THE MENIL COLLECTION2016 ANNUAL REPORT

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2 | | 3 THE MENIL COLLECTION2016 ANNUAL REPORT 4 | CONTENTS Fiscal Year 2016 July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016

4 Director’s Message 6 Mission Statement and Core Values

THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE MENIL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 10 Progress Report 62 Public Programs 12 Master Site Plan Implementation 66 Education 14 Menil Drawing Institute and Energy House 69 Menil Bookstore 70 Membership Programs EXHIBITIONS and COLLECTION 18 Exhibitions Introduction 74 FINANCIALS 30 Menil Traveling Exhibitions 31 Loans of Art to Other Institutions SUPPORT 32 Collection Introduction 78 Donors 33 Collections Management 82 Corporate Donors 34 Acquisitions 83 Friends of the Library and Glass Key Society SCHOLARSHIP 84 Membership 50 Publishing 52 Website 93 Board of Trustees, Menil Council, 53 Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings and Founding Benefactors 54 Conservation 94 Staff 58 Research: Library and Archives 2 | | 3 DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Dear Friends of the Menil,

he Menil Collection neighborhood has been abuzz with activity since I arrived last June. The capital campaign is headed towards a successful con­ clusion, and construction has advanced on the Menil Drawing Institute, energy house, and Tadjacent green spaces. Thousands of plants have been added to our grounds alongside a hundred new trees. Our campus is abloom. The Menil Collection’s fiscal year 2016, which extends from July 2015 through June 2016, ended two weeks before my arrival. It was a year of leadership transition. In June 2015, after a successful twelve-year tenure as Director of the Menil, Josef Helfenstein announced his plans to oversee Basel’s renowned Kunstmuseum. Through Josef’s sound leadership, the Menil’s annual attendance doubled, the value of the endowment Front entrance to The Menil Collection. grew by almost fifty-four percent, and more than one thou- sand works of art were added to the collection. The Board of The Menil Collection green spaces and east portico. Trustees, led by President Janet Hobby, hired Thomas (Tom) Rhoads to serve as Interim Director from the time of Josef ’s Director Rebecca Rabinow departure in December 2015 through the summer 2016. With A previous collector had separated the masks back in the 1940s, care and patience, Tom ensured that the transition in the but thanks to the dedication of Trustee Adelaide de Menil Director’s office was seamless. Tom was a steadying influence Carpenter, the wolf and the caribou were reunited for the first and worked diligently to keep important large-scale programs, time in over seventy years in the Menil galleries. This remark- such as the capital campaign and campus building projects able tale became the focus of our first digital e-publication, on track. The staff and the Board of Trustees of the Menil which may be found on the Menil’s website (see also page 51). Foundation are extremely grateful to him for the efforts he MicroCosmos is one of many highlights from the 2016 made on behalf of this institution. fiscal year that I hope you enjoy reading about on the pages During that time, the Menil presented a full slate of beau- that follow. The Menil is poised for a vibrant future, and I am tiful exhibitions and thought-provoking public programs. privileged to build upon the significant accomplishments that Our Annual Report cover depicts an installation shot from Josef and Tom achieved during this period. MicroCosmos: Details from the Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art. You may recognize the feathered mask that has been a Warmest regards, feature of the Witnesses installation ever since Ted Carpenter placed it in the Surrealist galleries in 1999. Sean Mooney, Curator of the Edmund Carpenter Collection, realized that this mask was originally created as part of a pair. Together they Rebecca Rabinow p. 1: North portico and entrance to The Menil Collection. represent the twin animal spirits of the wolf and the caribou. Director

pp. 2–3: The Menil Collection front lawn during the opening celebration for the exhibition As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither.

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THE MENIL COLLECTION

Mission Statement he Menil Collection is shaped by the vision of its founders, John and Dominique de Menil, and their belief that the arts are central to the human experience. There is a deep spirituality and humanism at the heart of the collection, and the intimate and contemplative environment in which art is displayed respects the primacy of the artwork and the Tviewer’s direct encounter with art. The Menil Collection is committed to sustaining the special spirit and core values that define this institution and to keeping them relevant for future generations.

Core Values ■ A commitment to taking extraordinary care for works of art and their display in an environment that respects the primacy of the art.

■ Having museum buildings devoted solely to art and its requirements.

■ Preserving the spirit and character of the campus environment and neighborhood setting.

■ An intellectual independence and a willingness to take risks and be out of the mainstream.

■ Valuing the artist’s intention and working with certain artists on a deeper and more sustained level.

■ The central role of research and scholarship.

■ An international character and presence.

■ A commitment to ethical integrity and social responsibility.

■ Accessibility and an institutional culture that is sensitive and responsive to issues of diversity.

A visitor views sculptures by Charlie Willeto in the exhibition As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither.

6 | | 7 THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE MENIL

8 | | 9 The CAMPAIGN for the MENIL Progress Report

he accomplishments in the first twenty-nine years of the Menil’s remarkable history have defined the museum as an art and urban experience unlike any in the world. Our plans for the future build upon our values and stem from two well- considered studies—a Strategic Plan in 2006 and a Master Site TPlan in 2009. The outcome of these in-depth studies resulted in setting the priorities and goals of The Campaign for the Menil.

The Campaign for the Menil will raise $110 million, comprising $60 million for new capital projects and other improvements and $50 million for endowment. Priorities include:

New Parks and Green Space to maintain our tranquil urban neighborhood, with particular regard to sustainability and natural planting

The Menil Drawing Institute to transform the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of modern and contemporary drawing

New Energy House to replace our thirty-year-old plant with an updated building and modern energy-efficient equipment

Redesigned Gateway to lead visitors from the upgraded $110 Million parking lot on West Alabama past Campaign Goal* Bistro Menil, now in its third year of operation, and then the Menil Bookstore $93.8 Million Steel framework for Menil Drawing or 85% Institute showing a portion that includes Key Museum Initiatives of Goal the Drawing Room (a large drawing study area) and the Conservation Lab. to enhance collections care and conservation of artwork within our renowned Renzo Piano main building

An Increased Endowment to support programming and ensure continued excellence throughout the museum

* Goal and amount raised pp. 8–9: Aerial view of Menil Drawing Institute as of June 30, 2016 The new entrance corridor leads visitors to the interior of the museum neighborhood. The parking lot includes site and new green spaces under construction, an environmentally friendly, underground water retention reservoir. surrounded by the live oak canopy of the Menil neighborhood, June 2016.

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The CAMPAIGN for the MENIL Master Site Plan Implementation Gateway SUL ROSS Y L R L R N E D E B O N L P A U U Y M M

THE MENIL COLLECTION

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NEW ENERGY GREEN MENIL DRAWING HOUSE SPACE INSTITUTE

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The Master Site Plan integrates new buildings with the existing widely Phase 2: South Expansion praised exhibition spaces, while expanding green space, clarifying Energy House, new green space, and the Menil Drawing Institute PHASE 1 A PHASE 2 pedestrian circulation, and emphasizing community integration.

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Visitors pass the Bistro Menil (left) and Menil Bookstore (right) on the pathway to the main museum entrance. Rendering (left to right) of Energy House, Cy Twombly Gallery, new green South Neighborhood Expansion O

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O ments of the Master Site Plan are nearing reality. The Menil PHASE 1 L PHASE 3 PHASE 4 Drawing Institute will further the museum’s commitment to art, artists, and scholarship. Los Angeles–based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee) have designed a distinctive building dedicated to the apprecia- RICHMOND tion, conservation, and exhibition of modern and contem- porary drawing. The unique 30,146-square-foot, single-story structure will feature a trio of spacious courtyards. To meet the growing power requirements of the thirty- acre neighborhood, the Menil will soon complete its more efficient Energy House. The 10,000-square-foot facility, also designed by Johnston Marklee, will be an ecologically sensitive, electrical generating plant that supports increased infrastructure. The emphasis on sustainability and natural plantings continues at the heart of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ landscape design around the Menil Drawing Institute and new Energy House. The nearby landscape will include another park, where visitors and neighbors can relax under the shade of a variety of trees. This garden area will serve also as a flexible social space that can be utilized for outdoor events, lectures, small concerts, and movies.

12 | | 13 The CAMPAIGN for the MENIL Menil Drawing Institute and Energy House

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GROUND LEVEL PLAN 1. West Courtyard 5. Cloister 9. Salon 2. Galleries 6 Scholars’ Courtyard 10. Study Menil Drawing Institute Scale 1:20 0 10 20 N 3. East Courtyard 7. Drawing Room 11. Conservation Lab 4. Curatorial Offices 8. Salon 12. Loading Dock

Menil Drawing Institute is under construction; shown are the galleries and communal spaces (background left) and study, conservation, and loading areas (foreground, right).

The new Menil Energy House will provide efficient utilities and HVAC operations for the main museum, Cy Twombly A rendering of the completed Menil Drawing Institute gallery space. Gallery, and the Menil Drawing Institute; the water-chilling pipe system of the Chiller Room is under construction.

14 | | 15 EXHIBITIONS and COLLECTION

16 | | 17 EXHIBITIONS Introduction

Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences July 17–November 8, 2015

In her introduction to the 1984 exhibition catalog La rime et la raison, Dominique de Menil urged viewers to seek out transcendent experience in art, to absorb a work’s “delicious presence,” as she wrote. Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis explored the convergence of Mrs. de Menil’s aesthetic philoso- phy with American anthropologist Robert Plant Armstrong’s conceptions of an object as an “affecting presence.” Gathering works across time, place, and cultures, Davis highlighted abstraction as a representation of the ineffable forces that shape human experience. The objects ranged from antique sculptures to paintings and works on paper that epitomize the reduction of form and the absence of representation. Works by important abstractionists in the twentieth century, such as Constantin Brancusi, Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Eduardo Chillida, and others, were juxtaposed with abstract forms from earlier eras. Public programs included a discussion between Curated by Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections art historian Patrick McNaughton and curator Christina This exhibition was generously supported by Mark Wawro and Hellmich, and an artist talk with Sam Gilliam. Melanie Gray and by the City of Houston.

Visitors at the opening of Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now.

iscal year 2016 began with Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences, one of three exhibitions­—including The Precarious and Life Is Once Forever: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson—that explored fresh curatorial takes on various aspects of the permanent collection. FMicrocosmos brought a rare viewing of Old Bering Sea Paleo- Eskimo objects from the Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art. Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now was a comprehensive exploration focused on how a particular artmaking technique has played out across a range of artistic styles and motifs. In February, the west galleries exploded with color as the spaces welcomed the playful, satirical canvases assembled for William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY. The year culminated with As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither, an exhibition celebrating a gift that is a transformative addition to the museum’s strong holdings in a genre where the perceived demarcations between high and low art are quickly evaporating. Total attendance: 236,208 This number represents all of the Menil’s exhibition spaces, including pp. 16–17: Paintings from the Nouns series on view in the main museum, Cy Twombly Gallery, Richmond Hall, and the William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY. Byzantine Fresco Chapel.

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Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now September 11, 2015–January 3, 2016

Rubbing—the technique of rendering an image by placing a sheet of paper over an object or textured surface and rubbing on top of it with graphite or another marking agent—is one of the most ancient and enduring drawing practices. It is also the forebear of frottage, which Surrealist artist Max Ernst claimed to have discovered in 1925 while gazing at the floorboards of a hotel room. Curator Allegra Pesenti presented works on paper by over fifty international artists. Rubbings also evoke a sense of ghostliness, which is why the poet and painter Henri Michaux referred to his rubbings as “apparitions,” an inspiration for the exhibition. Each of the works on view was dis- tinguished by the individual gesture of its maker, and together these images formed a lexicon of the language of touch. Public programs included Pesenti’s lecture “Apparitions and Curatorial Adventures,” and “What’s the Rub?,” a solo performance by composer and per- cussionist Glenn Kotche, including a new commission.

The exhibition was organized by the Menil Collection and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and curated by Allegra Pesenti, Curator at Large, Menil Drawing Institute.

In Houston this exhibition was generously supported by Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Michael Zilkha; Frost Bank; UBS Wealth Management/UBS Private Wealth Management; Janet

and Paul Hobby; David and Anne Kirkland; Marilyn Oshman; Michael Max Ernst, The Sap Rises, Rises (La sève monte, monte), 1925. and Diane Cannon; Scott and Judy Nyquist; and the City of Houston. Graphite frottage on paper mounted on paper, 81/8 x 63/8 inches Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, provided support for (20.5 x 16 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. MicroCosmos: Details from the Carpenter the related publication. Collection of Arctic Art August 29, 2015–February 21, 2016

Because Micro means “small details” and Cosmos “the larger uni- verse,” then the title of this exhibition suggested that these two concepts are both oppositional and unified. The late anthropolo- gist Edmund Snow Carpenter, together with his wife Adelaide de Menil, assembled one of the world’s finest and most exten- sive collections of Old Bering Sea Paleo-Eskimo objects. Sean Mooney, Curator of the Carpenter Collection, organized what was a singular exhibition of this extraordinary group of arti- facts from the people of coastal Alaska and Siberia, ca. 250 BCE to 1,000 CE. Predominately made of walrus ivory, these finely carved pieces represent shamans in flight and mythical beasts, such as seals and water fowls with human heads, or pregnant Yup’ik masks of wolf and caribou, late nineteenth century women with walrus tusks. Many of the artifacts are miniature, some of them as small as one centimeter. The exhibition also included a rare presentation of two late nineteenth-century Curated by Sean Mooney, Curator of the Edmund Carpenter Yup’ik storytelling dance masks, reunited for the first time in Collection nearly a hundred years. Public programs included a performance by dancer and storyteller Chuna McIntyre, and Mooney’s lecture This exhibition was generously supported by Clare Casademont on Carpenter’s life and work. and Michael Metz, Anne and Bill Stewart, and the City of Houston.

20 | | 21 EXHIBITIONS The Precarious December 16, 2015–May 1, 2016

Beginning with the modestly scaled, tenuous collages by German artist Kurt Schwitters and ending with the cardboard construction of contemporary Vietnamese-born artist Danh Vō, this exhibition concentrated on a strain of artistic practice that foregrounds how pre- cariousness is as much a social phenomenon as an aesthetic concern. David Breslin, the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, examined various works in the Menil Collection that are indebted to the collage tradition. In 1920, the critic and poet Guillaume Apollinaire claimed that this novel artistic medium was “steeped in humanity” as many hands were tacitly responsible for a work’s manufacture. This exhibition focused on a medium that embodies the joy and vulnerability that comes with depending on others and included works by Gene Charlton, Sari Dienes, Elizabeth McFadden, Anne Ryan, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Tuttle, and others. Public programs included Breslin’s conversation with Vō and another with Rothko Chapel Director David Leslie.

Curated by David Breslin, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute

The exhibition was generously supported by Architectural Digest, Kathrine G. Danh Vō, fiat veritas, et pereat mundus, 2013. Gold leaf and ink on McGovern/McGovern Foundation, Scott and Judy Nyquist, John R. Eckel, Jr. cardboard, 14 x 15½ x 10½ inches (35.6 x 39.4 x 26.7 cm). Collection Foundation; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III, and the City of Houston. of the artist.

The Secret of the Hanging Egg: Salvador Dalí at the Menil

November 5, 2015–June 20, 2016 The Menil has only one drawing by the Surrealist Salvador Dalí, titled Gangsterism and Goofy Visions of New York. The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, generously loaned the artist’s 1932 painting Eggs on a Plate without the Plate (Oeufs sur le Plat sans le Plat), giving viewers a rare opportunity to see Dalí’s paint- ing within the context of the Menil’s renowned Surrealist hold- ings. Associate Curator Clare Elliott exhibited the painting with other works, including small, egg-shaped rocks painted by Victor Brauner and Joan Miró and enigmatic landscapes by Yves Tanguy and Joseph Cornell. Also on view were rare publications from the Menil’s library, including Violette Noziéres, 1933, and a 1937 port- folio of twenty-one Surrealist postcards, both examples of Dalí’s collaborations with Surrealists in 1930s Paris. Works by later art- ists who continued the Surrealist tradition, such as Robert Gober, David McGee, and Steve Wolfe, completed this special offering. Public programs included a lecture by independent scholar Danielle Johnson and a screening of Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s films Un chien Andalou and L’âge d’or.

Curated by Clare Elliott, Associate Curator

This exhibition was generously supported by the City of Houston.

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William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY February 19–July 24, 2016

American artist William Nelson Copley (1919–1996), who went by the artist moniker CPLY, pursued art without obtain- ing formal training. He is known for his unique figurative and narrative style, which often reveled in the absurdities of high and low culture. This exhibition was the first comprehensive look at the artist’s work in the United States, examining the arc of Copley’s colorful career from the early 1950s to the 1990s and tracing the development of his style and experiments in line, color, pattern, allegory, and humor. Copley was also a major collector of many Surrealist and Pop artists and served as an important connector of European and American circles. Public programs included a panel discussion with Toby Kamps, Germano Celant, and exhibition catalogue contribu- tors Alison M. Gingeras and John Griffin, and another conver- sation with Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and Dan Nadel, founder of the publishing company PictureBox.

The exhibition was co-organized by the Menil Collection, Houston, and Fondazione Prada, Milan, and was curated by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, and Germano Celant, Artistic Director of Fondazione Prada.

In Houston, the exhibition was generously supported by Terra Foundation for American Art; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy and Mark Abendshein; Eddie and Chinhui Allen; Suzanne Deal Booth; Adelaide de Menil Carpenter; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Marilyn Oshman; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; and the City of Houston.

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Life is Once, Forever: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs March 11, 2016–July 24, 2016

Henri Cartier-Bresson is widely considered the founding father of contemporary street photography, a movement dedicated to capturing the flux of life in the public sphere. In his early career he had captured images in Mexico, Spain, and North Africa that were prized by Surrealists for their collage-like composi- tions. Later, he took photographs after escaping from a German prisoner-of-war camp. Cartier-Bresson went on to create many thousands of photographs of newsworthy and chance subjects as well as hundreds of revealing portraits of cultural luminaries. In the early 1970s, at the instigation of longtime friends and col- lectors John and Dominique de Menil, Cartier-Bresson reviewed his thousands of contact sheets with the idea of creating a “mas- ter collection.” Curator Toby Kamps used the artist’s edit of his archive and grouped subjects by country, and within country by theme, as a starting point for a breathtaking examination of this pioneering photographer’s career. Public programs included a lecture by Peter Galassi, curator of the 1987 exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Curated by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither The exhibition was generously supported by the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. June 10–October 16, 2016 and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation; Lazard Frères & Co.; Gilbane Building Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lock-gate on the Seine at Bougival, 1955, printed 1985. Gelatin silver print, 14¼ x 9⅜ inches (36.2 x 23.8 cm). Company, Eddie and Chinhui Allen; Suzanne Deal Booth; Adelaide The Menil Collection, Houston. In celebration of a remarkable promised gift to the Menil Collection de Menil Carpenter; Susan and Francois de Menil; Franci Neely; Leslie from Houston-based collectors Stephanie and John Smither, curator and Shannon Sasser; Anne and Bill Stewart; and the City of Houston. Michelle White presented highlights from the Smither family’s extensive holdings of work by self-taught and visionary artists, two intertwined terms used to define those who work outside of the mainstream art world. The exhibition included Thornton Dial’s boisterous and colorful neo-expressionist assemblages, Oscar Hadwiger’s wooden models of fantastical architectural structures, Sister Gertrude Morgan’s spiritual paintings of flying angels, and Carlo Zinelli’s drawings illustrating his life in the Italian country- side after the Second World War. Joining these artists are other visionaries such as Georgia Blizzard, Hiroyuki Doi, Solange Knopf, Martín Ramírez, Jon Serl, Johnnie Swearingen, Charlie Willeto, and Domenico Zindato. Public programs included a panel discussion, Visionary and Self-Taught Art in the Community; and an evening of visionary art with a concert by Lonnie Holley on Discovery Green; and a series of concerts, readings, and performances at Smither Park, co-presented by the Menil Collection, the Orange Show, and the Beer Can House.

Curated by Michelle White, Curator

This exhibition was generously supported by The Brown Foundation, Inc./ Nancy and Mark Abendshein, Susan and Francois de Menil, and the City of Houston.

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Paintings of Saint Fabiola from Francis Alÿs’s collection.

The Fabiola Project Byzantine Fresco Chapel May 20, 2016–January 28, 2018

The Fabiola Project consists of more than 450 hand-made reproductions of a lost 1885 painting of fourth-century Roman Saint Fabiola by nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. Belgian artist Francis Alÿs initiated this project in the early 1990s, shortly after he moved to Mexico City. Fascinated by the city’s artisanal culture and short on funds, he decided to build an art collection by combing the city’s flea markets and antique shops. He expected to find copies of masterpieces by painters such as Raphael, da Vinci, and Jean-François Millet. Instead, he bought versions of Henner’s Fabiola, depicted in left-facing profile wearing a red headscarf. Gradually Alÿs and his friends discovered new images of the saint during their travels throughout Europe and North America. Today, the Fabiola Project also includes bas-relief wood carvings, needlepoint, painted ceramics, jewelry, and even a rice and beans mosaic.

Francis Alÿs (right) attended the opening of The Fabiola Project, Coordinated by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Byzantine Fresco Chapel. Contemporary Art

The exhibition was generously supported by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; and the City of Houston.

Originally housing two fourteenth-century frescoes, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel was repurposed in 2015 as an installation and Visitors viewing the opening of The gathering space. Fabiola Project, Byzantine Fresco Chapel.

28 | | 29 EXHIBITIONS Menil Traveling Exhibitions Loans of Art to Other Institutions

During fiscal year 2016, the Menil loaned eighty-one works to twenty-nine institutions in seven countries.

Art League Houston Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Detroit Institute of Arts Fondation Beyeler, Basel Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris Fondazione Prada, Milan Galveston Arts Center Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Institute of International Education, Houston Kunsthaus Zürich

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Francis Picabia, Spring (Printemps), ca. 1937–38, 1943, The Menil Collection, Houston, appeared in the exhibition Francis Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Picabia: A Retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Installation views of William N. Copley at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Museum Ludwig, Cologne National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt William N. Copley Tate Modern, London Fondazione Prada, Milan The Broad, Los Angeles October 20, 2016–February 12, 2017 The Met Breuer, New York The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York University of Houston Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Whitney Museum of American Art, New Tony Smith’s monumental sculpture The Snake is Out, 1962, on long-term loan to the York University of Houston main campus, is installed outside the art department building.

30 | | 31 COLLECTION Introduction Collections Management

hough usually working behind the scenes, Collections Management is a crucial museum depart­ment that orchestrates the museum’s day-to- day art operations. The department facilitates the public’s encounters with artworks in-person within Tthe Menil galleries, in publications, and online as digital imagery. The registration, shipment, and insurance of art- works, including both outgoing loans from the collection and incoming loans from other institutions are among the staff’s responsibilities. Registrars and preparators undertake the storage, tracking, movement, preparation, care, and installa- tion of artworks in the museum’s galleries. The staff of Imaging Services and the administrators of The Museum System (the museum’s collections database) are involved in the long-term digitization of both imagery and data, in order to share such information internally and with other scholars and institutions.

Registration and Preparation Arts of the Ancient World Gallery. In fiscal year 2016, the department managed, transported, and tracked the movement of 1,144 artworks for nine temporary exhibitions, along with the 209 artworks that were transferred within the building for re-hangings of the permanent collec- tion. The preparators also frequently move artworks in non- public spaces to accommodate curatorial, conservation, and scholarly activities. This work was in addition to overseeing haped by the humanist vision and intel- the care and shipment of eighty-one outgoing loans (highlighted on page 31). lectual pursuits of founders John and Preparators installing artworks in the exhibition Apparitions. Dominique de Menil, the permanent collection of approximately 17,000 artworks is the foundation of the museum. As the Scollection grows with new acquisitions, it continues Imaging Services to deepen the artistic connections across different Imaging Services manages the collection, maintenance, and eras and cultures and embody the legacy of the dissemination of photography of the collection and other de Menils’ original project. In fiscal year 2016, new aspects of the museum’s presence for both internal and exter- exhibitions and gallery reinstallations, significant nal uses. In addition, the department handles rights and conservation and digital initiatives, as well as numer- reproductions: securing rights for reproducing artworks in ous public programs and innovative research projects the museum’s own publications as well as licensing our images with artists and scholars provided abundant oppor­ to scholars and publishers. In fiscal year 2016, Menil image tunities to showcase the diverse artworks in the rights were evaluated for close to one thousand uses; approxi- permanent collection and inspire new and returning mately 1,430 images were provided to external users. Digitizing visitors to the museum. images from color film and black-and-white print formats is an ongoing activity; for example, this year the department began scanning exhibition installation photography, then cataloguing the images using Artstor’s Shared Shelf and post- ing them online for research via Shared Shelf Commons. The department also purchased its first high-resolution camera for digitization projects on a professional copy-stand.

Despite the complete transition to digital photography in Modern and Contemporary Gallery the last ten years, Imaging Services still processes and scans with Barnett Newman’s Ulysses, 1952. archival material that exists only in outdated formats.

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CARL ANDRE, American, born 1935 Untitled, 1960 Ink on board Sheet (each): 4½ × 3 inches (11.3 × 7.6 cm)

FREDERICK C. BALDWIN, American, born 1929 Picasso’s Studio, Villa Californie, 1955, printed 2014 Inkjet print Image: 8¼ × 8 inches (21 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 12¼ × 12 inches (31.1 × 30.5 cm) Gift of the artist

Self‑portrait with Picasso, 1955, printed 2014 Inkjet print Image: 8⅛ × 8 inches (20.6 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 12¼ × 12 inches (31.1 × 30.5 cm) Gift of the artist

Chief of Police Clowning with the Sheriff, Reidsville, Georgia, 1957 From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Frederick C. Baldwin, Gathering Place before the Convoy, Pooler, Georgia, 1957. Gelatin silver print Image: 9½ × 13¾ inches (24 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Gift of the artist

Family Decorating Car before the Convoy, n fiscal year 2016, the Menil Collection continued its commitment to living Pooler, Georgia, 1957 artists, acquiring contemporary works by Trisha Brown, Mel Chin, Marlene From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Dumas, Arturo Herrera, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Carolee Schneemann, Gelatin silver print Image: 8½ × 12⅛ inches (21.6 × 30.7 cm) and Jack Whitten, among others. The Menil added works by Jennifer Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) Bornstein, Sari Dienes, and others featured in the exhibition Apparitions: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous IFrottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now. A major new suite of drawings by donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Trenton Doyle Hancock entered the collection following his retrospective at Eve France the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Gas Stop, Highway 288, Georgia, 1957 After the 2014 Menil exhibition In the Midst of Things: Fred Baldwin and From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Wendy Watriss, an important selection of works by the two photographers— Gelatin silver print done both collaboratively and as individuals—was gifted to the collection by Image: 6½ × 9¾ inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 6⅞ × 10 inches (17.5 × 25.4 cm) the artists and by other patrons. Former director Josef Helfenstein donated Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous a significant cache of correspondence art by James Lee Byars; other works donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and by Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge, and Thomas Schütte were given in Eve France

Helfenstein’s honor by supporters. Additional highlights include a suite of Gathering Place before the Convoy, Pooler, paintings by Frederick Hammersley and several works by Leon Polk Smith. Georgia, 1957 From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Gelatin silver print Image: 9¼ × 13¾ inches (23.4 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve France

Grand Kleegle Making a Speech on the County Courthouse Steps, Reidsville, Georgia, 1957 From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Gelatin silver print Image: 13¾ × 9⅜ inches (34.9 × 23.9 cm) opposite: A recent acquisition, Trisha Brown’s Sheet: 14 × 9⅞ inches (35.6 × 25.1 cm) Untitled (Montpellier), 2002, is mounted on Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous the rear wall in the conservation lab behind donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Paper Conservator Jan Burandt. Eve France

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Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Rally in front of Alfred Frantzen at Luckenbach Store, the County Courthouse, Reidsville, Georgia, German Settlements, Central Texas, 1971–1973 1957 From the series Texas, An American Experience From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Image: 13½ × 9½ inches (34.2 × 24.1 cm) Image: 13¼ × 9 inches (33.5 × 22.9 cm) Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 13½ × 9½ inches Sheet: 14 × 10⅞ inches (35.4 × 27.7 cm) (34.2 × 24.1 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Gift of the artists donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve France Brother and Sister, Farmers, German Settlements, Central Texas, 1971–1973 Reviewers in Front of Police Booth, From the series Texas, An American Experience Reidsville, Georgia, 1957 Gelatin silver print From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Image: 12 × 17⅝ inches (30.5 × 44.7 cm) Gelatin silver print Sheet: 15⅞ × 19⅞ inches (40.4 × 50.5 cm) Image: 6½ × 9⅝ inches (16.5 × 24.4 cm) Gift of the artists Sheet: 7 × 10 inches (17.7 × 25.4 cm) Gift of the artist Husband and Wife, Farmers, German Settlements, Central Texas, 1971–1973 Stop to Repair Rain Damage, Highway 288, From the series Texas, An American Experience Georgia, 1957 Gelatin silver print From the series Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Image: 13¾ × 9⅜ inches (34.9 × 23.6 cm) Gelatin silver print Sheet: 14 × 10¼ inches (35.6 × 25.9 cm) Image: 8⅝ × 13 inches (21.7 × 33 cm) Frederick C. Baldwin, Hosea Williams Recruiting Longshoremen, Longshoremen’s Hall, Savannah, Gift of the artists Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) Georgia, 1963. Gift of the artist Making “Koch käse” at Home, German Settlements, Central Texas, 1971–1973 Frederick C. Baldwin and The Ballot Bus, Savannah, Georgia, 1963 Singing Freedom Songs, Savannah, Georgia, FREDERICK C. BALDWIN, From the series Texas, An American Experience Wendy Watriss, Brother From the series Civil Rights 1963 American, born 1929 Gelatin silver print and Sister, Farmers, and Gelatin silver print From the series Civil Rights Image: 9½ × 13¾ inches (24.1 × 34.9 cm) German Settlements, WENDY WATRISS Image: 13¾ × 9 inches (34.9 × 22.9 cm) Gelatin silver print , American, born 1943 Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Central Texas, 1971–1973. Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 13⅝ × 8⅞ inches (34.5 × 22.6 cm) “Doc” Buchanan, East Texas, 1971 Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Gelatin silver print Eve France “La Colonia.” Mexican American Farm Waiting for Work, Mexican American Eve France donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Image: 11⅛ × 16⅝ inches (28.2 × 42.2 cm) Worker Family on the Front Porch of their Green Card Migrant Workers at the Border, Eve France Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Picking Cotton. The Last of the Tenant Home, Southeast Texas, 1973 Southeast Texas, 1973 “Big Lester” Recruiting Longshoremen, Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Farmers, East Texas, 1971–1973 From the series Texas, An American Experience From the series Texas, An American Experience Longshoremen’s Hall, Savannah, Georgia, Voter Registration, Chatham County, donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve From the series Texas, An American Experience Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print 1963 Courthouse, Savannah, Georgia, 1963 France Gelatin silver print Image: 13⅜ × 10¼ inches (34 × 26 cm) Image: 8½ × 13 inches (21.6 × 33 cm) From the series Civil Rights From the series Civil Rights Image: 8⅛ × 12⅛ inches (20.6 × 30.7 cm) Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 13⅜ × 10¼ inches Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Bedroom, Buchanan Farm, East Texas, Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) (34 × 26 cm) Image: 13⅞ × 9 inches (35.1 × 22.9 cm) Image: 8½ × 13⅛ inches (21.6 × 33.1 cm) 1971–1972 Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Watching Cattle, Mexican Vaquero, Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Sheet: 10¾ × 14 inches (27.3 × 35.4 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Southeast Texas, 1973 Gift of the artist Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Gelatin silver print Eve France Eve France From the series Texas, An American Experience donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Image: 8⅜ × 12 inches (21.3 × 30.5 cm) Gelatin silver print Hosea Williams Preaching from Eve France Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) Playing Skat, The Domino Beer Hall, German Labor Agents, Texas‑Mexican Border, Image: 17⅜ × 11⅝ inches (43.9 × 29.5 cm) Tomo‑Chi‑Chi’s Rock, Wright Square, Gift of the artists Settlements, Central Texas, 1971–1973 Southeast Texas, 1973 Sheet: 19⅞ × 15⅞ inches (50.3 × 40.4 cm) Savannah, Georgia, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Municipal From the series Texas, An American Experience From the series Texas, An American Experience Gift of the artists From the series Civil Rights Auditorium, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 Front Room, Buchanan Farm, East Texas, Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print From the series Civil Rights 1971–1972 Image: 13¾ × 9⅜ inches (34.9 × 23.9 cm) Image: 8½ × 13 inches (21.6 × 33 cm) Sunday Morning, The County Seat, East Image: 8⅜ × 13 inches (21.3 × 33 cm) Gelatin silver print From the series Texas, An American Experience Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) Texas, 1974 Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) Image: 12½ × 17⅞ inches (31.8 × 45.5 cm) Gelatin silver print Gift of the artists Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous From the series Texas, An American Experience Gift of the artist Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Image: 6⅝ × 9¾ inches (16.8 × 24.8 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Gelatin silver print Gift of the artist Sheet: 6⅝ × 9¾ inches (16.8 × 24.8 cm) The Domino Beer Hall, German Settlements, Eve France Image: 17⅞ × 12½ inches (45.5 × 31.8 cm) Hosea Williams Recruiting Longshoremen, Gift of the artists Central Texas, 1971–1978 Sheet: 19⅞ × 16 inches (50.5 × 40.6 cm) Longshoremen’s Hall, Savannah, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Moment of From the series Texas, An American Experience Pat’s Dance Hall, German Settlements, Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous 1963 Relaxation before his Speech at the The County Sheriff, East Texas, 1971–1972 Gelatin silver print Central Texas, 1973 donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and From the series Civil Rights Municipal Auditorium, Savannah, From the series Texas, An American Experience Image: 12⅝ × 17⅝ inches (32 × 44.7 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience Eve France Gelatin silver print Georgia, January 1964 Gelatin silver print Sheet: 15 × 19⅞ inches (38.1 × 50.5 cm) Gelatin silver print Image: 9¼ × 13⅜ inches (23.5 × 34 cm) From the series Civil Rights Image: 9⅛ × 13¾ inches (23.1 × 34.9 cm) Gift of the artists Image: 7⅞ × 11 inches (20.1 × 27.9 cm) Family Reunion, East Texas, 1975 Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.4 cm) Gelatin silver print Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience Gift of the artist Image: 9 × 13¾ inches (22.9 × 34.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Homestead, Southwest Texas, 1973 Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Gelatin silver print Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and From the series Texas, An American Experience donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Image: 8⅛ × 12 inches (20.6 × 30.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Eve France Gelatin silver print Eve France Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Image: 8¾ × 13 inches (22.2 × 33 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Eve France Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Gift of the artists Eve France

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TRISHA BROWN, American, born 1936 Letter: JD, November 9, 1986 Letter: I don’t wait . . , November 27, 1986 Defense, 1980 Metallic ink on red paper and envelope Ink on paper Graphite on paper Letter: 42½ × 14⅝ inches (108 × 37.1 cm) Sheet: 11½ × 8½ inches (29.2 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 15⅛ × 12⅛ inches (38.4 × 30.6 cm) Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gift of Josef Helfenstein John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation I am yr ghost of beauty I haunt you, Letter, December 8, 1986 Untitled, 1990 November 11, 1986 Pigment on paper Graphite on paper Gold leaf, pigment, colored pencil on paper, and Sheet: 36⅛ × 24⅞ inches (91.7 × 63.2 cm) Sheet: 23⅛ × 29 inches (58.6 × 73.7 cm) envelope Envelope: 6⅞ × 9⅞ inches (17.5 × 25.1 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Sheet (each): 8⅛ × 7⅜ inches (20.6 × 18.8 cm) Gift of Josef Helfenstein John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation (approximate) Envelope: 4⅜ × 8½ inches (11.2 × 21.6 cm) Beauty Goes Avantgarde, 1986 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Print JAMES LEE BYARS, American, 1932–1997 Sheet: 20⅝ × 15⅛ inches (52.3 × 38.4 cm) Letter: Dear Joseph, July 19, 1986 Ribbon: The exhibition of beauty TEOB, Envelope: 4⅝ × 8⅝ inches (11.7 × 21.8 cm) Ink on three sheets of hotel stationery and envelope November 12, 1986 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Sheet (each): 11½ × 8¼ inches (29.2 × 21 cm) Metallic ink on paper Envelope: 4½ × 6⅜ inches (11.4 × 16.3 cm) Letter: 3⅝ inches (9.1 cm) Letter: I thank you, 1986 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Envelope: 4⅝ × 8½ inches (11.7 × 21.6 cm) Ink on paper Frederick C. Baldwin and Gift of Josef Helfenstein Sheet (each): 11½ × 8⅜ inches (29.2 × 21.3 cm) Wendy Watriss, Beauty Contest, Exhibition announcement: James Lee Byars, Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Fredericksburg World Fair, German October 13, 1986 Letter: Come Joseph to beauty, Gift of Josef Helfenstein Settlements, Central Texas, 1978. Metallic ink on paper and envelope November 20, 1986 Card: 4⅛ × 8¼ inches (10.4 × 21 cm) Ink on paper Letter: Beauty is what I want, ca. 1986 Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Sheet (each): 11½ × 8½ inches (29.2 × 21.6 cm) Metallic ink on red paper and envelope Family Reunion, East Texas, 1975 Centennial Party, Shreiner Ranch, Kerrville. Railroad Street, East Texas, 1978 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 21¼ × 15½ inches (54 × 39.4 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience German Settlements, Central Texas, 1977 From the series Texas, An American Experience Gift of Josef Helfenstein Envelope: 4½ × 8¾ inches (11.4 × 22.2 cm) Gelatin silver print From the series Texas, An American Experience Gelatin silver print Exhibition announcement: James Lee Byars, Gift of Josef Helfenstein Image: 9⅛ × 13¼ inches (23.1 × 33.7 cm) Gelatin silver print Image: 8½ × 12⅛ inches (21.5 × 30.8 cm) October 23, 1986 Letter: Come to (The Ni of the Bk), Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) Image: 9⅛ × 13¾ inches (23.1 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.4 cm) Metallic ink on paper and paper envelope November 21, 1986 Postcard: Looking glass, probably 1986 Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Sheet: 10¼ × 14 inches (26 × 35.6 cm) Gift of the artists Card: 4⅛ × 8¼ inches (10.4 × 21 cm) Ink on paper Ink on postcard donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Gift of the artists Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 11½ × 8½ inches (29.2 × 21.6 cm) 4⅜ × 6¾ inches (11.2 × 17.1 cm) Eve France Railroad Street, East Texas, 1978 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Envelope: 4⅜ × 8⅝ inches (11.2 × 21.8 cm) Gift of Josef Helfenstein Preacher’s Funeral, East Texas, 1977 From the series Texas, An American Experience Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gambling, Black Rodeo, East Texas, 1976 Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Letter: The Exhibition of Beauty, May 21, 1988 From the series Texas, An American Experience Image: 13½ × 9 inches (34.3 × 22.9 cm) Image: 9¼ × 13¼ inches (23.5 × 33.7 cm) Metallic ink on red paper and envelope Gelatin silver print Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 10⅞ × 14 inches (27.7 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 42¼ × 30¾ inches (107.3 × 78.1 cm) Image: 13½ × 9 inches (34.3 × 22.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Gift of the artists Envelope: 4½ × 8¾ inches (11.4 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 14 × 10⅞ inches (35.6 × 27.7 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gift of the artists Eve France Thursday Night, Sonic Drive‑In, German Settlements, Central Texas, 1979 Letter: Dear Joseph, October 18, 1988 Greenwood Baptist Church, East Texas, 1976 Beauty Contest, Fredericksburg World Fair, From the series Texas, An American Experience Ink on five sheets of paper and envelope From the series Texas, An American Experience German Settlements, Central Texas, 1978 Gelatin silver print Sheets 1‑4: 8⅜ × 8½ inches (21.3 × 21.6 cm) Gelatin silver print From the series Texas, An American Experience Image: 8⅛ × 12⅛ inches (20.4 × 30.7 cm) Sheet 5: 11¾ × 8¼ inches (29.8 × 21 cm) Image: 9½ × 13⅞ inches (24.1 × 35.1 cm) Gelatin silver print Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Envelope: 4⅛ × 9½ inches (10.4 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 11⅛ × 14 inches (28.2 × 35.4 cm) Image: 8¾ × 13 inches (22.2 × 33 cm) Gift of the artists Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gift of the artists Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.8 × 35.6 cm) Gift of the artists Postcard: Beauty. Happy Summer, 1989 Saturday Night at Home, East Texas, 1976 JENNIFER BORNSTEIN, American, born 1970 Ink on postcard Gelatin silver print In the Chute, Black Rodeo, East Texas, 1978 Gorgeous Early Collectors’ Kodak Retina 4 × 6 inches (10.2 × 15.2 cm) Image: 13¾ × 9⅜ inches (34.9 × 23.9 cm) From the series Texas, An American Experience Camera with Leather Case‑IIIC, 2014 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Gelatin silver print Wax rubbing on paper Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Image: 11⅛ × 16⅝ inches (28.2 × 42.2 cm) Sheet: 19 × 12¾ inches (48.3 × 32.4 cm) Postcard: Demonstrate, 1989 donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Michael Zilkha Ink on postcard Eve France Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous in honor of Allegra Pesenti 4 × 6 inches (10.2 × 15.1 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Gift of Josef Helfenstein Sunday Morning, Greenwood Baptist Eve France Church, East Texas, 1976 Postcards: A Beauty, ca. 1989 From the series Texas, An American Experience Railroad Street, East Texas, 1978 Ink on postcards and envelope Gelatin silver print From the series Texas, An American Experience Card (each): 3½ × 5½ inches (8.9 × 14 cm) Image: 9½ × 13½ inches (24.1 × 34.3 cm) Gelatin silver print Envelope: 4½ × 8¾ inches (11.4 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 11 × 16⅝ inches (27.8 × 42.2 cm) Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gift of the artists Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and James Lee Byars, Letter, Eve France December 8, 1986.

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GENE CHARLTON, American, 1909–1979 WILLIAM CORDOVA, American, born 1971 Untitled, 1950s and Collage with paper, ink, and varnish on wooden NYEEMA MORGAN, American, born 1977 board OTABENGA JONES & ASSOCIATES, American, 10 × 6 inches (25.4 × 15.2 cm) founded 2002 Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lynn E. Yonge yawar mallku (sculpting elsewhere in time/the arc of the moral universe is long . . ./the Lesson, pt. 2), Untitled, 1958 2008–2013 Collage on board Foamboard, electric lighting, 9 volt battery, acrylic, paper, 11 × 8 inches (27.9 × 20.3 cm) printed paper, plastic, metal, paint, chalk, cloth, putty, and Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lynn E. Yonge wood from Brazil, Peru, Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, and Bolivia Untitled, 1959 59 × 96 × 24 inches (149.9 × 243.8 × 61 cm) Crayon on paper Gift of the artists 6 × 4 inches (15.2 × 10.2 cm) Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lynn E. Yonge SARI DIENES, American, 1898–1992 Peterboro, ca. 1949–1953 John Chamberlain, Untitled, 1966–1970. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, American, 1927–2011 Collage with ink rubbing on paper, cloth, and torn Untitled, 1966–1970 cardboard Polyurethane foam and string Postcard: How is my soul stone?, January 1990 Letter: Very sensitive Joseph, 1992 Sheet: 32 × 23¾ inches (81.1 × 60.2 cm) 3¾ × 8½ × 8 inches (9.5 × 21.6 × 20.3 cm) Ink on postcard Metallic ink on black paper Gift of the Sari Dienes Foundation Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps 4 × 6 inches (10.2 × 15.1 cm) 8½ × 8½ inches (21.6 × 21.6 cm) Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gift of Josef Helfenstein MARLENE DUMAS, South African, active in Amsterdam, MEL CHIN Exhibition invitation: The Perfect Thought, Letter: Exhibition of Beauty, December 1993 , American, born 1951 born 1953 HOMEySEW 9 An Older Nelson Mandela September 7, 1990 Ink on gold paper, printed gallery announcement, , 1994 , 2004–2005 Printed paper and gold thread and envelope Glock 9mm handgun and emergency trauma treat- Ink on paper Envelope: 5⅛ × 8¼ inches (13 × 20.8 cm) Sheet: 7⅜ × 10¾ inches (18.8 × 27.3 cm) ment kit with: two-inch wide elastic bandage, micro 25½ × 19⅝ inches (64.8 × 49.8 cm) Gift of Josef Helfenstein Gallery invitation: 5⅞ × 4⅛ inches (15 × 10.4 cm) electronic locator, normal saline with IV needle and Gift of the artist in honor of Josef Helfenstein (folded) polyethylene tubing, narcotic analgesic, intramuscular Fabric in envelope, ca. 1990 Envelope: 4⅛ × 9½ inches (10.4 × 24.1 cm) epinephrine, and angiocatheter KATE ERICSON Fabric in printed paper envelope with metallic ink Gift of Josef Helfenstein Artist’s prototype , American, 1955–1995 MEL ZIEGLER Envelope: 8⅜ × 8¼ inches (21.3 × 21 cm) Installed: 1⅜ × 20½ × 5½ inches (3.3 × 52.1 × 13.8 cm) , American, born 1956 Houston Library Project Fabric square: 1¼ × 1¼ inches (3.2 × 3.2 cm) , 1979 Gift of Josef Helfenstein Paint and oil pastel on paper Sheet: 23 × 35¼ inches (58.4 × 89.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation

Pastellus, 1983 Paint and oil pastel on paper Sheet: 22¼ × 30⅛ inches (56.5 × 76.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Theaster Gates, Hose for Fire and Other Tragic Encounters, 2014. John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation

THEASTER GATES, American, born 1973 Hose for Fire and Other Tragic Encounters, 2014 Wood and fire hose 96¾ × 55½ × 8½ inches (245.7 × 141 × 21.6 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Derek and Lauren Goodman and by the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Charitable Lead Trust

Untitled, 2015 Ceramic 1½ × 10¼ × 10 inches (3.8 × 26 × 25.4 cm) Mel Chin, HOMEySEW 9, 1994. Gift of the artist

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JOE GOODE, American, born 1937 Untitled, ca. 1962 Oil paint on canvas, wood, and glass milk bottle 27 × 25½ × 6¼ inches (68.6 × 64.8 × 15.9 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

VIRGIL GROTFELDT, American, 1948–2009 Thirteen Steps to Satan, 1995 Gouache, pen, ink, and coal dust on paper Installed: 45 × 109 inches (114.3 × 276.9 cm) (approximate) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY, American, 1919–2009 Touch and go, 1964 Oil on chipboard panel in artist‑made frame 12½ × 11 inches (31.8 × 27.9 cm) Gift of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation

Hot rock, 1988 Oil on linen on wood in artist‑made frame 11 × 9 inches (27.9 × 22.9 cm) Gift of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation

Swedish accent, 1994 Oil on linen Trenton Doyle Hancock, Epidemic! Presents: Step and Arturo Herrera, Untitled, 1998. 48 × 45 inches (121.9 × 114.3 cm) Screw! (detail, No. 27), 2014. Gift of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation Joe Goode, Untitled, ca. 1962.

LESLIE HEWITT, American, born 1977 Untitled, 1997–1998 Where Paths Meet, Turn Away, Then Align Again (Distilled moment Mixed media collage on paper from over 72 hours of viewing the civil rights era archive at the Menil 12 × 9 inches (30.5 × 22.7 cm) Collection in Houston, Texas), 2012 Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell Lithographs and site-specific wall, 2/3 Each: 11⅛ × 11⅛ inches (28.3 × 28.3 cm) Untitled, 1997–1998 Purchased with funds provided by Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray Mixed media collage on paper 11⅞ × 9 inches (30.2 × 22.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK, American, born 1974 Epidemic! Presents: Step and Screw!, 2014 Untitled, 1998 Acrylic on paper and mat board with excised lettering and gesso Mixed media collage on paper Thirty sheets (each): 19 × 12 inches (48.3 × 30.5 cm) 12 × 9 inches (30.3 × 22.7 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell

ARTURO HERRERA, Venezuelan, born 1959 Untitled, 1997–1998 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, South African, born 1955 Mixed media collage on paper Drawing for ‘Other Faces’, 2011 12 × 9 inches (30.3 × 22.7 cm) Charcoal and colored pencil on paper Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell Sheet: 24¼ × 31⅜ inches (61.6 × 79.7 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Board of Trustees Untitled, 1997–1998 of the Menil Collection in honor of Josef Helfenstein Mixed media collage on paper 12 × 9 inches (30.3 × 22.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell LOUISE LAWLER, American, born 1947 Berlin (traced), 2000/2013 Untitled, 1997–1998 Vinyl, 2/10 Mixed media collage on paper Dimensions variable 12 × 9 inches (30.5 × 22.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell

Untitled, 1997–1998 Mixed media collage on paper 12 × 9 inches (30.3 × 22.9 cm) Frederick Hammersley, Swedish accent, 1994. Purchased with funds provided by Helen and Sam Zell

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ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, American, 1912–1999 Portrait of Barnett Newman, possibly 1961 Gelatin silver print Sheet: 10 × 16 inches (25.4 × 40.6 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

FRANK LOBDELL, American, 1921–2013 July 1954, 1954 Oil on canvas 66½ × 49½ inches (168.9 × 125.7 cm) Gift of the Manuel Neri Trust in honor of Walter Hopps

Dark Presence for Walter Hopps, 1963 Oil on canvas 97 × 70 inches (246.4 × 177.8 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

ED MOSES, American, born 1926 Y Branco, 1957 Oil on canvas 61¾ × 46¼ inches (156.8 × 117.5 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps Carolee Schneemann, Water Light/Water Needle, 1965.

JAMES ROSENQUIST, American, born 1933 The Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light, 2001 Lithograph, A/P 11/12, published by THOMAS SCHÜTTE, German, born 1954 Untitled, 1959 Universal Limited Art Editions Hope, 2010 Paper and graphite on paper 46¼ × 105½ inches (117.5 × 268 cm) Ink and graphite on paper Sheet: 7½ × 5 inches (18.9 × 12.5 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps Sheet: 15⅜ × 11½ inches (38.9 × 29.2 cm) Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation Purchased with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation in honor of Untitled, 1964 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, American, born 1939 Josef Helfenstein Glossy red paper on paper Water Light/Water Needle, 1965 Sheet: 8½ × 3¼ inches (21.4 × 8.1 cm) Watercolor on paper Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation Sheet: 12 × 17 inches (30.5 × 43.2 cm) AMY SILLMAN, American, born 1966 Rome #1, 2014 Untitled, 1991 Water Light/Water Needle, 1966 Pastel and gouache on paper Paper and tape on paper Ed Moses, Y Branco, 1957. Watercolor on paper Sheet: 36¾ × 21½ inches (93.3 × 54.6 cm) 29⅞ × 22⅜ inches (75.9 × 56.7 cm) Sheet: 12½ × 20 inches (31.8 × 50.8 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Both purchased in honor of Bryan J. Peters with funds pro- vided Jory Alexander, an anonymous donor, Anne Baillio, Rome #13, 2014 TONY SMITH, American, 1912–1980 Jorge and Kath Blanco, Nancy Bolduc, Valentine Boving, Pastel and gouache on paper The Castle, ca. 1962–1965 Gwyneth Campbell, Bob and Mary Kay Casey, Helen Sheet: 30 × 22¾ inches (76.2 × 57.8 cm) Ink on yellow graph paper Bettman Cohen, Patti and Carey Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Purchased with funds provided by the Sheet: 11 × 8½ inches (27.8 × 21.6 cm) Philip Edmundson, Marilyn Emerich, Kerry Anne Galvin, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gift of Adrian M. Turner in honor of Jane Smith Lela and Robin Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Godfrey, Lynn Goode, Joyce Goodman, Scott Harvey, Lynn and William Herbert, Jim Horsch, Barbara Horwitz, Sarah Howell, LEON POLK SMITH, American, 1906–1996 NANCY SPERO, American, 1926–2009 J. Patrick Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner III, Untitled, 1946 Bomb, 1966 Elizabeth B. Knight, Douglas Lawing and Guy Hagstette, Graphite and skinning on blue grey paper Gouache and ink on paper Jessica Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Lummis, Mr. and 29⅝ × 21⅝ inches (75.2 × 54.9 cm) 27¼ × 34 inches (69.2 × 86.2 cm) Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan, Mr. and Mrs. Gray Muzzy, Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation Purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Palmquist, Laetitia P. Peden, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Jennifer Pipkin, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robinson, Leslie Untitled, 1959 and Shannon Sasser, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schreiber, Opaque watercolor and graphite on paper Ralph Sikes, Len D. Slusser, Marian and Harry Tindall, 24 × 19 inches (60.8 × 48.3 cm) Gigi and Jose Valera, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Weiner, Lisa and Gift of the Leon Polk Smith Foundation Allen Wilson, Susan and James Wise, Carol M. Wood, and Joy Wuertz

Leon Polk Smith, Untitled, 1964.

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MICHELLE STUART, American, born 1933 #7 Echo, 1973 Graphite and ink on muslin‑backed rag paper Sheet: 52 × 62 inches (132.1 × 157.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the William F. Stern Acquisitions Fund

DANH VŌ, Danish, born 1975 Handwritten by Phung Vō, Vietnamese 2.2.1861, 2009 Ink on paper Sheet: 11 × 8½ inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Gift of the artist

WENDY WATRISS, American, born 1943 Before and After, Vietnam War Veteran Daniel Salmon, San Antonio, Texas, 1981 From the series Agent Orange Gelatin silver print Image: 13½ × 8⅞ inches (34.2 × 22.6 cm) Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve France Michelle Stuart, #7 Echo,, 1973. Wendy Watriss, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1982–1986. Veterans of the Vietnam War, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1981 From the series Agent Orange Gelatin silver print Vietnam War Veteran John Woods and his Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, JACK WHITTEN, American, born 1939 Image: 10¾ × 15⅞ inches (27.3 × 40.4 cm) Son, Jeff, Long Island, New York, 1981 D.C., 1982–1986 Studio Floor #2, 1970 Sheet: 15⅞ × 20 inches (40.4 × 50.8 cm) From the series Agent Orange From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial Carbon stick rubbing on paper Gift of the artist Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Sheet: 13⅛ × 20⅛ inches (33.2 × 51 cm) Image: 11½ × 17⅜ inches (29.2 × 44.2 cm) Image: 11½ × 16¾ inches (29.2 × 42.4 cm) Frame: 15½ × 22⅝ × 1⅝ inches (39.4 × 57.3 × 4.1 cm) Vietnam Veterans Day in Texas. Dan Jordan, Sheet: 16⅞ × 20 inches (42.9 × 50.7 cm) Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the Vietnam War Veteran, and his Son Chad Jordan, Gift of the artist Gift of the artist William F. Stern Acquisitions Fund after a Speech about Agent Orange in front of the Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas, 1981 Vietnam War Veterans Michael Milne and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, Dispersal ‘B’ #4, 1971 From the series Agent Orange Douglas Rudolph, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, D.C., 1982–1986 Pigment on paper Gelatin silver print 1981 From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial 13⅛ × 20 inches (33.2 × 50.6 cm) Image: 9⅝ × 13⅛ inches (24.4 × 33.3 cm) From the series Agent Orange Gelatin silver print Purchased with funds provided by the Sheet: 10⅞ × 13⅞ inches (27.7 × 35.3 cm) Gelatin silver print Image: 11½ × 16¾ inches (29.1 × 42.4 cm) William F. Stern Acquisitions Fund Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Image: 10¾ × 16⅛ inches (27.3 × 40.9 cm) Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Sheet: 15⅞ × 20 inches (40.4 × 50.8 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Broken Plane #3, 1972 Eve France Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Paper and pastel on paper donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve France Sheet: 17¼ × 24¾ inches (43.7 × 62.7 cm) Vietnam War Veteran Jim Roxby Comforting Eve France Frame: 20⅛ × 28 × 1⅝ inches (51 × 71 × 4.1 cm) Fellow Vietnam Veteran at the Meeting of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, Purchased with funds provided by Veterans of the Vietnam Opening Day, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, D.C., 1982–1986 Clare Casademont and Michael Metz War, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1981 Washington, D.C., 1982–1986 From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial From the series Agent Orange From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Image: 11½ × 16¾ inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm) PURVIS YOUNG, American, 1943–2010 Image: 10⅞ × 15¾ inches (27.7 × 40 cm) Image: 11½ × 17 inches (29.2 × 43.2 cm) Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Untitled, ca. 1988–1990 Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Oil on hardboard cabinet door with metal hinges Gift of the artist Gift of the artist donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and 27 × 20½ inches (68.6 × 52.1 cm) Eve France Gift of William Fagaly in honor of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, Vietnam War Veteran Jim Roxby, Wilkes Barre, Stephanie and John Smither D.C., 1982–1986 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, Jack Whitten, Broken Plane #3, 1972. Pennsylvania, 1981 From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial D.C., 1982–1986 From the series Agent Orange Gelatin silver print From the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial Gelatin silver print Image: 12 × 16½ inches (30.4 × 41.9 cm) Gelatin silver print Image: 11 × 15⅝ inches (27.9 × 39.6 cm) Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Image: 11⅛ × 16½ inches (28.2 × 41.9 cm) Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Gift of the artist Sheet: 16 × 19⅞ inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and donor, Gay Block and Malka T. Drucker, and Eve France Eve France

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his year the Menil published titles in print and, for the first time, in electronic format, updating the museum’s mandate to contribute significantly to scholarship while informing and educating our audiences. Our first Online TFeature, or e-publication, Wolf and Caribou, features videos of Native Alaskan singers and dancers perform- ing before Yup’ik masks in the museum. Two books were co-published with partnering museums, Apparitions with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Copley with the Prada Foundation, Milan.

Last year’s book Barnett Newman The Late Work, 1965–1970, was awarded a First Prize in Publication Design, Exhibition Catalogues, by the American Alliance of Museums.

Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings William N. Copley As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from from 1860 to Now Edited by Germano Celant, with contributions by the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither Allegra Pesenti Gwen L. Allen, Paul B. Franklin, Alison M. Gingeras, Michelle White, with contributions by Lynne Adele, Brooke Davis 132 pages, 111 illustrations Jonathan Griffin, and Toby Kamps Anderson, Haley Berkman, David Breslin, Víctor M. Espinosa, September 2015 384 pages, 590 illustrations William Fagaly, Edward M. Gómez, Jo Farb Hernández, Copublished with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles February 2016 Lee Kogan, Colin Rhodes, and Leslie Umberger Alice Award nominee, Furthermore Foundation Copublished with the Fondazione Prada, Milan 112 pages, 114 illustrations Winner, 50 Books/50 Covers, American Institute of June 2016 Graphic Arts

The Menil’s first e-publication Wolf and Caribou: Two Yup’ik Masks Sean Mooney 8 webpages, 2 videos, 18 illustrations December 2015

Apparitions

pp. 48–49: Assistant Paintings Conservator Katrina Rush adjusts the microscope in the conservation studio.

50 | | 51 SCHOLARSHIP Website Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings

Many recordings of Menil programming, such as this conversation among Francis Alÿs and curators Lynne Cooke and Toby Kamps (left to right), are now available online.

New Content Populates menil.org Since the launch of the new site in September 2015, visits are up 60 percent, with an average of 25,000 visits to the site per month. The Menil video channel now displays forty Progress Report videos, including thirty-four public program The research phase of catalogue preparation drew to a and symposia recordings, increasing the reach close in 2015, and final manuscript preparation began. of the programming while forming a valuable The complete set of photographs and the catalogue online archive. Twelve stories were launched entries were transferred from the New York office to in May 2016 in the new feature called Articles, the Publishing Department for editing, design, and including artist profiles, conservation stories, preliminary production phases. David Breslin, former and interviews with Menil curators; Articles John R. Eckel, Jr. Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing will represent various Menil Collection voices Institute, worked with Johns Project Manager Eileen and report on research and news of interest to Costello and the Menil’s Director of Publishing Joseph our audiences. Newland to move the catalogue toward completion.

Jasper Johns Top: Flag, 1959. The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of David Whitney.

Right: Corpse, 1974–75. The Menil Collection, Houston, In-depth features from the Bequest of David Whitney. Articles section of the website.

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Rothko Chapel’s Broken Obelisk Initiating a twelve-month conservation treatment, the sculpture was de-installed in January 2016 and shipped to the Richard Tuttle (left) with current Lippincott facility in West Haven, Preparator Kent Dorn installing Connecticut. The sculpture is undergoing a work in the exhibition The design modifications to permit easier Precarious. During Tuttle’s Menil visit he was interviewed for the access to its interior spaces for maintenance Artists Documentation Project. and to promote drainage of the water that regularly collects inside the obelisk through condensation. The current schedule has the sculpture reinstalled in the reflecting pool iscal year 2016 saw the continuation and expan- Artists Documentation Project in early January 2017. sion of the groundbreaking Artists Documentation A new $300,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foun­ Project. The conservation department was also dation will support the fundamental educational, publishing, busy with a number of important treatment proj- and preservation aspects of Artist Documentation Project Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk was removed ects of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. New by embedding the ADP Archivist’s activities within full-time from its reflecting pool in January 2016 to undergo Fresearch initiatives included a 3-D scanning program. permanent positions at the Menil Collection. Additionally, the conservation treatment. funds will support a pilot ADP Fellowship shared between the Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Menil remains grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Treatment of Frank Bowling’s Middle Passage Foundation’s ongoing support of and interest in ADP. In 1990, Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation Desi Peters began as part of a grant to the Menil, the Foundation funded a pilot treatment on Frank Bowling’s Middle Passage, a large ten foot- project developed by Carol Mancusi-Ungaro that sought to square painting in need of extensive cleaning and structural document artists’ views toward future preservation of their work. This treatment is the first time the painting has been art. The project, funded by the $85,000 grant, resulted in the stretched and accessible for examination and conservation production of twenty-five interviews at the Menil. In 2009, since it was included in the Some American History exhibition the Foundation provided $195,000 to create the ADP Archive, in 1971 at the Rice Museum, Institute for the Arts. a widely accessible—yet responsible—repository that serves as a model for artist interview archives and contributes to the study, preservation, and exhibition of contemporary art. The consolidation integrated thirty-three artist interviews from partner institutions into a single archive, preserved the mate- rial through digitization, and made the collection accessible to both specialist and general audiences. In 2011, a further $96,086 grant supported the production of eleven additional artist interviews, along with significant outreach efforts and a Chief Conservator Brad Epley (right) interviews Robert Gober for the Artists Documentation Project. website use-assessment component. Artist Richard Tuttle was interviewed in October 2015. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation Desi Peters examines Frank Bowling’s Middle Passage.

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Evan Lee (right) from the University of Houston’s Center for Advanced Resulting 3D wireframe rendering of the Computing and Data Systems scans the Malian figurative sculpture with the sculpture. help of Assistant Objects Conservator Kari Dodson.

3D Scanning of Malian Terra-Cottas Conservation Scholars Day for TRESPASS Framer and Conservation Photographer Adam Neese, Four Djenne terra-cotta sculptures—the final objects compris- During TRESPASS, the Vivian L. Smith Foundation Associate Curator Clare Elliott, and Conservation Studio ing the Menil’s contribution to a collaborative project with the Symposium, Trisha Brown’s drawing Untitled (Montpellier) Technician Grace Walters (left to right) align pieces of a 1958 untitled work by Jay DeFeo. Honors College at the University of Houston—were digitally (10 x 8 foot, on paper), 2002, was unrolled for the first time scanned in April. The 3D scans will enable manipulation and since the Menil acquired it in 2014. It initiated discussion on altered viewpoints of these high-definition surrogates, and gesture as participants were able to explore the same method Treatments for Holy Barbarians their value as a new form of documentation will be evaluated. of mark-making employed by the artist—paint and charcoal sticks held in both hands and between toes—to better under- Assistant Objects Conservator Kari Dodson and stand the full-body movements documented in the original. Summer Conservation Intern Meaghan Perry Processing of Smither Collection Promised Gifts treated multiple objects on view for the upcoming Ninety-six works, including paintings, sculpture, and works on Holy Barbarians exhibition including an assemblage paper were processed and treated by conservation as part of by Edward Kienholz titled Conversation Piece, 1959. the assessment and exhibition of the promised gifts included in Fragments from a large untitled work by Jay DeFeo the exhibition As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the were united with a completed collage, White Spica, Collection of Stephanie 1958/1973, and reassembled in the conservation lab and John Smither. to determine their original configuration.

Art historians experi­mented with re-creating the marks on Trisha Brown’s Untitled Mellon Fellow Meaghan Perry working (Montpellier), 2002, during on Edward Kienholz’s assemblage the TRESPASS symposium. Conversation Piece, 1959.

56 | | 57 SCHOLARSHIP RESEARCH: Library RESEARCH: Archives

he Menil Archives was officially established in 2000 and houses not only Menil Foundation records, but also those related to John and Dominique de Menil’s personal and institu- tional affiliations throughout their lifetimes, Tincluding their family archives. Other special collections related to the museum have been added. During its first sixteen years of operation, this initial accumulation of fifty years of records was catalogued—the crucial step needed to organize and make them accessible for research. With the implementation of a comprehensive Records Management Program, the Menil Foundation departmental records are transferred to the archives on a regular basis. After cataloguing, some are transported to a local offsite records storage facility, where they are securely stored and readily accessible. Records that are referred to frequently by staff and patrons remain onsite. Page from Manet’s illustrated edition of Poe’s The Raven. Page spread from the library’s first edition of Colanna’s This fiscal year there was an increase in the volume of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, now digitized for online access. records transferred to the archives due to the relocation of several departments into newly renovated bungalow offices. Lectures, panels, and symposia are now routinely iscal year 2016 was a busy and exciting one for galleries, Texas Gallery and Hiram Butler Gallery, making recorded and added to the Film and Media Collection, the Menil Collection Library. In February 2016 we them available to the scholarly community. providing future researchers with a wealth of first-person welcomed a full-time professional librarian, Lauren Of course, our primary function remains the collecting documentation on artists and scholars. A Menil–related Gottlieb-Miller, to the staff in the new position of of print books and periodicals. The library added 1,263 titles. oral history project continues, this year adding the recol- Assistant Librarian. Lauren received her Masters Highlights include purchases for Special Collections with lections of Houston gallerist Barbara Cusack Hill. Fof Library and Information Science from the University of Friends of the Library funds: L’âge du Cinéma: numéro special, Archival Assistant Lisa Barkley retrieves onsite records. When research for the forthcoming Jasper Johns Wisconsin at Madison. She brings expertise in the history of Surrealiste, 1951, and Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Malerei Fotografie Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings was completed, all the book and is current on changing technologies in museum Film, 1927. the supporting documentation was transferred to the and academic libraries. Sixty-eight outside scholars made ninety-four research archives, making it available for future study. This year also saw the library engage in its first compre- visits during fiscal year 2016. The library distributed ninety For the first time, a selection of finding aids from hensive digitization project, with the cataloguing and capture books through Interlibrary Loans and borrowed twenty-seven the institutional and special collection records databases of gallery guides from the museum’s exhibitions. volumes from affiliated libraries for Menil-related research. were digitized. Available through the We currently have ninety-four guides available in museum website, these finding aids electronic form, accessible via our library cata- will greatly expand awareness of and logue and the OCLC Union Catalogue; we are access to archival collections. also adding these guides to the Getty Research Meanwhile, the onsite facility Portal, to which the Menil is one of twenty-one remains a busy research center. In contributing institutions. fiscal year 2016, 375 internal and exter- Also available in cyberspace, with the assis- nal requests were fielded. Fifty-four tance of the museum’s Imaging Services, are the outside researchers from multiple first three complete surrogates of works from our geographical regions made 101 sepa- Special Collections: Eduoard Manet’s 1875 illus- rate visits to the special collections. trated edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773 (thought to be the first published work by an African American), and our 1499 first edition of Francesco Colanna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a seminal work in The Menil Archives houses many unique items: these small wood maquettes were the history of printing. The library has also the basis for Tony Smith’s outdoor steel begun creating stable surrogates of exhibition Friends of the Library acquisition: a rare copy of L’âge du cinéma, 1951, with film still sculptures commissioned by John and catalogues from two important Houston on the cover from Jindřich Heisler’s Le Surmâle. Dominique de Menil in 1969.

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COMMUNITY

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pp. 60–61: Jeremy Eugene (fore- ground) and others perform in a Houston VIP Poetry Slam as part of MenilFest!

p. 62: Composer and musician Glenn Kotche performed a solo percussion set including the premiere of a new composition commissioned as a response to the exhibition Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now.

Sam Gilliam conversed with Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis in conjunction with the exhibition Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experiences.

ublic programs, always free, drew diverse visitors to events related to or beyond the immediate concerns of Menil exhibitions. Artist, scholars, and musicians of international renown spoke to and performed for audiences who were welcomed from the entire community. The Menil’s popular Poutdoor programs, including MenilFest!, continued to draw crowds, and this year an evening-long festival at the downtown Discovery Green celebrated outsider artists and art cars in conjunction with the exhibition As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither.

Yve-Alain Bois presented the Third Marion Barthelme Lecture concerning the work of Ellsworth Kelly.

Following a lecture and reading from his new nonfiction book The White Road, Edmund de Waal participated in a booksigning.

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Germano Celant, Alison Gingeras, Toby Kamps, and Jonathan Griffin held a spirited conversation about the artist William N. Copley (CPLY).

The Menil Collection hosted two events as part of the CounterCurrent16 festival organized by the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Lonnie Holly (center) with other musicians performed at Discovery Green Mitchell Center for the Arts. as part of the celebrations surrounding the exhibition As Essential as Dreams: Self-Taught Art from the Stephanie and John Smither Collection. Right: Big Dance Theater’s This Page Left Intentionally Blank provided a satirical guided audio-tour of various Menil neighborhood sites.

Below: Anthony Hawley’s Fault Diagnosis performance centered around a stalled car at the Menil’s SBC parking lot.

Trenton Doyle Hancock joined publisher Dan Nadal in a conversation inspired by the exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY.

Right: Charles Ray presented “Matisse and Super Clay,” the second of three lectures in his series Thoughts on Sculpture.

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Menil Intern and Volunteer Programs n addition to its diverse and always free public program­­ The Menil Collection offers internship opportunities to under­ ming, the Menil Collection promotes educa­­tional endeavors graduate and graduate students enrolled currently in the History associated with elemen­tary, middle, and high school levels of Art Departments at Rice University and the University of Houston. by supporting Writers in the Schools and at the university level Students support research and exhibition planning and development through research studies, internships, and fellowships. In under the guidance of a Menil curator or staff members in other I2016 a variety of indepth informational programs and study departments. For those interested in museo­logical careers, these opportunities were held in connection with numerous internships offer exposure to museum practice. museum activities. Each year, departments throughout the museum are assisted by volunteers who donate their time and energy to support the Menil. 2016 Assistance Programs ■ 26 interns and volunteers VIVIAN L. SMITH FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM ■ Participants contributed 2,159 hours TRESPASS: Entering the Scene of Making April 16, 2016

The Menil Collection offers a one-year fellowship for Thomas J. Lax, seventh recipient of the Walter Hopps Award, deliv- Writing at the Menil ered his lecture in October 2015. graduate students in art history at the University of Since 1989, Writers in the Schools (WITS) has brought Houston Texas, Austin, to work on their dissertations while school children to the Menil Collection for one-on-one encounters receiving collegial advice and using the museum’s Seventh Walter Hopps Award with the art displayed here. Many receive their first direct expo- library, archives, and permanent collection as aids for for Curatorial Achievement sure to works of art. Often students are awakened to the power their research. Established in 2001 in honor of Menil Founding of both art and literature by expressing their responses in their In 2016 the related symposium proposed new Director Walter Hopps (1932–2005), the award recog- own voices. A juried competition chooses students to be pub- ways to understand the scenes and narratives of art- nizes curators in early to mid-career who have made lished in the Watchful Eye anthology and to read their work at making. Modern and contemporary works of art that significant contributions to the field of contemporary the Menil Collection at the end of the school year. Sixty harness live human behavior, or that rely on multiple art. In conjunction with the award, which confers students were published and read from their works in 2016. drafts or iterations, reveal that the scope of artmaking a stipend of $20,000, the recipient delivers a public 2016 WITS Participation at the Menil is wider than a single creator and often not easily quan- lecture at the Menil Collection. From a field of seven 6,000 primary and secondary students tifiable. Katie Anania, PhD candidate in art history at candidates, Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator in the ■ the Univer­sity of Texas at Austin and Vivian L. Smith Department of Media and Performance Art at the ■ 180 classrooms from 25 Gulf Coast–area schools Anna Lovatt speaking at the symposium. Curatorial Fellow at the Menil Collection, moderated Museum of Modern Art, New York, was chosen by a ■ 51 separate field trips to the museum a diverse group of scholars. distinguished curatorial panel as the seventh recipient Moderator Katie Anania with (left to right) Peggy Phelan, Stanford University; of the award. WITS students visit the Cy Twombly Gallery with Cornelia Butler, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Anna Lovatt, Southern Methodist WITS writers Adrienne Perry (left) and Warren Rawson. This fellowship and symposium are generously under- University; and Judith Rodenbeck, Univer­sity of California, Riverside, during the written by the Vivian L. Smith Foundation. Vivian L. Smith Foundation Symposium TRESPASS.

66 | 67 ENGAGEMENT Education Menil Bookstore

Installation view of Root Shift: Photographs of Stasis and Change Selected by CAMH Teen Council.

An Institutional Collaboration The Teen Council is an annual elected group organized by the The CAMH Teen Council is supported by Louisa Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The teenagers are tasked with Stude Sarofim, Texas Women for the Arts, and the creating fresh and challenging public programming and artworks curated Texas Commission on the Arts. The exhibition by youth and accessible to everyone. This exhibition coincided with was generously supported by the City of Houston. FotoFest 2016 Biennial and focused on the camera’s consistent role in The Menil Bookstore is a popular gathering spot during MenilFest! processing change, even as social understandings of change continue to With the CAMH’s Jamal Cyrus looking on (lower evolve. The collaboration between the Menil and CAMH provides teens left), Menil Curatorial Assistant Haley Berkman with the opportunity to learn about the curatorial process by working (third from left) introduces the CAMH Teen Council closely with museum staff to organize an exhibition. to the Menil Collection exhibition model. n fiscal year 2016, the Menil Bookstore experienced increased attendance due to the acclaimed exhibit Apparitions. The bookstore’s bungalow welcomed 25,240 visitors. Interest in other complementary books, merchandise, and jewelry followed. The book- Istore also added several successful and well-received events to its calendar, including a Holiday Trunk Show in November, which featured Houston-based artists and artisans; over 200 guests attended. This year, the bookstore renewed its focus on carrying not only important and hard-to-find art publications, but also an array of toys, gifts, and works by local artists. Featured were paintings by Tod Bailey and Bill Davenport, sculpture by David Graeve and Mari Omari, and art glass by Kim Renteria. In addition, the children’s section carries Italian, Spanish, and French titles along with award-winning toys designed for child development. The Menil Bookstore was also photographed for Milieu magazine, a feature that will appear in its Spring 2017 edition.

MENIL BOOKSTORE 1520 Sul Ross Street Tuesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. The Menil Bookstore is one of Houston’s foremost locations for art publications and unique merchandise.

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Members’ Noontime Talks Noontime talks are an opportunity for members to engage directly with works of art in the galleries, focusing on specific aspects of the collection or on exhibitions. Held on Fridays, all talks are led by curators, conservators, or select staff and make exhibitions more intimate and reveal the collection as never before. Fiscal year 2016 was the first full year of weekly noontime talks, with a total of thirty-one conducted. Topics ranged from Cardiff Miller’s The Infinity Machine on view at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel to a discussion on exhibition design.

Members receive invitations to exhibition opening receptions throughout the year.

Menil Contemporaries kicked off the Menil Contemporaries Fund at the Cy Twombly Gallery.

embers of the Menil Collection are a dynamic, Menil Contemporaries Fund important part of the museum, and their contri- In spring 2016, the Menil Contemporaries joined The Campaign for Members gathered for the annual Menil by Moonlight celebration, which included a special butions are vital in sustaining our neighborhood the Menil through a crowdsourcing effort to establish a permanent preview of the exhibition William N. Copley: of art. Fiscal year 2016 ended with nearly 2,000 endowment fund in support of neighborhood greening. The The World According to CPLY. supporters whose annual gifts helped to fund Menil Contemporaries Fund is an essential part of the museum’s Mthe museum’s general operations and ensure that the Menil commitment to environmentally responsible practices, with remains free and available for all for generations to come. particular regard to sustainability and native ecology. These Menil Society members mingled at the annual Spring Cocktails at Menil House. Menil membership offers many benefits throughout the efforts include replanting the museum’s courtyards with native year, including exhibition openings and special events. At vegetation, additional lush plant beds in the main parking lot, and the annual all-member party Menil by Moonlight, hundreds the expansion of the Menil’s green spaces. The initiative formally gathered for live music, signature cocktails, and refreshments launched with a kick-off event held in the Cy Twombly Gallery at an after-hours celebration of the exhibition William N. in March 2016. Contributions to the Menil Contemporaries Fund Copley: The World According to CPLY. In October 2015, have included individual gifts as well as proceeds from a series of outgoing Director Josef Helfenstein received a farewell toast in ticketed events, including the Menil Contemporaries Fund Dinner. thanks for his twelve years of service and leadership after his address at State of the Museum. Menil Society patrons enjoyed exhibition previews, gallery talks, and evening receptions including Menil Society Spring Cocktails at Menil House, the former residence of John and Dominique de Menil. In September 2015, a group of Menil Society members traveled to Chicago, where they visited private collections, galleries, and museums. The Menil Contemporaries, comprised of young professionals, engaged with the museum through programs specially designed for this group of supporters and hosted the popular Menil Contemporaries Holiday Party in December 2015.

Guests enjoyed an elegant seated dinner in support of the Menil Contemporaries Fund.

70 | | 71 FINANCIALS

72 | | 73 FINANCIALS For Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016

Income Expenses $20.5 Million $20.5 Million

% EXHIBITIONS. % PROGRAMMING. % % ENDOWMENT DRAW and PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM  DEPARTMENTS OTHER * % ADVANCEMENT % % CAPITAL REAL ESTATE % % EXPENSES ADVANCEMENT ADMINISTRATION % REAL ESTATE

* Museum departments include: Archives, Bookstore, % Collections Management, Communications, Conservation, BOOKSTORE Curatorial, Exhibition Design, Facilities & Security, Information and OTHER Technology, Library, Public Programs, and Publishing. % OTHER (Inculding Non-Rental Properties) Advancement Investment Portfolio $5.5 Million $229 Million

% % MEMBERSHIP INDIVIDUAL % GIFTS DOMESTIC EQUITY % FUNDRAISING % EVENTS ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS % % HOTEL % INTERNATIONAL OCCUPANCY % TAX FOUNDATION EQUITY SUPPORT FIXED INCOME

% % CORPORATE GIFTS Data is derived from the financial statements PRIVATE EQUITY of Menil Foundation, Inc. as of June 30, 2016. A complete set of Menil Foundation, Inc. audited financial statements for 2015–2016 is available on request.

pp. 72–73: Visitors at the Cy Twombly Gallery.

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76 | | 77 SUPPORT DONORS July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016

The Menil gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their cumulative gifts of $500 and above between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. Gifts shown here include all non-membership gifts in support of annual museum operations, exhibitions, conservation, public programming, and other projects.

For more information about making a gift, please contact the Advancement Office at 713-525-9437.

$500,000+ $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous Chinhui and Eddie Allen Anne Schlumberger The Brown Foundation, Inc. Suzanne Deal Booth Vivian L. Smith Foundation Brad and Leslie Bucher Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray Mike and Diane Cannon $200,000–$499,999 The Eleanor and Frank Freed Mr. and Mrs. Derek Goodman Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Houston Museum District Association Agnes Gund Anonymous John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Janet and Paul Hobby Richard and Susan Anderson The Wortham Foundation Linda and George Kelly The Brown Foundation, Inc./ Anne and David Kirkland Ralph Abendshein Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Bettie Cartwright $100,000–$199,999 Helen C. Kleberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Doug Fordyce The Cullen Foundation Janie C. Lee and David B. Warren The George and Mary Josephine Da Camera Young Artists performed at the annual community-wide gathering MenilFest! Houston Endowment Kathrine G. McGovern/ Hamman Foundation Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz McGovern Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hamman Charitable Trust Susan and Francois de Menil Russell and Diana Hawkins Madame Bérengère Primat Franci Neely Dr. and Mrs. George de Menil $5,000–$9,999 $1,000–$4,999 Helen and Sam Zell Marilyn Oshman Cecily Horton and Andrew Schneck Anonymous Anonymous (3) Janis Cecil Harry and Karen Pinson Claude L. Parker, M.D. R. Edwin Allday and Francey Pengra Henrietta Alexander Cerón Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Texas Commission on the Arts Laura and John Arnold Craig Anglemier Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Clarke $50,000–$99,999 Leslie and Shannon Sasser Phoebe and Bobby Tudor The Brown Foundation, Inc./ Carol and Les Ballard Estela and David Cockrell The Brown Foundation, Inc./ Cris and Elisa Pye James Bell Stephanie and Ernie Cockrell Allison Sarofim Mr. and Mrs. Paul Chapman Andy and Kate Bellin The Cooper Union School Clare Casademont and Michael Metz Isabel and Danny David Dr. Henry P. Bethea Chris and Lauri Cragg Adelaide de Menil Jo and Jim Furr Gina and Devinder Bhatia Hilda and Gregory Curran Fayez Sarofim Barbara and Michael Gamson Dr. Kevin Black and Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Cushman Anne and Bill Stewart Eleanor and Dan Gilbane Mr. Anthony Bradfield Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daly Terra Foundation for American Art Kate and Shawn Gross Ms. Gay Block and Ms. Malka Drucker Helen Davis Michael Zilkha Leslie and Mark Hull Denis and Karen Boulle Sara Paschall Dodd Mr. and Mrs. David P. Kapiloff Kristy and Chris Bradshaw Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski Charles Leykum Laurence and Henry Bragg Genna and Jon Evans Beth and Greg Looser Kristen and David Buck Marita and J. B. Fairbanks Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Lummis Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Jana and Richard Fant Roy and Evelyn Nolen Libby Cagle Diane Lokey Farb Cabrina and Steven Owsley Jennifer and Carl Campbell Zeina and Nijad Fares Leigh and Reggie Smith William T. Cannady Carolyn Grant Fay Marcy and Tom Wessel Chris Carson Mr. and Mrs. Tull Florey Richard W. Flowers pp. 76–77: Preview of the exhibition Tripp Carter As Essential as Dreams. Photography curator Peter Galassi’s lecture drew a standing-room-only crowd; such free events are supported by the generosity of Menil donors. 78 | | 79 SUPPORT DONORS July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016

Dean Putterman Mark Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. James L. Dunlap Bradley Radoff Mr. William Tempel Paul Francis Forsythe and Eliza Lovett Randall Natasha and Paris Theofanidis David Aylsworth Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Reckling III John and Becca Cason Thrash Ms. Eve R. France Mr. and Mrs. Todd Reppert Anne and Richard B. Vaughan Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Girouard Ronald Restrepo and Candace Baggett Rob and Maggie Vermillion Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Godfrey Mr. and Mrs. Donald Reynolds Richmond Walker Ann Hamilton Laura and Will Robertson Vivian M. Wise Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kelly Leslie and Russ Robinson Tana Wood Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Lummis Rob Royall Lynn Wyatt Kinder Foundation Nancy and Clive Runnells Steven Wyatt Carla Knobloch John Sapp Elizabeth and Barry Young Mrs. Elyse Lanier Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scanlan Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Zuber Mr. and Mrs. John McKay Laureen Schipsi and Thomas Bolling Kathryn G. Neuhaus Ally Shell-van Koolwïj and Eric Osborne Martin van Koolwïj $500–$999 Michael Phillips Kelly and Nicholas Silvers Patricia Beaver and Gary Skakun H. Russell Pitman Fred Smith Richard L. and Robin Brooks Kathryn and Richard Rabinow Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Smith Maude L. Carter Mr. and Mrs. Luc Schlumberger Lucas Somoza Clyfford Still Museum Douglas Smith Lois and George Stark Helen Bettman Cohen Emily Leland Todd David R. Stevenson Michael Conforti Ms. Megan Williams and Mary Strahan and Jason Norwood Angus Corquodale Mr. Paul Ellebrecht Hanna Struever Mike and Gayle DeGeurin John L. Zipprich II Inclement weather brought the exuberance indoors for Who R U?, the annual children’s costume party.

Jeff Fort Nicole and Evan H. Katz Marc Melcher Gregory E. Fourticq Boo and John Kennedy Matilda B. Melnick, M.D. Milane Duncan Frantz Fadila and Paal Kibsgaard Michele Mendenhall Elizabeth and Will Galtney Kirkpatrick Family Fund Benjamin de Menil Edward J. Gibbon Jr. Katie Kitchen and Paul Kovach Ms. Victoria de Menil Glen Gonzalez and Steve Summers Christopher Knapp Gary Mercer Laura and Evan Greenberg Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter Mimi Ormand Miller Trey and Blakely Griggs Lee Lahourcade Melissa and Michael Mithoff Albert and Melissa Grobmyer George C. Lancaster Ginni and Richard Mithoff Kate and Shawn Gross Jennifer and Chris Laporte Mark Monroe Janet Gurwitch Stephanie Larsen Mr. and Mrs. David Moriniere Lauren and Warren Harris Douglas Lawing and Guy Hagstette Anne and Jack Moriniere Lisa and Michael Holthouse Ms. Renee Lewis Colin Moussa Ms. Robyn Holzrichter Victoria and Marshal Lightman Mr. and Mrs. Tim Neumann Courtney and Bo Hopson Lucinda and Javier Loya Duyen and Marc Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Husseini Mr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Mafrige Jr. Scott and Judy Nyquist Anika Jackson Nancy McGregor and Neal Manne Dene Oliver Ms. Rosemarie Johnson and Craig and Tatiana Massey Jason Page Mr. Scott Wood Poppi Massey Paula and Jeff Paine Brenda and Brad Jones Cynthia and Robert McClain George and Elizabeth Passela Ms. Kay Kamin Mrs. Christy K. McWhorter Katherine and Bill Phelps Joan and Marvin Kaplan The Meadows Foundation The Powell Foundation

Menil green spaces welcome the community year round. 80 | | 81 SUPPORT CORPORATE July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016

FRIENDS of the LIBRARY

A distinguished affinity group, Friends of the Library brings together Menil members who value and promote $1,000–$4,999 exceptional literature. Their donations Amegy Bank of Texas directly support the museum’s scholarly Barbara Davis Gallery efforts and broaden the library’s holdings. Blackstone Oil and Gas The GE Foundation Gensler Houston Tomorrow Antiquarian International Flow Services LP/ Bettie Cartwright Puffer-Sweiven LP Paul Forsythe and David Aylsworth Laboratoria Laureen Schipsi and Thomas Bolling The 2016 Friends of the Library event was hosted by Texas Gallery, where gallerist Louis Vuitton, Houston Galleria Michael Zilkha and artists’ book collector Ian Glennie (right) shared his incomparable collection of Patek Philippe by de Boulle contemporary books with the membership. Tall City Exploration Teton Strategic Investments, Inc. Scholar TOD’S Bibliophile Tootsies Paolo and Surpik Angelini Helen Winkler Fosdick Guests attend a dinner Ms. Charlott A. Card and Mr. Lonnie Hoogeboom and Dr. Betsy Strauch celebrating Tom Ford to Mr. Robert D. Childers AIA Mr. Rich A. Levy and Ms. Dinah Chetrit benefit the Menil Collection. $500–$999 Karen and Bernardo Lastre Mr. Edward Lukasek CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ConocoPhillips Ronald Restrepo and Candace Baggett Ms. Shelby Miller and Mr. David Courtwright LINN Energy, LLC Emily Leland Todd The Menil Collection is pleased to recognize gifts from corporations in fiscal year 2016. Mrs. Mireille Schellhorn and Mr. Stephan Laue Page Southerland Page, Inc. Lynn Wexler $100,000 + $10,000–$24,999 Bank of America Architectural Digest BB&T Bloomberg Philanthropies $50,000–$99,999 IN-KIND DONORS GLASS KEY SOCIETY Frost Bank Art Mix Creative Learning Center The Glass Key Society, named after a beloved Magritte Tom Ford Gilbane Building Co. Aztec Rentals painting in the collection, honors individuals who have Jones Day Banfi included the Menil Collection in their wills, personal Lazard $25,000–$49,999 Bergner and Johnson Design trusts, or other planned giving arrangements. Through Pelican Builders JPMorgan Chase Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. their thoughtful contributions, members of the Glass Key Schlumberger United Airlines Candylicious Society help to ensure a vital future for the museum. Skadden, Arps Central Market Thompson & Knight LLP City Kitchen Heights Cigar Lounge Anonymous (4) William F. Lassiter Infovine Jeff O. Beauchamp Mary Hale Lovett McLean $5,000–$9,999 Jackson and Company Julie and John Cogan Jr. Mr. Marc Melcher Baker Botts LLP Microsoft Collection of Mollie R. and Franci Neely Baker Hughes Nice Wines William T. Cannady Laurie Newendorp Pro/Sound Cardno Haynes Whaley, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Cushman Francesco Pellizzi Conway MacKenzie, Inc. Public Address Design Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Stephanie and René Magritte, The Glass Key, 1959. The Menil Collection, Houston. Shell Oil Company Smilebooth Alex Heylen and Monika Lybeer John H. Smither* Vaughan Nelson Investment Sprinkles Cupcakes For information about making a legacy gift, please contact Management LP Treaty Oak Distilling Co. Marjorie G. Horning John L. Zipprich II Paige and Todd Johnson Karen Sumner, Director of Advancement, at 713-525-9455. * Deceased

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THE MENIL SOCIETY Benefactor Friend The Menil Society comprises the core Anonymous Anonymous patrons of the Menil Collection. Their Henrietta Alexander Mrs. Nancy C. Allen significant and sustaining contributions Chinhui and Eddie Allen Brad and Leslie Bucher make possible the preservation and Richard and Susan Anderson Mike and Diane Cannon expansion of the permanent collection John and Laura Arnold Robert J. Card, M.D. and Karol Kreymer and support the museum’s special Suzanne Deal Booth Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Carney exhibitions, publications, and programs. Charles Butt Bettie Cartwright Clare Casademont and Michael Metz Jereann Chaney Julie and John Cogan Jr. Sara Paschall Dodd Menil Society programming was Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Cushman Barbara and Michael Gamson generously supported by Frost Bank Agnes Gund Heidi and David Gerger and Pelican Builders. Guy Hagstette Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Russell and Diana Hawkins Karsten Greve Janet and Paul Hobby Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hamman Linda and George Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hepper Mr. and Mrs. Paal Kibsgaard Mr. Ardon B. Judd Jr. Menil Society members Judy and Scott Nyquist (center) visited with curators Michelle White and Toby Kamps at a Douglas Lawing and Guy Hagstette Mrs. Nancy R. Judd private residence. Rochelle and Max Levit Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Kempner III Matthew Marks Anne and David Kirkland Lea Weingarten Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Richard L. and Robin Brooks Lisa and Will Mathis Michael and Jeanne Klein Marcy and Tom Wessel Mr. and Mrs. Downing Mears Mr. Bill Brosius and Mr. Ron Guillard Kathrine G. McGovern/McGovern Dillon A. Kyle and Sam Lasseter Lettalou Garth Whittington Marc Melcher Mr. Julian Brown and Ms. Daryl Koehn Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Long Ben and Marion Wilcox Ms. Vickie Milazzo and Mr. Richard W. Brown and Susan and Francois de Menil Beth and Greg Looser Mr. and Mrs. Wallace S. Wilson Mr. Thomas Ziemba Ms. Laura Sulak Franci Neely Marley Lott Lynn Wyatt William R. and Cristina G. Moore Ms. Mary Ann Bruni Marilyn Oshman Nancy McGregor and Neal Manne Fan and Peter Morris Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Madame Bérengère Primat Mr. and Mrs. John L. Marion Fellow Carol and David Neuberger Mrs. Jennifer Butkevich Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Cynthia and Robert McClain Mrs. Robert H. Allen Bob and Trilla Pando Mr. Hiram Butler and Leslie and Shannon Sasser Gary Mercer Anne H. Bass Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Reckling III Mr. Andrew Spindler-Roesle Anne Schlumberger Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ordway Jeff O. Beauchamp Nancy and Clive Runnells William and Virginia Camfield Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Simon Harry and Karen Pinson Mary B. Bentsen John Sapp Chris Carson Lois and George Stark Lillie Robertson Dr. John Bishop and Dr. and Mrs. H. Irving Schweppe, Jr. Tripp Carter Anne and Bill Stewart Drew and Edna Robins Dr. Melina J. McCarty Bishop María Inés Sicardi Mr. and Mrs. William H. Caudill Eugene and Clare Thaw Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Schirrmeister Cindy and Larry Burns Mrs. Ellen C. L. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Paul Chapman Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray Jacqueline and Richard Schmeal Will Cannady Leigh and Reggie Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ching-Wu Chu Morris Weiner Adrienne and Tim Unger Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles Stephanie K. Smither Helen Bettman Cohen Mark E. Taylor Cecil C. Conner and Michael Zilkha Ann Wales Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Cooksey Rania Daniel John L. Zipprich II David L. Groover Isabel and Danny David Sanford and Susie Criner Mr. and Mrs. Lance Davis Elizabeth Crowell Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski Associate Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daly Mrs. James A. Elkins III Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Adler Ms. Barbara Davis Cece and Mack Fowler Paolo and Surpik Angelini Helen Davis Ms. Deborah Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Matt Arnold Viviana and David Denechaud Margaret Hawk Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard Ms. D. Lynn Dickens Sheila and Isaac Heimbinder Ilene and Paul Barr The Honorable and Mrs. Edward P. Dorene and Frank Herzog Ms. Elisabeth A. Bates Djerejian Jerry Jeanmard Laura Bellows Mr. and Mrs. Dale F. Dorn Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Joseph Walter M. Bering Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Dorros Emilie Kilgore Bert Bertonaschi Nancy S. Dunlap Dr. Penelope and Mr. Lester Marks Berry Dunbar Bowen John and Annette Eldridge Poppi Massey Susan and Raymond Brochstein Mrs. Nanette Finger Menil Society members attended the annual Spring Cocktails at Menil House.

84 | | 85 SUPPORT MEMBERSHIP July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016 MEMBERSHIP THE MENIL SOCIETY Menil members are a special group of people whose membership directly supports John continued and Dominique de Menil’s legacy of arts patronage and helps sustain museum operations.

David and Cindy Fitch Patron Jeff Fort Dr. and Mrs. William W. Ishee Jr. Jo S. Reid Helen Winkler Fosdick Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Josh Jones Mr. and Mrs. Mohammed Salhoot Aziz Friedrich David Archer and Phyllis Panenka Ms. Kathleen Keahey and Jane and Dick Schmitt Dr. Gary M. Gartsman MD and Isabelle Bedrosian and John Heghinian Mr. Jim E. Petersen Mrs. Karen Shouse Ms. Joan Borinstein Dr. Henry P. Bethea James Kelly Mr. James Sidbury and Ms. Cullen K. Geiselman Dr. Steven Brown John and Kate Kirkland Ms. Astrid Oesmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, III Patricia Colville Ms. Stephanie L. Knight and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Smith Edward J. Gibbon Jr. Angus Corquodale Mr. Richard Duschl Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. L. Henry Gissel, Jr. Tom Doneker and Joelle Doneker William H. Lane Jr. Stephen Southern Larry and Louise Glenn Mr. John Drewer and Mr. David Jaqua Dr. and Mrs. Ernst Leiss Gail & Rodney Susholtz Timothy G. Green Virginia Dwan Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tabor Mrs. Jacob Greenberg Marcia and Tom Faschingbauer Mr. and Mrs. Angus McFadden Harold Taylor Ron and Nancy Fischer Will McLendon Mr. and Mrs. Jun Teruya Trey and Blakely Griggs Sean Mooney, Curator of the Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art, led a Menil Society gallery talk Albert and Melissa Grobmyer at the opening of the exhibition Microcosmos. Kerry Anne Galvin Ms. Dallas McNamara Ms. Barbara Tilley Laurie Haley Kate and Steve Gibson Matt Morgan Ms. Sandra Tirey and Bill Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Girouard Michael Clark and Sallie Morian Mr. Jan R. van Lohuizen Mr. and Mrs. Martyn E. Goossen Kathryn G. Neuhaus Iris and Anderson Todd John and Sarah Hastings Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. McCullough Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scanlan Dr. Kay Hale Mari Omori Mrs. June Trammell G. G. Hsieh and Mark Hausknecht Mr. and Mrs. William McGee Dr. and Mrs. H. Irving Schweppe, Jr. John and Paula Hansen James Peters Patricia Troncoso and William Pugh Dawn Hawley Mary Hale Lovett McLean Bryan S. Scrivner Ms. Kate Hansen Mr. Jim E. Petersen Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. George Vaughan Olive Hershey and A.C. Conrad Matilda B. Melnick, M.D. Robert and Cheri Seldon Mr. and Mrs. Blake Hawk Ms. Kathleen Keahey Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Vest Lee M. Huber Anthony Milam Mariana Servitje Mr. Harold Holliday and Mr. and Mrs. James L. Phillips William V. Walker Kerry Inman and Denby Auble Ginni and Richard Mithoff Mr. and Mrs. George Shipley The Honorable Anna Holliday Jason Presley Mr. Scott Wilkens and Jill and Dunham Jewett Mrs. David A. Modesett Ms. Carey C. Shuart Mrs. Carrie Horne Macey and Harry Reasoner Ms. Sylvia A. Pacholder Paige and Todd Johnson Mr. and Mrs. H. Dixon Montague Kelly and Nicholas Silvers Ann and Arthur Jones Betty Moody Mrs. Hinda Simon Ms. Beverly Jurenko and Suzanne K. Morris Douglas Smith Mr. Wayne Gardner Roy and Evelyn Nolen Josephine and Richard Smith Mr. and Mrs. David P. Kapiloff Mr. and Ms. Keith Norman John K. Smither Susan and Richard Keeton Brian O’Donnell Janet and John Springer Wendy and Mavis Kelsey, Jr. Cabrina and Steven Owsley Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Stedman Ms. Page Kempner Ms. Katy Pando Mr. Myron Steves and Jim and Sherry Kempner John E. (Sandy) Parkerson Ms. Rowena Young Boo and John Kennedy George and Elizabeth Passela Aliyya and Herman Stude Elizabeth and Albert Kidd Carrie and Al Pepi Dorothy Carsey Sumner Carla Knobloch Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Perea Dr. Lucile B. Tennant Carolyn and Paul Landen Virginia and Jean R. Perrette Emily Leland Todd Mr. and Mrs. Curt Langley Mr. and Ms. Geoffroy Petit Bridget and Patrick Wade Mrs. Elyse Lanier Mr. and Mrs. David Pruner Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wallace Mrs. Joan Schnitzer Levy Nancy and David Pustka Delise Ward and Craig Lidji Victoria and Marshal Lightman Dean Putterman Elizabeth and Jack Weingarten Dr. Evelyne Loyer Leonor and Eric Ratliff Angela K. Westwater Marvin Lummis Mr. and Mrs. Todd Reppert Larry E. Whaley Beth Madison Ronald Restrepo and Candace Baggett Melvyn and Cyvia Wolff Mari and Greg Marchbanks Mr. and Mrs. Donald Reynolds Shirley C. Wozencraft Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Ina and Philip Riley Elizabeth and Barry Young Marlene Marker James L. and Carolyn Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Zuber Mr. and Mrs. Earle Martin Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ruiz Wilmer McCorquodale Drs. Alicia Kowalchuk and Ms. Beth McCracken Benjamin Saldaña Members listen to the annual State of the Museum address, led by outgoing Director Josef Helfenstein.

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Sponsor Ms. Cay Cunningham and Dr. Catherine Karmel and Mr. Cyril Tawa Anonymous (3) Dr. James A. Murtha Ms. Chandra Katragadda Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Adams, Jr. Jonathan and Barbara Day Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Katz Rick Adams and Elizabeth McClintock Jan M. Diesel Ms. Anne L. Kinder Ms. Julia Andrieni Mrs. Miriam Edelman Dr. Paul Klotman Paolo and Surpik Angelini Mr. and Mrs. Philip Edmundson Quin D. Kroll Jr. Ms. Susan G. Anhalt Jane L. Eifler Mr. and Mrs. Aivars E. Krumins Claire and Doug Ankenman Mr. and Mrs. Lucas T. Elliot Lara Landmesser and Freddy Warner Dr. Ellis Arjmand Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ellison Ms. Carolyn Levy Susie and David Askanase Ms. Sharon Engelstein and Mr. Rich A. Levy and Ms. Dinah Chetrit Carlos Bacino Mr. Aaron Parazette Mr. and Ms Paul Liffman Jimmy and Eydie Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Carl Estes II Dr. and Mrs. Larry Lipshultz Ms. Rita M. Bergers and Ann Finkelstein John H. Louton Mr. Joel W. Abramowitz Edward and Rachel Folse Nancy Luton Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Berkman Paul Forsythe and David Aylsworth Dr. Melanie Malinowski and Ms. Nicole Betters Marta and Alan Galicki Dr. Andrew D. Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Beyer Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gilbert Ms. Evelyne Marcks Marilyn Biles Ms. Lisa K. Goetz Ms. Ellen M. Martin Ms. Angela Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Golden Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. May, Jr. Jody Blazek and David Crossley Mr. Ken Goldsmith and R. Scott and Rebecca McCay Men of Menil 2016: A Night of Comedy delivered laughs at Richmond Hall. Thomas and Sally Bolam Ms. Joanne Ritacca Mr. and Mrs. Larry F. McCrary Mrs. Preston Bolton Kenneth Adam and Gayle Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Randall McElrath Ms. Beverly Bontrager and Lance and Lenja Gould Dr. and Mrs. John Mendelsohn Mr. Kevin McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Carter Green Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Miles Ms. Pamela E. Booton Julie Greenwood Robert and Nancy Mollers Mr. and Mrs. Michael Putnam LeRoy and Adelle Shaw Ms. Jana Vander Lee Ms. Michelle Bouchard and Jonathan and Nonya Grenader Mr. and Mrs. John Monroe Kathryn and Richard Rabinow Carrie and Ed Shoemake Mr. and Mrs. George Vaughan Mr. Rowe William Dr. Robert W. Guynn Janet and Harvin Moore Mr. Peter Ragauss and Mr. Nicolas Shumway and Ms. Sally Vernon Ms. Renee Bouck Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Hall Frances E. Mount Mrs. Jennifer Smith Ragauss Mr. Robert Mayott Mr. Charles Wade and Ms. Margaret A. Boulware Michael Harkness Dr. and Mrs. Cesar Nahas Fairfax and Risher Randall Ms. Mary Siegele Ms. Barbara Jackson Judy Breitenbach and Jerry Feld Mr. and Mrs. David Harrison Carter A. Ness, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Venu Rao Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Silver Randal Weber A. R. Brenholts Dr. and Mrs. Alan Heilman W. Martin Nicholas Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ritchie Trish and Fielding Smith Fabené J. Welch Katherine T. Brown Mr. David Hendricks and Morgan Dunn O’Connor Andrew Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Craig Smyser Michael Weller and Mimi Yam Ms. Joan K. Bruchas and Mrs. Lorraine McKenna-Hendricks Diane and Charles Ofner Richard and Margot Rodriguez Ms. Linda B. Spain Tim and Elene West Mr. H. Philip Cowdin Mr. and Mrs. Alex Herrera Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Osborne Mr. and Mrs. Bradley A. Roe Dr. Alana Spiwak Dr. Walter M. Widrig Ms. Robin Bullington Ms. Laura L. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Oster Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Roff Uwe W. Steiner Beth and James Wiggins Kathleen and Glenn Cambor William E. Hill III Mr. and Mrs. Alan Pactor Jane Root Brian Stephens Ms. Betty P. Williams Maude L. Carter Mrs. Jane C. Hogan Walter and Frances Pagel Drs. Alex and Lynn Rosas Brady Steward Nancy Williams and Larry Stevens Ms. Charlott A. Card and Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Hogan, Jr. Michael Palmer John Roven Doreen Stoller and Dan Piette Joanne G. Wilson Mr. Robert D. Childers AIA Mr. Benjamin Holloway and Norman W. Parrish Linda and Jerry Rubenstein Henry W. Strobel Doug and Kay Wilson Tonia and Bob Clark Ms. Amanda M. McMillian Mr. and Mrs. José R. Pérez Jr. Dr. Mark B. Ryan and Dr. Jose I. Suarez Ms. Carolyn Norlene Wolfe Elinor and Martin Colman Mr. Lonnie Hoogeboom and Ms. Jan-Claire Phillips and Ms. Ginger Clarkson Ms. Mimi Swartz and Mr. John Wilburn Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wolff George Connelly Dr. Betsy Strauch Mr. Jerome Kendall Mary Ann Ryerson Mary Lou Swift Mr. and Mrs. Jerry S. Wolinsky Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Huffman Michael Phillips Frank Rynd Ms. Susan K. Talley and Lois and Stephen Zamora Ms. Victoria Corcoran and Julie and Thomas E. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Pickett Ms. Kyttie Sanford Ms. Claire LeBoeuf James T. Zebroski Mr. Ray Steinmetz Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Ibbott Mr. Howard R. Pitman and Dr. Franca B. Sant’Ambrogio Christina Thaller and Gregor Eichele

Steven L. Cowart Mr. Jay L. Jackson and Ms. Anne Viault Dr. and Mrs. Luis A. de Santos Dr. and Mrs. William M. Thorsell Dr. James Cox and Dr. Ritsuko Komaki Ms. Barbara J. Waugh H. Russell Pitman Ms. Kristen Schlemmer Ms. Jo Ann Thweatt Dr. Sharon Crandell Dr. George H. Johnson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Polland Mr. and Mrs. Luc Schlumberger Ellie and Jon Totz Ryan E. Crane Franny Koelsch Siddharth Prakash and Ms. Sande Schlumberger Ms. Nicola F. Toubia Nancy S. Crowther Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kamps Igna Van den Veyver Sara Shackleton and Michael McKeogh V. H. Van Horn

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MENIL CONTEMPORARIES The museum’s dynamic young professionals group, the Menil Contemporaries, is committed to supporting the Menil and promoting its mission.

Friend Caroline Starry LeBlanc and Sponsor / Sponsor Couple Jessica Phifer Jared LeBlanc Mr. Thain Allen and Mr. Jack McBride Cris and Elisa Pye Luis Macias-Navarro Mr. and Mrs. John Berger John McLaughlin Wirt Blaffer Michael Naul and Stephen Schwarz Miss Natasha Bowdoin and Fellow Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Patterson Mr. Joshua Bernstein Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski Mr. and Mrs. Paul Seifert Ms. Sara Cain Julie Kinzelman and Jill Whitten and Robert Proctor Mr. and Mrs. John Chapman Christopher Tribble Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Chastang Michael Stoeger Ms. Shannon Collins Patron / Patron Couple Ms. Tara Conley Genna and Jon Evans Ms. Jessica Crutcher Associate Matt Goff Ms. Julie L. Cushman Mr. and Mrs. David Anders Ryan Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Dalrymple Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Belknap Joshua Hansel Ms. Susan Derrick Brian Byrne Mrs. Mary Alexis Harrigan and Ms. Brittany Duncan In a spectacular dinner setting, guests kicked off the Menil Contemporaries Fund as part of The Campaign for the Menil. Katy French-Bloom and Michael Bloom Mr. Brendan Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G. Dwyer Dr. and Mrs. Patrick B. Garvey Dr. and Mrs. Surena F. Matin Ms. Pamela Ferguson Eleanor and Daniel Gilbane Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Pettigrew Paul B. Fulcher Ms. Megan Light and Shane Tolbert Kelly and Russell Hamman Mr. Chester J. Urban and Ms. Tatiana Galitzine Mr. Andrew Glisson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trenta Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kaplan Ms. Aysha Kassim-Voronoff Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Garry Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Mallay Ms. Jessica Trincanello and Ms. Despina Giannakis Mr. Jake Mase and Mr. Jeremy Griggs Mr. Adam B. Gibson and Ms. Sara Abdolpour Ms. Ann C. Trione and Mr. Vernon A. Caldera Mr. and Mrs. R. Whitney Mears Mr. Alexander Regier Jonathan Goch Ms. Tamar Mendelssohn Emerson Vance Robert and Lauren Gray Tommy Napier Mrs. Barbara Volkmer and Matthew Greenberg Ms. Jennifer Nelsen Mr. Pablo Ruiz-Berlanga Claudio Gutierrez Ms. Sarah Oshea Ms. Robyn Waring Ms. Belinda-Leigh Hall Mary Pappas Ian Wells Victor Hernandez Anne and Matthew Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wilson Ms. Melissa Huntermark Mr. and Mrs. Heath Rehfuss Ms. Mindy Wolfrom Ms. Emily Jackson and Mr. Chris Robinson and Leonard Wood Mr. Robert MacAskie Ms. Sarah Rollings Ms. Crystal Wreden Anna Kaplan Neal Sarkar Dr. Steven Yevich Ms. Madeline Kelly Ms. Colleen Sheedy Tom Young Ms. Sara Kelly Carlos Sierra Rassul Zarinfar Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kendall Mr. and Mrs. Josh Solera Dr. Christine K. Kim and David Solomon At the Menil Contemporaries Holiday Party, guests created souvenirs Mr. Christopher Kutac Robert Spiegel at the ornament bar. Ms. L.L. S. Kise and Guido Stefanelli Mr. Michael Kezirian Judd Swanson Ms. Jelena Kovacevic Ms. Katherine Thurman Members at the Sponsor level and above during Ms. Nao Kusuzaki Cade Timbers the fiscal year 2016 (July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016) are listed. Jennifer and Christopher Laporte Ms. Roxanne Tizravesh

The festive atmosphere at the annual Menil Contemporaries Holiday Party.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MENIL COUNCIL FOUNDING BENEFACTORS

Officers Henrietta K. Alexander Sylvie and Eric Boissonnas Louisa Stude Sarofim, Chinhui Juhn Allen The Brown Foundation, Inc. Chair and Life Trustee Judy Ley Allen Edmund and Adelaide de Menil Carpenter Janet M. Hobby, President William T. Cannady The Cullen Foundation Mark L. D. Wawro, Vice President Michael D. Cannon Margaret W. and J. A. Elkins Jr. Eddie R. Allen III, Secretary Nancy D. Carney The Charles Englehard Foundation Harry C. Pinson, Treasurer Bettie Cartwright Fayez Sarofim & Co. Taylor V. Cooksey Fariha and Heiner Fredrich Nancy Isabel Abendshein Isabel David Hobby Foundation Suzanne Deal Booth Daniel R. Dubrowski Houston Endowment Inc. Adelaide de Menil Carpenter David Fitch Caroline Weiss Law Clare T. Casademont Cullen K. Geiselman The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Michael Conforti Ann R. Hamman Dominique de Menil Aziz Friedrich Paula M. Harris Susan and Francois de Menil Russell B. Hawkins Claudia Horwitz Annalee G. Newman George B. Kelly Thomas A. Iannacone Susan E. and Roy S. O’Connor J. David Kirkland I. H. (Denny) Kempner III Louisa Stude Sarofim Douglas L. Lawing David Leslie Scaler Foundation, Inc. Janie C. Lee William G. Looser Annette Schlumberger Rick Lowe Nancy McGregor Manne The Wortham Foundation Benjamin de Menil Mary Hale Lovett McLean Francois de Menil Marc C. Melcher Franci Neely John Moriniere Roy L. Nolen Judy Nyquist Marilyn Oshman Patricia Belton Oliver William E. Pritchard III Geraldine Ordway Leslie Elkins Sasser Francesco Pellizzi Anne Schlumberger Jessica Phifer James W. Stewart Jr. Jerome B. Simon Michael Zilkha Louis Sklar George Stark Miles Glaser (1925–2004), emeritus Aliyya Stude Sarah Whiting

The Menil Collection framing studio in the Conservation Department.

92 | | 93 STAFF Administration Museum Departments Advancement Real Estate and Maintenance Director’s Office Archives Curatorial Shawnie Hunt, Control Room Monitor Karen Sumner, Director of Advancement Oretha Basey, Bookkeeper Thomas W. Rhoads, Interim Director Geraldine Aramanda, Archivist Haley Berkman, Curatorial Assistant Anthony Igwe, Gallery Attendant Austin Andrews, Development Services Christopher Buenrostro, Groundskeeper Sara Beck, Assistant to the Director Lisa Barkley, Archival Assistant David Breslin, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Alem Imru, Receptionist/Mail Room Clerk Associate Juan Buenrostro, Driver/Groundskeeper Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute Mitchell Johnson, Gallery Attendant Theodore Bale, Director of Foundation Ramon Castillo, HVAC/Plumbing Deputy Director’s Office Bookstore Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections Sossina Kenfere, Gallery Attendant Relations Technician Sheryl Kolasinski, Deputy Director/ Paul Forsythe, Manager Clare Elliott, Associate Curator Lerma Legaspi, Gallery Attendant Brandon Bourque, Special Events Martin Cerna, HVAC Technician Chief Operating Officer Sally Glass, Buyer/Associate Charles Q. (Toby) Kamps Jr., Curator Reynaldo Legaspi, Gallery Attendant Coordinator Aurelio Escalona, Groundskeeper Earline Gray, Assistant to the Deputy of Modern and Contemporary Art Guillermo Leguizamon, Gallery Attendant Sarah Cavan, Associate Director of Roberto Gonzalez, Maintenance Supervisor Director/Chief Operating Officer Collections Management Frances Lazare, Administrative Assistant, Kenn Martinez, Gallery Attendant Development, Corporate and Gloria Joseph, Property Manager Melissa McDonnell Luján, Susan Slepka Anderson, Chief Registrar Curatorial Department Getachew Mengesha, Gallery Attendant Individual Giving Susan Kmetz, Assistant to the Manager Budget and Project Manager David Aylsworth, Collections Registrar Kelly Montana, Curatorial Assistant, Supervisor Elsian Cozens, Director of Special Projects of Real Estate/Bookkeeper Kent Dorn, Art Preparator Menil Drawing Institute Jack Patterson Jr. Facilities Engineer Emily Darling, Special Events Assistant Georgina Molina, Leasing Consultant Finance Catherine Fitzgerald Eckels, Registrar, Sean Mooney, Curator, Edmund Carpenter Jon Pennington, Gallery Attendant Carrie Ermler, Manager of Membership Jesus Olvera, Groundskeeper John S. Trahan, Chief Financial Officer Menil Drawing Institute Collection Matthew Rojas, Gallery Attendant and Annual Fund Alvin Ramirez, Groundskeeper Jocelyn Bazile, Accounts Payable Consuelo Gutierrez, Digital Asset Manager Cindy Peña, Administrative Assistant, Sgt. Glenn Shepherd, Director of Safety Jeremy Faulk, Grant Writer Ricardo Salas, Maintenance/Make Ready Lisa DeLatte, Staff Accountant Cindy Lisica, TMS Assistant Curatorial Department and Security Eileen Johnson, Manager of Special Events Jose Soriano Salazar, Maintenance/ Shiow-Chyn (Susie) Liao, Accountant Margaret C. McKee, Imaging Services Allegra Pesenti, Curator at Large, Kenneth Sherman, Gallery Attendant Madeline Kelly, Prospects and Stewardship Make Ready Patrick Saccomanno, Controller Specialist Menil Drawing Institute Montra Sims, Gallery Attendant Manager Gabriel Romero Soriano, Groundskeeper/ Tom Trammel, Financial Analyst Tony Rubio, Art Preparator Michelle White, Curator Mirzama Sisic, Gallery Attendant Rachel Kronenberger, Major Gifts Officer Make Ready Heather Schweikhardt, Senior Associate Konjit Tekletsadik, Gallery Attendant Patrice McCracken, Prospect Researcher Javier Verduzco, Groundskeeper Human Resources Registrar for Loans and Exhibitions Exhibition Design Eric Valdez, Gallery Attendant Alexis Pennington, Capital and Major Gifts Suzanne Maloch, Director of Julie Thies, TMS Administrator Brooke Stroud, Exhibitions Designer Coordinator As of June 30, 2016 Human Resources Jessica White, Administrative Assistant, Eric Zimmerman, Assistant Exhibition Information Technology Thelma Smith, Visitor/Membership Patrice Ashley, Benefits Coordinator Registration Designer Oliver M. (Buck) Bakke III, Associate Information Technology Manager Kristin Smyth, Manager of Development Communications Facilities & Security Services Oliver T. (Tommy) Napier Jr., Steve McConathy, Manager of Facilities Library Hannah Thibodeaux, Membership and Manager of Communications Chris Akin, Gallery Attendant Eric Wolf, Head Librarian Visitor Desk Attendant Divinagracia Antao, Gallery Attendant Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, Assistant Librarian Meghan Thrash, Assistant to the Director Conservation Rudy Antao, Gallery Attendant of Advancement Bradford Epley, Chief Conservator Delana Bunch, Gallery Attendant Public Programs Jin Yu, Membership Assistant Adam Baker, Matter/Framer and Larry Campbell, Control Room Monitor Karl Kilian, Director of Public Programs Conservation Photographer Sabina Causevic, Gallery Attendant Anthony Martinez, Programs Coordinator Jan Burandt, Paper Conservator Nick Cedillo, Custodian Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné Kari Dodson, Assistant Objects Conservator William Cuevas, Control Room Monitor Publishing of Drawings Judith Hastings, Administrative Assistant, Bridget Eldredge, Gallery Attendant/ Joseph N. Newland, Director of Publishing Eileen Costello, Editor/Project Director Conservation Relief Control Room Monitor Rebecca Ahrens, Digital Content Manager Kimberly Costello, Researcher Desirae Peters, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Ernest Flores, Maintenance Assistant Sarah E. Robinson, Assistant Editor Painting Conservation Latisha Gilbert, Gallery Attendant Katrina Rush, Assistant Paintings Jamarcus Gilmore, Gallery Attendant Conservator Vera Hadzic, Assistant Gallery Attendant Sarah Thompson, Administrative Assistant, Supervisor Conservation Earl Harris, Control Room Monitor Grace Walters, Conservation Studio Monique Harris, Gallery Attendant Technician, Menil Drawing Institute Christopher Henry, Receptionist

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Jenny Antill: pp. 7, 32 (bottom), 70 (top), 84, 85, 87, 90, 91 (bottom) Artworks by: Rebecca Ahrens: p. 56 (top left) Frederick C. Baldwin © Frederick C. Baldwin Adam Baker: pp. 31 (bottom), 40 (bottom) Frederick C. Baldwin and Wendy Watriss © Frederick C. Baldwin and Wendy Watriss Doug Boyle, courtesy Gilbane: pp. 8–9 Frank Bowling © 2017 Frank Bowling / Artists Rights Society (ARS), David A. Brown: pp. 2–3, 64 (middle & bottom), 76–77, 83 (top) New York / DACS, London Jan Burandt: pp. 33 (bottom), 56 (bottom), 57 (top) Henri Cartier-Bresson © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, Kari Dodson: pp. 55 (top), 57 (bottom) courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson Ben Doyle/Runaway Productions: pp. 52 (top), 62, 63 (top, middle & Trisha Brown © Trisha Brown bottom), 64 (top), 65 (top & bottom left & right), 66 (top & bottom), James Lee Byars © The Estate of James Lee Byars 67 (top), 78 Mel Chin © Mel Chin Brad Epley: p. 54 (top) William N. Copley © 2017 Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC / Anthony Flores: p. 33 (top) Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Don Glentzer: pp. 48–49, 72–73 John Chamberlain © 2017 John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society Alyssa Hartgrove, courtesy of Writers in the Schools: p. 67 (bottom) (ARS), New York Paul Hester: front cover; pp. 16–17, 20 (top & bottom), 21 (top), 23 (top Salvador Dalí © 2017 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, & bottom), 24, 25 (bottom), 26 (bottom), 27 (top & bottom), 28 (top), Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 32 (top), 39, 40 (top), 41, 42 (top & bottom), 43 (left & right), 44, 45 Jay DeFeo © 2017 The Jay DeFeo Foundation / Artists Rights Society (top & bottom), 46 (top & bottom), 53 (top & bottom), (ARS), New York Hickey-Robertson, Houston: pp. 31 (bottom), 83 Max Ernst © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, George Hixson: pp. 18, 19 (top & bottom), 21 (bottom), 86 Paris The Menil Collection front entrance. Johnston Marklee: p. 15 (top) Theaster Gates © Theaster Gates Johnston Marklee / Igor Brozyna: pp. 12–13 (bottom), 14 (bottom) Joe Goode © Joe Goode Ronald Llewellyn Jones, courtesy of Contemporary Arts Museum Frederick Hammersley Foundation © Frederick Hammersley Houston: p. 68 (bottom) Foundation Toby Kamps: p. 30 (top & bottom) Trenton Doyle Hancock © Trenton Doyle Hancock Lynn Lane: pp. 60–61, 69 (top), 79, 80 Arturo Herrera © Arturo Herrera Copyright © 2017 Menil Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Morris Malakoff: pp. 70 (bottom), 91 (top) Jasper Johns © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Published by the External Affairs Department Menil Conservation Department: p. 54 (bottom) Edward Kienholz © Kienholz. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA Theodore Bale, Editor Daniel Ortiz: pp. 25 (top), 28 (bottom), 29, 71 (top, middle & bottom), René Magritte © 2017 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), Tommy Napier, Image Editor 89 Ne w York Don Quaintance, Public Address Design, Graphic Designer Don Quaintance: pp. 1, 5, 10 (top & bottom), 12 (top), 14 (top), 15 Ed Moses © Ed Moses (bottom), 32 (bottom), 58 (top left, top right & bottom), 59 (top & Barnett Newman © 2017 The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York Special thanks to: Visitor Information bottom), 69 (bottom), 81, 92; inside back cover / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Susan Slepka Anderson, Austin Andrews, Geri Aramanda, David Museum and bookstore hours: Jay Tovar: p. 82 Francis Picabia © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Aylsworth, Lisa Barkley, Sara Beck, Haley Berkman, Elsian Cozens, Wednesday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. ADAGP, Paris Courtesy of University of Houston Center for Advanced Computing Paul R. Davis, Clare Elliott, Bradford Epley, Carrie Ermler, Jeremy Free of charge and Data Systems: p. 56 (top right) Carolee Schneemann © 2017 Carolee Schneemann / Artists Rights Faulk, Anthony Flores, Paul Forsythe, Judith Hastings, Toby Free parking at 1515 West Alabama Street Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: p. 13 (top) Society (ARS), New York Kamps, Madeline Kelly, Sheryl Kolasinski, Melissa McDonnell Grace Walters: pp. 34, 55 (bottom) Leon Polk Smith © The Leon Polk Smith Foundation / Licensed by Luján, Suzanne Maloch, Steve McConathy, Margaret C. McKee, VAGA, New York, NY Eric Zimmerman: pp. 22 (top & bottom), 68 (top) Tony Martinez, Joseph Newland, Alexis Pennington, Kristin Tony Smith © 2017 Tony Smith Estate/ Artists Right Society (ARS), Smyth, Karen Sumner, Sarah Robinson, Hannah Siegel-Gardner, Ne w York Julie Thies, Meghan Thrash, John S. Trahan, Thomas Trammel, The Menil Collection Michelle Stuart © Michelle Stuart Michelle White, Eric Wolf, and Eric Zimmerman. 1533 Sul Ross Street Danh Vō © Danh Vō Houston, TX 77006 Cover: Central Yup’ik peoples. Wolf and Caribou Masks, late 19th 713-525-9400 Wendy Watriss © Wendy Watriss century. Alaska, Napaskiak. Collection of Adelaide de Menil and Edmund Carpenter menil.org Jack Whitten © Jack Whitten

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