r Volume 5, Number 3 September 1980 nominations for eM board of directors

The .1980 Nominating Committee has submitted it,;; initial slate of FREDERICK J. CUMMINGS twelve nominees to serve on the CAA Board of Directors from 1981 to The Detroit Institute of Arts 1985. Of these, six will be selected by the Committee as its final slate and formally proposed for election at the Annual Members Business BA Willamette Univ, 1954; MA Harvard Univ, Meeting to be held at the San Francisco Hilton February 26, 198L To 1956; PhD Univ Chicago, 1966. POSITIONS: acting assist the Committee in making its final selection, all individual director, Univ Missouri Mus Art and Archaeol­ members of the Association are invited to cast their votes on the ogy, 1963-64; editor, The Art Quarterly, preferential ballot. 1966-69, curator European Art, Detroit Inst For members' convenience the preferential ballot is in the form of a Arts, 1964-67; asst director, 1967-73; director, prepaid business reply card which is being mailed separately. Please 1973 -. EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED: co-organizer return it promptly; ballots must be postmarked)1o later than 15 Oct. Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings, co-author catalog, A brief curriculum vitae for each candidate is given below, followed 1968; Rembrandt after 300 Years, 1969-70; French Impressionist and by a list of present Board members. Please retain this information until Post-Impressionist Paintings from the USSR, 1973; TwiHght of the you receive your ballot. Medict~ Late Baroque Art in Florence 1670-1743, catalog, 1973; co­ organizer Painting in France 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution, catalog, 1974··75; Matisse-The Paper Cut-Outs, 1977; The Second PAMELA ASKEW Empire (1850-70),1978. OTHERPuBLlcA'rIONs: The Detroit Institute of Vassar College Arts Illustrated Handbook, 1971; Selected Works from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1979; also numerous articles. AWARDS: officer in the BA Vassar ColI, 1946; MA lnst Fine Arts, NYU, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 1975; officer in the Order of 1951; PhD Courtauld lnst, Univ London, 1954. Merit of the French Government, 1976. CAA ACTIVITIES: board of POSITIONS: asst art librarian, Vassar Coll, directors, 1971-76; chr, Sub-committee on museum-university rela­ 1946-47; instructor to fun prof, Vassar Coll, tions, 1972-76 . • ~.49-; dept chr, 1971-74. PUBLICATIONS: "Fer- h.ando Gonzaga's Patronage of the Pictorial JAROSLAV FOLDA A~ts: The Villa Favorita," The Art Bulletin, University of North Carolina 1978; "Domenico Fetti's Portrait of an Actor Reconsidered," The Burlington Magazine, 1978; numerous other articles and reviews in The Art Bulletin, The Burlington Magazine, Women Artists 1550- BA Princeton Univ, 1962; PhD Johns Hopkins ~<•• e!ltI Univ, 1968. POSITIONS: asst to full prof, Univ 1950, Print Review, The Gurrier Gallery ofArt Bulletin,journalofthe North Carolina, 1968-. PUBLICATIONS: co-editor Warburgand Gourtauld Institutes, Art News, others. AWARDS: Amer and contributor, A Medieval Treasury from Council Learned Soc fellow, 1965-66; Fulbright fellow, 1965-66; Southeastern Collectt'ons, 1971; Crusader Manu­ visiting fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced SCrtpt Illumination at St. Jean d'Acre: 1275- Study, 1976-77. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Fulbright-Hays Commis­ 1291, 1976; contributor and assistinged., A His­ sion, screening committee for art history, 1972-75. tory of the Crusades, 1977; articles in Byzantinoslabica, Scrtptorium, Levant, others. AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, 1966-·67; Dumbarton Oaks BLANCHE R. BROWN Junior fellow, 1967-68; NEH fellow, 1974-75; Arner Council Learned New York University Soc grant-in-aid, 1973; Amer Philosophical Soc grant-in-aid, 1978. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Internatl Center Medieval Art, board of MA Inst Fine Arts, NYU, 1938; PhD 1967. POSI­ directors, 1979-; Medieval Academy of Amer, 1963-; Societe TIONS: staff lecturer, Metropolitan Mus Art, franl,;aise d'archeologie. CAA ACTIVITIES: read papers at annual 1941-65; assoc to full prof, New York Univ, meetings, 1970, 1972; nominating committee, 1979; chr, session on 1966-. PUBLICATIONS: Ptolemaic Paintings and Mediterranean Crosscurrents, 1980 annual meeting. Mosaics, CAA Monograph, 1957; Five Cities: An Art Guide to Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris, F. HAMILTON HAZLEHURST London, 1966; Anticlassicism in Greek Sculp- 'IF Vanderbilt University ture ofthe 4th Century B. c., CAA Monograph, 1973; in preparation, history of Early Hellenistic art; numerous articles in Studies for an BA Princeton Univ, 1949; MFA 1952; PhD 1956, Editor: ... in Memory ofMilton S. Fox, Essays in Honor ofH. W.Jan­ POSITIONS: asst instructor to instructor, Princeton son, New, York Tt'mes Magazine, Natural History Magazine, others. Univ, 1951-56; lecturer and research asst, Frick EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED: Circa 1776, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 1976; Collection, 1956-57; lecturer, Princeton Theo­ Changes in Perspective, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 1978. AWARDS: Amer logical Seminary, 1956-57; assoc prof, Univ Council Learned Soc fellow, 1959-60; NEH fellow, 1976-77; Gug­ Georgia, 1957-63; assoc prof to full prof and ; \heim fellow, 1978-79. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: founding dept chr, Vanderbilt Univ, 1963-. PUBLICA­ !,Fnber, LF.A. Alumni Society. CAA ACTIVITIES: chr, session on An- TIONS: Jacques Boyceau and the French Formal Garden, 1966; co­ cle

Genius of Andre Le Nostre, funded in part by grant from Millard HOWARDENA PINDELL JASON SELEY NEA planning grant, 1980. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: board member, Meiss Publication Fund, 1980; numerous articles in Gazette des State University of New York, Stony Brook Cornell University Mid-American College Art Association, 1977 -; board member, Mid­ Beaux-Arts, The Art Bulletin, others. AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, west Art History Society, 1978-; board member, National Council of 1953-54; Arner Council Learned Soc grant-in-aid, 1967; Arner BFA Boston Univ, 1965; MFA Yale Univ, 1967. ,AB Cornell Univ, 1940. POSITIONS; assoc prof Art Administrators, 1978-; advisory screening committee in art and Philosophical Soc grant, ] 967; Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in POSITIONS: asst, Garvin ColI, YaleUniv, 1966--67; ;:ulpture, Hofstra Univ, 1953-65; assoc prof art history, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1976 -; Undergraduate Teaching, 1970. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: South­ exhibition asst, Dept National and International sculpture, NYU, 1965-67; prof sculpture and editorial board, Sixteenth Century journal, 1977 -. CAA ACTIVITIES: eastern ColI Arts Conf, president, 1973--74; board of directors, Circulating Exhibitions, Mus Mod Art, 1967-69; dept chr, Cornell Univ, 1968-80; dean, Coll committee on standards for MFA degree, 1976-77; committee on 1977-79; chr, Third International Colloquium on Landscape Ar­ curatorial assistant, Drawings and Prints, 1969- _ Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell Univ, standards for BA/BFAdegree, 1978-79; chr, Distinguished Teaching chitecture, Dumbarton Oaks, 1973; chaired sessions at Soc Architec­ 71; asst curator to assoc curator, Prints and Illus- , 1980-,; also numerous visiting artist and artist­ of Art History Award selection committee, 1979; member, special tural Historians annual meetings; board of trustees, Harpeth Hall trated Books, 1971-79; assoc prof, SUNY, Stony., in-residence, EXHIBITIONS: solo Le Centre d'Art, panel on job placement, 1978 annual meeting. School. CAA ACTIVITIES: chr, nominating committee, 1969; read paper Brook, 1979-. EXHIBITIONS: solo AIR Gallery, NYC, 1973; Sonja Haiti, 1946, 1948, 1949; Amer British Art Center, NYC, 1947, 1948; at 1977 annual meeting. Henie Onstad Foundation, Norway, 1976; Cincinnati Art Acad, 1978; Kornblee Gallery, NYC, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1969; Andrew Dickson Lerner Heller Gallery, NYC, 1980; others; numerous group exhibi­ White Mus Art, Cornell Univ, 1965; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan tions including New American GraPhicArt, Fogg Art Mus, 1973; New Univ, 1969; Amerika House, Germany, 1971; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS WOLF KAHN Ways with Paper, Natl Gallery, 1978; Black Artists: Abstractions, NYC, 1974, 1978; Everson Mus Art, Syracuse, 1977; retrospective Hunter College PSI, 1980. COLLECTIONS: Metropolitan Mus Art, Philadelphia Mus Herbert F. Johnson Mus Art and Albany Inst History and Art, 1980; PRESIDENT: Joshua C. Taylor, National Collection of Fine Arts Art, Fogg Art Mus, Whitney Mu~ Amer Art, Mus Mod Art, Roy others; numerous group exhibitions U.S. and abroad. COLLECTIONS: VICE PRESIDENT: Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University BA Univ Chicago, 1951; also studied with Hans Neuberger Mus, many others. AWARDS: Mather Prize for Sculpture, Everson Mus Art; Hirshhorn Mus; Herbert F, Johnson Mus Art, Cor­ SECRETARY: John R. Martin, Princeton University Hofmann. POSITIONS: instructor, Cooper Union, Art Inst Chicago, 1957; NEA fellow for painting, 1972-73; NEA/ nell Univ; Whitney Mus Amer Art; Univ California, Berkeley; Mus TREASURER; Richard Ravenscroft, Philadelphia National Bank 1961-77; also taught at Columbia Univ, 1977- Japan US Friendship Comm fellow for painting, 1980-81. PROFES­ Mod Art, Nat! Gall Canada; others. AWARDS: US State Dept and US COUNSEL: Gilbert S. Edelson, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen 78; RISD, 1978-79; Queens CoIl, 1979; adj assoc SIONAL ACTIVITIES: visual arts services panel, New York State Council Office of Educ maintenance and travel grant, Haiti, 1947-49; prof of ptg, Hunter ColI, 1980. EXHIBITIONS: solo on the Arts. 1977; CETA grants to artists panelist, 1977; trustee, Fulbright fellow, 1949-50; CAA ACTIVITIES: committee on standards TO SERVE UNTIL 1981: Benny Andrews, New York City; Beatrice Hansa Gall, NYC, 1954, 1955; Grace Borgenicht Studio Mus Harlem; board of governors, Skowhegan School; NEA in­ for MFA degree, 1976-77; committee on standards for the BA/BFA Farwell, University of California, Santa Barbara; Mary Garrard, The Gall, NYC, thirteen solo exhibitions since 1956; ternational exhibitions panel, 1979--80; NEA Art Bank panel, 1978; degree, 1978-79; Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Selection American University; Ellen Johnson, Oberlin College, emerita; Ellen Univ California, Berkeley, 1961; Kansas City Art Inst, 1963; Wad­ others. CAA ACTIVITIES: distinguished teaching of art award commit­ committee, 1979; co-chr, session on MFA degree, 1980 annual Lanyon, Chicago; Theodore Reff, Columbia University. dington Gall, London, 1980; others; numerous group exhibitions in­ tee, 1980; chr, session on Works on Paper and PapeIWorks, 1980 an­ meeting; standing committee on MFA degree, 1980--. cluding Whitney Mus Amer Art, Dallas Mus Contemp Arts, Cincin­ nual meeting; contributor, Art journal, 1980. TO SERVE UNTIL 1982:Jean Sutherland Boggs, Philadelphia Museum of nati Art Mus, Corcoran GaU, Metropolitan Mus Art. COLLECTIONS: WALLACE J. TOMASINI Art; Caecilia Davis-Weyer, Newcomb College, Tulane University; Mus Modern Art, Whitney Mus Amer Art, Brooklyn Mus, Houston ANGELICA RUDENSTINE The University of Iowa Lila Katzen, The Maryland Institute College of Art; Sylvia Stone, Mus Fine Arts, Virginia Mus Fine Arts, Metropolitan Mus Art, Los The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y.; Kathleen Weil-Garris, New York Angeles County Mus, others. AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, 1962-63; AB Univ Michigan, 1949; AM 1950; PhD 1953. University. Guggenheim fellow, 1966-67; Amer Acad Arts and Letters, 1979; Na­ BA Oxford Univ, 1959; MA Smith ColI, 1961. POSITIONS: instructor, Finch ColI, 1954-57; asst tional Acad of Design, 1979. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: consultant, POSITIONS: research curator, Mus Fine Arts, prof to full prof, Univ Iowa, 1957 -; director, TO SERVE UNTIL 1983: Paul Arnold, Oberlin College; Anne Coffin NYU adult extension art program, 1979; academic advisor, Marlboro Boston, 1961-68; editor, Bulletin ofthe Museum ~" School of Art and Art History, Univ Iowa, Hanson, Yale University; Marilyn Lavin, Princeton University; CoIl, 1971- . CAA ACTIVITIES: studio session chr, 1973 annual meeting; ofFine Arts and editor-in-chief all museum pub- ,".,I ',~73-. PUBLICATIONS: The Barbaric Tremissis Eleanor Tufts, Southern Methodist University; John Walsh, Boston chr, distinguished teaching of art award committee, 1978. lications, 1965-68; freelance researcher, Mus i Spain and Southern France: Anastasius to Museum of Fine Arts; William Wixom, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mod Art, 1968-69; research curator, Guggen­ Leovigild, 1964; Drawing and the Human Fig­ heim Mus, 1973 --. EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS: ure, 1400-1964, catalog, 1964; "The Art Administrator as Advocate: TO SERVE UNTIL 1984: Alessandra Comini, Southern Methodist Univer­ RICHARD MARTIN co-organizer exhibition and co-author catalog, Morris Louis The Politics of Advocacy," 1979; "The Art Museum, A University sity; Wanda Corn, Stanford University; David C. Driskell, University Fashion Institute of Technology and Retrospective, 1967; author, The Guggenheim Museum Collectlon: Center for the Visual Arts in the Ninth Decade," 1980; other articles. of Maryland; Ilene H. Forsyth, University of Michigan; Lee Anne Arts Magazine Paintings 1880-1945, two volumes, 1976; assisted in preparation of AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, 1951-52; Amer Philosophical Soc grant, Miller, Wayne State University; Gabriel P. Weisberg, The Cleveland several other exhibitions and accompanying catalogs; currently pre­ 1958; Belgian-American Foundation fellow, 1953; HEW grant, 1976; Museum of Art. II BA Swarthmore ColI, 1967; MA Columbia Univ, paring catalog of Peggy Guggenheim Collection and exhibition of 1969; M Phil Columbia Univ, 1971. POSITIONS: George Costakis Collection. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: NEH selection instructor, William Paterson ColI, 1972-73; in­ panel for fellowships in art history, 1977-78; trustee, Amer Academy structor to assoc prof, Fashion Institute of Tech­ in Rome; member, ICOM; member CIMAM (ICOM's international shows by artist members nology, 1973-; coordinator, Shirley Goodman committee on museums of modern art). CAA ACTIVITIES: chr, art Resource Center (library, costume and textile hislOTY sessions, 1974 and 1976 annual meetings; Porter Prize selection collection, galleries), FIT, 1980 -'; adjunct faculty, School of Visual A listing ofsolo exhibitions by artist members Diane Burko. Pennsylvania Academy of committee, 1977 and 1978; editorial board, The Art Bulletin, 1980---; of the CAA. Listings should include name of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 10- Arts, 1975-80; adjunct asst prof, NYU, 1977--79; exec editor, Arts MilIaTd Meiss Publications Fund Committee, 1980-. Magazine, 1973-·74; editor, 1974-. PUBUCATIONS: Imagist Realism, artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of ex­ October 25. Prints. hibitzon, and medium. Since this service is catalog, 1976; A Patriotz'c Show, catalog, 1976; articles inArt andAr­ HELEN BENZ SCHIAVO available only to CAA members and since we Jerry Clapsaddle. Art Department tists, Art Education, Art journal, others. AWARDS: SUNY Faculty Queens College Research Foundation fellow, 1980. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Vic· can't possibly check all the exhlbition notices Gallery, The Catholic University of America, we receive, please include a copy ofyour cur­ Washington, D. C. August 27-September 18. torian Soc in Amer, publications committee, 1978--, sealTh com­ BA Queens Coil; studied also at Teachers ColI, rent membership card. "Some Paintings from the Past Ten Years." mittee for new exec director, 1980, board of directors, 1980-, FATE An Students League, Ruth Leaf Studio, others. Northeast regional meeting, 1979, 1980, FATE/SECAC meeting, POSITIONS: chr, art dept, Queens ColI, 1972-76; 1980. CAA ACTIVITIES: participant in annual meetings, 1971, 1974, currently assoc prof art and chair art dept MS in Walter Askin. Art Galleries of the Univer­ Nicholas Hill. Columbia College Gallery, 1976-80; chr, session on Publishing in Art History, scheduled for 1981 sity of Southern California, Los Angeles. Columbia, Mo., October 12-November 1. Ed program. EXHIBITIONS: nine solo exhibitions annual meeting. prints and paintings NYC area; numerous invi­ January II-February 12,1980 "Walter Askin Emporia State University, Emporia, Kans, tational group shows including National Arts 1970-1980." Paintings, prints, drawings, and October 20-November 14. Oil paintings. • Club, Audubon Artists, National Assoc of Women Artists, Women's sculpture. (Edz'tor's Note: our apologies for overlooking this announcement when we first Caucus for Art. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: board member, National Council Art Administrators, 1976-79; national advisory board, received it.) Women's Caucus for Art, 1977-80; member National Associatio­ To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ Women Artists; member Exhibiting Artists Federation; foundii Priscilla Birge. The Center for the Visual tions and announcements, please be member and vice president, Graphic Eye (printmakers cooperative). Arts, Oakland, September 5-0ctober 4. sure to keep us informed of your cur­ CAA ACTIVITIES: committee on standards for the BA/BFA degree, Three-dimensional color xerox transparen­ rent address_ 1978 79; committee on printmaking standards, 1976 77. cies.

2 CAA newsletter September 1980 3 conferences and symposia announcements

Art and Cartography Victorian Symposia Art since 1945 Resident Scholarships at CASVA Art Journal: Call for Articles Manuscripts to Mary Davis, Managing Edi­ The Sixth Nebenzahl Lectures, to be held at The Victorian Society in America will hold its A call for papers for the first annual sympo­ Applications are invited for the second year of Articles on the theme "Education of an tor, TKR, University of Kentucky Libraries, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 30 Octo­ 1980 symposium, Victorian Sharps and Flats: sium on contemporary art to be held on 17 the Resident Scholarship Program at the new Artist" -not to be confused with the educa­ Lexington, Ky. 40506. ber- 1 November, will focus on mapping out Arts, Arch£tecture and Music in America's April 1981 at the Fashion Institute of Tech~ Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts tion of audiences, professors of art, and art relationships between the above. Speakers Nineteenth Century Opera Houses and Thea­ nology in New York City. Abstracts should bi at the National Gallery of Art. Recent recipi- school deans-are being solicited for the Charles W. Newcombe Fellowships include George Kish, Univ. Michigan, "Maps ters, in Wilmington, Delaware, October 23- no more than 500 words, for papers that will lPittsburgh up to fIfteen months. Applicants should have "Sources for Ornamentation on Sixteenth­ Buildings of the Nineteenth Century. Archi­ ing Committee, clo Richard Martin, FIT, shorter-term scholarships and two-year The University of Pittsburgh is offering An­ completed all doctoral requirements except and Seventeenth-Century Cartography"; tecture, interiors, and preservation will be 227 West 27 Street, N.Y.C. 10001. Abstract awards are also possible. The Center will also drew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships for the dissertation by June 1981. For further in­ Svetlana Alpers, Univ. California, Berkeley, considered. Submit proposals for thirty-min­ deadline: 15 December. consider appointment of Associates who have research for 1981-82. The eleven-month formation and applications: Woodrow Wil­ "The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art"; Sam­ ute presentations, together with resume and obtained funding elsewhere and would like to appointments carry a stipend of at least son National Fellowship Foundation. Box uel Y. Edgerton,]r., Boston Univ" "The In­ the names, addresses. and phone numbers of be affiliated with the Center. Privileges of $12,200; candidates should have earned doc­ 642, Princeton, N.J. 08540. Deadline: Janu­ fluence of Italian Renaissance Art on the two references, to Joan Wells, Executive Di­ University Museums: Assets or Liabilities? scholars include a study. secretarial assist­ torate by January 15. For information: Office ary 12 for fellowships to begin June or Sep­ Mapping of the Cosmos in the Sixteenth and rector, VSA, East Washington Square, Phila­ We'll stop sputtering about the question long ance, a monthly stipend, and additional al­ of Graduate Studies, 1028-H, Cathedral of tember 1981. Seventeenth Centuries"; and David Wood­ delphia, Pa. 19106. Deadline: December 31. enough to tell you that this conference, to be lowances for research materials, travel, and Learning, UP, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260. Dead­ ward, The Newberry Library, "Typography, held at the University of Pennsylvania Muse­ housing. For applications: Dean, CASVA, line: January 15. Art Access/Networking Calligraphy, and the Map as Decorative Art." um 9-12 December, will bring together uni­ NGA, Washington, D.C. 20565. Application A non-proHt organization founded to explore versity administrators and directors ofuniver­ deadline: 31 October. Florence Institute Temporarily Closing networking as an art form. focusing primarily sity museums of anthropology, history and For the purposes of renovation and enlarge­ Interdisciplinary Approaches to on the convergence of video, telecommunica­ science. Although, the release goes on to ACLS Program Booklet ment, the Kunsthistoriches Institut in Flor­ Royal Photographic Society Treasures Medieval/Renaissance Studies tions, and automatic data processing (tele­ state, "many of the topics addressed will be Aids to Individual Scholars, the booklet de­ ence will be closed from 1 January to June/ A conference to be held at Boston University Culture to Culture, the second annual peda­ matics). It seeks to promote creative, syner­ applicable to university art museums and gal­ scribing all fellowship and grant competitions July 1981 and will not be available to scholars on Saturday, 27 September, in conjunction gogy conference of the Medieval and Renais­ getic systems and the design of access environ­ leries, as well, and their administrators are to be held in 1980-81 by the American Coun­ for research during that period. with the Treasures ofthe RPS exhibition that sance Studies Program at Barnard College, ments compatible with human needs for col­ welcome to attend." For further information: cil of Learned Societies, is now available. will be concurrently on view at the Worcester will be held Saturday, 1 November. Morning laboration and participation in art. It is inter­ Mary Elizabeth King. UPM, 33rd and Spruce Write: ACLS. 800 Third Avenue, N.Y.C. 18th-Century Article Prize Art Museum. It is the only conference panelists include Caroline Bynum. Univ. national in scope. Artists and others involved Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. 10022. Nominations are invited for the annual planned in conjunction with this exhibition, Washington, "Female Culture among Late in these or related issues or with data suitable Southeastern American Society for Eigh­ which will travel for two years to thirteen Medieval Nuns"; Aido Scaglione, Univ. for inclusion' in a directory of formal and in­ IREX Program Announcement teenth-Century studies article award. The American and Canadian cities. The confer­ North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Sonata Form formal art networks may contact The Direc­ Western Museums Conference Likewise, the announcement of 1980-81 prize of $] 50 is for any article in the field pub­ ence will focus on current research related to and Structural Strategy in the Dt'vt'ne Com­ tor, AA/N. 16, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 The 1980 Conference of the Western Associ~ -_programs of the International Research & lished in any scholarly journal, collection of the exhibition. Participants are Janet E. edy"; and Charles Trinkaus, Univ. Michigan, 2AB, England. tion of Art Museums and the Western Re­ -:xchanges Board (fellowships and exchanges essays, etc. during the period 1 September Buerger, International Mus. Photography; "The Many Cultures of the Renaissance." gional Conference of the AAM will be held 29 A.v-ith the Soviet Union and the countries of 1979-31 August 1980. Nominees must be Jean Caslin, Photographic Resource Center; The afternoon will be devoted to workshops Fellowships for Venetian Research October-2 November in San Francisco. An Eastern Europe) can be obtained from lREX, members of SEASECS. Submit three copies of Katherin Di Diulio, doctoral candidate, on a broad range of topics. For additional in­ The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of­ innovation this year is separate sessions 655 Third Avenue, N.Y.C. 10017. nominated essay to Milton M. Klein, Dept. Boston Univ.; Roy Flukinger, Univ. Texas; formation: Helene J. F. de Aguilar, 210 Mil­ fers grants for research in Venice on any devoted to the disciplinary interests of the History, Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Estelle Jussim, Simmons CoIl,; and Grace bank, BC, N.Y.C. 10027. aspect of the history of Venice or the former various types of museums represented. For art American Antiquarian Society Fellowships 37916. Deadline 1 November. Seiberling, Univ. Rochester. Conference Venetian empire. Applicants must be U.S. museums, it's a panel entitled "What's Hap­ A broad range of short- and long-term registration will include transportation to citizens, must have some experience in ad­ pening in Contemporary Art?," moderated Visiting Research Fellowships at AAS, on National Humanities Center Fellowships Worcester to see the exhibition and to hear a vanced research, and, if graduate students, by Thomas H. Garver. Madison Art Center. both postdoctoral and predoctoral levels, is Approximately forty fellowships, for both talk by Myles Barth of the International Visual Resources Sessions at MACAA must have completed ail doctoral require­ with Van Deren Coke, San Francisco Mus. being offered for the academic year 1981-82. younger (three to ten years beyond doctorate) Center of Photography. Early registration is As has been their custom in recent years, the ments except for the dissertation. Grants Modern Art; Linda Cathcart, Contemporary For application forms: John B. Hench, Re­ and senior scholars. Emphasis is interdisci­ recommended. Contact Jean Caslin, Photo­ Visual Resources Committee has planned a from $500 to $10,000; some subsequent pub­ Arts Mus., Houston; David Ross, Univ. Art search and Publication Officer, AAS, ]85 plinary, including not only humanities but graphic Resource Center, 1019 Common­ full schedule of activities to be held in con­ lication subvention may be available. For fur­ Salisbury Street, Worcester, Mass. 01609. sciences, social sciences, and the professions; wealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. 02215, (617) junction with the annual conference of the Mus., Berkeley; and Anne Focke, andlor ther information: GKDF, 30 Wall Street, Gallery, Seattle. For information and regis­ Application deadline: 2 February. special seminars focus on social and ethical 783-9333. Mid-America College Art Association, to be N.Y.C. 10005. Deadline: January 15. tration: WAAM, 270 Sutter Street. San Fran­ applications or implications of scholarly re­ held October 23 through October 26 in Metalsmith search. For detailed information and applica­ Houston. For information on VRC program, cisco, Calif. 94108. (415) 392-9222. II Manuscripts are also sought by the newly tion materials: NHC, P.O. Box 1226, Re­ Corrections write Zelda Richardson. Fine Arts Center, Conference on Health Risks renamed Metalsmith (formerly Goldsmt'ths search Triangle Park, NC 27009. Application The first sentence of the announcement of the Univ. New Mex. 87131 or Gail Kana, Visual Another example of the growing concern Journal), published by the Society of North deadline: January 10. (European scholars CAA annual meeting session on Northern Eu­ Resource Collection, Coll. of Design, Iowa about health hazards in the arts and crafts is American Goldsmiths. Articles on any aspect write to Dr. Raymond Georis, European ropean art should have read: "Papers should State Univ .. Ames, Iowa 50011. We have no the first annual Conference on Health Risks ARTISTS' BENEFITS of the history or technique of jewelry, metal­ Cultural Foundation, 51 Rue de la Concorde, consider the circumstance (pictorial, textual, details on the main events of the meeting. For in Arts, Crafts and Trades to be held in work, enamels, etc. are requested. Send man­ 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Application dead­ -not textural-societal) of the making and information: David Hickman, President, Chicago, April 2 through 4, 1981. Included To the Editor: uscripts to Sarah Bodine, Managing Editor, line: December 10.) viewing of images in Northern Europe." MACAA, clo Art Dept., Univ. Houston. will be presentations of scientific papers, lec­ Thank you for the letter and reprint from the M. 35 West 84 Street, N.Y.C. 10024. Cullen Blvd., Houston, Tex. 77004. tures, panels and round-table discussions, CAA newsletter concerning the role of an The Kentucky Review In People and Programs, Joseph E. Young's and poster sessions, as well as visits to the artist-teacher's creative work in his qualifica­ A new triannual journal of the humanities title was incorrectly listed as assistant pro­ School of the Art Institute of Chicago for tions as a college teacher of art. This was the (the first issue appeared in autumn 1979), fessor of art criticism. His correct title at workshop sessions. The meeting is co-spon­ Midwest Art History Society kind of information that proved very useful in published by the University of Kentucky Arizona State University is associate professor sored by the American College of Toxicology . A call for papers from Midwest art historians the presentation of my case in the hearing for Library Associates. There is some emphasis of art history. OSHA, NIOSH, the Chicago Lung Associa­ for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the MAHS, unemployment benefits. The judge ruled in on articles related to Kentucky or based on tion. and the School of the Art Institute of to be held at the University of Notre Dame, 27 my favor and I am now receiving the benef( materials in the Special Collections Depart­ Another error (or should we in this instance Chicago. Inquiries to Health Risk Confer­ and 28 March, 1981. For further informa­ checks regularly. ment of the University Libraries, but con­ call it "foul"?) was the report that Kirk ence, Amer. CoIl. of Toxicology. 2405 Bond tion: Marjorie Schreiber Kinsey. Art Dept., William F. Seli~;s tributions on any aspects of the humanities, Varnedoe had coached football at Stanford. St .. Park Forest South, Ill. 60466. UND, Notre Dame, Ind. 46566. Salt Point, N. Y. including the pictorial arts, are welcome. It was Williams College. ..

4 eAA newsletter September 1980 5 grants and awards people and programs

ACLS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FULBRIGHT AWARDS SKOWHEGAN AWARDS TEACHING AND RESEARCH active researchers in the field of nineteenth­ ed one of the first seven Lindsay Young Pro­ Seventy-seven postdoctoral fellowships for For university teaching and advanced The Skowhegan School of Painting and century American painting. fessorships in the Humanities at the Univer­ periods of six months to one year were award­ research abroad, 500 awards were given in Sculpture presented its 1980 medals to Rob­ How many art historical monographs are sity of Tennessee, Knoxville. ed. Among the recipients: Bruce Cole, In­ 1980-81. In art and art history: Leah ert Irwin, Venice, Calif., for sculpture' .selected as Book-of-the-Month Club divi· Franklin Toker, 1980 co-recipient of the diana Univ.: A history of Sienese painting, Bowman, School Art Inst. Chicago: Lecture Nancy Graves, New York City, for drawine: ',ends? We're not certain that we really want CAA's Porter Prize, has moved from Carne­ 1350-1450; Pat Getz~Preziosi, New Haven: on fashion design and fashion history, India; graphics; Vito Acconci, New York City, fd-l [0 know the answer, but we are happy to gie·Mellon University to the Henry Clay Frick Sculptors of the Cyclades; Geoffrey G. Harp­ Harris Deller, Southern Illinois Univ.: video! performance; and Alex Katz, New report that Pissarro: His Life and Work, by Department of Fine Arts at the University of ham, Univ. Pennsylvania, English Dept.: Teach ceramic art and study Korean York City, for painting. The Gertrude Van­ Paula H. Harper and Ralph E. Shikes, has Pittsburgh, where he will teach the history of Study of art history and art criticism; Eu­ ceramics, Korea; Leonard K. Eaton, Univ. derbilt Whitney Award was presented to been accorded that honor. This fall co-author American and European architecture. Also genia Parry Janis, Wellesley CoIl.: Thepho­ Michigan: Research in 17th·century Dutch Joseph F. Cullman III for his support of Harper leaves Stanford University, where she at Pittsburgh, Carolyn Malone will be a tographic career of Henri LeSecq; Meredith artistic culture and American art and ar­ Philip Morris's role as a corporate patron of taught during the 1979-80 academic year, to Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow this academic P. Lillich, Syracuse Univ.: The stained glass chitecture, Netherlands; Adrienne W. the arts. teach nineteenth- and twentieth-century Eu· year, completing a study on English medieval of Western France, 1250-1325; Gridley Hoard, Ohio State Univ.: Assistance in video ropean and American art and art criticism at architecture. McKim-Smith, Tulane Univ., Newcomb tape recording and research on Korean art, INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Mills College. CoIl,: Velazquez: The archaeology of genius. Korea; Deborah Kaufman, SUNY, Geneseo: Beverly H. Orlove, Ph.D. candidate, Univ. The University of Nevada has announced the In addition, under the special program of Lecture on textile-related techniques, textiles Michigan, has been named the first recipient From the CUNY Graduate School come sev­ appointment of Mark Levey to teach nine· fellowships to recent recipients of the Ph.D., of the Americas, textile history and design, of the Frances Hiatt Fellowship by the Amer­ eral announcements. Linda Nochlin, most teenth- and twentieth-century art history. awards were made to Kerstin B. E. Carlvant, Pakistan; Beata Panagopoulos, San Jose ican Antiquarian Society. She will spend sev· recently Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Levey fills the position left vacant last January N.Y.C.: Thirteenth-century illumination in State Univ.: Lecture and research on medival eral weeks at the Society doing research for Art History at Vassar College, joins the facul­ by the death of Sven O. Loevgren. Bruges and Ghent; Cathleen A. Keller, Met­ Byzantine architecture, France; Alice her dissertation on American festivals in the ty as Distinguished Professor of Art History ropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian painters Schwartz, Pennsylvania State Univ.: early republic. this fall. A former CAA Board member, Newest art form on the horizon: skywriting. of the Ramesside period. Assistance in video tape recording and Nochlin has received numerous awards for Printmaker Leila Daw, associate professor of research on Korean art, Korea. Wayne Begley, Univ. Iowa, has been award­ her work on nineteenth-century realism and art and design at Southern Illinois University 1980 NEH FELLOWSHIPS ed a fellowship for 1980-81 from the Ameri­ women artists, among them the CAA's at Edwardsville, came upon skywriting as an Among the recipients of the awards in the arts HIGH ATOP THE JANICULUM can Institute of Pakistani Studies, for re­ Mather Award for art criticism in 1977. Im­ extension of her interest in the duplication (history and criticism) were: Fellowships for 1980-81 have been an­ search in Lahore on Mughal architecture pressionist and Post-Impressionist scholar and relocation of images. In a series of six Independent study and research. Dore nounced by the American Academy in Rome. during the reign of ShahJahan. John Rewald, a member of the Graduate projects that were scheduled to take place in Ashton, The Cooper Union; Sandra L. Among the recipients: Eric Marshall Frank. School faculty since 1971, has also been ap­ the St. Louis area in July and August, Daw Hindman, The Johns Hopkins Univ.; Wil­ Ph.D. candidate, I.F.A.: The Roman career Joseph Gutmann, Wayne State Univ., re­ pointed Distinguished Professor. The CUNY planned to trace in the skies such natural and liam I. Homer, Univ. Delaware; John T. of Antonio Pollaiuolo from 1481 to 1498; ceived the 1980 Board of Governors Faculty department will join forces with the Met this man-made images as the Meramec River and Luise Kaish, Columbia University Kirk, Boston Univ.; Thomas W. Lyman, Eileen L. Roberts, Ph.D. candidate, Recognition Award for his book Hebrew fall in a seminar entitled Methodology and its bluffs, an interstate cloverleaf, the mounds Emory Univ.; John W. McCoubrey, Univ. S. U.N, Y., Binghamton: Medieval paschal Manuscript Painting, published in 1978. Museology in Amerz'can Art. The course was and structures of an ancient urban city, rising Sculptor Luise Kaish has been named chair­ Pennsylvania; Marilyn J. McCully, Pri~ce­ candelabra, preserved in Rome or distributed Gutmann was the art history advisor to the developed by H. Barbara Weinberg of the air currents, and a bicycle pathway through a man of the painting and sculpture division of ton Univ,; CleotaReed, Syracuse, N.Y.; Irv­ through Lazio, the Abruzzi, Campania and Danzz'g 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Com­ CUNY Graduate School and Queens College park. the Columbia University School of the Arts. ing H. Sandler, SUNY, Purchase; Roy Sicily; Deborah Stott, Univ. Texas, Dallas: munity exhibit at The Jewish Museum. nd by Doreen Bolger Burke (Ph.D. candi- Recipient of numerous awards, among them Sieber, Indiana Univ.; Richard E. Spear, The role and theory of relief sculpture in fif­ :~. ate, CUNY), assistant curator of American Dale Cleaver, on the faculty for 22 years and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959 and a Oberlin ColI. teenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art; The annual fellowship awarded by the Shen\) painting and sculpture at the Met. Both are an Alumni Outstanding Teacher, was award- Rome Prize Fellowship from 1970 to 1972, College teachers and humanists. Jacque­ Philip Rush Livingston, Univ. Tennessee, son Family Foundation of San Francisco to Kaish was a visiting artist at the University of lyn C. Clinton, Ithaca ColI.; Donald C. Knoxville: Sculpture; Carlton R. Newton, support a first·year doctoral student in art Washington in 1979 andartist-in-residence at Crafton, Yale Univ.; JudsonJ. Emerick, Po­ San Francisco Art Inst.: Sculpture; Reeva history at the CUNY Graduate School was Dartmouth College in 1974. She also taught mona ColI.; Andree M. Hayum, Fordham Potoff, N.Y.C.: Sculpture; Melissa Meyer, presented to April Paul for 1980-81. This sculpture at Columbia during the summers of Univ.; William E. Hood, Oberlin Coll.; N.Y.C.: Painting; Rochelle M. Shicoff, year the fellowship was given in honor of Pro­ 1974 and 1975. Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Univ. Virginia; North Hadley, Mass.: Painting. Kathleen D. Nicholson, Oberlin Coll.; Fred fessor and Mrs. William Gerdts. Speaking of sculptors: Charles Umlauf has W. Peterson, Univ. Minnesota, Morris; Lin­ ABOVE NEW HAVEN BAY been named the first Leslie Waggoner Profes­ nea H. Wren, Gustavus Adolphus CoIl. Resident fellowships at the Yale Center for Livio Sagnic, Drew Univ, is the recipient of a sor in Fine Arts at the University of Texas, Summer stipends. Virginia M. Allen, British Art for 1980-81 have been awarded to $3,000 NEA Artist's Fellowship Grant. Austin. Umlauf joined the UT Austin art fac· Massachusetts Coli. of Art; Jeffrey C. Ander­ Luke Herrmann, Univ. Leicester: Turner's Saganic has exhibited sculpture, prints and ulty in 1941, which makes him the longest­ son, George Washington Univ.; James D. Lt'ber Studiorum; Michael Twyman, Univ. paintings; the grant is for sculpture. tenured professor there. A fanner Guggen· Andrew, Univ. Iowa, Iowa City; Richard R. Reading: The design of lithographed letter­ heim fellow, he developed the sculpture pro· Breuell, Univ. Texas, Austin; Michael O. ing used on wrappers and title-pages of Brit­ The Rockefeller Foundation selected forty gram at UT. Jacoff, Brooklyn CoIl., CUNY; Karen H. ish topographical publications; Kathryn from among 1,055 applicants for its annual Kingsley, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.; Heleniak, N.Y. U.: The nude in Victorian fellowships in the hwnanities. Among the re­ Gary F. Edson has been appointed chairman Michael E. Klein, Western Kentucky Univ.; art; Richard Quaintance, Rutgers Univ.: cipients: Peter D. Clothier, Otis Art Inst., of the division of art at the West Virginia Felicia H. Londre, Univ. Missouri, Kansas Political meaning in English landscaping of for research on visual portrayal and social af· University Creative Arts Center. Edson City; Patrick R. McNaughton, Univ. Wis­ the later eighteenth century; Ralph Hyde, finnation, focusing on black consciousness in (MFA, Tulane Univ.) succeeds Urban consin, Milwaukee; Thomas M. Martone, Guildhall Library, London: A catalogue of the art of Charles White. Couch, who became curator and director of Univ. Toronto, Erindale; Lawrence P. Nees, the panorama in the British Art Center; the CAC Galleries. Most recently, Edson Univ. Delaware; Robert S. Nelson, Univ. Michael Pidgley, Exeter College of Art and Herschel B. Chipp, Univ. California, Berke· taught ceramic forms classes at the Herron Chicago; Raphael X. Reichert, California Design: Study of group of drawings by John ley, was awarded the third Robert Gore Rif­ School of Art. State Univ. Sell Cotman in addition to work on the uses of kind annual scholar-in-residence grant for re­ the camera lucida and graphic telescope. search at the Foundation. ARTS AND SCIENCES Linda Nochtin (CUNY Grad· At the Artists for Environment Foundation in At its 200th annual meeting, May 21,1980, DUMBARTON OAKS FELLOWS The Swain Foundation for Caricature and uate Center) and Dairy (Arling­ Walpack Center, N.J., Patricia Mainardi the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Jfor the academic year 1980-81: Slobodan Cartoon awarded its first annual fellowship to ton Junior High School). Paint­ (Ph.D. cand., CUNY), director of the MFA elected 79 new Fellows. Among them were Curcic, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; support candidates for the Ph.D. working .i.n ing by Alice Neel. and summer art program at Goddard Col­ John Caskey, Univ. Cincinnati, the exca­ Leslie Brubaker, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Con­ the area of caricature and cartoon studies" lege, is joining the faculty during 1980-81 to vator at Troy; Claes Oldenburg, painter; stance Lee, Brown Univ.; Robert Ouster­ Margaret Betz, C.U.N.Y. Her dissertatiG:~ teach a course dealing with the history of and Ronald Paulson, Yale Univ., Hogarth hout, Univ. Illinois; and Arthur Schlak, topic is The Caricatures and Cartoons oj the landscape painting. scholar. Yale Univ. RussianRevolutt'onof1905. III Photo: Geoffrey Clements Conl1'nued on p. 8, col.

6 CAA newdetter September 1980 7 Ipeople and programs Ipeople and programs

The new Graphic Arts Center at the Detroit Modernist Edward F. Fry joins the faculty at MUSEUM PEOPLE Chambers (Ph .D., Univ. Pennsylvania) became the first director of the University's The University Art Museum, Berkeley, has Institute of Arts opened on July 13. Center­ the University of Pittsburgh as Mellon Pro­ taught at Emory University. Among his fields Art Gallery. He is completing his doctoral dis­ named Constance Lewallen M.A., San piece of the Center are the Schwartz Graphic fessor for the fall 1980 term. He then travels Steven A_ Nash has been named assistant of specialization are folk art, popular culture, sertation, "Images of Manual Labor in Diego State Univ.) Matrix coordinator, re­ Arts Galleries, 3,500 square feet of public south to the University of South Florida, director/ chief curator of the Dallas Museum and tribal African art. French Painting: 1740-1800," at the Univer­ placing Michael Auping, who goes to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fla., as display space that has been divided into three Tampa, where he will be Distinguished Visit­ of Fine Arts, He comes from the Albright­ i sity of California, Berkeley. distinct areas appropriate for viewing works ing Professor for the Spring 1981 semester. Knox Art Gallery, for which he recently com­ Sanford Sivitz Shaman, former director 0,,­ curator of twentieth-century art. The Ring­ in various formats. The Center also contains pIeted a major and extensive catalogue of the the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of William Bond Walker has been appointed ling also has a newly formed conservation staff offices and conference rooms, a study collection. Art, has been named director of the Washing­ chief librarian of the Thomas 1- Watson Li­ department. G. Theodore Nightwine, who received his training at the Cincinnati Art room, a specialized graphics arts library, and ton State University Museum of Art. He most brary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 5,000 square feet of print storage area and Another immigrant to Texas is Esther de recently organized the exhibition The Con­ He succeeds Elizabeth R. Usher, who head­ Museum, is head. workrooms for matting and framing. It's all Vecsey, who has accepted the dual position of temporary American Potter, which will open ed the Library from 1968 until her retirement part of the Institute's five year plan, which director of the Sewall Gallery and assistant at WSU in October and will travel with the this year. Walker (M.L.S., Rutgers Universi­ will culminate in the museum's centennial in professor in the department of art and art his­ Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibi­ ty) returns to the Met after serving for fifteen NEW PROGRAMS & FACILITIES 1985. tory at Rice University. She previously served tion Program. Shaman earned his under­ years as supervisory librarian of the Library of as curator of the collections at the College of graduate degree in studio art (Ohio Univ., the National Collection of Fine Arts and the This past spring The Johns Hopkins Uni­ The Regents of the University of South Flor­ Wooster in Ohio. Athens), did graduate work in art history at National Portrait Gallery. He wrote his mas­ versity dedicated the Spelman Villa in ida have voted to found a Salvador Dali Re­ SUNY at Binghamton, and holds an M.F.A. ter's theses on the Met's library while serving Florence as a graduate center for the study of search Center in St. Petersburg to house in­ The Munson-WiIliams-Proctor Institute has in art conservation from the Villa Schifonoia there as a cataloger and reference librarian Italian culture. history, and art. Charles tact the extensive Dali collection of Mr. and appointed Paul D. Schweizer director of the in Florence. from 1957 to 1959. Walker waS a founding Dempsey will serve as the first professor in Mrs. A. Reynolds Morse of Cleveland. The Museum of Art. He succeeds Edward H. member of the ARLIS/NA in 1972, and was charge and director of the center during the museum will be operated temporarily by the Dwight, who became director emeritus last The Newport Harbor Art Museum has ap­ its national chainnan in 1975. 1981 spring semester. About eight students Reynolds-Morse Foundation, set up in 1955 December. Schweizer (Ph.D., Uillv. Dela­ pointed Cathleen S. Gallander director. She will be in attcndancc. ware) leaves St. Lawrence University, where comes to California after serving as director of expressly to preserve the collection. Patrick D. Cardon has been named the new he was assistant professor and director of the the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus The University of Missouri-Kansas City an­ administrator for curatorial affairs at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. He has pub­ Christi. nounces a master of arts in art history with in­ The Toledo Museum of Art has announced a Brooklyn Museum. He rejoins the museum lished scholarly works on Edward Moran and ternship in visual resources management. major renovation project designed to revital­ staff after an absence of three years, having on the rise of the avant-garde in America. The Art Institute of Chicago has named nine­ For information: George Ehrlich, Art and Art ize the central part of the building in several formerly served in the department of Egyp­ teenth-century French painting specialist History Dept., UM-KC, Kansas City, Mo. phases-Over the next few years. Both public fa­ tian art. Bruce W. Chambers is the new director of Richard Robson Brettell (Ph.D., Yale 64110. cilities and staff and service areas are sched­ the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Acting Univ.) curator of European painting. Bret- uled for improvements. The project will cost director of the Memorial Art Gallery of the tell, who has held teaching positions at the The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has an­ The University of Southern California is of­ several million dollars; funding has been re­ University of Rochester since March 1979, he University of Texas, Austin, at Wesleyan and nounced the retirement of Charlotte John­ fering a new museum studies program this ceived from the Kresge Foundation, NEA, fall. Developed under the direction of was previously assistant director for curatorial at Yale, is currently working on a retrospec- son von Wodtke, who served for twenty-two and other sources. services at the Rochester museum and ad- tive exhibition of Camille Pissarro that will years as curator of education. Christopher B. Stephen Ostrow, dean of the USC School of Edward Fry Photo: Thea WUdjick junct assistant professor in the university's de- open in London in October and later q' " Crosman (M.A., Oberlin CoIl.), formerlyas­ Fine Arts, the new program will have the co­ The International Museum of Photography partment of fine arts. From 1970 to 1976, shown in Paris and Boston. He assumes lit· sociate curator, has been appointed to re­ operation and the participation of the exten­ at George Eastman House will eventually be sive museum community in the Los Angeles 1------1 new duties this Fall after spending the suni­ place her. the IMP near George Eastman House, if all Bowdoin College will add several new faculty area. For information: Stephany Knight, members for the year ]980-81: baroque spe­ mer in Paris on an NEA fellowship working on goes in accordance with a new long-range de­ "Impressionism and Optics." Coordinator, Museum Studies Program, Sch. velopment plan, which calls for construction cialist Susan Wern Wegner (Ph.D., Bryn The Newark Museum in New Jersey has of Fine Arts, Watt Hall 103, USC, University of a major new building adjacent to the pres­ Mawr Coll.); modernist Lauren Wein~ appointed Ulysses G. Dietz curator of At the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincin­ Park, L.A., Calif. 90007. ent site. Problems were that the house, a reg­ garden (Ph.D, cand" Univ. Chicago); and decorative arts. Dietz has been a senior guide nati, Nina Felshin has been named curator istered national landmark, is not well suited sculptor Elizabeth Peak (MFA, Yale Univ.). at the Winterthur Museum, curatorial assist­ of exhibitions. She succeeds Ruth K. Meyer, Some job assignments are just more fun than for the display and storage of the collection ant in the American Arts Office of the Yale who is now executive director of the Ohio others! Staff members of the Winterthur and that the use of the house for museum pur­ The end of the school year always brings news University Art Gallery, and assistant to the Foundation on the Arts. Felshin (MA, Ober­ Museum toured southern Germany, Switzer­ poses was resulting in continuing harm to the of honors bestowed upon distinguished mem­ director of "Lorenzo," an historic house in lin ColI., Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Center, land, and Austria for three weeks this spring building. In addition to the proposed new bers of the profession. Fonner CAA president Cazenovia, N. Y. He replaces Phillip H. Cur­ CUNY) served on the board of trustees of to study the local material folk culture. Immi­ building, the development plan calls for pres­ Albert E. Elsen, Stanford University, re­ tis, who is leaving Newark to join the staff of Independent Curators, Inc. and later was grants from that region brought their culture ervation of the collection as the primary prior­ ceived an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts the Winterthur Museum and Gardens as asso­ program coordinator of the GSA's Art-in­ to America, where it combined with English ity, a significant effort to make the collection from Dickinson College. He was cited as an ciate curator in charge of glass and ceramics. Architecture Program and administered a traditions to develop into what is today called increasingly accessible to both scholars and "inspired scholar and a concerned teacher," Both Curtis and Dietz are graduates of the similar program for the National Institute of Pennsylvania German folk art. The trip was the public, and an unabated acquisitions and commended particularly for his personal Winterthur Program in Early American Cul­ Health. In 1975 she waS appointed deputy in preparation for an exhibition which the policy. dedication to the protection of artists and art ture. The Winterthur has also announced the U.S. commissioner of the Biennale de Paris; Winterthur will sponsor jointly with the Phil­ through his work on the CAA Board as well as appointment of social historian Avi Deeter as she became U.S. commissioner in 1977. adelphia Museum of Art in 1983 in celebra­ The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has award­ his recent work on art and law, head of the museum's education division. tion of the 300th anniversary of German set­ ed a grant of $24,000 jointly to the Ryerson Williams College awarded a Doctor of Letters Roger M. Berkowitz, curator of 'decorative tlement at Germantown. Like the staff, the and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute of degree to present CAA Board member Jean arts, has been named chief curator at The James A. Welu, formerly associate curator, exhibition will travel. Chicago and the libraries of The Cleveland Sutherland Boggs, director of the Philadel­ Toledo Museum of Art. Robert Phillips, has been named acting curator of the collec­ Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Muse­ phia Museum of Art, and a Doctor of Fine who has held the biyearly rotating position, tion at the Worcester Art Museum, following Armand Hammer has signed an agreement um of Art to develop a computerized on-line Arts degree to Helen Frankenthaler, who returns to the post of curator of contemporary the recent resignation of Dagmar E. Reut­ with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art index for current auction catalogues. Ap­ was artist-in-residence at Williams this art. Berkowitz (Ph.D., Univ. Michigan) has linger, who has accepted a research position pledging up to $2 million in AH Foundation proximately 2,000 catalogues are issued an­ spring. been at the museum since 1974; among other with a private foundation in New York City. funds for the construction of an extension to nually by the major auction houses. The mu­ activities he has assisted in preparing the Welu (Ph.D., Univ. Boston), a specialist in the Frances and Armand Hammer Wing seum libraries will share the input of records Painter Lee Krasner, an alumna of The Museum's catalogue of European paintings. Dutch and Flemish art, joined the museum's which will link it to the Ahmanson Gallery for these catalogues and building the data base, which will be available to all libraries Cooper Union, was the recipient of The ,." curatorial staff in 1974. Anne P. Walsh and provide new gallery space. Construction Cooper Union Citation, the college's highest The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha has name"": ~M.L.S., Simmons Coli.) has been named is expected to begin in early 1981. The agree­ within the Research Libraries Network honor. Rhode Island School of Design award­ Hollister Sturges III curator of EuropealJ,-' assistant librarian, succeeding Maureen J. ment also provides for the future 90nation of (RILN) and to other libraries by special ed honorary degrees to Alexander Liberman Albert Elsen, Stanford University art. Sturges had taught at the University of Killoran, who was recently appointed head all works of art owned by the Foundation and arrangement. and Robert Motherwell. Photo: Liane Enkalis Missouri-Kansas City since 1972 and in 1976 librarian at Millbury (Mass.) Public Library. by Armand Hammer personally to LACMA. Continued on p. 11. ("(Jf.

8 CAA newsletter September 1980 9 placement: 1979·80 annual review Iplacement: 1979-1980 annual review

Compared with last year, positions are up (by 69) and the number of applicants has decrease~ (by APPLICANTS 132). The increase in positions more than makes up for last year's drop (60), but does not beg~n to ~>~ij~~t'Ji~;~~X~t~~~\iit: ,:,',,: ><:' y:\; <,,< ','<;,'>':" :<}< «:'«<>; :, '\< <:--':,< '«~i:'," 5>'//,\:,; < Earned Masters approach the all-time high of 1208 positi?llS reco~ded in 1976. Whi~e th~ situatio~ is esse~tIally <~:',N6t:::Jri:~lR~'fi,4~,,:,~~{:t:h'e:

ly owing to the fact that institutions, aided by The move of the WCA headquarters from De­ This eight-day conference (March 15-22) was openings for artists and for 37% of the For artists (overall drop 8%), a major excep­ a much-improved Positions Listing Form, troit to San Francisco is virtually complete, probably the longest, largest, and best­ teaching openings for art historians. It is tion is the decrease in the number of appli­ DEGREE YEAR now specify their requirements more exactly, The fifth national president, S. DeRenne attended extravaganza devoted exclusively to seldom clear whether or not graduate teach­ cants in painting and drawing: down from MFA EARNED MALE FEMALE TOTAl. those numbers have dropped considerably, Coerr, museum registrar, Fine Arts Museums prints ever held in this country. The sponsor ing assistantships fulfill this requirement. 583 to 507, or a drop of13%. (Since the appli­ 197980 135 155 290 'or artist openings, the median number of of San Francisco, has made some innovations was Cranbrook Academy of Art; co-sponsor cants/ openings ratio in this area is 9 to 1, 197679 142 165 307 applications this year was 60; for art historian in the WCA organization in consultation with was Wayne State University, which hosted Track and Term. Forty-two percent of the there's a long way to gal) For art historians the 1971 75 130 87 217 openings it remained 30; and for "other" it past president Lee Anne Miller and other panels and demonstrations on paper and openings listed for artists and 56% of the overall drop in the number of applicants was 1966 70 53 23 76 decreased to 40 (from 50). Still, 18 institutions members of the WCA Advisory Board. These papermaking, Partial funding was provided openings listed for art historians were tenure 7%. There were significantly greater de­ 1961 65 38 8 46 with artist openings reported receiving more include: the appointment of a professional by the Michigan Arts Council. The confer­ track. Of nOll-tenure track appointments for creases in Americanists (15%) and Oriental­ 1960 or pre 11 2 13 than 200 applications, with two going over staff member, Katherine V. G, Dickinson, as ence was ably directed by Connor Everts, artists, 83 were for 1 year only, 23 were for 1 ists (24%), two areas that saw a slight increase the 400 mark. Only twO institutions with art operations manager (to carry out the respon­ head of printmaking at Cranbrook, Attend­ semester only, and 20 were part time. For art in the number of positions offered. PH,D. EARNED historian openings received more than 75 ap­ sibilities of membership secretary and treas­ ance was nationwide and from as far afield as historians, 57 of the non-tenure track ap­ Just for fun, we always check out gender 1979-80 22 29 51 plications, and only four institutions reported urer and, undoubtedly, other functions as England and Canada. pointments were for 1 year only, 19 were for 1 identification at this point, and we are happy 197679 28 41 69 more than 75 applications for "others," needed); a new unified national dues struc­ A balanced daytime program provided semester only. and 1] were part time. to report that it seems to be disappearing. 1971 75 17 23 40 ture with a single payment; and a new News­ demonstrations ranging from cliche verre Sculpture, long a male bastion (80% of the 1966-70 10 II 21 Interviews, Five to six was the median letter fonnat which will provide increased and pochoir processes to collotype and in­ Location. For artists, 47% of the openings applicants were male when we began keeping 1961 65 4 3 7 number of interviews for each opening. One­ coverage of local WCA chapters throughout taglio techniques, with lithography and were in the Northeast, 13% in the Southeast, these records), now has only 62% male appli­ 1960 or pre 3 I 4 quarter to one-third of all institutions held the country, issues devoted to specific themes, screen printing included. The evening panels 21 % in the Central States, and 18% in the cants, In photography, where women were only one to three interviews, Seventeen insti­ and a new classified column, and lectures were spirited and substantive. A West. For art historians: 39% Northeast, long underrepresented, 49% of the appli­ tutions reported holding more than 25 inter­ Important upcoming events are: The Mid­ Historic Survey of British Printshops was 17% Southeast, ]9% Central States, and cants are now female, The only clearly sex­ 3%. Among female artist applicants both views, America CAA Conference in Houston, Tex­ presented by the British artist Derek Hirst. 22% West, linked fields remaining are textile arts, where full-time and part-time employment have as, October 23-26, for which the Houston June Wayne reminisced about Tamarind and 86% of the applicants are women, and art gone up (2% FIT; 3% PIT). Male/Female Ratios, Consistently in the WCA Chapter has planned panels entitled "A All That Followed. Perhaps the liveliest and and slide librarianship, where 75% of the ap­ For both artists and art historians, the past, and this year also, women are not as"~c­ Feminist Critique: A Reassessment of Critical most controversial panel was titled The Crisis APPLICANTS plicants are women, We don't know about percentage of full-time employment is lower tive" applicants as are men. Thus, whIle Methodology As It Relates to the Women's £n Printmaking, proving once again that well­ textile artists, but we do know that art and for women than for men, Among artists, 13% women constitute 49% of the artist applicant Art Movement" and "Women Artists: The prepared presentations by experts on the sub­ Race. Among artists there were 43 black slide librarians are notoriously poorly paid. fewer women are employed full time; among pool, they account for only 34% of the actual Private Lives, the Work, the Cultural ject are bound to elicit audience approval. A and other minority applicants (46 last year); art historians, the difference is 16%, In both applications. While women constitute 65 % of Milieu." For information contact Jeanne panel I chaired examined The Need for a among art historians the total was] 7 (13 last Employment Status, Among applicants cases, the gap has been consistently narrow­ the art historian a pplicant pool, they account Norsworthy, 3689 Inwood, Houston, Tex. National Printmakers Organization and year). The breakdown is as follows: among with earned terminal degrees, a greater pro­ ing, for only 40% of the actual applications, (It is 770]9, The Southeastern Women's Caucus received strong support from a receptive artist applicants there were 9 black males, 1 portion of artists than art historians are cur­ not possible to establish the applicant pool for for Art will hold its annual meeting in audience, black female, 17 other minority males, and 11 rently employed. This is the first time that has Year Degree Earned. No change here: "other" positions; however, women account conjunction with the Southeastern CAA, Oc­ A further attraction was the creation of a other minority females. Among art historian occurred since we began keeping these rec­ most applicants seeking jobs through the for 51 % of the applications in that category.) tober 30-November ] in Birmingham (Co­ folio of prints during the conference, Titled applicants there were 3 black males, 2 black ords, In both disciplines, unemployment for CAA are relatively recent graduates. Thirty­ We have expressed concern in the past that ordinator: Patricia Johnston, 167 Moody St., Detroit Font Suite, the series contained works females, 6 other minority males, and 5 other females is higher than for males, (Plus la percent of artist and 26% of art historian ap­ >his descrepancy between the proportion of Montevallo, Ala, 35115). in various mediums by well-known printmak­ minority females. Seven of the minority ap­ change ,) Among artists, unemployment plicants with terminal degrees earned them ~ .tpplicants and the proportion of applications The WCA Awards Committee is chaired ers such as James Butler, Connor Everts, plicants were Orientalists, II in painting and percentages decreased for both males and fe­ this past academic year. Sixty-two percent of' would eventually turn up in employment fig­ this year by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, (art George Miyasaki, Leonard Edmondson, Rob­ drawing, 5 in printmaking, 3 in ceramics, 2 males (3% for males, 4% for females). both artist and art historian applicants with ures. That does not seem to have occurred in historian, the College of Wooster), Therese ert Nelson, Shiro Ikegawa, and Cynthia Os­ each in sculpture and photography, and the Among art historians, unemployment among terminal degrees earned them within the past artist openings, where 48% of the candidates Heyman, (curator of prints and drawings, borne, to name but a few. rest spread out singly in various areas of males increased (by 6%), while unemploy­ four years, hired were women (within one percentage Oakland Museum), will serve as chair of the In sum, the conference was considered by specialization. ment among females went down (by 5%), point of their presence in the applicant pool). Panels Selection Committee for WCA partici­ all to be a huge success. It provided ample Perhaps more significant than the gross Among art historians, however, only 47% of pation in the CAA annual conference, proof that printmakers have a lot to talk Sex. Fifty-four percent of all applicants are employment percentages is the increase in HIRING REPORTS the openings were filled by women, con­ about and they are willing to travel great women_ Among artists, the proportion is part-time employment-and the concomi­ siderably below their representation in the Alison Hilton III distances (mostly on their own funds) to do so. Wayne State University 49%, a continuation of the steady increase tant drop in full-time employment-among Regrettably, and despite repeated nagging, applicant pool (65%). Fifty-five percent of Garo Z. Antreasian III since we began keeping these records in art historians. The change is greatest for male we received only 297 hiring reports for the "other" openings were filled by women. University of New Mexico ]975·76, when women constituted only 33% art historians, where the proportion of ap­ 1050 positions listed, Of these, 23 positions of artist applicants. Among art historians, plicants employed full time has decreased by were reported cancelled; 13 still pending, All Rank and Salary, Part-time positions are ~ ______..Jl.... ______women constitute 65% of all applicants, a 18%, with an increase of ]2% in part-time that follows must be viewed in the light of this not included, figure that has remained fairly steady over the employment. The proportion of female ap­ very inadequate statistical base. ARTISTS. Of 95 usable reports, 23 place­ ant professor were evenly divided between past five years_ plicants employed full time has decreased by ments were at the rank of instructor, salary ant professor rank, two-thirds of the positions men and women, with-in contrast to artist 5%, while the proportion employed part time Applications. Last time we reported on ap­ range $8,000-$17,000, median $13,500; that paid below the median salary were filled by women. At higher levels, a disproportion­ openings-no discernible difference in sal­ Qualifications. Almost everyone seeking a has increased by 1] %, plications (September 1978) the median and 53 were at the rank of assistant professor, ate number of the positions went to men, aries between them. job through the CAA has earned or is in the Among male artist applicants the propor­ number received per artist opening was 100. salary range $13,000 - $20,000, median ART HISTORIANS, We received only 69 usable process of earning a tenninal degree_ Among tion employed full time has remained steady, For art historian openings it was 30, Possibly $15,500, Compared with 1978, which is the reports for art history placements, of which ] 5 I got my job through ... "The CAA," was artist applicants, 96% of males and 94% of while part-time employment has increased by owing to increased postal rates, but more like- last time we were able to compile these were at the instructor level, salary range the answer on 145 of the 214 responses. Rec­ females either have earned tenninal degrees figures, the median salary for instructors has $13,000-·$19,300, median $15,000; and 50 ommendations from colleagues and personal or are M.F.A. candidates. Among art histori­ increased by $2,000 and the median salary for were at the rank of assistant professor, salary contacts accounted for 23 placements; 17 ans, 80% of males and 70% offemales either EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF APPLICANTS assistant professors is up by $] ,500, Fourteen range $14,000-$21,000, median $17,000. positions were filled by persons presently on have earned terminal degrees or are Ph.D. associate professorships were filled, with MALE FEMALE Compared with ]978, which is the last time staff; and 3 by former interns or volunteers. candidates. The most notable change in this salaries ranging from $]3,000 to $25,000; and ARTISTS 1979 1980 1979 1980 we were able to compile these figures, the me­ Announcements to departments accounted area has been in the level of preparation of five full professorships, with salaries ranging Employed Full-Time 55% 55% 40% 42% dian salary for instructors has increased by for 6 successful applicants; 15 positions were female art history applicants. When we ,began from $34,000 to $45,000. Employed Part-Time 25% 28% 34% 37% $2,500 and the median salary for assistant filled by candidates who responded t~ news­ keeping these records five years ago, only At the lower ranks, half the positions were Unemployed 20% 17% 25% 21% professors is up by $2,000, There were four paper advertisements (7 of them III the 58% of femetle art history applicants had filled by men and half by women; two-thirds placements at the rank of associate professor, Chronicle of Higher Education); 3 successful earned or w«:!re pursuing the doctorate. ART IIISTORIANS If the associate professorships and all but one with salaries ranging from $21,000 to candidates came through university person­ Employed Full-Time 63% 53% 47% of the full professorships were filled by men. 81 % I $25,900, all of which went to men. Instructor­ nel offices, and 2 from local groups. Employed Part· Time 20% 19% 30% There is no difference in salaries between men R,R,W, III 8% ships and appointments at the rank of assist- Unemployed 11% 17% 28% 23% and women at the instructor level. At assist- 13 September 1980 12 CAA newsletter THE RICHARD ETTINGHAUSEN Art Bulletin book review editor MEMORIAL COLLOQUIUM preservation news Coinciding with the first anniversary of. the James Marrow, Associ~te ~rofessor of the death of Richard Ettinghausen, a colloqUIum History of Art at Yale UnIverSIty, has been ap­ The Preservation and Use of Artistic the Pollaiuolo from San Miniato ai Monte Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper, in Islamic art dedicated to this eminent sch.ol­ Cultural Heritage now in the Uffizi and stated that wherever Anne F. Clapp. Intennuseum Laboratory, pointed Book Review Editor of The Art Bulle· ar's memory was held at the Ins.titute of Fme The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New possible large paintings should go back to Allen Art Building, Oberlin College, Ober­ tin effective in June. He replaces Juergen Arts, N.Y.U., April 2-4. Entitled Icono~­ York hosted a three-day symposium in late their sites. If restitution were adopted as a lin, Ohio 44074. $5.00. chulz, Brown University, who had com­ raphy: Content and Context of -r:isual A-:ts zn May devoted to the preservation and use of ar­ general policy, it would enlist strong support , leted his three-year appointment. the Islamic World, it drew an mternatIOnal tistic cultural heritage. The conference was and would also free gallery space in museums A Directory of Private, Nonprofit Preservd P Marrow earned his bachelor's degree fro~ gathering of scholars, museum curators, co-sponsored by the Met and the Direzione for showing important works now in storage. tion Organkations: State and Local Levels, the University of Minnesota in 1963 and hIS teachers, and advanced grad~ate st~dents. Generale della Cooperazione, Ministero'degli He believes that regional museums should Preservation Bookshop, 1600 H Street, doctorate from Columbia in 1975. He was Twelve distinguished scholars, mcl.udmg .five Affari Esteri, Rome, in conjunction with the continue to be established so that one could at N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. $6.95. Research Fellow and Lecturer at The Gr~du­ who completed their doctorates w.lth ~ttmg­ ate Centre for Medieval Studies at the UnIver­ hausen, presented lectures. Joimng m the exhibition of the horses of San Marco. least see works in their regional context. International Index on Training in Conserva­ Speakers addressed the letter as wen as the Carlo Bertelli, director of the Brera, ad­ sity of Reading, England, and also taug~t at tribute, the Metropolitan Museum ?f Art tion of Cultural Property. ICCROM, 13 Via the University of Chicago and at SUNY, Bmg­ hosted a reception in its Islamic Gallenes and spirit of the issues. dressed the question of the museum as a di San Michele, Rome, Italy. $5.00. Make Sergio Roman, director general for regional concept. ItaJian museological think­ hamton (where he was also co-directo~ of the the Hagop Kevorkian Cent~r fo~ Near East­ checks payable to COMIT, Sede di Roma c/c Center for Medieval and Early RenaIssance ern Studies at New York UnIverSIty held a re- cultural, scientific, and technical cooper­ ing no longer sees the museum in terms of N.1574489/02. ation, was concerned with the Italian political property--what belongs to whom. Rather, it studies) before coming to Yale in 1976, He ception and dedicatio~ ceremony for th.~ Richard Ettinghausen LIbrary. The colloqut and social crisis of managing the largest starts from the premise of public utility and Japanese Scroll Paintings: A Handbook for has published extensively, most recently Pas­ cultural heritage in the Western world; the from the conviction that whether an object Mounting Techniques, Masako Koyano. sion Iconography in Northern European A:t urn was made possible by the generous sup­ intellectual and professsional crisis of deter­ belongs to the central government, to a city, American Institute of Conservators, 1522 K of the Late Mt'ddle Ages and Early R~nats- port of The Hagop Kevorkian Fund. · A Study o' the Transformatton of Much of the actual planning of the event mining the function of culture and its relation or to a town, it is still public, part of an Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. sance. 'J . Sacred Metaphor into Descriptive Narratzve James Marrow was done by the graduate students of the In­ with the public; and the international, social, organic whole. Such thinking has led to the $10.00. (1979), and serves on ~he.editori~l boards of stitute. In addition, they prepared three ':~­ and judicial crisis of the commercial demand distribution of works of art throughout a University High SchooL Perhaps even more Paper Conservation and Restoration, Louise Ars Neerlandica: studws zn the Htstory ofArt usual handlists which introduc~d the rartlCI­ for culture (objets d'art). region - as the Brera has begun doing with its outre (after all, the last issue of the newsletter Loudon. Bibliographic Series #284. Institute in the Low Countries, a proposed 4-volume pants to the rich resources avaIlable m New Sir John Pope-Hennessy suggested that the nineteenth-century paintings-in contrast to reported that Kirk Varnedoe had coache~ of Paper Chemistry, P.O. Box 1039, Apple­ study of which Vol. I has just ~ppeared,. and York City for the study of Islamic ~rt (more Italians were being a bit sensationalist in their prior attempts to create complete-in-them­ football), Marrow's undergraduat~ degree IS ton, Wisc. 54912. $16.00. Mediaevalia, a journal of medIeval studies. than a dozen institutions were mclude?); vision of an unregenerate capitalist society selves micromuseums. in mathematics. He was workmg as an Editor's Note: We were about to go to press pointed out notable New Y?rk buildings Wlt~ robbing Italy of its heritage. He believes that Other papers were concerned with the role engineer for Minneapolis Honeywell when he The Photographic Conservation Bibliogra­ with the bare facts above when Marrow called Islamic influence; and reVIewed the gastro export license regulations for works of art and of archaeology in Italy and with specific issues decided to take advantage of a compan~ off~r phy. Graphic Arts Research Center, Roches­ to inform us that in September he w.ould .be nomic delights of Manhattan'S and Brook- their proper enforcement lie in national centered around the horses of San Marco. to pay tuition at night school by enrollIng m ter Institute of Technology, 1 Lomb Memori­ · t the University of Cahforma, lyn's Near Eastern restaurants. . hands and should be determined by the na­ Licia Borrelli Vlad, Ministero Beni CuIturali movmg 0 two courses: one in statistics, the other an art al Drive, Rochester, N.Y. 14623. $10.00. Berkeley, as associate professor. The sa~e The colloquium was memorable m .several tional importance of a work of art, not by e Amvientali, Rome, reviewed the literature history survey taught by Lorenz Eitner (now 1 D-cent phone call flushed -out the followmg respects: it was a celebration of the hfe. a.nd capricious whim. He noted that maintenance and stated that what could not be accom­ Reading List for Students in Conservation of Stanford University). He dropped out of the work of a scholar who had been a gal~amzm~ and restoration projects in numerous Italian plished by the vicissitudes of the Venetian Historic and Artistic Works on Paper, Anne details: . statistics course after three weeks. He got. anA For three years Marrow was a se.mI- force in virtually every area of Islaml: art; It cities have become joint undertakings by fine Republic has been accomplished by exposure F. Clapp and Roy L. Perkinson. Revised ed., in the art history survey. The first art history Drofessional soccer player ,;ith demonstrated the growth and matunty of a arts authorities in Italy and such interna­ to industrial pollution. Therefore, for pres­ 1980. American Institute of Conservators, .UkranIa~: book he ever read was Gombrich's The Story .iungarian, and Polish teams m field that has expanded dramatical~y in the tional benefactors as the Kress and the ervation, the horses will be sheltered in­ 1522 K Street, N.W., Washington, D,C ~mneapo~l~, he also coached wrestling at Mmneapohs S ojArt.Helikedit. III last two decades; and it served as .te~tImon y to Thyssen Foundations. He felt that the prob­ doors- making them museum pieces, rather 20005. $3.75. .. lems posed by many major monuments de­ than a part of a living monument. the continued pursuit of humallls~lc end~av­ mand international support for their resolu­ Tax Incentives for Historic Preservation, ors at a time of political and Ideological tion and was willing to risk the theft of the Recent Bibliography Gregory E. Andrews, ed. No. 3084. National turmoil. works of minor masters for the greater gains Trust for Historic Preservation, 740-748Jack­ Monica Strauss II The Care of Black and White Photographic made through international cooperation. son Place N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. information Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. Collections: Identification of Processes, Pope-Hennessy contended that many $12.95. Information is sought on the works of the Siegfried RempL Technical Bulletin, No.6. Italian museums are overstuffed with works of For a dissertation in progress on the Americ.an American artist da Loria Norman (1872- Canada Conservation Institute. Venice Restored, 1979 UNESCO Report. art wrested from their original contexts pure­ painter Abraham Rattner (1893-1978), Ill­ 1935) as well as any personal data from tho~e For a biography of Henry Koerner (b. yie.n- Unipub, 345 Park Avenue South, N.Y.C. formation is sought from owners (not a~ready ly for aggrandisement, since altarpieces Conservation Standards for Works of Art in who may have known her. Contact CynthIa 191 5) information is sought on hIS life 10010. $7.50. contacted) of canvases executed pnor, to na, ' I' d' twelve-feet high can hardly be stolen. He Transit and on Exhibition, Nathan Stolow. A. Norman, 14 Lyon St., New Haven, Conn. and paintings during the time h~ Ive III 1950. In particular, information concerrung cited the Bellini and Carpaccio from San Unipub, 345 Park Avenue South, N.Y.C. Annabelle Simon Cahn III 06511. Brooklyn (1938-1942) and served III ~he Of­ Giobbe now in the Accademia in Venice and 10010. Public Information Officer the location of Darkness Fell Over the Land, fIce of War Information and t?e tIm: he painted in 1942 and last known t~ have been served in the Office of Strate~c ServIces. in the collection of Nancy Galantiere of N~w Contact Betty Rogers Rubenstem, 751 Lake For a possible exhibition as well as ~n exten­ Ipeople and programs York, is desired. Contact Piri Halasz, Of~lce Shore Drive, Tallahassee, Fla. 32312. of Research, Room 334 National CollectIon sive research paper and catalogue, mforma­ of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Irutitution, Wash­ tion is sought on the location of the works. of The Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Sculpture ASSOCIATIONS been named vice president-elect of western the painter John Haberle (1856-1933);. ington, D.C. 20560. ?I~­ For a catalogue raisonne of Childe ~assam Garden at the Baltimore Museum of Art region of the National Art Education Associa­ liographical information and memorablh~ IS (oils, watercolors, pastels and drawmgs, as opened to the public on June 8, Almost ten Newly elected officers of the Art Dealers tion. also requested. Contact Gertrude Gr~ce ~In, well as all the images he produced th~oug~ Information is sought on the location of Dept. of Art History, Fairfield Umverslty, years in the planning, the garden opened with Association are: Stephen Hahn, president; etching and lithography), information IS an installation designed by assistant director William R. AcquavelIa, vice president; Ruth K. Meyer, formerly curator at the Cin­ paintings, drawings, and engravings by Peter North Benson Road, Fairfield, Conn. 06430. F. Rothermel for an exhibition. Contact sought by Stuart P. Feld, HirschI & Adler Brenda Richardson which prominently fea­ Norman HirschI. vice president; Ralph F_ cinnati Contemporary Arts Center, has been Galleries, 21 East 70th St., N .Y.C. 10021. tured major works by Moore, Noguchi, Max Colin, administrative vice president; and appointed executive director of the Ohio Kent Ahrens, Dept. afFine Arts, Georgetown Bill, Bourdelle, Calder, Lipchitz, MaiIlol, Gilbert S. Edelson, secretary and treasurer. Foundation on the Arts. University, Washington, D.C. 20057. and Rodin. Edelson is the CAA's honorary counsel. For an exhibition and catalogue, information Information on the location of the :arlier is sought on the life and career of Josep~ Thomas W. Leavitt, director of Cornell For a study of the work of the Mexi~an ~ural­ works (through 1960) of Charles WhIte, as The Brockton Art Center has formally Craig C. Black. director of Carnegie Muse­ University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Rusling Meeker (1827-1889), a St. .L.OUIS well as any correspondence or other relevant ists Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueuos I~ t.he artist noted for his paintings of LOuiSIana changed its name to the Brockton Art Muse­ um of Natural History, is the new president of Art, has been elected to the Charter Board of Jnited States during the 1930s then materials, is sought by Peter Clothier, 23~1 ~nd ~n­ bayou scenes. Contact C. Reynolds Brown, um to reflect the growth in the size and quali­ the American Association of Museums. Directors of Independent Sector, a new con­ · on North American artIsts, send m- Ronda Vista Drive, Los Angeles, Cal~ ty of its permanent collection. Along with the ~ uence 2920 Montgomery Museum ofF'me Arts, 440 South sortium of 140 private foundations and othe{vc)l formation to Laurance P. Hurlburt, 90027. name change will come regular rotating ex­ Bill D. Francis, professor of art and educa­ organizations engaged in philanthropy and' McDonough St., Montgomery, Ala. 36104. Low Road, Middleton, Wis. 53562. hibitions of the permanent collection in the tion at the University of Texas, Austin, and voluntary activity. 15 Museum's Tarlow Gallery. associate dean of the College of Fine Arts, has M.N.!R.R.W. III September 1980 14 CAA newsletter INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE classifieds WOMEN ARTISTS THESAURUS PROJECT

Held in conjunction with the Second World Planning for a major thesaurus of art and ar­ The CAA newsletter will accept classifi'eds of Conference of the U.N. Decade for Women, chitecture terms has recently been funded by a professional or semi-professional nature the First International Festival of Women Ar­ the Council on Library Resources. Project (sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange tists took place in Copenhagen, July 14-30. directors are Dora Crouch, architectural of homes, etc.). The charge is 5W per word, Included in the State Department-funded historian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, minimum charge 110.00, advance paymenf' American delegation were numerous visual Pat Molholt, associate director of libraries at required. Make checks payable to CAA. :: artists, art historians, and arts adminis­ R.P,I., and Toni Petersen, formerlyexecu­ trators, among them Susan Schwalb, N. Y.C.; tive editor of RILA (International Repertory SCUL~TURE FILMS available for rental Betye Saar, painter, Los Angeles; Muriel of the Literature of Arts). including "Spiral Jetty," "Orion," on Isaac Magenta, Arizona State Univ.; Gloria Oren­ The thesaurus will provide a set of compre­ Witkin, and on the Vennont Sculpture Sym­ stein, Douglass College; Terry McGhee, hensive terms for the visual arts and will form posium. Send SASE for list and prices to Atlantic Women's Art Collective; Cynthia a hinge between objects and their replicas/ American International Sculptors Sym­ Navaretta, Women Artists News; Diane representations and the bibliography of the posiums, 799 Greenwich Street, New York, Radycki, N,Y.C.; Nancy Cusick, Washing­ description/history of the works of art. N.Y. 10014. ton Women's Center; Lorraine Garcia, Cen­ Preliminary design of the thesarus will in­ The second annual issue of RUTGERS ART tro de Artistas Chicanos; Cindy Lyle, N. Y .C.; clude a hierarchical as well as alphabetical REVIEW will appear in January 1981. Manu­ Barbara Hammer, ritual artist, San Fran­ listing planned for collapsibility and com­ scripts from graduate students are welcomed cisco; Beverly Buchanan, author, Black puterization. The thesaurus will join those for consideration and should be addressed to Women Artists in the South; Alida Walsh, already developed in other fields as major RAR, Art Department, Voorhees Hall, N, Y .C.; Betsy Damon, founder, Feminist Art tools of vocabulary control in information Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.]. Studio, Ithaca; Janice Willard, Coalition of and retrieval systems, Researchers will be able 08903. Subscriptions to the RAR ($6.00) Women's Art Organizations; Phyllis Birkby, to search the literature quickly and effectively should be mailed to the same address, Women's School of Planning and Architec­ and classification and indexing schemes for ture; Edith Stephen, N.Y.C.; Diana Henry, art and architecture bibliography and images PICTURE RESEARCH. staffed by art N,Y.C.; Vibeke Sorensen, video artist, will be more easily developed when this historians, finds historic and modeIll photo­ Albany; Dannielle Hayes, photographer, thesaurus serves as their authority for index­ graphs, fine art transparencies, and image­ N. Y .C.; and Eleanor Tufts, art historian, ing terminology. related information from low-cost govern" Southern Methodist University. Scholars and librarians will be asked to ment sources, We serve publishers, authors, While the conference itself received mixed serve as members of an advisory panel on term educators, film and filmstrip producers, and notices, owing to its politicization by the selection. For further information, write Pat exhibit designers. Picture Research, 6307 Palestine Liberation Organization, there was M6lholt, Folsom Library, RPI, Troy, N. Y. Bannockburn Drive, Washington, D.C. unanimous agreement that the artists' festival 12181. (518) 270-6677. 20034 III had been a success. A new organization, called the International Association of DATEBOOK, I October deadline annual meeting abstracts 15 October deadline Women in the Arts, was formed and im­ preferC'ntial ballot. 1 November deadline December newsletter. . J November deadline ACLS travel grant applications (conferenccs March Junc) 10 November dC'adlinesubmis- \' mediately began drawing up plans for a sec~ sion of positions for November 25 listing . .30 December dC'adline submission of positions for' ond festival to be held within three years. annual meeting listing. .26-28 February 1981 CAA annual mecting. San Francisco Hilton (placement begins 25 February).

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