er Volume 6, Number 3 September 1981 nominations for eM board of directors

The 1981 Nominating Committee has submitted its initial slate of Library of Congress; N.J. State Mus; Newark Mus; many univ and twelve nominees to serve on the CAA Board of Directors from 1982 to corporate collections. EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED: National exhibition, 1986. Of these, six will be selected by the Committee as its final slate women artists, 1977, 1978; Artists and Contemporary Issues, 1980; and formally proposed for election at the Annual Members Business Artists' Books, 1981; others. AWARDS: Lindback Found Award for Dis­ Meeting to be held at the New York Hilton February 25, 1982. To tinguished Teaching, 1974; purchase prizes: Library of Congress, assist the Committee in making its final selection, all individual mem~ 1969; N.J. State Mus, 1970, 1971; Boston Printmakers, 1971; Ameri­ bers are invited to cast their votes on the preferential ballot. can Color Print Soc 1977, others; numerous grant awards, including The preferential ballot is in the form of a prepaid business reply NEA, N.J., Penn., and N. Y. State Arts Councils. PROFESSIONAL ACTlV­ card which is being mailed separately. Please return it promptly; bal· ITIES: National president, Women's Caucus for Art, 1976-78; consul­ lots must be postmarked no later than 23 October. tant, National Art Awards, Educational Testing Service, 1978-80; NEA Visual Arts, residencies panel, 1980; N.]. State Arts Council grants panels, 1980, 1981; board memberships: Philadelphia Print PHYLLIS PRAY BOBER Club; N.J. Print Council; WCA; active in FATE; others. CAA ACTIVI­ Bryn Mawr College TIES: panelist, "Studio Goals and Structures," 1977 annual meeting; Comm on Status of Women in the Profession, 1978-80. BA Wellesley Call, 1941; MA Inst Fine Arts, NYU, 1943; PhD, 1946. POSITIONS: instructor, RUTH BUTLER Wellesley Call, 1947-49; instructor, NYU, University of Massachusetts, Boston 1949-50; teaching assoc, School of Architec­ ture, M.LT., 1951-53; lecturer, Wellesley Call BA Western Reserve Univ and Cleveland Inst and curator Farnsworth Mus, 1951-54; re­ of Art, 1953; PhD Inst Fine Arts, NYU. POSI­ search assoc, Inst Fine Arts, NYU, 1954-73; adjunct assoc prof to full TIONS: instructor, Boston Univ, 1958-63; lec­ prof and chairman, University Coll, NYU, 1965-1973; full prof, Bryn turer, Florence Campus, Stanford Univ, 1964- Mawr Call, 1973-; dean of Graduate Sch of Arts & Sciences, Bryn 65; asst prof, NYU, 1968; asst prof, Univ Mary­ Mawr Coll, 1973-80. PUBLICATIONS: Drawings aJter the Antique by land, 1969-72; assoc prof to chair, Univ Mass, Amico AsperUni: The British Museum Sketchbooks, 1957; in press, 1973-78; full prof and director, Univ Honors, Antique Sculpture and Renaissance Artists; numerous articles and Univ Mass, 1978-. PUBLICATIONS: Western Sculpture: Dej£nitions oj book reviews in ArtJoumal, Hesperia, AmedcanJournal ojArchaeol­ Man, 1975; Rodin t"n Perspective, 1980; "Modem Sculpture," in Ger­ ogy, The Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Magazine oj Art; main Bazin, Histor:2 of World Sculpture, 1968; "Long Live the Revo­ others. AWARDS: Gordon C. Dewey Faculty Award for curriculum lution, the Republic and Especially the Emperor: The Political Sculp­ innovation, University CoIl, NYU, 1971-72; Guggenheim Fellow, ture of Francois Rude," in Art and Politics, 1978; French Nineteenth 1979-80. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: staff member, NYU excavations in Century Sculpture: Monumentsfor the Middle Class, catalog, 1971; Samothrace, 1948, 1949, 1972; in charge, Census ofAntique Works of "Religious Sculpture in Post-Christian France," in The Romantics to Art Known to Renaissance Artists, 1949-; arts chr, N.Y. Chapter Rodin, catalog, 1980; "Rodin and the Paris Salon," in Rodin Redis­ AAUW, 1949-51; Sponsoring Comm, Friends of Art at Wellesley, covered, catalog, 1981; reviews in The Art Bulletin and Art News. 1964-; Advisory Board, NYU Art Collection, 1969-73; National AWARDS: Univ Mass Faculty Growth Grant; Amer Philosophical Soc Board of Consultants, NEH, 1974--; reviewer, Media and Research Award; NEH summer stipend; ACLS fellow; Bunting Inst fellow, Programs, NEH, 1974-; council member, Renaissance Soc Amer, Radcliffe ColI. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Corom of examiners for Ad­ 1978 -; N.Y. Board of Higher Education, consultant on Grad Sch vanced Placement Program in history of art, 1971-78; panelist, NEH CUNY, history of art programs, 1981; others. CAA ACTIVITIES: nomina­ fellowships in art, archaeology, and music 1979 & 80; Kress Awards ting comm, 1975; Morey Book Award comm, 1971; annual meeting jurist, 1981, CAA ACTfVITIES: annual meeting sessions chair, 1973 & 77; organizer, 1956; art history session chair, 1980. distinguished teaching of art history award comm, 1980.

JUDITH K. BRODSKY RICHARD G. CARROTT Rutgers University University of California, Riverside

BA Radcliffe ColI, 1954; MFA Tyler Sch of BA Wesleyan Univ: MA lnst Fine Arts, NYU; Art, Temple Univ. 1967. POSITIONS: asst to PhD Yale Univ, POSITIONS; Univ California, assoc prof, Beaver ColI, 1972-78; acting chair, Riverside, since 1961; presently prof and chair; art dept, 1977; assoc prof and chair, art dept, instructor, Sweet Briar Coll, 1955-58; visit Newark Campus, Rutgers Univ, 1978-; grad assoc prof, Univ California, Berkeley (twice). faculty, Mason Gross Sch of the Arts, Rutgers PUBLICATIONS; The Egyptian Revival: Its Mon­ Univ, 1980-; EXHIBITIONS: numerous solo ex· uments, Sources and Meaning; Thomas hibitions at universities and private galleries, including N.J. State Moran, 1837-1926 (catalog); articles inJournal oJSociety ojArchitec· Mus, 1975; Associated American Artists, Philadelphia, 1979; numer­ tural Histodans, Antiques, New Catholic Encyclopaedia. AWARDS: ous group exhibitions U.S. and abroad. COLLECTIONS: Fogg Mus; Continued on p. 2, col. 1 Inominations for CAA board of directors Inominations for CAA board of directors

Comite d'honneur de la Societe AUGUSTA (cultural preservation of ISABELLE HYMAN director, NEA Mus Program, 1971-72; director, Andrew Dickson 1979; Great Teacher award, Lake Forest ColI, 1968; Harbison award the Val d'Aosta); Comm of Honour , Exhibit: "Age of Fresco," Metro­ New York University White Mus Art, Cornell Uillv, 1968-73; prof, history of art, Cornell for teaching excellence, Danforth Found, 1971; others. PROFESSIONAL politan Mus Art, 1968; Distinguished teaching award, Univ Calif, Univ, 1968-; director, Herbert F. Johnson Mus Art, Cornell Univ, ACTIVITIES: advisory board, Contemporary Artists, encyclopedia. CAA Riverside, 1971. MEMBERSHIPS: Natl Coordinator, Comm to Resave BA Vassar ColI, 1951; MA (English literature) 1973-. PUBLICATIONS: The Evolution oj Watercolor Painting in ACTIVITIES: overall studio chair and chair, "Recent Chicago Art," 1976 Italian Art (CRIA). 1967-68; Chr, Riverside Cultural Heritage Bd, Columbia Univ, 1955; MA Inst Fine Arts, Amen'ca, catalog, 1954; Arts oJNewGuinea, catalog, 1964; PietMon­ annual meeting; chair, Mather Award Comm, 1981. 1973-~ 74; Society of Architectural Historians, Local COffim chr, 1965 NYU, 1966; PhD 1968. POSITIONS: instructor to dn'an, catalog, 1965; Amen'can Portraits in California Collections, and 1977; bd directors, 1964-66; Nom Corum, 1972·, Founders Award assoc prof and acting chair, University ColI, catalog, 1966; George Lon'ng Brown, catalog, 1973; Paz'nting Up BARBARA ZUCKER Comm, 1976-78; Ethics Comm, 1976-78. CAAACTIVITIES: chr. general NYU, 1963-; CBS-TV, Sunrise Semester: Front, catalog, 1981; others. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: executive University of Vermont sessions, 1972 annual meeting; participant, 1978 annual meeting. Early Renaissance Art in Italy, fall semester, comm, Amer Art Alliance, 1978-; council, executive comm, and vice 1970-71. PUBLICATIONS: Fifteenth Century president, Amer Assoc Museums, 1976-; trustee, Amer Federation BS Univ Michigan, 1962; MA Hunter Coll, EDCOLKER Florentine Studies: The Palazzo Medt'ci and a Ledger for the Church Arts, 1972-; treasurer, vice president, president Assoc Art Mus Dir, 1977. POSITIONS: LaGuardia Comm ColI, State University of New York, Purchase oj San Lorenzo, 1977; editor, Brunelleschi in Perspective, 1974; co­ 1973-78; trustee, 1978-80; board of directors, Independent Sector, CUNY, 1974-77; Fordham Univ, 1974-79; do­ author with Marvin Trachtenberg, History ojArchitecture, 1981; art­ 1980-; NEA Mus panel, 1972-75; others. CAA ACTIVITIES: chair, cent, Whitney Mus Amer Art, 1974-79; Graduate, Philadelphia ColI of Art, 1949; BS icles in Acts ofthe Convegno on Relations between Florence and Ven­ nominating comm" 1980. Princeton Univ, 1976; Florida State Univ, NYU, 1965. POSITIONS: instructor, div director ice, Florence, 1976, 1979; Art the Ape of Nature: Art Historical 1976; Fine Arts Workshop, Provincetown, and visiting critic, Philadelphia CoIl of Art, Studies for H. W.janson, 1981; Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, RAYMOND SAUNDERS Mass., 1976; Castle Hill Center for Arts, 1951-52,54-56,66-67; instructor and critic, 1978; others. AWARDS: Sr Kress fellow, Villa I Tatti, 1972-73; NYU California State University, Hayward 1976-77; Philadelphia ColI Art, 1977-79; Pratt Inst, 1978; Louisville Cooper Union, 1963, 66-68; critic and assoc arts & science research fund grants, ~968, 1976. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVI­ Sch Art, 1979; artist-in-residence, Univ Colorado, Boulder, 1980; prof, Univ Pennsylvania Grad Sch Fine Arts, TIES: Friends of Vassar Art Gall, board of directors; editori<}.l board, BFA Carnegie Inst Technology, 1960; MFA chair, art dept, Univ Vermont, 1979-. EXHIBITIONS: solo Douglass 1966-·,70; research prof and director, Sch of Art Univ California Press; for the California Series in the History of Art; California ColI Arts & Crafts, 1961. POSITIONS: CoIl, Rutgers Univ, 1973; Gall of July and August, Woodstock, NY, & Design, Univ Illinois at Chicago, 1972-,80; dean, visual arts, SUNY editorial board, Marsyas, 1962-64; editorial consultant Harcourt, prof painting, California State Univ, Hayward, 1974, 1977; A.I.R. Gall, NYC, 1972, 1974; 112 Greene Street Gall, ColI at Purchase, 1980 - . EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS: solo exhibitions Brace & World, 1968; editorial consultant Time-Life Art Books, 1968-; Rhode Island Sch Design, visiting NYC, 1976; Pennsylvania Academy Art, 1980; Robert Miller Gall, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, others; numerous 1965; NEH, selection panel for fellows in archaeology, architecture, critic, 1968; visiting artist, 1972; Yale Univ, vis­ NYC, 1978, 1980; others; numerous group exhibitions. COLLECTIONS: group exhibitions including Metropolitan Mus Art, Mus Modern Art, and art, 1979; International Comm, 6th Centenary of the Birth of iting artist, 1972. EXHIBITIONS: numerous solo Whitney Mus Amer Art, Hartwick ColI, Ulster County ColI, Indiana" Philadelphia Mus Art, National Collection of Fine Arts; Europe, Brunelleschi, 1977; NYU, Seminar for Humanities Council, 1978-79; exhibitions, including Terry Dintenfass Gall, polis Mus Art. AWARDS: NEA sculpture award, 1975; Purchase Prize, Japan, Sweden, others; limited edition print-portfolios, including The others. CAA ACTIVITIES: editor, Monograph Series in the History of Art, NYC (8 exhibitions since 1962); Hopkins Center, Dartmouth ColI, Ulster County Council on Arts, 1977, Yaddo, 1972. PUBUCATIONS: Fall, with poem by Anania, Chicago, 1977; Pablo Neruda, with 1975-81; The Art Bullett'n comm, 1975-; co-chair, "Open Sessions," 1969 (twice); San Francisco Mus Modern Art, 1971; Toronto Gall" reviews and articles inArt News, Art in America, Art journal, Heres­ poems, Chicago, 1977;from South Dakota, with poems by Kathleen 1982 annual meeting, 1972-73; Providence Mus Art, 1972-73; University Art Mus, ies, Art New England, Art in Amen'ca, others; editorial assoc, Art Norris, Chicago, 1979. EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED: co-director, Symbol Berkeley, 1976; Univ Calif, La Jolla, 1979; Seattle Art Mus, 1980-81; News, 1974-79. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: co-founder, A.I.R. Gall, and Vision, San Francisco, 1970; Depth and Presence, Corcoran Gal­ CHRISTIANE L. JOOST-GAUGlER numerous group exhibitions. COLLECTIONS: Addison Gall American NYC, 1972; Vermont Artists Task Force, 1981. CAA ACTIVITIES: lery, 1971; Expert'mental Prints, Chicago, 1978; others. COLLECTIONS: New Mexico State University Art, Carnegie lnst, Elvehjem Art Center, Howard Univ, Mus Modern speaker, 1977 annual meeting; co-chair, "Color in Sculpture­ Philadelphia Mus Art, Mus Modern Art, NYU, Univ Illinois, Library Art, Whitney Mus Amer Art, Oakland Mus, San Francisco Mus Sculpture in Color," 1980 annual meeting. of Congress, Newberry Library, others. AWARDS: Guggenheim fellow, BA Radcliffe CoIl, 1955; MA Harvard Univ, Modern Art, Ackland Art Center, Indianapolis Mus Art, Philadelphia 1961-62; Graham Foundation, 1977; I1linois Arts Counci11973 & 80; 1959; PhD 1973. POSITIONS: asst prof, Michigan Mus Art, St. Louis Mus Art, others. AWARDS: Pennsylvania Academy CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rosenwald Prizes; others. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: panel, CETA State Univ, 1961-62; visiting lecturer, Univ scholarships, 1954-57; Thomas Eakins prize, 1956; Ford Found pur­ grants to artists, Chicago, 1978; Urban Gateways programs/ arts in Michigan, 1962; pit lecturer, Tufts Univ, chase award, 1964; Prix de Rome, 1964-66; Guggenheim award, PRESIDENT: Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University education, Chicago, 1979-80; NEA panelist and consultant, 1979-80; 1967-69; pit lecturer, Newton CoIl, 1967-69; 1976; NEA award, 1977; others. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: art consul­ SECRETARY: John R. Martin, Princeton University others. CAA ACTIVITIES: initiation of SaJe Practices in the Arts and asst prof., Tufts Univ 1969-73; assoc to full tant, dept black studies, Uillv. Calif, Berkeley, 1969-; member Afro­ TREASURER: Richard Ravenscroft, Philadelphia National Bank CraJts: A Studt'o Guide, 1978; distinguished teaching of art award prof and dept head, New Mexico State Univ, Amer acquisitions comm, Uillv Art Mus, Berkeley, 1971-. COUNSEL: Gilbert S. Edelson, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen comm, chair, 1980; guest editor, "Education of the Artist," Art jour­ 1975 -, also gallery director, 1975-77. PUBLICATIONS: The Selected nal, 1982. Drawings ojjacopo Bellini, 1980; articles in Commentari, Zeitschrift FRANZ SCHULZE TO SERVE UNTIL 1982: Jean Sutherland Boggs, Philadelphia Museum of fur Kunstgeschichte, Paragone, The Art Bulletin, Dictionary oJ the Lake Forest College Art; Caecilia Davis-Weyer, Newcomb College, Tulane University; OLEGGRABAR Middle Ages, numerous others. AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, 1956-57; Lila Katzen, The Maryland Institute College of Art; Sylvia Stone, Harvard University New Mexico State Univ research grants, 1976, 77, 78; AAUW Vassie PhB Univ Chicago, 1945; BFA Sch of Art Inst Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y.; Kathleen Weil-Garris, N.Y.U. James Hill Endowed postdoctoral fellow, 1979-80; Amer Philosophi­ Chicago, 1949; MFA 1950. POSITIONS: instruc­ TO SERVE UNTIL 1983: Paul Arnold, Oberlin College; Anne Coffin Han­ BA Harvard Univ, 1950; MA Princeton Univ, cal Soc research grant, 1981-82; ACLS fellow, 1981-82. PROFESSIONAL tor, Purdue Univ, 1950-52; lecturer, Univ Chi-, son, Yale University; Marilyn Lavin, Princeton University; Eleanor 1953; PhD, 1955. POSITIONS: instructor to full ACTIVITIES; Women and Academia, forum, Tufts Univ, 1973; Women cago, 1952-53; asst to full prof, Lake Forest Tufts, Southern Methodist University; John Walsh, Boston Museum prof and acting chair, Univ Michigan, 1954- in Higher Education, forum, Boston ColI, 1975; docent trainer, El' CoIl, 1952-; dept chr, 1952-64; Hollender of Fine Arts; William Wixom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 69; Harvard Univ, prof fine arts, 1969-; head Paso Mus of Art, 1977-79; WCA Advisory Board; Renaissance Soc of Prof Art, 1975-; Colorado CoIl summer ses­ tutor fine arts, 1973-76; chair, dept fine arts, Amer, Council Member; Nat! Council Arts Administrators, Board of sions, 1966-75. PUBLICATIONS: Art, Architec­ TO SERVE UNTIL 1984: Alessandra Comini, Southern Methodist Univer­ 1977 -; Aga Khan prof Islamic art & architec­ Directors; Natl Organization for Women, formerly chair, Academic ture and Civilization, 1968; Fantastic Images: Chicago A rt Since 1945, sity; Wanda Corn, Stanford University; David C. Driskell, University ture, 1980-; PUBLICATIONS: The Coinage of Taskforce, Boston Chapter; panelist, The Arts and Humanities, In­ 1972; One Hundred Years oj Architecture in Chicago: ContintlityoJ of Maryland; Ilene H. Forsyth, University of Michigan; Lee Anne the Tulunids, 1957; Persian Art BeJore and AJter the Mongol Con­ ternatl Women's Year, UN -sponsored state conference, 1977; referee, Structure and Form, 1~76; Chicago correspondent, Art News, Miller, Cooper Union; Gabriel Weisberg, University of Pittsburgh. quest, 1959; Islamic Architecture and Its Decoration, 1964; Sasanian journal of Rocky Mountain Medt'eval and Renaissance Assodation; 1958-64 and 1972-, and contributing editor, 1975; art critic, TO SERVE UNTIL 1985: Pamela Aske,w, Vassar College; Frederick J. Silver, Late Antique and Early Medt'eval Arts oj Luxury From Iran, referee, Exploratt'ons in Renaissance Culture; others. CAA ACTIVITIES: Chicago Daily News, 1962-78; Chicago Sun-Times, 1978-; corres­ Cummings, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Wolf Kahn, Hunter Col­ 1967; The Formation of Islamic Art, 1973; Studt'es in Islamt'c Art and chair, "Venetian Art," 1976 annual meeting; chair, "Relations be­ ponding editor, Art in America, 1965-; Chicago correspondent, Art lege, C.U.N.Y.; Howardena Pindell, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook; Angel­ Archaeology, 1976; The Alhambra, City in the Desert, 1978; Die tween Tuscany and Venice," 1981 annual meeting. International, 1966-67; art and architecture critic, The Chicagoan, ica Rudenstine, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Wallace Entstehung der Islamischen Kunst, 1979; La Formacion del Arte 1973-74; contributing editor, Inland Archt'tect, 1975 -. EXHIBITIONS Tomasini, UniversityofIowa. .. Isltimico, 1979; Near Eastern editor, An Orientalis, 1957-70; numer­ THOMAS W. LEAVlTT ORGANIZED: American Federation Arts, Figure and Fantasy, 1966; J. ous articles and reviews in Art journal, Ars On'entalis, The Art Bulle­ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Eight Painters oJ Chicago, 1961; Paul Sarkisian, ~971; Francis Cha­ tin, journal oJthe Society ofArchitecturalHistorians, Speculum, Art­ Cornell University pin, 1973; Recent Chicago Art, 1979. AWARDS: Adenauer fellow in DATEBOOK. 1 October deadline annual meeting abstracts. .23 forum, others. AWARDS: Henry Russell Award, Univ Michigan, 1958; painting, 1956-57; Ford Found traveling fellow for critics, 1964-65; October deadline preferential ballot ... 1 November deadline ACLS Guggenheim fellow, 1972. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: honorarycurator, BA Middlebury CoIl, 1951; MA Boston Univ, Eli Lilly Found grant in Amer art, 1968; Graham Found grant, 1971, travel grant applications (conferences March-June) . '.' .10 Freer Gall, 1958-69; director and vice president, American Sch Orien­ 1952; PhD Harvard Univ, 1958. POSITIONS: asst tal Research, Jerusalem, 1960-61 and 1967 -75; secretary, American to the director, Fogg Art Mus, 1954-56; exec November deadline submission of positions for November 24 hstmg Research Inst. Turkey, 1964-69; director, Excavations at Qasr al­ director, Fine Arts Comm of the People-to­ ... 15 November deadline December newsletter ... 29 December deadline submission of positions for annual meeting listing ... 25- Hayr al-Sharqi, Syria, 1964, 66, 68-72. CAA ACTIVITIES: Board of People Program, 1957; director, Pasadena Art ~'~M:INDER:':Tlie 'prd~ienti,al, Ballot i~"b'eing,'rnailed 'separately. 27 February 1982 CAA annual meeting, New York Hilton (Placement Directors, 1968-72; Morey Book Award comm, 1974; co-chair Mus, 1957-63; director, Santa Barbara Mus 'Please'retain information onnominees"until you'receive it. "Semiotics and the History of Art," 1981 annual meeting, Art, 1963-68; lecturer, Univ California, Santa Barbara, 1965-68; begins 24 February).

2 CAA newsletter September 19B1 3 announcements annual meeting conferences and symposia professional addenda publications Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowships National Humanities Center Fellowships Michelangelo Winterthur Museum We've checked our membership files and Approximately forty fellowships, for both Two affiliated societies have announced their The art history department of Virginia Com­ The Colonial Revival in America is the theme no- no members of the CAA have been certi­ younger (three to ten years beyond doctorate) monwealth University is holding a symposium for this year's conference, to be held Novem­ Books listed in this column should be ordered fied "geniuses" by the recently announced and senior scholars. Emphasis is interdisci­ annual meeting programs. on Michelangelo, November 6 -7, on their ber 13 -14. There will be nearly two dozen directly from the publishers. MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, which plinary, including not only humanities but campus in Richmond Va. Latest issues will be speakers; topics will include architecture, awarded stipends ranging from $26,000 to also sciences and the professions; special sem­ discussed and papers delivered by James Ac­ furnishings, and landscape. For further in­ The Artist's Craft. Methods and Materials $60,000 annually for five years to a select sixty inars focus on social and ethical applications Caucus for Marxism and Art: Alter­ kennan, Sidney Alexander, Esther Gordon formation: Kenneth L. Ames, Office of of the A rtist: A n Outline of Museum Studio scholars, scientists, etc. to enable them to do or implications of scholarly research. For ap­ natives to the Commercial Textbook in Dotson, Creighton Gilbert, Fredrick Hartt, Advanced Studies, WM, Winterthur, Del. Workshops, by Suzanne Geller. A handbook their own thing for the presumable advance­ plication materials: NHC, P.O. Box 12256, Undergraduate Teaching. Course outlines, and David Summers. For further informa­ 19735. describing a project in which museum volun­ ment of knowledge and good of us all. Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709. Appli­ syllabi, class notes, anthologies, bibliogra­ tion: Fredrika Jacobs, Art History Dept., teers and teachers are taught to see works of Considerably less spectacularly, but we cation deadline: 10 January. phies, reproductions, and other materials VCU, Richmond, Va. 24284. art through an understanding of technique strongly suspect no less usefully, the Andrew developed for comprehensive undergraduate and process. 36 pp. The Metropolitan Muse­ W. Mellon Foundation, through its fellow­ courses will be discussed. Papers should ad­ Small Computers in the Arts um of Art, Dept. of Public Education, Fifth ships for junior faculty, has been plugging American Academy in Rome dress the underlying practical and theoretical A symposium being held in Philadelphia, Contemporary American Realism Avenue & 82nd Street, N.Y.C. 10028. $4.50. away at the problem of keeping promising be­ AAR offers predoctoral and postdoctoral issues as well as technologies of reproduction November 20-22, to increase participants' since 1960 ginning scholars in the humanities and en­ one-year fellowships in the fields of painting, and cost. Please submit such materials along A symposium to be held October 17, in COll­ ~wareness of the use of computer technology sculpture, art history, classical studies, with the customary one-page abstract to Cau­ Arts Management: An Annotated Bibliog~ abling them to continue their research in the junction with the current exhibition of the III the audio and visual arts. For more infor­ modern Italian studies and Medieval/Byzan­ raphy (1980 revision), compiled by Stephen face of the current shortage of teaching and cus for Marxism and Art, c/o David Kun'de same title at the Pennsylvania Academy of mation: SCA Symposium, Box 1954, Phila­ tine studies, In addition, a two-year fellow­ Benedict and Linda C. Coe. 188 entries tenure opportunities. The terms of the Mel­ or O.K. Werckmeister, UCLA, Dept. of Art, the Fine Arts. Participants are art historians delphia, Pa. 19105, or call Philadelphia IEEE ship in the history of art (Kress Triangulation organized into eight major categories: man­ lon fellowships vary from institution to insti­ Design, and Art History, Los Angeles, Calif. Linda Nochlin and Gabriel Weisberg and Office (215) 243-8109. Fellowship) supported by $3,500 from the agement and finance; marketing and public tution. Generally, they are for scholars who 90024. artists Rackstraw Downes, Walter ErIe­ Samuel H. Kress Foundation matched by the relations; planning and facilities; fund­ have earned their doctorates within the past bacher, and Philip Pearlstein. Frank H. universities of the winning applicants and by raising; boards and volunteers; research and three years and have some teaching experi­ Goodyear, Jr., curator of the exhibition, will More on Bloomsbury in-kind support from the Academy (applica­ po.Iicy; directories and reference works; and ence. Appointments are usually for one year, moderate. Price: $6.00, includes lunch. (215) The Royal Oak Foundation is sponsoring an tion from department chairs) is available. All Women's Caucus for Art: Women and bibliographies. 48 pp. Center for Arts Infor­ though some are renewable, and involve half­ 972-7642. interdisciplinary symposium, The Blooms­ fellowships carry monthly stipends and travel Art in Society. Further panel proposals on mation, 625 Broadway, N.Y.C. 10012. $5,00. time teaching, half-time devoted to research. bury Group and Charleston, Sussex, which allowances. For further information and ap­ this topic should be sent to Judith Stein, c/o Stipends are in the $16,000-$18,000 range. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, will be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Some institutions, but not all, prefer interdis­ plications: AAR, 41 East 65th Street, N. Y .C. Art on October 17. Among the speakers are Directory oj Artists Slide Registries, com­ 10021. Application deadline: 15 November. Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Art Museums in Financial Crisis ciplinary research proposals. Fellowships for Pa. 19102. The WCA is especially eager to Richard Morphet, of the Tate Gallery, and piled by Suzy Ticho. Provides a national di­ which art historians could be considered for The theme-so what else is new?-of the receive art historical proposals. Western Association of Art Museums' annual the Met's own Sir John Pope-Hennessey. For rectory of repositories of slides of professional the 1982-83 academic year are available at conference, to be held in San Antonio, Octo­ further information: ROF, 41 East 72nd visual artists' work. Ninety-four registries in the following institutions. In all cases, write Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowships ber 25 through 29. The San Antonio Museum Sneet. New York. N.Y. 10021. (212) 37 states are included. 72 pp. American for specific requirements. A graduate fellowship program designed to Association and the M.K. McNay Art Insti­ 861-0529. Council for the Arts, 570 Seventh Avenue, promote research in ethical or religious The 1982 Preliminary Program-con­ tute are hosting the conference. For further N.Y.C. 10018. $6.95. Harvard University. RichardM. Hunt, Pro­ values, including the way in which those taining necessary forms and complete in­ information: Lynn M. Jorgenson, Executive gram Director, HU Mellon Faculty Fellow­ values are reflected in art and related fields. formation on annual meeting registration, Approximately forty-five fellowships will be Director, WAAM, 270 Sutter Street, San German Democratic Republic Guide to Artist-Gallery Agreements. A ships, Lamont Library 202, Cambridge, hotel room rates, group flights, etc. -will be awarded for 1982, each providing $500 per Francisco, Calif. 94108. (415) 392-9222. A call for papers for a seminar on Preserva­ thoroughly annotated model artist-gallery Mass. 02138, Deadline: 15 November. mailed at the end of November . iii month for twelve months of full-time disserta­ tion ofCultural Heritage and Tradition in the agreement covering eighteen points, includ­ tion research and writing. A supplementary German Democratic Republic: Music, Art, ing: limited, exclusive agency; creation, title, University of Pennsylvania. Frank P. grant of up to $1,000 is available for disserta­ Architecture, Restoration, Ltterature. This and receipt; sales; loans; rentals and subcon­ Bowman, Chr., Humanities Coordinating British Figurative Painting tion related expenses. The award does not seminar will be part of the Eighth Interna­ signments; exhibitions; and insurance. Pub­ Comm., UP, 16 College Hall/CO, Philadel­ In conjunction with the exhibition Eight cover tuition. Applicants should have com­ tional Symposium on the GDR to be held at lished jointly by Philadelphia Volunteer Law­ phia, Pa, 19104_ Deadline: 1 December. American Antiquarian Society Figurative Painters, which will be on view Oc­ pleted all doctoral requirements except the tober 13-January 3, the Yale Center for Brit­ Conway, N.H. from June 18-25. Detailed yers for the Arts and the Lawyers for Arts A broad range of short- and long-term Columbia University. Director, Society of dissertation by June 1982. For further infor­ ish Art will hold a symposium on October 17 proposals (title, 2-3 pages), deadline Febru­ Committee, Young Lawyers Section of the Visiting Research Fellowships at AAS, on Fellows in the Humanities, Heyman Humani­ mation and applications: Newcombe Fellow­ on The Figurative Tradition in Contempor­ ary 1; and completed papers, not more than Philadelphia Bar Association. 15 pp. PVLA, both postdoctoral and predoctoral levels, is ties Center/CU, 70-74 Morningside Drive, ships, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship ary British Painting. Participating speakers 30 minutes (preferably in English), deadline 260 South Broad Street, Suite 1302A, Phila­ being offered for the academic year 1982- N.Y.C. 10027. Deadline: 1 November. Co­ Foundation, Box 642, Princeton, N.]. 08540. are Andrew Forge, Yale Univ. School of Art; April 15, should be sent to Nancy Lauckner, delphia, Pa. 19102. $5.50, postage included. 83. For additional information and applica­ lumbia is also offering two Senior Faculty Application deadline: 11 January for fellow­ William Bailey, Yale Univ.; Michael Roe­ DeJ?t. of Gennanic and Slavic Languages, Bulk order discounts available. tion forms: John B. Hench, Research and Fellowships for untenured faculty who have ships to begin June or September 1982. mer, Yale Univ.; Larry Day, Philadelphia UUlV. Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 37916, Publication Officer, AAS, 185 Salisbury held the doctorate and who have been teach­ ColI. Art; John Hollander, Dept. English, and to Dieter Saalmann, Box 11, Wichita Special Space: Artists Housing and Loft Street, Worcester, Mass. 01609. Deadline: ing full time for at least five years. Same Yale Univ.; and Duncan Robinson, Yale State Univ., Wichita, Kans. 67208. Living. The history of the SoHo area in New Academic Administration Fellows 1 February. address as above. Center for British Art. For further informa­ York City is traced from its initial covert col­ The American Council on Education Fellows tion: Constance Clement, YCBA, Box 2120 onization by artists, through the zoning legis- ACLS Program Booklet Program in Academic Administration identi­ Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. 06520. (203) Fellowships for Venetian Research Medieval-Renaissance Studies lation that legalized the residential and work- Aids to Individual Scholars, the booklet fies and prepares about forty persons each 436-1162. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of­ The third Bienniel New College Conference ing areas for artists, to the situation in lower describing all fellowship and grant competi­ year who show promise for responsible posi­ fers pre- and postdoctoral grants for research on Medieval- Renaissance Studies will be Manhattan today. Comparable artists proj- tions to be held in 1981-82 by the American tions in academic administration. Fellows in Venice on any aspect of the history of Ven­ held at the University of South Florida, Sara- Continued on p. 15, col. 3 Council of Learned Societies is now available, serve on their home or a host campus directly ice or the former Venetian empire. Appli­ Art Administrators sota, March 5-6. Proposals for papers in all L ______Write: ACLS, 800 Third Avenue, N.Y.C. with the president, senior academic officer, cants must be U.S. citizens, must have some The National Council of Art Administrators disciplines, all aspects of Europe and the I 10022. or other senior administrator for an academic is meeting in Washington thi~ year, on No­ Mediterranean, 1000-1600 A.D. (special Renaissance Conference year, and attend three week-long seminars experience in advanced research, and, if . graduate students, must have completed all vember 20 - 22. Not surprisingly, the confer­ themes: urban studies, aristocratic culture The 31st annual South-Central Renaissance IREX Program Announcement sponsored by ACE dealing with issues and doctoral requirements except for the disserta­ ence theme is The Cultural Capital-Re­ and institutions, perceptions and ideals, Conference will be held at the University of Likewise, the announcement of 1981 / 82 pro­ management in higher education. Candi­ tion, Grants from $500 to $10,000; some sub­ sources and Opportum~ies for Arts Institu­ Mediterranean region) will be considered. Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, April grams of the International Research & Ex­ dates must be nominated by the president of sequent publication subvention may be avail­ tions and Arts Administrators. Lots of luck! Send one-page abstract to Lee Snyder, Direc­ 1-2. Papers are invited from all disciplines changes Board (fellowships and exchanges an ACE member institution by 30 November. able, For further information: GKDF, 40 For further information: Roy Slade, Chair­ tor of Medieval- Renaissance Studies, Div. and should be sent by December 31 to the with the Soviet Union and other Eastern For additional information: Madeleine F. Wall Street, N.Y.C. 10005. Application man NCAA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 500 Social Sciences, New College of USF, 5700 program committee chair, Clifford Ronan, European countries) can be obtained from Green, Director, ACE Fellows Program, One deadline: 15 January. iii Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills Mich North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Fla. 33580. Dept. of English, Southwest Texas State Uni­ IREX, 655 Third Avenue, N.Y.C. 10017. Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036. 48013. . - versity, San Marcos, Tex. 78666. Deadline: 1 December. iii 5 September 1981 4 CAA newsletter people and programs Ipeople and programs

Material for inclusion in People and Pro­ Another CAA Board member, Gabriel P; porary America at the Albright-Knox Art Erratum. In announcing the appointment of grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ Weisberg, is Visiting Andrew F. Mellon Pro­ Gallery. Robert P. Bergman as director of the Wal­ tion, 16 East 52 Street, N. Y. C. 10022. Dead­ fessor at the University of Pittsburgh for the ters Art Gallery in the last issue, we erroneous­ line Jor next issue: 15 November. academic year 1981-82. Weisberg is chair of Following her term as senior fellow at the Na­ ly credited him with the organization of both the CAA Committee on the Perservation of tional Gallery of Art during 1981-82, Bar­ the symposium and exhibition held at the IN MEMORIAM Art. bara Stafford will join the faculty of The Fogg in 1979 in honor of Ernst Kitzinger. University of Chicago, teaching later 18th­ Bergman reports that he did organize the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. died on August 16. It and 19th-century art. Francis Dowley, who symposium, but that the exhibition, Byzan­ seems unnecessary to remind our readers of Priscilla Soucek (Ph.D., IFA) returns to the teaches 17th- and 18th-century art, has had tine Art t'n the Making, was conceived and or­ his accomplishments or of his importance. Institute of Fine Arts as Hagop Kevorkian his retirement postponed until 1986. Another ganized by Anna Gonosova, who recently Rather, we remind ourselves with pride that Professor of Islamic Art. She most recently addition to the Chicago faculty is Carol completed her Ph.D. thesis under Kitzinger's he served on the CAA Board of Directors from taught at the University of Michigan. During Bolon (PhD, IFA), as assistant professor of direction. 1944 to 1947 and that he was elected an Hon­ this fall semester she will give a lecture course Indian art. orary Director of the Association in 1975. in arts of the Eastern Islamic world and a sem­ Most recently, the CAA Award for Museum inar entitled Ceramic Tradit£ons in the Medi­ More from the midwest. Robert ,Brueg­ Scholarship, established in 1980 and first terraneanfrom 400-1400 A.D. mann, of the University of Illinois at Chicago MUSEUMS awarded in 1981, was named in his honor. Circle, will be visiting assistant professor of Presented to the author or authors of the mu­ architectural history at M.I. T. during the fall Harry Lowe has been designated acting di­ seum catalog judged to have made the most From S. U.N. Y., Buffalo come several faculty semester 1981. Gloria DeFilipps Brush has rector of the National Museum of American significant contribution to scholarship, the news items. Vance Watrous has been pro­ left her position as executive director of the Art. A long-time friend as well as colleague award officially honors the standard estab­ moted to associate professor with tenure. Arrowhead Regional Arts Council to join the of the Museum's former director, the late lished by Barr's exemplary catalogs, among Dorothy Glass, whose book, Studies on Cos­ faculty of the University of Minnesota-Du­ Joshua C. Taylor, Lowe joined the Smithso­ them Cubism and Abstract Art (1936), Fan­ matesque Pavements, was published in 1980, luth, where she will teach photography. At nian in 1964 and has served as assistant direc­ tastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936); and Ma­ has been promoted to full professor. During the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, tor of NMAA since 1974. tisse: His Life and His Public (1951). his sabbatical this fall from his duties as vice­ Bill Stumpf and Len Singer have accepted chainnan of the department, Jack Quinan appointments at the rank of associate profes­ Former San Francisco Chronicle art critic will be writing a book on Frank Lloyd sor in the design division. Stumpf has taught Roger Shepherd, Alfred Frankenstein died of a heart attack in Wright's Larkin Building. Carol Zemel had a at the Institute of Design and the University of Beverly Zisla Weiher, Saint Anselm College Parsons American College, Paris August. Frankenstein began his career as a book, Foundation ofLegend: Van Gogh Cn·l­ Wisconsin at Madison. Singer has taught at music critic; held teaching posts at the Uni­ icism 1890-1920, published last year. Alan the University of Kansas, Lawrence; the Insti­ versity of California in Berkeley, Mills Col­ BirnhoIz organized a symposium entitled tute of Design; the Royal College of Arts; and It is a very special pleasure to report that administrator. He has been president and is lege, and Stanford University; and from 1979 The Function of the Art Museum in Contem- the National Design School in Israel. Beverly Zisla Welber has been appointed currently vice president of the Weehawken to 1980 was curator of American art at the arts administrator at Saint Anselm College in Environment Committee; is director of Visual M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. A long­ Manchester, N.H. Welber is the author of Artists, Inc.; and has served the Artists for time CAA member, he received the Associa­ "How To Survive College Art Association Environment Foundation in the Delaware tion's Frank Jewett Mather Award for art and Placement by Knowing How To Try," the Water Gap Area as teacher, consultant, cura­ architectural criticism in 1971. down-to-earth, nitty-gritty, all-them-thar­ tor, and gallery director. adjectives guide on how to retain sanity and Another long-time CAA member, Simon civility and maybe even land a job at the CAA Lissim, died in May at the age of eighty. annual meeting. She also served as a member Several changes have taken place at the Painter, designer of porcelain, stage de­ of the Ad Hoc Committee on Placement Stan­ School of Fine Arts of the University of Sou­ signer, and ceramist, Lissim began his teach­ dards' and she has co-chaired and participa­ thern California. Sculptor John S. Gordon, ing career as head of the New York Public ted in several of the Placement Orientation who had been interim dean since the depar­ Library's art education program, then went Sessions regularly held the night before annu­ ture of Stephen E. Ostrow in February, has on to City College, where he taught from 1944 al meeting placement operations begin. Pr~or been named dean. Gordon (MFA, Claremont to 1971. to her present position, Welber (MA, Umv. Grad. Sch.) taught at Mount Saint Mary's Missouri, Columbia) was co-director of the College in Los Angeles before joining the USC Art historian Karl Kup, head of the Spencer Chapel Arts Center at St. Anselm as well as faculty in 1973. Other new appointments in­ Collection of illustrated books, manuscripts assistant professor in the visual arts depart­ clude, in the art history area: Selma Holo, and fine bindings at the New York Public Li­ ment. When she first agreed to allow us to former curator of the Norton Simon Muse­ brary for more than three decades, died in publish her article at our usual generous roy­ urn, will concurrently serve as director of the Duncan Robinson, Yale Center for British Art June. He was also curator of prints and chief alty rate, we promised her fame and fortune. museum studies program and as director of of the art and architecture division at NYPL. Oh well, one down ... the University Art Galleries; Carolyn Ma­ lone, most recently assistant professor of Duncan Robinson, fonnerly keeper of paint­ ACADEME medieval art at Princeton, has been named ings and drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum The University of Colorado at Colorado assistant professor; Kenneth Hamma, a re­ of the University of Cambridge in England, is CAA Board member Lee Anne Miller, for­ Springs has named Carol Adney assistant cent Princeton Ph.D., will lecture in antiqui­ the new director of the Yale Center for British merly chair of the department of art and art professor, chair of the art department, and ties; Jiri Frel, curator of antiquities at the]. Art. While at the Fitzwilliam, Robinson (MA, Yale Univ.) also held the posts oflecturer and history at Wayne State University, has been gallery director. Previously, Adney was G~l­ Paul Getty Museum, and Pratapaditya Pal, fellow at Clare College and served as director named the new dean of The Cooper Union lery director at the Herron School of Art III curator of Indian art at the Los Angeles of studies in the history of art for six of Cam­ School of Art. Miller (M.F.A., Cranbrook Indianapolis. County Museum, have been reappointed as Acad.) was president of the Women's Caucus adjunct professors. In the studio area: litho­ bridge's colleges. He is the author of Stanley for Art from 1978 to 1980 and currently serves grapher Ruth Weisberg has been promoted Spencer (1979) and A Companion Volume to on the Board of the National Council of Art Roger Shepherd has been named director of to full professor; Jud Fine has been ap­ the Kelmscoot Chaucer (1975). Administrators. Prior to Wayne State, she Lee Anne Miller, the newly formed Parsons American College pointed assistant professor of sculpture; Ste­ Edward J. Sullivan will be leaving his was head of the art and art history depart­ The Cooper Union in Paris (CAA newsletter, April 1981). A phen Meltzer and David Schirm have joined School of Art teaching post at N. Y. U. 's Washington Squa-:e ment at the University of Missouri-Ransas master printmaker whose preferred medium USC on one-year appointments as visiting as­ College at the end of this fall semester and wIll City, where she also taught printmaking and is etching, Shepherd has been associated with sistant professors; and Joe Fay has been reap­ Contt'nued on p. 8, col. 1 painting. Parsons for eleven years as an art teacher and pointed adjunct assistant professor.

6 7 eAA newsletter September 1981

I Ipeople and programs Ipeople and programs

assume full-time responsibility as director of once, the Met has announced the promotion underwrite part of the cost of the museum's The Art Council of Lehigh University has also the Meadows Art Museum at Southern Meth­ of four associate curators, whose ages range current $2.7 million capital improvements announced a name change: the Office of Ex­ odist University in April. In the interim, he from 34 to 40, to the rank of full curatorship. program. hibitions & Collection will now be known as will be guest lecturer at Hebrew University in They are Katharine Baetjer and Charles the Lehigh University Art Galleries, re­ Israel. Sullivan, whose M .A.s in Spanish liter­ Moffett, in the department of European The Metropolitan Museum of Art has flecting the galleries' function as an art center ature and art history and Ph,D. in art history paintings; Joan Mertens, in the department received a gift of $10 million from Harold D. for the campus and the community. There are all from N. Y. U., is currently engaged in of Greek and Roman art; and Weston Nae£, Uris, the builder and real-estate developer. are three galleries on campus: the Ralph Wil­ assembling two exhibitions of Spanish art: a in the department of prints and photographs. The gift, one of the largest single monetary son Gallery, the Hall Gallery, and the DuBois late 17th-century show, assembled from donations in the Met's history, will be used for Gallery. North American collections. scheduled to Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Mu­ the creation and endowment of the Ruth and open in April 1982 at Princeton, and an inter­ seum of Art reports three new staff appoint­ Harold D. Uris Center for Education. Plans national loan show, Painting in Spain from ments. Gwendolyn Owens (MA, Williams call for the reconstruction of the Junior Muse­ Goya to /1'casso, which will open at the Na­ College/Clark Art Inst.) has been promoted um area, the creation of a new visitors' orien­ ASSOCIATIONS tional Gallery in November 1983. to associate curator, with responsibility for tation center, and the installation of "exten­ the documentation of the permanent collec­ sive new multimedia information systems." Ian M. White, director of The Fine Arts tions of European and American art and the Museums of San Francisco, has been appoin­ coordination of exhibitions. Assisting Owens ted to the executive board of the Internation­ with exhibitions coordination will be Cather­ The Archives of American Art, a bureau of al Committee for the Fine Arts (ICFA) of the ine Anderson (BA, Syracuse Univ.), former the Smithsonian Institution, is the recipient International Council of Museums (ICOM). membership secretary. Carol Whitehurst of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers, The next meeting of the committee will be in (MLS, Univ. of California, Berkeley) has agiftofMrs. Whitney'sgranddaughter, Flora Stockholm in April. been promoted to the position of assistant to Miller Irving, who is president of the Whit­ the director. She will also be handling publi­ ney. The gift consists of some 20,000 items. A steering committee for a National Organi­ city and coordination of publications. When processing is completed, microftlms zation of Artists' Spaces was elected at the will be available to scholars and researchers at "Beyond Survival" conference held at the The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach the regional centers of the Archives and Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans announced the appointment of Bruce Weber around the world through interlibrary loan. this past April. Members of the committee are as curator of collections. Weber (PhD cld Marilyn Crank, Creative Arts Resources, since 1967. He has been president of the The Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago; Anne Focke, and/or, Seattle; Rocky Mountain Consortium of the Arts and Joseph Celli, Real Art Ways, Hartford; Dewey F. Mosby. which already has a branch in lower Manhat­ Colgate University a director of several arts organizations. tan, opened a branch in Stamford, Conn. in Claire Copley, New York City; and M.K. Art Collections July. It is housed in 3,600 square feet on the Wegmann, Contemporary Arts Center, New ground floor of the new headquarters build­ Orleans. The 1982 artists' spaces conference FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS ing of Champion International Corporation will be held in Washington, D.C. and will be totally supported by the corpora­ Several museums are the recipients of some tion. The opening exhibition, organized by The American Society of Contemporary Art­ Dewey F. Mosby has left the Detroit Institute lege's Hopkins Art Center. Stanfill leaves his major grants and gifts. The Andrew W. Mel­ Lisa Phillips, and entitled Pioneering the ists has announced the election of its officers of Arts, where he had been curator of Euro­ post as director of cultural programs at Colo­ lon Foundation has made matching endow­ Century: 1900-40, consisted of some fifty for 1981 and 1982. Painter-sculptor Harriet pean art since 1974, to become director of the rado State University, a position he had held ment grants to The Detroit Institute of Arts paintings, sculptures and works on paper FeB land will serve as president; painter Colgate University Art Collection and The since 1967. He has been president of the and to the Los Angeles County Museum of drawn from the Whitney's permanent collec­ Philip Reisman as first vice-president; and Picker Art Gallery in Hamilton, N. Y. Prior to Rocky Mountain Consortiwn of the Arts and Art in support of their conservation pro­ tion. A third branch is planned for next year graphic artist Esther K. Gayner as second Detroit, Mosby (Ph.D., Harvard) was assist­ a director of several arts organizations. grams. Detroit will receive $500,000 and in the Phillip Morris Building in midtown vice-president. Judith F. Keller, University of Texas at Austin ant curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum and $400,000 will go to Los Angeles. At both mu­ Manhattan. before that he taught at SUNY, Buffalo. The Portland Art Association has appointed seums, a portion of the income from the en­ Judith F. Keller, former acting curator of Among the exhibitions he organized at DIA Bill Foster director of the Northwest Film dowment will be used to train advanced con­ Western art at the_ University of Michigan were The Second Empire: Art in France Study Center. Foster joined the Association in The Parsons School of Design, in another servation apprentices. In Los Angeles, the NOMINA"fIONS.INVITED Museum of Art, has been named the first cur­ under Napolean III and, most recently, 1970, serving as an assistant curator for the collaborative effort, has joined forces with the training program will start after the new con­ . •...... •.. FOR ator of prints and drawings at the Archer M. Gods, Saints and Heroes: Dutch Painting in Portland Art Museum before moving to the servation facilities are completed in the spring Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt CAA TEACHING AWARDS Huntington Art Gallery, The University of the Age of Rembrandt. Film Center in 1974. of 1982. The Conservation Services Labora­ Museum to offer a two-year master's degree program in the history of decorative arts to Tex.as.at Austin. Keller (MA, Univ. Michi­ tory in Detroit is already in operation and the N?minit'ions:'fr()~':the inenibership:'ar,ei begin in September 1982. The program will gan) has been associated with the graphic arts John David Farmer is the new director of the Coy Ludwig joins The Hudson River Mu­ grant will enable it to provide scientific i~vite,d, ,'for, th,e pis6nguish~d; Te,aching department of the Detroit Institute of Arts. integrate the study of decorative arts with ar­ University Art Museum at the University of seum as associate director. Ludwig (PhD, Syr­ research and restoration not only for its own of ~rt"an~,~he Di~ti,nguis,h,ed Teacl1ing't){: California, Santa Barbara, succeeding David acuse Univ.) moves from S.U.N. Y. at Oswego collection, but for important works of art chitecture, design, and cultural history. Ap­ plications will be accepted this fall. A limited 'ArC:fIis~~ry)~.w~~cls·,:" ": ,,', " Alan P. Dan, associate curator of European Gebhard, who returns to full-time teaching where he taught museum studies and directed owned by state institutions and smaller muse­ For'oDviousxeasons; ,these two awardS;' number of scholarships are available, includ­ sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit at UCSB. Farmer (PhD, Princeton Univ.), the Tyler Art Gallery since 1970. Prior to that ums throughout Michigan and the Midwest. ,whIch,are,:nofbased:up~m,a"body"of,p~b~ ing one from the Ford Foundation specifically Institute of Arts, has received the John J. whose field is Northern European art, was he was director of The Remington Art Muse­ li~hea':,m,~teri~l,,: are,' :J11~re, '4ep~nde:r1t,:;; for a qualified minority student. Catalogues McCloy Fellowship in Art. The award has most recently director of the Birmingham um. The Kresge Foundation has awarded a tha"n> 'are the, pthe,r "Associadoq"a,w~r,Qs and applications from: Office of Graduate permitted him to study Italian sculpture in Museum of Art and before that curator at the $250,000 challenge grant to the Walker Art ~po,~ r~coIIin:iendations,ho~n',the ,~~rn~ German collections and to gather material to Art Institute of Chicago. After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Pho­ Center. The grant is designated specifically Admissions, Parsons School of Design, 66 Fifth Avenue. N. Y.C. 1001l. (212) 741-8910. ~~rship'." iLe'~:te:r:s: ,,~f: reco~~ndati!JiI;~': organize DIA's planned Italian sculpture cat­ tography from the BibHotheque Nationale; for the $2,100,000 building improvement arid, '~ppr9pri~te, sppf>?~inK, rn,~t,eria,ls~" alog. At the University of Georgia Museum of Art, Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impres­ portion of the Walker's current $10,000,000 ~,h:ould 'be, sent, t(),' ,th,e" Ii,~ec,,"-tiye>Se5r,e~ Richard S. Schneiderman has been named sionism; Russian and Soviet· Paintings . .. capital campaign. Edward Larrabee Barnes, The Portland Art Association has announced tary','CAA" ,1~,East Q2 ,Strfet:~ Ne,w}'ork,' At the Worcester Art Museum, Kathy Louise director after having served as acting director The list could go on and on, and would in­ the architect who designed the present that its Museum Art School, founded in 1909, N;.Y::' 1()022, by N?vember: 1. ~~f:;narUe~' Berg succeeds Holly Haswell as head librar­ since last July . Schneiderman (Ph.D., SUNY, clude some of the most important and percep­ award-winning building, is currently devel­ changed its name this fall to the Pacific and ,letters ?:f:notni~adon, for' anY'ca,Ildi~' ian. Haswell has moved to the Sleepy Hollow Binghamton) came to Georgia in 1976 as cur­ tive exhibitions shown at the Metropolitan oping plans which will provide for additional Northwest College of Art. Alfred E. Ham­ ci

8 CAA newsletter September 1981 9

..I placement: 1980·81 annual review Iplacement: 1980-81 annual review

"There are little lies, big lies, and statistics." "Statistics don't lie, only people." And so on. All Areas of Specialization. Over the past five APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS: 1980 and 1981 those words of wisdom notwithstanding, and given the fact that the smaller the numbers the years, approximately 30% of the positions for greater the margin of error,_ there is just no way in which the figures for this past academic year artists and approximately 40% of the posi­ This chart is based on the keysort curriculum vitae forms on file with the CAA for the calander CURRICULUM VITAE FORMS Not included in the accompanying sta­ (chart, facing page), particularly when viewed in the context of the past five years (even grim­ tions for art historians have tended to fall year 1981 and on the openings included in the Positions Listt'ngs for the academic year mer chart, below), can l?e seen as anything but bad news. within the category of "unspecified" or 1980-1981. Repeat listtngs have been elt'mtnated. tistics are 54 positions (22 artists, 12 art "broad." The artist figure has held pretty historians, 20 "other") received by the THE PAST FIVE YEARS closely to that average; this year it is 28%. CAA office in between publication of Positions Listings, in response to which The figure for art historians has fluctuated Applicants Openings Applicants Openings Openings are at an all-time low, down 239 positions from the high of 1208 in 1976-77. That more widely; 39% this year, but it's been as we sent out 906 curriculum vitae forms. 1980 1979-80 1981 1980-81 1208 figure is somewhat puzzling, since it is so much higher than the zig-zag that occurred dur­ low as 29% and as high as 58%. Artists ing the following four years (up or down within 80 positions). Also puzzling is the drop to 108 In studio disciplines, the number of jobs in Unspecified or Broad 19 172 "others" listings that occurred in 1977 -78, some 100 below the figures reported for the two con­ painting is up (by 10), but so is the number of 26 150 Atlantic; 13% Southeast, 21 % Central states, Painting and Drawing 488 54 tiguous years, 509 64 and 25% West. painters; this year's ratio of applicants per Sculpture 159 49 Artist openings are up very slightly (8) from last year, which was up even more slightly (6) position is 8.1 to 1, compared with 9.1 to 1 last 182 60 Printmaking 142 24 from the year before. However, if one compares the average for the first two years (637) with year (7.3 to 1 the-year before). Sculpture posi­ 177 27 APPLICANTS Photography 87 48 that for the past three years (527), there seems to be a clear-and depressing-handwriting on 98 45 tions are also up slightly (by 11). The sculp­ Ceramics 90 26 the wall. ture ratio is about the same as last year (3.1 112 19 Race. Among artists there were 53 black 2-D and 3-D Design 38 106 44 The picture for art historians is both more and less depressing. More depressing in that the applicants per position; 3.2 last year, but it's 112 and other minority applicants (43 last year); Weaving/Textile Design 28 15 39 17 1980-81 figure is an all-time low, down 109 from last year; less depressing in that unlike artist been as high as 5.5). In percentage terms, a~ong art historians the total was 18 (the Video/ Film/ Multimedia 34 18 openings, which never showed any substantial recovery from the major drop of 104 positions in printmakers are the fastest growing category 42 II same as last year). The breakdown is as fol­ Jewelry / Metalwork 14 4 21 14 one year (1978-79), art historian openings have shown significant fluctuation, both upwards of applicants, while the number of jobs of~ lows: among artist applicants there were 6 Glassblowing 6 4 6 and downwards. Perhaps we can hope for- ifnot actually anticipate- a significant fluctuation fered remains fairly constant. The result is a Woodworking black males, 7 black females, 25 other minor­ upwards this year. steadily increasing ratio of applicants to posi­ 3 1 ity males, and 15 other minority females. Commercial Art/Illustration 5 9 4 8 While the number of positions listed does not vary significantly depending upon where the tions; up to 6.6 this year. Ceramists also are -- Among art historian applicants there were 1 annual meeting is held, the number of applicants does; a certain number of people become increasing significantly, while the number of 1110 526 1261 534 black male, 1 black female, 4 other minority CAA members or subscribe to the Positions Listings only if they are able to attend the annual jobs has gone down slightly, making the ap­ males, and 2 other minority females. In art meeting. Viewed in that light, the number of artist applicants seems, to be increasing. There plicants to positions ratio in that category 5.9 Art Historians history, two of the minority applicants were were 1261 applicants the year the annual meeting was held in San Francisco, compared with to 1. As usual, there are lots of jobs listed in Unspecified or Broad 14 108 17 80 Orientalists and two were specialists in Pre­ only 1141 at our previous West Coast meeting, in Los Angeles in 1';)77. More significant, there 2- and 3-D design, with very few applicants Afro-American 2 5 Columbian art. Minority applicants in studio were more applicants the year we met in San Francisco (1261) than the year we met in who list that as their primary area of speciali­ Pre-Columbian!Primitive 29 8 22 were spread out fairly equally in all areas of Washington (1205), although Washington is a much more accessible city. Our best guess, at zation. Ancient/Classical 41 12 37 II specialization. the moment, is that there will be at least 100-150 more artist applicants in 1981-82 than the In art history, both because the total num­ Early Christian/ Byzantine/Medieval 57 10 66 10 1361 during the last New York meeting year. Yipes! ber of jobs is smaller and because a greater Renaissance/Baroque 137 44 108 27 Sex. Fifty-four percent of all applicants are Applicants in art history seem to be going down, and considerably. The drop from one West proportion of those jobs fall into the "unspeci­ Modern European 81 64 92 25 women. Among artists, the proportion is Coast meeting year (715 in 1977) to another (488 in 1981) is 227, and even the New York fied" or "broad" category, it seems less useful American/ Contemporary 88 30 76 17 47%; among art historians, 66%. Both fig­ meeting in 1978 did not significantly interfere with that steadily downward trend. to try to discern patterns and ratios. Some Near and Far East 31 18 27 II ures are quite consistent with recent trends. fields show wide fluctuation from year to History of Film/Photography/Prints 22 9 II 7 POSITIONS year, others remain fairly constant. The num­ Architectural History 16 II 26 12 Qualifications. Among artist applicants, ber of positions listed in the major areas of Decorative Arts 5 4 practically everyone has earned or is earning In both studio and art history, the ratio of applicants per position is 2.4, and for both, the worst Western art history over the past five years are the terminal degree. Among art historian ap­ ever. The overall ratio is somewhat better, owing to the 200-odd listings we regularly receive in as follows: Early Christian! Byzantine! 521 314 488 205 plicants, 79% of the males and 63% of the the "others" category: museum professionals, art educators, etc. Medieval: 4, 14, 7, 10, 10; Renaissance! females either have earned Ph.D.s or are doc­ Museum Professionals Baroque: 26, 36, 41, 44, 27; Modern Euro­ 37 121 50 114 toral candidates. The figure for males is 1% Art Educators pean: 23, 61, 37,64,25; American! Contem­ 30 40 32 25 below that for last year; the figure for fe­ Art Librarians/Slide Curators porary: 32, 25, 24. 30, 17. 24 15 19 7 males, after having slowly but steadily in­ OVERVIEW: 1976---'1981 Administrators 45 27 39 68 creased for the preceding few years, has Miscellaneous 8 16 dropped by 7 % since last year. YEAR 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 Rank. As usual, the vast majority of open­ ings (89%) are either listed as "open" or are at TOTALS 1767 1051 1889 Applicants 969 Areas of Specialization. There doesn't 1261 the instructor or assistant professor levels. Artists 1141 1361 1205 1100 seem to be much to add to the basic data Twenty-six percent of artist positions and Art Historians 715 703 561 521 488 (chart at left). In studio, where the total num­ 128 147 133 136 140 19 % of art historian positions were listed as Others ------ber of applicants has gone up, most areas of "open." Where rank is given, there seems to 46 at the instructor level, 100 assistant profes­ Total 1984 2211 1899 1757 1889 52% of the openings for art historians (56% specialization show a slight increase; in art be a tendency towards higher level place­ sor, 8 associate professor, and 14 full professor last year) were tenure track. Of non-tenure history, where the total number of applicants ment. Thus, 30% of artist openings and 48% or chair. Most openings either do not specify POSITIONS track appointments for artists, 108 were for has gone down, the reverse is true. of art historian openings were at the rank of salary or specify a broad range. Artists 649 624 520 526 534 one year, 44 were for One semester, and 27 Our usual, just for fun, lets-check-out-gen­ assistant professor. For artists, that figure is 327 309 264 314 205 were part-time. For art historians, 32 of the der-identification reveals that it has almost Art Historians fairly consistent with last year's 31 %, but for 232 108 194 211 230 Qualifications. The vast majority of list­ non-tenure track appointments were for one totally disappeared. Sculpture, once 80% Others ------the several years prior to that the assistant ings require the terminal degree either in or year, 11 for one semester, and 4 were part­ male, now has 41 % female applicants. Only Total 1208 1041 978 1051 969 professor level had represented only about very near in hand (ABD). Teaching experi­ time. weavingltextiles and art and slide librarian­ 20% of artist openings. For art historians, the ence was required for 49 % of the artist open­ ship remain sex-linked fields; need we tell you RATIO: APPLICANTS PER POSITION level at which positions are listed has been ings; 34% of the art historian openings, down Location. Jobs for artists have shifted 2.4 that most of the applicants are female? Artists 1.8 2.2 2.3 2.1 climbing slowly but steadily: 48% at the as­ slightly (56% and 37%, respectively) from westward. Thirty-two percent of the openings Art Historians 2.2 2.3 2.1 1.7 2.4 sistant professor level this year, 46 % and 44% last year. Listings seldom make clear whether were in the Northeast and Mid-Atlanticstates Employment Status. We're as prone as Overall 1.6 2.1 1.9 I.7 2.0 for the past two years, respectively. Specific or not graduate teaching assistantships fulfill (47% last year), 12% in the Southeast, 26% anyone else to publishing statistics just be­ breakdowns are as follows: Artists: 133 open this requirement. in the Central states, and 30% in the West cause we have them without necessarily hav­ listings, 169 instructor, 154 assistant profes­ (18% last year). For art historians there has ing the slightest idea of what, if anything, Annual Meeting Locations: 1977 Los Angeles; 1978 N.Y.C., 1979 Washington; sor, 16 associate professor, and 35 full profes­ Track and Term_ Forty-eight percent of not been a significant shift; of this year's they mean. For example, the chart (over) on 1980 New Orleans; 1981 San Francisco. sor or chair. Art Historians: 40 open listings, the openings for artists (42% last year) and listings, 40% were in the Northeast and Mid- Conttnued on p. 12, col. 1

10 CAA newsletter September 1981 II J Iplacement: 1980-81 annual review grants and awards shows by artist representation in the pool than do number of applications. For artist openings, 46% hired ACLS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM War through the mid-1880's, particularly EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF APPLICANTS . members were women (47% in pool) and for art histor­ as those habits reveal American attitudes WITH EARNED TERMINAL DEGIU:ES Seventy-eight fellowships were awarded. toward contemporary European art of that ian openings 52% hired were women (66% in A listing of solo exhibitions by artists who are MAiE FEMALE Among the recipients: Ann W. Epstein, period; Elise L. Goodman, Raymond Wal­ pool). In the "others" category, 63% of those members ofthe CAA. Listings should include ARTISTS, , " " 1979 1980 1981 1979 1980 1981 Duke Univ.: Provincialism in Byzantine mon­ ters College, Univ. Cincinnati: Iconography hired were women. name of artist, gallery or musuem, city, dates Employed Fi.llI* Tim'e 55% 55% 54% 40% 42% 48% umental art and architecture; Christiane of European 16th- and 17th-century secular Employed Part-Time of exhibition and medium. 25.% 28% 30% 34% 37% 42% Rank and Salary. Part-time positions not L. Joost-Gaugier, New Mexico State Univ.: paintings and the thematic relationships be­ UnemPloyed, 20% 17% 16% 25% 21% 10% included, Cycles of famous men and women in 14th­ tween those paintings and poetry of the same Marjorie Apter-McKevitt, Central Hall and 15th-century Italian art; Thomas Da­ period; Inabelle Levin, The American ART HISTORiANS Artists. N.Y .C., September 29-0ctober 18. ARTISTS. Of 94 usable reports, 18 place­ Costa Kaufmann, Princeton Univ.: Central Univ.: Late Roman and early Byzantine por­ Landscape oil paintings and paper works. Employed Fl1Il~ Time 81% 63% 71% 53% 47% 44% ments were at the rank of instructor, salary European drawings, 1540-1700; Carolyn M, traits in marble, other hard stone and bronze; Employed Part·!:ime 8% 20% 14% 19% 30% 29%· Meredith Parsons Lillich, Syracuse Univ.: range $6,700 (for shamel) to $17,000, median Malone, Princeton Univ.: The 11th century William Chambers. Hank Baum Gallery, , Unemployed 11% 17% .14% 28% 23% 27% $13,500; and 65 were at the rank of assistant Church of Saint-Benigne in Dijon; Theodore Iconographic problems in the stained glass of San Francisco, July 6-September 4. "Bill professor, salary range $12,000 - $22,000, Reff, Columbia Univ.: Modern art and tradi­ cathedrals in western France between 1250 Chambers: Works on Paper," watercolors. median $17,500. The median salary for in­ tion; Brunilde S. Ridgway, Bryn Mawr Col­ and 1325 A.D.; Charlotte Virginia Stokes, structors is the same as last year, but for assist­ lege: Roman copies of Greek sculpture; Oakland Univ.: Surrealist artist Max Ernst's Raffaello Dvorak. Bridge Gallery, San the employment status of applicants with two years. Sixty-two percent of artist appli­ ant professors it is up by $2,000. Eight associ­ Wendy S. Sheard, Stony Creek, Conn.: application of 20th-century psychological Francisco, July 7-August 4. Paintings and earned terminal degrees. In every category cants and 59% of art historian applicants ate professorships were filled, with salaries Sculpture and painting in Venice, 1480-1532. theories in his art. watercolors. except female art historians, a greater per­ with terminal degrees earned them within the ranging from $15,200 to $27,000 (last year's In addition, under the special program of centage of the people seeking jobs are cur­ past five years. range was $13,000 to $25,000), and three full Fellowships for Recent Ph.D. Recipients, Alexandra V. Eiva. Three Illinois Center, rently employed. Good news or bad news? professorships, with salaries of $25,000 (for awards were made to Marilyn R. Brown, CHINA STUDIES Chicago, September 7-0ctober 23. Phe­ Obviously, for the people involved, it's better HIRING REPORTS two of them) and $31,380. Tulane Univ.: Gypsies and other Bohe­ nomenal Duals, oil on canvas. to have a job than not to have a job. (We pro­ Two thirds of the instructorships were filled mians- the symbol of the artist in 19th-cen­ Forty-four American students and scholars mulgate the Protestant ethic, all the way). On This section always begins with a complaint by women, almost all of them at the lower half tury France; Elizabeth A. McCauley, Art have been chosen to study and do research in the other hand, the fact that fewer people about the low level of returns of hiring re­ of the salary scale. Nearly 60 % of the assistant Museum, Univ. New Mexico: The French China during 1981-82 under a government­ Alan Garfield. Marycrest College, Daven­ currently unemployed are still seeking jobs ports, and this year is no exception, For the professorships and 75% of the associate pro­ photographic industry, 1840-1870; Piero sponsored agreement administered by the port, Iowa, September 1-27. Recent draw­ within the discipline may simply mean that 969 positions listed, only 312 hiring reports fessorships were filled by men. Above the Morselli, Univ. Illinois: Santa Maria delle U.S. Committee on Scholarly Communica­ ings. the others have given up hope. And the in­ were received. (Of these, 16 reported cancella­ instructor level, there was no discernible dif­ Carceri at Prato; Robert S. Nelson, Univ. tion with the People's Republic of China. crease in job-seeking by those currently em­ tions and 28 reported that their search was still ference between salaries paid women and Chicago: Three studies on 12th century Byz­ Among them graduate students Julia An­ Ellna Kay Gregory. Eastfield College ployed is probably more indicative of short­ pending.) All that follows must be viewed in those paid men. antine manuscript illumination; Lisa Ver­ drews, history of art, Univ. California, Berke­ Gallery, Mesquite, Texas, August 31- term and non-tenure track contracts than of the light of these very slim statistical pickings. gara, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.: Anthony ley, to Central Academy of Fine arts, Peking; September II. Works on paper. the usual amount of job dissatisfaction and ART HISTORIANS. We received only 56 usable Van Dyck's vision of the artist. and Paul Fonoroff, cinema, Univ. Southern upward mobility. Applications. For artist openings, the me­ reports for art history placements, of which 10 California, to Peking Univ. Pat Hammerman. The Key Gallery, New Some generalizations do emerge. A greater dian number of applications this year was 65 were at the instructor level, salary range ACLS GRANTS-IN-AID York City, September 19-0ctober 17. proportion of art historians than artists are (60 last year); for art historian openings 25 (30 $13,000 to $17,000, median $16,000; and 44 were at the rank of assistant professor, salary Works on handmade paper. employed full-time; a greater proportion of last year); and for "others" it decreased to 25 One hundred and one awards were an­ C.I.N.O.A. AWARD men than of women are employed full-time. from 40 last year. Thirteen institutions with range $7,000 (come on nowl) to $20,000, me­ dian $18,000. nounced under this program, which provides Laurence Holden. West Georgia College, Part-time employment is increasing for all artist openings reported receiving more than This year's prize of $5,000 presented by the The median salaries for both instructor funds in support of individual research (e.g., Carrolton, September 21-0ctober 2. Re­ categories except male art historians and, as 200 applications, with three going over 300. International Confederation of Art Dealers and assistant professor were up by $1,000 travel, maintenance, etc.). Among the recipi­ cent paintings. always, a greater percentage of women than Only six institutions with art historian open­ went to Genevieve Aitken for her book, Les from last year. There was one placement as ents: Eve M. Blau, Wesleyan Univ.: The men are employed part-time. ings received more than 75 applications, with Peintres et le Theatre autour de 1900 a Paris, associate professor, salary $23,000, and one at Viennese Gemeindebauten, 1919-1934; Syl­ two going over 100. In the "others" category, which will be published by La Bibliotheque Gary Komarin. Maxwell Davidson Gallery, full professor, salary $25,000. As last year, via Arden Boone, Yale Univ.: Sande and Year Degree Earned. As usual, most appli­ four institutions received more than 100 ap­ des Arts, Paris. New York City, October lO-November 8. there is no discernible difference for art his­ Poro masking traditions in Sierra Leone; cants seeking jobs through the CAA are re­ plications; in one case nearly 300. Paintings. torians in salaries for women and for men. Theresa M. Coletti, English Dept., Univ. cent graduates. Thirty-three percent of artist Maryland: Spirituality and the arts in 15th and 30 % of art historian applicants with ter­ Interviews. The median number of inter­ century Norwich; Judith Colton, Yale Univ.: INDIVIDUAL AWARDS RoniKrinsky. M.J. Greene Gallery, Bridge­ minal degrees earned them within the past views for artist openings was four. Six was the Pantheons in Baroque Italy; Anthony L. hampton, N. Y., September 19-0ctober 31. median number of interviews for art historian I got my job through ... "The CAA," was Cutler, Pennsylvania State Univ.: Late An­ The Society of Architectural Historians Pottery. the answer on 142 of the 253 responses. Run­ openings. For "others" it was five. Eighteen tique ivories; Wachtang Djobadze, Cali­ presented its Alice Davis Hitchcock Book ners-up were direct applications, 24 place­ institutions reported holding more than twen­ fornia State Univ., Los Angeles: Medieval Award to Richard Krautheimer for his Philip Pearlstein. Ringling Museum of Art, ments; recommendations of colleagues. 15 D];:GREE YEAlt· ty interviews per position; three (for artist churches in northeast Turkey; Carol H. Rome: Profile oj a City, 312-1308 at the Soci­ Sarasota, Fla., May 21-June 25. Paintings openings) went over the 50 mark. placements; and previous or present employ­ "M'~~ ~kNfij,'" MALE :FEM:A(,E 'TOTAL' Krinsky, New York Univ.: SynagoguesofEu­ ety's thirty-fourth annual meeting held in and watercolors. ment at the institution, 11 placements. Ads in I979C 80 ..,81 :150 .331 rope; Tod A. Marder, Rutgers Univ.: Ber­ April in Victoria, British Columbia. the Chronical of Higher Education brought 19.76C78, ·139 12

For opportunity to exhibit at International For a major exhibition on Artistic Collabora­ particular value to those who have specific JOSHUA TAYLOR FUND Bulldozing Archeological Treasures The fourteen large panels for the Rothko Institute of Education and to update files, in­ tion in the Twentieth Century, which opens Numerous states across the country are grap­ Chapel in Houston (completed in 1967) show technical problems growing out of their own To the Editor: formation, biographies and slides are sought in March 1983, photographs and documenta­ I have just learned of the College Art pling with laws designed to protect our rich different states of deterioration owing to work or that of conservation. Funds for the of former Fulbright grantees in the visual tion are sought relating to significant projects Association's generous contribution to the and varied archeological heritage. The rela­ fading, mold, and paint loss. The basic prob­ services can include grants from the federal arts (especially in N.Y.C.). Contact Roger in the visual arts, unique works or works-in­ Joshua C. Taylor Research Fellowship Fund. tions between public interests and private lem seems to lie in the materials and tech­ government. The average cost of smaller Howrigan, c/o Visual Arts Program, 809 series, which two or more artists conceived I wish to express my personal gratitude for enterprise in these matters has been poignant­ niques Rothko used, exacerbated by the ex­ projects involving one research associate is be­ United Nations Plaza, N.Y.C. 10017. and executed together. Contact Cynthia Jaf­ their gift which will be a continuing expres­ ly underscored in the March 1981 issue of treme humidity in the chapel. Rothkoused an tween $25,000 and $30,000. fee McCabe, Curator for Exhibitions, Hirsh­ . sion of Joshua Taylor'S most cherished con­ California Business. Ostensibly, the Califor­ egg-oil emulsion to create some forms, A For a Yale University Art Gallery exhibition horn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smith­ cern - the promotion of scholarship in Amer­ nia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) prime layer was made of rabbit skin glue and New Preservation Organizations . and catalog, information is sought on 19th sonian Institution, Washington, D.C, 20560. ican Art. reviews developer projects. Sometimes mil­ dry pigments diluted with water. Subsequent Census of Stained Glass Windows in and 20th century fans, fan designs, screens, With heartfelt thanks and all good wishes. lions of dollars are added to development layers included other dry pigments mixed America, 1840-1940 (CSGA), founded in and screen designs by European. and Ameri­ For a small exhibition of the art and collection S. Dillon Ripley III costs because of archeological and other with an acrylic polymer and diluted with 1980 to preserve a published record of win­ can artists. Contact Ginny Butera, Asst. to of the painter Katherine Schmidt (1898- Secretary, environmental concerns. Nevertheless, some water. Shapes, altered with charcoal, were set dows of both European and American manu­ Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Box 1978) to be held February 4-April 4, 1982, The Smithsonian Institution archeological sites are being wantonly with tube oil paint diluted with turpentine. facture from its beginnings in the 1840s to a 7646, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 or Michael send photographs and any information about destroyed because the act is applied haphaz­ Rothko also combined tube oil paint with tur­ hiatus in production during World War I~, Komanecky, Asst. to Director, Yale Universi­ the artist and her work to Patterson Sims, ardly. The article cites examples of a San pentine, whole beaten eggs and damar resin. intends to register information, make It ty Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. 06511. Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Mad­ Diego developer who wants to build COll­ Simulations revealed that the whitening and publicly available, and encourage the conser­ ison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021. dominiums on a two-acre Indian site and a paint loss was caused by the addition of t~e Iprofessional publications vation, preservation, and appreciation of For a critical study of the work of Oliver Stockton builder who bulldozed an estimated damar resin, which created an imbalance m stained glass windows in this country. Schol­ Newberry Chaffee (1881-1944), an Ameri­ 1500 Indian graves rather than relocate the formula. Information is sought on the life and works of ects are also discussed. Includes discussions of arly studies and regional guidebooks for the can painter active in Detroit, Provincetown, them. Developers are occasionally forced to In another paper, it was recommended American artist Da Loria Norman (1872- lease provisions and protections, recent liti­ general public will be published from infor­ New York, Paris, and southern France, infor­ provide dollars to "mitigate the adv~rse im­ that daguerreotypes be sealed in protective 1935), who did rare book illumination and gation involving tenants rights, developments mation gathered and stored on computer and mation is sought regarding location of his pact" of their project on a resource slte, but glass cases with minimum exposure to air. mystical painting. She lived in London until in other jurisdictions, with an evaluation of in photograhic file. Information is nee~ed works in American and European collections only if that effect is discovered in time. Then The works should be maintained in an en­ 1914; from 1914 until her death, she lived and the prospects for artists' housing in New York. regarding the location of stained glass wm­ as well as biographical information regarding one can only salvage artifacts, without the vironment of even temperature, with a low worked in the New York area, Boston, and 157 pp. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 36 dows, particularly those that are endangered his activities in this country and abroad. Con­ possibility of studying them in context. A relative humidity (a dessicator cabinet should Grand Rapids. Contact Cynthia Norman, W. 44 St., Suite 1110, N.Y.C. 10036. $11.00. or in obscure places that might go unnoticed tact Solveiga Rush, University of Cincinnati, 1973 study estimated that 35-40 percent of be considered) with a 30-40 percent RH. 214 "s" Street, Washington, D.C. 20001. by Census personnel. Address all communica­ Mail Location #168, Cincinnati, Ohio45221, all of the state's cultural resources in existence The air should be filtered for sulphur gases, tions to the CSGA Coordinator, 138 Biscuit The Visual Arts in the Ninth De­ in 1800 had already been destroyed. In San City Road, Kingston, R.I. 02881. For a biographical dictionary of Philadel­ Documents, correspondence, reminiscences, cade. edited by Fred V. Mills and Donald J. Diego, one of the richest archeological areas Art Deco Society, a New York-based New Program in Conservation phia architects working prior to 1930, photographs and other material are sought Irving. Contributions by a number of educa­ in the state, perhaps 60 percent of the 8000 organization "with spiritual ties to other ~e~ The Smithsonian Institution is developing a biographical information and surviving ar­ for a memorial exhibition of paintings by tors and administrators dealing with impor­ recorded sites have been destroyed by minded local organizations like the MIamI conservation training program. At present chitectural documents (plans, renderings, former Long Island University teacher Albert tant issues facing arts administrators in the developers, despite the efforts of the San Design Preservation League," has ~een there are three committees working on pro­ correspondence, office records, etc.) of ar­ Kotin (1907-1980). Contact Martin Ries, coming decade. 143 pp. Fred V. Mills, Chair­ Diego Archeological Resource Management meeting since January. They have tes~l~ed gram development issues. The first is within chitects born or whose years of major profes­ Dept. Fine Arts, LIU, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. man, Dept. of Art, Illinois State University, Society (ARMS). before the New York Landmarks CommISSIon the Smithsonian, with representatives from sional activity occurred in the Philadelphia Bloomington-Normal, Ill. 61761. $7.00. to preserve the Film Center Building int~rior various museums; the other two, at the metropolitan area before 1930 are sought. and have proposed a broad range of projects For an exhibition to be held January 9-May University of Maryland and George Wash­ Contact Sandra Tatman, The Athenaeum of Wherewithal: A Guide to Resources for to save Art Deco treasures from demolition. 16, 1982, the Brandywine River Museum is ington University, are developing academic Philadelphia, 219 South Sixth Street, Phila­ Museums and Historical Societies in New Conservation Conference For further information: Henriette Nathan, trying to locate the works of Philadelphia aspects of the program, including art history delphia, Pa. 19106. York State, compiled by Tema Greenleaf Philadelphia was the site of the annual Vice President, ADS, 165 E. 32 Street, New illustrator Charlotte Harding (1873-1951). and physics. A three- or four-year program Harnik, Detailed descriptions of 145 nonprof­ meeting of the American Institute for Conser­ York, N.Y. 10016. Contact John Sheppard, Director Public vation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), will begin in fall 1983 as a pilot that will be For a survey of folk arts courses in higher Relations, BRM, Brandywine Conservance, it organizations and government agencies from 27 to 31 May. As always, many mediums shaped by the needs of the field, the views of education to help evaluate present course of­ P.O. Box 141, Chadds Ford, Pa.19317. that offer funds, consultant services, techni­ Distress Signals and contexts were covered. Papers included A the profession, and the availability of funds. ferings and to assist in development of new cal assistance, legal services, circulating exhi­ Franf,;ois Bucher wrote to us earlier this year Study of George Inness' Painting Techniques courses, information is sought regarding bitions, workshops, research facilities, and asking everyone's assistance in saving LeCor­ Participation by artists is sought for a two­ (based on paintings in The Cleveland Muse­ course content, structure, administration, re­ more. The rnajority of the organizations listed The Conservator as Curator busier's Immeuble Clarte in Geneva, which is part documentation project on artists' um), The Effect of Pigment Volume Concen­ quirements, population, location, and aca" are national in scope so that this is a useful There is increasing concern among those con­ threatened by envelopment by the huge and records and sound art jointly undertaken by tration on the Lightness or Darkness of demic departmental affiliations. Instructors tool for institutions throughout the country. servators who have been involved in traveling amorphous buildings of Operation Viller­ One Ten Records and Peter Frank. For the Porous Paints, A Step Toward Revising Our of courses focusing on the study of American Indexed to locate specific types of services. 96 exhibitions that there ought to be conserva­ euse, Plan nr. 27345-68. Write to the Mayor first phase, Frank is preparing a monographic Perception of Chardin, Preliminary Studies material culture produced in a non-aca­ pp. Center for Arts Information, 625 Broad­ tion input into loan conditions. For those and Council, Geneva, Switzerland. study of artists' records, including recordings for the Conservation of the Rothko Chapel involved in such matters, a number of guide­ demic, traditional context are urged to con­ of sound poetry (or text-sound, music by art­ way, New York, N.Y. 10012. $5.75, postage Paintings (An Investigative Approach), An lines exist, among them ICOM's rules for tact Marsha MacDowell, The Folk Arts Divi­ ists, and unique record art-objects, for publi­ included. Bulk order discounts available. Introduction to japanese Painting, The Con­ traveling exhibitons, the guidelines for travel­ Books and Papers sion, The Museum, Michigan State Univ., cation in 1982. For this he needs archive East Lansing, Mich. 48824. servation of Gold Leaf, and The Preservation ing exhibtions of the NEA, and the CULCAN The Book Conservation Studio of the Yale copies and background information on pho­ Writing a Resume. A guide expressly for in­ of Daguerreotypes. report prepared in conjunction with the University Library has had a grant from the nograph records created in the context of dividuals seeking jobs in arts management. 22 National Endowment for the Humanities to Several of the above papers underscored in­ Japanese. For a lecture series and research paper, infor­ contemporary visual art. In conjunction with pp. Opportunity Resources for the Arts, 1501 teresting aspects of artists' techniques. For ex­ train book conservators. During the course of mation is sought on patterned imagery (con­ the monograph, One Ten Records is compil­ Broadway, N.Y.C. 10036. $3.50 (free to OR ample contrary to popular belief, Chardin this program, it has produced five preserva­ temporary artists such as Robert Kushner in­ ing a discography of the genre. For the second registrants). II painted rapidly and made major alterations Available Resources tion pamphlets: Book Wraparounds, Page cluded). Contact Shirley Raphael, Box 5371, phase, archive copies and background infor­ to his work. X-radiography and infrared The Research Associates Program of the Na­ Tip-Ins and Book Pockets, Paper Treatment, St. Laurent Postal Station, Montreal, mation are needed for an international listing studies were able to distinguish original works tional Bureau of Standards does not charge Pamphlet Binding, and The Small Bindery" Quebec, Canada H4L 4Z9. of artists' records, sound art, text-sound, elec­ from copies and brought out the pentimenti. for the use of its facilities and there are no fees as well as a small exhibition catalogue entitled~ tronic music and new music. This listing is If you have ever seen painted or stamped Studies were also able to confirm his use of a for consulting with the 1200 to 1400 consul­ Conservation and Preservation at Yale. Single For a dissertation in progress on John Steuart intended for eventual inclusion in a book­ woven wire screens of 19th or 20th century red-ochre ground and a moderately thin tants employed by the Bureau. Special serv­ copies are available without charge from Jane Curry information on the Topeka mural length guide on sound art and artists and vintage; or reference to their existence, use, overall priming layer of a light warm gray ices and supplies (e.g., computer) are paid for Greenfield, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale commission or the location of his paintings record/cassette editions by B. George and M. location, or painters in America or abroad, (white lead, carbon black, and umber. It also by the individual or organization at cost. The University, New Haven, Conn. 06520. Multi­ and drawings is sought by Sue Kendall, 134 DeFoe. Contact M. DeFoe, OTR, 110 Cham­ contact Elaine Eff, The Baltimore Museum of became clear that he used chalk extensively to Bureau sponsors projects that have non­ ple copies cost $1.50 each. Arthur Avenue, S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. bers Street, New York, N.Y, 10007. (212) Art, Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Md. proprietary objectives and the potential for a Annabelle Cahn .. increase transparency as well as thicken con­ 55414. 964~2296. 21218. II sistency of paints. publishable report. This service would be of Public Information Officer September 1981 15 14 eAA newsletter J classifieds

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© 1981 College Art Association of America 16 East 52 Street, New York 10022 Editor: Rose R. Weil Associate Editor: Minerva Navarrete

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