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THE HAGGIN MUSEUM BULLETIN Quarterly Newsletter for Museum Members Vol THE HAGGIN MUSEUM BULLETIN Quarterly Newsletter for Museum Members Vol. IX, No. 1 • Winter 2016 INSIDE THIS ISSUE COVER STORY: Childe Hassam, The Carriage Parade ................page 5 McKee Student Art Contest...............................page 6 1st & 3rd Thursdays..............................................page 3 2nd Saturdays......................................................page 2 MUSEUM EVENTS 15th Annual Zion Chamber Orchestra Festival Preview with Paul Kimball Saturday, January 9 3:00-4:00 p.m. The 2016 Zion Chamber Orchestra Festival (formerly Saint John’s) is a three-concert series that offers the finest music in an intimate, inviting setting featuring the best instrumental and vocal talent in the valley. Conductor Paul Kimball previews this year’s series which includes work by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Handel, local composer Max Simonic, and movie favorites. Festival dates are January 17, 22, and 31 at Zion Lutheran Church, 808 Porter Ave, Stockton. For Conductor Paul Kimball more information visit zlcstockton.org. Modern Calligraphy: Brush Lettering Workshop Friday, February 27 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., $75 Phawnda Moore teaches traditional calligraphy with a modern twist using a watercolor brush marker. Learn the whole alphabet! Markers, paper and envelopes included with workshop fee. Contact the education department at (209) 940-6315 or education@ hagginmuseum.org for more information or to register. On the 2nd Saturday of each month, we hold for Families a hands-on event for families with children ages 5-12. Activities include art projects, interactive programs and Museum-wide events. Reservations are not required, but seating is available on a first come, first served basis. The Museum supplies all materials and activities are included with regular Museum admission. Contact the education department (209) 940-6315 or [email protected] for more information. Second Saturdays for Families this winter will put the ‘A’ for art in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math projects) to make STEAM! Light Up Spell Your Name Geometry Gets the Night with Chemistry Moving Saturday, Jan. 9 Saturday, Feb. 13 Saturday, March 12 1:30-3:00 p.m. 1:30-3:00 p.m. 1:30-3:00 p.m. Art meets technology when Using the periodic table of Color and create a children create a constellation that elements, students will construct a 3-dimensional shape called incorporates paper circuits. special sign that spells their name. a flextangle from a piece of paper. 2nd Saturdays for Families programming is generously underwritten by Joan W. Diehl. The Haggin Museum Members Bulletin 2 January-March 2016 st 1& rd with Food & Drink Complimentary3 wine from Weibel Family Vineyards & Winery and snacks courtesy of the Junior Women’s Group will be available beginning at 6:30 p.m. every 1st & 3rd February Thursday evening, when the Museum is open until 9:00 p.m. LIVE MUSIC These special evenings vary each month to include Pacific Avenue Clarinets live music, special guests and more. Make it a date! Thursday, February 4, 7:00 p.m. January The Pacific Avenue Clarinets’ distinctive collage of sound will send you on an aural adventure to Argentina, GALLERY TALK France, the USA, and Austria with canons, tangos, with Curator Bett Schumacher divertimentos and classic American literature. Jerry Criswell, Jeff Kumagai, Amanda Martin, Christina Thursday, January 7, 7:00 p.m. Severin, and Chris Steffanic make up the Pacific Avenue Clarinets, formed in 2013 by Patricia Shands, Professor Bett Schumacher, co- of Clarinet at the University of Pacific. curator of the exhibition Picasso, Miró & Hawaii- Five-0: Prints from the Jack GAME NIGHT Lord Collection, will offer her insights into the life and mind Thursday, February 18, 7:00 p.m. Pull up a chair and make a new friend. Play old of Jack Lord and some of the school favorites like Scrabble, Monopoly, Parcheesi, artists featured in the exhibit. Battleship and of course, Masterpiece. Schumacher’s engaging talk also details the curatorial March process and some important moments in the history of LIVE MUSIC printmaking. Current Personae Chamber LIVE MUSIC Thursday, March 3, 7:00 p.m. Jessica Siena Chamber/soul s band Current Thursday, January 21, 7:00 p.m. Personae is a Stockton- based collective led Join us for an by composer Joshua evening of American Washington. The soul standards and Italian band has released an arias by Bellini, EP, December Jane. The Donizetti, and chamber group will Puccini. Siena, a release an EP in the spring of 2016 titled The Temple. national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council EXHIBITION OPENING Auditions, has been 85th Annual McKee hailed “…extravagantly Student Art Contest & Exhibition gifted…” by the Los Angeles Times. She has Thursday, March 17, 7:00 p.m. performed as a soloist with numerous symphonies around the state and recently An evening of kid-inspired art for grownups! Enjoy appeared as Rosalinde with the Stockton Opera Association. coloring books, Spirograph, string art and much more. The Haggin Museum Members Bulletin 3 January-March 2016 MUSEUM NEWS Update: Core Collection Enhancement Project Over the past two months, work on the remodeling, With the old Pioneer Room display cases removed, renovation and reinterpretation of the Museum’s core the gallery’s spaciousness was once again revealed. New art collection has focused on repurposing the Pioneer wall and floor treatments coupled with tostate theof the art Room from a history gallery to an art gallery. Staff spent LED lighting will make this an impressive—and fitting— October removing the graphics, paintings and a majority new home for the Museum’s paintings by Albert Bierstadt, of artifacts—on display since 1991—and placing them in Edward Lampson Henry, Thomas Hill, George Inness, storage. Thomas Moran, Julian Rix and other American artists. November witnessed the removal of the larger items: While planning the renovation of the Pioneer Room the bell and clockwork mechanism from the first San and other Haggin art galleries, the Museum’s I-Team (a Joaquin County Courthouse, the H.C. Shaw sulky gang committee representing members from the Museum's plow, the Globe Iron Works ore car, the Sterling Centrifugal various departments) has been participating in weekly Pump and Tillie Lewis’ famous “kettle.” Given that most meetings (with the support of Gallagher & Associates) to of these items weigh close to 1,000 lbs. (with the courthouse discuss the Haggin core collection and design the exhibits bell tipping the scales at an impressive 1,800 lbs.), a good for the renovated art galleries. This process has included deal of planning and care went into their transport. All working with scale models of the galleries, and Haggin have been relocated to other history galleries within the collection pieces, as well as producing elevation sheets museum. demonstrating potential exhibition designs and placement. AT LEFT: Sample elevation sheet provided by Gallagher & Associates. Elevation sheets are based on the I-Team's exhibition design The and planning meetings. The Pioneer Room, looking north, in early 1931. Nov. 19, 1991 - Tillie Lewis' kettle was Nov. 30, 2015 - The kettle, which does not Nov. 30, 2015 - The kettle was carefully brought into the Museum by crane. fit through some the Museum's hallways, placed in its new home in the Holt Hall. was brought out the front door in order to be relocated within the Museum. The Haggin Museum Members Bulletin 4 January-March 2016 COLLECTION HIGHLIGHT The Carriage Parade and Childe Hassam's Paris Years While redesigning the art galleries under current single moment in time by focusing on the more intuitive renovation, the Museum’s I-Team has been examining experiences of time and place. Hassam’s painting achieves the narrative content long attached to the core collection. this with the use of a low vantage point to draw the The I-Team has taken a specific viewer in, making them an active interest in how new exhibit designs participant in the scene, rather than will bring additional stories to the a mere spectator. Furthermore, forefront of the Haggin collection. Hassam implies the sense of infinity Through these discussions, many by cropping the edges of the scene. paintings in the Haggin collection The result is that the sounds, have been unanimously deemed temperature, bustle and emotional "anchors" to the Museum’s core spirit of the French city can be collection and the Haggin narrative. clearly imagined far beyond the These well-loved, historic Haggin frame of the painting. favorites have been so celebrated Louis Terah Haggin and his by the Haggin community, they wife Blanche Butterworth Haggin have become essential to any (parents of Eila Haggin McKee, the discussion about the meaning and Museum’s founding donor) spent a interpretation of the core collection. considerable amount of time living Childe Hassam’s The Carriage Parade between San Francisco, New York is one of those paintings. and Paris during the latter part of the Frederick Childe Hassam 19th century. The socially prestigious spent his formative years studying couple acquired paintings at art in Boston. Between 1886 and auctions, from art dealers and from 1889 Hassam lived in Paris and artists themselves, but they did not studied traditional academicism keep accurate records. While there at the popular Académie Julian. Upon arrival in Paris, are many gaps in Haggin records about how and when Hassam’s visually conservative techniques underwent a The Carriage Parade joined the collection, there are clear transformation that would influence the rest of his career, links between the artistic interests of Childe Hassam, earning him later prestige as one of the most successful Louis Terah and Blanche Butterworth Haggin. American Impressionists in history. The Haggins also spent a large part of the 1880s in Well beyond a traditional arts education, what Paris. It was likely their love of the modern Parisian Hassam found during those critical years in Paris was a lifestyle that so attracted them to Hassam’s work during community of French Impressionists who were involved this period.
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