THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART NEWSLETTER FALL BULLETIN

} November, 1998

"Yale Center Re-opens" "HBA's Seymour Honored" "Huntington Hosts HBA at CAA" ''Paul Mellon Centre presents new Fellowship Program" " Edinburgh fetes Exhibits"

Headlines abound this fall, as Historians of British Art deal with current developments of interest to HBA Plans have been finalized for the Los Angeles CAA meeting and the deadlines for many fellowships are approaching. Additional information about our members and the research/exhibit opportunities in British art are included in this FALL BULLETIN, but more input is needed for the next HBA Newsletter - so please send in notices and announcements at any time, either directly by FAX to 615-343-3786, by e-mail to [email protected], 9r by U.S. postal service to Prof. Robert Mode, e/o Department of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,TN 37235.

MESSAGE FROM LAUREL BRADLEY HBA President There will be a letter from me in December to remind everyone of the annual HBA meeting Satur- day, February 13, 1999 at The Huntington, so plan to attend during CAA weekend in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Shelley Bennett for planning the activities on our behalf (more information below) On another matter, I sometimes get letters or e-mails expressing displeasure that HBA programs seem weighted toward 19th c. topics. Indeed, many of those on the board and many of our active members are 19th c. specialists - the founding energy of the organization was sustained by a group of colleagues united around this area of scholarly endeavor within British art. Nonetheless, when it comes to picking conference topics, efforts are made to come up with a theme that allows parti- cipation by scholars from various disciplines and time periods - although a special and timely sub- ject is occasionally chosen. Those ofus who organize these events want HBA to be broad-based. Due to the relative informality of our organization it is easy to address issues in various ways, and any input or offers of assistance are welcome. Please consider the organization to be your own!!! Take the initiative and contact me, the next president, or any board member about what would be appealing to you - so that together we can do something about it! Thanks, Laurel

HBA ANNUAL MEETING On February 13, 1999 the annual meeting of The Historians of British Art will commence at 9:30 A.M. with registration in the Entrance Arcade of The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Rd. in San Marino. 1 O: 00 A.M. -12 noon there will be a session of short papers presented by graduate students, chosen by Shelley Bennett from many fine entries. Robert Ritchie, Director of Research, will give a brief overview of research & fellowship opportunities. 12-1 P.M. A complimentary box-lunch provided. l 1 :00-2:30 P.M. HBA organizational meeting, with presentations on events, research opportunities, and publications. Then we are free to view the outstanding collections and gardens until 4:30 P.M . . To reserve a place, please fill out and return our form at the back of the Newsletter. HBA GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION The Huntington, 10 A.M-12 Noon Saturday, February 13, 1999 Convenor: Shelley Bennett (Curator of British and European Art, The Huntington) Elizabeth V. Chew (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), '"The Old Waste Places': Anne Clifford and the Uses of Architecture" Sarah Watson Parsons (University of California-Santa Barbara), "An Elegant Taste for Pity" The Cultural Life of the Wedgwood Anti-Slavery Cameo" M. Melissa Wolfe (Ohio State University), '"A Feast at the Fly Club': or, how the naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks, R.S. was netted and displayed in the satirical prints of London, 1772-1826" Jane E. Boyd (University of Delaware). "Art-Science and Practical Gentlemen: Photographic Societies and Journals in Victorian Britain" Laura Hourston (University of Edinburgh), "Modes of Representation within the Built Form and Material Culture of the New Museum of Scotland"

HISTORIANS OF BRITL5H ART-CAA SESSION Los Angeles Convention Center Thursday, February 11, 1999 2:30-5:00 P.M. Chair: James Steward (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor)

Elizabeth Baker (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), "New Light on Wright's Orrery'' Aileen Dashi Tsui (Harvard University, Cambridge), "Whistler and Japan: From Modern Commodities to Modernist Vision" Alastair Wright (Richmond University, London), "Suburban Prospects: Vision and Possession in Ford Madox Brown's English Autumn Afternoon" Janet Wolff (University of Rochester), "The 'Jewish Monk' in English Painting: Modernity and Ethnicity" Christopher Pearson (Arizona State University at Tempe), "Hepworth, Moore, and the United Nations: British Modern Art and the Ideology of Postwar Internationalism"

Associa tion of Art Historians Great Britain In April of this year, the 24th annual meeting was convened at Exeter (University of Plymouth) by the British equivalent of CM, their AAH - as distinguished from the "new" AAH or "Association for Art History" in our own country. The current president of the British association is Prof Toshia Watanabe of the Chelsea College of Art in London, a contributor to our HBA session in Toronto. The next annual conference is April 9-11, 1999, to be convened by the Winchester School of Art, and held at The University of Southampton. The theme is Images and Values, with the convenors being Barbara Burman, Brandon Taylor, and Stephen Johnson. Their deadline for submissions is November 30, 1998 - but if you are interested, contact right away the AAH administrator who is able to put you in touch with the conference organizers and provide further information for you. Contact: Andrew Falconer, Association of Art Historians, Cowcross Court, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1 M 6BP; alternatively, telephone 44-171-490-3211/fax 44-171-490-3277. E-mail should be directed to: [email protected] , attn: Andrew Falconer. > > > > > > > >EVE1\!TS .,AND EXHIBITS<<<<<<<<

Guest curator Yvonne Romney Dixon recently celebrated the opening of her "Designs from Fancy: George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings" at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The exhibit includes 116 drawings by Romney, as well as se- .. veral paintings. Hours are 1 O A.M. to 4 P.M., Monday to Saturday, through March 20, 1999 .

At the , a symposium was held on October 16, 1998 entitled "Objects and Images: Pre-Raphaelite Pursuits in the Decorative Arts", co-ordinated by Margaretta Frederick Watson. It celebrated the acquisition of the Morris-Rossetti Chairs which were featured in an exhibition, Perfect Marvels: The Morris-Rossetti Chairs. Included in the show, which will be on display again from December 1, 1998-February 28, 1999, are reproductions of furniture from the Red Lion Square rooms (created 1856-57), organized by associate curator Jeanette M. Toohey.

The Dahesh Museum & Frick Art Museum are collaborating on an exhibition of 3 5 important Victorian paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, which houses an exceptional collection ofBritish 19th-century art in their turn-of-the-century East Cliff Hall at Bournemouth. Entitled A Victorian Salon, it includes works by Alma-Tadema, Evelyn DeMorgan, Landseer, Ed- win Long, Leighton, Moore, Rossetti, and Simeon Solomon. It will be at The Dahesh Museum in New York City, January 19-April 17 and The Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, May 6-July 4, ¡999_ Public lectures are scheduled between January 19-March 16 (contact the Dahesh, 212-759-0606).

Commencing with the grand reopening and reinstallati on of the galleries at the Y ale Center for British Art there will be three major exhibitions, all opening January 23 and continuing through March 21, 1999. They are: FRANCIS BACON: A RETROSPECTIVE, LUCIAN FREUD ETCHINGS FROM THE PAINE WEBBER ART COLLECTION, as well as HENRY MOORE AND THE HEROIC; A CENTENARY TRIBUTE. Connected with these is a lecture series that will address such questions as: What is it that gives rise to such an extraordinary flowering of British art immediately after World War II, and why did it so frequently take the human figure as its subject and focus? Entitled The Survival of the Figure/The Figure as Survivor, it will include presentations by Andrew Forge on February 3, Cohen on February 10, and Richard Cork on February 17, 1999 (at 5:15 P.M.). Then on March 23, 24 and 24 (also at 5:15 P.M.) there will be a series oflectures on Painting ;n English: The Making of the British School by William Vaughan (Birkbeck College, U. of London).

At the Art Institute of Chicago, the current exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron's Women is on display until January 10, 1999. It then travels to MOMA-New York City (January 27-May 4, 1999), and it finally will be shown at MOMA-San Francisco (August 27-November 30, 1999).

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, associated with the Center for 17th and 18th c. Studies (UCLA), is developing a major exhibition of Oscar Wilde books, manuscripts, prints and drawings to be presented from September 22, 1999 to January 2, 2000 at UCLA's own Armand ., Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. It will be preceded by a series of four programs on Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle, being planned by Joseph Bristow (English, UCLA) for January-May, 1999 and the general program being developed by Deborah Silverman (History, UCLA) on the theme "New Perspectives on the Avant Garde and the Fin de Siècle". §C10TL.ia\1-l\JD "ON EXlfUBIT" KN ]_ 999

If plans are still underway for a 'fling' in Great Britain next year, consider heading up to Scotland! There are exhibits forthcoming in Edinburgh from January to December that should interest HBA

At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Stephen Lloyd is finishing his catalogue for the major exhibition entitled 'Raeburn 's Rival': Archibald Skirving 1749-1819 scheduled to open on Jan- uary 22 and run through April 4, 1999. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Skirving' s birth, it will include 75 pastels, miniatures, drawings, oil paintings and prints. Many are from SNPC and Scottish private collections, presented for the first time in a show that properly highlights Skirving.

The National Gallery of Scotland is the final stop for the touring exhibition of works from the Sir John Soane Museum (London) entitled Robert Adam. The Creative Mind: From the Sketch to the Finished Drawing. It includes 66 remarkable drawings, which will be on view from February 5 until March 21, 1999. For more information on this or other NGS exhibits, contact Helen Smailes or Katrina Thomson (at tel:131-624-6200, fax:: 131-220-0917, or e-mail: H.S or [email protected])

Next at the National Gallery of Scotland will be the rare Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, which will exhibit work from the continental and British schools (including Turner, Blake, Girtìn, Cotman and Wilkie together with less familiar English and Scottish artists).

Culminating the year's busy schedule at the National Gallery of Scotland will be Turner and Sir Wal.ter Scott: The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, that is scheduled to run from December 17, 1999 to March 19, 2000. In connection with this exhibit, Katrina Thomson welcomes any information about drawings by Turner for, or related to, The Provincial Antiquities project; especially requested is news about the watercolours of Crichton Castle (Wilton, 1059) or Dunbar (Wilton, 1066), and information on the whereabouts of the corrected proof of Edinburgh from Calton Hill (formerly in the Francis Bullard collection, Boston: see Rawlinson, I, lxxi-lxxii).

+ + + + + + National Portrait Gallery + + + + + + LONDON One hundred and seventy years from his birth in 1829, John Everett Millais will be getting a major exhibition of his portrait art at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The rather stark title of the show is Millais; Portraits, and it will be the featured exhibition at the NPG-London starting on February 19 and running through June 6, 1999. Following this will be a photo exhibit that runs from June 4 to September 19, 1999, featuring popular musicians from the 1950's to present. Entitled ICONS OF POP, it includes celebrity portraits of well-known performers ranging all the way from Cliff Richard to the Spice Girls (regarding future exhibits, telephone 171-306-0055). .. ----- British 19th c. Gallery Art in NYC ----- Shepherd & Derom Galleries, at 58 East 79th St. in New York City, will feature "an exhibition organized in association with Julian Hartnoll, Maas Gallery, Piccadilly Gallery, and Christopher Wood" from December 1, 1998 to January 16, 1999. English Romantic Art & Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolists will feature paintings, watercolours and drawings by artists from John Martin to Rossetti, Hunt, Watts, Leìghton, and Crane. ' } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } FELLOWSHIPS { { { { { { { { { { { { { { { { { {

The Huntington San Marino, CA

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens offer approximately 100 fellow- ships for work in British and American art, history, and literature. These include the Huntington Research Awards of one to five months ($1,800. monthly stipends), as well as dissertation and post-doctoral support fellowships, Mellon and NEH research fellowships, and the Huntington/ British Academy fellowship for short-term ( one month) study in Great Britain. The deadline is December 15, 1998 To apply, contact: Chair, Committee on Fellowships, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino CA. 91108, tel: 626-405-2194, fax:: 626-449-5703, e-mail: [email protected]

UCLA Center/Clark Library Los Angeles, CA.

The UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Li- brary offer one to three month fellowships with $2,000. per month stipend, as well as Ahmanson- Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships ($18,400. for participation over two consecutive academic quarters in the core program, which in 1999-2000 is The Global Eighteenth Century The Four Corners of the Earth) Deadline for the above fel1owships is March 15, 1999. For additional information, contact: The UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, tel: 310-206-8552, fax: 310-206-8577 or The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, tel: 323-731-8529, fax: 323-731-8617. All e-mail: [email protected].

The Folger Library Washington, DC

The Folger Institute and Library offer long-term and short-term fellowships to "scholars whose research is appropriate to the collections of the Folger", including 16th-18th c. print culture and art in Britain. The long-term deadline for 1999-2000 is past, but short-term fellowships for resi- dencies of one to three months have a deadline of March 1, 1999. Further information may be obtained by contacting: The Folger Institute/Library, 201 E. Capitol Street, S.E., Washington, DC 20003-1094, tel: 202-544-4600, or find an application at their website: http://www.folger.edu

Beinecke & Wal pole Library New Haven & Farmington, CT

Related to the fellowships offered by the Yale Center for British Art are separate programs which utilize independent resources of interest to scholars in HBA Fellowship inquiries may be sent to:

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library The Lewis Walpole Library 1 P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520 154 Main St, Farmington, CT. 06032 Tel: 203-432-2968, fax: 203-432-4047 Tel: 860-677-2140; fax: 860-677-6369 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Grants for Scholarship in British Art offered by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Changes abound in these fellowship programs, which appear together in a "1999-2000" booklet. The deadline for applications to all of their Individual Fellowship categories is January 15, 1999.

These include: Senior Fellowships (completing a manuscript or book for immediate publication), Postdoctoral Fellowships (to transform doctoral research into publishable form, to support new research arising from a dissertation, readily leading to publication), Junior Fellowships (3 month grants to scholars already engaged in doctoral research), and Doctoral Fellowships (2 at British universities/1 at Yale, to encourage younger scholars of promise with up to 3 years of support). Affiliations for the first three may be with the Paul Mellon Centre (London) or the Yale Center (New Haven). In addition, the PMC offers a Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship for 6 months residency in the British School at Rome (doing "grand tour" or Anglo-Italian art/culture studies), and Postgraduate Fellowships in Art Conservation (at the Hamilton Kerr Institute-Cambridge, & the YCBA's collection of works on paper). There are also Visiting Fellowships exclusively at the Yale Center for British Art (month-long resident fellowships to scholars in postdoctoral research, or museum professionals). ·

All of the above require a concentration on scholarship related to British art, and applicants must include relevant information (in triplicate) on field/topic of research and publication plans, together with a curriculum vitae and names of three referees-three letters of recommendation preferred, to be sent to the Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre (address/contact information below) ..

Under the heading Museum and Other Programs there are Curatorial Research Grants to institu- tions, Publication Grants for catalogues of exhibitions or permanent collections, and Educational Program Grants for museums or university departments to further lecture programs, symposia, or conferences for scholars and/ or the general public. Deadline for applying is also January 15, 1999.

Further information on these programs, many of which have been updated or initiated this year, is available by contacting the respective institutions at the following addresses and/or numbers:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 16 Bedford Square London WCIB 3JA, England Tel: 171-580-0311 Fax: 171-636-6730 e-mail/info: paul-mellon-centre.ac. uk

Y ale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel St., P.O. Box 208-280 New Haven, CT. 06520-8280 Tel: 203-432-2850 Fax: 203-432-9628 e-mail: bacinfo@ yale.edu. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ NEWS OF HBA MEMBERS !IIIIIIIIIIIIII

Gayle Seymour has been named the US. Professor of the Y ear by the Carnegie Foundation for " the Advancement of Teaching. The $5,000. prize was based on the "impact on and involvement with undergraduate students, scholarly approach to teaching, service to undergraduate students, institution, community and profession" as well as support from colleagues and students at DCA

Richard Wendorf has been awarded the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize by ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) for his book Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Harvard University Press; National Portrait Gallery, London). This book, by the Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, has recently been released in paperback in the United States.

Wendy Wassyng Roworth is serving this year as Scholar-in-Residence at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, where she will vbe giving a series oflectures in the spring of 1999. She has just completed an article on "Angelika Kauffmann e gli artisti inglesi a Roma"for the catalogue Angelika Kauffinann e Roma ( curated by Oscar Sandner for Edizioni de Luca, Rome).

Milo M. Naeve, who is Field-McCormick Curator Emeritus of American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, has just produced the 3rd edition of his book emphasizing English influences on American furniture called Identif)ing American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Stvles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporarv, which is published in the United States, Great Britain and by Altamira Press (W.W. Norton distributor).

Marilyn Stokstad has just finished the Revised Edition of her popular Art History, for Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams. It will be available in a combined format, or as two separate volumes. For more information, refer to the P.H. Arts and Humanities website: http://www.prenhallart.com

Martha Tedeschi curated a retrospective of Whistler's lithographic works in 1998 entitled Songs on Stone: James McNeil! Whistler and the Art of Lithography (Chicago and Ottawa). As Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, she edited and co-authored with Britt Salvesen the two-volume catalogue raisonné, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, released in May of 1998 by Hudson Hills Press.

William Pressly is chairing the Art History Open Session: Eighteenth-Century Art at CAA, which will in- clude papers by Wendy Roworth on "New News about an Old Scandal: Angelica Kau:ffmann's Secret Marriage, Gossip, Slander, and the Reputation of a Female Artist" and Patricia Crown on "Sporting with Clothes: John Collet's Satirical Prints, 1770's". The session is scheduled for Thursday, February 11, from 2:30 to 5:30 P.M.

Liana De Girolami Cheney presented a paper at the International Classical Conference held in Tubingen, University (Germany), July 29-August 2, 1998, on" Burne-Jones' Mythological Paintings and the Antique". Her forthcoming publications include "Burne-Jones Mythological Paintings", appearing inArtibus et Historiae, Fall, 1998, and Burne-Jones and the Antique (London/New York: The Edwin Mellen Press).

Laurel Bradley has just delivered a paper titled "Famous Men and Fair Women" in the symposium at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 13-14, 1998 dealing with Women as Artist and Subject: , Julia Margaret Cameron, and Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture", associated with the Cameron exhibition.

Julia King recently witnessed the publication of her article on "The Ambassador's House in Essex", which appeared in The Georgian Group Journal, Volume VII, 1997, pp. 117-129.