newsletter Volume 3, Number 2 June 1978

1979 annual meeting: call for participation

The 1979 CAA annual meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., and Late Antique ,art. The topics should be suitable for a thorough January 31~February 3, with the Washington Hilton serving as head­ and self-contained exposition within a 15 to 20 minute period. Papers quarters hoteL dealing with the presence and transformation of the classical tradi­ In accordance with what was generally considered a very successful tions in these cultures are encouraged. exp'eriment last year, CAA program sessions will again begin on Recent Archaeological Finds in the People's Republic of China. Wednesday evening. In addition to the Wednesday evening sessions, Thomas Lawton, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, there will be two CAA program time-slots on Thursday-in the mor­ Washington, D.C. 20560. ning (9:30 A.M. to noon) and in the evening (8:30 to 11:30 P.M.); During the years since 1972, there has been an increasing number of two on Friday-in the morning (same time as above) and in the after­ important archaeological finds throughout the People's Republic of noon (2:00 to 4:30 P.M.); and one on Saturday morning. China. With few exceptions, discussion of the individual sites has been The interstitial time slots, beginning on Wednesday afternoon, confined to the pages of Chinese archaeological reports. Consequent­ will be reserved for reunions, receptions, and the business meetings ly, the full significance of many of the sites and their artifacts to our and program sessions of related organizations. Someplace in there we understanding of Chinese art history is still not clear. In an effort to hope that at least some of you will find a &mall slot for that evaluate some of the problems raised by these recent finds, papers are "unscheduled'free time" that is a rapidly fading gleam in the eyes of invited that focus on a few of the most outstanding sites and some of the program planners. their key artifacts. Convocation will be held on Friday evening, February 2. The con­ vocation itself will take place in the auditorium of the National Air Pre-Columbian Art. Elizabeth P. Benson, Center for Pre­ and Space Museum, and there will be an open house and reception Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street, N. W., that evening at the nearby Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Washington, D.C. 20007. Garden. Other local events, including open houses and receptions at Byzantine Art. Herbert Kessler, Dept. Art History, The, Johns various other museums and Saturday tours in Baltimore and Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 21218. Washington are being planned by Abram Lerner, Hirshhom Museum and Sculpture Garden. Monasticism and the Spread of Artistic Style. Giles Constable. Art history sessions for 1979 have been planned by Alan Fern, Center for Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street, Library of Congress. Studio sessions have been planned by Jane Liv­ N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007. ingston, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Listed below are the topics they Papers are invited on the role of monastic centers, religious houses, have selected. Those wishing to participate in any session should and orders in the establishment of styles in the visual arts (including write to the chairman of that session before October I, 1978. Note: painting, book illustration, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts) In cases where the chairman is yet to be announced, inquiries or and the transmission of style and artistic fonns from one geographical abstracts should be addressed to the CAA office. location to others. The session will be limited to papers on Northern Reminder: In accordance with the Annual Meeting Program Europe between A.D. 750 and 1500. Guidelines (see CAA newsletter, March 1977), no one may par­ Art and Politics in Northern Gothic and Renaissance Europe. ticipate in more than one session. While it is perfectly good fonn to Sandra Hindman, Dept. Art History, The Johns Hopkins University, submit more than one paper or even to submit the same paper to Baltimore, Md. 21218. more than one chainnan, it would avoid considerable last-minute The relation between artistic production and political propaganda hassles if both chainnen were forewarned. In a further attempt to in­ (or motivation) will be treated. Papers on miniature cycles, panel troduce new faces, session chainnen have been encouraged not to ac­ paintings, and prints are all invited. Countries of origin limited to the cept a paper by anyone who has given a paper in the previous year or north of Europe outside Italy. to accept as a panelist anyone who has been a panelist during the previous year. From Renaissance to Baroque: Transitions in Italian Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1500-1650', W. R. Rearick, Dept. Art, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. ART HISTORY PROGRAM Art and Theory in the Renaissance and Baroque. Maurice Cope, Papers for art history sessions must be proposed in the form of a one­ Dept. Art History, University of Delaware, 342 Smith Hall, Newark, page abstract described on p. 3. Del. 19711. Papers-strictly limited to 20 minutes-are invited on the art and Prehistoric Art. Katheryn M. Linduff, Dept. Fine Arts, 104 Frick art theory of the 15th to 17th centuries in Western Eluope. Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260. Iconographical Approaches to Spanish Art. Jonathan Brown, In­ Ancient Art. James Nelson Carder, Dept. Art History, Mount Ver­ stitute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. (After non College, 2100 Foxhall Road, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007. September 1 abstracts should be sent to The lnstitute for Advanced Papers are invited on topics dealing with Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Continued on p. 2, col. 1 1

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Study, Princeton, N.J. 08540.) modern art historical research, the results and implications of its use Arts Funding in America: The Present and the Future. Mary of the esthetic of the medium. A key question addressed will be what This session will be dedicated to studies of the subject matter and have scarcely been examined. Given the newness of the subject, this Ann Tighe, Deputy Chairman for Programs, National Endowment new kinds of problems are created by new technology in photography meaning of works of Spanish art, including painting, architecture, will be an exploratory session in which speakers briefly present some for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 20506. and the revivals of old media. sculpture, and the decorative arts, or combinations thereof. Art of any revealing aspect of how they or other scholars have used photographs This panel will deal with the question of the recent radical changes period will be considered. Preference will be given to papers that deal in their work. Above all, the reliability of photographs as reproduc­ in various support systems for art in America. Questions affecting in­ Why Criticism? Ben Forgey, Washington Star, Washington, D.C. with the relationships between works of art and broad aspects of tions of art or architecture needs to be determined. dividual artists and institutions will be addressed by various sectors of Experienced critics representing various points of view and Spanish culture and history, e.g., religion,_ politics, science. the patronage structure. Both tax-based funding and corporate or backgrounds will discuss their role. They will address the major factors private funding systems and their respective roles will be considered. affecting the content of their criticism such as formal education, Swiss Art. Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, Fine Arts Dept., Dickinson Col­ intellectual influences, contacts with artists, and types of publishing lege, Carlisle, Pa. 17013. Atget and Today. Joel Snyder, College of Humanities, University of JOINT ART HISTORY ISTUDIO PROGRAM outlets. The panel will survey current notions about the role of criti­ The session will seek to evaluate the specifically Swiss contribution Chicago. Contact at 5627 Dorchester, Chicago, Ill. 60637. cism in contemporary art and perhaps offer thoughts about the future. to artistic developments in painting and sculpture from the 16th cen" This panel will deal with the photographer Atget from four perspec­ Museums in America Today. Charles Parkhurst, National Gallery tury to the present. tives: 1. Critical thought: what has been said and what should be said? Works of Art in Public Places. Tom Freudenheim, Baltimore of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565 and Hilton Kramer, The New York 2. The effect of Atget on people today: does he constitute the begin­ Museum of Art, Art Museum Drive, Wyman Park, Baltimore, Md. British Art. Edward Nygren, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 17th Street Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10036. (All abstracts ning of a tradition or a series of desired ends? 3, What available 21218. and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. and proposals should be sent to the National Gallery of Art.) material exists on Atget and what is its nature? 4. Historical! There has been a great deal of recent interest in public art on the Proposals for papers on all aspects of British art~scuJpture, paint­ The two joint sessions on this topic will explore ~ both in cl~arly curatorial: Where does a curator place Atget in the contemporary tra­ part of architects, artists and government agencies and the public in ing, drawing, prints, architecture, gardens, decorative arts_~from organized short papers and in panel discussions-the relations~p of dition? What does his art grow out of? What transformation did Atget general. This arises from the various new and increased funding Elizabethan times to the present day are invited. The chairman is par­ museums today to.the practicing artist, the art historian, the advanced himself make with existing materials? sources issuing in a large number of major commissions in recent years. ticularly interested in papers on Anglo-European and Anglo­ student, and teaching institutions, as well as to the general public. This panel will concentrate on questions surrounding the controversies American artistic connections, the relationship of art to politics, Brief (15 minute) papers on these relationships are invited, and pro­ Narrative Content in the 70s: On the Issue of Story-Telling. in the field including how choices are made and the potential clashes patronage, aesthetic theory, iconography, and ~aturalism. versus posals for panelists may be directed to the chairmen, with an indica­ Newton Harrison, Visual Arts Dept., University of California at San between architect/ planner, artist, and client. In addition, discussion idealism in the 19th century, but other proposals w1ll be consIdered. tion of the position each participant represents. Diego, P.O. Box 109, LaJolla, Calif. 92037. will address the basic question of whether public art is in fact a matter Art in the 70s has undergone a transformation whereby it is much of vital interest to anyone outside the art community. Individual Works of American Art. John Wilmerding, National more inclusive in its subject matter than has previously been true. This Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565. panel will explore the reasons for the greatly increased purview of con­ Portraiture in the 70s. Chairman to be announced. Papers concentrating on an individual work of American art, temporary art, and particularly the renewed interest in story-telling Portraiture as a contemporary art form in various media including whether familiar or rediscovered, are invited. The approaches may STUDIO PROGRAM through visual means. Such questions as the use of art as political tool photography seems to be undergoing an interesting revival at the pres~ vary, and the works may come from any period of time, but the papers and its use of new media will be addressed. Art's content in terms of re­ ent time. the panel will include artists discussing both the esthetic and must be firmly focussed on the single work. The Age of Acrylics. Margaret Watherston, Whitney Museum of cent formalistic values vs. issues of the survival of the planet will be ex­ psychological aspects of contemporary portraiture. Japanese Prints. Kneeland McNulty, Dept. Prints and Drawings American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, New York City 10021. plored from an historical perspective. The panel will include artists who have used the acrylic medium :~­ and Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Parkway at 26th Photography: Process and Esthetic. Chairman to be announced. tensively as well as conservators and/or manufacturers. The partICI­ Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101. This panel will deal with the technology of photography. It will The 1979 Preliminary Program~containing necessary forms pants will consider the use o~ acryli.c paints f~om an ~sth~tic point of include photographers working today, discussing their own problems and complete information on annual meeting registration" hotel Art of the Near East. Chairman to be announced. view and from a technical pomt of View, espeCIally taktng mto account and objectives as wen as presenting ·some historical discourse on the room rates, group flights, etc.-will be mailed at the end of issues of long range conservation. November. Europe 1800. George Levitine, Dept. Art. University of Maryland, history of materials in photography and its implication for the history College Park, Md. 20742. Modern Art and Economics. Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles Papers are invited on new trends in painting, graphic art, and County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. sculpture in Europe around 1800. 90036. Nineteenth-Century Art. Charles W. Millard, Hirshhorn Museum Art does not exist in either a political or an economic vacuum but its and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Independence Ave. financial ramifications are not often confronted directly. In this panel VITA BREVE ... COMPUTER ERROR and 8th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20560. issues such as recent transactions concerning major American art ob­ annual meeting addenda jects and their effect on the overall market; various ways in which Twentieth-Century Art. Diane, Upright Headley, Dept. Art To the Editor: financially successful artists have handled their own careers; the rela­ About Abstracts History, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. day, January 30 through Thursday, February The enclosed note with a "Final Notice" tion between esthetic and monetary "value" in general; and the ever­ Abstracts for art history sessions will be 02138. 1, from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. daily. reached me today. It distresses me to learn broadening base of art interests in our society will be addressed. T~e duplicated in the form in which they are Papers dealing with iconographical issues in post-1930 American panel will attempt to bring art historical perspective to the economic that the computer considers me a "Former and European art are particularly invited. received. Submit clean copy in original, typed Travel Funds CAA Member" since I have paid for a Life realities surrounding art as commodity. X1 on one, single-spaced, 812 l inch page, pica "Annual meeting travel funds are limited and Membership. Does the computer know Edvard Munch. Reinhold' Heller, Dept. Art_, University of Art and the Law: An Introduction to Current Legal Problems. type, on bond paper. Do not fold, spindle, are intended to assist those participants who something about my mortal state that I don't? Chicago, Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 South Greenwood Ni'cholas D. Ward, Attorney, Hamilton & Hamilton, Union Trust mutilate, or stain with coffee. Leave 12 inch otherwise would be unable to attend or who I have been feeling "dead tired" lately, but I Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60637. , ._ _. B~ilding, 15th and H Streets, N.W., Washington,_ D.C. 2.o0~5. , margin at top; no less than 1 inch margin at could do so only with undue financial h&rd­ hope that the CAA will continue to consider Papers are invited on all aspects of M~nc~'s work"its ic~nographic, This panel will present bask information by experts covenng four the left and % inch margins at the bottom ship. Anyone requesting travel funds must me an active member until a death certificate an.d stylistic development, sources, and slgmficance, especIally before questions vital to artists and institutions alike: 1. The extent of ~he art­ a~d right. !y~e s~ssio~ title, chairpe:son and provide evidence that his or her institution is is issued or until I have been a Life Member 1910. ,ist's rights under the new copyright.Iaw; tensions between creator and his or her l~stltutlOn In the upper nght cor- . unable to do so. (A letter certifying that the for more than a year or two. Festivals and the Visual Arts. J. ~

2 CAA newsletter June 1978 announcements lannouncements eM board bulletins Popular Culture Conference Villa I Tatti Fellowships Health Hazards Conference The sixth annual conference of the Midwest Upward of seven stipendiary fellowships for The Society for Occupational and Environ­ Conferences Past the undergraduate level, has been funded by Popular Culture Association will be held at independent study on any aspect of the mental Health will hold their first national Announcements that reached us too late for a three-year grant from the NEH. attendance, but of considerable interest and Michigan State University, November 2-4. Italian Renaissance. Fellows are normally scientific meeting on health hazards in the The conference will emphasize research, post-doctoral and in the earlier stages of their arts and crafts in Chicago, Oct. 19-20. The papers (published or unpublished) may be teaching, and curriculum development and is careers, must be free to devote full time to conference will focus on epidemiologic obtainable: Rubens and Humanism, May 5 Ann Sutherland Harris delivered one of the open to members of all disciplines. Proposals study, and are expected to reside in Florence studies of artists and craftspeople; case studies and 6, cosponsored by the University of talks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's for papers to: Larry Landrum, Dept. of Eng­ from September through June except for trips of workers' health problems in a particular art Alabama in Birmingham and the Birming­ highly popular evening lecture series, lish, Michigan State University, East Lansing, (tsk! tsk!). Each Fellow receives a study and or craft; surveys/monitoring studies of par­ ham Art Museum. Participants included "Women and Art." Sheis seen below with two Richard Judson, Anne-Marie Logan, Jeffrey Mich. 48824. Deadline: July 15. use of the Bibliotecca Berenson and Fototeca. ticular workplaces; studies related to toxic other participants in that series, Alessandra I Tatti also offers a limited number of non­ substances in art/ craft materials; and. case Muller, Charles Scribner III, and Kristi Camini and Alice Neel. stipendiary fellowships for scholars working histories of control efforts. Abstracts of Nelson. Additional information from John British Studies Conference on Renaissance subjects with support from papers in above areas should be sent to M. Schnorrenberg, chair of the depart­ The annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain other sources. Qualifications and privileges SOEH, 1341 G. Street N.W., Suite 308, ment. . . . Problems in Medieval Stained Conference on British Studies will be held the same as above. For application: submit Washington, D.C. 20005. Deadline: June 30. Glass, held April 26 at Tufts University. Papers on the problems of style and attribu­ October 20-21 at Arizona State University at curriculum vitae and project description and. Tempe (Phoenix). Paper proposals to: Rich­ have three confidential letters of recommen­ tion of thirteenth-century glass, stained glass as an architectural art, and problems in con­ ard Cosgrove, Dept. of History, University of dation sent to: The Director, Villa I Tatti, Via di Vincigliata, 50135 Florence, Italy; servation and preservation. Held in conjunc­ Arizona, Tucson 85721. Deadline: July 1 Archival and Documentary Material duplicate copies of all materials should be tion with the exhibition "Medieval and A group of scholars is seeking to establish an sent to Prof. Walter Kaiser, 401 Boylston Renaissance Stained Glass from New England I annual journal for the publication of Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Collections" installed at the Busch-Reisinger Housing/Studio Exchange Program documents pertaining to the history of art. I: 02138. Application deadline: November 1. Museum from April 25 through June 10. Ex­ The Center for the Study of Public Policy and For the present they are asking for post­ hibition catalog, prepared by Madeline H. "Angel," by Benny Andrews. Oil and col­ the Arts has established an Artists and Crafts­ Medieval through modern material, ex­ Caviness and Tufts University students. For lage on canvas. 76" x 45".1977. persons Housing and Studio Space Exchange cluding documents about living artists, and further information: Dept. Fine Arts, TU, Program to facilitate arrangements to enable are limiting their scope to Western EuropeaI). Medford, Mass. 02155 .... The Mark & participants to use each other's residences and languages and English. The journal will cori~ Suzanne Goodson Symposium on American Benny Andrews not only had four one-man studios. Currently embracing North Amer­ Grants for Holography tain only transcripts of source materials Art, held at the Whitney Museum on April shows in as many (or rather, as few!) ica, Mexico, and such Western European Several grants to make holographic facilities hitherto unpublished or published inade­ 17. The first in a planned annual series. Nine months- at the Lerner Heller Gallery in New countries as England, France, Switzerland, available to painters, photographers, film­ quately; comments and interpretations will papers by doctoral candidates and "younger" York City in March, the Art Gallery of and Holland, the program hopes to expand to makers, etc. through an artist-in-residence be kept to a minllnum because the Dr·imarv faculty and curators. Topics included Alex­ Sarasota in April and May, the University of cover other parts of the world. Registrants program at the Cabin Creek Center for Work objective is to offer a vehicle for ander Calder, Peter Blume, Joseph Cornell, Wisconsin in Oshkosh in April and May, and From left: Alessandra Comini, Alice Neel, and pay an initial annual fee of $15 (renewal for and Enviromnental Studies, located in New the documentation. Those with muralists, Radio City'Music Hall, and Fred­ the Handshake Gallery in Atlanta in June Ann Sutherland Harris_ two additional years at $7.50), for which they York City. The objectives of the grant pro­ publication should send a eritK:'Law'Olmstead.'. -; . ThelhvisibleCity, - but also has a book of eight critical essays are listed in and receive a quarterly publica­ gram are to increase awareness of this new scope, a conference on artists' housing that was held and 70 pen and ink drawings coming out in tion detailing available exchanges. (First issue medium within the artistic community and to May 5-7 and "housed" at the UC Berkeley Art May (Between the Lznes, Pella Publishing April 1978.) A model exchange agreement is upgrade the aesthetic quality of work being other fields Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Mod­ Co.). August will see the publication of a provided by the Center. For additional infor­ produced in the medium. Each artist chosen and James Beck, ern Art, and the Oakland Museum. The may­ novel by his brother Raymond (Appalacht'an mation and registration forms: CSPPA, Ar­ is expected to produce a finished piece which Committee for the Publication ors of all three cities turned up, as did a host of Red, Dial Press), with cover design and 14 tists Housing Exchange Program, P.O. Box will remain his or her property; Cabin Creek for the History of Art, P.O. Box 608, architects, city planners, economists, artists, pen and ink drawings by Benny Andrews. 5395, Berkeley, Calif. 94705. Center will retain the right to borrow the Station, N.Y.C. 10003. poets, and critics. The press release we re­ works for exhibition. Applicants should sub­ ceived doesn't give a "contact," but maybe Ellen Lanyon will be director-in-residence of mit a brief description of the work they would one of our readers can tell us .... Contem­ the Oxbow Workshop 78. This summer work­ South Asian Art Newsletter like to produce and attach a budget and porary Textile Art, a symposium held May shop, supported in part by grants from the The Newsletter of the American Committee timetable covering original filming only. Pro­ 12-14 at Merritt College in Oakland Calif. NEA, the Michigan Council for the Arts, and for South Asian Art seeks news and contribu­ posals and requests for further information 1979 SAH Annual Meeting The focus was on artists' concerns, with cura­ the Illinois Arts Councils, consists of three tions concerning personal research, publica­ to: Hart Perry, Project Director, CCCWES, To be held in Savannah, GA., April4-8, with tors, collectors, educators, etc. also present. three-week sessions that bring together an im­ tions, museum collections, exhibitions, con­ 58 East 11 Street, N.Y.C. 10003. Deadline: David Gebhard, Univ. California, Santa Bar­ For additional information: Wendy Kashiwa, pressive and wide-ranging group of aFtists-in­ ferences and other art-related activities. The July 30. bara, seT,ving as general chairman. Those Symposium Director, Fiberworks, 1940 Bo­ residence. In between planning the summer Newsletter is published twice a year, in wishing to propose papers should write im­ nita Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94704 .... Posi­ workshop, Lanyon had a solo show at the Fen­ December and June. Editor: Holly Hutchens, mediately directly to the session chairman. tions in Architecture, the third annual drick Gallery in Washington, D.C. in January Dept. of Art, Southwest Missouri State Where chairman is to be announced (TBA), symposium sponsored by the architectural and February and was artist-in-residence at University, Springfield, Mo. 65802. write to SAH Office, 1400 Walnut Street, studies division at the Rhode Island School of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, at the NEA Internship Program Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. Sessions: General Design. Organized by Friedrich St. Florian University of Wisconsin, Parkside, and at Thirteen-week programs to acquaint par­ Session: Europe: Medieval through 17th Cen­ and moderated by Kenneth Frampton, the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. conference was held April 14-15 at RISD. ccva-inkcri Final Thanks . . . ticipants with the policies, procedures and tury, TBA; History and Purpose in the In addition, she juried the exhibition entitled operations of the National Endowment for Modern Movement, Christian F. Otto, Cor­ "Eat Your Art Out" at the: School of the Art "Female Model on African Stool," by Philip And the triumphant announcement that n n Pearlstein. 72 x60 • 1976. CAA office files of The Art Bulletin are now the Arts. Applicants must be sponsored by a nell Univ.; America, 1750-1810, Marian C. Institute of Chicago and taught for one complete! Miss A. Elizabeth Chase, assistant college or university, state arts agency, or Donnelly, Univ. Oregon; The Historian as quarter at S.U.N.Y., Purchase. professor and docent, Yale University Art other non-profit, tax exempt arts organiza­ Historical Writer and Critic, TBA; BorroW­ Free Student Admission at Whitney A one-man show of lithographs and etchings Gallery (retired) came through with the two tion. Stipend $2,480 plus travel. Sponsors ing, Historicism and Histor£c Preservatio"!,, College students with valid I.D. will be admit­ H. W. Janson was a fellow at the National by Philip Pearlstein opened at the issues we were still missing. Now in her seven­ should request application from: Intern Pro­ 1931-1942, Robert A. M. Stern, Columbia ted without ch

With this issue of the CAA newsletter, the Carlisle Hart, Chair of the New York State During the 1978 College Art Association An­ MILLARD MEISS WOMEN'S STUDIES Charles Bennett, New York City: Painting; Co~mittee for the Preservation of Art (see Arts Council and Gordon Ambach, Commis­ nual Meeting, a lounge area was set aside on PUBLICATION FUND Woodrow Wilson Research Grants in ·Wom­ Richard M. A. Benson, Newport, R. I.: Statement of Purpose, CAA newsletter, vol. sioner of Education and responsible for the Thursday, January 26th, in the Clinton Suite The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ en's Studies are open to outstanding graduate Photography and research on photographic 3, no. 1, March, 1978, p. 11) inaugurates a State Museum) and further consideration will for graduate students to assemble over lunch mittee met on April 21, 1978 and announced students, both men and women. In 1978there hand ink printing; Steven J. Beyer, St. Paul: column designed as a forum for the discussion be given to this problem. One issue centers in an informal setting. The CAA Committee award of subventions to the following: were 175 applicants; 18 winners were Sculpture; Robert Breer, Cooper Union: of problems concerning endangered works of around works in public spaces. Guidelines on Graduate Education took this opportunity Guitty Azarpay, for Sogdian Painting: selected. Among the recipients: Frima Fox Filmmaking; Chris Burden, Venice, Calif.: art. Readers are encouraged to call attention need to be devised for public responsibility to poll student members of CAA on a variety The P£ctorial Ep£c z"n Oriental Art, University Hofrichter, Rutgers Univ.: Judith Leyster, Conceptual art; William M. BtJrke, School to other threatened examples and participate toward the maintenance of such works. of issues. Fifty percent of the students who of California Press. 1609-1660; Bernice Kramer Leader, Col­ of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: in the resolution of these issues based on their visited the Clinton Suite responded to the Luis O. Gomez and Hiram W. Wood­ umbia Univ.: American paintings of women Photography; Calvert Cogg~shall, New­ own perspectives and experiences. Where questionnaire distributed by the Committee. ward, Jr., for Essays on BarabuduT, Berkeley in interiors at the turn-of-the-century. castle, Me.: Painting; Jud-y Dater, San possible, the Committee will lend support to Olana. This Italo-Mauresque villa on the The following is a summary of the results. Buddhist Studies Series. Anselmo, Calif.: Photography; Tom regional and local efforts to preserve signifi­ banks of the Hudson designed and erected by Helhnut Wohl, for Domenico Veneziano, DeWitt, S.U.N. Y. at Albany (Music): Video; 1. How can we establish a collective identi­ cant works from destruction. the painter Frederic Edwin Church in col­ New York University Press. DELMAS FOUNDATION Ed Emshwiller, Wantagh, N.Y.: Video; ty so that our ideas and problems can befully laboration with the architect Calvert Vaux in Grants for research in Venice. Among the Claire Falkenstein, Venice, Calif.: recognized within CAA? Answers included: Radio City Music Hall. Carol Krinsky the 1870s and now a national historic site has recipients for 1978-79: Inge A.M. Jackson, Sculpture; Micbael Foran, Laramie, Wy.: conducting a student symposium; establish­ represented the CAA Preservation Commit­ been closed due to deterioration in the paint Columbia Univ.: The Villa Barbaro at Maser; Painting; Frank Gillette, New York City: ing a student caucus; placing a graduate stu­ tee at a hearing held on March 14 before the and plaster. Because of Olana's importance Diane Kelder, College of Staten Island, Video; Jan Groover, Kingsborough Com­ dent on CAA's Board of Directors; publiciz­ New York Landmarks Preservation Commis­ as an American synthesis of culture and C.U.N.Y.: Drawings by the Bibiena; Anne munity College, C.U.N.Y.: Photography; ing the graduate students' situati'on re jobs. sion and spoke in support of landmark status nature, using a broad spectrum of artistic Markham Schulz, Brown Univ.: Giovanbat­ Edwin Julius Gunn, Asheville, N.C.: Paint­ for the endangered Radio City Music HalL styles culled from many civilizations to create 2. How can we maintain contact among tista and Lorenzo Bregno; Joy Allen Thorn­ ing; Nancy L. Holt, New York City: Representatives of niimerous arts organiza­ a ". . . perfect Eden in the center of the CAA's student members? Answers included: ton, Univ. Pittsburgh: Color Theory: Sculpture; Neil Jenney, New York City: tions defended the extraordinary interior world .. Emerson's, Thoreau's and Whit­ communicating through the CAA n'ewsletter Veronese. Painting; Richard Kevorkian, Virginia spaces, coordinated Art Deco design, fine man's America realized with Church's own or through a separate student newsletter; Commonwealth Univ.: Painting; Richard craftsmanship, and exceptional apparatus of personal wealth and artistic flair .. ," the writing circulars and organizing meetings to W. Kotuk, New School for Social Research: the theatre. The building was closed on April CAA Preservation Committee will work increase visibility of graduate students at con­ GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS Filmmaking; Danny Lyon, Bernalillo, 12 because its owners, Rockefeller Center, together with the National Trust for Historic ventions and throughout the year. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial N .M.: Filmmaking; Joel Meyerowitz, Inc. (RCI) claim millions of dollars in losses Preservation and the Society of Architectural Foundation awarded grants totaling Cooper Union: Photography; Brenda each year. They feel landmark status would 3. What are the most zmmedzate needs of $4,569,500 to 292 scholars, scientists, and Miller, New York City: Sculpture; Richard Historians to encourage a satisfactory restora­ graduate students to which the Committee impede their efforts to find a new use for the tion and speedy reopening. artists in its 54th annual competition. The Misrach, Univ. Calif., Berkeley: Photogra­ building or its site, since they wish to raze the can address itself? How could the Committee fellows were selected from among 3,073 ap­ phy; Kenneth Price, Taos, N .M.: Sculpture; building. A temporary reprieve has been of­ attempt to meet them.' Answers concentrated plicants. (For those who keep track of such Walter Rosenblum, Brooklyn College, fered by New York State. The Urban Devel­ almost exclusively on the job "crisis": help in matters: last year there were $4,602,000; 313 C.U.N.Y.: Photography; Daniel J. Sandin, opment Corporation has taken a one dollar Alexander Calder, Pittsburgh and Hello finding jobs, including those in related fields; recipients; and 3,050 applicants.) Among the Univ. Illinois at Chicago Circle: Video; Joel accurate list of positions available; more sym­ lease for next year and two million dollars will Girls. Art News Qanuary, 1978) reported on ~ecipients: Sternfeld, Richard Stockton State College: be spent to cover deficit cOSts and evaluate the present condition of two Calder sculp­ pathetic faculty attitudes toward the bleak Photography; Joel Sucher, Brooklyn, N. Y.: proposals for continued use of the theatre tures: the mobile P£ttsburgh (1958) and the job outlook. Art History/Cognate Areas Filmmaking; Julius Tobias, Univ. North after April, 1979 (see The New York Times, fountain Hello Girls (1963-64). The mobile, 4. Other suggestions: Answers included: William H. Tague Vincent J. Bruno, Univ. Texas at Arlington: Carolina at Greensboro: Sculpture; Henry April 11 , 1978). RCI proposes to construct an now suspended in the Pittsburgh Inter­ compilation and computerization of M.A. George Heard Hamilton Painting techniques of Hellenistic and early Wessel, Jr., San Francisco Art Institute: office building oyer the theatre for rent to off­ national Airport, has been repainted and for and Ph.D. theses in the U.S. and Europe; Roman artists; E. A. Carmean, Jr., National Photography; Thornton Willis, New York set losses in theatre revenues, but they have almost 18 years frozen in position, turned by published list of grants and institutions that Gallery of Art: Studies in late Cubist paint­ City: Painting; Geoff Winningham, Rice not suggested any continued use for the the­ electric motor rather than responding to air might aid research for M.A. or Ph.D. thesis ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION ing, 1915-1928; Nko1ai Cikovsky, Jr., Univ. Univ.: Photography; Garry Winogrand, atre. The Preservation Committee will con­ currents. For a number of years Professor work in art history; analysis of job trends in The 1978 ADAA award for outstanding New Mexico: The meaning of Winslow Univ. Texas at Austin: Photography; Jac­ tinue to work with other arts organizations for Reinhold Heller and Ms Diane Rose have the field. achievement in the field of art history was pre­ Homer's art; George T _Dickie, Univ. Illinois queline Winsor, School of Visual Arts: -a solution that retains the decorative integrity negotiated with the airport officials and sented to George Heard Hamilton, Director at Chicago Circle (Philosophy): Development Sculpture. of the site with a viable use for the interior. County Commissioners to restore this art Both in the questionnaires and disc:;ussions, Emeritus of the Sterling and Francine Clark of an institutional theory of art; Henri work. Recently the Allegheny County Com­ graduate students almost unanimously ex­ Art Institute. Hamilton, who is also trustee of Dorra, Univ. California, Santa Barbara: The Albany Mall. The art purchased by missioners voted unanimously to restore the pressed great dissatisfaction with employ­ the Museum of Modern Art and vice presi­ Symbolist art theories; Walter S. Gibson, New York State for the mile-long concourse of mobile and entrusted Calder's manufacturer, ment prospects in art history, with this dent and trustee of the Hill-Stead Museum, Case Western Reserve Univ.: The origins and AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME the Albany Mall is in an appalling State (see Segre's Iron Works, with the commission. gloomy feeling compounded by rising costs of served as president of the CAA from 1966 to development of the Flemish cosmic landscape Twenty-eight artists and scholars selected Tom Hess, New York Magazine, November However, they have not yet begun to work on graduate education. Despite these problems, 1968. Dr. Hamilton is the seventh recipient of of the 16th century; George P. Landow, from a field of 407 applicants have been 28, 1977). Paintings by Kenneth Noland (Via the piece. The Committee wrote a letter to the however, most students are determined, if ,it ADAA Annual Award, which consists of a Brown Univ. (English): Typological sym­ awarded 1978-1979 Rome Prize Fellowships Ochre, 1969) and AI Held (Untitled, 1968) County Commissioners and local newspapers all possible, to remain within the field. Q-ne grant of $5,000 and a bronze replica of a bolism in Victorian art, literature, and by the American Academy in Rome. Recipi­ have been removed from their stretchers and urging that the piece be rehung and re­ new trend was particularly discernible a-glOng stabile by Alexander Calder. The award was thought; John Margolies, New York City: ents include, In the F£ne Arts: Howard adhered permanently to the concourse wall painted, emphasizing the availability of the students attending this informal father­ presented at a dinner held at the Metropoli­ Commercial architecture of the 20th century; Newman, of Newport, R.I., and Lewis with white lead. Other works by Clyfford Still, documents that clearly state Calder's original ing: that is, that many students are willing tan Museum of Art on April 12, 1978. W. McAllister-Johnson, Univ. Toronto: A Rakowsky of Arcata, Calif., in sculpture; Morris Louis, and George Segal, among intention and of the expert advice that both and even eager to obtain a variet~~f job ex­ critical repertory of graphics at the French and Joe Draegert of Central Valley, Calif., others, have been splashed with detergent, Rose and Heller could provide. The fountain periences, even at the expense of delaying the ACLS TRAVEL GRANTS Salon, 1673-1824; Seymour Slive, Harvard Charles M. Dwyer of Newport, R.I., and discolored, or punctured by furniture and Hello Girls, designed for the pool of the Los completion of an advanced degree. The moti­ ACLS Travel Grants to attend international Univ.: A catalogue raisonne of Jacob van RobertT. Hooper, of Higganum, Conn., in tools or are in_ the throes of disintegration Angeles County Museum of Art, is now in­ vation for this attitude seems to come from conferences during the period July through Ruisdael's paintings, drawings, and etchings; painting. In Art History: First-year awards to because of changes in temperature and hu­ stalled on dry land because of hydraulic prob­ the limitations in the job market for the October, 1978, were awarded to three appli­ Calvin Tomkins, New York City: Robert Gail Feigenbaum of Skokie, Ill., and Jeffrey midity. Inadequate funds are available for lems and continuous tar seepage from the "traditional" professions of art historians­ cants recommended by the CAA: Malcolm Rauschenberg and the New York art world, M. Muller of Brunswick, Me.; fellows staying their maintenance and preservation. Al Held ground into the pool. Albert Elsen, a member teaching, museum work, publishing-and Campbell, Univ. Pennsylvania: Conference 1945-1975; Joanna Williams, Univ. Cali­ at the Academy for a second year are William has offered to repair his work for the cost of of the Preservation Committee Board, has from the belief that the more diverse an art on Giambologna, in Edinburgh, Scotland; fornia, Berkeley: A comprehensive study of Tronzo of Cambridge, Mass., Michael materials. The legislators are being urged to privately urged the museum to correct the historian's background is, the more market­ Thomas F. Mathews, New York Univ.: Sec­ Orissan painting. Mezzatesta of East Setauket, N. Y., and Ellen vote for funds to restore these works but if the fountain's present setting. Several proposals able he or she will be in non-traditional (as ond International Symposium on Armenian R. Shapiro of New Haven, Conn. Virginia conditions are not altered this will be inade­ are currently being considered that may well well, it is hoped, as in traditional) careers Art, in Erevan, U.S.S.R.; David L. Simon, Artists Anne Bonito, Bronx, N.Y., will be at the quate. The Committee for the Preservation of lead to a satisfactory solution. available to art historians. Wesleyan Univ. Convegno Internazionale di Ralph Arlyck, Vassar College: Filmmaking; Academy for the year as recipient of the Na­ Art has requested a 'state of the question' Annabelle Simon Cahn • Gail Harrison • Studi: "Lorenzo Ghiberti nel suo Tempo," Gordon Ashby, Inverness, Calif.: Natural tional Gallery of Art's Chester Dale Fellow­ report from the governor's committee (Kitty Public Information Officer Chair, Committee on Graduate Education in France. light in museum and gallery interiors; ship in the History of Art. •

6 eAA newsletter June 1978 7 people and programs Ipeople and programs An exhibition of works by seven artists, all MUSEUM STAFF NOTES The first summer scholar-in-residence grant PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compiled and edited William Mathewson Milliken, Director Carol Ockman has joined the faculty of from the faculties of different institutions, for research at The Robert Gore Rifkind Col­ by Eugenia S. Robbins. Materialforinclusion Emeritus of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Williams College to teach nineteenth- and was mounted this spring at the University of As of July 1, 1978, the director of the lection has been awarded to Peter W. in the next newsletter should be sent to her at died in March at the age of 88_ The second twentieth-century European art. John W. Colorado, Boulder. The seven artists are Princeton University Art Museum will be Guenther, professor of art history at the R.F.D. No.2, Peth Road, Randolph, Vt. director of the Museum (1930-1958), he serv­ Coffey (MA Williams '78) has been ap­ represented in depth by about 75 works. In­ Fred S. Licht, who comes to Princeton from University of Houston. Guenther won the 05060, byJuly 15. ed also as curator of decorative arts from 1919 pointed assistant to the director of the college cluded are Diana Barrie, University of Iowa, Florence, where he has been director of the ARLIS/NA award for Exemplary Scholar­ to 1958 and as curator of paintings from 1925 museum, a new position. In addition, the de­ Cedar Falls; Bonnie Donohue, of the Florida State University Center since 1968. A ship in 1976 for his catalogue of the Edvard IN MEMORIAM to 1930. In his early years with the Museum partment will soon be announcing a new Boulder campus; Conrad Gleber, Art Insti­ graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with Munch exhibition at the University, and in Milliken laid the foundation of the medieval appointment to teach photography. tute of Chicago; Judith Golden, UCLA; L_ a doctorate from the University of Basel, 1977 organized and wrote the catalog of a ma­ collection (most notably with the purchase of M. Johnson, Philadelphia College of Art; Licht has taught art history at Princeton, jor exhibition accompanying the symposium the Guelph Treasure in 1930) and established One of the more unusual effects of the Keith Smith, the Visual Studies Workshop in Williams, and Brown. From 1970 through on German Expressionism. the Museum's policy of collecting internation­ Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition was Rochester; and Jim Snitzer, University of 1974 he was field director for all the CRIA ally, in all mediums, and on the highest level the display of gamesmanship that emerged Iowa, Iowa City. projects in Florence and Venice, the two cities Jason D. Wong has been appointed curator of quality. During the 1930s he was associated from the University of Chicago after the show most seriously affected by the devastating of the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery and with the WPA's Federal Art Project and vari­ was installed at that city's Art Institute_ It;J.lian floods of 1966. Licht succeeds Peter assistant professor of art at Syracuse Univer­ ous other governmental programs for the sup­ Another seven-artist show was mounted at the Graduate student Peter Piccione, assisted by Smart Gallery of the University of Chicago to Bunnell, who will remain at Princeton as a sity_ Wong comes to Syracuse from a position port of art and artists. Professor Edward Wente and fellow student feature the work of artist members of the full-time professor_ as assistant director of the Johnson Museum of Edward Ashment, has reconstructed rules Art at Cornell. His previous' experience in­ Robert Tyler Davis, 73, who served as Assis­ University'S Committee on Art and Design, for the ancient game of senet, at least partly John Coplans, founding editor of A rtforum , cludes the directorships of the Tucson Art tant Director and, for a time, as Acting Direc­ formed in 1975 to encourage the inter­ because of a remarkable gameboard found in has been named director of the Akron Art In­ Center, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and tor of the National Collection of Fine Arts in disciplinary study of the "practice and the exhibition. The reconstruction depends stitute_ A former curator at the Pasadena Art the visual arts division for ·EXPO '74 in Washington from 1968 to 1970, died in Pasa­ philosophy of art as taught by members of the to a large extent on a text known as The Book Museum, Coplans has written extensively and Spokane. In addition to his curatorial respon­ dena in March. A specialist in painting, departments of art, English, and philos­ ofthe Gates, which describes incidents closely ophy." The seven were Kanani Bell, Vera is a recipient of the CAA's Frank Jewett sibilities, Wong will be teaching two courses: sculpture and the decorative arts, he served as Mather Award_ He succeeds Robert Doty, related to many of the glyphs on the game­ Klement, Thomas Mapp, Robert Peters, advanced museum administration and a Director of Education at the Albright-Knox who has moved on to be director of the Cur­ boards. Senet anyone? Richard Shiff, Joel Snyder, and Laura practicum in staging exhibitions. Art Gallery in Buffalo and was Director of the rier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. Portland (Oregon) Art Museum and of the Volkerding. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In Montreal, The relationship of an artist-teacher with his The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center of he also organized the Art Department at students will probably always be interesting to Francis R. Kowsky has assumed the duties of New York University recently announced two both artists and art historians. Southern McGill University, where he was professor of department chairman at the State University new staff appointments: Cynthia Wolk Connecticut State College and Munson Gal­ art and chairman of the department. From College at Buffalo. (We regret that in the past Nachmani as assistant to the director and 1971 to 1974 he devoted his time to research lery are holding their 3rd national invita­ we have occasionally confused S, U.C. Buffalo Gary A. Raynolds as registrar. Ms Nachmani on the European and Asiatic decorative ob­ tional show "In Their Own Image.? Print­ with S.U.N,Y. Buffalo.) received her BA and MA degrees from jects in the John Gellatly Collection at the Na­ makers and Their Students" in New Haven N.Y.U_, where she is currently working on her Charles F. Montgomery, Professor of the tional Collection of Fine Arts and served as from April 23 to May 13. doctoral dissertation. She has taught at History of Art at Yale and Curator of the consultant for graduate fellows and interns. Rutgers and at Finch. Raynolds, a specialist Mabel Brady Garvan and Related Collections The newly elected President of the Interna­ in 19th-century American art (MA, Brooklyn of American Art in the Yale Art Gallery died tional Center of Medieval Art is Carl F. Coll.), comes to N.Y.U. from the Brooklyn in February in New Haven. He was 67 years TEACHING Barnes, Jr. Barnes is also professor of art NEW ACTIVITIES Museum, where he was a curatorial assistant old. A leading authority on American history and archaeology at Oakland Univer­ in the painting and sculpture department. decorative art, Montgomery had been on the Former CAA president and retired chairman sity in Rochester, Mich. Yet another example of inter-institutional Yale faculty sifice 1970. He had previously of the division of fine arts at the University of cooperation was recently brought to our at­ EllenJ. B. Toker has been appointed public been at the Henry Francis DuPont Winter­ Georgia Lamar Dodd and his wife Mary tention. This one, supported by a three-year Arthur E. Greenblatt has been named Dean relations director at .the Carnegie Institute in thur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, and recently donated an extensive collection of NEH grant, links the Worcester Art Museum of the Center for Creative Studies at the Pittsburgh. With a background in art history had served as Director at Winterthur from paintings and drawings to LaGrange College with the eleven institutions of the Worcester College of Art and Design, Detroit. Green­ and Italian (Univ. Wisconsin and Middle­ 1954 to 1961. At Yale, Montgomery had in Georgia. Dodd's connection with La­ Consortium for Higher Education. Coordi­ blatt is a painter who formerly taught at the bury), she will be responsible for the Carnegie supervised the reorganization and the new in­ Grange dates from the early 1920s, when he nated by Virginia C. Raguin, based at the Mary land Institute and served as curricular Magadne, as well as membership, publicity, stallation of the famous Garvan collections, first began studying art. Since there were no College of the Holy Cross, Worcester's coordinator for the Union of Independent volunteers, and graphics. making them one of the most popular attrac­ art classes given in the schools that he attend­ "College Gallery" program involves fifteen tions in the Yale Art Gallery. He had directed Colleges of Art. exhibitions designed by faculty using works ed as a boy of 12 or 13, he was allowed to take Amherst College has a new curator of collec­ a team of Yale scholars in the preparation of from the Museum's collections. Not only do classes at the nearby girl's college, a privilege John Coplans tions: Judith A. Barter, who succeeds Lewis the landmark exhibition, Amer£can Art, Sir Ernst Gombrich delivered the Adolf participating faculty and students come from he continued to enjoy until he graduated Shepherd, comes to Amherst from Vermont. 1750-1800: Towards Independence, widely Katzenellenbogen Memorial Lecture, a variety of institutions, but they also repre­ from high school. The generous donation in­ Before that she was on the curatorial staff of acclaimed as one of the finest art exhibitions "Courtly Taste and Artistic Skill, Reflections sent several disciplines: history, philosophy, cludes not only some 300 of Dodd's own paint­ Thomas B. Hess has been named Con­ the St. Louis Art Museum. Plans for the Am­ of the Bicentennial year. on the International Gothic Style around computer science, chemistry, and literature ings, often with preparatory drawings, but sultative Chairman of the Department of herst museum include completion, for Fall 1400," at Johns Hopkins University on April as well as the predictable art history and fine also several works by other American artists Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan publication, of a catalogue of the college's 10. Ellen Williams, curator of the Univer­ arts. A course designed to introduce students Amy Goldin, art critic and contributing and a few from foreign cultures. In addition Museum of Art. He succeeds Henry Geld­ American painting collection and a show of editor to Art in America, died in April at the sity's Archaeological Collection, has been to museum work and exhibition procedures is to documenting Dodd's career from his earli­ zahler, who resigned as Curator of Twentieth furniture. age of 52, In 1976 she received the CAA's est works to his most recent, the gift also awarded an NEA grant to survey the conser­ offered every FalL vation needs of the collection. And littlest Century Art to become Commissioner of FrankJewett Mather Award for distinguished represents the evolution of American art from Cultural Affairs of New York City. Mr. Hess, though not least: Morisa Kessler arrived in John Carswell has been appointed curator at criticism. The citation noted that she had the 1930s through the present. The State University College at Buffalo re­ formerly editor of Art News, has been art March. the Oriental Institute of the University of "systematically challenged entrenched estab· cently completed a new paper-making facil­ critic of New York Magazz'ne since 1972. Chicago. A research associate in the Institute, lishment and orthodox positions of all sorts" The Fogg Museum and department of fine ity. This summer, from June 26 to July 15, the Carswell is the first curator with a fine arts and that she wrote in "a broad cultural, his­ arts of Harvard have added two new Orien­ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni­ college will offer a hand-papermaking work­ background to head the Institute museum. torical and social context with sensitivity, lu­ talists to their respective staffs. John Hay versity is pleased to welcome sculptor James shop, to be led by Peter.J. Sowiski, print­ Elizabeth H. Hawkes, Assistant Curator of He spent the twenty years prior to 1976 a~ pro­ cidity and verve." Trained as a painter, Ms (Princeton) has been appointed an assistant Wolfe as visiting artist in the department of maker on the fine arts faculty. Traditional the Delaware Art Museum, has been ap­ fessor and chairman of the department of fine Goldin turned to criticism in the early 1960s, professor to teach courses in Chinese paint­ art this Spring. Wolfe will teach a sculpture sheet forming (Tamazuki), mould and deckle pointed to serve also as Curator of the John arts at the American University of Beirut. She served as visiting critic at several colleges, ing_ Robert Mowry (Kansas), also a specialist class and a three-dimensional design course construction, as well as casting and special Sloan Archives, which have recently been including the University of California at San in Chinese painting, has been appointed assis­ and will act as a critic for the advanced paint­ processes will be covered. given to the Museum. E.S.R. III Diego. tant curator of Oriental art at the museum. ing class_ June 1978 9 8 eAA newsletter 1978 annual meeting placement NOTES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART: WOMEN'S CAUCUS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE This regular annual report comes with its seems to us to mean simply that New York was POSITIONS regular annual warning: since the informa­ more convenient (t'. e., cheaper) for twice as The number of positions listed was approx­ American art history is a growing field, at­ The Association will also seek to promote pro­ tion contained herein is based solely on ap­ many people to get to; it does not, we suspect, imately the same as for the comparable peri­ Charlotte Robinson, of the Washington tracting increasing attention from students, fessional standards of publication, teaching plicants registered at the annual meeting and betoken any great upsurge in the number of od last year (see chart). There was an overall Women's Art Center, is Program Co-ordi­ teachers, museum curators, writers, publish­ and exhibition of American art. Eventually, positions included in the Annual Meeting persons seeking jobs. drop of 20 positions, but a loss of only three nator for the 1979 WCA Conference to be ers and collectors. In recognition of this fact, it is hoped, new outlets for publication will Listing mailed in December and the Sup­ If we ignore absolute figures and just look positions for artists and only one for art held in Washington, D.C. next January. an Association of Historians of American Art develop as a result of demonstrated interest plementary Listings distributed in New York, at relative proportions, the situation was historians. The major drop was in art educa­ has been formed. Though our focus is in, and need for, such opportunities. Further, it is not particularly significant. Statistics that remarkably similar to that of last year. tion and museum positions, both of which American art history, we are conscious of the expanded occasions for professional medings are considerably more meaningful will be Seventy-four percent of applicants were art­ have other primary sources for recruiting. inter-disciplinary nature of our field and and scholarly symposia will be sought. Final­ available when we review all positions listed ists, compared with 71 % in L.A.; 22% of ap­ Proposals for panels and activities for the therefore welcome participation by specialists ly, the organization of A.H.A.A. will confer and all curriculum vitae forms filed with us plicants were art historians, compared with Rank. As in the past, the vast majority of 1979 Conference should be sent as soon as in American studies, American history and upon the study of American art a measure of for the entire 1977-78 academic year. That 24% in L.A, (The missing percentages are art positions listed through the CAA are at the possible to Lee Anne Miller, President, other related academic areas. recognition that will stimulate and encourage review will appear in the next issue. Thus educators, art and slide librarians, etc,) "open" through assistant professor leveL In WCA, Dept. of Art and Art History, Univ. of The Association of Historians of American still further growth in this important branch forewarned: The proportion of female candidates seems studio there were 74 open listings, 99 for in­ Missouri-Kansas City, 204 Fine Arts, Kansas Art takes as its domain a broad area that em­ of art history. to be growing, both among artists and art structor, 79 for assistant professor, 12 for City, Missouri 64110. braces the art produced in the Americas, William H. Gerdts III APPLICANTS historians. Among artist candidates, women associate professor, and 19 for full professor North, South and Central, by all peoples who President, Steering Committee Like everything else at the New York annual represented 44% of the pool in 1976; 43% of or chair. In art history the breakdown was 34 have lived there. meeting, registration at the Placement Bu­ the pool in 1977; and 51 % of the pool in 1978. open positions, 18 for instructor, 46 for assis­ The purpose of the Association is primarily Note: The Archives ofAmerican Art Journal reau was bigger. The fact that there were Among art historians, women represented tant professor, 17 for associate professor, and The Washington Chapter of WCA is plan­ to provide a forum for an exchange of infor­ has offered to publish information and in­ nearly twice as many applicants registered in 60% of the pool in 1976; 56% in 1977; and 8 for full professor or chair. The only signifi­ ning an exhibition to coincide with the mation of interest to historians of American quiries concerning members of the AHAA. New York as in Los Angeles the previous year 62% in 1978. cant change is that relatively fewer positions January '79 Conference. Entitled Women art. Planned exhibitions, new research proj­ Such inquiries and other correspondence are listed as "open": 74 for artists, compared from the Washtngton Vaults, it will present ects, books and dissertations in progress in should be sent to William H. Gerdts, AHAA, with 1031as_t year; 34 for art historians, com­ art by women artists in Washington public American art would all be typical items of Room B-27, City University Graduate pared with 50 last year. collections that has seldom or never been ex­ concern to the members of the organization. Center, 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y.C. 10036. hibited. This will be the first historical exhibi­ Short-Term Listings. On the increase for art tion sponsored by WCA and the first to rely historians: 33 this year, compared with 26 for OVERVIEW: APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS (1977 and 1978) exclusively on loans from public collections. the comparable period in 1977 and 18 for the Josephine Withers, University of Maryland, comparable period in 1976, There were 73 is curating the exhibit with the full support of short-term listings in studio, compared with Applicants Openings Applicants Openings local Caucus members and the generous co­ 98 in 1977 and 53 in 1976. Eight of the posi­ CAUCUS FOR MARXISM AND 1977 1977 1978 1978 operation of the Art Gallery of the University ART: CALL FOR PAPERS tions listed for artists were part-time, as were of Maryland, where the exhibition will be Artists eight of the positions listed for art historians. held. A full catalogue and text, with an ap­ Unspecified or Broad 0 101 18 67 Cultural Imperialism, Past and Present. pendix which will be a complete checklist of The Caucus invites Marxist analyses of Painting and Drawing 257 40 574 48 Experience. Seems to be here to stay as a all work by women artists in Washington specific historical instances of cultural im­ Sculpture 112 16 206 18 qualification for geUlng a job. Fifty-four per­ museums, is planned. Printmaking 85 14 151 19 cent of the studio positions listed required ex­ perialism as well as larger theoretical con­ Design 28 49 19 56 perience(55% in 1977; 48% in 1976), Experi­ siderations of that phenomenon. Photography 42 18 80 20 ence was a prerequisite in 44% of the art Ceramics 61 23 94 21 historian positions listed (55% in 1977; 15% New WCA Advisory Board Members ap­ Marxist Approaches to Art History. The Jewelry/Metalwork 8 3 6 8 in 1976). The last is not a typo; it's a radical pointed by Lee Anne Miller include Judith Caucus continues to provide a forum for Video/Film 10 9 25 II change! Brodsky and Jean Gillies, the past President papers treating a variety of topics from a Commercial Art 0 2 1 7 and Vice-President of the Caucus, who have Marxist point of view. Weaving/Textile 17 9 15 7 Areas of Specialization. Last year at this been appointed as ex-officio members to Send proposals for historical sessions to Woodworking 0 0 0 1 time we noted that more and more of the jobs special one-year terms. Regular three-year Eunice Lipton/ Carol Duncan, School of Glassblowing 0 2 5 0 listed were falling within the "unspecified" or appointments have been accepted by Miriam Contemporary Arts, Ramapo College of New Conceptual Art/Mixed Media 12 0 18 0 "broad" category. This year that trend seems Schapiro, Cynthia Navaretta, Sheila Mc­ Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, to be reversing, or at any rate, levelling off. Nally, Sylvia Lark, Muriel Magenta, N.J. 07430. 632 286 1212 283 Eleanor Tufts, Lucy Lippard, Ilise Green­ Twenty-four percent of artist openings (com­ Minerva Navarrete pared with 35% last year) and 52% of art stein and Audrey Flack. Artists Session: The Caucus invites Art Historians statements from artists who are redefining historian openings (compared with 57% last Sadie Bloom, who for morejthan seven y,ears Unspecified or Broad 1 79 15 52 their relationship to an audience. We are year) fell within the "unspecified" or "broad" served as CAA Membe'~ship Se~retary,' de­ Primitive/Pre-Columbian 11 3 9 3 looking for people working in the context of category. Both figures still represent a con­ cided she "had it" at 71 and left New York Ancient/Classical 18 2 28 8 Lee Anne Miller is one of four Visual Arts social change, e.g. artists concerned with: siderable increase from 1976, when only 16 % winters behind ,her to settle in Yuma, Ari­ Early Christian / Byzantine / Medieval 31 1 70 5 Representatives recently appointed to the community groups; labor unions; coalition of studio openings and only 33% of art zona. She took with her 3.4 ca~tons containing Renaissance-18th Century 67 13 77 22 Continuing Committee of the National Com­ political groups; women; Third World; anti­ historian openings were thus characterized. her sewing, her knitting,; her' stamp ~ollt')c: Modern European 18 5 88 20 mission on the Observance of International imperialist struggles. R.R.W .• tion, and the assorted paraphernalia of more American 40 15 37 13 Women's Year by Bella Abzug, the Presiding Send proposals to Martha Rossler/Allan hobbies than you can possibly believe. Not to Oriental/Near Eastern 20 11 23 7 Officer of the Commission. Sekula, 851 San Dieguito Drive, Encinitas, mention her cat. Architectural History II 6 7 7 Calif. 92024. CAA members were not just 3x5 index History of Photography/Film 0 3 3 0 cards to Sadie, much less names on a com­ 217 138 357 137 Correction: Women's Studz"es In Art and Art puter print-out, but loving life histories many History, compiled by Elsa Honig Fine, Lola of which she knew in surprisingly great detail. Art Educators 0 21 11 13 B, Gelhnan and Judy Loeb, is available from It is always easier~and pleasanter~to be Museum Professionals 18 51 36 44 Fine, 7008 Sherwood Drive, Knoxville, Tenn. HAVE A able to obtain infonnation from a colleague Art &: Slide Librarians 2 5 12 4 37919, for $5.50 (check payable to Elsa H. than to go look it up in the files, and for that Miscellaneous 26 5 15 5 Fine). HAPPY SUMMER "unpaid" function Sadie will be sorely missed. Norma Broude II As she will be for her energy, her enthusiasm, TOTALS 895 506 1643 486 The American University and her true generosity of spirit. III 10 CAA newsletter June 1978 11 shows by artist members classifieds

A {isUng ofsolo exhibitions by artist members Dorothy Gillespie. Fells Point Gallery, The CAA newsletter will accept classift"eds of of the CAA. Listings should include name of Baltimore. March 1-26. Paperworks. a professZ"onal or semt"-professional nature artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of ex­ (sale of librun'es, summer rental or exchange hibition, and medium. Charlotte Landau. Ward-Nasse Gallery, of homes, etc.). The charge is 50~ per word, N.Y.C. May I3-June 1. Oil paintings: still mz"nz"mum charge $10.00, advance payment lifes and portraits. requz"red. Make checks payable to CAA. John Balsley. Bienville Gallery, New Orleans.' Feb. 3-March 2. John Michael Joanne Mattera. AROW Gallery, Schenec­ RENT-A-MENTOR now offers a unique Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wise. Feb. tady. June 4-27. "Fiber Drawings," hand­ variety of art, architecture, and food tours 12-March 25. Both shows sculpture: mixed stitching on paper. around N.Y.C. and Brooklyn. For further in­ media, welded and assembled machines. formation contact Joan Barenholtz, 178 E. 80 Mary Maughelli. Fig Tree Gallery, Fresno. Street. (212) 628·7597. Carol Beighley-Paraskevas. Westbroadway April 1-30. Acrylic paintings and drawings. Gallery, N.Y.C. May 20-June 7. "Scrolls, ARCHITECTURAL! ARCHEOLOGICAL Wraps, & Rolls," works on paper. Kumiko Murashima. State Museum, Tren­ ORIGINAL SLIDES, now ready for first ton, N.J. May 6-June 10, Large tapestries generation copies or originals to you - all Martin Berkon. Genesis Galleries, N.Y.C. inspired by nature. taken by us in 1978: Sicily (Agrigentum, April19-May 6. Paintings. Palermo, Monreale, Selinunte, more); Judith Peck. Reyn Gallery, N,Y,C. March France (Glanum, Aries, Avignon, Nimes, Robert Berlind. Green Mountain Gallery, 18-ApriI3. Sculpture in bronze. Frejus, Provence, Montmajour, Le Thoro­ N.Y.C. March 31-April20. Paintings: oil on net, St. Maximin, forbidden interior of canvas. Sylvia Rutkoff. Key Gallery. N.Y.C. April Kerylos at Beaulieu, more). Complete set I-May 6. Paintings. slides of wood models of major Palladio ex-' Judith K. Brodsky. Douglass Library, amples at 1977 Cooper-Hewitt Exhibition. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Frieda Savitz. Southern Vermont Art Asso­ Vast collection, currently supplying major March 4-31. Prints. ciation, Manchester. July 15-31. Paintings universities. Reasonable. Harvey Mortimer, and drawings. 109 Alexander Ave., Montclair, N.]. 07043. Leif Brush. Wright State University Gallery, Dayton. April 24-28. Art Research Center, Miriam Schapiro. Allen Art Museum, THE BOOK AND GRAPHIC ARTS Kansas City. May 23-June 23. Constructions. Oberlin, Ohio. April 12-22. "Femmages," CENTER, Box 982, New Haven, CT 06504. works on paper 1974-1978, including suite of Books on art history, the art of the book, Hope Cook. OPAPI Gallery. Southern II· etchings: "Anonymous Was a Woman." prints and drawings. Send SASE for listings. linois University at Edwardsville. May 1-26. Indicate interests. • Etchings on fabric. Robert Schechter. Automation House, N.Y.C. May 3-27. Paintings on plexiglas, Michael A. Cummings. Cinque Gallery, photographic silk screens, collages. N.Y.C. Feb. 2 I-April 1. Works on paper and To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ cloth. Daniel Serra-Badue. Kromex Art Gallery, tions and announcements, please be,'! N.Y.C. March. "Architecture as Meta­ sure to keep us informed of your cur­ Oriole Farb. Center Gallery, .Bucknell physical Discoveries," lithographs. Forma Art rent address. University; Lewisburg, Pa. April 25-30. Gallery, Coral Gables. April 21-May 19, Paintings, prints, drawings. Paintings and lithographs. •

DATEBOOK: I July deadline ACLS Travel Grant applications (conferences November-February) , , . 15 July deadline September news­ letter, . , 1 September deadline Millard Meiss applications .. , September 23 deadline submission of positions for October 3 Listing. , . I October deadline annual meeting abstracts.

G44newsletter published by College Art Association of America 16 East 52 Street, New York 10022 Editor: Rose R. Weil

June 1978