Volume 3, Number I March 1978

CAA awards 1978 annual meeting report

Awards for excellence in art historical schol­ The high note and the low note of the 1978 arship and criticism and in the teaching of annual meeting were sounded back-to-back: studio arts and art history were presented at the high note on Friday evening, the Con­ the Convocation ceremonies of the 66th An­ vocation Address by Shennan E. Lee, a stun­ nual Meeting of the College Art Association, ning defense of the pursuit of excellence and held in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium an attack upon anti-elitist demagoguery and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday the obliteration of the essential boundaries evening, January 27, 1978. between the realm of art and the realm of The Association's newest award (estab­ commerce by those with both the training and lished last year), for Distinguished Teaching the responsibility to know better. Too good to of Art History, was presented to Ellen John­ paraphrase, so we've culled some excerpts (see son, Professor Emeritus of Art and Honorary p. 3). Curator of Modem Art at Oberlin College. The low note was struck on Saturday morn­ For nearly forty years Professor Johnson's ing, on the Promenade of the New York courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hilton Hotel (formerly the CAA Registration art have been one of the most popular offer­ Area). Unbeknownst to us, the space had ings at this prestigious undergraduate institu­ been contracted to the City-Wide Junior High tion. Her inspired teaching first opened the School Symphonic Orchestra, a group of eyes of numerous students, many of whom some eighty fledgling enthusiasts whose per­ went on to become leading historians, cura­ formance could be appreciated only by par­ tors, critics, and collectors of modern art. In ents and peers. After the first few frantic Sherman E. Lee accepting the award Prof. Johnson com­ minutes we were able to get the amplification mented: "Receiving an award for teaching is system shut off so that only those who march­ Prior to the Convocation and cacaphony, like receiving an award for living in a Frank ed directly through the Promenade did so to people went pretty much through the. usual Lloyd Wright house." the tune of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My annual meeting paces. The difference -""since The Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Head," "The Syncopated Clock," and selec­ this was New York- being that there were went to Mercedes Matter, founder-~in 1964 tions from the "Weistersingers" (st'c). But it more people and more paces. Despite severe -of the New York Studio School, an institu­ was rough going for the first speakers in each stonns and rumors of ad hoc art history tion whose then-unique concept that the of the four Saturday morning sessions, and we seminars held in snowbound airports training of the artist is not divisible into apologize most sincerely for the unintentional throughout the Midwest, some 6,000 people point! credits per hour but involves a full­ counterpoint. Continued on p. 2, col. 1 time, focussed commitment to the demands of the studio has since influenced the entire course of art education in the United States. In her acceptance speech Dean Matter called upon government and private foundations to establish a grant program that would enable mature artistlteachers to devote a greater portion of their time to their own creative work. (See p. 4.) The Association's major award for art his­ torical scholarship published during 1976, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, was presented to Kurt Weitzmann, Professor Emeritus of Art and Archaeology at Prince­ ton University, for The Monastery oj Sa£nt Cather£ne at Mount S£nat~ The Icons, Vol­ ume I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century, an outstanding analysis of a hitherto virtually unknown phase of early Byzantine painting. The Frank Jewett Mather Award for Dis­ tinction in Art and Architectural Criticism went to Linda Nochlin, Mary Conovor MeI­ Continued on p. 5, col. 1 The morning after. 11978 annual meeting report life, liberty, and the pursuit of .. what? did manage to make it to the annual meeting, Alumni reunions also reached an all-time Whatever is worthy of pursuit has the capacity to become the pur­ purposes that immediately diminish or pervert the intellectual and They were greeted by the fattest (72 pages) high (we seem to remember that line from last suer. Man pursues happiness, the good, love, knowledge, truth-or social climate making such achievements possible. CAA annual meeting program ever, other­ year's annual meeting report), with 22 listed art, but is in turn pursued or obsessed by them. He may expect some­ wise known as the Sandler Family Album. in the final schedule, although we understand thing of them; but they demand something of him-not just barely "Good enough" is indeed good enough in the production and supply (Art History sessions were chaired by Lucy that several cancelled when they got their first enough truth or knowledge or art to get by, but as much as is human­ of staples essential to the health and physical well being of all the Freeman Sandler, New York University; glimpse of Hilton Hotel prices. ly possible, and sometimes it seems, even more. The unattainable but people. Mass production of materials good enough for these purposes studio sessions were chaired by Irving Exhibitors, too, were more numerous than required goal is not just "good enough" but perfection. Accepting is the only satisfactory means known to us for today's numbers - and Sandler, S.U.N.Y., Purchase.) Detailed re­ ever-74 of them. And the crowded exhibit this fate, the artist, scholar, philosopher, historian, athlete, whatever with it come concepts of utility and reasonable cost. But these re­ ports on both studio and art history programs area served, as always, not only as a market­ creative person you will, recognizes excellence and its concomitant, quirements are at total variance with what I take to be the essentials wil1 appear in the Summer Art Journal. place but also as a fertile meeting ground for elitism. of art-uselessness, perfection, and often, unreasonable cost. This Lisa Taylor, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, was the exchange of ideas among authors, editors, The dreadful word has become increasingly contentious, misap­ opposition of utility and happiness or delectation is common in both local events coordinator, and arranged a par­ and the all-important audience. propriated by politicians and mischiefmakers, and misunderstood by the collectivist and the capitalist state, but in the latter the peculiar ticularly rich itinerary involving Wednesday As if all the above weren't enough to keep the ignorant as a synonym for snob, with its associations with super­ needs of art are tolerated, sometimes encouraged, while in the for­ stopovers in the environs of the Hilton (with conferees busy, a new feature-CAA film ficial society and arrogant wealth. Elite, elitist, elitism, carrying their mer the few early harbingers of creativity were effectively suppressed. receptions at the Museum of Modern Art, the showings-made its first appearance at this true associations with choice or the best, are words that deserve Museum of American Folk Art, and the Mu­ year's annual meeting. The fare was varied respect and allegiance, particularly from those in hot pursuit of ex­ seum of Contemporary Crafts); Thursday and the traffic brisk, and we suspect that cellence. We

NEH YOUTHGRANTS quiltmaking traditions in four distinct honors and awards cultural regions of North Carolina. Tete-a-tete at the Met. H. W. Janson, This program, which has been in existence for NEH FELLOWSHIPS left, and Philipp Fehl. five years, supports independent projects in the humanities. Twenty-one grants were KRESS PROFESSORSHIP awarded in 1976·-77, the following of particu- Fellowships for Independent Study and 1ar interest: John Noxon, age 22, San Fran­ Research for 1978-79 in art, archaeology, In addition to regular CAA sessions and The National Gallery of Art announces that cisco: to research and document North Amer­ and architecture have been awarded by the local events, almost a dozen related organiza­ Agnes Mongan, former Director and Curator ican Indian rock art in the Capitol Reed Na­ National Endowment for the Humanities to tions held program sessions, business Emeritus of Drawings at the Fogg Art Muse­ tional Park in Torrey, Utah; Mark Schmitt, the following scholars: Patricia M. Bikai, meetings, ad hoc meetings, etc.-among um, has been named Samuel H. Kress Profes­ age 14, New Haven: to record and analyze the Jesuit School of Theology; Jonathan M. them the Women's Caucus for Art, the sor in Residence for the academic year development of the concept of the American Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Uni­ Caucus for Marxism and Art, the Interna­ 1977-78. Prof. Mongan is particularly well hero in the twentieth century through an versity; Jane B. Davies, Columbia Universi­ tional Center for Medieval Art, the American known and respected for her work on draw­ examination of painting, photography and ty; Charles G. Dempsey, Bryn Mawr College; Committee for Southeast Asian Art, and the ings of both old and modern European and film; Jacqueline Schneider, age 25, Mos­ Thomas S. Hines, University of California, Committee on Foundation Education in American draftsmen, especially those by cow, Idaho: to develop a reference guide to Los Angeles; William H. Jordy, Brown Uni­ Studio and Art History. How far this list can French masters of the eighteenth and nine­ Coeur d'Alene Indian art; and Joyce versity; George A. Kubler, Yale University; be extended without undue strain on space teenth centuries. In March she will deliver a Newman, age 28, University of North Caro­ Margaret C. Root, University of Chicago; and sanity is an open question. Placement Orientation. A full house. lecture at the National Gallery on Venice. lina, Chapel I-Ell: to survey and document and Juergen Schulz, Brown University. II1II

2 CAA newsletter March 1978 3 shows by STATEMENT IN ACCEPTANCE OF CAA DISTINGUISHED artist members TEACHING OF ART AWARD ICAA awards Two factors seem to me important for Ion Professor of Art at Vassar College, whose son ally familiar with many of the artists of hitherto virtually unknown phase of early teaching in art to be effective. historical and critical writings, particularly in whose work she speaks in her classes, she Byzantine painting. His book combines the A listing ofsolo exhibitions by artist members One is the students' circumstances of study. the areas of the realist revival of the past dec­ bridges the gap between the makers and the features of insight and painstaking accuracy of the CAA. Listings should include name of Without sufficient continuity of studio prac­ ade, the recovery and re-evaluation of wo­ historians of art. She has brought original with novelty and soundness, and will remain a artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of ex­ tice to absorb what they learn-however men's art, and the self-as-art object, have works of art into the lives of her students, and basic tool for the study of Byzantine Art. hibition, and medium. Since this serv£ce is marvelous the teaching may be-students do brought an acute awareness of social and po­ made the museum an extension of her class­ Committee: Egbert Haverkamp-Bege­ available only to CAA members and since we not develop fruitfully. After having taught litical context to the study of art, significantly room. Her determination tomeet the needs of mann, Chair; Alessandra Comini; Leopold can't possibly check all the exhibition notices several years within college programs which enlarging its cultural resonance. all her students, from the least experienced to Ettlinger; Egon Verheyan we receive, please include copy of current deprived students of sufficient time to work, I The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for the the most advanced, without losing her dignity membershzp card. was moved to help a group of my students to best article by a scholar in early career or lowering her standards, has won her the create a school where their needs would be appearing during 1976 in The Art Bulletin respect and affection of generations of stu­ met. was awarded to Elizabeth Cropper of Temple dents. Most of her career, it is important to Frank Jewett Mather Award The other factor concerns the artists who University's Tyler School of Art for "On Beau­ remember, was spent in colleges. Her con­ Linda Nochlin's distinguished work as an John G. Balsley. Allan Stone Gallery, teach. What they give has most substance tiful Women, Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, spicuous example not only has affected the art historian has intersected in an extraordi­ N. Y.C. Jan. 1978. when it overflows from immediate experi­ and the Vernacular Style," a detailed illumi­ lives and expectations of many of her women nary way with the contemporary art world ence, which means they are currently and nation of the parallels between Petrarchan students, it may have been an influence for and recent criticism. A Courbet expert, she Victoria Barr. Fischbach Gallery, N.Y.C. vitally engaged in their own work. Too often definitions of beauty and grace and their change in the profession as a whole. extended a historical discussion of Realism to Dec. 3-22, 1977. Acrylic; photographs/ can­ the very fact of teaching prevents this. The pictorial expression in certain mannerist Committee: Lorenz Eitner, Chair; Anne encompass the realist revival of the past vas. essential continuity of focus is thwarted. paintings. Coffin Hanson; Beth Mandelbaum; Leo decade, contributing important new dimen­ There are the summers-precious moments The citations read as follows: Steinberg sions to our understanding of it. She has done Mercedes Matter James Carroll. Lehman College Gallery, between school years - in which an artist ground-breaking work in establishing a schol­ tastes again that total immersion in work arly and critical framework for the recovery N.Y.C. Dec. 1977. Canvas and polypropolene Distinguished Teaching of Art Award wall and floor pieces. through which, alone, he or she can advance institution's for the same period. Together and re-evaluation of women's art, past and or bring important works to realization. But this would equal a year's salary, but the artist Back in the early sixties, a well-known artist present, fusing feminist polemic with scholar­ Marcia Clark. First Street Gallery, N.Y.C, these short respites are fraught with anxiety would teach only one semester. teaching studio at one of our great universities ship. Recently she has focused on a richly pro­ April21-May 10. Paintings. because of the sense of imminent ending. Two consequences would result: repeated to me what he was telling his stu­ vocative area, the persona of the artist- the In maturity, as demands within one's work 1. That the artists so helped would have dents; "Find out what it is you want to make "self-as-art-object" - in a comprehensive Bill Creston. Pleiades Gallery, N.Y.C. Dec. deepen and the enormity of the task in which two thirds of the year-each year-in which and keep making it," he would say. "Then, study that ranges from popular art to anthro­ 30. An evening of 3 new films and a work-in­ one is engaged becomes more apparent-to to devote themselves uninterruptedly to their when you leave this place, give yourself two pology to post-conceptualism. All her histori­ progress shown in conjunction with "Tenth make one's own way, a way that no artist has work. years to get a Madison Avenue show. Failing cal and critical writing brings an acute aware­ Street Days." made before, as mortality becomes pressingly 2. It would open up a second job for an art­ that, get out of art and do something else," It ness of social and political context to the study real and time closes in, the division of one's ist who might need one. was tough talk, the sort of talk that sounded of an, significantly enlarging its cultural Gloria DeFilipps-Brush. Tweed Museum of self through teaching can become devastat­ The most important principle involved is seductively realistic to a new generation of resonance. Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Jan. ing. Whereas, at times, it has been enormous­ that the support be ongoing. One year grants students. And it was at that moment, 1964, Committee: Elizabeth Baker, Chair; Al­ 31-Feb. 26. "Recensions, Retellings, and ly stimulating to teach, now it can defeat. A or sabbaticals are not a solution to an artist's that Mercedes Matter conceived and created fred Frankenstein; Lucy R. Lippard Other Photographs." frustrated artist is not the most inspiring. life-there must be a continuing situation. an alternative to everything that was then To the countless young artists here to get a Better that help be partial and continuing practiced or fashionable in art education­ Douglas DeVinny. Giles Gallery, Eastern teaching job this may sound far-fetched. But, than Jull Jor a h'mited time. the New York Studio School, where students Kentucky University, Richmond. Jan. later, after years of teaching, there are artists I think this plan a feasible way to help many did not take courses in design, drawing or Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize who need to be rescued from what earlier American artists in their maturity to fulfill painting three hours a week with point-credits 16-Feb. 3. Drawings and prints. Elizabeth Cropper's article, "00" Beautiful seemed so desirable. Teaching can become a their lives, to develop to the full extent of their per course at the end of the semester- but Women, Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, and trap from which-especially when families potential and thus to enrich the cultural were put into their studios full-time, every LoWs Finkelstein. Ingber Gallery, N.Y.C. the Vernacular Style," offers a new and fruit­ are involved - artists can scarcely escape. heritage of this country, while still giving day, to enter what Mercedes calls "an old­ Feb. 4-March 1. Paintings and drawings. ful approach to important elements of style in If government and private philanthropies young artists some opportunity to learn from fashioned lifetime of focused persistence." In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century painting. want to help the artists of this country-very them. Certainly some of the money appropri­ her belief that art education should not be de­ Douglas Giebel. Control Data Office Ellen Johnson While parallels between literary and visual few of whom can rely on private incomes or ated for art should go to those who create it! signed for success in a competitive market, Building, Bloomington, Minn. March 1978. arts in the Renaissance have often been sales of work - here is one way it could be And I believe this idea, if implemented, could but should build the artist in the art student Oil paintings. noted, Cropper argues the case for a rrlUch done: crucially affect the lives of valuable artists until the artist and the person are one, Merce­ Distinguished Teaching of Art History more detailed and pointed set of comparisons To match teaching salaries; that is, to pay each of whom, as a national resource, is ir­ des Matter sustained the New York Studio Jeff Hoare_ Owl 57 Galleries, Woodmere, Award between Petrarchan definitions of beauty and the institution in which an artist teaches the replaceable. School through thirteen arduous years- and N,Y. Jan, 1978, Paintings. grace and their pictorial expression in certain equivalent of a semester's salary, to add to the Mercedes Matter II changed the course of art education in For nearly forty years, Ellen Johnson has mannerist paintings. America. Doeyce Maher. Artemesia Gallery, Chicago. shared her knowledge and enthusiasm with In its suggestive use of a wide range of It is our honor to be honoring her. Feb, 10-March 5. Recent Light Works. the students of Oberlin College. Her courses sources and in its plausible contention that Committee: Miriam Schapiro, Chair; North Park College, Chicago. April 5-25. Frieda Savitz. Hanson Galleries, N.Y.C.Jan. Anne Seelbach. Still Mountain Gallery, in Modern Art have attracted year after year courtly literary and social traditions influ­ Natalie Charkow; David Pease Paintings. 10-Feb. 12. Paintings, "Inner Side." Arizona Roosevelt House, N.Y.C. Feb. 24-March 17. the largest number of students of any of the enced important elements of mannerist style, State University, Tempe. March 4-21. Paint­ Paintings, pastels, and monoprints of courses taught at her college. Teaching in a the essay makes a valuable methodological Judith Peck. New Jersey State Museum, ings, drawings, watercolor-inks. Finkelstein abstract rock formations. primarily undergraduate program, in a Mid­ Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and substantive contribution. Trenton. Jan. 14-Feb. 26. Sculpture in Library, Spring Valley, N.Y. April 17-May western school of relatively small enrollment, Committee: Herbert Kessler, Chair; Ann bronze. 31. Paintings, drawings, watercolor-inks. Jason Seley. Louis K. Meisel Gallery, N.Y.C. she has achieved national impact: art histori­ The Charles Rufus Morey award for the Sutherland Harris; Angelica Zander Ruden­ Southern Vermont Art Association, Man­ Jan 7-28. Chrome-plated steel sculpture (car ans, artists, curators, critics, and collectors most distinguished book in the history of art stine; Lawrence A. Silver II Janice Koenig Ross. Main Gallery, Univer­ chester. July 15-30. Paintings and drawings. bumpers). throughout the country remember her with published in 1976 is presented to Professor sity of North Alabama, Florence. Feb, 7-24. gratitude as the teacher who first opened their Kurt Weitzmann for his book The Monastery Paintings and drawings. Judith Solodkin. Nobe Gallery, N. Y.C. Jan. eyes to art. Her career exemplifies the power oJSaint Catherine at Mount Sinaz~ The Icons, E. Jean Schiff. Colorado State University, 24-Feb. 4. Lithographs. of inspired teaching. As an historian of 19th Volume I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Cen­ Yasue Sakaoka. Alumni Gallery, Mansfield Ft. Collins, Jan. 29-Feb. 24. "Audio-Visible: and 20th century art, she possesses the rare tury, published by Princeton University Press. State College, Mansfield, Pa. Dec. 5-Jan. 31. Art Sounds Out," Multi-media exhibition of Glenda Youritzin. Philbrook Art Center, ability to give to the past the excitement of Since long the dean of studies in Early Chris­ "Show yourself more human than critical and Cardboard and plywood constructions. sound, light, and drawing. Tulsa, Feb. 19-March 19. Paintings. II present controversy, while clarifying the tur­ tian and Byzantine Art, Professor Weitzmann your pleasure will increase." bulent present in the light of the past. Per- has contributed an outstanding analysis of a - Domenico Scarlatti 4 CAA newsletter Marchl978 5 international congress of art history first Meiss volume comes the resolution ...

The next International Congress of Art His­ to deal with new materials or discoveries rele­ published tory, sponsored by the Comite international vant to the theme of the section. All those The last meeting of the CAA Board oj Direc­ d'histoire de l'art (CIHA), will meet in Bolo­ wishing to present papers or to participate in Andrea Sacchi; Complete Edition of the tors was held on Wednesday, January 25, gna, Italy, from September 10 to 23, 1979. the discussion within one of the sections of the Paintings with a Critical Catalogue, by Ann 1978 in the GreenRoom of the New York Hil­ Unlike its predecessors, such as the Interna­ Congress are requested to communicate with Sutherland Harris. Phaidon Press Limited, ton Hotel. Some actions and announcements: tional Congress at Granada in September the Chairman of the U.S. National Commit­ Oxfmd, 1977. 1973, the Bologna Congress will be organized tee, Prof. H. W. Janson, Dept. of Fine Arts, in accordance with a new and strict set of rules New York University, New York, N. Y. 10003, This monograph is the first book to be pub­ Grievance Procedures The Board unanimously adopted CAA Pro­ agreed upon by CIHA at its meeting in Ant­ who will transmit their proposals to the lished with the assistance of the Millard Meiss cedures for Dealing with A llegations oj Griev­ werp last June. There will be no single theme; chairmen of the sections. The chairmen of the Fund. The manuscript had been completed instead, the Congress will be divided into ten sections have absolute authority to accept or and accepted by the publisher in 1970, but ance, see p. 9. sections, each of them with its own chairman reject proposals for papers; they will not con­ the changed economics of scholarly art-book appointed by CIHA and devoted to an area of sider proposals by American scholars unless publishing had made it impossible for a com­ The eAA and the ERA special concern to present-day scholarship, these are transmitted by the Chairman of the mercial house to print it without sustaining a As just about everybody know~ by now, a ~eat Each section will run over three half-days and National Committee. The same rule, needless serious financial loss. It is just this situation many scholarly and professIo~al o:gamza - to say, applies to the other member countries that the Meiss Fund is intended to alleviate. will include six to nine reports as well as some tions are refusing to hold meetlngs m states of CIHA. It is strongly recommended that The monograph on Andrea Sacchi (1599- shorter papers and discussions. Three or four that have not ratified the Equal Rights 1661) is based on the author's doctoral disser­ sections will be scheduled concurrently, so proposals for papers be accompanied by one­ Amendment. Unfortunately, no one was tation of 1965 for the University of London. It that the Congress proper will take five or six page summaries. aware of that last April when the CAA de­ At reception for Board and past presidents. From left, Antoinette Pe.tersen, RILA; Caecilia is the first complete study on this artist, who days. During the evenings of these days there Subsidies for travel to the Congress will be cided to meet in 1980 in New Orleans. (Loui­ Davis-Weyer, Board member; and Marilyn Stokstad, new CAA preSident. available in limited numbers through the was the subject of a smaller scholarly study by will be plenary sessions with major lectures by siana has not ratified the ERA.) When we Hans Posse in 1925. Since then a biography of individual scholars of international standing. ACLS. Applications, however, will be con­ were made aware of this situation the Board sidered by the CAA Art Historians Commit­ Sacchi by G. P. Bellori has been traced and The remaining days of the Congress will be waS polled by mail to see whether it wish.ed t? published by Piacentini together with exten­ devoted to excursions organized by the tee, which screens these applications, only change the site of the 1980 annual meetmg If from those who have been invited to present sive documentation of the artistic patronage Secretariat of the Congress. that could be done without serious damage. of the Barberini family in Rome, for whom Reports or whose papers have been accepted The Board voted that it did wish to do so; by their section chairman. CIHA has urged Sacchi worked almost exclusively in the 1630s however, the New Orleans hotel would not and 1640s. Dr. Harris added to these new the section chairman to select their speakers release us from our contract. Potential dam­ sources by tracing the artist's will and inven­ on a broadly international basis and to give ages for breach of contract (with legal fees) Sections tory of his possessions at the time of his death, preference, whenever possible, to younger could amount to $400,000. There was then a scholars. documents that contain important material Relz'gious Reform and the Arts during the motion to breach contract. No member of the The full written text of Reports and papers not only about Sacchi but also about his con­ Carolz'ngian Era, Alfred A. Schmid, Fri­ Board voted in its favor; twelve members of must be in the hands of the section chairmen temporaries. The monograph, which makes bourg the Board abstained. The purpose of the ab­ not later than April 15, 1979. After the Con­ full use of these and other new primary The Near East and the West in Thirteenth­ stentions, according to one member of that gress, they will be published in ten separate sources, not only provides a complete cata­ Century Art, Hans Belting, Heidelberg group, was to ask for "more time." To express volumes, each one edited by the chairman of logue of all his paintings, it also discusses all Painting in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth its support of ERA, the Board then passed the the section it covers. For the published version related preparatory drawings, prints de­ Centuries: The Contribution of Technical following resolutions: of Reports and papers, authors will be per­ signed by Sacchi and his few architectural Analysis to the History of Art, Henk W. mitted to add notes and appendices but not to commissions. A long introductory essay dis­ Van Os and]. R. J. Van Asperen de Boer, enlarge the text as presented at the Congress. cusses the evolution of Sacchi's style and his Groningen The College A rt Association will refrain from H.W.J. III artistic contribution as well as his relations The Arts in Bologna and Emilia from the Six­ holdingfuture conventions in states that have with contemporaries such as Bernini, Cor­ teenth to the Seventeenth Century, Andrea not ratified the EqualRightsAmendment un­ tona and Poussin. Professor Donald Posner of Emiliani, Bologna til such time as the ERA is finally adopted or the Institute of Fine Arts of New York Univer­ Baroque Stage Design, Antoine Schnapper, sity has said of this work: "Professor Harris has rejected. Reflections on the CAA. Same reception as above. Board member Benny Andrews, left, and Paris produced a fine and remarkably thorough (rear view) Rose Weil. Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, H. W. Jan­ study of an artist whose historical significance son, New York City sale on slide sets The College Art AssoC£ation regrets the has until now been imperfectly understood "Salons, " Galleries, Museums, and Their In­ necessity of meeting in New Or~eans in 19~O and whose artistic merits had heretofore only fluence on Nineteenth-and Twentieth­ Several years ago, under a generous grant and asks the President to contmue negotza­ been guessed at. This is the most important Century Art, Francis Haskell, Oxford from the Ford Foundation, the CAA under­ t£ons with the New Orleans hotels to allow us sustaining members contribution to our knowledge of seicento Prints and the Transmissions of Images and took an Educational Lantern Slid~ Project, to be relieved of our contract. painting that has appeared in recent years." Styles, Henri Zemer, Cambridge, Mass. the key element of which was the production A By-laws change approved at last year's American sales are handled by the Prince- Appointments The Historic Center oj Large Urban Ag­ of 2500 black-and-white slides deemed to business meeting established the category of ton University Press. Price: $50.00. II Committee on Public Policy: Sherman E. glomerations, Corrado Maltese, Genoa cover most effectively the full range of art It was generally felt that the second resolution Individual Sustaining Member ($100) for Lee, Cleveland Museum of Art, Chair; Ben­ Problems of Method: Conditions of a History history from prehistoric to present times, in­ met the objections and objectiv~s of those those who wished to make contributions to the ny Andrews, New York City; H. ~. Janson, of Art, Lajor Vayer, Budapest cluding non-Western developments. To keep directors who had originally abstamed. CAA in excess of their income-based mem­ New York University. CAA PreSIdent and bership dues. We are pleased an~ proud to costs low, the slides were produced in the form CAA Honorary Counsel to serve ex-officio . .. annOunce our Individual Sustainmg Mem­ of 35 mm film rolls, which can then be cut Committee on Tenure, Retirement, and Re­ and mounted. Labelling material accom­ bers for 1978: Sol Alfred Davidson, Bear The 1975 Survey of Ph.D. Programs Elections lated Problems oj the Profession: Lucy Richard Ravenscroft and Gilbert Edelson Creek, Pa.; Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New panies each roll. The rolls, of 250 frames in Art History is not only out-of-date, Freeman Sandler, New York University, Reports and Papers were elected unanimously and by acclama­ York City; William Heidrich, Peor~a, Ill.; each, were priced at $18.75. but also out-of-stock. An updated edi­ Chair; Jules Prown, Yale University; Reports, thirty minutes in length, will be Since only a limited number of complete tion to continue to serve, respectively, as J. William Middendorf, II, Washmgton, tion is planned for the Fall. Please do Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, slides sets are still available, we are offering Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Counsel D.C.; and Victoria Newhouse, New York presented by scholars invited by the chairman not send orders in advance. We suspect Lawrence; Gilbert Edelson, CAA Honorary of each section. They are intended to sum­ them on a first-come, first-served basis at for 1978. Phillip Pearlstein was reelected to -mirabile dictu-that the price will Counsel, ex-officio . ... Committee on Stand­ City. . . a one-year term on the Executive Co~.mittee There is also a category for InstItutIonal marize the current state of research and to $150.00 for the entire set. (Regular price: go up. ards Jor the Undergraduate Art Degree: define unsolved problems within specific $187.50.) For order form and detailed (Executive Committee members tra~ltlOnally Sustaining Members ($1,000). Its one mem­ George Sadek, Cooper Union, an~ Paul Ar­ areas of the theme of the section. Papers, not description: Educational Slide Project, CAA, serve for two years); the other ExecutIVe Com­ ber: The Smithsonian Institution. II nold, Oberlin College, Co-ChaIrmen. III more than 15 minutes in length, are expected 16 East 52 Street, N.Y.C. 10022. II mittee position went to H. W. Janson. 7 6 CAA newsletter March 1978 r business meeting CAA FINANCIAL REPORT-DECEMBER 3], 1977 grievance procedures letters REVENUES 1976 1977 The CAA annual members business meeting Adopted unanimously by CAA Board of Association will cooperate with and work TRUTH IN LISTINGS MembershIp Dues played its 66th repeat performance on Thurs­ Directors, January 25, 1978. through other investigating agencies such as To the Editor: day, January 26, 1978, at noon, in the Sutton Individual $185,240 $222,785 the AAUP. The Association will intervene in· It has become obvious tome during the course North & Center Suite of the New York Hilton Institutional 92,115 92,748 The following policies and procedures shall dependently only in cases where a general is­ of this year's job search that many positions HoteL While "crowds" did not begin to ap­ apply to requests for assistance in allegatz"ons sue, such as freedom of inquiry, is at stake and are advertised in an inaccurate or even mis· proximate those assembled in the same set­ Total Dues $277,355 $315,533 of grievances and professt'onal disputes tn· only with the consent of the Executive Com­ leading manner. To give just a few examples ting for more spectacular events, a healthy voiving a member of the CAA. mittee and the concurrence of the Board of from my experience this year: A branch cam· Directors, after taking competent legal ad· pus of a southwestern university advertised for return of proxies (almost 1,000 of them) in­ Other Income dicates that CAA members do care about the vice. a modernist art historian with a Ph.D., outcome, even if they themselves do not care Sales of Educational Slide Rolls -0- 1,511 teaching experience, and publications. They to come. Sales of back issues, miscellaneous publications 10,724 10,673 hired a film historian who had not completed 1. The Association expects that members 6. Public statements in the name of the The major business was elections: slates MFA Programs Listing (net) -0- 1,843 his dissertation. A private southern university who turn to the CAA for assistance will have Association may be formulated by the Chair proposed by the 1977 NominatingCommittee Book Service Income (net) 1,242 10,471 advertised a pennanent appointment, but made use of the grievance and mediation pro' of the investigating committee but may be re· and by the Board of Directors were all duly Interest and Dividends 26,188 21,625 the application materials which reached me cedures available to them locally, or through leased to the press or other media only with and unanimously elected. Not one whit too Slide Buyer's Guide (net) ·0- 2,444 referred to the position as temporary. A an appropriate governmental agency. the agreement of the President or Vice Presi­ soon, for our new president, Marilyn Annual Meeting (net) 22,868 37,430 midwesten university advertised for a curator dent of the Association and at least two other Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Art Bulletin Subventions 37,385 33,969 of graphic arts, but upon enquiry I learned members of the Executive Committee. had recently rendered herself unable to con· Sale of Securities 13,449 -0- 2. Requests for CAA assistance should be that they were looking for someone to teach tinue to perfonn her fonner vice·presidential sent to the CAA office in New York. In cases the History of Photography. I doubt that my Total Other Income duties as right-hand to the president (see $112,306 $1l9,966 where assistance can be provided by supply~ 7. The investigating committee will report experiences this year are unusual. photo). ing infonnation which is readily available, to the Executive Committee or to the Board of Misleading job listings waste the time of Total Revenues $435,499 $389,661 such as statistical infonnation which the CAA Directors and will make recommendations for both the job applicant and the faculties in­ has compiled, or requests for guidelines or such further action as it believes appropriate, volved. Surely precision in these listings is not EXPENDITURES standards published by the CAA, the matter including mediation or censure, Action may too much to ask. No job seeker is so desperate will be handled by the Executive Secretary. as to appreciate having his time and energy Administrative Costs be taken only with the approval of the Ex­ ecutive Committee and the concurrence of a wasted. Further, it is doubtful that poorly Salaries (excluding Placement and Book Service) 70,169 77,015 $ $ majority of the members of the Board of written job listings produce a better selection Payroll Taxes and Fringe Benefits 11,013 11,591 3. In cases in which the CAA is requested Directors. of applicants than more carefully thought­ Rent and Cleaning Services 16,207 17,653 to intervene or to take a position on behalf of out and worded listings. Misleading or overly Office Expenses (printing, postage, stationery, mailing services) 15,273 20,393 one party to the dispute, the request must be Committee on Grievance Procedures II broad listings may encourage a large selection Telephone 2,555 2,373 in writing and directed to the CAA office. Marilyn Stokstad, Univ, Kansas, Chair of affirmative action candidates, and they Computer Services (net of sales of lists) 2,956 The plaintiff must sign a release freeing the (414) Paul Brach, Fordham Univ. may protect the "maximum flexibility" of the Accounting Fees 1.500 3,225 CAA and its officers from liability. Addi­ Alfred Frazer, Columbia Univ. department, but they are an insult to the in­ Office of the President tional information may be solicited by the Ex­ 316 383 Mary Garrard, American Univ. telligence and integrity of the job seeker and Insurance 1,072 499 ecutive Secretary. The Executive Secretary strain the credibility of the schools involved. Jules Prown, Yale Univ. Administrative Travel and Expenses will refer the matter to the President and! or 734 825 Gilbert Edelson, CAA Honorary Counsel, There are other hiring abuses. Some of the two other members of the executive commit­ positions advertised do not exist. Others seek ex-ofFdo Total Administrative Costs $121,795 $133,543 tee who will decide, on the basis of the facts to exploit the job seeker in one year "revolving and circumstances described in the letter or door" appointments which provide no hope of Other Costs letters, whether the issues in the dispute are job security and none of the leisure necessary Art Bulletin $118,508 $119,291 within the competence of the CAA, or wheth­ for fruitful research. Others offer salaries so Marilyn Stokstad Art Journal (net) 35,193 29,584 er the CAA is in a position to be of assistance. low as to be beyond belief. Is the situation so Newsletter (net) 5,001 8.809 desperate that the job seeker must tolerate Board Travel/Meeting Expenses 5,732 7,829 such treatment? We are told that art history is Others elected were: Off£cers. Vice­ Committee Expenses 1,389 726 4. If the charges seem to warrant further a humanistic discipline, The scholars who President: Joshua C. Taylor, National Col­ LISTING OF MFA PROGRAMS Preservation Committee Organizational Meeting -0- 1,666 CAA attention, the President will refer the brought it to this country as an academic field lection of Fine Arts; Secretary: Lucy Dues 756 792 matter to an appropriate committee-the of endeavor believed that it was. However, Freeman Sandler, New York University. A non-evaluative directory of MFA Awards 1,387 2,298 Committee on Professional Practices, the Art present hiring practices discourage belief in Board of Directors: Jean Sutherland Boggs, programs offered by more than 100 in· Placement Service 17,200 22,461 Historians· Committee, or an ad hoc commit­ the humane concern of many of our employed Harvard University; Caecilia Davis-Weyer, stitutions. Includes infonnation on ad­ MFA Survey Project -0- 333 tee-for further study. The committee may colleagues. One hopes that the situation will mission requirements and criteria, Newcomb College, Tulane University; Lila Health Hazards Booklet 500 2,591 make such inquiries as it deems appropriate areas of concentration, degree re· improve. There is little reason for the best Katzen, The Maryland Institute College of MFA Programs Listing 3.180 -0- and as can be carried out within its normal quirements, fellowships, assistant· people to remain in art history if it does not, Art; John Rupert Martin, Princeton Univer­ Slide Buyer's Guide 360 -0· budget. Individuals and institutions will be ships, tuition, application deadlines, Name Withheld sity; Sylvia Stone, Brooklyn College, Furniture and Fixtures 144 -0- notified of this action. etc. C.U.N.Y.; and Kathleen Weil-Garris, New Office Equipment 784 -0· York University. 1978 Nominating Commz"t­ Loan to RILA Project 800 -0- Single copies: $1,00 each tee. Jessie Poesch, Newcomb College, Grant to RILA Project -0- 7,444 5. The Association can take a position on Institutional bulk orders Tulane University, Chair; Ellen Lanyon, Moral Rights Study-final payment -0· 827 the merits of the substantive issues only after a 5-19 copies, 75 t each Chicago; Thomas W. Leavitt, Herber.t F. Binding of back issues/ Art Journal and Art Bulletin -0- 608 careful and detailed investigation which gives 20 or more copies, 50 t each Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Grant to Monographs Endowment Fund 50,000 50,000 all sides the opportunity to present their views John M. Rosenfield, Harvard University; Miscellaneous 586 623 and the facts supporting their respective posi· and Cecil L. Striker, University of Penn­ tions. The CAA can offer assistance in obtain­ Postage and handling included in sylvania. Total Other Costs $241,520 $255,882 ing professional evaluations of publications or price, Prepayment required. Send The only item raised under "New Business" other professional work~without taking a orders to CAA, 16 East 52 Street, N.Y.C. 10022 was the suggestions by Dr. Hans A. Luthy of Depreciation 1,043 1,123 position on behalf of one party or another. All the Swiss Institute for Art Research that the persons involved in giving professional testi· CAA Board do whatever it could to en­ Total Expenditures $364,358 $390,548 mony may request a signed waiver relieving courage closer relations with our foreign them of liability from the plaintiff and insti­ members. II Excess of Revenues over Expenditures $ 25,303 $ 44,951 tutions involved. Whenever possible, the

8 CAA newsletter March 1978 9 announcements report of preservation committee

whose scholarship is particularly concerned The concern of this committee is with the de­ whole selected by the chairman. Procedure for the submission and possible Fulbright Alumni Association Bordwell, Film, University of Wisconsin, with the study of women. An addendum to Eventually the committee will add to this action on specific cases is in process of form­ Established to "utilize the experience of the Madison; British Culture in the Eighteenth struction, mutilation, or aesthetic violation of the announcement notes: "If we are swamped works of art; with situations that have resulted structure a number of regional representa­ ulation. former participants in the Fulbright-Hays Century*, Sheldon Rothblatt, History, Uni­ versity of California, Berkeley; Psychoan­ with quality applications, there is a chance we or may result in physical harm to objects of tives who will also be invited to attend the an­ and similar educational and cultural pro­ can obtain this money every year." Write: Committee for the Preservation of Art IlII alysis and Psycho biography, Arnold A. cultural significance. Ideally our actions nual meeting. Shirley Blum, S.U.N.Y., Purchase, Chair grams in promoting international exchange Committee on Awards, NL, 60 West Walton Rogow, Political Science, Graduate Center, would be preventive; practically they will A number of ex officio members from other Van Deren Coke, Art Museum, among all nations, and to encourage and pro­ Street, Chicago, ilL 60610. Application mote constructive, supportive relationships CUNY. And so on. often be corrective. The actions of the com­ related organizations will serve as liaisons to Univ. New Mexico deadline: March 15. the committee. They will attend the annual among former participants in these pro­ Application deadline is March 13,. whic? mittee will usually be advisory and educa­ Gilbert Edelson, CAA Honorary Counsel grams." Qualifications for membership are mayor may not be before you recelve thls tiona1. Believing in the principle stated by the meeting and serve in an advisory capacity Albert Elsen, Stanford Uillv. self-evident; dues $10.00 for calendar year; newsletter. Our recommendation: call Mit­ Studies in Iconography Hague Convention in 1954 that "Damage to throughout the year. Frederick Cummings Margaret Floyd, Radcliffe Institute, membership includes subscriptions to The chell Schneider at NEH (202) 724-0376. It A new journal (first annual volume in 1975) cultural property belonging to any people will represent the Association of Art Museum Harvard Univ. Fulbrighters' Newsletter and the- quarterly may help to cry. published at Northern Kentucky State Col­ whatsoever means damage to the cultural Directors and William Bodine will represent Inring Lavin, Institute for Advanced Study Exchange. FAA, P.O. Box 1042, Bryn Mawr, lege to complement the acquisition of the heritage of all mankind," our actions will not the National Endowment for the Arts. Repre­ Jules Prown, Yale Uillv, be limited to those objects found in the United sentatives from the following organizations Pa. 19010. Emil Male Collection of books. Articles Bates Lowry, Univ. Massachusetts ARTISTSTALKONART States. have also been asked to serve: the American No, not a typo; it's the fourth season of a treating pictorial as well as the literary use of Charles Rhyne, Reed College The committee will consist of ten members: Institute for Conservation of Historic and Ar­ Gabriel Weisberg, Cleveland Museum of Art Caribbean Review Revived. panel series that takes place on Friday e~e­ iconography are invited, all historical periods the chairman, a representative from the SAH tistic Works, the National Trust for Historic This quarterly publication dealing with the nings at 114 Prince Street, in SoHo. TOpICS considered. Manuscripts, accompanied by a Public Information: Annabelle Cahn, Preservation Committee, Honorary Counsel, Preservation, the National Endowment for the humanities and sbcial sciences of the Carib­ are lively, admission is $1.00, and suggestions stamped return envelope, should be sent to New H·aven Center for Independent Study an ex officio member of the CAA Board, and Humanities, and the National Parks Service. bean and Latin America is being revived after for future panel topics or volunteers for the Dr. Thomas C. Niemann, Editor, Studies in six additional members of the CAA. The ten It is our hope to establish a national bank of having been out of print for three years. program committee are welcome. Call Lori Iconography, NKSC, Highland Heights, Ky. members will be divided as equitably as possi­ expert ad visors in a variety of fields and loca­ Graphics and photographs, as well as articles, Antonacci, (212) 868-3330 or write: 41076. ble in order that the major regions of the tions on which we can call for assistance. are welcome. The magazine will be printed ARTetc., 15 East 10th Street, N.Y.C. 10003. on good quality coated stock and special at­ United States (West, Midwest, South, and Like other committees of the College Art tention will be paid to the quality of repro­ Our Thanks ... Northeast) will always be represented on the Association and like the SAH Committee on To Mary Katherine Donaldson, Boston, ductions. For submissions and subscriptions: Paper-Art & Technology committee. The committee as a whole will Architectural Preservation, this committee Mass.; Leonard Bocours, Bocour Artist Col­ Barry Levine, Editor, CR, Florida Inter­ A three-day conference, to be held at the San meet once a year at the CAA Annual Meet­ will speak autonomously for the Association To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ ors, Inc.; Judith Zilczer, Hirshhorn Museum national University, Tamiami Trail, Miami, Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March ing. Business will be conducted during the on most matters concerning preservation, re­ tions and announcements, please be and Sculpture Garden; and Thomas F. Cou­ rest of the year by the executive committee. ferring specific issues to the CAA Board of Fla. 33199. 23-25. Topics will include paper in history, sure to keep us informed of your cur­ international papermaking, the book as an teau, St. Ambrose College ... for coming The executive committee will consist-of the Directors when it feels it is appropriate. The rent address. through with missing back issues of The Art Winterthur Research Fellowships art form, and experimental approaches to chairman, the ex officio Board member and chairman of the committee will report regu­ "Bulletin that we requested in our last issue. Two fellowships are available for 1978-79 to paper in art. Among the participants: artists two other members of the committee of the larly to the CAA Board of Directors. Still missing are Vol. XXI, No.1 (March, support postdoctoral research for six to ten Kenneth Noland, Garo Antreasian, Garner 1939) and Vol. XLIV, No.1 (March, months in fields appropriate to the Museum Tullis; print curators Riva Castleman 1962)-in case anyone would like to take and Library collections, namely Anglo­ (MOMA) and Andrew Robinson (National American cultural and social history. Ex­ Gallery); plus conservatorS; papermakers another look. perienced museum professionals without a Oapanese and Western); historians; etc. For doctorate are also eligible. Maximum stipend further information: World Print, Box Conferen.ce on Semiotics of Art $10,000. Write: Dr. Scott T. Swank, Educa­ 26010, San Francisco, Calif. 94126. To be held in Ann Arbor from May 3-6. One tion Division, Winterthur Museum, Winter­ session will be devoted to the visual arts; E. H. I announcements Register of Scholars for Foreign Positions Eastern European/Soviet Exchange thur, Del. 19735. Deadline: April 3. Gombrich among the speakers. For further The Council for International Exchange of A broad range of academic programs in Tamarind Artist Residencies information: Marthalee Barton, Dept. of Two appointments are available: one for June Scholars maintains a computerized register of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is of­ Humanities, University of Michigan , 525 East Summer Institutes NEH Summer Seminars and July, the other for July and August. F?r about 17,000 U.S. scholars who are interested fered through the International Research and For college teachers, to cover eight weeks of University, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109. At Boston University, July 17-August 4, The in overseas experience in the near future. Exchanges Board. For detailed brochure: artists of substantial past accomplishment m intensive study under the direction of American Arts and the American Expe­ Registrants receive (in March) the annual IREX, 110 East 59 Street, N. Y.C. 10022. any medium who believe that current con­ rience. Jointly sponsored by the University's distinguished scholars. Stipend $2,500. Un­ cernS in their work might lend themselves to booklet announcing Fulbright-Hays oppor­ less otherwise indicated, location of seminar is Renaissance Conference American and New England Studies Program tunities, plus assorted other useful informa­ development in lithography. Two lithographs The New England Renaissance Conference and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in home institution of scholar. (*) meaDS of tion. Registration welcome at any time on by each artist will be produced in edit~ons of will hold its 1978 meeting October 27-28 at NEA US/Japan Fellowship Program cooperation with some 20 New England forms available from CIES, Suite 300, 11 Du­ special interest to teachers of introductory 40 to 50, split equally between the artIst and Mount Holyoke College. Papers, limited to 25 For practicing artists in mid-career. Five museums and historical associations. For ap­ pont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036. courses: Tamarind. Other lithographs for which bon a minutes, are invited on any aspect of the fellowships will be available to Americans, for Four seminars are being offered in art his­ plications and additional information: Direc­ tirer impressions are signed will be print~d in Renaissance, particularly Dante, printing tor, American and New England Studies Pro­ periods of 6 to 9 months, stipend $15,000 plus tory: American Art and the Classical Tradi­ transportation and professional expenses. editions of approximately 20 for the artist, 7 and engraving, and magic, mysticism, or gram, BU, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, tion *, Philipp Fehl, University of Illinois, During the first year only, nominations will be for Tamarind. Printing services and mate­ Neoplatonism. For further information: John Boston, Mass. 02215. At the Winterthur Champaign; Ruskin and His Times, G. L. made by the National Advisory Panels of the rials, coach air fare, and stipend of $1,000 Lemly, English Dept., Mount Holyoke Col­ Museum, July 24-August II, The Decorative Center for Materials Research Hersey, Yale University; Swiss Art, H. W. Endowment. In subsequent years selection provided. Nominations or self-nominations lege, South Hadley, Mass. 01075. Deadline Arts in America. Intensive exposure to prin­ in Archaeology and Ethnology Janson, New York University (seminar loca­ will be by open application to the individual to: Tamarind Institute, University of New for detailed prospectus or completed paper: ciples of connoisseurship; craft practices and Established by a consortium of nine Boston­ tion: Swiss Institute for Art Research, Endowment programs (Architecture, Dance, Mexico, 108 Cornell SE, Albuquerque, N.M. April 15. traditions; the derivation and evolution of area institutions, CMRAE aims to encourage Zurich); Chinese Painting*, Chu-tsing Li, Visual Arts, etc.). For further information: 87106. Deadline: March 15. styles, forms and ornament, etc. Graduate a new direction for research in anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kathleen Bannon, US/japan Program Offi­ credit available from the University of archaeology, art history, and related disci­ There are also several "goodies" in related cer, NEA, Washington, D.C. 20506. 18th Century Studies Conference Delaware. For further information and ap­ plines by providing an expanded technical disciplines: Popular and Folk Arts in Ameri­ The Northeast American Society for 18th Fellowship for Women plications: Kenneth Ames, Director, Summer base in the sciences of organic and inorganic can Studies*, Chadwick Hansen, English, Century Studies will hold its 1978 meeting Supported by a grant from the M~nticell? Institute, Winterthur, Del. 19735. Applica­ materials. Funded by NEH, the Center has an Self-Serving Announcements Dept. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle (seminar October 5-7 at the University of Massachu­ IS inter-institutional educational program (now Requests for back issues of the newsletter have location: University of Illinois at Chicago Cir­ College Foundation, the Newberry LIbrary tion deadline: April 1. setts, Amherst. The theme of the meeting is in effect) and a three-year planning grant for been flooding in, and while we are flattered cle and Newberry Library); Inter-relations of for the first time offering a six-month fellow­ Editor's Note: In our usual ad hoc manner, "Milestones and Relationships." Contact: the development of research programs. For and all that ... it does mean extra work, time, Renaissance Literature and Art, Robert J. ship for work in residence by a .woman sc~ol­ we are attempting to compile a listing of Morris Golden, Dept. of English, UM, Am­ additional information: Heather Lechtman, and postage. We would appreciate it if you Clements, Comparative Literature, New ar. Stipend $6,500. Ph.D. reqUired; any ~Ield special summer programs and institutes. An­ tlons herst, Mass. 01003. Finished papers or ad­ Director, CMRAE, Massachusetts Institute of would, in the future, remit $1.00 for postage York University; The Classical Narrative appropriate to the Newberry's colle: nouncements welcome; it may eventually vanced drafts by May 1. and handling when requesting back issues. III Cinema and Modernist Alternatives, David eligible, preference will be given to apphcants evolve into a booklet. Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139. eAA newsletter March 1978 II )0 {people and programs people and programs M.A., and M.L.S. all from the University of Cultural Arts Development Fund and partici­ creased cooperation seems to be blowing on Minnesota. He succeeds Gail Hitt, who ac­ PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compiled and edited Union College in Schenectady this fall an­ evidently of high quality. Three of the pating institutions, and designing and co­ every wind. In addition, the funding and byEugeniaS. Robbins. Materialforinclusion nounced the appointment of Virginia L. alumni-exhibitors are currently teaching on cepted a position in New York. ordinating the catalogue and contributions policy-directives coming from governmental in the next newsletter should be sent to her at Bush as associate professor of art history and the Ithaca campus: Jason Seley, Jack by three authors. Then, a scant three months arts and humanities agencies often encourage R.F.D. No.2, Petk Road, Randolph, Vt. chairperson of the art department. Educated Squier, and Victor Colby. Other artists in before the show's first installation, the artist's inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary ex­ 05060, by MaTch 22. at Wellesley and Columbia, Dr. Bush chaired the show, each represented by one major studio was broken into and the entire suite of perimentation. The Danforth Museum, the department at Douglass College from piece, are Richard Artschwager, Richard paintings destroyed. A lot of people would Framingham, Mass., has been awarded a TEACHING 1974 to 1976 and spent last year at the Bottwin, Jud Fine, Charles Ginnever, have gotten cold feet, but Davis, supported in grant from the NEH to offer a program called American Academy in Rome. Her specialty is Richard Heinrich, Bernard Kirschenbaum, the purchase of materials and equipment by a "Interrelations: Art & Humanities." The Following the retirement of Carl Nordenfalk Italian 16th-century sculpture and painting. Terrance LaNoue, Robert Leibel, Michael Western Illinois University Research Council coordinated program will combine a course as Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Universi­ Union's president Thomas N. Bonner indi­ Lowe, Howard McCallebb, Gordon Matta­ Grant, forced himself to recreate the works given to upper-level students at Framingham ty of Pittsburgh has filled the position with a cated that Dr. Bush's appointment represents Clark, Joel Perlman, Stephen Porter, Alan that had been destroyed. That he did so State College and teachers from nine nearby series of visiting appointments. Tatiana Pro­ the fIrst step in future commitments to the Saret, Marja Vallila, John Van Alstine, successfully is attested to by the catalogue and towns with three special exhibitions to be in­ skouriakoff taught Meso-American art dur­ college's art program. William Wainwright, Roger Williams, and the continuing route of the show, which is stalled at the museum. The purpose of the ing the fall tenn; she was succeeded in the Daniel Wills. Based on a concept developed scheduled to wind up at Davis's home campus course is to expand high-school teaching winter tenn by Brunilde S. Ridgway, who Timed to coincide with the opening of the by Jason Seley, the exhibition was selected by art gallery in Macomb, Illinois this Sep­ techniques in history, English, and foreign taught Greek art. Next fall, Barbara Novak splendid new Spencer Museum of Art at the Johnson Museum curator Robert Hobbs, tember. languages through use of visual material and will teach American art as Visiting Mellon University of Kansas, Lawrence, came news who also wrote the accompanying catalogue. museum resources. The exhibitions, to be Professor. of the establishment of an endowed professor­ organized by Joy L. Gordon and Nancy ship in art history, named in honor of Judith Another school eager to show off its alumni is Earlier this winter, a major retrospective of Beers, are all scheduled for the first six U.C.L.A. sent news of four recent appoint­ Harris Murphy, a consistent friend of the arts UCLA, which mounted an exhibition of work the work of Sidney Chafetz was installed at months of this year and are titled: "Art as a ments in art history, as well as other activities. on campus and wife of former U.K. Chancel­ by 37 artists enrolled as graduate students at the Noyes and Read Galleries of Art, Antioch Mirror of Society," "The Widening World," Cecelia Klein (Columbia) has been ap­ lor Franklin D. Murphy. Dr. Murphy is now UCLA during the early sixties. Selected by College. Consisting of 125 prints and draw­ and "Art as an Expressive Medium." The pointed in the field of Pre-Columbian, cover­ president of the Kress Foundation, which Frederick S. Wight, who was chairman of ings from the period 1948-1978, the exhibit course is being taught by Leah Lipton. ing Andean and Meso-American art. She will contributed $250,000 to provide new quarters the department during most of that period, consciously focussed on the thirty years that also share responsibilities for teaching for the art history department in the Spencer the works included sculpture and graphics as Professor Chafetz taught at Ohio State Oceanic and North American art with Ar­ well as painting. Among the many artists par­ Museum facility. The first appointment to Diane Kelder, College of Staten Island University. James Jordan, of the Antioch nold Rubin, an Africanist. Deborah the Judith Hams Murphy chair will be an­ ticipating are Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, faculty, wrote the accompanying catalogue. Another cooperative project supported by the Klimburg-Salter (Harvard) has been ap­ nounced later this year. and Raoul DeSota. NEH through a grant to the Dunlap Society pointed to teach Indian and Central Asian is the possibility of establishing a regional con­ The ArtJournal's very own Diane Kelder has art. Martin Powers (Univ. Chicago) is cur­ Among recent changes at the University of The University of Kansas 1977 N.T. Veach sortium for institutions in the Northwestern Students from the San Francisco Art Institute been appointed full professor of art history at rently teaching East Asian art, replacing Texas, Austin, are the appointments of Oscar New England and Champlain Valley area. carried off top awards in this year's interna­ CUNY's College of Staten Island. Kelder also Award for Distinguished Research and Donald McCallum, who is serving as director Brockett as dean of the College of Fine Arts Creative Activity went to Eric Bransby. Hoping to bring together diverse institutions tional competition sponsored by the House­ recently curated the exhibition of George J. of the Tokyo Center, U.C. Education Abroad and Bill Francis as associate dean of the same such as universities, museums, and historical hold Finance Corporation. The school pitted Segal's "Blue Jean Series" that was shown at Bransby also won the commission to create a Program, for this year and next. Estelle college. Brockett, a theater historian, comes societies, the project directors Bates Lowry eight finalists against competitors from three the Staten Island Museum Feb. 5-March 5. mural for the Sedalia Municipal Building in a Whelan (Inst. Fine Arts, N. Y.U.) is teaching other U.S. schools (the Art Institute of Chi­ to Austin from Indiana University. Francis four-state competition and was one of three and Daniel Robbins have scheduled a con­ Islamic art through the spring quarter. cago, Pratt, and the Art Center College of De­ moves from a position as professor of art ana. finalists, nationally, in a competition to ference at Dartmouth College for the last Regular faculty Alexander Badawy, Egyp· sign, Pasadena) as well as the Slade School, education in the Austin art department. Both The University of Wisconsin-Madison design murals for the Kansas State Capito1. week in August. The Dunlap Society hopes tologist, spent the fall quarter this year con­ London, the University of Manitoba, Winni­ appointments will be effective June 1. doesn't put on annual faculty shows, but that the individual efforts and resources ducting field research in Cairo, and Carlo peg, and the Instituto de Cultura Puertori­ when it decides to mount one it does so in a big already in the region will be enhanced by a Pedretti left his Renaissance teaching duties quefia, San Juan. Gustavo Vasquez Orozco Eugene Kleinbauer, professor of fine arts at way. This winter the department and the cooperative structure. Although all the potential participants are closely involved to do research in Berkshire, U.K., and Bolo­ and Ricardo Tringali earned the first and Indiana University, will be on leave from the Elvehjem Art Center cooperated to mount an NEW ACTIVITIES gna. Susan Downey recently completed The second awards, bringing horne $3,000 and Bloomington campus to serve as Sam and exhibition of almost 200 works by 37 faculty with American art and culture, they embrace Excavat£ons of Dura -Europus. Final Report $2,000 respectively. Some honors have Ayala Zacks Professor at the Hebrew Univer­ members. All works were produced since the a variety of goals and methods. Duplication of Two Michigan schools, Aquinas College and III, pt. I, fascicule II: The Stone and Plaster sity in Jerusalem during the third trimester last departmental exhibition, which was held effort and, too often, minimal use of re­ distinct material advantagesl Kendall School of Design have announced Sculpture, scheduled for early 1978 publica­ this year. He has also accepted an invitation in 1974. Each artist was represented byup to a sources, have intensified the financial crunch an affiliation. Beginning this term, Kendall felt by these institutions. By opening channels tion by the Institute of Archaeology at The University of Oregon's department of art to read a paper at the International Sym­ dozen works, thus providing a full view of cur­ rent interests. All media, including mixtures, students are able to earn a B.F.A. awarded by for cooperative problem-solving, whether in U.C.L.A. The department also reports that history now includes Michael Jacobsen posium on Armenian Art scheduled Sept. Aquinas by taking the necessary academic conservation, exhibiting, or funding, all the $68,315 in the form of stipends and fees was (Columbia), who moved from Cleveland to 12-18 in Erevan, Armenian SSR. were represented. The show was accompa­ awarded to graduate students this year. nied by an illustrated catalogue produced by courses in the liberal arts at Aquinas. Profes­ institutions involved should be able to max­ teach Renaissance art. Classicist Frances Van sional courses taken at Kendall constitute the Two members of the art department at the art department. imize their effectiveness. This spring will witness the inauguration of Keuren Stern, whose exhibition and cata­ major area of study. The other side of the coin Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, an exchange program between the University logue, The Labors ofHerakles, was produced is that art students at Aquinas will be able to Pa., have seen their graduate student re­ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the National last fall, is on leave this spring to complete a Never underestimate the power of an artist! work in four new major areas that are avail­ College of Art and Design, Dublin, initiated study of the Foce del Sele metopes. Byzan­ search developed into public exhibitions and The current exhibition "A Show of Hands: able only at Kendall: advertising design, fur­ Yet another new cooperative arrangement is a by Minnesota's David Feinberg. Irish tinist A. Dean McKenzie has returned from catalogues. Andrew J. Cosentino (Ph.D. Gestures in a New Context," consisting of re­ niture design, illustration, and interior graduate seminar being offered this semester Univ. Delaware) prepared the catalogue for a sculptor-painter Michael O'Sullivan, ac­ winter-term leave in New York. Modernist cent work by James W. Davis, professor at design. In addition, they may continue to ma­ on Washington Allston. Students from both companied by four students from the Dublin Sherwin Simmons will soon publish his retrospective of works by Charles Bird King at Western Illinois University, is a case in point. jor in drawing, sculpture, printmaking, or Boston University and the City University school, will change places with Feinberg and studies of Kasimir Malevich. the National Collection of Fine Arts in Travelling to seven installation sites in the painting, the curriculum offered at the of New York will participate in the course, four students from Minnesota, with both Washington. Betsy Fahlman (doctoral can­ company of a handsome little catalogue with Aquinas campus, but still select courses at which will be taught by William Gerdts of faculty teaching drawing and painting. The A diverse group of twenty-two sculptors were didate, Univ. Delaware) prepared an exhibi­ essays by Donald Kuspit, John Mann, and Kendall. In simplest terms, the new affilia­ CUNY and Theodore Stebbins of the Boston prevalent teaching methods at each school joined together in an exhibition of works by tion and catalogue of works by Alice Morgan Robert Evans as well as an informative state­ tion will mean increased professional training Museum of Fine Art. Participants will shift are radically different: Minnesota stresses Cornell University alumni, mounted this Wright (1881-1977) entitled "Sculpture and ment by the artist, the project-as any curator possibilities for students at the liberal arts col­ between the two locations, assisted by outside classwork and Dublin uses a one-to-one winter at Sculpture Now, SoHo, and this Suffrage." It will be installed at the Albany knows-involved a great deal of detailed plan­ lege and the availability of a college degree for funding. The seminar will contribute to a tutorial! critique approach. In addition to spring at Cornell's Johnson Museum (May Institute of History and Art April 21-June II. ning and financing. In addition to painting students at the professional school. major Allston exhibition scheduled next year the exchange of bodies, exhibitions of work by 24-July 16). Although Cornell's sculpture the paintings, the artist himself organized the at the Boston museum, and to the exhibition a large group of faculty from each institution program is small, and many of the artists pur­ Richard Kronstedt has been named head rest of the project: establishing and catalogue, which is being edited by Professor will be shown at the other. The American in­ sued major studies in fields as remote as librarian at the Minneapolis College of Art negotiating the itinerary, generating support In these days of zero-based budgets and gen­ Gerdts. stitution' however, has not committed any agriculture and architecture, it has been in and Design. Kronstedt, who has been assist­ grants from the West-Central Illinois eral financial constrictions, the idea of in- Continued on p. 14, col. 1 resources to the program's continuation. existence since the late 19th century and is ant librarian since 1976, received his B.A., March 1978 13 CAA newsletter 12 (people and program visiting artists profeSSional publications

New York University, Washington Square, have been named for Columbia benefactors, New to the Yale Art Gallery is Andrea Norris and scholars About Foundations: How To Find the Facts fessors and subtitled: "A recommended is introducing a graduate, inter-disciplinary among th~m the Henry-Russell Hitchcock (Inst. Fine Arts, NYU), who has become As­ You Need To Get a Grant. An expanded and method for flagging women and minority program in museum studies this semester. Archive Room. Hitchcock's collection of sistant to the Director. She came to New Members and member institutions are urged revised edition of the useful pamphlet first persons for whom there is apparent salary in­ Based in the anthropology department, the American architecture books is now part of Haven from teaching duties at N.Y.U., to let us know about vis£tz'ng lectureships, published in 1975. 48 pp. The Foundation equity and a comparison of results and costs new program is expected to attract students of Avery Library. Washington Square. artist-in-residencies, etc. lasting one week or Center, 888 Seventh Ave., N.Y.C. 10019. of several suggested methods. 55 pp. AAUP, the arts as well as of the physical and social longer. Notification should include name of $3.00. I Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036. sciences. About 20 students a semester, all of Jeffrey Wechsler (Ph.D. candidate, Rut­ visiting artist or scholar, his or her regular in· Single copies free; multiple copies $1.25 each. whom should be at least at the master's level gers) has been appointed full-time curator of stitutional affiNation, area of specializa­ Art Yellow Pages. Associated Council of the MUSEUM STAFF NOTES A Survey of Arts Adm~nistration Tratntng. (to ensure expertise in a specific discipline) contemporary art at the Rutgers University tion/research, name of host institution, and Arts. A guide to community, state and reo will follow a 24-credit program that will in­ Detailed descriptions of degree and non­ Irving Sandler, of the art history faculty at Fine Arts Collection/University Art Gallery. dates of visit. gional arts agencies, arts publications, service clude a one-semester internship at one of New academic programs for museums and other SUNY, Purchase, and most recently of the His previous experience with the gallery was centers, etc. 127 pp. ACA, 570 Seventh Ave., York's 70 museums. In addition to core culturally·oriented institutions. Revised edi­ CAA annual meeting, has been appointed to organize last spring's major exhibition and Tao-Lin Chang, National Taiwan Normal N.Y.C. 1001S. $7.50. courses in museum practices, electives may be tion prepared by the Center for Arts Ad­ Acting Director of the Neuberger Museum catalogue, Surrealism and American Art, Univ., Painting techniques and Chinese art; chosen in other NYU schools. The Institute, Career Resources List for Visual Artists. Un­ ministration, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. 69 through mid·June. He replaces Jeffrey Hof­ 1931-1947. Stephanie Grunberg, formerly at St.John's Univ. ,Jamaica, N.Y.,Jan.-May. for exam pIe, is developing a conservation ion of Independent Colleges of Art. Only 15 pp. Not inexpensive, but the best thing we feld, who has moved from academia to the curator of education at the D.A.R. Museum, course for archaeological and ethnological pages and a steep $4.95, but informative. In­ know of in the field. American Council for the New York City gallery world. Another move Washington, has also joined the Rutgers collections and its "Material and Media" Gabriela Dumitrescu, Inst. Art History, cludes a useful bibliography. UICA, 4340 Arts, 570 Seventh Avenue, N.Y,C. 10018. from the museum to the marketplace was reo Gallery as administrative assistant for edu­ course will be available to those enrolled in Bucharest, American modern art: history, Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo. 64111. Prepay­ $5.00 per copy. Make checks payable to ACA cently made by Jay Cantor, most recently at cation. the Washington Square program. theory and philosophy; at Columbia Univ., ment required. Publications. the Worcester Museum and, during the fall Jan. 23-April 30. term, at Dartmouth, who is now with Chris· The new curator of the Mead Art Gallery at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design Directory of Artists Association in the U. S.A. Technical Assistance for Arts Faa1itJes: A tie's in New York. Amherst College is Judith Barter. Ms Barter, has embarked on an examination of its cur­ Duncan T. Kinkead, Univ. Cincinnati, Boston Visual Artists Union. 1600 listings, Sourcebook. Educational Facilities Laborato· who was fonnerly with the St. Louis Art Mu­ rent program and facilities for Native Ameri­ Development of high baroque painting in descriptive material on 400 groups. Appendix ries. Directory of organizations that can offer seum, replaces Lewis Shepherd. on artists rights and health hazards. advice on the physical facilities required by can art and artists to meet the needs of its E.S.R. III Seville; at Univ. Seville, Sept. 1977-Aug. growing enrollment of Native American stu­ 1975. Bibliography. Research partially funded by perfonning and visual arts groups-finding dents. It has recently instituted coursework in NEA. DAA, 14 Reservoir Road, Wayland, quarters, remodeling, paying for them, etc. Mass. 01778. $4.00 plus 50~ postage and Research and publication funded by the Na­ Native American history and art history, Marshall W. Mount, African art history, at handling. Massachusetts residents add 5 % tional Endowment for the Arts. 32 pp. EFL, hired a Native American instructor in the Univ. Benin, 1977-79. division of liberal arts, and made some special RllA grant renewed sales tax. Prepayment required. 850 Third Ave., N.Y.C. 10022. Free. studio space available. Razvan Theodorescu, Inst. Art History, Educational Financial Aids. American What Nonpr£nt Materials Can Do for You z'n Full funding for RILA (International Reper­ Bucharest, East European and Byzantine art; Association of University Women. Most pro· College Teachlng. Association of American Columbia College, Chicago, which recently tory of the History of Art) for the three-year at Harvard Univ., Jan. 23-ApriI30. grams described offer aid for women and Publishers. 16 pp. Parker B. Ladd, College opened an exhibition center for contempo­ period beginning January I, 1978 has been men; criterion of selection that 50% or more Division, AAP, 1 ParkAvenue, N.Y.C. 10016. rary photography, has announced a spring achieved through grants totalling $286,906 Paul Williams, Victoria & Albert Museum, of 1975-76 financial aid resources had to be Single copies free if requested on institutional lecture series sponsored by the photography from the National Endowment for the Hu­ Exhibition design and object presentation, at offered to women. 33 pp. AAUW, 2401 letterhead. 50 copies for $5.00, prepayment reo department of the college. Having begun manities and The Andrew W. Mellon Faun· Yale Univ., Feb.-May. Virginia Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. quired. with Helmut Newton in February, the series dation. The NEH grant is comprised of a gift 20037. $1.00. continues with Jill Krementz, Mar. 10; Art of one-half that amount, $143,453, which Editor's Note: Most of the above publications Sinsabaugh, Mar. 24; William Jenkins, was matched by an equal award from the Karl-Theodore Zauzich, Free Univ., Berlin, Higher Education Salary Evaluation Kit. may be examined at the CAA office. Free can­ curator at George Eastman House, Apr. 7; Foundation. Egyptology: Demotic literary texts, at Elizabeth L. Scott. Published by the dy when the jar. happens to be stocked. Please Eleanor Antin, May 5; and Lee Fried­ RILA, which has been designated the first BrooklynMuseum,Jan.5-March5. III American Association of University Pro- telephone firstl III lander, May 19. The series may be attended priority research resource need of the College on either a credit or a non-credit basis. Art Association, is a computerized abstract­ ing and indexing service for current art Judith Sobel, Baltimore Museum historical research in major Western lan­ notes from the women's caucus guages. Its purpose is to publish substantial NEW FACILITIES abstracts and detailed subject indexes of The Baltimore Museum of Art this fall ap· Lee Anne Miller has assumed office as 4th Assistant Professor, University of Kansas; Women Artists '78, group exhibition of scholarly publications on post,classical Euro­ pointed Judith E. Sobol chainnan of- the President of WCA. Associate Professor and M.F.A., University of Kansas; Norma WCA members organized by the New York, pean and post"conquest American art. Columbia University's new addition to Avery division of education. A graduate of George Chair of the Department of Art and Art His­ Broude, Correspondent to the CAA newslet­ New Jersey and Connecticut chapters, is cur­ A demonstration issue of RILA was pub· Library is completed, open, and reported to Washington University's Master's program, tory at the University of Missouri· Kansas City, ter and ArtJournal,' Associate Professor, The rently at the CUNY Graduate Center, 33 lished in the summer of 1973 with support of be running smoothly. The bi-Ievel addition Ms Sobol specialized in American art and she is a painter and printmaker and received American University; Ph.D., Columbia Uni­ West 42nd St., N. Y.C. Catalogue is available grants from the National Endowment for the lies beneath a new brick-paved courtyard and completed the school's museology program. her M. F. A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. versity. for $3.00 from Linda White, 2 Campbelton Humanities, the Samuel H. Kress Fotulda­ is accessible via a stairway leading from the She was on the staff of Georgetown University WCA Officers whom she has appointed for Circle, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. center of the old library's reading room. De­ for two years and was also formerly supervisor tion, and the Robet Sterling Clark Founda· 1978-80 are: Mary Fifield, Vice-President; tion. RILA began regular production with its Mary D. Garrard, Professor of Art History at signed by Alexander Kouzmanoff, fonner of tours and interpretive programs at the Chair and Assistant Professor, St. Louis Com· WCA Publications The American University and fonner WCA chairman of the School's architecture divi­ first volume in 1975. Volumes I and II are munity College-Forest Park; M.F.A., Pratt Women's Studies in Art and Art History, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Two additional President, is Chair of the newly-formed Con­ sion, the 28,000 square-foot space includes a appointments have been made at Baltimore: now available; Volume III, no. 1, is expected Institute; Paula Gerson, Affirmative Action compiled by Lola Gellman and Elsa Honig shortly. For rate information and order stitution and By· Laws Committee, created new reading room, reference center, stacks, Brenda Richardson, curator of painting and Officer; New York City; Ph.D., Columbia Fine, is available from Fine, 7008 Sherwood for the purpose of re-examining the present and offices as well as class and seminar rooms, sculpture since 1975 (after her move from forms: RILA, Sterling and Francine Clark University; Nancy Russell, Membership Sec­ Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919, for $5.00 organizational structure of WCA, exhibition galleries, and two auditoriums. Berkeley), has been named assistant director Art Institute Library, Williamstown, Mass. retary; Chicago, Ill.; Diane Burko, Treas· (check payable to WCA). 01267. III Avery's holdings now number some 160,000 for art. Ann Boyce Harper, managing editor urer; Assistant Professor, Philadelphia Com­ volumes, with the newly added Fine Arts Re­ of museum publications for the past eight munity College; M.F.A., University of Lynn Hardenburgh and Susan Duchon, Anger to Action, A Discrimlnation Guide· search Collection, and there is still room to years and staff member since 1966, has been Pennsylvania: Martha Crow, Placement Dir­ graduate students in art history at the Univer­ book by Lynn Chapman Grant, edited by grow into the new structure's space (designed named assistant director for administration. To insure receipt of all CAA publica· ector; Instructor, Avila College; M.A., Uni­ sity of Chicago, are conducting a follow· up Mary Fifield, is available from Grant, Route for 250,000 books). It also owns a prized col­ Both women hold degrees in art history: tions and announcements, please be versity of Missouri· Kansas City; Margo Kren, survey on the Status of Women in the Profes­ 1, Box 295C, Corvallis, Oregon 97330, for lection of drawings, including works by Pira· Richardson a masters from Berkeley and sure to keep us informed of your cur­ Newsletter Editor; Instructor, Kansas State sion, updating the pioneering 1973 study by $2.50 (check payable to WCA). nesi, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Harper a masters from the University of rent address. University; M.A., Kansas State University; Ann Sutherland Harris and Barbara Ehrlich Norma Broude III Wright. Four rooms in the Avery building Maryland. Lois Green, Newsletter Designer·Publisher; White. The American University

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