joshua C. Taylor, National (1949-1973), has now been completed. It was reprinted in a special section at the end of the Museum of American Art (formerly National compiled by Janice L. Hurd, and it continues Index, in order to enable the user to find,the Collection of Fine Arts); Vice-President: and is based upon the Index" compiled by dates of articles and reviews and to place the Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York Univer Rosalie B. Green for Volumes I-XXX. subject entries in a textual context. sity; Secretary: John R. Martin, Princeton The present Index was made possible by a Physically, the Index in comprised of 249 University. grant from the Research Tools Program of pages plus 28 pages for the Tables of Contents BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Candidates to serve as the National Endowment for the Humanities. section and some additional prefatory mate Directors are nominated by the Nominating The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute rial. Size specifications conform to those of Committee, which is guided by returns on the generously provided office space and research The Art Bullett'n. It is printed on a high quali preferential ballot. This year 1339 ballots facilities during the first two and a half years ty "free sheet'.' that does not contain ground were received, representing votes by 20 per of the project. The keyboarding and com wood, thus assuring a relatively long shelf life. cent of the membership. The slate reported puter processing of the Index was carried out It is bound in blue cloth and stamped in gold. by the Nominating Committee for election to at the Modern Language Association of The price of the Index is $45.00 if prepaid; the Board of Directors in 1981 (to serve until America. $50.00 if billing is required. Price includes 1985) is: Pamela Askew, Vassar College; The Index contains entries for authors of postage and handling charges. A descriptive Frederick J. Cummings, Detroit Institute articles, reviews, books reviewed, and letters brochure and order form are being prepared of Arts; Wolf Kahn, Hunter College, to the editor and for persons, places. build and will be mailed shortly to all institutional C.U.N.Y.; Howardena Pindell, S.U.N.Y., ings and other structures, terms, works of art, and individual CAA members. II Stony Brook; Angelica Rudenstine, Solo- _nannscripts, iconography, and other subjects lannouncements lannouncements coming soon ... 1982 annua~ meeting
Registry of Roving Researchers Paris Fine Arts Scholarship In New York City (at the New York Hilton), the intcrnational confederation of art dealers Application deadline for most fellowships beginning in fall 1981 is 9 January; for One of our pet projects. The CAA maintains The Edward Maverick Fund offers a full and our quadrennial "biggie." The dates for fOf a thesis of university levd or of comparable a simple, non-computerized. non-interfering scholarship plus round trip economy fare sessions are February 25 through February importance on the history of the art of ont' of fellowships in the conservation of paintings "mating service" for those able to do on-site New York/ Paris for an American student to 27, which should no longer come as such a big the member nations (there are thirteen of (a two-year appointment), the application research abroad and those needing such attend the two· month session of The Fan· surprise to everyone. them. of which the U.S. is one). For further deadline is 2 February. res('arch don('. We serve solely as an informa tainebleau School of Fine Arts in July and Those wishing to propose topics for sessions information: Gerald G. Sticbcl, 32 East 57 tion exchange and take no responsibility for August, 1981. All courses are offered in should submit them to the appropriate chair Strcet, N,Y,C. 10022. International Studio/ Housing Exchange fees, expenses. and the vagaries of various English or with complete translation pro man by March 31, 1981. Proposals should be The International Visual Artists Exchange postal systems. Thos(' wishing to register as vided. Many American institutions grant aca submitted in the form of a brief description Program lists studios/living situations here researchers should write to the CAA office for demic credit for Fontainebleau courses. For (ca. 100 words), to which additional material and abroad available on a swap basis and pro· NEH Summer Seminars for the application form; the f('e is $3.00. Those application forms and further information: may be appended. It is useful to include a cur vides additional sf'rvices such as putting art College Teachers wishing r('search done should simply write to Mrs. John Crawford, Fontainebleau School riculum vitae, preferred mailing address, ists in touch with galleries, alternate spaces, The purpose of this program is to provide op the CAA office; ther(' is no charge. We cur Association, 47 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. 10003. and both office and home telephone num cultural activities, and other artists. Registra portunities for faculty at undergraduate and rently have regist('red researchC'fs in Vienna. (212) 691·2869. Application deadline: 28 bers, tion fee is $15.00. For applications: Deborah two-year colleges to work with distinguished Brussels, London, Paris. Florence. Rome. February. Art history sessions will be chaired by A. Gardner, IVAfP, ~01 Va rick Street, Suite scholars in their fields at institutions with Munich, ami Zurich. Richard Turner, director of the N. Y.U, In Ellen Lanyon, Studio Chair 100A. N.V.C. 10014. (212) 929~6688. library collections suitable for advanced Mellon fellowship at Penn stitute of Fine arts. Turner was formerly pro dean of faculty of Middlebury College in Ver research. Seminars last eight weeks; each has For 1981 82, the University of Pennsylvania ~essor of art and president of Grinnell College mont, His area of specialization is the late twelve participants; participants receive a sti i~ offering Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships 10 Iowa and before that professor of art and New Fulbright Research Awards Out-of-Print Survey for.~cholarswho, bySept. 30,1981, will have Italian Renaissance, but he has taught ad pend 0£$2,500. For detailed information and Approximately twenty new Fulbright re Another pet projf'('t, somewhat languishing application forms, write to the director of the held the Ph.D. for from three to eight years. vanced courses in a wide variety of subjects, search grants are being offered in 1981 82, at presf'nt. On tWO separate occasions the Art seminar at the address given below (same as Research proposals in all areas of humanistic ranging from Ancient art to Modern paint ten each in Islamic Civilization and African Historians Committee has attempted to ing. (Address proposals to IFA, 1 East 78 seminar location). Application deadline for survf'y the profession to determine what im studies are invited; ~peci
I people and programs Ipeople and programs
IN MEMORIAM Herbert Paul Weissberger, "Herbie" -- as he Mary Beth Heston, received a grant from the Also from Georgia comes the announcement was called by his countless friends and former American Institute of Indian Studies, that John Robert Beauchamp has been students-died on the week-end of June 14 in 1980 - 81, to work The Royal Chera Murals, named the Lamar Dodd Professor of Art at Washington at the age of 88. The son of a Stylistic Analysis. the University of Georgia. Beauchamp (Cran naturalized Americans who had returned to brook and Hans Hoffman School) has had Europe, Weissberger spent his young adult Dartmouth College announces the recent ap thirty-three solo shows. Since 1968 he has hood in Madrid, where he became a well pointment of two new members to its art been a visiting artist at ten colleges and uni known expert on Spanish art. From the late history faculty. Modernist Jim M. Jordan versities and was also a staff member at The 1930s until 1962, he taught at the Institute of (Ph.D., N. Y .U.) joins the faculty as associate Cooper Union. Fine Arts at New York University as well as in professor and will assume the art department chainnanship in July. He has recently com the undergraduate department of fine arts. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has pleted monographs on Gorky, Klee, and the When he had to retire for reasons of age, he awarded Princeton University a $500,000 revised history of Cubism. Jordan comes to became curator at the Chrysler Museum in challenge grant in support of the Index of Dartmouth from N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Norfolk, Va., and subsequently director of Christian Art, a monumental research and Arts, where he taught for six years. Ren the Anderson House Museum in Washington, classification project the goal of which is the aissance scholar Barbara Buhler Walsh retiring from the latter position in 1972. His collection, annotation, and systematic ar former students and colleagues at New York (Ph.D.s, Univ. California, Riverside, and rangement of all known examples of Chris Univ. Indiana) joins Dartmouth as an assist University will long remember him for his en tian art created in the centuries prior to 1400 ant professor. Walsh served, 1978-·~80, as a cyclopedic knowledge, his gifts as a teacher, A.D. The Index was begun in 1917 by a small and his qualities as a human being. Mellon Assistant Professor of the Arts and group of dedicated volunteers led by Charles Humanities at Vanderbilt University and was H.W. Janson Rufus Morey and was supported for a number formerly a National Gallery Chester Dale Rosann S. Berry, Executive Secretary of the of years by an endowment created in the Society of Architectural Historians, died in Fellow. 1920s and 1930s. Inflation and what-have Gan Harrison Roman, Vassar College William Wilson, University of Arizona TEACHING AND RESEARCH Photo: George Rose Philadelphia on 10 October. She had been you necessitated the search for additional Executive Secretary of SAH for twenty-five Gail Harrison Roman (Ph.D. Columbia, ex Three one-year appointments ]:lave been We deliberated for some time about where funding. The Mellon Foundation gift years and, as SAH President David Gebhard pected January 1981) has joined the faculty an'nounced at the University of Arizona: to put this announcement. Teaching and challenges Princeton to raise an equivalent wrote: "Much of the growth of the Society at Vassar College, where she is teaching Marian Winsryg, painter from Berkeley, Research? Museums? New Programs and amount from other donors. from [884 to 4,225] must certainly be credited twentieth-century art. Our own devotion to and Jackson Boelts, a free-lance designer/ Facilities? The Samuel H. Kress Foundation to her devotion and to her admirable ad Gail is immense, since for several years she led illustrator from Tucson, as assistant pro has been involved in all the above, and the Joseph Hoffman (Ph.D., Unlv. Wisconsin) ministration. " the cadre of graduate students who nobly fessors and Donald Reese, chair of the most direct point of involvement has been the has been named chainnan of the department compile the listing of dissertations for pub department of art at Sunnyside High School The bonds between CAA and SAH are Foundation's Executive Vice President, of art history at the University of Haifa. Hoff lication. Her CAA publication credits are in Tucson, as a lecturer in art education. special: for many years we held OUf annual Mary M. Davis. Miss Davis, who has served man has taught at Dickinson College and the now somewhat more lofty, if no less difficult: Besides the one year appointments, there is an meeting jointly, and even though the size of the Kress Foundation for more than thirty University of Tel-Aviv and has held curatorial she will be guest editor for an issue of the active program of visiting faculty. Ecological the separate organizations makes that impos years and as chief operating officer for fif positions at the Judah Magnes Museum in Art devoted to Constructivism. this light artist James Turrell is teaching a new, sible now, there is still close cooperation in teen, will remain at her post for another year, Berkeley and at the Israel Museum in Journal Note: is not a recruiting drive for people to compile intensive course in During many areas of mutual concern. To that but her retirement has been announced effec Jerusalem. Light and Space. the dissertations listing. the spring semester, Linda Benglis will teach relationship Rosann brought not only her im tive 1 January 1982. She will be succeeded by a six-week intensive course in a variety of mense knowledge and pragmatic skills, but Marilyn Perry (M.A., Univ. North Caro Eunice Lipton is visiting modernist at the Barry Rosenman has joined the faculty of mediums, including video. William Larson, also tact, kindness, and a sense of humor that lina; Ph.D., Univ. London), herself a fonner State University of New York at Binghamton, Centre College of Kentucky as assistant pro editor of the photograph periodical Quiver could make even the dreariest task fun. The recipient of Kress Foundation art history 1980-81. She is participating in the reshap fessor of art history. A former teaching and on leave from the Tyler School of An, is CAA Board of Directors, at its meeting on 1 fellowships, who has lived for some years in ing of their graduate art history program, associate at the University of Minnesota, teaching color photography, and William November, unanimously adopted the follow· Italy. which lays particular emphasis on theory, where. he earned his masters degree in Wilson, art critic of the ing statement: criticism, and the social history of art. Los Angeles Times, museology and completed the coursework for has been appointed visiting scholar and will From Ohio State University comes a grab-bag "On behalf of the members of the College his Ph.D. in art history, Rosenman was also a lecture on The Visual Arts: 1950-1980. Art Association, we wish to express our sorrow of newsworthy items. John Hallam is pres Putnam Dana McMillian and Samuel H. at the death of Rosann S. Berry, Executive ently replacing Walter Liedtke, who is on a Kress F cHow. Mellon fellowship at the Metropolitan Muse Secretary of the Society of Architectural His um of Art. Ginger Tuttle (Ph.D., O.S.U.) Jim M. Jordan, Dartmouth College torians, and our deep sense of gratitude for all David Shapiro has been appointed artist-in The fourth annual Contemporary VisualArt has accepted a position on the educational that she did to promote the interests of the residence for the Spring semester of 1981 at ists Series at State University College in Platts staff of the National Gallery of Art. David Emory University'S Thomas W. Lyman discipline and the mutual relationship be the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. burgh, New York will include lectures by art Stark Ph.D., O.S.U.) and Deborah Rindge received an NEH senior fellowship for 1980 tween our two Societies." Under the terms of the grant, his second ist David Sharpe, ceramics historian Garth (M.A., O.S.U.) have accepted positions re -81 to work on a monographic study of the Fulbright award, he will spend the period be Clark, and gallery director Kendall Taylor. To that I want to add just one personal spectively at the University of Minnesota at major Romanesque church of St. Sernin in tween the first of February and the end of Presenting lectures and exhibitions are note. My own introduction to Rosann oc Morris and the University of Alabama at Toulouse, France. In his absence, William June at the University. He has also elected ear William Childress, drawings; Joan Semmel, curred shortly after I had come to the CAA, Binningham. Susan and John Huntington MacDonald, Smith College, will be visiting ly retirement from Hofstra University, where paintings; and Alice Aycock, sculpture and when the two of us went to Los Angeles received a grant from the American Institute professor during the winter quarter 1981. he was professor of fine arts at New College drawings. Partially supported by a NEA together to check out hotels for the 1977 joint of Indian Studies and the Ohio State Universi The two new curators at the High Museum of for many years. Special Exhibits grant will be the Usable Art meeting. At one point, after we had trudged ty for the summer of 1980 for a photographic Art in Atlanta, Eric Zafran (European) and exhibit. Art critic John Perreault has through what seemed like endless miles of documentation of wall painting in Ladakh. Peter Morrin (Modern), will be adjunct Peter Selz, professor of art history at the developed the concept for the show, acted as meeting rooms, corridors, and the fancier In addition, Susan Huntington has received a faculty at Emory, each offering one course University of California, Berkeley, was chief curator. and written the catalog essay. Co guest rooms that hotel sales directors always grant from the NEH as project director for during the 1980-81 academic year. Bill organizer and chairman of the Exhibition curatorS and co-directors are Judith K. Van exhibit on such occasions, Rosann suddenly 1980 --- 82 for the American Committee of Brown, instructor of the photography work Committee for German Realism oj The Wagner, Rick Salzman and Edward slipped off her shoes and plopped down on a South Asian Art Microfiche Archive on the shop, received a grant from the Committee Twenties: The Artist as Social Critic. The ex BroheI. Van Wagner is coordinating the pro bed. I thought she was simply tired, but no art of eastern India. Doctoral candidate for the Humanities in Georgia to prepare a hibition opened at the Minneapolis Institute ject, which will open in Plattsburgh in March . ifhermembers, and our members, were Claudette Mainzer received a Fulbright series of television programs on A rt since of Arts and can be seen at the Museum of 1981 and travel to the Queens Museum, going to he sleeping on these beds, she wanted Hays award in France ]980-8] to study The 1960. Faculty members Clark Poling, John Contemporary Art in Chicago through 17 S.U.N.Y. Potsdam, and the Danforth to make damned certain they were comfort Early Influence on Gustave Courbet in the Howett, and Jontyle Robinson also partici January. Selz also contributed the main essay, Museum. able. R.R.W. Franche Comte. Another doctoral student. pated in the series. Eunice Lipton, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton "The Artist as Social Critic," to the catalog. COlltinued 01/ fJ. 8, ("of.
6 CAA newsletter December 1980 7 {people and programs {people and programs
Daniel Robbins, an authority on modern MUSEUM PEOPLE vard) is a specialist in late nineteenth-century trar. She holds a B.A. in English literature curator of contemporary art. Rodriguez, who Stephen E. Ostrow, currently dean of fine French art, particularly Cubism, has been ap French painting and in contemporary art. He from New York University. Carol O'Biso is is expected to join the Museum in January, is arts and professor of art history at the Univer pointed May I.e. Baker Professor of the Arts It was a bolt from the Beaubourg when the has previously taught at Boston University, the new registrar. Before coming to the AFA currently the assistant museum director at the sity of Southern California, has been named at Union College, Schenectady. He will also trustees of the new Museum of Contemporary Brandeis, the UniversityofRhode Island, and I in 1978 as associate registrar, she served as Met. Born in Havana, Rodriguez did his executive director of the Portland Art Asso serve as chair of the department. A former Art in Los Angeles announced that Pontus the University of Nebraska at Omaha and has assistant to the registrar at the American undergraduate work and earned his master's ciation, effective February 1981. The PAA director of the Fogg Art Museum(1971-74), Hulten had agreed to be the Museum's first held a curatorial position at M.LT. Tom Craft Museum. She holds a B.A. in fine arts degree at Yale, where he is presently a doc includes the Portland Art Museum, the Robbins(Ph.D., N.Y .U.) has been Clark Pro director. Hulten, director of the Centre Na Lingeman has joined the School of Design from Montclair State College. toral candidate. Baro, a well-known critic Museum Art School, and the Northwest Film fessor at Williams College, research professor tional d'Art Contemporain Georges Pom faculty as a sculpture instructor. Lingeman and a former director of the Corcoran Gallery Study Center. at Dartmouth College, and visiting professor pidou in Paris ("Beaubourg" for short) since received his B.S. from Ball State University David Wilton Steadman is the new director of Art in Washington, has organized more at Brown, Yale and Dartmouth. 1973, was leaving a certain if controversial and his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois Uni of the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. Stead than 150 exhibitions for museums in America At the Ringling Museums in Sarasota, Fla., thing to run a museum that as yet has no versity at Carbondale. man (Ph.D., Princeton) comes to Virginia and Europe. Michael Auping has been named curator of building, no collection, and no program. from the Galleries of Claremont Colleges, twentieth-century art. Since 1977 he has What it uoes have is $24 million of the $30 where he served as director since 1974. Before Edmund P. Pillsbury, director of the Yale served as associate curator of the Berkeley Edward Bryant has been appointed pro million it needs to get started, the support of that he was associate director of the Princeton Center for British Art from 1976 to 1980, University Art Museum, where he organized fessor of art and director of the Art Museum, practically every artist in the area, and, since Art Museum, a lecturer at the Frick Collec became director of the Kimbell Art Museum exhibitions on the work of such artists as Ree University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He this past summer, Richard Koshaleck as tion, and research curator for the Norton in Fort Worth effective 1 December. He suc Morton, James Lee Byars, Joseph Cornell, succeeds Van Deren Coke, who became deputy director and chief curator. When he Simon Museum. ceeds the late Richard F. Brown. Pillsbury, and Milton Avery. curator of the photography department of the was director of the Moderna Museet (his who did his undergraduate work at Yale and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. position prior to the Beaubourg), Hulten Two appointments have been announced at his graduate work at the Courtauld, returned Back at Berkeley, Connie Lewallen has been Bryant leaves Colgate University, where he introduced Stockholmians to the colorful the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of to Yale as lecturer in 1972. From 1975 to 1976 named the new associate curator of the was professor of fine arts and director of the "Nanas" of Niki de Saint-Phalle. Koshaleck, Design. Laura C. Luckey has been named he was assistant director of the Yale Art MATRIX program, a showcase for works by Picker Art Gallery. during his four years as director of the Hud assistant director and curator of early Ameri Gallery. A specialist in sixteenth"century contemporary artists. Lewallen previously son River Museum in Yonkers, convinced can painting and sculpture and Ronnie L. Italian painting, Pillsbury prepared the ex operated her own gallery in Los Angeles and countless Manhattanites that there is life Peggy A. Loar, formerly assistant director for Zakon is curator of education. Luckey hibition catalog with annotated translation of helped set up the Foundation for Art Re north of 57th Street with such projects as get programs and policy for the Institute of (M.A., Boston Univ.) comes to RISDfrom the BeJIori's biography of the artist for The sources, Inc., which supports installations, ting Red Grooms to design the Museum's Museum Services, Department of Education, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where she was Graphic Art oj Federic Barocci: Selected video, and performances. store. It sounds like life will be lively in L.A.! became the new director of the Smithsonian assistant curator in the department of paint Drawings and Prints. A different side of his Institution Traveling Exhibition Service ings from 1977 to 1980. She had previously interests is reflected by his introduction to the NEW PROGRAMS & FACILITIES (SITES) effective 2 September. Prior to her been a curatorial assistant (1971-77) and an catalog David Hackney: Travels with Pen, A new two-year graduate program in the At a neighboring institution, three new ap position with IMS (1977 - 80), Loar served as assistant (1964 -71) in that department. Pencil and Ink. In one respect Pillsbury history of design will begin next fall at the pointments have been announced. Scott J. assistant director of the Indianapolis Museum Ronnie Zakon comes from the Cleveland should feel right at home in his new position. University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Schaefer has been appointed curator of Euro of Art (1976-78) and curator of education Museum, where she served as assistant Both the Kimbell and the British Art Center Architecture, and Art. Foster L. Wygant, pean painting, William R. Leisher has been (1971-76) of the same museum. She holds a curator of education from 1975 to 1980. She were designed by Louis Kahn. director of DAA's School of History and named head of the Conservation Laboratory, masters degree in art history, with specializa earned her master's degree from Yale with a Education for Art and Design and project and William Lillys has been named head of tion in French and Northern Renaissance art, specialization in nineteenth-century Ameri director for the innovative program, says its the Education Department at the Los Angeles from the University of Cincinnati. can art. goal is to prepare "historians of design." County Museum of Art. Lloyd C. Engelbrecht (Ph.D., Univ. Schaefer (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr) previously Daniel Robbins, Union College Robert A. Mayer has been named director of Chicago), who joined the school's department served as assistant curator in the department The American Federation of Arts, which also Photo: Martin Benjamin the International Museum of Photography at of art history this past September as assistant of European painting at the Boston Museum circulates exhibitions (in addition to many George Eastman House. In making the an professor of the history of design, heads the of Fine Arts (1978-80) and as assistant other activities), has announced several staff nouncement, Robert A, Taub, Chairman of new program and will be its principal instruc curator of the Fogg Art Museum (1976-78). additions and promotions. Sandra Gilbert, the Board of Trustees said, "Mr. Mayer's ap tor. The curriculum leads to a master's degree NAME CHANGES His primary field of scholarship is late former director of advertising and develop pointment represents another major step in art history. For additional information: sixteenth- and seven teeth-century Italian ment of The Art Quarterly, has been named taken by the Museum this year in response to Foster L. Wygant, Dir., School of History and On 13 October 1980 President Carter signed a painting. coordinator of publicity. She holds an M.A. the Wallis Committee's long-range plan and Education for Art and Design, Mail Drop bill passed by Congress changing to the Na William Leisher had been assistant con from the Institute of Fine Arts. Lynn Thom recommendations of the Museum's Visiting tional Museum of American Art the desig 135, UC, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221. (513) servator of paintings at the National Gallery men has been named coordinator of develop Committee." Mayer was formerly executive nation of an institution formerly known as the 475-4143. of Art in Washington since 1974. Prior to his ment and membership. Before coming to director of the New York State Council on the National Collection of Fine Arts and more studies in painting conservation at the In AFA, she served as development intern at the Arts. Prior to that he served as assistant direc Yale University has received a bequest of frequently called simply NCFA. Our guess is termuseum Conservation Laboratory in Whitney and as administrative aide at Guild tor of the New York Community Trust and as nearly 200 works of modern artists conser that the new nomenclature will not be ab Oberlin, he received a B.F.A. in painting and Hall of East Hampton. She holds an M.B.A. a program director of the Ford Foundation. vatively valued at $4 million plus $2 million breviated (try it, it's a tongue-twister), but printmaking and an M.A. in medieval in arts administration from S.U.N.Y. at for maintenance and new acquisitions from that Washington cab drivers just may not so literature from Michigan State University. Binghamton. Sam H. McElfresh has been Roger S. Wieck has been appointed assistant Connecticut collector Katharine Ordway. readily confuse it with another institution on William Lillys first joined LACMA in June named film program specialist. He comes curator of printing and graphic arts at Har The collection, called by director Alan She the Mall. More important: the new name re of 1979 as an educational consultant and from the International Museum of Photogra vard University's Houghton Library. Last stack "one of the finest private collections of flects the concentration on the serious study, special assistant to the director to conduct a phy at George Eastman House, where he year he was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in modern art in the state," will be housed in the collecting, and exhibiting of American art study of the Museum's education program. prepared film exhibitions and chaired fllm the Medieval department at the Metropoli new Katharine Ordway Gallery on the second that has characterized our friend since it was Lillys studied art education and illustration seminars at the University of Rochester. He tan; the year before a Belgian American floor of the Yale University Art Gallery. installed in the Old Patent Office Building in design at Pratt Institute and received an M.A. holds an M.A. in Radio-TV-Film from San Educational Foundation fellow in Brussels; Under terms agreed upon by Miss Ordway 1968. in Islamic art from Columbia University. Francisco State University and is a Ph.D. can and before that an assistant in the depart and the Gallery, all artworks in the collection Long involved with museum education, he didate in Cinema Studies at New York Uni ment of Medieval and Renaissance manu Edmund P. Pillsbury, Kimbell Art Museum will be kept for ten years, after which the was dean of the department of public educa versity. Merrill Mason has been named scripts of The Pierpont Morgan Library for Gallery is free to sell any but the fifty most tion at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for associate registrar. Before joining the AFA two years. He is a doctoral candidate at the Joyce Hill Stoner has been named associate significant pieces and use the income for ad Members of the fonner Akron Art Institute in ten years prior to his appointment in Los staff as assistant registrar in May 1980, she Institute of Fine Arts. director of the joint University of Delaware! ditions to the newly designated Katharine Ohio have voted to change the name of that Angeles. served as assistant registrar at the Gug Winterthur Museum conservation program. Ordway Collection. As new acquisitions are institution to the Akron Art Museum in genheim. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Two appointments to the staff of the Carnegie She will continue to serve as paintings conser made, works from the original bequest will order "to more accurately reflect the Marc S. Gerstein has joined the School of Yale. Amy McEwen, former associate direc Institute Museum of Art were recently an vator at the museum, a post she has held since gradually be integrated into the Art Gallery's museum's current policies, development, and Design of the Toledo Museum of Art as coor tor of China House Gallery!China Institute nounced: Oswaldo Rodriguez y Roque as 1976. Her diploma in conservation comes other holdings. expansion." dinator of art history. Gerstein (Ph.D., Har- in America, has been named assistant regis- curator of fine arts and Gene Baro as adjunct from the Institute of Fine Arts. Continued on p. 10, col. 1
8 CAA newsletter December 1980 9 directory of affiliated societies NOTES FROM THE WOMEN'S shows by artist members Jo Hanson. Millbrae Art and Wine CAUCUS FOR ART Festival, Calif., August 30-31. Art action and exhibition/city litter problems. Helen Published annually on the basis of information provided by the societies. The societies listed The activities of several local and regional A listing oj solo exhibitions by artists who are Diane Burko. Stefanotti, N.Y.C., Novem Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cuper below have met specifi'c standards for purpose, structure, range of activities, and membership WCA Chapters have centered around various members ojthe CAA. Listings should include ber 5-22. Recent drawings. tino, Calif., September 30-0ctober 31. enrollment required JOT formal affilia#on. fall conferences. The Mid-America CAA name oj artist, gallery or musuem, city, dates Medium: trash. Conference in Houston (23 - 26 October) oj exhibition and medium. Since this service Cora Cohen. Max Hutchinson Gallery, American Committee for South Asian Art A national organization concerned with in included several panels organized by the is available only to CAA members and since N. Y .C. November 18"" December 13. Paint Lila Katzen. Alex Rosenberg Gallery, (ACSAA). founded 1966. Membership: troductory college level art courses in studio Houston Chapter of the WCA and two exhibi we can't possibly check all the exhibition ing and drawings. N.Y.C. September 25-0ctober 28. "Dia 150-175. Annual dues: $10 regular; $5 stu art and art history, F.A.T.E. seeks to promote tions. Heartland, at the C.C. Jung Center, notices we receive, please include a copy oj logues: Recent Wall, Floor and Tabletop your current membershtp card. dent; $15 institutional. President: Susan L. discussion, analysis, focus, and understand Houston, was multi-media exhibition juried Gloria DeFilipps-Brush. University of Sculpture Maquettes for Commissions." Huntington, Dept. History of Art, Ohio State ing to improve and promote excellence in the by Muriel Magenta. Thanks to the directors North Dakota Galleries, Grand Forks, August Univ., 100 Hayes Hall, Columbus, Ohio initial undergraduate learning experiences in of the Center, it will be up for three weeks Cecile Abish. Virginia Commonwealth 28--September 22, Tweed Museum of Art, Tina Selanders Lake. The Goodman 43210. Purpose: To support the advancement art. Local, regional and national meetings instead of the three days of the conference, as University, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Duluth, January 25- February 18. Building, San Francisco, December 3- of knowledge and understanding of the art and workshops concerned with theory and originally planned. A more informal "vacant January 20-- February 8. "Renaissance January 6. "Deaths and Entrances," an in and architecture of South Asia and related curriculum, a newsletter and exchange of lot" show called 12 On Site: Environmental Tours," sculpture. stallation with recent prints. countries and civilizations. Activities include information are among its services. Art was held during the conference in a va Dedree A. Drees. Fine Arts Gallery, preparing outreach materials, annual slide cant block next to a Mobil station; we do not Bruce Bobick. Art Gallery, West Georgia Catonsville Community College, Baltimore, Ellen Lanyon. Odyssia Gallery, N.Y.C. sets (5 sets of 100 slides per year), publication The International Center of Medieval Art, know how long the environmental pieces will CoIl, October 5-24; Chatttahoochee Valley November 19 -- December 12. "Recent Draw October 7 -- November I. Paintings and of Newsletter, microfiche archive, bi-annual founded 1956. Membership: 860. Annual remain unmolested. Art Assoc. Art Center, Lagrange, Ga., ings and Paintings." watercolors. bibliography_ dues: $18 active (U.S., Canada, Mexico); $21 The Southeastern WCA, meeting during November 2 26; Image South Gallery, Atlanta, January lO~--February 6; Western active (all other countries); $15 student (all the Southeastern CAA annual meeting in Bruce Erman. Davidson College Art Ill. Univ. Library, March 3-21; Fielding L. The American Society for Hispanic Art countries); $28 institutional. Secretary: Birmingham (30 October - 1 November) is Gallery, Davidson, N.C., December 1980. Doryce L. Maher. Cudahy Library, Loy Wright Art Center, Delta State Univ., June ola University, Chicago, July. North River Historical Studies (ASHAHS), founded Gloria Gilmore-House, ICMA, The Cloisters, sponsoring an exhibition, Images 1980, and "New York," painting, 1975. Membership: 132. Annual dues: $10 Fort Tryon Park, N.Y.C. 10040. Phone: an additional exhibition with a catalog of 1-- 25. "Images Upon the Sub-conscious," Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, regular; $5 student; $15 institutional. (212) 923-3700 ext 13. Purpose: ICMA is works in all media by Alabama women artists. watercolors. October IO-November 7. Chicago Horti Serene Flax. Scottsdale Center for the cultural Society, Botanic Garden, Main General Secretary: Jose L. Barrio-Garay, dedicated to the study of medieval art and The New York Chapter is planning a sympo Joan Bonagura. Key Gallery, N.Y.C. Arts, Arizona, January 8-- February 1. Gallery, December 5--January 2. Paintings Dept. Visual Arts, Univ. Western Ontario, civilization between 325 A.D. and 1500 A.D. sium, 20 Years beJore the Millennium: The December 6-January 17. "An Exhibit of and drawings. London, Ont. N6A 5B7, Canada. Purpose: lCMA publishes a scholarly journal, Gesta; a Responsibility oj Women in Art, scheduled Small Collages," mixed media box construc The encouragement and advancement of newsletter (including dissertations on medi for Friday, 7 November, at Marymount Man tions. Dorothy Gillespie. Virginia Miller Gal studies and research in the history of the arts eval art); a monograph series, Romanesque hattan College. leries, Miami, November 22-- December 17. Muriel Magenta. Douglass College Agnes Hahn Brodie. The Foundry Gal of Spain and Portugal, promoting inter Sculpture in American Collections; has The Northern California Chapter is mak "Metalworks," small sculpture. Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, lery, Washington, D.C. November 4- 29. change of information and ideas among begun a Census of Gothic Sculpture in North ing plans for the next annual convention in February 11-March 9; Yares Gallery, Scotts "Triangles and Pyramids." The Athenaeum, members through meetings, publications, American Collections; organizes symposia; San Francisco, with several panels and special Judy Graham. Gilman Gallery, Chicago, dale, Ariz., May. Photomurals: "Bride Alexandria, Va., November 23-December and other means it deems appropriate. and supports excavations. events planned for 24 and 25 February. A December 5-31. Drawings. Series." juried exhibition, The Western Edge, will 12. "Maquettes and Large Works, a Five Year Caucus for Marxism and Art, founded 1976. Women's· Caucus for Art, founded 1972. feature the work of NCWCA members (fur Survey. " Richard Hamwi. Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Robin Muller. Ed Perlman, Inc., Wash Membership: 100. Annual dues: $10. Corre Membership: 4,000. Annual dues: $i6 indi ther information is available from the Bill Brody. Lawson-deCelle Gallery, San Washington, D.C., September 12--0ctober ington, D.C., September 15-November 15. sponding Secretary: David Kunzle, Dept. of vidual; $25 institutional. President: S. chapter). Francisco, February 25 March. Prints. 3. "Images on Paper." Woven wallhangings. Art, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. DeRenne Coerr, The Fine Arts Museums of Several chapters have established local Purpose: To help clarify, through an ex San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, S.F., Calif. Slide Registries (Houston and New York are change of ideas and the promotion of action, 94121. Operations Manager: Katherine V. G. among them). In addition, WCA members Robert Neffson. First Street Gallery, the relationship between Marxist theory and Dickinson, 73144thAve., S.F" Calif. 94121. are urged to submit slides of their work to the N.Y.C., September 12-0ctober 2. Paint practice and art-historical, art-critical and Phone: (415) 221-5125 (Wed. and Fri.). Pur National Slide Registry. The curator is Pasha ings. art-productive theory and practice. The pose: WCA supports the recognition of wom Bari, 45 Beekman Street, New York, N.Y. Caucus sponsors sessions at the annual CAA en in the art professions. It represents a great 10038; (212) 964-8781. Members may place Edward Shalat. Shelter Rock Public meetings and engages in other relevant activ breadth of interests in its members who are four slides; the registries are shown on request Library, Albertson, N.Y., November 2-28. ities as the occasions present themselves. artists, art historians and critics, museum and to anyone interested in seeing women artists' Sculpture and drawings. arts administrators, art educators, students work. Foundations in Art: Theory and Education and collectors of art. The quarterly WCA The new Editor of the WCA Newsletter is (F.A.T.E.), founded 1977. Membership: Newsletter includes bibliographies, exhibi Suzaan Boettger, 5311 College Avenue, Fowler Spencer. Jones Hall Art Gallery, 200. Annual dues: $3. President: Charles tion listings, and reports on national confer Oakland, Calif. 94618. Meredith College, Raleigh, November 16- Jansen, Art Dept., Middle Tennessee State ences and the activities of over 23 chapters in Alison Hilton III 26. Photography, ceramic mosaic, painting, Univ., Murfreesboro, Tenn. 37132. Purpose: 17 states. III Wayne State University and graphic design.
Ann Sperry. Lerner-Heller, N.Y.C., Ipeople and programs November 1-26. "Wall Flowers," recent sculpture. The reopening of the main gallery building of holdings and 35 private and museum collec large estate to the Whitney Museum has an Washington's Textile Museum on 10 Oc tions in North America and Europe (through American institution perhaps been as favored Naomi Waksberg. DuBois Gallery, Lehigh tober marked completion of a $1 million 3 January 1981). as the Parrish." University, Bethlehem, Pa., October 24- renovation program that added more than November 26. 1,000 square feet of exhibition space plus The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, The Maryland Institute College of Art other improvements (ranging from curatorial N. Y., has announced the formation of a study dedicated the Fox Building, a former ware Ruth Weisberg. Judah L. Magnes Mu offices to new lavatories) needed to convert a center of the work of Fairfield Porter, based house owned by the Cannon Shoe Co., on 21 seum, Berkeley, January 11-March 29. stately 1908 Neo-Georgian building into a on a gift by his estate of 186 paintings plus September. The renovated.five-story building facility that suits its current museum func some works on paper and other archival will house graduate painting studios as well as tion. With the reopening of the gallery materials. The importance of this gift was studios for painting, drawing, fibers, ceram ((Say, £vhy dOIl't we go see the Hoppel' shmt' at the {lVhitllejl?" John W. Wood. Loge Gallery, University building comes a major exhibition: Turk noted by John Russell in his New York Times ics, wood design, and metal arts. Seminar of Utah, Salt Lake City, November 1-22. men: Tribal Carpets and Traditions, with column when he said, "Not since Edward rooms and large public exhibition areas are Art Department Gallery, University of Utah, 100 examples drawn from the Museum's own Hopper left virtually the whole of his very also provided. M.N.lR.R.W, III Drawing by St("v("nson; @ 1980 The New Yorker Magazine. Inc. April 1-29. Painting. III 10 CAA newsletter December 1980 II j health hazards testimony employment in the humanities
Davis. When she was younger she painted The repon Employment of Humanities were full-time employed in 1977 compared were estimated for those humanities Ph.D.'s Testimony oj Professor Albert E. Elsen on obligated to study and learn as part of his/her pro with toxic materials. During that time she Ph.D. 's: A Departurefrom TraditionalJobs with 94 percent of the men. As many as 13 who were employed in nonacademic jobs out H.R. 6977 before the House Subcommittee fessional competence and preparation all relevant information available concerning proper health had two spontaneous abortions, but delivered has been released by the National Research percent of the women doctorates were part side their field ($19,300). on Consumer Protection, September 17, and safety procedures in the use of equipment and four children all born with birth defects. All Council of the National Academy of Science. time employed compared with almost 3 per • Over half of the recent Ph.D.'s (1972- 1980. materials of his or her discipline. A teacher of Art is had club feet and separation of their teeth, It was supported through a grant from the cent of the men. 76 cohort) who were employed full-time out I testify on behalf of H,R. 6977 because two ethically obligated to teach, maintain and enforce One had hip displasia. The second a cur NEH Planning and Assessment Studies Pro • Of the male humanities Ph.D.'s in the side their Ph.D. field in 1977 indicated that the highest professional standards of health and years ago I introduced Congressman Fred vature of the spine. The third had a cleft gram. 1977 U.S. labor force, almost 87 percent of they were so employed because a position in safety in the use of equipment and materials The repon presents analyses of the employ their field was not available, whereas the Richmond to the subject of occupational palate. The fourth had a severe deformation t--he 1975 -76 cohort were full-time employed employed in the course." health hazards among artists and urged him of the jaw. Due to the then poverty of Inez and ment status of humanities doctorates current compared with 96 percent of the 1934-68 1934-68 Ph.D.'s indicated they were so to undertake the research that could lead to The previously cited CAA publication and her law student husband, medical care was ly in the labor force based on the results of the cohort. Only 69 percent of the 1975-76 employed because they preferred such a posi new legislation. My own involvement with this article of the Artists' Code of Ethics confirm paid for by the Babcock Foundation and National Research Council's 1977 Survey of female Ph.D.'s in the labor force were full tion or were promoted to the job. subject did not come about directly because that in the judgment of a national organiza Marin County. Her doctors do not see any Doctorate Recipients and on annual surveys time employed in 1977 compared with 86 per • In 1977, only 79.2 percent of the of my occupation. which is that of a teacher of tion the problem of artists' occupationally genetic cause in the parents for the children's on newly earned doctorates (Doctorate cent of the 1934- 68 cohort of women. employed 1972 ·-76 humanities Ph.D.'s were art history at Stanford University, where [ related health hazards is universal and deformities. There is no more ardent ad Records File). The information presented • Approximately 15 percent of the full working in institutions of higher education hold the Walter A. Haas Chair in that sub therefore exists wherever artists and art vocate of H.R. 6977 than Inez Storer. One of pertains to the 60,140 humanists estimated to time employed humanities doctorates in compared with 90.7 percent of the 1934-68 ject. In 1974 1 became president of the Col students work. The growing number of infor the most recent cases brought to my attention be in the U.S. labor force in February 1977, of dicated that they were working outside their cohort. lege Art Association of America, which is the mation centers and courses on safe practices by his lawyer is that of a Detroit designer who whom 90.5 percent (54,450) were full-time Ph.D. field in 1977, with slightly higher • In 1977, among the academically-em national organization of approximately 6,500 in art testifies to the increasing awareness that died in 1976. He worked for an architectural employed, 5.3 percent (3,150) part-time percentages of women doctorates, Ph.D.'s 55 ployed humanities Ph.D.'s over two-thirds of art historians and artists who teach. One of artists have of the fact that the practice of art firm doing pastel renderings in a new, prize employed, 0,9 percent (570) on postdoctoral years of age or older, 1975-76 Ph.D. reci the men were in senior ranks, compared with the CAA's functions is to establish national is not just a matter of life, but also of death. winning building that had superior ventila appointments, and 3.3 percent (1,970) pients, and Ph.D.'s in history and classical approximately one-half of the women. Ap standards for the professions it represents. As an art historian whose field of special tion. In the judgment of his doctor and the unemployed and seeking employment. languages so employed. proximately three-fourths of the male Responding to the requests of the CAA's artist competence is modern art, I am in constant University of Michigan Medical School, Highlights from the report are as follows: • Only 50 percent of those Ph.D.'s em humanities Ph.D.'s employed at universities constituency, I chaired an open forum at our contact with living artists. Unfortunately a Richard Mueller died as a result of using • The number of Ph.D.'s awarded in the ployed full-time outside of their Ph.D. field and four"year colleges in 1977 had achieved annual meeting held that January in Detroit. number of them have experienced occupa Borden's Krylon fixitive and krylon crystal humanities has increased steadily from an were employed by academic institutions in tenure compared with 57 percent of the The subject was artists' health hazards. The tionally related illness. Almost without excep clear solvent. Accordingly, the widow reo average of about 250 per year during the 1977 compared with 95 percent of those women. turnout of several hundred was one of the tion, all artists I know have at one time ceived Workman's Compensation. 1920s to approximately 4,500 per year during employed within their Ph.D. field. • Among nonacademically employed largest ever for an artists' session. For three dropped a certain medium such as lead based In talking with artists about their health the 1970s. There has, however, been a decline • Of the humanities doctorates who were humanities Ph.D.'s, business and industry hours individual artists and representatives of paints or polyester resins, Magna color, or dif· problems it becomes clear that on the na in the number of humanities Ph.D.'s awarded full-time employed in academe and working was the most frequent employer, and man various artists' groups spoke of the seriousness ferent types of solvents and fixitives or glazes tionallevel the medical profession is only now per year since the mid-1970s. in their field in 1977, over 81 percent were agement and administration the most fre and alarming extent of occupationally in out of fear for their health. Artists who knew becoming aware that illness incurred by art • Although women constituted less than teaching whereas for those Ph.D.'s in quent work activity in 1977. duced illness. (Dr. Michael McCann was a and visited the late Morris Louis here in his ists may often be related to their materials one-fourth of the total humanities Ph.D. academe who were employed outside their panel member and he spoke about the prob· Washington studio ar~ convinced that his and work habits. Throughout history artists labor force in 1977, almost half of the nearly doctoral field, almost half were engaged in Employment of Humanities Ph.D. 's is lems from his expertise, which I am sure is premature death was caused not just by smok have suffered from a variety of stereotypes, in 2,000 humanities Ph.D.'s who were management and administration. available without charge from Survey of now known to this Subcommittee.) At the end ing, but the ferociously odiferous special me cluding those which typify them as being unemployed and seeking employment were • The highest mean annual salaries were Doctoral Recipients, National Academy of of the Detroit forum it was clear that the CAA dium he was using. The painters Joan Brown chronically moody or depressed, emotionally women. calculated for humanities Ph,D.'s employed Sciences, JH 712,2101 Constitution Avenue, should take action. I asked our t.hen vice and Tom Holland both knew and worked unstable or neurotic, and hypocondriacs. In • Only 78 percent of the women humani· in academic jobs outside their Ph.D. field N.W .. Washington, D.C. 20418. (202) president, George Sadek, dean of the School with the late painter David Park, and they our own time many doctors have at times been ties doctorates in the 1977 U.S. labor force ($24,200), whereas the lowest mean salaries 393-8100. III of Art and Architecture at The Cooper recall how traces of white lead paint could be susceptible to these stereotypes. Artists have Union, to take on the responsibility of coordi seen on his lips as he smoked. The sculptor told me that frequently when they tell their nating the CAA's involvement with this na· Duane Hanson recently told me that his physician of prolonged periods of depression tional problem. It was Dean Sadek's idea to cancer of the lymph nodes came about while and fatigue, they are automatically given produce the valuable manual Safe Practices he was working with polyesters, the same mood· elevating drugs. In many if not most Ihealth hazards testimony in the Arts and Crafts: A Studio Guide, material used by boat builders. Joan Brown, cases, the artist's symptoms of illness are published by the CAA in 1978, a copy of who is an art professor at the University of treated but the causes are not sought. While I stress that our government is being asked cupation. Often, as in the case of Inez Storer, ficult than among Congressmen. In my thirty which I am sure this Subcommittee has as California, at Berkeley, experienced severe no government action can eliminate the by Congressman Richmond not to mir the tax-payer has had to pay the severe years in the profession, this is the only time I part of the hearing's record. dermatological problems as a consequence of stereotypes that may hinder proper medical aculously solve this _tragic problem, but to medical costs of artists and their children, or have found artists totally united in support of Part of my purpose in testifying is to infonn a reaction either to her oil-based paints diagnosis of artists with health problems, contribute to artists' ability to help them Workerl's Compensation, as in the Richard a proposal. All artists want to be free of this Subcommittee of what might be called and/ or the paint thinner she used. Her der· truth in labelling of artists' materials can be of selves. Many if not most artists cannot belong Mueller case. It is thus in the interest of physi· medical fear in practicing their profession, the matching effort of artists in meeting the matologist, Dr. McGinley, who now heads the incalculable benefit both to the artists and to group medical plans and cannot afford cians and taxpayers as Wf'll as artists' that HR and women artists want to protect their un problem of alerting the profession to health Department of Dermatology at Kaiser their physicians in determining whether or sophisticated or even proper medical care. 6977 be passed into law. born children. HR 6977 is the logical next hazards, rather than their simply relying Hospital in San Francisco, believed that her not these problems are occupationally Perhaps one in a hundred artists can suppon Artists who teach tell me that students of all step in extending to artists and those millions upon government assistance. Specifically, I problems were due to the cumulative effects related. who use artists' materials the right presently would like to point to the fact that the first ar of exposure to these materials. When she himself and his family entirely by working as ages take more seriously and better remember an artist. The rest must augment what little warnings of health hazards that are printed enjoyed by certain other consumers. Artists ticle of the Code of Ethics for Artists, adopted began to use surgical gloves the problems they earn as artists by other jobs. Many artists, deserve the right to know about the dangers of by the CAA in 1977, requires that artists who stopped. The painter Jay de Feo worked for rather than given to them verbally. There is for example, are only part-time teachers and their materials as part of their right to live and teach must instruct their students in the safe six years on one large oil painting that weighs something about seeing in black and white a work. While it may be in the self·interest of use of materials and equipment. The pream 1,000 pounds and is called The Rose. She do not have eligibility for their school's group manufacturer's statement that a certain medical plans. Few artists can afford the $100 product is poisonous that is more credible and certain art supply manufacturers to withhold ble and resolution read: used black and white lead-based paints. She a month it costs in my state to belong to Blue an inducement to caution than a teacher say information that if divulged might curtail "In recent years the profession has become told me that she experienced severe gum tragically aware of the dangers posed to artists by problems and eventual loss of almost all her Cross, not when studio rentals are soaring and ing the same thing. The view that artists roll profits, this concern is neither in the best their equipment and materials. The previous teeth while working on this painting. Her their normal cost of living so taxes limited up their tubes of paint thus hiding the label is interests of artists or the American public, absence of limited accessibility of information on dentist could see no reason why a young per means. In such instances artists tend to be lax based on another stereotype that folds when which is the ultimate beneficiary of art. health perils meant that many artists who taught as son should experience these difficulties. Jay about obtaining proper medical treatment one visits studios. Artists and teachers of art Privately and by means oflocal, state, and the well as students, worked in ignorance of these had thought it took a lifetime's exposure to when they begin to feel ill. The treatment tell me that art suppliers should also print on federal government we are making important dangers. Whether or not the artist avails himself or leaded paints to become seriously ill. When they may obtain is often from terribly over their display stands in the art supply sections strides in preserving works of art. It is time we herself of the information available concerning she finally switched to acrylics her condition worked physicians who do not have the of stores warnings about toxicity. took the legislative step of helping to save the health risks is a matter of individual choice. awareness, time, and labelling information to Obtaining unanimity of opinion among lives of countless artists. Ethically, however, the CAA does not feel such a stabilized. One of the most tragic stories connect the patient's illness with his or her oc- artists in favor of something is even more dif- Albert E. Elsen II choice exists for teachers of art students. known to me is that of the artist Inez Storer "Resolution: A teacher of art is ethically now teaching at the University of California, Septem ber 17, 1980
eAA newsletter December 1980 13 12 .. HUMANITIES COMMISSION professional publications REPORT ART AND ARCHITECTURE preservation news THESAURUS PROJECT The Challenge Grant Experience: Plan Museums and the Disabled, undcr the direc· Learned societies can playa vital and varied ning, Development, and Fundraising, by tion of Charles K. Steiner. Sections include role in strengthening the humanities, accord The painting was purchased by James Lenox The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Gabriel P. Weisberg is the new chairman of Diane J. Gingold. An overview of grantees' ex Consumer Consultation; Museum Staff and ing to The Humanities in American Life: in the 1850s for his library and became part of Project has received a second planning grant, the CAA Committee on the Preservation of periences told in their own words and through Volunteer Education; An Accessible Tour; Report of the Commisst'on on the Humani the Astor, Lenox, Tilden Foundation of the this one from the National Endowment for Art. Gabe, curator of art history and educa their institutions' printed materials. Pro and Outreach. The material was selected in tt'es, published in October. The work of a New York Pubic Library in 1877. The work the Humanities. The money will further the tion at the Cleveland Museum and last seen cedures, pleasures, and pitfalls of major part to demonstrate the multiple groups of thirty-two-member panel sponsored by the hung in various parts of the building until investigation into state-of-the-art thesauri buried under the papers of the exhibition fund-raising campaigns. A useful "idea" book people to whom Section 504 of the Vocational Rockefeller Foundation and chaired by Rich· 1948, when it was relegated to its present site. and subject list-production in the fields of art catalog of The Realist Tradition (which he for non-profit organizations. 115 pp. Chal Rehabilitation Act applies. C.K. Steiner, The ard W. Lyman, former president of Stanford and architecture, as well as the possibilities of organized), replaces Shirley Neilson Blum lenge Grant Program, NEA, 2401 E Street, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fifth Avenue and now president of the foundation, the (S.U.N.Y., Purchase), whose tenure on the computerization of such thesauri. During the Public Art Preservation Committee N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. Free. at 82nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10028. Free. report surveys the humanities at every level of CAA Board and perforce as committee early winter of 1980-81 the project team will The first day-long symposium devoted to the education, the system of humanistic research, chairperson had ended. We are all grateful to complete a preliminary report for the Council preservation of public sculpture was held in and patterns of support for the humanities. her for the yeoman's work she performed in on Library Resources, who provided their New York City on 17 October, 1980 at John first grant. the organization, realization, and implemen Crafts/Pricing & Promotion, by E. Patrick "The highest educational priority for Jay College of Criminal Justice. Funded by the A larger grant for the production of the tation of the committee. She brought to the McGuire and Lois Moran. Reviews business Publications from the Center for Arts In America in the 1980s" is improving the quali New York State Council on the Arts, it was thesaurus is now under consideration by task an intelligence, vitality, and diplomacy organized by the Public Art Preservation situations encountered in crafts and suggests formation. All are available from CAl. 625 ty of our elementary and secondary schools, which carried the cause of preservation and NEH. The plan is to produce this research Committee, among whose prime movers are marketing practices. Ace Publications, 22 Broadway. N.Y.C. 10012. the report states. Learned societies, the Com tool in two years. The first sets of terms to be conservation within the CAA forward during West 55th Street. New York, N.Y. 10019. mission suggests, should help develop guide Marlene Park, Gerald Markowitz, and Greta dealt with will be" Architecture" and "Decor the critical early moments. $7.50 ($5.20 to ACC members). International Cultural Exchange. Pre· lines for the training of humanities teachers Berman. Speakers included Joshua Taylor ative Arts". Persons who have sets of terms in pared at the request of the National Assembly and encourage college and university human (The Evolution of Public Art) and Rafael Fer these fields are urged to contact Toni of State Arts Agencies. Capsule dcscriptions ists to work with high schools in strengthening The History of Some History Paintings rer (Making A rt for People in Their Places). Petersen, Bennington College Library, Ben Panel discussions centered around issues of of forty-five organizations that facilitate or their humanities curriculum. "In the long nington, Vt. 05201. Employment of Humanities Ph.D's: A fund international cultural exchangc pro Davel. The most important painting by private vs. public ownership; the impact of run," the report notes, " the national repute Bennington College is host to a small proj Departure from Traditional Jobs. The grams. Includes information about imerna Charles Gleyre in the Lausanne Museum, preservation law and the extent of owners' of the learned societies and -the health of their ect which will contribute greatly to the success employment status of humanities doctorates tional arts festivals. 10 pp. $2.00. Major Davel, burned on the night of August responsibility Games Marston Fitch, Director disciplines depend in some measure on high of the AAT. With the help of a graduate stu in the labor force in February 1977. 74 pp. 25th under circumstances of suspicious origin of Historic Preservation, Beyer, Belinder and school teachers in the humanities." dent in library science from S.U.N.Y., Survey of Doctoral Recipients, National Jobs in the A J'ts and A rts Administmtion. not precisely known to us at the present time. Belle, N. Y.) and Donald Thalacker, Director Albany, Petersen will identify and list all art Academy of Science, JH 712, 2101 Constitu· A guide to career counselling. placement and The six foot by nine foot painting, for which of Art in Architecture Program, U.S. General and architecture subject headings from the tion Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. referral services. and newsletters that carry Many college administrators and human there are several sketches, was completed in Services Administration; the role of in ists, the report charges, "have abdicated their Library of Congress subject heading list. Fur 20418. Free. For highlights, see p. 13. arts· related employment listings. 4 pp. $1.00. 1850 and was a work thematically pertinent at dividuals and agencies in public art preserva ther information will be available when the most basic social responsibility: to help shape tion; allocating limited resources and support the time. It depicts the final moments of list is complete. It is anticipated the list will be Management Assistance for the Arts. A a philosophy of education." The Commission Major Davel, who led an uprising in 1723 in for public art preservation (Francis V. O'Con distributed to interested libraries at cost. survey of twenty-nine national organizations urges higher education to "formulate afresh Vaud (then a dependency of the Canton of nor, editor, Federal Art Patronage Notes; Pat Molholt is exploring video disk storage Final Report: Art Involvement Program that offer consultant services, training ses· the ideals of liberal education" in a period of Berne, Switzerland). He alone was arrested Lowery Sims, associate curator, Metropolitan for art and architecture images, to be access (September 15, 1978 July}, 1980). Docu sions, on-the·job training. and managem('nt vocationalism and fiscal austerity. While but he never revealed his accomplices. After Museum of Art; Kathy Gupta, director, ible, like the bibliographies in these fields, by ments aesthetic awareness program for inter related publications to nonprofit arts organ noting the lack of consensus on what to do an unsatisfactory trial, he was decapitated Cityarts Workshop; and Elliot Willensky, means of the computerized thesaurus. The mediate level and high school students that izations. 52 pp. $4.00. about the shortage of teaching positions for despite everyone's recognition of the fact that N.Y.C. Landmarks Commissioner); and thesaurus as a link between bibliographies took place at Rutgers University Art Gallery. young Ph.D's, the Commission believes that he would be seen as a virtuous patriot by the questions of maintaining and restoring works and images is seen as a particularly important 20 pp. Stephanie Grunberg, RUAG. Voor Money for Artists. A guide to grants, graduate programs can do more to adapt the populace and would continue to fuel the fires of public art (Pheobe Dent Weil, Center for and unique aspect of the project. hees Hall, Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, awards. fellowships, and artist-in-residence training they offer to current academic and of rebellion. The painting was somewhat Archaeometry; Alan Farancz, conservator; The grant proposal before NEH calls for a N.J. 08904. Free. programs for the New York artist. 1 pp. nonacademic job opportunities. theatrical in organization. Davel was shown and Betsy Barlow, administrator, Central budget just over half a million dollars, to pro $1.00. offering his life to God and country, flanked Park). duce the thesaurus and get it adopted within The report energetically affirms the impor by the passive Swiss officials in the back two years. The group will need to raise about Health Haz.ards in the Art and Crafts. tance of humanistic scholarship. Though it ground as well as by two soldiers who turn Americana Endangered $60,000 in matching funds. Proceedings of the first national scientific "seldom attracts public fanfare" or "leads away, covering their eyes in sorrow. The mute The Darwin Martin House in Buffalo de As of October 31, the AAT project has meeting on the scientific and legal issues of Publications from the American Associa straight to widely visible results," the Com crowd was behind and below. Photographs signed by Frank Lloyd Wright is presently been endorsed by the Society of Architectural health hazards in the arts and crafts held in tion of Museums. Available from AAM, Free mission emphasizes, research in the human sent to us from Switzerland show the remains unoccupied and sorely in need of attention. It Historians and the College Art Association. October 1978 under the sponsorship of the Publications, 1055 Jefferson Street. N.W. ities must be supported - particularly when of the work to consist of two insignificant formerly was the residence of the President of The board of ARLIS/NA is favorably dis Society for Occupational and Environmental Washington. D.C. 20007. inflation is eroding the financial resources of fragments of canvas and the badly charred the University of Buffalo and more recently posed and is bringing their endorsement to Health. Co-chaired by Gail Barazani and fellowship programs, research libraries and 120-pound frame. The burning of this work housed the University's Alumni Association. the next general meeting of that group in Michael McCann, the conference brought Museum Ethics. AAM's official statement centers, and scholarly publishers. would be comparable to the burning of A proposal is under consideration to turn the February. together scientists, doctors. lawyers. artists, on the ethical conduct of museum trust(,es Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. building into a Canadian-American Center, Experts will be needed to review terms and manufacturers of art materials. and govern· and staffs. Focuses on collections, staffing. "Learned societies are fast becoming pro but no decision has been reached. For further structural aspects of the thesaurus. The proj ment officials to discuss what regulatory and management policy. and governance. 32 pp. fessional associations," the Commission ob New Varnish for Vernet. Horace Vernet's information and support: Lorelei Ketter, 186 ect proposals call for these persons to meet policy decisions might be necessary. 250 pp. Free. serves. New technologies for storing and shar Siege of Sara gas sa, 1808, painted in 1819 and LeBrun Road, Eggertsville, N.Y. 14226 or once or twice a year (after May 1981), with ex SOEH, 1341 G. Street, N. W. #308, Washing· ing knowledge, the changed fortunes of now stored in a sub-basement vault of the Professional Standards for Museum Ac Jack Quinan, Dept. History of Art, SUNY penses paid from the NEH grant but without ton, D.C. 20005. $16.00. higher education, and the many new respon 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Buffalo, 611 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, N.Y. a stipend. Persons willing to serve may write creditation. A guide to a museum's daily sibilities of humanists in a "learning society" Library, is the subject of a recent article by operations and long-range planning. Covers 14260. Dora Crouch atCASV A, the National Gallery all "promise to stretch the meaning of the Adina Gordon (Arts Magazine, Sept., 1980). of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565. governing authority and boards. staff. word humanist and change the profession. She underscores the fact that its present con Pat Molholt .. The Humanities in American Life: Report membership. finan(,cs. physi(,al fa(,ilities. Regulating the pace of that change, making it Correction dition is deplorable. The painting shows an Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of the Commission on the Humanities. collections. conservation and preservation. work for the benefit of education and scholar The price of Curatorial Care of Works ofArt aspect of the sixty-day struggle between Should be r('ad by everyone concerned with security, cxhibitions and programs. purposes. ship in the humanities," the report states, is a on Paper by Anne F. Clapp is now $6.00, Napoleon's army and the Aragonese. Fifty the importance of the humanities to Ameri and futme plans. 79 pr. Free. .. task that the learned societies must share. rather than the $5.00 listed in the last issue. four thousand people were killed in house-to can life and on all educational ic-v('ls. hoth The Intermuseum Laboratory (Allen Art "Coarseness reveals; vulgarity conceals." house battle. The unorthodox participation within and outside academe. 180 pp. Univer The Humanities in American Life Building, Oberlin, Ohio 44074) has had to -E. M. Forester of peasant leaders, women. and many monks sity of California Pr('ss. 2223 Fulton Strect, ($12.50 cloth, $3.50 paper) is published by in the fight against an organized French army have the book reprinted and the cost has dic Berkeley. Calif. 91720. $12.50 doth; $3.50 "Reality has more wit than all your theories." the University of California Press, 2223 aroused great public sympathy and interest. tated an increase in the selling price. "The life of culture depends less on those who paper: Sce column at right. ._- Nicolai Lenin Fulton St., Berkeley, Calif. 94720. .. Vernet depicted several of the principal Annabelle Simon Cahn II inherit it than on those who desire it." -Andre Malraux Spanish heroes in the midst of the strugg~e. Public Information Officer December 198n 15
CAA newsletter 14 classifieds
The CAA newsletter will accept classiji'eds of undergraduate credit. $3195 from S.F. Con the Arts, the Southern Arts Federation, and a professional or semi-professional nature tact Prof. Vito Giacalone, Fine Arts Dept., the Louisville Art Gallery, is sponsoring an (sale of libraries, summer rental OT exchange Kean College of N.J., Morris Ave., Union, invitational and competitive show of metal of homes, etc.). The charge is 50~ per word, New Jersey 07083. Tel: 201·527·2307 or 2166. work interpreting the theme "cutting edge." minimum charge $10.00, advance payment Deadline for the competitive segment is required. Make checks payable to CAA. SUMMER INSTITUTE ON ITALIAN CIV· January 7,1981. Any resident of the United Classifieds will be accepted at the discretion ILIZATION Sulmona, Italy, June 19-July States may enter. Write for a prospectus to: of the Editor. Deadline JOT next issue 15 31, 1981. At Ovid's birthplace, the very Cutting Edge, Kentucky Arts Commission, March. center of Italy, 25 students from various 302 Wilkinson Street, Frankfort KY 40601. disciplines will attend lectures by renowned SUMMER STUDY TOUR: Renaissance and scholars, participate in field trips for an FURNISHED APARTMENT for rent: near Baroque Art in Rome, Florence and Venice. intensive survey of Italian civilization. Ernst American Academy, Rome. Sept. I, 1981- July 1-21, 1981. Undergraduate or Grad Badian, Institute for Advanced Studies, May 31, 1982. Two bedrooms, study, living uate Credit. Contact Professor Glenn F. Republican Rome; Alexander McKay, dining room, bath, kitchen, washing Benge, Art History Department, 1912 Park McMaster University, Imperial Rome; Gary machine, telephone, central heating. $5001 Mall, Temple University, Philadelphia, Radke, Syracuse University, Medieval Italy; month plus utilities. Call Jack Wasserman Penna. 19122. Robert Clements, New York University, The (215) 972-0550, or write 222 North 22nd Renaissance; Giovanni Scichilone, Director, Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. Articles being considered from art history National Museum, Chieti, Archaeology, graduate students for APOCR YPHA V, jour museology; Optional: Elementary Italian, CATALOGUES covering rare and elusive nal of art and architectural history, published Latin, Greek; Advanced Italian. Enrollment books on Orienta1!Primitivel African art by the graduate students at SUNY -Bing limited toJive art majors. Write without delay reference will be sent, on request, worldwide. hamton_ Manuscripts shall be no more than to: Professor Arthur D. Kahn, Director, 41 (Our major interest is Early Chinese Art.) fifteen pages and should follow the stylistic Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, New York, Richard Lyon, P.O. Box 150, Kingston, Sur guidelines set forth in the Art Bulletin. 1120!. rey, England KT2 5SZ. Deadline: March 1, 1981. Apocrypha V, Department of Art and Art History, SUNY THE 1981 STUDIO CALENDAR is a wall ART SPACE, INC. is a complete arts service Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. 13901. calendar featuring drawings by Nan Haid of directed by Joanna Shaw-Eagle in association twelve nineteenth and twentieth century ar· with a Board of (35) Advisers, all prominent Kean College offers ART TOUR OF CHINA tists's studios. Artists' birthdays and in art experts. ASI creates marketing programs, July 8-27,1981. This exciting tour will ex teresting art historical infonnation appear on publications, collections and exhibitions, plore culture sites in Peking, Sian (Xian), the appropriate dates. $6.95. For more infor special events programs; consults for arts Shanghai, Hangchow, and Canton and fea mation or to order the calendar, write to purchases; produces articles, proposals, pro ture visits with Chinese artists at various art Elaine Wertheim, P.O. Box 6026, Arlington, grams, budgets; advises on conservation, pro institutes. Led by Vito Giacalone, <'.rtist and Virginia, 22206. tection, display, computer services; conducts specialist in Chinese art history, and Jane national and international art tours. Bro Kate Leonard, specialist in modern Chinese CUTTING EDGE, a traveling exhibition of chure available, 5014 Newport Avenue, history, China tour is available to the general metal. The Kentucky Arts Commission, with Washington, D.C. 20016, (301) 229·2188. public and may be taken for graduate or support from the National Endowment for III
DATEBOOK. 31 January deadline for advance registration for 1981 annual meeting. .26-28 February CAA annual meeting, San Fran cisco (Placement begins 25 February) ... 1 March deadline Millard Meiss applications. . 1 March deadline ACLS travel grant applications . . 16 March deadline submission of positions for March 30 listing. . 31 March deadline submission session proposals 1982 annual meeting .. 31 March deadline submission nominations to 1981 Nominating Committee.
G44newsletter ©1980 College Art Association of America 16 East 52 Street, New York 10022 Editor: Rose R. Weil Associate Editor: Minerva Navarrete
J)c(:cmhcr 1980