newsletter Volume 11, Number 2 Summer 1986

1987 annual meeting studio sessions

Studio sessions for the 1987 annual meeting in Boston (February 12- The Spiral of Afro-American Art: Pursuits in Many Directions. 14) have been planned by Natalie Charkow, adjunct professor, Yale Edmund Barry Gaither, Director, Museum of the National Center of University School of Art. Listed below are the topics she has selected, Afro-American Art, 300 Walnut Avenue, Boston, MA 02119. some of which are subject to final confir.mation. Any additional infor­ This session will wrestle with the dilemma of artists exercising their mation on any proposed session will be published in the Fall news­ artistic freedoms as existential individuals within a social order that letter. Those wishing to participate in any open session must submit places emphasis on groups, minorities, categorizations, etc. Several proposals to the chair of that session by October I, 1986. Note: Art artists of varying age, experience, and modes of work, will discuss his history topics were announced in a special mailing in April. The dead­ or her work individually, as well as how each body of work fits into the line for those sessions was 31 May. broader picture of American art, and whether or not its content falls under the category known as Afro-American art. A Return to the Private. Garth Evans (sculptor), 106 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn. NY 1121l. Pressures: Fame, Skill and Knowledge. Larry Day (painter), This panel will address the idea that there has been a shift of interest Philadelphia College of Art. 19 Philadelphia Avenue, Takoma Park, (back?) to sculpture which is made by an individual and discloses its MD 20912. meanings privately, as distinct from sculpture which engages 'issues,' The panel will address such questions as what one has to know to be an artist today, how the roles of tradition and traditional learning Artists in Public Places: Out of the Ivory Studio. John Chandler, affect contemporary practice, what freedoms exist for the contempo­ public art consultant in Boston, An invitational session. rary artist. The re-emergence of public art challenges current attitudes about making art, and may, as some artists have claimed, lead to a redefini­ Poetic and Conceptual Interpretations of Systems used in Drawn tion of art in our time. Artists who have worked in the isolation of their and Painted Space. Susana Jacobson (painter), Art Department, Yale studios without any thought of where their work will eventually be in­ University, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT 06520, stalled are suddenly asked to be responsive to the needs of architecture Historical and contemporary systems from a broad cultural spec­ and an often skeptical public, as well as to the demands of specific trum will be discussed as both formal and poetic investigations into the places. nature and possibilities of space as depicted in two dimensions. Panelists will include artists, architects, and art administrators. "Art On The Line" will be discussed and a film shown about this major Photography: Just Another Pencil. Alan Klotz (photographer and public project in the Boston subways. gallery director), 740 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025. For years artists have been incorporating photographs into their art Artists Review Art History. Patricia Mainardi (painter), Art works in more or less recognizable form while photographers have Department, Bro~klyn College, C,U,N.Y., Brooklyn, NY 11210, been raiding the graphic arts for techniques and sometimes, disguises. Artists. freed from the necessity to theorize about art history, often The single still image is a rarer bird these days if not exactly an endan­ see qualities in the art of the past invisible to historians and critics, As gered species. Media categories are heavily blurred and artists using every development in the present interrogates the past, in this sense it is photography are often deliberately shunning galleries with traditional artists who create a new art history of the past as well as of the present. photographic affiliations, Photography has come to be for today's art­ The session will consist of artists discussing specific artists or art forms ist another way of recording an image or appropriating an existing one of the past meaningful to their own work, for a specific strategy. Panelists will discuss their relationship to the photographic image, Poets' Responses to Pictures (Real or Imaginary). Rosanna War­ ren (poet, painter), Boston University. An invitational session. Impermanence: What are the problems? Are there any solu­ A reading and discussion with slides. Panelists will include John tions? Hilton Browne, Ralph Mayer Center for Artists' Techniques, Hollander, Richard Howard, and Mark Strand, and possibly, Ger­ University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. trude Schnackenberg, An open forum dealing with issues involved in the impermanence of contemporary art in particular. Panelists will in.clude artists, curators, William Tucker. New York sculptor William Tucker will discuss and dealers, his work. Post-Modern Narrative Painting. Gabriel Laderman (painter), . Art and the Law. Albert Elsen, Walter A. Haas Professor of Art 760 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025, History, Stanford University. Since the 1960's many artists have been excited by the possibilities of An open session in which artists' questions about legal subjects can narrative painting, New narrative painting in which techniques paral­ be answered, including such topics as recent laws, copyrights, the im­ leling those in the modern novel are being consciously produced. portance of planning one's estate, contracts, etc. These techniques include changes in viewpoint of the artist (equiv­ alent to changing position of the narrator), discontinuous narrative, Giacometti. New York artist Mercedes Matter will discuss her proj­ implied and ambiguous character relationships, mixed levels of meta- ect on the sculptor, Continued on p, 2, col. 1 11987 studio sessions 1988 annual meeting: call for session proposals

The 1988 annual meeting will be held in Hou­ morphic reference, etc. Panelists will include David Carbone, James and stimulated by discoveries in science and technology. This session ston; it's our very first time in Texas! The McCarrell, and Sue Morrison. proposes to consider the issue of color with a full interdisciplinary per­ spective; from its current use in art, architecture and design, to devel­ Hyatt Regency is the headquarters hoteL The opments in visual perception and the devising of computer color dates for sessions are Thursday, February 11 A presentation of work in mixed media, with sound and narra­ systems. Session to take place at the Carpenter Center of Harvard through Saturday, February 13. Those wish­ tion. Delphine Ziegler (sculptor, filmmaker), University of California, University. ing to propose topics for sessions for the 1988 Santa Barbara. An invitational session. annual meeting should submit them to the Teaching Art in Rural America. Chair to be announced. Send appropriate chair by October 1, 1986. Printmaking: Extensions of the Discipline. Ruth Fine, Curator, proposals to Natalie Charkow, 95 Beecher Road, Woodbridge, CT Proposals should be submitted in the form Department of Graphic Arts, National Gallery, Washington, DC 06525. of a letter describing the subject of the session and explaining any special or timely signifi­ 20565. This panel will be designed to address problems specifically associ­ During recent decades monotypes, hand colored prints of all sorts, ated with teaching studio art and art history in rural locations across cance it may have for your particular field paper making, artists' books, and sculpture editions have all played a America. In many areas, first hand exposure to fine art is not readily and! or for the discipline in genera1. Other role in what is called printmaking. This panel will explore the impact available, exhibition and career opportunities are non-existent, and factors, such as ideas about the session's of these and other aspects of recent printmaking on traditional notions student expectations of their art training can be very different fr?m format or organization, should also be men­ and practice of the discipline. those of urban students. Panelists will be selected from varymg tioned. Explanatory or supportive materials geographic regions to discuss their experiences and programs estab­ may be appended. Please include a curricu­ lum vitae, preferred mailing address, and Symposium on Color. Lois Swirnoff, Department of Design, Art, lished to answer the special needs of rural teaching. both office and home telephone numbers. Art History, Dickson Art Center, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA 90024. To summarize briefly our procedures: (I) The theory of color in art and design is ready for reconsideration. Crafts. A panel is being assembled. Chair and full details to be an- Anyone may submit a proposal for an art his­ New investigations arise as color is manifested in art and architecture, nounced. II tory or a studio session. (2) Program chairs make their selection from among those pro­ posals purely on the basis of merit; however, if essentially the same proposal is received from Thomas Reese Malinda Beeman solo shows by artist members two or more individuals, preference will be given to the individual from the region in which the meeting will be held. (3) In addi­ Joyce Kozloff. Boston University Art Gal­ A listing of exht'bitions by artists who are David Detrich. Gallery Jazz, New Haven, tion to selecting sessions among these pro­ Studio sessions will be chaired jointly by lery, Boston, February 20-ApriI6; University members of the CAA. Those sending infor­ May 7-June 1. "New Sculpture." posals, program chairs will balance and shape Malinda Beeman, assistant professor at The of New Mexico, Albuquerque, August 1- mation for listing should include name of the program by inviting individuals to chair University of Houston, and Karin Broker, Sheila Elias. Alex Rosenberg Gallery, September 14; College of Wooster, Ohio, artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of exhi­ general or special sessions. In doing so, pro­ assistant professor at Rice University. Beeman N.Y.C., February 1986. "American Icons." October 19-December 7; Hunter Museum of bition, and medium. gram chairs consider a number of factors, in­ received her B.A. from California State Uni­ Art, Chattanooga, January 3-February 22, cluding which topics or periods were not versity, San Diego and an M.F.A. in print­ Pat Adams. Zabriskie Gallery, N,Y.C., Gary Eriksen. Anytime Gallery, N.Y.C., 1987; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, March 8-April 30. "Basic Life Choices," covered in recent CAA annual meetings. As making from the San Francisco Art Institute ApriIS-MayI7. Works on paper. March 13-ApriI19, 1987. "Visionary Orna- Sculpture, drawings. above, all other things being equal, prefer­ in 1973. She has been teaching at the Univer­ ment." Katherine T. AndrIe. Studio Gallery, ence is given to artists! scholars from the sity of Houston since 1984; prior to that she Washington, D.C., March 7-April 6. "The MingFay. The Catherine Gallery, N.Y.C., Marion Lerner Levine. Prince Street Gal­ region in which the meeting will be held, but was gallery manager at Harris Gallery, Hou­ Bee Keepers Journal," assemblages-installa­ April 4-25. Mixed media. lery, N.Y.C., March 21-ApriI9. Watercolors beyond that there is no geographic, institu­ ston, and worked at Kauffman Galleries, tions. Terry Gips. Aberdeen Gallery, Washing­ and hand-colored aquatints. tional, or other consideration. Houston. Her work has been exhibited wide­ ly, in such exhibitions as "Texas-Visions," a Robert Berlind. Ruth Siegel Gallery, ton, D.C" May 23-July 14. Photographs and Dierdre M. Monk. Herndon House Gal­ Art history sessions will be chaired by Thomas F. Reese, professor of art history, traveling exhibition organized by the Muse­ N .Y.C., February 19-March 8. Recent paint­ photo-installation. lery, Columbus, Ohio, May 22-July 3. Photo­ University of Texas-Austin, on-leave, who um of the American West; "Fresh Paint," ings. graphs. Bogdan Grom. Galerija Kulturnog Cen­ will serve as Associate Director of the J. Paul Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and a solo ex­ Taffy Besley. Orange County Center for tra, Belgrade, November 25-December 6, Jack Ox. Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., N.Y.C., Getty Center for the History of Art and Hu­ hibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Calif., March 1985. Cut-outs and tapestries. Galerija Rad­ March 19-April 9. Paintings. manities beginning Septem ber 1986. Reese of Houston. Karin Broker received her B.F. A. 5-2S. Sculpture, drawings. received his B.A. from Tulane University and micki Universitet, Sarajevo. December 9-20, Mel Pekarsky. G. W. Einstein Gallery, from the University of Iowa and M.F.A. from John Thomas Campbell. Gallery Quan, 1985. Mixed media. N.Y.C., April 1-26. "Larger Work." his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. He has been the University of Wisconsin. She has taught at Toronto, Canada, May 31-June 30. "Since teaching at the University of Texas since Rice since 1980, with previous teaching expe­ New York," paintings and sculpture. Vida Ratzlaff Hackman. Soho 20, Blaylock Peppard. Project Studio, P.S. 1, 1970. A specialist in the arts of Spain, Por­ rience at the University of Wisconsin and N.Y.C., March 18-ApriI5. Mixed media. The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, tugal, and Colonial LatinAmerica, Reese has Seton Hall College. Her prints have been seen Karin Broker Katharine T. Carter. Henri Gallery, Long Island City, N.Y., February 2-March published The Architecture of Ventura Rod­ in solo exhibitions at Hadler-Rodriguez Gal­ Photo: Todd Malcolm Washington, D.C., January 11-February 5; Roger Howrigan. Paul Bridgewater Gal­ 23. Mixed media installation. riguez (1976), Libro de diferentes pensami­ lery; Baylor University; Elvehjem Museum; Hal Bromm Gallery, N.Y.C., April 11-May lery, N.Y.C., May 15-June 15. "Imperial Wellesley College; World Print Council; Phil­ Dorothy Proviso Art Space Gallery, Fresno entos unos imbentados y otros delineados por Art in Norway;" "A Glimpse of Houston," at 31; Union Gallery, University of North Caro­ Progress," paintings. Diego de Villaneuva (1980) (facsimile edition adelphia Print Club; and Studio-Galerie, City College, Calif., August 2S-September the Newport Harbor Art Museum; and "Arte lina, Chapel Hill, April 14- May 16. Paint­ with introduction, chronology, and notes), Rastede, Germany, among others, as well as 26. "Houses and Pillars," mixed media sculp­ EUA, El Sur (Art USA, The South)," travel­ ings. Patrick Ireland. The National Museum of and Studies in A ncient A merican and Euro­ in numerous group exhibitions. Most recently ing to U.S. Embassies in Central and South American Art, Washington, D.C. April 4- ture and constructions. Eileen Casey. SO Washington Square East pean Art: The Collected Essays of George she received the First Place Jury Award in America-and Broker in the "1986 New August 17. Drawings. Galleries, N.Y.C., April 30-May 16. "Win­ Florence Putterman. Segal Gallery, Kubler (1985), which he edited, as well as "New Texas Prints," sponsored by the Texas Orleans Triennial," "Printmakers and the N.Y.C., May 10-June 12. Paintings and Print Alliance, and an NEA Fellowship. She dows." Robert Jessup. Ruth Siegel Gallery, numerous articles. He was a cofounder of the South, 1860- Present," sponsored by the N.Y.C., April9-May 3. Paintings and draw­ sculpture. American Society of Hispanic Art Historical has been active in the Southern Graphics Southern Arts Foundation, Atlanta; "New Michael Cook. Janet Steinberg Gallery, Studies, a CAA affiliate society, and was co­ Council (coordinating the SGC Conference in American Graphics 3," USIA; and "World ings. Jo Sandman. DeCordova Museum, Lin­ San Frandsco, April30-May 31. "Paintings: editor of the ASHAH Newsletter (1974- 1985), the Texas Print Alliance, and the Hou­ coln, Mass. November 23, 1985-January26, Print Four: An International Survey," organ­ Suite 71645." 1976). In 1976-77 he had a Guggenheim Fel­ ston Women's Caucus for Art. Don Kimes. Prince Street Gallery, N. Y. C., 1986. Installation. ized by The World Print Council and the Linda Cunningham. Franklin and May 23-June 11. "Popoiopen Metaphor," lowship. Reese has also been active on various The work of each of these artists has repre­ Smithsonian. Church Streets, N.Y. C., sponsored by the abstract collage! paintings. Priscilla Bender Shore. Soho 20, N.Y.C., advisory committees for the University of sented current art from Texas in national and Address proposals to Karin Broker and Ma­ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, January March 18-April 5. Paintings. Texas Art Museum. Address proposals to: c/o international traveling exhibitions. Beeman, linda Beeman, Department of Art, University Ellen Kozak. Jay Gallery, N.Y.C., May CAA, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, NY for example, in "About Face," organized by of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, I-April 1. "War Memorial II,"· cast bronze Continued on p. 13, col. 2 assemblage. 20-June 28. Paintings and monotypes. 10016. the Art Museum of South Texas; "Houston TX 77004. .. CAA newsletter Summer 1986 3

I write! write! write! placement issues grants and awards

At the CAA Board of Directors Meeting, May promptly processed for use, they cannot be In response to complaints from both sides­ 3, it was voted to protest the severe cuts in the made available to those for whom they are job applicants and hiring institutions- the GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS GETTY POSTDOCTORALS projects best pursued in residence at 'the budget of the Library of Congress. The fol­ intended. CAA Board of Directors has formed an ad hoc The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Eleven of this year'sJ. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Museum and in conjunction with its profes­ lowing letter, signed by CAA president, Paul "Accordingly, we urge that restoration oj committee to review its Standards for Profes­ Foundation has announced the following Fellows in the History of Art and the Human­ sional staff. The guest scholars for 1986 - 87 B. Arnold, has been sent to the chairs of the the budget of the Library of Congress be sional Placement (adopted 1977; available grants for 1986: ities were named in open competitions, nine are: Luciano Bellosi, Univ. degli Studi, Senate and House Appropriations Commit­ made a matter of the Mghest pn'ority, and we upon request from the CAA office). The aims others were chosen by universities that are Siena; Gino Corti, Villa I Tatti, Florence; tee, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, with stand ready to assist you and the appropdate of the committee will be discussed at greater designated centers for research on art history. James Draper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art History I Cognate Areas copies to the other committee members, committees of Congress in any way we can to length in the Fall newsletter. In the mean­ Stipend is $25,000, of which $4,000 goes to Pontus Grate, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; whose names appear below. bnng this about. " time, however, we are including excerpts the institution. J. Richard Green, Vniv. of Sydney; Peter John Archer, Univ. Minnesota (Human­ from two letters of protest. An artist member Hughes, Wallace Collection, London; Elis­ ities): The romantic suburb in Britain and "The Board of Directors of the College Art We urge you to write. (1) If your state is writes: Open Competition Awards: Craig Ad~ abeth Klemm, Bayerische StaatsbibL, Mu­ America before 1870; Petra ten-Doesschate Association oj America (the professionalsoci­ represented on either subcommittee, direct "I have been applying for a teaching posi­ cock, Florida State Vniv.: James Turrell: nich; Benjamin Lifson, Bard College; Chu, Seton Hall Vniv.: A critical edition of ely of artists and art histor£ans which repre­ your letter(s) to those member(s), with copies tion for the past three years. I am sure you can Light and Space; Fran Antmann. Baruch Annaliese Mayer-Meintschel, Gemaldegal­ the letters of Gustave Courbet; Joseph Con­ sents more than 9, 000 men and women in to your other senator(s) and representative(s). imagine how taxing this process is financially, College, C. V.N. Y. and Deborah Poole, inde­ erie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlun­ nors, Columbia Univ.: The architecture of American colleges, universities, and muse­ (2) If your state is not represented, write to physically, and emotionally. I have noted a pendent scholar: The Photographer and the gen, Dresden; Jennifer Montagu, Warburg Francesco Borromini; Charlotte Douglas, ums) wishes to express its deep concern over the chair of each committee and send copies trend in the last couple of CAA Placement Indian: A Historical Analysis of Photographic Inst., London; Robert Nelson, Univ. Chi­ Hunter College, C. V.N. Y.: A comprehensive the reductions in service at the Library of to your home delegation. (This information Listings: hiring institutions are requiring Representation in the Andes; Leslie Bru­ cago; Ann Percy, Philadelphia Musewn of overview of Russian art, 1880-1930; J.M. Congress that have resulted from recently can be obtained from your local League of transcripts, both graduate and undergrad­ baker, Wheaton College: The Homilies of Art; Anne Poulet, Museum of Fine Arts, Bos­ Edelstein, National Ga1leryof Art: A bibliog­ imposed budget cuts. Women Voters.) uate, as part of the initial application packet. Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (B.N. gr. 510); ton; Eduard Safarik, Galleria Doria Pam­ raphy of the Cwnmington Press and Abattoir ''As the de facto national library of the "I must protest this practice. It can more Michael Driskel, Brown Univ.: The Tomb of philj, Rome; Erika Simon. Martin von Wag­ Editions; Rona Goffen, Duke Vniv.: Giovan­ United States ofAmen'ca, the Library ofCon­ than double the cost in both time and money Napoleon at the Invalides; Gail Feigen­ ner Museum, Univ. Wurzburg. For further ni Bellini and the Renaissance in Venice; gress is central to the work ofall researchers in House Appropriations Committee, of an application. If the institution must have baum, National Gallery of Art: Lodovico information about the program: Dept. of John T. Kirk, Boston Univ.: The relation­ the nation. Shortening the hours of service at Legislative Branch Subcommittee: verification of credentials, couldn't it be re­ Carracci and Bolognese Painting, 1605- Academic Affairs, JPGM, P.O. Box 2112, ship of American art and artifact; Peter C. the Library, limiting the acquisition funds Chairman: Vic Fazio, California (Dem) quired of the group of finalists for a position? 1625; Lynn Garafola. independent scholar: Santa Monica, CA 90406. (213) 459-7611, Papademetriou. Rice Univ.: The life and available for the purchase of research mate­ Arkansas, Bill Alexander (Dem) The savings would be considerable. Whatever Dance and the Artistic Avant-garde: Paris ext. 254. career of Eero Saarinen; Allan Sekula. Cali­ dals, and cutting the staff who provide cata­ California, Jerry Lewis (Rep) the purpose I am not sure the schools have and London in the 1920's; Andre Rouille, fornia Inst. Arts: The relationship between Villv. Paris: Nadar: une' chance pour l'his­ loging and reference service, will do great Illinois, John E. Porter (Rep) considered the hardship that these require­ GETTY MUSEUM instrumental realism and photographic toire de la photographie; Herman Tun. in­ damage to our fields of specialization, in­ Indiana, John T. Meyers (Rep) ments place on an applicant who is already STUDENT PROGRAM modernism. dependent scholar: The Vedic Background of deed, to members of Congress and academic Louisiana, Lindy Boggs (Dem) facing a rigorous and expensive procedure TheJ. Paul Getty Museum program offers op­ the Buddhist Stupa in India; Bonna Wes­ colleagues in many other areas as well. The Massachusetts, Silvio O. Conte (Rep) with a bleak employment picture. portunities for undergraduate and graduate coat, EmoryUniv.: The Architectural Recon­ Library contains many works available no­ Michigan, Bob Traxler (Dem) "I hope the CAA will consider this protest Artists students to obtain practical training in art struction, Sculptural Program, and Histor­ where else in the United States; limiting ac­ Mississippi, Jamie Whitten (Dem) and try to discourage this practice among its museum work. Appointments for the 1986- ical Significance of the Temple of Athena at cess to these works imposes a great hardship Pennsylvania, John P. Murtha (Dem) hiring member institutions." Terry Allen. Fresno, Calif.: visual art; John 87 academic year: Graduate Student Interns: Assos; Aslihan Yener, Markoe Fellow, Metro­ on those who need to consult them, especially Wisconsin, David R. Obey (Dem) And from the other side, a professor of art Baldessari. California lost. Arts: visual art; Lesley Beaumont. Vniv. College London, politan Museum of Art: Silver and Tin in An­ those who have come to Washington Jrom Address: House Office Building history complained about a job candidate Richard Beckett, N.Y.C.: painting; James education; Patricia Butz, USC, antiquities; tiquity: The Art of Metals in the Near East. other parts of the country and must use their Washington, DC 20515 who had accepted a short-term offer only to Benning, N.Y.C.: filmmaking; Richard William Diebold. Johns Hopkins, manu­ limited time with the greatest efficiency. renege when he received a better offer from M.A. Benson, Yale Univ.: photography; Ju­ scripts; Elisabeth Doumeyrou, Univ. Paris­ Institutional Awards (awarding institu­ Foregoing the purchase of current publica­ Senate Appropriations Committee, another institution. The professor argued: dith Black, Brandeis Vniv.: photography; Sorbonne, antiquities; Peggy Fogelman, tion indicated in parentheses after project): tions, and reducing the purchase of older Legislative Branch Subcommittee: 1) for the students who were "totally involved Thomas Bohnert, Charles Stewart Mott Brown, sculpture and works of art; Ariane Robert Baldwin, Connecticut College.: The titles not already in the Library, will work per­ Chairman: Alfonse M. D'Amato, in the selection process ... Those students Community College: sculpture; Jed Devine, Haack, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm Vniv. Art of Paradox: A Tradition in Northern manent damage on the collectt'ons; tt is: often New Yo,k (Rep) were deeply involved and committed. What S.U.N. Y. College at Purchase: photography; Bonn, drawings; Sally Thirkettle, Hamilton European Religious Art, 1400-1700 (Har­ impossible to secure books at a reasonable Alaska, Ted Stevens (Rep) do you think it meant to them when the candi­ John Divola. California Inst. Arts: photog­ Kerr Inst., Univ. Cambridge, paintings con­ vard); Jane Carter, Tulane Univ.: The Arts pn'ce, if at all, once they have gone out oj Arkansas, Dale Bumpers (Dem) date they had helped pick reneged? What raphy; Christopher Duncan, White Creek, servation; Godelieve Vandenbulcke, Rijks­ N. Y.: sculpture; Garth Evans. Brooklyn, of Early Sparta (Yale); BettyCrouther, Univ. pdnt. Therefore, it stands to reason that if re­ Oregon, Mark D. Hatfield (Rep) kind of example do you think was set for univ. Ghent, antiquities conservation; Hans Mississippi: F.O. Sylvester and Landscape sources are to be used economically, reduc­ South Carolina, Ernest Hollings (Dem) them?"; 2) for postponement of the appoint­ N.Y,: sculpture; Bill Fontana. Berkeley, Van Miegroet, Univ. California, Santa Bar­ Painting in St. Louis (Stanford); Stuart tt'om in acquisitions must be avot'ded at all Address: Senate Office Building ment by the second institution: "If the Calif.: sound sculpture; Paul GIabicki, bara, paintings; Gwendolyn Walden, Johns Vniv. Pittsburgh: filmmaking; Richard Gor­ Culver, Univ. Arkansas: Henry James and cost. And if books and periodicals are not Washington, DC 20510 III members of the department with the perma­ Hopkins, education; Barbara Wojcik-Glo­ Photography Uohns Hopkins); Whitney nent slot are so eager to have 'X' on their per­ don, Philadelphia: filmmaking; Frank P. wiak, Univ. Geneve, provenance index. Herrera. Martinsburg, W. Va.: photog­ Davis, Harvard: The Origins of Art (UC, manent staff, could they not wait a year while Undergraduate Student Assistants: Susan Berkeley); Sabine Hake, William & Victoria 'X' fulfilled his/her commitment instead of raphy; Gary Hill, Cornish Inst. Seattle: Brock. Mount Holyoke, manuscripts; Cath­ Minerva Navarrete, associate director Dailey Rare Books & Prints: The Making of knowingly or unknowingly conspiring with video; Alvin Loving, Virginia Common­ erine Fazekas, Seton Hall, public informa­ the Mass Audience: A Study of Cinema in him/her to dishonor it?"-and 3) for the other wealth Vniv.: painting; William Miles, tion; Amy Lyford. Pomona College, sculp­ N.Y.C.: filmmaking; Mary Miss, School Weimer (Bryn Mawr); Andrew Morrogh, At its Spring meeting, the Executive Com­ candidates: "I felt obligated to let them know ture and works of art; Vanya Tulenko, N. Y. V.: Michelangelo's Campidoglio mittee of the CAA Board of Directors voted to the position had been filled as soon as our first of Visual Arts: sculpture; Gwynn Murrill, Vassar, decorative arts; Lorna Vartanian, (Princeton); Marjorie Munsterberg, Colum­ change Minerva Navarrete's title from Busi­ choice accepted. They thereupon took them­ Agoura, Calif.: sculpture; Nicholas Nixon, V.C.L.A., provenance index; Amy Werbel, bia: Mid-19th Century Criticism of the Art of ness Manager to Associate Director, a title selves out of a competition that turned out to Mass. College Art: photography; Enrique Harvard, drawings; Joseph Wolin, Univ. Oliver, Boston: filmmaking; Stephen Posen, j.M.W. Turner (N.Y. V.); Lauren Wein~ which more accurately reflects her many re­ be still open." The professor concludes, "In a Arizona, antiquities. garden, Florida State Vniv.: Architecture as sponsibilities. Minerva, who has been a key to situation where commitments are meaning­ N.Y.C.: painting; Art Rogers, Point Reyes, Calif: photography; David Salle, N.Y.C.: Language: Reconnecting Sullivan's Theory the smooth running of the CAA for fourteen­ less and everyone is out for himself/herself, it and Practice (Univ. Michigan). ACASA LEADERSHIP AWARDS and-a-half years, will continue to oversee the will not be senior, tenured professors who suf­ painting for the theatre; Deborah Shaffer. N.Y.C.: filmmaking; Glenn Silver, Los The Arts Council of the African Studies Asso­ administrative functions of the office, mem­ fer. It will be those in positions of weakness, Angeles: filmmaking; Bill Stephens. N. Y. C.: GETTY SCHOLARS ciation established this year a Leadership bership, placement, advertising, as well as to the young professionals." video; May Stevens, School of Visual Arts: Each year the J. Paul Getty Museum sponsors Award to honor those individuals whose ac­ assist with annual meeting planning, and a The AAUP, in response to this professor's painting; JoAnn Verburg, Minneapolis: a guest scholar residency program for the ad­ complishments best exemplify excellence in myriad of other tasks. SB .. complaint, agreed that "the faculty member who accepts a position should honor the com­ photography; Philip Wofford. Bennington vancement of research undertaken by indi­ the study of African art. William Fagg and mitment' and a later offer for a 'better' posi­ College: painting; Al Wong. College San vidual scholars. Specialists in fields related to Roy Sieber are the first recipients of the tion does not present sufficient reason to Francisco Art Inst.: Light and shadow instal­ the areas of the Museum collections have been award. defeat the commitment." .. lation. invited to work from one to nine months on Minerva Navarrete Conttnued on p. 6, col. 1

4 CAA newsletter Summer 1986 5 Igrants and awards people and programs Art Bulletin

FRANCIS GREENBURGER Natalie B. Kampen, Univ. Rhode Island: NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER book review editor J. Material for inclusion in People and Pro­ FOUNDATION AWARDS Historical Reliefs of the Roman Provinces; Forty-one scholars will work at the NHC in grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ The Foundation (founded in 1986) has an­ Barbara A. Kellum, Smith College: The City Research Triangle Park, North Carolina as tion, 149 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. 10016. Jim Jordan, professor of art history at Dart­ nounced the recipients of its first annual Adorned: Programmatic Decoration in Fellows or Associates for the academic year Deadlt'ne for next issue: 15 August. mouth College has been named the new book awards, established to acknowledge artists Augustan Rome; Clayton R. Koppes, Ober­ 1986,-87. Among them: Rona Goffen, Duke review editor of The Art Bulletin, effective whose contributions merit wider recognition. lin (American History): Censorship and the Univ.: Giovanni Bellini and the Renaissance IN MEMORIAM July 1. He replaces Malcolm Campbell, Uni­ The prizesof$5,OOO each were given to paint­ Democratic Art: The Hays Office and Holly­ in Venice; B.N. Goswamy, Panjab Univ.: A versity of Pennsylvania, whose three-year er Darby Bannard, Princeton, N.J,; sculptor wood; W.J.T. Mitchell, Univ. Chicago: History of Painting and Drawing in India; Lotte Brand Philip, died May 2 at the age of term has expired. Willard Boepple, N. Y. C.; weaver and paint­ Word and Image in the Arts; Maria Teresa Robert S. Nelson, Univ. Chicago: Theodore 75. Philip was an internationally known Jordan received his Ph.-D. in art history er Rosemarie Koczy. New Haven, Conn.; M. Moevs, Rutgers: A Study of the Greek Fig­ Hagiopetrites, A Late Byzantine Scribe and expert on northern Renaissance European from the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y. U. (1974) painter John Register, Malibu, Calif.; and urative 'and Decorative Arts in the 3rd Cen­ Illuminator; Aileen Ward, New York Univ. painting and the author of books and schol­ where he received the James C. Healy Award painter Anthony Terenzio, Storrs, Conn. An tury B.C.; John G. Pedley, Univ. Michigan: (Dept. English): A Critical BiographyofWil­ arly papers on Jan van Eyck, Hieronymous for the most outstanding dissertation in the exhibition of their work will be held June 25- Architecture and Sculpture from the Sanc­ liam Blake. Bosch and Albrecht Diirer. Born in Germany, non-sciences for "Paul Klee and Cubism, July 12 at Ruth Siegel Limited, N.Y.C. tuary of Santa Venera at Paestum; Jonathan Philip received her doctorate from the Uni­ 1912--'-1926." He also holds a B.F.A. and B. Riess, Univ. Cincinnati:- Luca Signorelli's SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, versity of Freiburg in 1938. She came to the M.P. A. in studio painting from the University Orvieto Frescoes and the Culture of Apoca­ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN United States in 1941 and taught at Bryn of Iowa. Jordan has been teaching at Dart­ lypticism in the Late 15th-Century Italy; ART VISITOR'S GRANTS Mawr College, N.Y.U., and the New School mouth since 1980 and has been chair of the Judith C. Rohrer, Hartford, Conn.: Archi­ Recent recipients of the Short-Term Visitors before joining the faculty of Queens College departments of art and art history for five tecture and Politics in Barcelona, 1880-1920; Grant at SI, NMAA have been: Peter Ber­ in 1961, from which she retired in 1980. In years, Prior to that he taught at the Institute Peter M. Rutkoff, Kenyon College (Amer­ mingham, Univ. Arizona Museum of Art recent years, Philip was known for her much of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. from 1974 to 1980. ican Studies): New York Modern: The Arts (Oct. 9-20, 1985): Horatio Walker; Wendy publicized identification of a Diirer portrait His publications include The Painting of and the City, 1900-1975; Paul E. Sprague, Greenhouse, Ph.D. cando Yale (Oct. 28- in Nuremberg as a picture of the artist's Arsht'le Gorky: A Critical Catalogue (1982) Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee: A Documented Nov. 20, 1985): Daniel Huntington and his mother and was featured on European tele­ with Robert Goldwater, which received a Mil­ Catalogue of the Early Work of Frank Lloyd Contemporaries as Portrayers of British His­ vision explaining her process of identifica­ lard Meiss Publication Fund Grant; Paul Klee Wright; Paul J. Staiti, Mount Holyoke: The tory, 1835-1865; Peg Weiss, Syracuse Univ. tion. In 1985 a festschrift was published in and Cubism (1984); Gorky: Drawings, exhibi­ Life and WorkofSamuelF.B. Morse; Damie (Oct. 28-Nov. 28, 1985), NMAA Library Philip's honor entitled Tribute to Lotte tion and catalogue (1969); and numerous Stillman, Univ. Delaware: American Neo­ Perret Collection and Scheyer Galka; Laura Brand PhiltP, Art Historian and Detectt've articles and reviews on modern art. III Jim M. Jordan classical Architecture: The Federal Period; Meixner, Cornell Univ. (Dec. 16~ Jan. 24, (Abaris Books). A memorial service will be Robert F. Storey, Temple (American Litera­ 1986): American Responses to French Avant­ held September 16, at 6 P. M. at the Lotos ture): The Symbolist Movement in American Garde Art: 1850-1910; Michael Dunn, Club, 5 East 66th Street, N.Y.C. Literature and Art; William E. Wallace, Univ. Aukland(Mar. 31-Apr. 31): The Influ­ Washington Univ., St. Louis: The Workshops ences of Impressionism on American Painting Henry Plumer Mcilhenny, collector and and Assistants of Michelangelo Buonarroti; of the Late 19th Century. philanthropist, who devoted over fifty years of Kendall L. Walton, Univ. Michigan (Phil­ service to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, James Johnson Sweeney, art critic, historian, osophy): A Philosophical Study of Represen­ 1986 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF died May 11. McIlhenny graduated magna curator, and controversial museum director, tation in the Arts; Dora L. Wiebenson, Univ. AMERICA RESEARCH FELLOWS cum laude from Harvard in 1933 and contin­ died April 14. From 1945 to 1946 Sweeney Virginia: Interpretations of Vitruvius's Trea­ Short-term Fellowships to help support schol­ ued with graduate,studies in the history of art, served as director of the department of paint­ tise on Architecture from 1450 to the Present; ars undertaking research associated wi~h the Darby Bannard studying with Paul Sachs. He was curator of ing at the Museum of Modern Art, where he Brucia Witthoft, Framingham State Col­ study of the history of books and printing were decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum organized several important exhibitions, in­ lege: The Artist-Family Smillie in 19th-Cen­ awarded by BSA. Among the recipients: of Art from 1935 until 1964, taking leaves to cluding a retrospective of Mondrian. In 1952, tury America; Joanna E. Ziegler, College of NEH FELLOWSHIPS Georgia B. Bumgardner, American Anti­ serve in the United States Naval Reserve from he was named director of the Guggenheim, The National Endowment for the Humanities Holy Cross: The Brabantine Gothic Church. quarian Society: The History of the Illustra­ 1942 to 1946 and to be the resident art histor­ and served during the construction of Frank has awarded 262 fellowships for up to $27,500 tion of American Literature to 1865; Michael ian at the American Academy in Rome from Lloyd Wright's building, about which he was each, which provide support for independent Gullick, Camberwell School of Art and 1947 to 1948. Upon stepping down as curator, not enthusiastic. Sweeney, became director of scholars, and college and university faculty Crafts, London: English and French Medi­ McIlhenny was elected a member of the the Museum afFine Arts in Houston in 1961, members to undertake full time study, re­ eval Manuscripts in Medieval Bindings pre- Board of Trustees; he was Chairman of the a post he held for seven years, after which he search, and writing. Among the recipients: 1225 in U.S.A. Collections; William P. 1985 LOGAN GRANTS FOR NEW Board from 1976 until his death. McIlhenny served as art adviser and chairman of the Stoneman, Victoria College, Univ. Toronto: Rebecca L. Ammermcan, Colgate: The WRITING ON PHOTOGRAPHY continued his family's impressive tradition of executive committee at the Israel Museum in Mould-Made Goddess: A Study of Votive The Photographic Resource Center at Boston Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in North Amer­ civic leadership and devotion to the arts. Fol­ Jerusalem. Terracottas in Magna Graecia; John Belton, University has announced that twelve writers ican Collections. Inquiries about the Fellow­ lowing this tradition, McIlhenny bequeathed Columbia: CinemaScope: Technique and have been awarded a total of $1 0,000 through ship program: Executive Secretary, BSA, to the Museum his collection which is best Technology; Vincent Bruno, Univ. Texas, the Reva and David Logan Foundation P.O. Box 397, GrandCentraISta., New York, known for its French 19th-and early 20th­ ACADEME Arlington: Delos and Pompeii: A Compara­ Grants in Support of New Writing on NY 10163. century paintings and drawings, as well as im­ The Inaugural Exhibition of The National tive Study of Greek and Roman Painting Photography. Several of the award-winning portant English pictures and decorative arts Techniques; Wanda M. Corn, Stanford: manuscripts will be published in upcoming ARTISTS FOUNDATION AWARDS and sculpture. McIlhenny also bequeathed to Museum of Women in the Arts, "American Cultural Nationalism in Post World War I editions of VIEWS, the PRC's quarterly jour­ The Boston_based Foundation announced the the Museum the sum of $250,000 to endow a Kenneth Campbell Women Artists, 1830-1930," which opens in American Art; Keith F. Davis, Kansas City, nal. The recipients are: Andy Grundberg, winners of the 1986 Massachusetts Fellowship fund to maintain and augment his collection. April, 1987, will be curated by Eleanor Mo.: George N. Barnard: Photographer of N. Y. C.; Diana Schoenfeld, Goleta, Calif.; Program for various fields in the arts. Among Tufts, professor of art history at Southern Shennan's Campaign; Michael T. Davis, Shelley Rice, N.Y.C.; Miles OrveIl, Phil­ the recipients of the $7,500 Fellowships in David DuBon, former curator of medieval Sculptor Kenneth Campbell died April 18. Methodist University. Tufts was also recently Mount Holyoke: Paris, Jean des Champs, and adelphia; Thomas Goodman, Philadelphia; Film: Michael Burlingame, Boston; Deb­ and renaissance decorative arts at the Phil­ Campbell was a trustee of the International elected corresponding member of the His­ the Development of Rayonnant Architecture Joseph Masheck; Edward W. Earle; David orah Lefkowitz, Cambridge; Julie ZamM adelphia Museum of Art, died March 16. Sculpture Symposium of Baltimore, and pro­ panic Society of America in recognition of her in Southern France; Alfred K. Frazer, Herwaldt, Cambridge, Mass.; David L. marchi, Boston, Finalist Awards in Film DuBon joined the Philadelphia Museum as fessor emeritus of sculpture at the University book, Luis Melendez, 18th-Century Master Columbia: The Roman Villa Urbana: 2nd­ Jacobs, Tucson; Jaroslav Andel, N.Y.C.; ($500): Alexandra Anthony, Cambridge; assistant curator of decorative arts in 1958 of Maryland, where, over a fifteen year peri­ oj the Spanish Still Life. Century B.C.-2nd-Century A.D.; Jane F. Daile Kaplan, N.Y. C.; and Theodore C. Caroline Avery, Somerville; Sean Eunson, and became curator of medieval and renais­ od, he taught stone carving to over 2,000 stu­ We also hear from Texas that Maurice J. Fulcher, Indiana Univ.: Politics, Culture, Landsmark, Boston. Guidelines for the South Boston; Enrique Oliver, Boston; sance decorative arts, serving in that capacity dents. He also taught at Columbia University, Sevigny, Jr., will become chairman of the and Wagnerian Opera in fin-de-siecle Fourth Annual Logan Grants (1986) are now Phillip Solomon, Roxbury. Video Finalist from 1966 until his retirement last year. He Queens College, University of Kentucky, Uni­ department of art at the University of Texas France; Michael A. Holly, Hobart & Wil­ available. SendSASEto: LG, PRC, 602 Com­ ($500): William Seaman, Cambridge, continued to act as consulting curator until versity of Rhode Island at Kingston, and the at Austin, effective September 1. Sevigny liams Smith: The Origins of Art History; monwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. his death. Silvermine Guild. served as the director of the School of Art at Continued on p. 14, col. 1 Continued on p. 8, col. 1

7 6 CAA newsletter Summer 1986 /people and programs conferences and symposia

Bowling Green State University, Bowling son of the department of art at Shippensburg The Evaluative Process in Rome: Tradition, Renewal and Innovation World Art: Themes of Unity in Diversity Green, Ohio, for the past seven years. George University in Pennsylvania. Contemporary Art An international conference, sponsored by The theme of the XXVIth International Con­ Bunker, a member of the painting faculty at The topic of Mountain Lake Symposium 7 to The Canadian Academic Centre in Rome gress of the History of Art to be held in Wash­ the University of Houston-University Park be held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with the collaboration of The Universities Art ington' D.C., 10-15 August, under the spon­ and chairman of the art department from Samuel Beizer. professor of jewelry design at 17-18 October. Participants in the confer­ Association of Canada, to be held in Rome, sorship of The N adonal Committee for the 1974 to 1984, has been named professor the Fashion Institute of Technology in New ence (organized by Virginia Commonwealth June 1987, in tribute to Richard Krautheimer History of Art, Inc., and with the support of: emeritus of art. Under his guidance the de­ York, has been elected chair of the depart­ University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, (on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday) and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; J. Paul Getty partment initiated its MFA Programs, added ment. A jewelry designer and manufacturer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni­ to Leonard Boyle, Prefect of the Biblioteca Trust; National Endowment for the Humani­ a major in Photography and Video, and es­ Beizer founded F. 1. T.'s jewelry design pro­ versity, and S. U.N. Y. at Stony Brook) include Apostolica Vaticana. Proposals for papers are ties; Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; and tablished the Print Study Collection. Before gram in 1974 and served as the department's Yves-Alain Bois, Suzi Gablik, Allan Kaprow, welcomed in any of the official languages of Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Sessions (to be coming to Houston, Bunker held teaching first chair. He has been a member of the Donald Kuspit, Annette Michelson, and Wie­ the conference: English, French, Italian, and held at Georgetown University) and chairs: and administrative positions at the Philadel­ F.I.T. faculty since 1965. land Schmied. For further information: German. Proposals, accompanied by a one Center and Periphery: Dissemination and phia College of Art. Department of 20th Century Art, VMFA, page typed abstract, should be sent directly to Assimilation oj Style: Enrico Castelnuovo, Boulevard and Grove Avenue, Richmond, the session organizer. Sessions and organizers: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and Vadime News from the Southeast: Barbara DeCon­ VA 23221. (804) 257-6479. Rome-A Historical Perspective. Philip Eliseesf, Musee de'Ennery, Paris; Conceptual cini (Ph.D. Emory Univ.) has been named Jacks, Dept. Visual Arts, Univ. Western On­ Designs: Diagrams and Geometric Patterns: academic dean of The Atlanta College of Art Aspects of the Real tario, London, Ont. N6A 5B7. Theurbaniza­ Kurt Forster, J.P. Getty Center, and Richard where she has taught since 1976. Duke Uni­ Because of recent events, the symposium to tion of Rome in light of its classical typog­ Wollheim, Univ. College, London; The Writ­ versity reports that William Noland (sculp­ have been held 7-9 June at the Chateau de la raphy, modern archaeological discoveries ten Word in Art and as Art: Klaus Brisch, tor) is joining the department in 1986-87 as Napoule on the French Riviera (see Spring and concepts of the ideal city, late medieval to Free Univ. and Museum f. Islamische Kunst, a visting artist and that Ann Epstein. who 1986 newsletter) has been rescheduled. It will twentieth century. W. Berlin, and Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton teaches Byzantine art, has been promoted to MUSEUMS now be held at the University of New Hamp­ Rome in the 12th Century. John Osborne, Univ.; The Artist: Albert Elsen, Stanford the rank of associate professor. Margaret shire, 11-13 July. For further information: Dept. History Art, Univ. Victoria, P.O. Box Univ., and Matthias Winner, Biblioteca Gorove, chair of the art department at the The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the Jack Beal, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH, 1700, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2, and Malco~m Hertziana, Rome; Art dnd Ritual: John University of Mississippi, and grand prize appointment of Lori Starr (M.A. Univ. Durham. NH 03824. (603) 862-2190. Thurlby, Dept. Visual Arts, York Univ., 4700 Onians, Univ. East Anglia, and Robert Schel­ winner of the Mississippi Artists Competitive, Virginia) as head of public information. She Keele St., Downsview, Ont. M3J IP3. Exam­ ler, Kunsthistorisch Inst., Amsterdam; Art reports an active semester with the offering of comes to the Getty from the University of Victorian Scandals: Decorum and ination of awakening interest in classical and National Identity in the Americas: Fran­ their first computer design course and the ad­ Southern California's School of Fine Arts, its Enemies buildings and statues in the city, as reflected cisco Stastny, Univ. Nac. Mayor San Marcos, dition of Paula Temple (M.F.A. Tennessee­ where she served as director of the Visual Arts The topic of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of both in texts and contemporary artistic pro­ Lima, and Jules D. Prown, Yale Univ.; and Knoxville) as assistant professor in charge of Program since 1984 and as lecturer in the the Midwest Victorian Studies Association to duction. Preserving World Art: Francoise Choay, visual communications. In addition, Ron USC Museum Studies Program. Anne B. be held in Chicago, 24- 25 April 1987. Pro­ Recent Restoration ofRoman Monuments. Univ. Paris, and Paul Philippot, Univ. Libre Dale (ceramics) has had an SAF!NEA Ayers (Ph.D. Univ. Southern California), posals are welcomed which examine chal­ Joseph Polzer, Dept. Art, Univ. Calgary, 2500 Bruxelles. In addition the Visual Resources Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship; David presently a part-time faculty member of the lenges to accepted standards -social, moral, University Dr., N .E., Calgary, Alta. T2N Group will sponsor three sessions chaired by Stearns was elected president of the Tennes­ department of fine arts, USC, has been ap­ aesthetic, or intellectual-in Victorian Brit­ IN4. Technical problems of restorations or Helene Roberts, Harvard Univ.: Photog­ see Chapter of ASID and is on the ASID Na­ pointed associate curator of exhibitions and ain. Send eight-to ten-page papers or two­ with the art historical implications of such raphy: The Basic Record; Technology: The tional Board, Betty Crowther (Ph.D. Univ. Antje Bultmann Lemke collections at the Newport Harbor Art Muse­ page abstracts to: Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, work. Possibt'it'ties; and Technology: The Cost. For Missouri) has been awarded a Getty Postdoc­ um where she will be directly responsible for MVSA Executive Secretary, Dept. of English Venice and the Two Romes. Debra Pincus, complete details: Harriet Mayor, Exec. Secy., toral Fellowship for next year, and Althea the Museum's ongoing New California Artists and Communication, DePaul University, Dept. Art History, Univ. British Columbia, XXVIth ICHA, CASVA, National Gallery of Williams, fonner head of the Oakland Muse­ series and will assist NHAM curator Paul 2323 North Seminary Avenue, Chicago, IL 6333 Memorial Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T Antje Dultmann Lemke, professor at Syra­ Art, Washington, DC 20565. (202) 842-6502. um Education Department, has been named Schimmel in administering the Museum's 60614-3298. lW5, and Warren Tresidder, Dept. Art & Art cuse University, School of Infonnation Stud­ Distinguished Lecturer, supervising the grad­ changing exhibition program and permanent History, McMaster Univ., 1280 Main St., ies, retired in May after thirty-five years of The Scholarly Tradition in Chinese Art uate seminars and offering a course on Muse­ collection of contemporary art. National Association of Artists' West Hamilton, Ont. L8S 4MZ. How and for teaching. Lemke, active in the art and library A symposium, sponsored by the Friends of the um Education. Organizations 1986 Conference what reasons is material from Byzantium communities since the early 1950's, was Chinese University Art Gallery, Hong Kong, The Spencer Museum of Art at the University To be held in Buffalo, 19-21 September. Par­ and! or Rome utilized in both the public and awarded the Chancellor's Citation for Excep­ to be held at the Academy of Perfonning Robert L. Thorp (Ph.D. Univ. Kansas), of Kansas has filled the newly created position ticipants include William Olander, The New private art of Venice at various points in its tional Academic Achievement in 1980, and in Arts, 30 October-l November. The partici­ assistant professor of art and archaeology at of curator of education with Anne P. EI­ Museum of Contemporary Art; painter/ long history or affect the way in which the art 1985, the Post Standard Award for Distin­ pating international academics in the 'field Washington University in St. Louis, is co-cur­ Omami (M.A. Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), sculptor Fletcher Mackey, and Suzanne Lacy. of Venice is used in other centers? guished Service to Syracuse University Librar­ will examine how the scholar class evolved ating "Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of who will have a joint appointment as assistant For full details: NAAO, 930 F Street, N.W., Collectors, Antt'quarz'ans and Dealers after ies. In recognition of her commitment to ex­ and the profound influence scholarly aesthet­ China," with Yang Xiaoneng, the chief Chi­ professor of art education. William J. Washington, DC 20004. 1500. Clifford M. Brown, Dept. Art History, cellence, the School of Information Studies is ics have had on the development of painting, nese curator. Thorp and Yang are working Chiego (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve), chief Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont. KIS 5B6. establishing a scholarship fund and book philosophy, calligraphy and the decorative together to select objects, write the catalog curator of the North Carolina Museum of Art National Sculpture Conference: Works by Papers should either deal with individual ital­ award for outstanding Masters of Library works, focusing especially on the Ming and and design the exhibit which will open in fall in Raleigh, N. C., has been selected to become Women ian or Northern European cities or with spe­ Science Students. Qing periods. For further information: 1987 and travel for a year to four American director of Oberlin College's Allen Memorial This first-time conference to be held 7-10 cific personalities. Organizing Committee, GPO Box 9861, cities to be selected from the northwest, Art Museum, which was founded in 1917 as May 1987, will focus on the accomplishments Rome as the New Christian Capital. W. Hong Kong. south, midwest, and east. the first college art museum west of the Alle­ of American women sculptors, giving special Chandler Kirwin, Dept. Art, Univ. Guelph, ghenies. Chiego served as associate curator of attention to contemporary work in all fifty Guelph, Ont. NIG 2W1. Investigation of the The Albert Dome Visiting Professor at the And from the west: COnstantine Christofides European paintings at the Toledo Museum of states. Related topics of interest to sculptors, final grand chapter in Christian Rome's artis­ South-Central Renaissance Conference University of Bridgeport for 1986 is painter (Ph.D., comparative lit., Univ. Michigan) Art from 1974 to 1976 and curator, 1976- critics, curators, historians, educators, archi­ tic development from late 16th to mid-18th To be held at Baylor University in Waco, and printmaker George McNeil. Previous has been appointed director of the School of 1978 and then chief curator of the Ponland tects, dealers and patrons will be addressed. century. Papers on all aspects of the city as Texas, 2-4 April 1987. Papers are especially Dome Visiting Professors have included Art at the University of Washington, Seattle, Art Museum from 1978 to 1982 when he went Proposals for additional panels are invited. artifact and symbol, particularly on responses invited on: Renaissance Iconography, Melan­ Robert Motherwell, Barnet Newman, Louise where he has served as chair of romance lan­ to North Carolina. The Toledo Museum of Louise Bourgeois is honorary conference to the RefoI]Ilation; the arts, religion and sci­ cholia; John Amos Comenius; Renaissance Nevelson, Roy Lichtenstein, Alice Neal, and guages and literatures and art history. He suc­ Art announces that Roger M. Berkowitz has chair. Among the participants already sche­ ence; the old and new worlds. Music in Shakespeare; and Class Discrimi­ Red Grooms. ceeds Richard R. Arnold, director since been promoted to deputy director in addition duled: April Kingsley, Samella S. Lewis, Submissions of any papers which do not fit nants. Papers from outside the region are wel­ 1977, who will continue as professor of art. to his on-going positions as chief curator and Eleanor Munro, and Virginia Watson-Jones. into any of the above sessions, as well as any come. Inquiries to program chair: Dorothy Gerald A. Matlick (M.F.A. Bowling Green Wanda M. Corn. professor of art history at curator of decor~tive arts, and Steve Fru­ For infonnation and proposal fonns, send general inquiries, should be made to Clifford Brown, Loyola University Box 14, 6363 St. State Univ.), coordinator of the department Stanford University, has been elected to the shour has been promoted to assistant curator SASE to: NSC: WW, College of DAAP, Uni­ M. Brown, head of Organizing Committee. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. of art at Brescia College, has accepted the Council of the American Studies Association for exhibitions. versityofCincinnati, ML-16, Cincinnati, OH Deadline: submissions must be received by 1 Submission deadline: 31 December. position of associate professor and chairper- to serve through February 1989. 45221. Deadline for proposals: 1 December. November. Contt'nued on p. 15, col. 1 Continued on p. 15, coL 2

8 CAA newsletter Summer 1986 9 directory of affiliated societies announcements

This directory is published annually on the basis o/information provided by the societies. The with Slide Buyers' Guide, 5th edition (pub­ Jewish Museum Metalwork Fellowships Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships Nikolaus Pevsner Memorial Appeals societies listed below have met specific standards for purpose, structure, range of acu'vi#es, and lished by Libraries Unlimited, Inc.). The Two fellowships of $500 each are available The Studies in Landscape Architecture pro­ In recognition of the extraordinary range of membership enrollment required for formal affiliation. Association sponsors and organizes confer- annually to artists with experience in silver­ gram at DO offers research fellowships for the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's energies and ence programs, workshops, and tours. smithing, metalwork, or metal sculpture who students working on dissertations or other achievements, two complementary appeals American Committee for South Asian Art (419) 372-2786. Purpose: A national organ­ are interested in creating contemporary final projects for their degrees. In addition, are being launched this year to commemorate (ACSAA). founded 1966. Membership 150- ization concerned with introductory college Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), founded Jewish ceremonial objects. Fellowships run postdoctoral fellowships are available for ad­ his name. The Department of History of Art 175. Annual dues: $15 regular; $7.50 student level art courses in both studio and art history. 1972. Membership: 3,500. Annual dues: $30 either November through February or March vanced research. Subject areas include His­ at Birkbeck College (University of London), and unemployed; $20 institutional; $25 or F.A.T.E. aims to promote discussion, analy­ members-at-Iarge and institutions; $20 plus through June and offer an opportunity· to tory of Gardens and Landscape Architecture, of which Pevsner was the first Professor from more, contributing. President: Doris Srin­ sis, focus and understanding of this area of chapter dues individuals. President: Annie work with master silversmith Moshe Zabari. Garden Ornament and Sculpture, Literature 1959 to 1969, has established a fund to create ivasan, Dept. of Art, George Washington the art curriculum. A further ojective is the Shaver-Crandell, Dept. of Art, City College, Prior knowledge ofJewish ritual not essential. and Gardens, and History of Botanical Illus­ a Nikolaus Pevsner Memorial Library within Univ., Washington, DC 20052. promotion of excellence in the initial under­ C.U.N. Y. National office: WCA, Moore Col­ For more information: Chava Wolpert Rich­ tration and Horticulture. For further infor­ the British Architectural Library at the Royal graduate learning experience in art. The lege of Art, 20th and the Parkway, Philadel­ ard, Tobe Pascher Workshop Fellowship Pro­ mation: Asst. DiT., DO, 1703 32nd Street, Institute of British Architects. This fund will The American Society for Hispanic Art RA. T.E. Newsletter and regional confer­ phia, PA 19103. Phone: (215) 854-0922. Pur­ gram,JM, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY NW, Washington, DC 20007. be used to purchase archival and antiquarian Historical Studies (ASHAHS), founded ences provide a platfonn for exchange and pose: dedicated to promoting the profession­ 10028. Application deadline: 7 September. material which the BAL would not othetwise 1975. Membership: 138. Annual dues: publication. (The organization has its own alism of women in the visual arts. Members be able to acquire. $12.50 regular; $7.50 students; $15 institu­ handbook on how to organize local confer­ include: artists, art historians, journalists, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Architectural History Prize In addition, a Pevsner Memorial Trust is tional. General Secretary: Phyllis Braff, ences.) Services also include participation in museum and gallery personnel, agents, art Nominations are being accepted for the 1986 The newly established Isaac Perry Prize in being set up to provide a fund to rescue out­ Nassau County Museum, 95 Middleneck national conferences. librarians, publishers, administrators, con­ Katherine Coffey Award, which is given an­ Local Architectural History is being offered standing works threatened or in decay. The Road, Sands Point, NY 11050. Purpose: The servators, art educators, collectors, students nually to an individual in the mid-atlantic by the Turpin Bannister Chapter of the Soci­ first project is to conserve the Clayton & Bell encouragement and advancement of studies Historians of Netherlandish Art, founded and friends of art. Annual conference, exhi­ region "for distinguished accomplishment in ety of Architectural Historians. Named after wallpaintings at the church of St. Michael, and research in the history of the arts of Spain 1983. Membership 200. Annual dues: $15. bitions, catalogs, quarterly newsletter, annu­ the museum profession." Nominations will be Isaac Perry who was New York's first State Garton-on-the-Wolds. The target figure is and Portugal, promoting interchange of President: Laurinda S. Dixon, Dept. Fine al directory and Hue Points, annual member­ considered based on the following qualifica­ Architect, the prize of $1,000 complements £100,000. information and ideas among members ship magazine. National networkofchapters. Arts, 441 Hall of Languages, Syracuse Uni­ tions: professional accomplishments in par­ the student level Phillip Hooker Prize of $250, Contributions to these memorials are being through meetings, publications, and other versity, Syracuse, NY 13210. Purpose: to ticular roles within a museum or museums; which has been offered for several years by the solicited. For further information on the means it deems appropriate. foster communication and collaboration Note: The Caucus for Marxism and Art, service to an individual museum; general same chapter. Architecture to be studied for NPML, contact Dr. Francis Ames-Lewis, among historians of northern European art. founded 1976, as reported to us is "currently public service through museum work; service these prizes must be located in upstate New Dept. History of Art, BC, Malet Street, Lon­ Art Libraries Society of North America in indefinite recess. " .. Society holds an annual meeting and pro­ on a regional, national or international level; York (more than twenty-five miles from don WC1E.7HX, U.K.; checks should be (ARLIS/NA), founded 1972. Membership: gram in conjunction with the CAA annual and service to the profession. Letters of nom­ Times Square), Vennont, or western Massa­ made payable to the British Architectural 1,250. Annual dues: $45 individual; $20 stu­ meeting; publishes two newsletters per year ination, reflecting these guidelines, should be chusetts, including Springfield. Competitors Library Trust (and marked 'Pevsner Fund' on dent; $75 institutional and business affiliate. and a Directory of Members; holds such sent to: KCA Committee, Attn: Charles need not reside in the area. For details of sub­ the reverse), and sent to the Librarian, BAL, Executive Director: Pamela Jeffcott Parry, scholarly symposia as may be funded, ideally Hummel, Deputy Dir. for Collections, Win­ missiqn requirements: Perry Prize, School of RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London WIN. 3900 E. Timrod Street, Tucson, AZ 85711. . DIRECTORY OF TERMINAL once every 3-4 years. terthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735. Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti­ 4AD, U.K. For infonnation about the Pevs­ Phone: (602) 881-8479. Purpose: to promote MASTER DEGREE l'·ROGRAMS Nominations deadline: 1 August. tute, Troy, NY 12180-3590. Submission ner Memorial Trust: John Newman Esq., the development, good management, and en­ IN ART HISTORY AND . MAAM offers eight fellowships to enable deadline for 1986-87 competition: 30 Sep­ Courtauld Institute of Art, 20 Portman lightened use of all art libraries and visual The International Center of Medieval Art, RELATED AREAS students, interns, and entry-level profes­ tember 1987. Square, London WIH.OBE, U.K. resources collections, and to further the inter­ founded 1956. Membership: 950. Annual Th1~' dinkt'ory is Da~ed'bri 'a ~urvey pre~ sionals to attend the Association's annual ests and goals of all professionals involved dues: $30 active (U.S. only); $35 active (all '" pared :by a ,c()tr-mittee headed by Ga~ meeting, which this year will be held in Scran­ with the organization and retrieval of art other countries); $15 students (aU countries); Harvard Mellon Fellowships briel, Weisberg, University, of Minne­ ton, Pa., 19-22 October. Fellows receive a University of Edinburgh Fellowships information. The Society holds an annual $50 institutional; $100-$499 contributing; Approximately twenty-five visiting research For non-tenured, experienced junior scholars sota, Serving with Weisberg-were,Petra $200 stipend, waiver of registration fee, tick­ conference, sponsors two annual awards for $500- $999 sustaining; $1,000 + benefactor. fellowships at UE's Institute for Advanced who have completed, at the time of appoint­ ten~Doesschate Chu. Seton Hall Uni­ ets to other meeting events and a one-year excellence in art-related activities, and Secretary: Linda Morey Papanicolaou, Studies in the Humanities are available for ment, at least two years postdoctoral teaching versity; Selma Holo, University of complimentary membership in MAAM. ICMA, The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, 1987-89. Open to both established and as assistant professors. Special consideration publishes Art Documentation quarterly, I' Southern California: and Edward J. Housing and transportation are the responsi­ ARLISINA Update quarterly, and an an­ N.Y.C. 10040. Phone: (212) 928-1146. Pur­ younger scholars (with Ph.D. or equivalent), will be given to candidates who have not re­ Olszewski, Case Western Reserve Uni­ bility of the recipient. Applications should nual Handbook and List of Members. pose: ICMA is dedicated to the study of medi­ fellowships last between one and six months. cently had access to the resources of a major versity. The committee sought to iden­ consist of a professional resume, two letters of eval art and civilization between 325 A.D. Residency in or near Edinburgh is required, research university. Ph.I? required and tify those, departments/programs, that, " recommendation, a statement of financial Arts Council of the Mrican Studies Associa­ and 1500 A.D. ICMA publishes a scholarly and fellows are expected to hold one or two received prior to June 30, 1985. One year offered terminal M.A.,' degrees with

10 CAA newsletter Summer 1986 II lannouncements lannouncements information

Smithsonian Short-Term Visits Hill Library Travel Grants For a catalogue raisonne of all the single­ Getty Museum Interns and Assistants NEA Design Arts Program Electronic Arts Bulletin Board Opportunities for undergraduate and grad­ Design advancement project grants for indi­ Newly established FINEART is dedicated to Appointments are for visits to the Institution The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in sheet prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760- Minnesota announces a two-year program of 1849) any infonnation about prints, paint­ uate students to obtain practical training in viduals. Final application for Distinguished the advancement of the electronic arts. This for research, collaboration, consultation, or travel grants to support post-doctoral re­ ings, drawings, illustrated books (particularly art museum work. Undergraduate assistants, Designer Fellowships: 2 September; nomina­ bulletin board is accessible from various net­ participation in seminars. Funding allows for albums), and outright copies of woodblock participating for thirteen weeks, learn some tions due 1 July. For guidelines and appli­ works, including ARPANET, BITNET, financial support up to a maximum of $2,000 search by younger scholars in art history and musicology I music history which would use prints by Hokusai or attributed to him will of the operations of the Museum through in­ cation NEA, DAP, noD Pennsylvania Ave., CSNET, MAILNET, UUCP, and INTER­ to help defray travel and living expenses. Any the resources of its over 64,000 medieval and be appreciated. Some prints may be signed: volvement in the daily activities of a single N.W., Washington, DC 20506. (202) NET. Those who do not have access to any student or scholar not residing or attending Iitsu, Manji, Shunro, Sori, or Taito. All help department. Graduate interns, participating 682-5437. networks may dial in directly to the local school near the Smithsonian facility he or she early modern manuscripts on microfilm, and its Bush Center reference holdings. The travel will be acknowledged in print (or will be kept for nine or twelve months, gain training in a UNIX site: (415) 545- 0376. Log in as 'fineart' wishes to visit is eligible to apply. For com­ confidential, if preferred). Peter Morse, P. O. broad range of one department's activity and New York Foundation for the Arts to be initiated into a local mail system which plete details and application form: Office of and subsistence grants averaging $500 will be awarded for periods of between one and four Box 22759, Honolulu, HI 96822. educational experience for entry into the Fellowships will allow you to leave a message. Paths are Fellowships and Grants, SI, L'Enfant Plaza, museum profession. Infonnation and appli­ Artists' fellowships are available in film, being established to additional networks on a Suite 3300, Washington, DC 20560. weeks. For further infonnation and applica­ tion procedure: Julian G. Plante, Exec. Dir., cation instructions for the 1987-88 Student graphics, photography, and crafts. Applica­ world-wide basis.lnfonnation about any net­ For a catalogue raisonne of the works of post­ Sculpture Space Programs will be available in October: Dept. tion deadline: 2 September. Fellowships are works or other bulletin boards which can be HMML, Bush Center, St. John's University, impressionist Henri Lebasque (1865-1937), Ongoing workstays without stipends are of­ of Academic Affairs, ]PGM, P. O. Box 2112, also available in painting and sculpture. connected is requested. For further infonna­ Collegeville, MN 56321. (612) 363-3514. any infonnation regarding the artist, his fered. For more infonnation: Sylvia DeSaan, Santa Monica, CA 90406. (213) 459-7611, Application deadline: 15 September. For lion: Ray Lauzzana, (366 FAC), Univ. of Deadlines: 1 July 1986 and 1 July 1987. paintings, letters, or any ephemera pertain­ SS, 800 Whitesboro St., Utica, NY 13502. ext. 254. Applications are due the previous guidelines and application: NYFA, Artists' Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; elec· ing to his life is sought. Lisa A. Banner, Mont­ (315) 724-8381. Ueross Foundation Residencies for Artists fall for assignments beginning in the summer, Fellowship Program, 5 Beekman St., New tronically: [email protected]. gomery Gallery, 824 Montgomery Street, San fall, or winter. York, NY 10038. (212) 233-3900. Residencies may run from two weeks to four Francisco, CA 94133. (415) 788-8300. Ruth Chenven Foundation months. A complete etching facility is includ­ ACLS Program Booklet Cash awards of not more than $1,000 to crafts ed. There is no charge for room, board, or Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships Aids to Individual Scholars, the booklet de­ artists engaged in or planning a project. For studio space, though contributions are wel­ In connection with the Belgian-Finnish Cul­ The School of Historical Studies offers fellow­ scribing all fellowships and grant competi­ Aperture Work-Scholar Program application and further infonnation: RCF, come. For more information: SASE to Resi­ tural Agreements, a descriptive catalogue of ships for research in the history, thought, and tions to be held in 1986-87 by the American Opportunities to become involved with the Inc., 7 Park Avenue, Room 103, New York, the works of A. Willy Finch (1854-1930) is culture of the western world. Ph.D. (orequiv­ dency Program, UF, Ucross Route, Box 19, writing, editing, design, production, distri­ Council of Learned Societies, is now avail­ being prepared. Any infonnation from col­ alent) and publications are required. Quali­ NY 10016. Application deadline: 31 July. Cleannont, WY 82835. Application deadline bution, and marketing of significant photo­ able, ACLS, 228 East 45 Street, New York, lectors who have in their possession any of his fied candidates of any nationality may apply for Spring 1987 session: 1 October. graphic publications, to be directly involved NY 10017. works (paintings, etchings, drawings, pottery, for one or two tenns. Some travel funds are Horward Lester Cooke Foundation in the development of an exhibition space and Grants to mid-career visual artists (over 40 Study Abroad Guides furniture) or archives about the Maison d' Art available. For further details: Administrative lIE 1987-88 Graduate Study Grants program including major traveling exhibi­ years old). For more information and applica­ Over 2,000 study abroad opportumues in de Bruxelles (Toison d'Or) will be appreci­ Officer, SHS, lAS, Olden Lane, Princeton, Fulbright and other grants are available for tions, to work with the Paul Strand photo­ tion form: The Cooke Foundation, clo Beale, hundreds of subjects open to Americans are ated. Danielle Derrey, Centre International NJ 08540. Application deadline for 1987-88: study abroad in architecture, design, filml graphic archive, and to learn business prac­ Rt. 2, Box 314, Martinsburg, WV25401. Ap­ described in the new 1986/87 series published pour l'Etude du XIXe Sieele, 1 rue de la 15 October. video, graphic arts, painting, photography, tices associated with a non-profit organiza­ plication deadline: 15 September. by the Institute of International Education. Regence, B-I000 Brussels, Belgium. and sculpture. Opportunities for study tion. Stipend is $250 per month for periods of The new guides are Vacation Study A broad Asian Cultural Council Fellowships abroad in most other fields are also available. six to nine months. Starting dates flexible. General Services Art Commissions 1986 ($15.95); Academic Year Abroad For a 1988 exhibition at the Victoria and Two new fellowships will enable Americans Applicants must be U.S. citizens, have a B.A. For infonnation: Susan M. Colitan, W-SP, Funds are available from the General Services 1986/87 ($15.95); and Study in the United Albert Museum and catalogue on Richard concerned with the study of Asian art and cul­ or equivalent. Deadlines are set by the college Aperture, 20 East 23rd Street, N.Y.C. 10010. Administration for commissions for public art Kingdom 1986/87 ($9.95). The publications ture to travel and conduct research in Asia. or university Fulbright Program Adviser. Redgrave, any infonnation on paintings or at federal sites throughout the United States. are available (prepaid) from: Publications One program will assist scholars, doctoral stu­ Deadline for "At-Large" students is 31 Octo­ correspondence concerning the artist will be For more infonnation: Don Thalacker, GSA Service, lIE, 809 United Nations Plaza, New welcomed. Infonnation on paintings in pri­ dents, and specialists in the humanities to ber. For full details and brochure, Fulbr£ght Art in Architecture Program, 19th and F York, NY 10017 III vate collections would be especially useful. National Arts Week '86 undertake research, training, and study in and Other Grants for Graduate Study Streets, Washington, DC 20205. Susan P. Casteras, Asst. Curator of Painting, Following the success of the 1985 celebration Asia in the following fields: archaeology; con­ Abroad, 1987-88: Institute of International Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel of the arts which culminated the National En­ servation; museology; and the theory, history, Education, 809 United Nations Plaza, New NEH 20th A nnual Report Street Box 2120 Yale Station, New Haven, and criticism of architecture, art, design, York, NY 10017. Isolo shows dowment for the Arts' twentieth anniversary, The National Endowment for the Humanities film, and photography. It also allows ACC to CT 06520. a N adonal Arts Week has been designated for report contains brief descriptions of Endow­ support American and Asian scholars partici­ Smithsonian Workshop Series Ann Sperry. The Jerusalem Theatre, the period November 17-23,1986. Prelimi­ ment programs as well as a complete listing pating in conferences, exhibitions, visiting The Office of Museum Programs offers a new Crown Hall, Jerusalem, April 1986. Penna­ For an edition of the basic writings, published nary steps have been taken towards mobiliz­ of all Endowment grants for fiscal year 1985 professorships, and similar projects, Grants series of museum professional development nent installation: "In the Garden II," welded and unpub'lished, of Waldo Gifford Leland ing a publici private consortium of both the (October 1, 1984-September30, 1985). Fora provide for international travel, mainte­ workshops during the period June, 1986-Sep­ and painted steel. (1879-1966), noted for his contributions to creators and supporters of the arts: the public free copy: NEH 1985 Annual Report, Room nance, per diem, and related research ex­ tember, 1987 to introduce, examine, and im­ the development of international cultural sector as represented by the NEA, the Nation­ 409,1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N .W., Wash­ Beth Ames Swartz. Multicultural Art Cen­ al Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the penses and range in duration from one to prove professional skills and practices for relations since the end of World War I and ington, DC 20506. ter' San Diego, March 28- May 25; "A Moving National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies; twelve months. individuals employed in museums. Oppor­ Point of Balance," multi media. The Elaine who had served as director of the American the private sector, as represented by the newly The second program is for American schol­ tunities also exist to visit exhibitions, facil­ Bulletin of the Asia Institute Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, Ariz., April Council of Learned Societies, any infonna­ ars, curators, and conservators of Asian art to organized committees of artists, corporations ities, collections, and staff specialists in the Publication of the international journal has 6-23. "Trans - Illumination Series," paint­ tion on the location of his papers is sought. conduct research and travel in East and and arts service organizations. Arts institu­ thirteen museums and offices of the Smithso­ resumed under the editorship of Carol Alt­ ings. Also, infonnation on whether anyone has tions and their su pporters are urged to plan Southeast Asia. Eligible for support are indi­ nian Institution. For further infonnation and man Bromberg, Wayne State University; Ber­ worked on or is presently studying Leland's vidual research projects, visits to Asian insti­ Biron Valier. Avago Gallery, Paddington, and implement some sort of active public descriptive booklet: Workshop Series, OMP, nard Goldman; and Richard N, Frye, Har­ career, as well as any recollections would be tutions in connection with proposed exhibi­ Australia, February 18-March 1. "Beach participation during November 17-23. For Arts & Industries Bldg., Room 2235, SI, vard University. George Masterton will serve appreciated. Lewis Hanke, 8 Amity Place, tions of Asian art in the United States, and Signals," paintings. further infonnation: Marvin Liebman, NEA, Washington, DC 20560. (202) 357-3101. as bibliographer. The Bulletin is devoted to Amherst, MA 01002. observation tours to collections, sites, and NAW '86, Room 605, 1100 Pennsylvania Av­ the arts and architecture, the archaeology Timothy Van Laar. Artemisia Gallery, conservation facilities in Asia. Grants provide enue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506. (202) Directory of Medallic Artifts and history, the religion and culture of Chicago, April 29-May 31. Recent paintings. For a thesisl catalogue raisonne of sixteenth­ 682-5439. for travel, research, and related costs and Published by the American Medallic Sculp­ greater Iran and its interconnections with century Ligurian sculptor and poet Danese range in duration from one to three months. James Weinstein. The Gallery of Photo­ ture Association, this directory is now avail­ neighboring lands of Asia, the Mediterran­ Cattaneo (ca. 1509-1572), information is graphic An, Elgin Community College, Ill., In addition, ACC offers assistance to able for $3.00 prepaid from Coutts Library ean, and Europe. Inquiries, scholarly contri­ sought concerning unpublished (within the February 24-March 24. Photographs. NEA Inter-Arts Program Americans engaged in cultural activities in Services, 736 Cayuga St., Lewiston, NY butions and books for review are invited: last forty years) works attributed to him or to National Endowment for the Arts grants are Japan through its Japan-United States Arts 14092 or directly from AMSA, Thelma Beck­ Carol Altman Bromberg, BAl, The Jacob Ruth Weisberg. Fisher Gallery, University artists of the workshop of Jacopo Sansovino. available fOL interdisciplinary projects. For Program and awards an annual fellowship to ermann, Treasurer, 62 Brighton First Ter­ House, Dept. Art and Art History, WSU, of Southern California, February 4-March 4. Confidentiality will be kept. Adrienne DeAn­ a student of Asian art history for dissertation guidelines and application: NEA, lAP, noo race, Brooklyn, NY 11235 Detroit, MI48202. "Circle of Light," paintings. .. gelis, P. O. Box 2023, Los Gatos, CA 95031." Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC research in Asia. For further information: 20506. (202) 682;-5444. Application dead­ ACC, 280 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. 10016. line: 8 August. (212) 684-5450. Continued on p. 13, col. 1

12 CAA newsletter Summer 1986 13 'grants and awards 'people and programs 'conferences and symposia 'grants and awards

African Studies Association INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS AWARDS IN THE VISUAL ARTS Margia Kramer (M.A. I.F.A., N.Y.U.) re­ Lucy Der Manuelian (Ph.D, Boston Uillv.) , Annual Meeting The AVA program, administered by the ceived two grants for a new video installation holder of the Lectureship in Armenian Art The Arts Council of ASA will present a num­ The Metropolitan Life Foundation has Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and videotape based on the opera Wozzeck, and Architecture at Tufts Dniv., has been ber of sessions at the annual meeting to be awarded $100,000 to eight museums for selects ten American artists each year who one from the Jerome Foundation and one named to the Academy of Distinguished held in Madison, Wis., 30 October-' 2 Novem­ minority arts programs in the third year of its receive a $15,000 stipend and whose work is from the New York State Council on the Arts, Alumni by Boston University. ber. Sessions include: Approaches to Art three-year, $300,000 competition. The muse­ included in a major (and catalogued) travel­ Visual Artists Sponsored Project Program Patronage in Africa; Intimate Objects: Snuff, urns involved are: ling exhibition. Each museum which presents through Franklin Furnace. Her work will be Tobacco, and Hemp Paraphernalia in Cen­ The Mexican Museum, San Francisco: the exhibition receives $10,000 in purchase included in the exhibition, "Cinema Object," William H. Jordy (Ph.D. Yale), professor of tral and Southern AJn'ca; Contemporary $15,000 to purchase works by contemporary awards for selection of one or more works by in September at the City Gallery of the New art history at Brown University and author of American artists of Mexican descent, ex­ AVA recipients. The recipients this year are: York Department of Cultural Affairs, N. Y. C. two volumes of American Buildings and African Art; ACASA Museology in West sculptor Clyde Connell, Louisiana; sculptor Their Architects, plus essays on Louis Sulli­ Africa Roundtable; Women's Funerals as panding the museum's permanent collection. van and other architects, has been selected to Performance; Recent Research on African Heide Fasnacht, New York; painter Robert Daniel Reiff, chair of the Art Department, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.: receive a 1986 Institute Honor from The Art History; Imaging the Spirit; Sculpture of Helm, Washington; painter Michael Kes­ S.U.N.Y. College at Fredonia, received an $15,000 to present a ten-year retrospective ex­ the Benue River Valley, Northern Nigeria; sler, Pennsylvania; sculptor Jin Soo Kim, Architectural Heritage Honor Award from American Institute of Architects. hibition of the works of Robert Colescott, an African Art: The Methodological Dilemma; Illinois, photographer Mark Klett, Arizona; the Preservation League of New York State internationally known black artist from the filmmaker and video artist Doreen Kraft, and Recent Research on African Art. Forfur­ Oakland area. for his "significant contributions to the body The Gunther Stamm Prize for Excellence was Vermont; sculptor Gordon Newton, Mich­ ther information: Doran Ross, Secy.-Treas., of knowledge on the 19th- and 20th-century awarded to Charlotte Daly (M.A. cando Art Center of Battle Creek, Mich.: igan; sculptor Allen Ruppersberg, Calif­ ACASA, clo Museum of Cultural History, architecture of western New York." Florida State Univ.) for her paper, "The $15,000 to purchase works by twenty to twen­ ornia; and sculptor Alan Stone, District of DCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, Stephens Log House in Grand Ridge, ty-five black artists from the state of Mich­ Columbia. CA 90024. Jean Locey, photographer and assistant pro­ Florida," presented at the fifth Annual Grad­ igan to be added to the permanent collection fessor of art at Cornell University, received the uate Symposium in the History of Art spon­ American Association for the Advancement of the museum. An exhibition resulting from HONORARY DEGREES John Hartell Distinguished Teaching Award sored by the Art History Department of Flor­ of Slavic Studies the new acquisitions will travel to other given by the College of Architecture, Art, and ida State University. Katherine B. Crum Their eighteenth national convention, hosted museums. The Maryland Institute, College of Art Planning at Cornell. awarded honorary degrees to ceramic sculp­ by the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Mich.: tor Rudy Autio, Univ. Montana, Missoula; will be held in New Orleans, 20- 23 Novem­ $15,000 to present the work of four minority Painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and CAA Illustrator Gerry Gersten, N.Y. C., and documentary photographer Roy DeCarava, Katherine B. Crum (Ph.D. Columbia) has ber. For further information: AAASS, 128 a rtists to city school children through a series Board Director Nancy Graves was in resi­ architect Bernard Rothzeid received Cooper Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.; and painter been named director of the Baruch College Encina Commons, Stanford University, Stan­ of lectures, workshops, and an exhibition. dence at Vassar College in April as an hon­ Union's Augustus Saint Gaudens Award, the Gallery (C.U.N.Y.). Previously, Princeton University, has been appointed sachusetts, Amherst. Twenty-six papers were Henry John Drewal, along with his col­ In the announcement of Rudolf Arnheim's ences in the Buffalo area through an exhibi­ nize outstanding teaching at the Meadows director of museum studies and associate pro­ presented on topics including art and politics, leagues Margaret Thompson Drewal and honors, the Massachusetts College of Art. tion and lecture series. School of Art, carries a $5,000 cash award, fessor at C. U. N. Y. Senie went to Princeton in feminist criticism, issues of patronage, biog­ John Pemberton, will be a Visiting Research from which he received an honorary doctor­ plus $5,000 in professional support funding. 1983 from the State University of New York, raphy, art theory, iconography, semiotics, The Jamaica Center for the Performing Affiliate at the University ofIfe, Nigeria while Comini also holds the title of University Dis­ ate, was incorrectly listed as the Massachu­ Old Westbury where she held a position that and other subjects. Abstracts of all papers and Visual Arts, Jamaica, N.Y.: $15,000 to tinguished Professor of Art History, having conducting fieldwork under a national En­ setts School of Art. combined teaching and directing the Univer­ have been compiled and are available from: examine how black artists in New York devel­ dowment for the Humanities grant. In De­ been so honored in 1983. Continued onp. 15, col. 3 sity art gallery. Council of Presidents, NELGU, New En­ oped their talents from the years 1900-: 980. cember, he will return to The Metropolitan gland Center, 15 Garrison Avenue, Durham, The project will include videotaped mter­ Museum of Art for the renewal of his Andrew views with artists, an exhibition scheduled to Bay Area photographer Marion Post Wol­ At The Art Museum of Princeton, Pao-Chen NH 03824. W. Mellon Fellowship. open in December, 1986, and a book on the cott received the Dorothea Lange award from Chen (Ph.D. candidate Princeton) has been The Use of the Wheel/Circle in the Middle subject to be published in 1988. the Oakland Museum. The award honors dis­ Annie Van Fossen Storr (Ph.D. cando Univ. appointed assistant curator of far eastern art as well as curator of the far eastern seminar of Ages: Technological and Iconographic Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C.: tinguished women photographers and in­ Delaware) has been named a recipient of a the department of art and archaeology. Rob­ The topic of session(s) to be sponsored by the $15,000 to augment programming in con­ cludes a Museum purchase of the honored National Graduate Fellowship by the U.S. ert Baron (Ph.D. candidate I.F. A., N.Y. U.), Association Villard de Honnecourt for the junction with the new Southwest Wing for photographer's work. Department of Education. The fellowships, NOMINATIONS INVITED whose appointment is sponsored by the J, Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Tech­ Contemporary Art. The Museum is planning of which less than 100 were awarded among FOR Paul Getty Museum, is computer consultant nology, Science and Art at the twenty-second programs built around the theme, "The Surrealist artist Peter Fingesten, a member 5,000 applicants, are granted under a new CAA TEACHING AWARDS working on the Getty's prototype computer International Congress of Medieval Studies Black Artist and the Museum: Tradition and of the Pace University faculty for 35 years, re­ program to support outstanding doctoral stu­ project which will create a merged data base at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7-10 May 1987. the Avant-Garde." Activities will include ceived the University's Humanitarian Award dents in the humanities and social sciences. Nominations from the membership are of paintings in eight museums. In addition to Papers are invited-send one-page abstract black artist forums in the community and for his exceptional service to the university, its invited for the Distinguished Teaching of working on the Getty project, Baron will to: Yoshio Kusaba, Dept. of Art, California black-artist-led gallery tours of the perma­ students and faculty. Fingesten founded and The Asian Cultural Council has named John Art and the Distinguished Teaching of create a prototype system for the manage­ State University, chico, CA 95929. Deadline: nent collections in the museum. .. has been chair of the art and music depart­ M. Rosenfield the first recipient of the Coun­ Art History awards. ment of the administration of objects in The 1 September. ment, and also instituted an art collection for cil's John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award which Letters of recommendations and ap-' Art Museum of Princeton. the University's campuses. honors outstanding professional achievement propriate supporting materials should be and commemorates Rockefeller's life-long sent to the CAA, 149 Madison Avenue, Edward Harrison Able has been named ex­ Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie interest in the cultural traditions of Asia. As New York, N.Y. 10016 by November 1, ecutive director of the American Association Lloyd E. Herman, director of the Renwick Sandra S. Phillips (Ph.D. C.U.N.Y.) has Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, recipient, Rosenfield is on leave from Har­ The names and letters'of nomination for of Museums, succeeding Lawrence L. Reger, Gallery of the National Museum of American been appointed the curator of the Vassar Col­ N. Y. U., was decorated with the Order of vard during the 1985-1986 academic year to any candidates who are strong contenders who has been AAM' director since 1978. Able Art, Smithsonian Institution since 1972, has lege Art Gallery. Her fields of expertise are Isabella Catolica by the Government of Spain pursue several research projects in Asia, in­ but not the recipient in any given year w:ilI comes to the AAM from the American Society resigned to pursue independent curatorial the history of photography and American art in recognition of contributions to the study of cluding a study of the Japanese monk Shun­ be passed on to the award committees for of Landscape Architects where he has served and consulting projects. Herman joined the history. She has taught both art history and Spanish art, of which the most recent is Velaz­ jobo Chogan, who lead the campaign to re­ the following year. as executive vice-president since 1977. Prior Smithsonian twenty years ago to help admin­ the history of photography at Parsons School quez, Painter and Courtier (Yale Univ. Press, construct Todai-ji monastery in the late 12th to that, Able was assistant director of the ister the National Museum Act and assisted in of Design, Mills College, and S.U.N.Y. at 1986). century. Resident Associate Program of the Smithso­ the restoration of the Arts and Industries New Paltz. .. nian Institution. Building.

15 14 CAA newsletter Summer 1986

I CAA statements and guidelines

The CAA office frequently receives requests Standards for the BA and BFA Degrees in Original videotapes of ROBERT BEVERLY for copies of its Standards for Studio Faculty: Studio Art (adopted 1131179) HALE'S famous series of 10 demonstration A Resolution and for The Art Bulletin's Notes StandardsJor ProJessional Placement (adopt­ lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Figure for Contributors and Style Sheet; and most ed 10/22/77) Drawtng given by him at the Art Students institutional chairs are familiar with the Stan­ Standards for Studio Faculty: A Resolutt'on League, N. Y. (in 1977). Fourteen hours of in­ dards for Professional Placement. In addition (adopted 1/30/70) and StandardsJor the struction. Now available. VHS, Beta, o/.l- N. to these, the eAA has adopted several state­ MFA Degree (Visual Arts) (adopted 41 Calli write: Art Students League, 215 W. ,ments, resolutions, and guidelines, which our 16/77)-[these are printed together] 57th Street, NYC 10019. (212) 247-4510. readers may find just as useful and informa­ A Statement on Standards Jor Sculptural Re­ tive. Following is a list of these statements and production and Preventive Measures to guidelines, which you may request by sending Combat Unetht'cal Castt'ng in Bronze FLORENCE, ITALY: SHORT-TERM us a note with a stamped, self-addressed (adopted 4/27/74) RENTALS. Modern, comfortable, furnished envelope: Status of Women in Ph.D. Granting Institu­ apartments; central location; 2-6 months. The Art Bulletin-Notes for Contributors tions (Report of the Committee on the Dott. U. Caravadossi, Piazzetta del Bene 1. and Style Sheet Status of Women, 1980) .. Florence. Telephone: 055-283-701. Infor­ Art journal-Style Sheet mation from Miles Chappell (804) 253-4385. A Code of EtMes for Art Historians and Guidelines for the Professional Practice oj Art History (adopted 11/3/73, revised EXHIBITION DIRECTORY 8TH EDI­ 1/23/74, 11/1/75) TION. The working resource of selected Grievance Procedures (adopted 1125/78) classifieds juried art and photographic competitions. A Guide to the New York Print and Photo­ This edition expanded to include festivals and graph Law (of 1977) exhibit screenings. September 1986-87. Guidelines for Part- Time Employment The CAA newsletter will accept classifieds oj $10.00 includes shipping. Pre-paid. The Ex­ (adopted 2/1/76) a proJessional or semi-proJessional nature hibit Planners, Box 55, Delmar, NY 12054, Millard Meiss Publication Fund Guidelines (sale oj It'braries, summer rental or exchange and application forms oj homes, etc.). The charge is 50~ per word, Printmakers' Contracts (adopted 10/28/78) mtntmum charge 110.00, advance payment BOOKS ON THE FINE ARTS. Our cata­ Professional Practices for Artists (adopted required. Make checks payable to CAA. 10/22177) logues of scholarly o. p. titles sent upon re­ A Quick Guide to Artists' Rights under the quest. We need to purchase better o.p, titles New Copyright Law (of 1977) TREASURES TOUR, FLORENCE/SIENA. in any language-exhib. cats., sales and col­ Resolution Concerning the Acquisition of First ever behind-the-scenes tour to muse­ lections cats., monographs, mainly but not Cultural Properties Originating in For­ ums, restoration workshops, sites. Re-dis­ exclusively on Western European Art to eign Countries (adopted 4/28/73) cover the Italian Masters with noted art his­ about 1800, whether one volume or a library. Resolution Concerning the Sale and Ex­ toriansl restorers. Meet restorer of Last Sup­ Your want list is welcome. Andrew Washton change of Works oj Art by Museums per. October 19-31, 1986. Tiberti Travel, Art Books, 411 East 83rd Street, New York, (adopted 11/3/73) 1-800-227-6772: NY 212-427-5913. NY 10028. (212) 861-0513. By appointment. III

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©1986 College Art Association of America 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016 Editor: Susan L. Ball Associate Editor: Minerva Navarrete

Summer 1986

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