newsletter Volume II, Number 4 Winter 1986/87

annual members annual meeting Kress funds business meeting addenda foreign speakers

The 75th Annual Members Business Meeting Reunions and Affiliated Society Meetings The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has will be held on Thursday, February 12, 1987 As usual, a few came in after the Preliminary awarded the CAA a grant again this year to at 12:15 P. M. in the Staffordshire Room Program had gone to press. Pennsylvania assist foreign scholars who are speaking at the (third floor) of The Westin Hotel, Copley State University, Thursday, Feb. 12, 4:45 Annual Meeting in Boston February 12-14, Place Boston. P.M.; Swann Foundation for Caricature 1987. The Kress Foundation and the CAA and Cartoon, Friday, Feb. 13, 8:00 A.M. hope that American colieges, universities, Breakfast; Yale University, time and date and museums will be able to take advantage change to ThuI'5day, Feb. 12,4:45 P.M.; Vis­ of the Kress Foundation's generous first step Elections ual Resources Association session listed for - funding the travel of foreign scholars to Friday, Feb. 13,4:45 P.M. has been changed and from the United States - and invite one The major item on the agenda of the Annual to "Trends in Automation III and Microcom­ or more to lecture. Members Business Meeting is elections. puter Roundtable," Gary Seloff·, University of Foreign scholars, the title of his or her CAA Texas at Austin, Moderator. talk, and affiliation are listed below. Please OFFICERS. The Board of Directors proposes contact the CAA office for full address and the following to serve as officers for 1987: U.S. contact person. President: Paul B. Arnold, Oberlin College, Additions to the Art History Sessions emeritus; Vice President: Phyllis Pray "Towards a Scriptural Reading of Seven­ Marten Jan Bok, "Artisans or Gentlemen Bober, Bryn Mawr College; Secretary: James teenth-Century Dutch Landscape Paint­ Painters? The Social Background of Utrecht Cahill, University of California, Berkeley. ings,"]' Bruyn, Amsterdam University, emer­ Painters in the early Seventeenth Century," itus, added to Art into Landscape in the BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Candidates to serve as Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands, ca. 1500-1700, Egbert Haver­ J. Bruyn, "Towards a Scriptural Reading of directors are nominated by the Nominating kamp-Begemann, chair. Seventeenth- Century Dutch Landscape Committee, which is guided by- the returns on "Ma4ness and Modernism," Louis A. Sass, the preferential ballot. This year, 1468 ballots Paintings," Amsterdam University (emer­ Rutgers University, added to Art Without itus); Kaori Chino, "Ise Monogatari-e and were received. The slate reported by the History, III, Irving Lavin, chair. Nominating Committee for election to the Meisho-e: The Relationship of Paintings of Board of Directors in 1987 (to serve until the Tale of Ise to the Development of Famous 1991) is: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Fellowship Opportunities Place Paintings," Tokyo National Museum; Oaks; Judith K. Brodsky, Rutgers, The Representatives of the J. Paul Getty Trust Simon Ellis, "The Heroic Theme in Late State University of New Jersey, Newark; Mary will be available to discuss Getty programs on Roman Domestic Art," Cambridge Univer­ Schmidt Campbell, Studio Museum in Har­ Thursday, Feb. 12, 4:45 P.M.-7:15 P.M.; sity; Carlo Ginzburg, discussant in "High lem; Faith Ringgold, University of Califor­ representatives from the National Endow­ Art/Low Art" session, Universita degli Studi nia, San Diego; Linda Seidel, University of ment for the Arts and National Endowment de Bologna; Bert Meijer, "The Netherlan­ Chicago; and Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton for the Humanities will be available for dis­ dish Factor in Italian Painting of the Six­ University. cussion of grants, fellowships and other pro­ teenth Century," Istituto Universitario Olan­ grams ofthe Endowments on Thursday, Feb. dese di Storia dell'Arte, Florence; Herman NOMINATING COMMI'ITEE: Those nominated 12, 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P. M. and Friday, Feb. 13, PIeij, "Urban Elites in Search of a Culture of to serve on the 1987 Nominating Committee 2,00 P.M.-4,00 P.M. their Own: the Brussels' Snow Festival of (which selects those directors who will be 1510-11," Amsterdam University; Patricia elected in 1988) are: Marianna Shreve Simp­ Simons, "Viewing Women in Quattrocento Movie son, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Frames: The Profile Portrait of Florentine Oshima's "Realm of the Senses" will be shown Arts, National Gallery of Art, Chair; Ann Women," University of Melbourne; Lisa Thursday, Feb. 12, at 6:15 P.M., immediate­ Sutherland Harris, University of Pittsburgh; Tickner, "The Hysteric, the Militant, and ly prior to the symposium session, Genderand Leonard Lehrer, Arizona State University; the Womanly Woman: Feminism, Feminin­ Art History, in which it will be discussed by David Pease, Yale University School of Art; ity and Sexuality in the Representation of Peter Lehman. • and Alan Shestack, Minneapolis Art Insti­ Pro- and Anti- Women's Suffrage Cam­ tute. Procedures for placing additional can­ paigns in Britain, 1907-1914," Middlesex didates in nomination are described in the To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ Polytechnic; Peter J. Ucko, "Concomittants Notice of Meeting, which was mailed on tions and announcements, please be of the Assumption of the 'Beginnings' of December 15. Artistic Traditions," University of South­ For those who will be unable to attend the sure to keep us informed of your cur­ ampton; Pierre Vaisse, "Mural decoration Annual Members Meeting, proxies have been rent address_ under the Third Republic," University of included with the Notice of Meeting. • Paris, Nanterres. • conferences and symposia people and programs

CALL FOR PAPERS World War II conference 1988 North American Print Conference Siena College is sponsoring its second annual Prints of Western North America and Material for inclusion in People and Pro­ Naomi Boretz has been appointed associate European Studies Conference multidisciplinary conference on the 50th Hawaii. For a list of topics call or write Ray­ grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ professor and director of fine arts at Wilson The 12th Annual European Studies Confer· anniversary of World War II on June 4- 5. mond L. Wilson, 848 Sonia Way, Mt. View, tion, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 10016. College, Chambersburg, PA. Deadline for next issue: 1 March. ence, sponsored by the University of Nebraska The focus for 1987 will be 1937 though CA 94040. (415) 967-6011. at Omaha, October 8,9, and 10, 1987, is to be papers dealing with broad issues of earlier Hilton Brown, professor of art, art conserva­ an interdisciplinary meeting with sessions de" years will be welcomed. Topics welcomed in­ IN MEMORIAM tion' and art history at the University of Del a­ Early Modern Europe voted to the scholarly exchange of informa­ clude Fascism and Naziism, Ethiopia. Spain, ware since 1978, was recently named the first The Sixteenth CenturyJournalwelcomes arti­ A. James Speyer, curator of twentieth-cen­ tion, research methodologies and pedagogi­ Literature, Art, Film, Diplomatic and Mili­ Ralph and Bena Mayer Professor. He was also cles on any topic of art history between 1450 tury art at The Art Institute of Chicago died cal approaches. Abstracts of papers and a tary History, Popular Culture and Women's appointed coordinator of the newly founded and 1600. Send articles to Robert A. Kolb, November 9 at the age of 73. Speyer was C. V. should be submitted by March lr} to Ber­ and Jewish studies dealing with the era. Ralph Mayer Center for Artists' Techniques. Associate Editor, Concordia College. Ham­ nard Kolasa, Political Science, or Patricia The Sino-Japanese War will be particularly trained as an architect, studying at the Carne­ A member of the artists' materials committee line and Marshall, St. Paul, MN 55104. Send gie Institute of Technology, Chelsea Poly­ Kolasa, TcachCT Education, Conference Co­ appropriate. Replies and inquiries: Thomas of the American Society for Testing and manuscripts of art history monographs to technic in London, the Sorbonne in Paris and ordinators, or Louis Morgan, Conference O. Kelly, II, Head, Dept. of History, Siena Materials and the Inter-Society Color Coun­ Charles Nauert, Editor of Sixteenth Century with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Insti­ Secretary, College of Continuing Studies, College, Loudonville, NY 12211. cil, Brown (M.F.A. School Art Inst. Chicago) Essays and Studies, History Dept., Univ. of tute of Technology where he received a de­ PKCC, U. of Nebraska at Omaha. Omaha, has been active in rewriting the national con­ Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. NE 68182 - 0361. (402) 554- 3617 / 3484/8300. gree in 1939. He taught at the Illinois Insti­ sensus standards for the chemical contents tute of Technology from 1946 until 1961, and health hazards of artists' paints and Women in Art and Science when he joined the Art Institute. His architec­ related art materials. The editors of Leonardo invite women artists TO ATTEND tural training resulted in art installations that French Studies Colloquium and scientists to submit articles on their work according to Art Institute Director, James The 13th annual 19th Century Frt"nch Studies for publication consideration. In particular, Victorian Bibliomania Symposium Wood, were models of their kind. Speyer re­ The art history department of Emory. Univer­ sity, in 1986-87, will be involved in agame of Colloquium will be held at Northwestern Uni­ women artists working with scientific ideas, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of cently designed a new penn anent installation versity on October 22 -24, 1987. The focus techniques and technologies are encouraged Design, is sponsoring a symposium on Feb­ of the Art Institute's Joseph Cornell boxes, "musical chairs": William Crelly (Baroque) will be interdisciplinary, dealing with the to submit. In 20 years of publication over ruary II in conjunction with its exhibition and reinstalled a major part of its 20th-cen­ assumes the chair in the spring from John relations between literature. art, and history 80% of Leonardo authors have been male. Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated tury collection. Howett(Renaissance), who will beonsabbat­ Herman Maril ica!. Thomas Lyman (Medieval) will be a and with their social and cultural dimensions. The Editors believe this reflects in part an Book in 19th Century Britain. The sympo­ Photo: Aaron M. Levin Sections will be organized according to papers imbalance in its solicitation process; this call sium is moderated by Alice Hauck Beckwith, visiting professor at Northwestern and is re­ submitted. Possible topics include literary for papers is one step to correct this imbal­ author of the exhibition catalogue. For fur­ Herman Maril, landscape artist and profes­ placed by Arnold Klukas, Dorinda Evans and artistic groups in 19th century France; ance. Editorial guidelines may be found on ther information contact the Museum of Art, sor emeritus of painting at the University of (American) is a senior fellow at the Smith­ popular culture; economic models and real­ the outside back cover of the journaL Addi­ RISD, Providence, RI 02903. (401) 331--3511. Maryland, died September 6 on Cape Cod, sonian this year and is replaced by Percy ities in 19th century French literature and art: tional information may be obtained from the the site of his widely known landscapes and North. Bonna Wescoat (Ancient), who has a Getty Fellowship, is replaced by Ann Gunter, the city and the country; women as pro­ main editorial office: Leonardo, 2112 Berke­ Arts and Crafts Movement shore scenes. Maril taught at the University of Clark Poling (Modern) has accepted a three-­ ducers, patrons, viewers, and readers; fin­ ley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704. A symposium to be held at the Boston Muse­ Maryland for over 31 years, receiving an hon­ year appointment as chair of the department de siecle art, politics, psychology, literature, um of Fine Arts April 10-11 in conjunction orary doctorate of fine arts in 1985. A fund beginning in 1987 - 88. music, etc. Send 10-12 page papers or sub­ with the exhibition 'The Art That is Life': has been established through lhe University of stantial abstracts in duplicate to Michael p, Maryland to publish a retrospective book on Nietzsche in Russia The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, Ginsburg, Chair, NCFS Local Committet', Maril's art. For information contact Univer­ Second interdisciplinary conference to be 1875-1920. Martin Eidelburg, Rutgers Two new members have joined the art history Program in Comparativ~ Literature and sity of Maryland Foundation for Herman held at Fordham University, Autumn 1987. Univ.; Anthea Callen, Univ. Warwick, En­ faculty at the University of Texas at Austin: Theory, Northwestern Unlv., Evanston, IL Maril, University of Maryland, University Proposals are invited on aspects of Nietzsche's gland; and Alan Crawford will compare the Susan Rather (Ph.D., Univ. Delaware), will 60201. Deadline: 15 March. College, University Boulevard and Adelphi influence on the avant-garde (painters, British and American Arts and Crafts Move­ teach American art and Charles Edwards Road. College Park, MD 20742. architects, sculptors) in the Russian Empire, ments. Robert Winter, Occidental College; (Ph.D., IFA, NYU) will cover the field of i.e. including non· Russian nationalities in Sharon Darling, Chicago Historical Society; Greek art. Also, Denise Schmandt-Besserat Italian Influence on American Art the Empire. Papers will be published as Nietz­ and Kenneth Trapp, Oakland Museum, will spent the summer studying archaeological discuss regional expressions of the movement collections in Berlin as a fellow of the The Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana an­ sche in Russia, Volume II (Volume I is sche­ ACADEME nounces a symposium to be held November duled for December, 1986 by Princeton Uni­ in California, Chicago, and Cincinnati, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst; 20-21,1987 at Fordham University, Lincoln respectivdy. Richard Guy Wilson, Univ. Vir­ A. James Speyer Terence Grieder has been appointed E. W. versity Press). Send abstracts to Bernice Glat­ Columbia University announces two retire­ Center Campus, New York City. Papers in­ ginia; Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia Univer­ Doty Professor of Fine Arts; and Jeffrey zer Rosenthal, Dept. of History, Fordham ments: George R, Collins, a member of the vited on all aspects of the influence of Italy sity; Cecelia Tichi, Boston Univ.; T.J.Jackson Russell Lee, documentary photographer, Meikle, who holds a joint appointment in art University, Bronx, NY 10458. department of art history and archaeology and Italian art on American arts and artists, Lears, Rutgers Univ.; and Eileen Boris, How­ history and American studies, has been pro­ died August 28 in Austin, Texas. In 1965, Lee since 1946 and Schuyler G. Chapin, fonner 1760-1860. Both long (one hour) and short ard Univ. will examine various aspects of the moted to the rank of associate professor. joined the art department faculty at the Uni­ general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (20 minutes) papers will be welcome. Honor­ Arts and Crafts movemt'nt, including the versity of Texas at Austin and set up its first and dean of the school of the arts for the past aria offered. Proceedings to be published by Art Safety Symposium nature of its architecture, the relationship be­ program in photography. After retiring in ten years. Collins was honored at a day long Marcus L. Rautman (Ph.D. Indiana Univ.), the lstituto. Send abstractslinquiries to Prof. The Division of Chemical Health and Safety tween crafts and industry, and anti modern­ 1973. Lee continued to view the works of and symposium on November 22 in celebration of whose specialty is Byzantine archaeology, is Irma Jaffee, Art and Music Depl., Fordham of tht' American Chemical Society will be ism in American culture. Fee: $35; students offer encouragement to young photographers his achievements, among which are bringing now assistant professor in the department of Univ.·, Bronx, NY 10458. Deadline: 20 holding a major symposium on "SafelY Issues $20. Send check payable to Museum of Fine and artists. He often wor~ed in collaboration the architecture of Antonio Gauqi to world art history and archaeology at the University March. in the Practices of Art and Art Conservation" Arts to Arts and Crafts Movement Sympo­ with his wife Jean, a writer. Contributions are attention. Chapin, who does not like to use of Missouri Columbia. to be held at the Los Angeles meeting of the sium, Dr-partment of Education, MFA. 465 being sought for the Russell Lee Memorial the word "retire," plans to finish a book on his Society, September 25-30,1988. Some ten­ Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Scholarship Fund to establish a scholarship in years at the University and the Metropolitan Eileen Michels has been reappointed chair of tative topics include Educating Artists to photography. Contact Gibbs Milliken, UT Opera. the department of art history at the College of Victorian Scandals: Decorum and its Health and Safety Practices, InstiLUtional­ Austin Art Dept., Austin. TX 78712. Enemies izing Health and Safety Issues. Emergency TASA Conference St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. Mary Swanson Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Midwest Vic­ Procedures for Practitioners and the Legal The 1987 Annual Texas Association of At Rutgers University. department of art his­ joined the department in fall, 1984. Cynthia Jaffee McCabe, a curator at the tory, Catherine Puglisi and Jack Spector torian Studies Association in Chicago. April Aspects of Health and Safety Issues. Persons Schools of Art Conft"rence will be held March Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. have returned from their respective fellow­ John Pearson was just appointed John Young 24-25. For information: Kristine Ottesen interested in participating in this symposium 5- 8 in Dallas, Texas. For infonnation: Becky The Smithsonian Institution, died November ships. Puglisi was on an ACLS grant; Spector Hunter Chair for Art at Oberlin College. Garrigan, MVSA Executive- Secretary, Dept. should contact: Sr. Mary Virginia Orna, Tomlinson, TASA, 15080 Beltwood Pkwy. 5, at the age of 43. At the time of her death, was at the Center for Advanced Study in the Pearson is the second person to occupy that of English and Communication, DePaul Uni­ Dept. of Chemistry. College of New Rochelle. East, Suite lOB, Dallas, TX 75244- 2715. Mt:Cabe was in Rio de Janiero doing prelim­ chair, the first being CAA president Paul B. versity, 2323 North Seminary Ave., Chicago, Nt'w Rochelle. NY 10801 or call (911) 654 (214) 241-8957. Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Tod inary research on a proposed Hirshhom exhi· Marder has been named Editor of The Jour­ Arnold, who retired last year. lL fiOfil4~ 3298. 5302. Continuedonp.ll, col. I bition of contemporary Latin American art. nal of the Society oj Architectural Historians. Continued on p. 5, col. 1 2 CAA newsletter Winter 1986/87 3 J solo shows by artist members Ipeople and programs

A h~ting oj exhibitJons by artists who are Deborah Cornell. Randall Beck Gallery, Karen Norwood. Perry Coldwell Gallery, Recent developments from the University of At San Francisco State University, August David Mickenberg (ABD, Indiana Univ.), members oj the CAA. Those sending infor­ Boston, February 10-March 15, 1987. Re­ Fort Worth, Texas, July 29-August 29. Chicago: Earl Rosenthal will be lecturing on Coppola is the new dean of the School of executive director of the Oklahoma Museum mation for listing should include name of cent paintings and pastels. Prints. the palace of Charles V in the series on Span­ Creative Arts. Coppola did his doctoral work of Art, has been appointed director of the ish architecture at the Spanish Institute in in comparative literature and interdiscipli­ Mary and Leigh Block Gallery at Northwest­ artist, gallery or museum, city, dales of exhi­ Judith O'Rourke. Bromfield Gallery Peggy Cox. Olin Fine Arts Center, Wash­ New York City and in the spring he also will nary studies. He previously was a trustee of ern University. bl"tion, and medium. Backspace, Boston, October 3-November 1. ington & Jefferson College. November 7- 26. teach Spanish architecture of the sixteenth the California State University system. Sylvia Recent prints. "Aspects of Nature," paintings, prints and century at the University of Granada under Solochek Walters is the new chair of the art drawings. Bob Alderette. Orange County Center for Terri Priest. Artworks, Worcester, Mass., the sponsorship of the Comite Conjunto department. A relief printmaker, Walters Russell Bowman (M.A., Univ. Chicago) has had been at the University of Missouri-St. Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Calif., Octo­ Eleanor Dickinson. Hatley Martin Gal­ November 8~,22. "Brand New," drawings. Hispano-Norteamericano para la Cooper­ been named director of the Milwaukee Art Danforth Museum, Framingham, Mass., Louis since 1968 as chair(1977 - 81) and direc­ ber 22-November 21. Paintings and draw­ lery, San Francisco, September 16-0ctober aci6n Cultural y Educativa. Harrie A. Van­ Museum. BOWIllan has been at the museum November 3, 1986-March 1987. Drawings. tor of the art gallery (1974-84). ings, writing and photography. 25. Drawings, video. derstappen has recently returned from a trip since 1980, serving as chief curator. Yasue Sakaoka. Ardath Lynch Gallery, investigating Northern Chinese Buddhist Catherine Allen. SaBa 20, N.Y.C., sites, funded by the Metropolitan Center for Michael F. Croft; a practicing and exhibiting Elizabeth Enders. Gallery Four, 80 Columbus, Ohio, November 19-December November 11 - 29. Paintings. the Study of Far Eastern Art. He was also in­ artist in jewelry and mktalsmithing and pres­ Washington Square East Galleries, N.Y.C., 31. "Sculpture Installation." Indiana University Art Museum director Paul Arnold. The Vodra Hall Gallery, November 12- 26. Mixed media. vited to participate in a conference on the ident of the Society of North American Gold­ Thomas T. Solley has resigned and plans to Jersey City State College, October 8- 31. Col­ Erik Sandgren. A.M. Adler Fine Arts, portrayal of Avalokitesvara in Chinese and smiths, has been appointed Vice President for leave his post by the end of the year. Solley was Louis Finkelstein. Ingber Gallery, Inc., N.Y.C., March 19-ApriI19, 1987. Alle­ or woodcuts. Japanese Art in Kyoto this past June. Robert Academic Affairs at The Swain School of appointed assistant director of the museum in N.Y.C., October 7-November 1. Paintings. gorical paintings of figures in the landscape. Nelson is a fellow at the National Humanities Design, New Bedford, Mass. 1968 and director in 1971. Michael L. Aurbach. Rike Gallery, Uni­ Center for 1986/87. New members joining Sam Gilliam. Middendorf Gallery, Wash· Fritz SchoIder. ACA Galleries, N.Y.C., versity of Dayton, October 29- November 21. the Department include Ann Adams, special­ ington, DC, November 8-December 6. New November 8-29. "Interiors." MUSEUMS Loyola College of New Orleans, December 1- izing in seventeenth - century Dutch portrait­ Mitchell D. Kahan (Ph.D., CUNY) has been paintings. January 2. "The Last Laugh," sculpture. Christopher Semergieff. Prince Street ure and patronage. Katherine Taylor, ex­ appointed director of the Akron Art Muse­ The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the Nancy Graves. David Winton Bell Gallery, Gallery, N.Y.C., November 7-November 26. amining architecture and urbanism in mod­ um. Kahan was curator of American and COll­ Banerjee. Open Gallery, Parsons School of appointment of Judith Keller (M.A. Univ. List Art Center, Brown University, Sep­ Recent paintings. ern France and England; and Martha Ward, temporary art at the North Carolina Museum Design, N.Y.C., December 6-26. "Fumage" Mich, Ann Arbor) as associate curator in the tember 6-0ctober 5. Painting, Sculpture, investigating salon critics and publics in 19th of Art from 1982 until accepting this position. Installation, "Fumage" on Paper. Hyun Duk Shin. Turman Gallery, In­ department of photographs. She was pre­ century France. During the spring term, Bar­ Drawing 1980-1985. diana State University, November 8-Decem­ viously curator of prints and drawings at the Ann Banks. Foundry Gallery, Washing­ bara Stafford, who has returned from a two ber 2. Recent paintings. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, ton, D.C., September 3D-October 19. Draw­ Louise Hamlin. Blue Mountain, N.Y.C. year leave of absence, will conduct an inter­ Donald A. Rosenthal (Ph.D., Columbia Austin. ings and sculpture installation. October 17-November 5. Paintings. Christina Stadelmeier. Florence Wilcox disciplinary Folger Institute Seminar on Uni"\(.) has been appointed curator of Euro­ Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, "Ruling Metaphors in Eighteenth-century pean art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Barbara Berk. Orange County Center for Walter Hatke. William Weston Clarke Pa., October 24-November 21. "Light Emis­ Art and Medical Theory." John R. Lane (Ph.D., Harvard) has been ap­ Rosenthal was curator of collections at the Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, Calif., Octo­ Emison Art Center, DePauw University, sions, " color photographs. pointed director of the San Francisco Muse­ Memorial Art Gallery of the University of ber 22-November 21. Sculpture. Greencastle, Ind., October 17- November 2. um of Modern Art and will assume the posi· Rochester from 1979 to 1985, serving as chief Paintings and drawings. Jane Alden Stevens. CCA Fourth Street The School of the Art Institute of Chicago an­ William Berry. University of Missouri, tion in February 1987. He is currently director curator there after 1982. Gallery, Cincinnati, October 31, 1986-Jan­ nounces the following new regular or visiting ~olumbia, September 28-0ctober 10. Draw­ of The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Mimi Holmes. Fine Arts Gallery, Alabama uary 3, 1987. Photographs. full-time faculty appointments for the spring mgs. a position he has held since 1980. He succeeds A&M University, January 19-February 13, of 1987: Mark Burns (M.F.A., Univ. Wash­ The High Museum of Art has announced the Timothy Van Laar. Fine Art Gallery, Uni­ Henry T. Hopkins who, after thirteen years Gloria DeFilipps Brush. Photography 1987. Mixed-media sculptures, Holocaustal ington, Seattle), ceramics department; Craig appointment of Susan Krane (M.A. Colum­ versity of Wisconsin Center, Marshfield, with the Museum, recently assumed the and Works on Paper Gallery, EasteTIl Wash­ Relics installation. Maegle Gallery, Cente­ Owens in the art history and criticism depart­ bia Univ.), currently curator at the Albright­ November 17-December 19. Recent paint­ directorship of the Frederick R. Weisman ington University, Cheney, Wash., January nary College, Shreveport, La., February 28- ment; Blair Tate in the fiber department. Knox Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., as curator of ings. Foundation of Art in Los Angeles. 7-30, 1987. Richards Hall Department Gal­ March 28, 1987. Small sculptures and draw­ 20th century art. lery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb­ ings. Glass Box Gallery, Middle Tennessee Tom Watcke. Freedman Gallery, Read­ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has ruary 2 19, 1987. Sioux City An Center, State University, Murfreesboro, March 9 31, ing, Penn., October 7-November 9. Recent Warren Rosser, who joined The Kansas City named Anne-Louise Schaffer (Ph.D. Graphics Gallery, Sioux City, Iowa, February 1987. Mixed- media sculptures. sculpture. Art Institute faculty in 1972, has been ap­ cand., Columbia Univ.) assistant curator of 21· April 5, 1987. The Plains Art Museum, pointed chair of the painting/printmaking Ruth Weisburg. Hewlett Gallery, Carne­ the museum's Pre-Columbian, North Amer­ Moorhead, Minn., March 15-ApriI12, 1987. Tandra P. Jorgensen. Chabot College Art department. Rosser instituted a visiting fac­ gie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, September ican Indian, African and Oceanic collections. Photographs. Gallery, Hayward, Calif., September 23- ulty program this fall which brings five artists October 20. Drawings. 23- October 18. "A Circle of Life," paintings. to campus who will each spend five weeks Schaffer was formerly at the Center for Pre­ Carol Burch-Brown. Bertha Urdang Gal­ Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks from .. teaching: Anne H umanfeld, Mary Beth lery, N.Y.C., November 4-29. Drawings. Wolf Kahn. Associated American Artists, 1971 to 1980. N.Y.C., November 1-26. New monotypes. Edelson, Alice Aycock, Brenda Goodman, Sandra Kay Butler. Anderson, Gallery, Tony Naponic, and Pamela Wye. Virginia Commonwealth University, Rich­ James Kuiper. San Antonio Art Institute, SAFE PRACTICES: Robert C. Hobbs (Ph.D., Unlv. North Caro­ lina, Chapel Hill) has been hired for the posi­ mond, November 18 December 2. M.F.A., August 7- 20. Paintings. IN THE ARTS & CRAFTS sculpture. Gerald Matlick (M.F.A., Bowling Green tion of curator at the Contemporary Arts William Kitt. Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts A STUDIO GUIDE State University) recently joined the Ship­ Museum in Houston, Texas. Hobbs was for­ Stephen C. Cappelli. Arnold, Blackmon, Gallery, University of Southern California, pensburg University art department as chair­ merly director of The University of Iowa Hales Fine Arts Inc., Houston, October 8- Los Angeles, September 2·13. "Inscapes," man. Museum. Also in Houston, The Museum of 31. Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spar­ paintings. Fine Arts announces the appointment of Beth tanburg, S.C.,January 9 February 13,1987. Single Copies: $7.00 each Schneider (M.A., Univ. Penn.) as Education Itawamba Junior College, Fulton, Miss., Tom Klinkowstein. Venice Biennale Art Bulk Orders (10 or more): $5.50 each Director. April 12--May 8,1987. Paintings. Festival, July-September. Video-cartoon. Ada Medina joined the art department fac­ ulty at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pitts­ Maria Domenica Lupo. The George Prices include postage and handling. Dana Cibulski. Salena Gallery, Long burgh as associate professor of drawing in The Cincinnati Art Museum announces new School, Newtown, Penn., November 9 -De­ Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Novem­ September. staff members: Ellie Vuilleumier now heads cember 12. Wall sculpture and works on ber 6-26. "Works on Paper '86." Prepayment required. Send orders to Registration; Generra Gardner is the new paper. CAA, 149 Madison Avenue, New Joseph Coco. Greensboro, N.C., October assistant curator of painting; Neil Cocker­ York, NY 10016. Please allow 2-4 2. Kelly' West, N.Y.C., October 11 & 18. Janice Mehlman. Houghton House Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts named line is the new assistant conservator; Mark weeks for delivery on domestic orders; Aronson has begun a year's postgraduate Speak Easy, N .Y.C., October 24 & 25. "Solar Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Alvin H. Reiss, editor and publisher of Arts Susan Krane 4 -6 weeks on foreign orders. Eclipse and' a Nuclear Holocaust," perfor­ Geneva, N.Y., October 24-November 19. Management, visiting professor of arts ad­ internship in the conservation department Photo: Tom Loonan mances and video presentations. Photographs: Painted Silver Prints. ministration for the 1986 -87 academic year. focusi.ng on paintings. Continued on p. 6, col. 1

CAA newsletter 5 4 Winter 1986/87 Ipeople and programs grants and awards

Jeremy D. Bangs (Ph.D. Rijks Univ., MILLARD MEISS GRANTS WHITNEY MUSEUM FELLOWS NEA FELLOWSHIPS Susan Barnes (Ph.D., IFA, NYU), cur­ J. Leiden) is now the chief curator of Plimouth The CAA's Millard Meiss Publications Fund Twenty-seven American and European ad­ The National Endowment for the Arts award­ rently assistant dean of the Center for Ad­ Plantation, The Living Museum of 17th cen­ Committee met on May 3,1986 and October vanced undergraduates and graduate stu­ ed $2.25 million in fellowships to 232 visual vanced Study in tl:e Visual Arts, National tury Plymouth, Mass. During the spring 25, 1986. Subventions were made to the dents have been chosen to participate in the artists from an applicant pool of 5,294. The Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, has been ap­ semester, 1986, he was visiting distinguished following: Independent Study Program of the Whitney grants from the Endowment's Visual Arts pointed chief curator of the North Carolina professor of art history at the Arizona Center Museum of American Art this fall. Helena Program assist practicing professional artists Museum of Art to succeed former chief cura­ for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ari­ Rubinstein Fellows entering the Museum of exceptional talent and demonstrated abil­ tor William J. Chiego. who left the museum Albert Boime, University of California, zona State University, Tempe. Los Angeles, A Social History ofModern Art, Studies Program: Chantal Combes from ity. In 1986, grants were awarded in sums of in July to become director of the Allen Memo­ - Paris, B.A. and M.A., Sorbonne; Peter Dor­ $5,000, $15,000 and $25,000 each to artists rial Art Museum at Oberlin Cc;:>llege. Volume I: Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750- 1800, The University of Chicago Press. oshenko, B.F.A., Univ. Wisconsin, Mil­ working in the fields of photography, sculp­ 1 Robert D. Mowry (ABD, Uillv. Kansas), cur­ waukee; Cheryl Epstein, B.A., Bard ColI., ture and crafts. (For award categories and Laurie Harwood, Watford, England, rently curator of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. M.A. cand., Hunter Coli., C.U.N.Y.; Mary deadlines for 1987/88 see announcements.) Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art at Adam Pynacker, Davaco Publishers. Avril Henry, University of Exeter, Biblia Christing Hunnisett, B.A., Univ. Western Given space constraints, only CAA member The Asia Society, New York City, has been ap­ Ontario, M.A., Univ. St. Andrews, Scotland; grantees are listed: Deborah Carlson, Whit­ pointed to the new position of associate cura­ Pauperum, Scolar Press. Hendrik J. Horn, University of Guelph, Andrea Inselman, B.A. and M.A., Univ. more Lake, MI; JamesCasebere, NYC; John tor of Oriental art at the Arthur M. Sackler Arizona; Grant Kester, B.F.A., ColI. of Art, de Fazio, NYC; Eileen Doktorski, East Museum, Harvard University. Mowry was Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Painter of Tunis: Cartoons in Vienna and Tapestries in Maryland Inst.; Cornelia Lauf, B.A., Ober­ Brunswick, NJ; Ellen Driscoll, NYC; assistant curator of Oriental art at the Fogg lin ColI., M.A. and Ph,D. cand., Columbia Kathey Ervin, St. Joseph, IL; Cliff Garten, Art Museum from 1977 to 1980, when he left Madrid, Davaco Publishers. David Kunzle, University of California, Univ.; James Peto, B.A. and M.A., Univ. St. Paul, MN; John Gillen, Culver City, CA; to go to The Asia Society. Cambridge; Kimmo Sarge, B.A. and M.A., Terry Gips, Takoma Park, MD; Roni Horn, Mary Gardner Neill Los Angeles, History of the Comic Strip, Vol­ ume II, University of California Press. Univ. Helsinki; Charles A. Wright, B.A. NYC; Wendy Maruyama, Oakland, CA; cand., Columbia Univ. Participants in the Rebecca Medel, Smithville, TN; John New­ Mary Gardner Neill, (Ph.D., Yale) curator Michael Marrinan, Columbia University, ARTS ORGANIZATIONS man, NYC; Jeffrey Oestreich, Taylors Falls, of Asian art at the Yale University Art Gallery Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Studio Program: Catherine Clarke, sculptor, since 1979, has been appointed as the second Ideology in Orleanist France, 1830-48, Yale S.U.N. Y., Purchase; Linus Coraggio, sculp­ MN; Roland Reiss, Claremont, CA; Anna­ Kathy Dwyer (Center for Arts Administra­ tor, S.U.N.Y., Purchase; Michael Elsen, beth Rosen, NYC; Judith Ross, Bethlehem, Henry J. Heinz Director of the museum. Neill University Press. tion, the Univ. Wisc., Madison), has been painter, Hochscule der Kunste Berlin; PA; Margo Sawyer, Brooklyn, NY; Jeffrey succeeds Anne Coffin Hanson, the John Hay Nigel Morgan, Index of Christian Art, named director of programs for the American Daphne Fitzpatrick, photographer, School Silverthorne, Central Falls, RI; Christopher Whitney Professor of the History of Art, who Princeton, Early Gothic Manuscripts (2), Association of Museums. Previously she was of Visual Arts; Mike Henderson, painter, has served as the museum's acting director 1250-85, Survey of Manuscnpts Illuminated Staley, Wichita, KS; George Stone, Venice, director of program development for the North Texas State Univ., Denton; Kathleen CA; Mary Stoppert, Chicago, IL; Dennis since July 1985 when the first Henry J. Heinz American Institute of Architects Foundation, in the British Isles, IV. 2, Harvey Miller Director, Alan Shestack, became head of the Publishers. Hogan, photographer, San Francisco Art Tobin, Bloomington, IL; Deborah Toland, Washington, DC. Inst.; Theodore Lipfert, painter, Hunter Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Judith H. Oliver, Colgate University, Seattle, WA. ColI., C.U.N.Y.; Linda Nathanson, film­ The MidAtlantic States Arts Consortium has Gothic Manuscnpt Illumination in the Dio­ cese of Liege c. 1250-1330, Uitgeverij Peeters maker, San Francisco Art Inst.; Linda Peck­ REGIONAL VISUAL ARTISTS The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of appointed Heather Tunis as director of Orientaliste. ham, filmmaker, San Francisco State Univ.; FELLOWSHIPS Rochester has appointed Susan Dodge Peters visual arts and special projects. The National Endowment for the Arts initi­ Edward Sullivan, New York University, Ken Saylor, architect, Southern California (M.A., Williams College) as acting curator of Inst. of Architecture, Santa Monica; Cynthia ated a separate regional fellowships program Susan Barnes Baroque Painting in Madrid: The Contribu­ European art. Lawrence Merrill (M.F.A., Caroline Rubino has been named the exec­ Smith, painter, School of Visual Arts; Patri­ tion of Claudio Coello, University of Missouri in 1983 which is administered cooperatively Univ. Minn.) has been named administrator utive director of the Essex County Arts Coun­ In Washington, DC, Ned Rifkin (Ph.D., Press, cia Thornley, sculptor, Atlanta ColI. of Art; with regional arts organizations. In 1986, 60 of the Creative Workshop, the Memorial Art cil in Elizabethtown, NY. Univ. Mich., Ann Arbor), curator of Cant em­ The Committee will next meet in the Ana Maria Toro, filmmaker, Sarah Law­ fellowships of $3,500 each were awarded to Gallery's studio art school. Also in Rochester, rence ColI,; Diane Torr, perfonnance artist, pOTary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, will The Society for Photographic Education an­ spring. Deadline for submission of applica­ painters and printmakers by Arts Midwest, Robert A. Mayer, Director of the Inter­ Dartington, Call. of Art, Devon, Eng.; James Mid-America Arts Alliance, and Southern join the staff of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn nounces the appointment of Judith Thorpe tions: 1 March. national Museum of Photography at George Welsh, conceptual artist, School of Visual Arts Federation. SAF/NEA grantees who are Museum and Sculpture Garden in December (M.F.A., Univ. Colorado) to the position of as chief curator for exhibitions, a new posi­ Eastman House, was elected president of the Arts. CAA members are Stephen C. Cappelli, New York State Association of Museums. executive director. Thorpe is an active pho­ tion. Sir Lawrence Gowing, honorary cura­ tographer and arts administrator, curator, painting, Montgomery, AL; Jerry Cutler, INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS painting, Gainesville, FL; and Herb Jack­ tor of collections and associate at the Royal writer, and teacher. Academy of Art, London is the Samuel H. In Canada, Timothy Porteous, formerly FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM son, painting, Davidson, NC, Next year fel­ Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art director of the Canada Council, has been ap­ Diverse Works, Inc. and the Southwest Alter­ lowships will be offered by Arts Midwest in, Myrna Smoot (Ph.D. cand., UCLA), assis­ for the academic year 1986-87. pointed associate director of the Canadian nate Media Project (SWAMP) announced the JAPAN FOUNDATION GRANTS crafts and photography, the Mid-America tant director for museum programs at the Los Centre for Architecture. The Edmonton Art recipients of the 1986 Interdisciplinary Arts The Japan Foundation American Advisory Arts Alliance in photography, and by the Angeles County Museum of Art since 1981, Committee awarded $1.2 million in Fellow­ Lial A. Jones (Univ. Delaware) has been ap­ Gallery announced the resignation of the gal­ Fellowship Program awards, a new pilot pro­ Southern Arts Federation in photography has been appointed executive director of The pointed to the position of director of educa­ lery's curatorial manager / curator of photog­ gram funded by The Rockefeller Foundation ships, Library Support and Institutional Sup­ and sculpture. Art Museum Association of America. tion at the Delaware Art Museum, where she raphy, Kate Davis, who has been appointed and the NEA to assist artists whose work port for projects which contribute to the crosses traditional art discipline lines and ex­ enhancement of knowledge, understanding, has been working since 1979. assistant director (programs) of Calgary's Norton L. Berman a.D., M.P.A., Univ. RAKOW GLASS AWARDS or appreciation of Japanese society, culture, Glenbow Museum. Joseph Martin, a mem­ Pittsburgh) has been appointed executive plores new fonns: William G. Crist, elec­ The Corning Museum of Glass announced or Japanese-American relations. Fellowship David S. Rubin (M.A., Harvard), fonnerly ber of the senior staff of the National Gallery director of the American Craft Council tronic/ perfonnance artist, Prairie Village, 1986 Rakow Awards to promote new scholar­ recipients include: Professional fellowshtps: director of exhibitions at the San Francisco of Canada since 1970 and director since 1983, (ACC), the non-profit organization for the Kan.: $5000 to produce a performance art ship and glassmaking. Each award is $5000, Karen Brock, Washington Univ.: 'Japanese Art Institute and, concurrently, adjunct resigned for professional reasons, as had his promotion of contemporary crafts. An at­ piece collaborating with choreographer Mar­ but will eventually be endowed and grow to Picture Scrolls: 1150-1250;" David Pollack, curator for the San Francisco Museum of two immediate predecessors, Hsio-Yen Shih torney by training, Berman was most recently garet Gin, composer Pat Johnson, and de­ $25,000 each, annually. Jorge Barrera, a Univ. Rochester: "The Evolution of Aesthetic Modern Art, has assumed the directorship of and Jean Sutherland Boggs. Martin called executive vice president of The Fantus Co, a signer Gerri Wolff; Gerry Frost, visual/ French glass scholar, received the Rakow the Freedman Art Gallery at Albright Col­ for the government to give the National Gal­ consulting firm providing economic develop­ media artist, San Antonio, Tex.: $3000 to­ Concepts in Japan;" John Singleton, Univ. Grant for Glass Research to study the glass lege, Reading, PA. lery back its independent status and its own ment services for public and private agencies. wards a multi-dimensional installation; Pittsburgh: "Folk Craft Training in Pottery: discovered during recent construction work in board of trustees, something it has lacked Michael Galbreth, sound/video/perfor­ Japanese Patterns of Cultural Transmission the Cour Napoleon, the courtyard of the Sarah Lawrence College has appointed Ste­ since the National Museums Corporation was Robert A. Yassin, director of the Indian­ mance artist, Houston: $5000 for an interac­ and Educational Theory;" Oliver Statler, Louvre; The Rakow Commission, for a new Univ. Hawaii: "The Gate (Dazaifu: history phen Lamia (Ph.D., Univ. Toronto) as direc­ established in 1968. apolis Museum of Art has been elected a tive event; James Kanan, media artist and work of glass art which will enter the Museum and significance of the government head­ tor of the Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery member of the board of the International Steven Paulk, sculptor, Houston: $5000 for a collection, has been awarded to Douglas quarters, the Shinto Shrine, and the area)." to succeed Barbara Cohn, who served as Honee A. Hess, curator of education since Council of Museums Committee (ICOM) of performance piece; Ken D. Little, sculptor/ Anderson, Warsaw, Ohio, whose work in director for six years. Lamia has been staff 1979 at the University of Iowa Museum of the American Association of Museums. craftsman/performance artist, Norman, Dissertation fellowshlp: Jonathon Reynolds, pate de verre will be unveiled October 17 dur­ lecturer in The Cloisters' dept. of education Art, has been appointed curator of education Director of the IMAsince 1975, Yassinjoined Okla.: $5000 for a series of active sculptural Stanford Univ.: "The Architecture of Mae­ ing the museum's annual Seminar on Glass. kawa Kunio." since 1984. at the Worcester Art Museum. the museum in 1973 as chief curator. • environments. Continued on p. 8, col. 1

6 eAA newsletter Winter 1986/87 7 Igrants and awards announcements

Swann Foundation Awards of graduate study and must be affiliated with 1987 NEH Summer Seminars for College NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL The Swann Foundation for Caricature and a college or university in the United States or Teachers MINORITIES PROGRAM Cartoon annually awards a $10,000 Doctoral Canada. Each grant carries a stipend of$1 ,200. Fifty-one seminars for teachers at under­ One-year postdoctoral fellowships have been Fellowship for the research and writing of a The ANS also awards one fellowship of graduate and two-year colleges will be of­ awarded to 36 minority-group scholars. They dissertation in the field of caricature and car­ $3,500 to a graduate student who (1) will have fered during the summer of 1987. These semi­ are the seventh group of recipients in the an­ toon. In addition, a limited numberofgrants­ completed the general examinations (or the nars will deal with a rich variety of topics cen­ nual program, sponsored by the Ford Foun­ in·-aid are available. Information and appli­ equivalent) for the doctorate; (2) will be writ­ tral to the humanities and will provide oppor­ dation and administered by the National Re­ cation may be obtained from SF, 19th floor, ing a dissertation during the academic year tunities for teachers to work with a distin­ search Council. Recipients include: (Fellow­ 655 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021. 1987·- 88 on a topic in which the use of numis­ guished scholar and colleagues in an area of ship institution indicated in parentheses after (212) 838-2424. Application deadline: 15 matic evidence plays a significant part, and mutual interest and to pursue individual project) Gary R. Bibbs, Univ. Kentucky: February. (3) has attended one of the ANS Graduate study and research. Participants will receive a sculpture and printmaking (Art lnst. Chi­ Seminars prior to the time of application. For stipend to help cover expenses: $3,500 for an cago); Carol A. Williams Carter, St. Mary's further information write: ANS, Broadway at eight-week seminar, and $2,750 for a six­ ColI, Ind: fine arts-fibers (Penn St. Univ.). Jewish Museum Metalwork Fellowships Two fellowships of $500 each are available 155th Street, NYC 10032. Application dead­ week seminar. Copies of the brochure describ­ line: 1 March. ing the content of each seminar are available WINTERTHUR FELLOWSHIPS annually to artists with experience in silver­ from the Division of Fellowships and Semi­ Winterthur Museum and Gardens an­ smithing, metalwork, or metal sculpture who Ucross Foundation Residencies for Artists nars, Room 316, National Endowment for nounced seven academic fellowship awards are interested in creating contemporary Residencies may run from two weeks to four for 1986-87 to support research and study of Jewish ceremonial objects. Fellowships run months. A complete etching facility is includ­ the Humanities, Washington, DC 20506. For American art, decorative arts and material either November through February or March ed. There is no charge for room, board, or mqre detailed information and application culture. Two Louise du Pont Crowninshield through June and offer an opportunity to studio space, although contributions are wel­ forms, write directly to seminar directors listed below. Deadline: 2 March. Fellowships were granted to support scholarly work with master silversmith Moshe Zabari. come. For more information: SASE to Resi­ English Romantic Literature and the Vis­ catalogues in American decorative art: Leslie Prior knowledge ofJewish ritual not essentiaL dency Program, UF, Ucross Route, Box 19, Greene Bowman, Los Angeles County Mus. For more information: Chava Wolpert Rich­ Clearmont, WY 82835. Application deadline ual Arts, June 22-August 14. James A. W. Heffernan, Dept. of English, Dartmouth Col­ of Art: rococo style in 18th century America; ard, Tobe Pascher Workshop Fellowship Pro­ for Fall 1987 session: 1 March. Michael K. Brown, Bayou Bend Collection: gram, JM, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY lege, Hanover, NH 03755; Medieval Politics Jonathan Brown and Society, June 22-August 14. Brigitte M. American art at the Mus. of Fine Arts, Hou­ Dickran Kouymjian Courtesy NYU/Ken Levinson photo 10028. Application deadline: 15 February. Walter Read Hovey Fellowship/The ston. Four Benno M. Forman Fellowships, to Pittsburgh Foundation Bedos Rezak, Dept. of History, SUNY, Stony In October, King Juan Carlos I of Spain pre­ support research in American material cul­ Dickran Kouymjian, California State Uni­ The Fund offers one fellowship per year in art Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794; Art in the sented Spain'S highest cultural award, the United States Capitol Society Fellowship ture, were awarded: Thomas Carter, Utah versity, Fresno, has been chosen the univer­ history or a related field such as museum Culture oj Pagan and Christian Rome in Late Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes, to Jonathan To support research and publication on the Antiquity, June 15-August 7 at The Amer­ Division of History: to document and inter­ sity's Outstanding Professor of the Year for work, conservation, or restoration, to a grad­ Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. The art and architecture of the United States ican Academy in Rome. David H. Wright, pret vernacular furniture from Utah's San­ 1986. He was also elected to his second con­ uate student with at least one year completed Medalla de Oro, awarded annually by the Capitol and other buildings under the juris­ History of Art Dept., University of California, pete Valley; Janet Hutchinson, Univ. Dela­ secutive term as chair of the administrative by June 1987. The Fellowship of $2,500 is Spanish Ministry of Culture to individuals diction of the Architect of the Capitol. Grad­ Berkeley, CA 94720; Portraiture: Biography, ware to study the housing reform movement council of the Society for Armenian Studies. awarded in June. Applications may be ob­ who have made exceptional contributions to uate students and scholars may apply for peri­ Portrait Painting, and the Representation oj of the 1920s and early 1930s; Barbara Mar­ ods of one month to one full year for a stipend t~ined from The Pittsburgh Foundation, 301 the cultural life of Spain, was awarded to Historical Character, June 29-August 21. tin, George Washington Univ.: to explore The Swann Foundation for Caricature and FIfth Ave., Suite 1417. Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Brown for his extensive writings, teaching of $1,250 per month. Further information: Richard H. Wendorf, Dept. of English, late 19th century domestic furnishings; Mari­ Cartoon Fellowship for the 1986-87 aca­ Dr. Barbara Wolanin, Curator, Architect of (412) 391-5122. Application deadline: 1 and research in Spanish art history and cul­ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL anne Nolan, Cleveland State Univ. Library: demic year was split between two applicants: the Capitol, Washington, DC 20515. (202) March. ture. 60201. to research Englishman John Miles, the in­ 1. Maud Lavin (Ph.D. candidate, CUNY) to 225-2700 or 225-1222. Application dead­ NEH Summer Institute on Theory and ventor of the "agitable lamp." A Robinson go to Berlin to research her dissertation sub­ line: 15 February. Interpretation in the Visual Arts Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Fellowships Doctoral Research Fellowship was awarded to ject, "Hannah Hoch, Photomontage, and the in Photography and Crafts David Brownlee, Univ. Pennsylvania, has A six-week summer institute for college and Katherine A. Roberts, Univ. Minnesota: Representation of the New Woman in Wei­ Stella Blum Research Grant university professors, sponsored by Hobart Twenty awards of$3,500 each will be made to been awarded the 1986 Alice Davis Hitchcock "The Image of the Hearth in American mar Germany, 1918-1933"; and 2. Garry The Costume Society of America is accepting and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New visual artists living and working in Illinois, Medallion, presented annually by the Society Culture." Apgar (Ph.D. candidate, Yale) to complete project proposals for the first Stella Blum Re­ Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North· of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, York, with the cooperation of the University work on "Jean Huber, Caricaturist and Cut­ search Grant. A maximum award of $3,000 Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin. for his book The Law Courts: The Architec­ of Rochester. The institute will examine the out Artist (1721-1786)." will be given to an undergraduate or graduate historiographic traditions that determine the In addition, the fellowship artists will be the ture oj George Edmund Street. INDIVIDUAL AWARDS student to support a single research project present character of the discipline of art his­ focus of a national publicity campaign that Artist Gyorgy Kepes was awarded the first focussing on any aspect of North American tory, locate art history within the theoretical will include publication of their works in The Decorative Arts Society, a chapter of Frank]. Malina- LEONARDO Prize for work. costume. The grant will be awarded in June context afforded by other fields and perspec­ selected art periodicals. Artists who are resi­ the Society of Architectural Historians, an­ promoting the synthesis of contemporary art, Yasue Sakaoka, Capital Univ., Columbus, 1987 for a project that can be completed by tives in the humanities, generate theoretical dents of Arts Midwest's member states, who nounced the winners of the 1985 Charles F. science and technology. The Prize will be Ohio, has been awarded a $700 Professional September 1988. Applicants must be matric­ mo.dels that might constitute a basis for future have not received a fellowship from the Montgomery Award and Prize: Morrison H_ awarded annually by the International Soci­ Development Assistance Award by the Ohio ulating in a degree program at an accredited art historical writing, and discuss the implica­ National Endowment for the Arts, are en­ Heckscher for American Furniture in the ety for the Arts, Sciences and Technology to Arts Council for completing small bronzes by institution and must be members of the Cos­ tions of these interpretive strategies for the couraged to apply. Complete information Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 2, Late an eminent artist for a lifetime of work in any the end of 1986. tume Society. (Annual student membership, enrichment of teaching in college and univer­ and applications forms available from: Arts Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chlp­ medium. $15.) For further information and applica­ sity curricula. Midwest, 528 Hennepin Avenue, Suite 310, pendale Styles and The Great River: Art and tion materials write: Grant Administrator Faculty of the institute are Michael Ann Minneapolis, MN 55403. (612) 341-0755. SoC£ety oJthe Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820 Michael Mooney. Columbia University, was Joanne M. Kuebler, Indianapolis Museum Costume Society of America, 55 Edgewate~ Holly (director), Keith Moxey (co-director), Application deadline: 3 April. published by the Wadsworth Atheneum in of Art, has been awarded a Kress Foundation awarded the 1985 Louis Gottschalk Prize for Drive, PO Box 73, Earlevile, MD 21919. (301) Svetlana Alpers, Michael Podro, and David Hartford, Conn. The project director for the Fellowship from Indiana University to fund NEA Visual Arts Program Fellowships his book Vieo in the Tradition oj Rhetoric. 275-2329. Application deadline: 1 March. Summers, Visiting Lecturers are Arthur Dan­ exhibition and catalogue was William N. The American Society for Eighteenth-Cen­ research on her dissertation, "An American The National Endowment for the Arts Visual to, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin, and Hosley, Jr.; the principal research associate tury Studies presented the $1000 cash award Abstract Impressionist, Richard pousette­ Arts Fellowships grants for 1987/88 will be Numismatic Grants and Fellowship Richard Wollheim. Participation will be limi­ was Elizabeth Pratt Fox. for the best book on the eighteenth-century Dart." awarded in the categories of painting, print­ The American Numismatic Society offers ted to 25 full-time faculty members who will published during the preceding year. making! drawing! artists books, and new grants- in - aid for study at the 35th Seminar receive stipends of $3,000. Their home insti­ genres. Guidelines and deadlines (ranging The Boston Globe's L.L. Winship Prize, a Omission: Vera L. Viditz-Ward, Indiana in Numismatics to be held at its museum from tutio.ns will be asked to contribute a $250 regi­ from January 15 to March 15) may be re­ Donald E. Knaub, Meadows Museum J~ne 9 through August 8 to provide students literary award for a book on a New England Univ., was awarded a Fulbright grant for st~atl~n fee. Fo: further information and ap­ quested by mail or telephone from Visual Arts Southern Methodist University, was one often wIth a deeper understanding of the contribu­ subject, was awarded this year to an art 1985-86 which has been renewed for 1986- phcatton materIals: Tamar March, Associate Program!Fellowship Guidelines, NEA, 1100 nationally selected recipients of a National tions made by numismatics to other fields of Provost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, book, Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century 87, to research the history of photography in Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for travel study. Applicants must either have an earned Geneva, NY 14456-3397. (315) 789-5500. American Dream by Diana Korzenik. Mass­ Sierra Leone, West Africa. .. 20506. (202) 682-5448. in Latin America. doctorate or have completed at least one year Application deadline: 1 March. achusetts College of Art. Continued on p. 10, col. 1 CAA newsletter Winter 1986/87 9 8 Iconferences and symposia classifieds lannouncements

Camargo Foundation Fellowships ACLS Survey of Scholars Rockefeller Residency in the Humanities 1987 National Docent Symposium From Scribal Culture to Print Culture The CAA newsletter will accept classifieds of The Foundation, located in Cassis, France This special issue of Scholarly Communica­ The Smithsonian Institution, with funding Docents and staff will have the opportunity to A symposium on the Early Illustrated Book a professional or semi-professional nature (one-half hour from Marseille and from Aix­ tion (Summer 1986) is a preliminary repon of from the Rockefeller Foundation, provides set a new agenda for museum education and will be held Friday and Saturday, April 10 (sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange en·· Provence) provides fellowships for Amer· a survey based on a sample of 5,385 members postdoctoral fellowships for up to ODe year in docent programs for museums of all disci­ and 11, at Northwestern University. This of homes, etc.). The charge is 5ar per word, ican scholars who wish to pursue further stud· of societies affiliated with ACLS. The pur­ residence at the National Museum of African plines at the 1987 National Docent Sympo· interdisciplinary symposium will focus on the minimum charge $10.00, advance payment ies in various branches of French culture in pose of the survey was: (1) to gather data Art and the Center for Asian Art. For post­ sium to be held at The Toledo Museum of period of transition from the manuscript to required. Make checks payable to CAA. France. Furnished apartments and a refer­ about scholars in both academic and nonaca­ doctoral scholars up to seven years beyond the Art, March 24-26. The three days of work­ the printed book during the first half·century demic employment as producers and users of degree a stipend of $25,000 plus allowances is ence library are available. Applicants may in· shops, lectures, panels and demonstrations after the invention of printing. Papers will books, journals, and other materials for provided. For more information and appli­ clude university and college faculty who wish will focus on a program to expand back­ include case studies on individual centers teaching and research and (2) to obtain their cation forms: SI, Office of Fellowships and to pursue special studies while on leave from ground knowledge of objects and teaching of production in France, Germany, and En­ their institutions; graduate students whose views on a wide range of issues such as peer HUMANISM AND THE ARTS IN RENAIS~ Grants, Desk A, L'Enfant Plaza, Suite 7300, techniques, so that docents may more effec" gland; and there will be a round-table dis· academic residence and general examination review, library services, and the usefulness of SANCE ITALY: A Traveling Seminar direct· Washington, DC 20560. (202) 287-3271. Ap­ tively communicate understanding and en­ cussion on how case studies on the production requirements have been met and for whom a new technology. For a copy of the newsletter, ed by William Melczer, Professor of Compar· plication deadline: 15 February. joyment of museum collections. To encour­ and use of illustrated books can contribute to send a self- addressed label and fifty- six cents ative Literature, Syracuse University Oune stay in France would be beneficial incomplet· age minority attendance at the Symposium, the formulation of a history of reading. For ing their dissertations; and artists and pho­ in postage to: ACLS, Office of Scholarly 22-July 24),6 credits, undergraduate/grad· monies for a limited number of scholarships further information, contact: Sandra L. tographers with specific projects to complete. Communication and Technology, 1717 Mas· uate; mature learners welcome, Renaissance have been made available through the Ohio Hindman, Chair, Art History Dept., North· Pollack-Krasner Foundation For further information: Michael Pretina, sachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 401, Wash­ Italy is the uncompromising stage for this Arts Council's Outreach Initiative Program. western University, Evanston, IL 60201. Grant Program Director, CF, 13260 Cassis, France. ington, DC 20036. intensive interdisciplinary traveling seminar The Foundation seeks the applications of tal­ For additional information: Dept. of Muse­ offered for the eleventh consecutive year. All um Education, The Toledo Museum of Art, ented visual artists who are in need of finan­ lectures are delivered in situ at artistic and cial assistance to pursue their careers. Grants British Archaeology: Summer Seminar ARL The Changing System of Scholarly Box 1013, Toledo, OH43697. (419) 255-8000. historical sites, monuments, galleries, muse· are awarded based on an applicant's recog­ and Excavations Communication urns, cathedrals, and cloisters. The group has nizable merit as an artist and financial need, The British Archaeology Program offers a The Association of Research Libraries has been granted access to major museums and professional, personal, or both. Nominations comprehensive introduction to British Prehis· issued a new paper on scholarly communica· galleries, including the Vatican Museum at and applications are welcome from painters, tory.!. Seminar and Tour, June 22-June 30. tion, which addresses the new technological Northern Renaissance Stained Glass times normally closed to visitors. About one­ A symposium will be held Saturday March 7 sculptors, graphic, and mixed media artists. Lectures at Christ's Church, Cambridge fol· environment, the changing needs and prac· American Art of the Twentieth Century third of the program is taken up by field trips The department of art history at the Univer­ at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass­ Grants are awarded periodically throughout lowed by visits to the major archaeological tices of scholars, the role of publishers in the in and around histonc Florence, and about sity of Delaware will sponsor a symposium en­ achusetts in conjunction with the exhibition the year. The size and length of the grant is sites in Southern Britain. 2. On the Dig, June scholarly communication process, the record two-thirds by travel to Pisa, Siena, Perugia, titled "American Art of the Twentieth Cen­ Northern Renaissance Staz'ned Glass: Conti­ determined by the individual circumstances 30-July 21. Students will be expected to take a of scholarship, and users of the record of Assisi, San Sepolcro, Urbino, Ravenna, tury: Vision and Revision," 1 May, which will nuity and Transformations. Four discussants of the artist. Applicants do not need to pro· full part in the work program for six days per scholarship. Copies available from the Asso· Padova, Vicenza, Naples, Pompeii, Venice present a wide range of approaches to 20th will chair panels exploring issues raised by the pose specific projects, nor are they required to week. Applications obtained from Fulbright ciation for $1.00 per copy, prepaid, at 1527 (three days), and Rome (five days). For fur· century American painting, sculpture, pho· exhibit: Anne van Buren, Charles Talbot, produce a body of work during the grant Program Adviser on campus or liE. Returned New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC ther information, contact Syracuse Univer· tography, and film. For more information, Virginia Raguin, and Craig Harbison. For period. For further information and applica· to: British Archaeology, U.S. Student Pro· 20036. sity, Division of International Programs tion: P-K Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 4957, grams Division, Institute of International write to: Symposium on American Art, Clay· further information contact the Department Abroad, 119 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, NY of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross, New York, NY 10185. Education, 809 United Nations Plaza, New ton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, 13244-4170, Tel (315) 423·3471. Handbook for Grant Proposal Preparation DE 19716, or call (302) 451-2214. Worcester, MA 01610. (617) 793-2237. III York, NY 10017. Application deadline: I Recently published by the Linguistic Society April. of America, this hefty paperbound book con­ American Society for Eighteenth-Century tains guidelines, advice, and examples of Studies Fellowships actual proposals. Copies are available for ROMANESQUE ART AND TI-IE MEDI­ Islamic Teaching Material Project For an exhibition and catalogue on "Ensor in Five fellowship programs to promote and sus­ $20.00 prep.aid from the LSA Secretariat, EVAL PILGRIMAGE ROUTES from South· With funding from the NEH and the sponsor­ American Collections," planned for 1989- tain the study of the eighteenth century will 1325 18th Street, N.W., Suite 211, Washing­ information ern France to Santiago de Compostela, ship of the American Council of Learned 1990, information is sought on the location of be funded jointly by the Society and five re­ ton, DC 20036. directed by William Melczer, Professor of Societies, a team of historians, geographers, works and correspondence by the Belgian art· search institutions. Fellowships will generally Comparative Literature, Syracuse University art historians, religion professors and media ist James Ensor (1860-1949). Diane Lesko, be limited to one month's support. Applicant Oune I-June 14),. 3 undergraduate/ graduate resource specialists have put together a com­ NEH's Overview of Endowment Programs Information is being sought for a publication Curator of Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, must be a member of ASECS, no more than credits; mature learners welcome. This trav· prehensive package of eight distinct teaching The July 1986 edition covering 1987-88 dealing with the nature of exhibition open­ 255 Beach Drive North, St. Petersburg, FL ten years from receipt of the Ph.D. or equiv· eling seminar retraces the artistic and cultur· aids on Islamic studies, including Islamic grants· is now available. Full of nitty gritty ings, and the role they play in the develop· 33701. alent, with a project concerning the period al history of Medieval Europe's most impor" Art and Architecture, Islamic Civilization, information such as a year's worth of grant ment and expansion of the arts audience. Per­ 1660··1815. For information and application, tant pilgrimage road from Arles in south­ Islamic Coins, and Islam-Fiche, a microfiche application deadline dates, eligibility re· sonal accounts from artists, documentation of For a restrospective exhibition and catalogue write directly to the libraries, referring to eastern France to Santiago de Compostela anthology of translated selections from pri­ quirements and application procedures for specific art openings, and the viewpoints of of the Puerto Rican painter Jose Campeche y "ASECS Fellowship Program": Clark Li­ near the Atlantic shore of northeastern Spain. mary source materials in the arts and human­ all programs, an agency telephone directory, curators, gallery and museum directors, as Jordan (1751-1809) at the Museo de Arte de brary: Fellowships, William Andres Clark ities. For further information contact Kathy A bus provides transportation along the 2500 and a directory of state humanities councils, well as audience members are especially wel· Ponce and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron St., Los kilometer route with stops at the sixteen Sullivan (202) 337 0855 or Herbert L. Bod­ Overvl'ew is free and can be obtained from: come. This publication will view openings as in New York, any information regarding Angeles, CA 90018. (213) 731-8529; Folger major artistic historical sites and monuments man, Jr., Project Director, 554 Hamilton NEH Public Affairs Office, Room 409, 1100 important socio· cultural institutions within Campeche or his works will be appreciated. Library and Institute: Lena Cowen Orlin, Ex­ to be studied. At particularly scenic, as well as Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington, the art world, that function as forms of com· Professor Maria del Pilar Gonzalez Lamela, ecutive Director, Folger Institute of Renais­ artistically meaningful points of the route, Hill, NC 27514. (919) 962-2115. DC 20560. (202) 786 0438. munal ritual. Write: B. Kelm, Franklin Uni­ Visiting Curator, Museo de Arte de Ponce, sance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, 201 participants may make the last few kilometers versity, Dept. of Art, 201 S. Grant Ave., Ponce, Puerto Rico 00733. Telephone (809) East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003. of the road on foot. A complete English trans· Columbus, OH 43215. 848-0505,840-1510. (202) 544-4600; McMaster University Li­ Visual Resources Association Publications The Association of Freelance Art Editors lation of the Guide ofthe P-ilgrim prepared by brary: Charlotte A. Stewart, Director, Ar· The VRA announces the recommencement The Association was founded in the fall of the director of the program, serves as the daily 1986 to provide contact among experienced B. Riving Couse (1866-1936), American Researching proposed exhibition on public chives and Research Collections, McMaster of the journal Visual Resources: An inter· primary text to the participants as they pro· art-book editors, to encourage and promote painter and member of the Taos Group, was a perception of Afro-Americans as revealed in University Library, 1280 Main St. West, national Journal oj Documentation, and the ceed towards Santiago de Compostela. For high standards in the field, and to increase native of Saginaw, Michigan. The Saginaw American painting, sculpture, prints, photo· Hamilton, OnL, L8S 4L6 Canada. (416) publication of the Slide Buyers' Guide, 5th further information, contact Syracuse Uni­ respect for and recognition of the profession Art Museum is establishing a visual archives graphs, and decorative arts. Need informa· 525 - 9140; Newberry Library: Committee On ed., edited by Norine D. Cashman and Mark versity, Division of International Programs of art-book editing. The Association also of· and exhibition and study room for Couse and tion identifying such works and their present Awards, The Newberry Library, 60 West M. Braunstein. A sample copy of Visual Abroad, 119 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, NY fers a referral service for both editors and is interested in learning the whereabouts of location. Please reply to Guy C. McElroy, Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610. (312) 943- Resources may be obtained by writing to the 13244-4170, Tel (315) 423 3471. III 9090; Yale Center for British Art: Office of publisher, Gordon & Breach, Inc., Marketing publishers. Those interested in applying for works by Couse. Martha Woodruff Ross, Guest Curator, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Director, Yale Center for British Art, Box Dept. PO Box 786 Cooper Station, NYC membership should send a resume to the Saginaw Art Museum, 1126 North Michigan 17th St. and New York Ave., Washington, 2120 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. 10276. Members of VRA are eligible for Association at 175 West 93rd St., Apt. 5G, Avenue, Saginaw, MI 48602. DC 20006. III Continued on p. 12, col. 1 (203) 432-2822. special reduced subscription rate. NYC 10025. Winter 1986/87 II 10 CAA newsletter Iclassifieds

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