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\ K§i Contents Board and Committees, 2002-2003 Volume 14, 2002-2003 Photography and reproduction credits: Reports of the Chairman and Director Copyright © 2004 by The David and Alfred Front and back covers and pages 21, 22, 26, Smart Museum of Art, The University of 29, 31, 33, 35-37, 39, 41, 43, 45: photography Mission Statement Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, by Tom van Eynde. Chicago, Illinois, 60637. AH rights reserved, http: / / smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Pages 47, 50, 54, 56, 57, 58 (FIGURE 1), 59 ISSN: 1099-2413 (FIGURES 1 and 2), 60 (FIGURES 2 and 3), 63, The Idea of Things and the Ideas in Them, Bill Brown 65, 67: photography by Jim Newberry. Editor: Stephanie Smith Publication Assistants: Amanda Ruch, Page 14: © 1971 Aperture Foundation Inc., Sophie Hackett Paul Strand Archive, and the Baltimore Acquisitions Design: Froeter Design Company, Inc. Museum of Art, purchase with exchange funds Printing: Lowitz & Sons, Chicago from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Front cover: Installation view of Dawoud Bey: Dalsheimer, Baltimore, BMA 1988.575. Exhibitions The Chicago Project, April 24-June 15, 2003 Page 21: courtesy Luise Ross Gallery, New York. Education Back cover: Installation view of Reflections of Beauty: Late Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints Page 22: © 2004 Estate of Alexander Archipenko Public Programs in the Smart Museum Collection, December 15, / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 2002-March 23, 2003 Sources of Support Page 26: © 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Operating Statement Page 29: © Aaron Siskind Foundation, courtesy Smart Museum Staff Robert Mann Gallery, New York. Page 31: courtesy The Couturier GaUery, Los Angeles. Page 32: courtesy the artist and Chambers Fine Art, New York. Every effort has been made to contact rights holders for all reproductions. Additional rights holders please contact the Smart Museum. 4 Board and Committees, 2002-2003 Reports of the Chairman and Director Report of the Director donors, whose gifts strengthened key areas of our Smart Museum Board of Governors Georgette D'Angelo Irmgard Hess Rosenberger Report of the Chairman This will be my last report as director of the collection. Paul and Susan Freehling gave a group Robert G. Donnelley Brenda Shapiro 2002-03 was another successful year for the of works by European modern artists including Smart Museum, as Istep down at the end of Richard Gray, Gail M. Elden Joseph P. Shure University of Chicago's David and Alfred Smart Chairman Archipenko, Kirchner, and Kandinsky. Leon and Museum of Art. We presented a wealth of exciting June 2004 to become the director of the new Elizabeth Helsinger, Vice Chair Dr. Patricia Erens John N. Stern Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. 1 Marion Despres's gifts of works on paper by Mrs. Owen Fairweather Dorie Sternberg exhibitions and programs for an ever-expanding Marilynn B. Alsdorf American and European artists, including a rare audience, and continued to build the collection write to you now in May 2004, reflecting on our Mrs. Edwin A. Bergman Joan E. Feitler Isabel C. Stewart activities for the 2002-03 fiscal year, another print by Max Beckmann, augmented several Robert Feitler Dr. Bryan Traubert with thoughtful purchases and significant gifts. Joel Bernstein areas of the collection, and they also gave a I take this opportunity to thank all our friends, very satisfying one as we continued our trajec Russell Bowman Joan S. Freehling Clarence S.Wilson, Jr. tory of growth across all dimensions. Attendance beautiful group of modern ceramics by Gertrud Stanley M. Freehling Karen G. Wilson members, and supporters, with special thanks Susan O'Connor Davis and Otto Natzler. Joseph V. and Brenda F. Smith to Joan and Robert Feitler, Will and Ellen grew from 45,000 the previous year to 52,000. Robert G. Donnelley Marshall B. Front James Nowell Wood Our annual budget continued to rise, from $1.98 continued to donate groups of important prints Allan Frumkin t Mrs. George B.Young Oswald, Raymond Smart, and Mary Smart of the Richard Elden by such artists as Callot, Goya, and Kollwitz, and Smart Family Foundation.I am also particularly million to $2.1 million. This reflects increased Robert Feitler Susanne Ghez Helen Zell fundraising: individual contributions increased Miriam Graham bestowed a significant group of Adele B. Gidwitz grateful to the museum's dedicated Board of Lorna C. Ferguson British and American Art Nouveau objects to Governors for their leadership. Particular thanks from $201,000 to $233,000; foundation and cor Alan M. Fern Isaac Goldman Education Advisory Committee porate support grew from $333,000 to $543,000; enhance our modern design collection. Jean K. Goldman are due to Elizabeth Helsinger, Vice Chair, and Sharon Flanagan One of the year's major achievements Lorna Ferguson, Collections Committee Chair. and government grants from $45,000 to $97,000. Stanley M. Freehling Richard Gray Diane Bloom While worth noting, these figures mean was the substantial completion of the H.C. Mary Winton Green Danielle Choi Finally,I must thank our director, Kimerly Jack Halpern Westermann Study Collection gift, from the Rorschach, for her service to the museum over nothing in themselves. Our success should Joan W. Harris Joyce Zeger Greenberg Lydia Diamond instead be measured by the ways we fulfilled our estate of the artist's wife Joanna Beall Nathan M. Grossman Eliza Duenow this past decade. She had developed, led, and Neil Harris Westermann. This group of over 220 objects, inspired the museum's fine staff through a period mission as we worked to strengthen the collec Mary Harvey (ex officio) Leo S. Guthman t Steve Gilbert tions and present the best and most interesting including sculptures, drawings, prints, and David C. Hilliard David Hays of remarkable progress and has set the course for Randy L. Holgate documents, makes the Smart Museum the assured growth in the future. possible exhibitions and programs to engage our William M. Landes Doris B. Holleb Dr. Marvin Hoffman many audiences, both within the University of major repository for the study of the work of Kimerly Rorschach (ex officio) Marshall M. Holleb Mark Johnson Chicago and beyond it. this important, but still too little known Joel Honigberg Deborah Levinson Richard Gray Linda Seidel (ex officio) American sculptor whose life and work were Chairman, Board of Governors Our collections were augmented by a Raymond Smart Ruth P. Horwich Sonya Malunda major photographic work by the young Chinese celebrated with major retrospectives in 2001. Joel Snyder Dr. James E. Jones Michelle Obama artist Song Dong, Breathing, Part 1 and Part 2, In support of this gift, the late Allan Frumkin John N. Stern Burton W. Kanter t Dan Peterman 1996, which was exhibited in our 1999 exhibition (Westermann's friend and former dealer) gave Geoffrey Stone Alan Koppel Richard Pettengill Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the a group of seven objects and two drawings to Allen M. Turner (ex officio) Dr. Mary S. Lawton Bill Salvato End of the Twentieth Century. Song Dong has complement the study collection. Michael Wyatt Julius Lewis Laura Senteno emerged as one of the most exciting artists of In our exhibition program, we strive to Holly W. Madigan Carolyn Sullivan his generation. His work has drawn acclaim from present a wide variety of subjects, to stimulate University of Chicago Visiting EloiseW. Martin Mary Ellen Ziegler curators and critics around the globe and will and challenge our audiences both visually and Committee on the Visual Arts Beatrice Cummings Mayer be featured in our upcoming exhibition Between intellectually, and to reflect exciting scholarship Thomas McCormick t Deceased Past and Future: New Photography and Video and research here at the University of Chicago. Allen M. Turner, Chairman Mary M. McDonald from China, which will be shown in Chicago, Major exhibitions in 2002-03 ranged from the Anne Abrons Mrs. Ralph Mills, Jr. New York, Seattle, Berlin, London, and Santa raw energy of Outside In: Self-Taught Artists and Marilynn B. Alsdorf Paula Molner Barbara in 2004-05. This purchase was possible Chicago to the exquisite refinement of Symbol Dorothy L. Baumgarten Charles H. Mottier through the generosity of Will and Ellen Oswald and Substance: The ElaineEhrenkranz Collection Robert H. Bergman Martin Hughes Nesbitt and the Smart Family Foundation, who estab of Japanese Lacquer Boxes. Our fall exhibition, David L. Blumberg Muriel Kallis Newman lished the Smart Family Foundation Fund for Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, T. Kimball Brooker Evelyn E. Padorr Contemporary Art last year. Reactions, Reflections, organized by Professor John A. Bross Marshall J. Padorr We also benefited from gifts of works of Reinhold Heller and Mellon Projects Curator Gay-Young Cho Beatrice G. Perry art from many generous individuals. We were Elizabeth Rodini, was challenging in its intellec Phyllis Gordon Cohen Elizabeth Plotnick particularly fortunate last year to receive tual scope, tracing the crucial theme of identity Marion Wood Covey Margot L. Pritzker extraordinary groups of works from several in German art from 1800 to the present. The show Michael Cunningham Laura Campbell Rhind , • \ 6 Reports of the Chairman and Director Mission Statement disciplinary understanding of the visual arts by assistant Brette Greenwood work tirelessly to The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is also delighted the eye with a brilliant range of also helped organize a party to launch the stu the art museum of the University of Chicago. means of its exhibitions and programs. While dent Festival of the Arts in May, and broke all keep the wheels turning, and they wear many works from our collections supplemented by embracing and serving the University of Chicago hats with unwavering good cheer. Our registrar In support of the University of Chicago's educa loans from some of the most important public records by entertaining some 1,000 students at tional mission the Smart Museum collects, audience, the Museum also reaches beyond this the museum during the course of the evening.