Volume 6, Number 4 Winter 1981/82

neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet annual members business meeting . nor anything else we know of accounts for for as long as we, received them ... through the inordinate delay in delivery of the prefer­ about December 2. We're aware that some ential ballot and the last newsletter. people, in disgust, may just not have returned The 70th Annual Members Business Meeting Part of the fault is ours. The ballot was their ballots. There's nothing we can do to will be held on Thursday, February 25, 1982 mailed on October 2, but the so-called "Sep· right that wrong, but it may make people feel at LOO P.M. in the Sutton Parlor North (Sec­ tember" newsletter was not mailed until Oc­ better to know that based on past experience, ond Floor) of the New York Hilton. As last tober 9. Nevertheless, they should not have a dear pattern emerges by the time 500 to 600 year, the business meeting will take place in arrived on November 15, November 23, etc. ballots are received and later ballots simply the ceremonious setting of an Official Open· . as a slew of indignant letters informed us. tend to confirm that pattern . ing Session, which will include highlights of For our own part of the fault, we apologize. One more thing: one of our irate corre­ the coming program as well as a review of the It is particularly unfortunate that the delay, spondents suggested that we could at least Association's activities over the past year. combined with our own dumb optimism in "save face" in the future by dating the news­ Complimentary coffee will be available; those giving an October 23 postmark deadline for letter seasonally, rather than monthly. A wel­ who wish may bring bag lunches. return of ballots, caused many members to come suggestion, indeed, and we hope you feel disenfranchised. In fact, we counted bal­ enjoy this Winter newsletter. Elections lots (and read all those justifiably nasty notes) R.R.W. II The major item on the agenda of the Annual Members Business Meeting is elf"ctions.

OFFICERS. The Board of Directors proposes announcements the following to serve as officers for 1982: President: Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University; Vice-President: John R. Art Journal Future Issues ADAA Fellowship Martin, Princeton University; Secretary: The Art Journal Editorial Board is planning To commemorate its twentieth anniversary, Paul B. Arnold, Oberlin College. future issues on the following topics: Art as the Art Dealers Association of America has es­ Autobiography, Kandinsky, Architecture of tablished a $20,000 fellowship in the history BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Candidates to serve as the Twenties, Film, and Popular Imagery. of art. The ADAA Fellowship will be awarded Directors are nominated by the Nominating Articles, or proposals for articles, on these each April to support a doctoral dissertation Committee, which is guided by returns on the topics are invited for consideration by the in the field of European or American art. The preferential ballot. This year, 1241 ballots guest editors. They should be sent to the Man­ award is of two years duration and is payable were received. The slate reported by the aging Editor, at the CAA, 16 East 52 Street, in two equal installments. Applications may Nominating Committee for election to the N.Y.C. 10022. Those wishing immediate be made only through the chairs of graduate Board of Directors in 1982 (to serve until confirmation that their proposals have been departments of art history in American Uni­ 1986) is: Phyllis Pray Bober, Bryn Mawr received should enclose a stamped, self-ad­ versities. Only one nomination will be re­ College; Oleg Grabar, Harvard University; dressed postcard. It is not possible to specify ceived from an institution. For full details: Isabelle Hyman, New York University; deadlines because issues are not firmly sche· Ralph F. Colin, Administrative Vice Presi­ Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, New Mexico duled until all the material is in hand; how­ dent, ADAF, 575 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. State University; Franz Schulze, Lake Forest ever, "the sooner the better" is a generally 10022. Application deadline: 1 February. College; and Barbara ZuckJ!r, University of good approach. Vermont. More Mellons NOMINATING COMMITTEE: Those nominated Fulbright Scholars for Short-Term Visits MellonJunior Faculty Fellowships (more fully to serve on the 1982 Nominating Committee More than 150 Fulbright scholars from all described in the September 1981 newsletter) (which selects those Directors who will be over the world, currently in the United States are generally for recent Ph.D. 's and generally elected in 1983) are: Beatrice Farwell, Uni­ for college and university teaching and ad· involve half-time teaching, half-time for re­ versity of California, Santa Barbara, Chair; vanced research, are available for occasional search. New openings have been announced George Bayliss, University of Michigan; lectures, seminars, and special programs. by, Richard Martin, Fashion Institute of Tech· The Council for International Exchange of Cornell University. Information from nology and Arts Magazine; Edmund P. Pills­ Scholars has limited funds available to facili­ Anna Geske, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow­ bury, Kimbell Art Museum; and Catherine tate travel to interested institutions, particu­ ships, A.D. White House, CU, Ithaca, N.Y. Wilkinson Zerner, Brown University. larly those which have had little opportunity 14853. Deadline: 15 February. Procedures for placing additional can­ to participate in the Fulbright Scholar Ex· Rice U-niversity. Fellows also to partici­ didates in nomination are described in the change Program. For brochure describing pate in faculty seminar on The Culture of Notice of Meeting, which will be mailed the Occasional Lecturer Program (also avail­ Capitahsm, which will focus on relationships separately. For those who will be unable to able, 1981·82 Directory of Visiting Fulbright between market society and fonns of cultural attend the Annual Members Meeting, proxies Scholars): Mary W. Ernst, CIES, 11 Dupont and philosophical expression. Information will be included with the Notice of Meeting. Circle, N.W., Dept. N, Washington, D.C. from Mellon Fellowships Search Committee, 20036. (202) 833·4979. Continued on p. 10, col. 3 II coming soon ... 1983 annual meeting conferences and symposia We always feel a bit silly making this an· Middle Atlantic Symposium Victorian Studies Conference Native American Art nouncement before the preceding annual The twelfth annual MAS in the History of Art The Midwest VS Association will hold its an­ A conference on New Dimensions in Native meeting has taken place. Yet we know that will be held at the National Gallery of Art and nual meeting April 30-May 1, in conjunction A merican A rt History: Confluences oj Tradi­ many of you who wiJi be attending the 1982 the University of Maryland on Saturday, with the Theatre History Conference at the tion and Change will be held at Iowa State annual meeting want to know who the 1983 April 17. Advanced graduate students from Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State Uni­ University, March 22-24. Concurrent with program chairs will be. . more important, member institutions will present papers dur­ versity, Columbus. The topic will be Victori· the symposium, there will be exhibitions of what they look like. After all, there are few ing the morning and afternoon sessions at an Humor. For further information: Freder­ Twenty-Four American Indian Artists and better places than a crowded elevator in the NGA. In the evening, a distinguished scholar ick Kirchhoff, Dept. of English and Linguis­ Oscar Howe Retrospective. For further infor­ Hilton for promoting your proposal for the will present a paper at UM. Member institu­ tics, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Fort mation: Helen A. Schuster, Dept. of Soc.! following year's meeting. tions of MAS are: Univ. Virginia, Penn State The 1983 annual meeting will be held in Wayne, Ind. 46805. Anthro., 103 East Hall, ISU, Ames, Iowa 50011. Univ., George Washington Univ. , Johns Hop· Philadelphia. (Yes, Philadelphia. And would kins Univ., Univ. North Carolina, Univ. Del­ anyone tempted to comment please remem­ 600 Years of Netherlandish Art aware, Vniv. Pittsburgh, Howard Univ., ber that originality comprises at least some A symposium emphasizing major issues and American Representational Art of the 1940s American Univ., and Univ. Maryland. For component of wit!) The dates for sessions are programs, abstracts, or other information: the state of research will be hosted by Mem­ and 1950s Thursday, February 17 through Saturday, phis State University, April 22-24. Partici­ A symposium to be held February 13, in con­ James Douglas Farquhar, Dept. Art, UM, February 19. Those wishing to propose topics pants include: Laurinda Dixon, John Carroll College Park, MD 20742. junction with the exhibition Realism and Jor sessions should submit them to the appro­ Marcia Brown Hall, Art History Chair David G. Pease, Studio Chair Univ.; Walter Gibson, Case Western Reserve Realities: The Other Side oj A merican Paint­ priate chair by March 31, 1982. Proposals Univ.; Lawrence Goedde, Univ. Virginia; ing, 1940-1960, which will be on view January should be submitted in the form ofa brief des­ viting specific individuals to chair general or and S. Croce, 1565·77 (Oxford University Laura Meixner. Memphis State Univ.; Vir­ 17·-- March 26 at the Rutgers University Art Society for Photographic Education cription (ca. 100 words), to which additional special sessions. The "balancing act" involves Press, 1979), she has published articles in The ginia Rembert, Univ. Alabama; Carol Purtle, Gallery. Participating artists and art histor­ The 1982 National Conference will be held material may be appended. It is useful to in­ such considerations as what topics!periods Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, and Memphis State Univ.; Charles Scillia, Old ians are Matthew Baigell, Greta Berman, March 18-21, in Colorado Springs. The clude a curriculum vitae, preferred mailing have not been covered in the accepted unsoli­ others and is presently editing the papers for Dominion Univ.; David Smith, Univ. New Isabel Bishop, Peter Blume, Milton Brown, theme will be Facing the Future-Photogra­ address, and both office and home telephone cited proposals; what topics! periods have not the conference "Color & Technique in Ren­ Hampshire; David Stark, Tweed Museum; Lawrence Campbell, Stephen Green, Patri­ phy 1982: Alternatives and SurvivalJor the numbers. been covered in the last or last few CAA annu· aissance Painting." James Welu, Worcester Museum. For further cia Hills, Henry Koerner, and Jeffrey Wech­ Artist, the Educator, and the Individual. For To summarize briefly our procedures: (1) al meetings; what topics!periods that have Studio sessions will be chaired by David G. information and proposals for individual sler. For further infonnation: RUAG, Voor­ registration infonnation: Helmmo Kinder­ Program chairs entertain proposals from any" been covered in the last few meetings have Pease, dean of the Tyler School of Art. Pease papers: Carol Purtle, Dept. of Art, Jones hies Hall, Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, mann, Wardner Road #67, Rainbow Lake, body: male or female, American or foreign, generated particular excitement, activity, received his B.S., M.S., and M.F.A. degrees Hall, MSU, Memphis, Tenn. 38152. NJ 08903. (201) 932~ 723717096. N.Y. 12976. within the discipline or outside it, and with or etc. As above, all other things being eyual, from the University of Wisconsin, and he without M.F.A., Ph.D., or any degree what­ preference is given to individual artists! taught at Michigan State University for two British Studies soever. (2) From among these proposals, pro­ scholars from the region in which the meeting years before coming to Tyler as an assistant Museum Protection from Natural Disasters The ninth Carolinas Symposium on British Art and the Reformation gram chairs select those they believe will make will be held, but beyond that there is no geo· instructor in painting in 1960 .. His works are The Architectural Research Centers Consort­ Studies wiil be held at Appalachian State Uni­ An international colloquium linked with the good! interesting! provocative sessions. Selec­ graphic, institutional, or other consideration. in the permanent collections of the Whitney ium, Inc. is organizing a two-day seminar to versity October 9 and 10, 1982, Proposals for SOOth anniversary of the birth of Martin tion is purely on the basis of merit, with the The 1983 art history sessions will be chaired Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia be held at the National Academy of Scie~ces, individual papers, panel discussions, and full Luther to be held in Eisenach September 6~- sole proviso that if essentially the same pro­ by Marcia Brown Hall, associate professor Museum of Art, numerous others, and he Washington, D.C., March 29-30 on the sessions should be sent to Warren W. Wood­ 11. The meeting is being organized by the posal is received from two or more individuals of art history at the Tyler School of Art, Tem­ shows regularly at Terry Dintenfass Inc. in en, Dept. of English, Marshall Univ., Hunt­ Karl-Marx University, Leipzig, and the Na­ Protection oj Historic Architecture and in different parts of the country, preference ple University. Hall received her Ph.D. from New York City. ington, W. Va. 25701. Deadline: 15 April. tional Committee for the History of Art of the Museum Collections Jrom Earthquakes and will be given to the individual from the region Harvard in 1967, and she taught at Bryn Proposals for art history and studio sessions German Democratic Republic. For further Other Natural Disasters. Speakers will in­ in which the meeting will be held. (3) After Mawr and Franklin and Marshall College should be addressed to the appropriate chair clude earthquake engineers, architects, con­ information: Lehrstuhl fUr Kunstgeschichte, the initial selection has been made from before coming to Temple in 1973. The author at the Tyler School of Art, Temple Universi­ Print and Culture in the Renaissance Karl-Marx Univerisitat Leipzig, AG Kolloqu­ servators, and museum security experts. The among the unsolicited proposals, program of Renovation and Counter-ReJormation: ty, Beech and Penrose Avenues, Elkins Park, The first conference sponsored by the newly ium "Kunst und Reformation," Karl-Marx proceedings will be edited and published as a chairs attempt to balance the program by in- Vasa,-i and Duke Cosimo in S. Maria Novella Philadelphia, Pa. 19126 .. created Center for Renaissance and Baroque Platz 9, 7010 Leipzig, Germany (DDR). handbook. For further information: James Studies at University of Maryland, to be held Haecker, ARCC, P.O. Box 225, Fairfax, Va. March 11- 12. Send proposals for papers, 22030, or caB seminar director, Barclay Jones 1982 annual meeting addenda particularly on prints, to: Laura Youens, The Age of Louis XIV at (607) 256~4331. Asst. Director, CRBS, Div. Arts & Humani­ The fifth NEH·funded crossdisciplinary PLACEMENT ORIENTATION Late Work, Palladio, The Architect and His Avenue, on Friday, February 26, from 12:45 ties, Office of the Provost, UM, College Park, Academy on Music, the other Arts, and Socie­ As has become traditional, there-will be an in­ Influence in America; The Artist Was a to 2:00 P.M. The Business Meeting of Whose Museum Is It Anyway? Md. 20742. ty sponsored by the Aston Magna Foundation formal placement orientation session the ASCAA was incorrectly listed in the prelimi­ A one-day conference, subtitled The Artist Woman; A !fred Stieglitz, Photographer; for Music will be held June 27 -July 27 at night before placement operations begin, Final Marks: The Art oj the Carved Letter; nary program. It will be held on Thursday, and the Museum Today, sponsored by the Art since 1945 Bard College, Great Barrington, Mass. The i. e., on Tuesday evening, February 23, from February 25, from 4:45 to 6:15 P.M. Museum Studies Program of the C.U.N.Y. Philtp Guston: A Life Lived; Quilts in The second annual symposium on contempo­ theme of the Academy will be Music, Art, 8:30 to 10:00 P.M. in the Sutton Pador(Sec­ Art Department, to be held March 16 at Women's Lives; and Summer ofJoy (on the rary art at the Fashion Institute of Technol­ Theater, and Dance in the Age oj Louis XlV. ond Floor) of the New York Hilton. "Telling­ study abroad program of the University of C.U.N.Y. Participants are Hilton Kramer, MORE REUNIONS ogy will be held April 30. Proposals for twen­ "Our side" will be represented by John Rupert it-like-it·is will be the usual cast of Donald Monroe Wheeler, Harry Rand, Margit Row­ Georgia). In addition to the twenty-one reunions listed ty-minute presentations may be submitted in Martin, Princeton University. For details: Krueger, Clark University, and Beverly ell, Marcia Tucker, Patterson Sims, Mary ACSAA in the preliminary program, the following the form of abstracts of 250- 500 words. Ab­ Aston Magna Academy, Raymond Erickson, Zisla WeIher, who wrote How To Survive Campbell, Tom Leavitt, Donald Kuspit, Al­ The program session of the American Com­ alumni reunions have since been scheduled. stracts and inquiries to Richard Martin, Ex­ Director, 65 West 83rd Street, #4, N.Y.C. CAA Placement by Knowing How To Try. ecutive Director, Shirley Woodman Resource fred Leslie, Irving Kaufman, and Sherman mittee for South Asian Art will be on the topic On Thursday afternoon, February 25, from 10024. (212) 595~1651. They will be joined by Linda Sweet, director Center, FIT, 227 West 27th Street, N.Y.C. Drexler. For further information: Irving Flukes or Flux: Innovations in the Art oj roughly 4:45 P.M. to whenever: The Institute of the Museum & Visual Arts Program of Op­ Kaufman, C.U.N.Y., Art Dept. Convent India. Papers discussing works of painting, of Fine Arts, at the Institute, 1 East 78th 10001. portunity Resources for the Arts, Inc. All can· Catalan Colloquium Ave. & W. 135 Street, N .Y.C. 10031. .. sculpture, or architecture which do not fit Street; Wellesley College, at the Grolier Club, didates and interviewers are invited to attend. 47 East 60th Street; and the University of International Glass Conference The North American Catalan Society will accepted notions of dynastic or regional style Iowa, at a place still to be determined. On To be held June 7 - 12 under the joint spon­ hold its third biennial colloquium at the Uni­ FILM FARE in form, theme, iconography, or expressive Saturday, February 27, the newly formed sorship of the Corning Museum of Glass, the versity of Toronto, Aprit 15-18. The collo­ Films will be shown during the annual meet­ means are invited. Single·page abstracts Alumni Association of the Whitney Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Toledo quium is interdisciplinary. For information 1_:0 i?~:ure -reb~yp:t- of- a}\-;

Material Jor inclusion in People and Pro­ Published annually on the basis oj £nformation provided by the societies. The sadeties listed dues: $25 active. (U.S., Canada, Mexico); Philanthropist Joseph H. Hirshhorn, of the teaching duties at Hopkins while coordinat. grams should be sent to College Art Associa. below have met specific standards for purpose, structure, range ofactivities, and membershtp $30 active (all other countries); $15 students Museum of the same name, died in Washing­ ing and developing the programs in Italy. tion, 16 East 52 Street, N. YC. 10022. Dead­ enrollment requlred Jor formal affiliation. (all countries); $40 instituti.onal; $100-$499 ton on 31 August. Vaughn E. Crawford, cur· Also at Hopkins, Robert P. Bergman, di· line Jar next issue: 15 March. contributing; $500-$999 sustaining; $1000- ator in charge of the Department of Ancient rector of the Walters Art Gallery, has been American Committee for South Asian Art Art, V.C.L.A., Los Angeles Calif. 90024. benefactor. Secretary: Leslie A. Bussis, Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan since appointed professor in the department of the IN MEMORIAM (ACSAA) , founded 1966. Membership 150- Purpose: To help clarify, through an ex­ ICMA, The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, 1973, died in September. Edward H. history of art on a part-time basis. 175. Annual dues: $10 regular; $5 student; change of ideas and the promotion of action, N.Y.C. 10040. Phone, (212) 923·3700 ext. Dwight, director emeritus of the Munson­ $15 institutional. President: Sara L. Sehas­ the relationship between Marxist theory and 13. Purpose: lCMA is dedicated to the study Williams-Proctor Institute's Museum of Art Past WCA president Judith K. Brodsky has tok, Dept. Fine Arts, Fayerweather Hall, Am­ practice and art· historical, art· critical and of medieval art and civilization between 325 died in October. ' been appointed to the new position of associ­ herst College, Amherst, Mass. 01002. To sup­ art-productive theory and practice. The A.D. and 1500 A.D. lCMA publishes a schol· ate dean for development at Rutgers Univer­ port the advancement of knowledge and Caucus sponsors sessions at the annual CAA arly journal, Gesta; a newsletter (including ACADEME sity's Newark College of Arts and Sciences. understanding of the art and architecture of meetings and engages in other relevant activo dissertations on medieval art); a monograph Brodsky was most recently associate professor South Asia and related countries and civiliza­ ities as the occasions present themselves. series, Romanesque Sculpture in American Former CAA president Marilyn Stokstad is and chair of the NCAS art department. tions. Activities include holding symposia, Collections; has begun a Census of -Gothic spending this academic year as fellow in land­ preparing outreach materials, annual slide Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Sculpture in North American Collections; or· scape architecture at Dumbarton Oaks, reo Leaving the states this spring for Israel are sets (5 sets of 100 slides per year), publication (F.A.T.E.), founded 1977. Membership: ganizes symposia; and supports excavations. searching material for an exhibition and a Blanche Brown, New York University, and of Newsletter, microfiche archive, bi·ennial 250. Annual dues: $4. President: Jacqueline publication on medieval gardens. Milton Brown, emeritus, C.U.N.Y. Gradu­ bibliography. Field, Textile Dept., Westbrook College, ate Center. They will be teaching at Hebrew Portland, Maine 04103. Purpose: A national Women's Caucus for Art, founded 1972. Cleveland State University informs us that University, Jerusalem, for a trimester. The American Society for Hispanic Art organization concerned with introductory Membership: 3,000. Annual dues: $16 in· Henry Drewal of their art department will Historical Studies (ASHAHS)' founded college level art courses in both studio and art dividual; $25 institutionaL President: S. share a two·year NEH general research grant At the University of Texas, Austin, several 1975. Membership: 132. Annual dues: $10 history. F.A.T.E. aims to promote discussion, DeRenne Coerr, The Fine Arts Museums of for an interdisciplinary study entitled Human new faculty appointments have been made. regular; $5 students; $15 institutional. analysis, focus and understanding of this area San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, S.F., Calif. Creativity and Cultural Dynamics in an AJri­ Richard Saunders has come from the General Secretary: Catherine Wilkinson Zero of the art curriculum. A further objective is 94121. Operations Manager: Denise Schulz, can Society: Art and Religt'on oj the Yoruba. Wadsworth Atheneum to teach eighteenth­ ner, Dept. of Art, Brown Univ., Providence, the promotion of excellence in the initial 731-44th Ave., S.F., Calif. 94121. Phone: Coming to Cleveland State from Nigeria for and nineteenth· century American art, archi· RI 02912. Purpose: The encouragement and undergraduate learning experience in art. (415) 221·5125 (F,i. A.M.). Pmpo,e, WCA the winter 1982 quarter Oanuary-April) is tecture, and decorative arts; Anne McCau­ advancement of studies and research in the The F.A.T.E. Newsletter and local confer­ supports the recognition of women in the art Rowland Abiodem of the University of He. ley, formerly assistant director of the Univer· history of the arts of Spain and Portugal, pro­ ences provide a platform for exchange and professions. It represents a great breadth of He will be available for lectures on African art sity of New Mexico Art Museum, is teaching moting interchange of information and ideas publication. (The organization has its own interests in its members who are artists, art history and aesthetics and can be contacted at nineteenth· century European art and the his­ among members through meetings, publica­ handbook On how to organize local confer­ historians and critics, museum and art ad­ CSU after 30 December. tory of photography; and Jacqueline Bar­ tions, and other means it deems appropriate. ences.) Services also include participation in ministrators, art educators, students and col· nitz, who recently organized the exhibition national and regional conferences. lectors of art. The quarterly WCA Newsletter Also visiting the midwest is California artist Audrey McMahon Latin American Artists in the U.S. beJore Caucus for MarxismandArt, founded 1976. includes bibliographies and reports on na­ Robert Irwin, who has been named Hill Pro· 1950 for Queens College, is teaching Latin Membership: 100. Annual dues: $10. Corre· The International Center of Medieval Art, tional conferences and the activities of over Audrey McMahon, who served the College fessor for 1981-82 at the University of Min­ American modern art. Visiting professor to sponding Secretary: David Kunzle, Dept. of founded 1956. Membership: 860. Annual twenty-three chapters in seventeen states. • Art Association in various capacities during nesota, Minneapolis. His visit was initiated by the Austin campus this past spring was Agnes the 1920s and early 1930s, died in August at the Center for Art in the Environment, which Mongan. The fall semester brings Otto von her Greenwich Village Home. She was eighty­ is housed on the Twin Cities campus and Simson for two months to be followed by a shows by artist members seven years old. The CAA (we don't even which was awarded a $50,000 matching grant two·week visit by Otto K. Werchmeister. know whether it was called the CAA in those last year by the NEA to commission a work by Irwin. He hopes to begin work on the glass Benny Andrews. Lerner Heller, N.Y.C Eleanor- Dickinson. The Tennessee State Daniel Mason. Robert Cohanim Studio, St. days) was smaller then, and fewer people did Betty Brown, the newly appointed director and steel sculpture this spring. November 28-December 24. "Still Lifes." Museum, Nashville, November 15, 1981- Paul, Minn., September 25-0ctober 24. Oil more things. McMahon was a member of the of the visual arts program at the University of March 21,1982. "RevivalJ" paintings. Board of Directors and also edited both The Southern California organized and chaired a Anne Banks. Foundry Gallery, Washington, Art Bulletin and Parnassus (a distant ante· Charles Dempsey has been appointed direc­ symposium on pre-Columbian art for the Sheila Elias. Thomas Babeor Gallery, LaJol. Mary Maughelli. Gallery 25, Fresno, Calif., D.C., November 7 ,,-'-28. Recent collages. cedent of today's Art Journal). In 1932, she tor of studies atJohns Hopkins' Villa Spelman American Society for Ethnohistory in Colo- la, Calif., November 6-30. New paintings. October 2·- November 1. Recent lithographs started a College Art Association program to in Florence. He will continue his regular Continued on p. 6, col. 1 Paul Brach. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Ari­ and drawings. Bruce Erman. San Mateo County Arts Coun­ zona, December 4-31. New paintings. aid artists on relief, which was later absorbed cil, Belmont, Calif., December 7, 1981- Lloyd Nick. Gallery of Varosha·Lovech, by government agencies. From 1935 to 1939, Gloria DeFilipps-Brush. University of January 18, 1982. "Paintings. Bulgaria, July 22-August 12. Paintings. she was regional director of the W.P.A. Fed· eral Art Project for New York and New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Invision Gallery of Photog­ Tom Ferguson. John Douglas Cline Gallery, Raymond Saunders. Mythology, New York Subsequently, she devoted her time to raising raphy, March 8-29. Hand-colored work. Phoenix, Az., October 12-November 4. City, November 3-22, and Hunter Gallery, funds for various social agencies. Sculpture. New York City, November 4-25. Joint exhi­ Randy Bush. Van Doren Gallery, San Fran­ Editor's Note: From time to time we receive bition of collage drawings and watercolors. cisco, November 20--January 15. Paintings. Bruce Fleischer. Hartnett Hall Gallery, inquiries about Audrey McMahon, or about Robert Bush. Contemporary Arts Center, Minot State College, Minot, N.D., January Marcia Selsor. Waterworks Gallery, Custer various activities of the Association in its early Honolulu, January·February. 1 31. "Rites of Passage," photographs. County Art Center, Miles City, Mont., Octo· days. Our files are woefully incomplete, and Barbara Goodstein. Bowery Gallery, New ber 27 - November 27. Ceramic vessels. we would very much appreciate information Anna Calluori-Holcombe. Bixby Gallery, about the Association from its inception (in York City, February 12- March 3. Sculpture. Vincenza A. Uccello. Saint Joseph College, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Mo., Novem­ 1912) to about 1950. W. Hartford, Conn. Paperlpulpworks. ber 1-20, "Archeological Finds, c. 1981." Roberta Griffith. Museum of Ceramics, Na­ tional Palace of Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain, Architectural historian Wolfgang Lotz, a Robert Cronin. Museum of Art, Carnegie Naomi Waksberg. Condeso/Lawler, Ltd. May 1 --July 1,1981. Clayworks, drawings. leading authority on the Italian Renaissance, Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 14, New York City, November 17-December died suddenly in Rome on 24 October. He was 1981-January 3, 1982. "Sculptures in Tin." Fred Gutzeit. 55 Mercer Street, New York 11. Paintings and drawings. City, November 10--28. Paintings. sixty-nine years old. Lotz had been director of Anna Goth Werner. The First Street Gal­ the Biblioteca Herziana in Rome from 1963 to Rita Dibert. Xochipilli Art Gallery, Bir· Hera. Interart Gallery, New York City, Feb­ lery, N.Y.C., February 12-March 3. Work mingham, Mich., September 26-0ctober 1980. In the United States, he taught at ruary 24 - - March 27. documenting interior spaces. 24. Recent hand-tinted, infrared photo­ Vassar College from 1953 to 1959 and at the graphs. Detroit Public Library, September Ellen Lanyon. Alverno College, Milwaukee, Phyllis A. Yes. P.M. & Stein Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts (where he was adjunct 26-0ctober 24. "Photographs: 1975-1980." October 1-30. Works on paper. N.Y.C .. March23-May5. Mixedmedia .• professor since 1979) from 1959 to 1962. Robert Irwin, visiting artist at the University of Minnesota Winter 1981/82 4 CAA newsletter 5 Ipeople and programs Ipeople and programs

rado Springs and guest curated the exhibit Art critic and lecturer Judith Stein has been Also from California comes the announce­ FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS Faces ojFiesta: Mexican Masks in Context for appointed coordinator of the Morris Gallery ment that Oakland Museum director John E. the San Diego State University Gallery Sym­ of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Peetz will retire on 30 December. Peetz has New York University has established the In­ posium lecture in November. She is also Arts. Stein (Ph.D., Univ. Pennsylvania) has served as director for nearly twelve years. ternational Center for Advanced Studies in teaching a course on pre-Columbian art. been an arts reviewer for National Public Art. The aim of the Center, co-chaired by Radio in Pennsylvania. She served as staff lec­ Angiola Church, N.Y.U., and Jorge Glus­ turer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from As a result of a reorganization of its educa­ berg, director of the Gallery of Arts and Com­ 1966 to 1971 and was an instructor at the Ty­ tional program, two new staff appointments munications in Buenos Aires, is to provide a ler School of Art, Temple University, from have been announced at the Whitney. Rus­ forum through which contemporary visual 1971 to 1978. sell Connor has joined the staff as head of arts can be examined, debated, researched public education and Nan Rosenthal has and developed on the highest scholarly and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. been named senior instructor of the Indepen­ professional level. To accomplish this, has appointed James Trilling assistant cura­ dent Study Program. Connor (MFA, Yale ICASA is presenting a series of lectures, sem­ tor of old world textiles. Trilling (Ph.D., Har­ Univ.), a painter, has been involved with inars and colloquia. For information: NYU vard Univ.) completed his dissertation, The video and television for almost two decades. Press Office, 25 W. 4th Street, NYC 10012. Medallion Style in Late Roman and Early By­ He had been executive director of the Cable (212) 598-3105. zantine Mosaics and Textiles to C. A.D. 600, Arts Foundation since 1973. Rosenthal in October 1980. (Ph.D., Harvard Univ.) was associate profes­ sor of art history at the University of Cali­ fornia, Santa Cruz, and recently visiting as­ Sarah Clark-Langager has been appointed A new Museum Education Certification curator of painting and sculpture, a new posi­ sociate professor at Fordham University-­ Lincoln Center. Program is being offered by Southern Meth­ tion at the Museum of Art of the Munson­ odist University. The several art museums in Williams-Proctor Institute. Most recently a the Dallas-Fort Worth area will provide op­ From the University of Arizona comes news of MUSEUMS research assistant for the magazine October, portunities for practical experience. For full several appointments. Thomas Cole scholar The Walters Art Gallery has appointed Di­ Clark-Langager (Ph.D. cand., C.U.N.Y.) details and application materials: Nancy Ellwood C. Parry, III, formerly of the Uni­ The]. Paul Getty Museum has made a num­ ane Lynn Arkin director of education, filling has also served as associate curator of modern Berry, Division of Art and Art History, SMU, versity of Iowa, has been named professor and ber of new appointments. Barbara Roberts the position vacated by Theodore L. Low's art at the Seattle Art Museum and as a consul­ Dallas, Tex. 75275. Application deadlines for will teach several courses in American art. joined the staff as conservator of decorative retirement last December. Arkin was the asso­ tant with the !\jew York Cultural Center. fall 1982: March 1 for those desiring financial Judith Golden, whose field is photography, arts. Roberts was formerly with the Victoria ciate program coordinator for the Smithson­ ian Associates Program for the past two years. aid, April 1 for others. comes from San Francisco to join the faculty and Albert Museum in London, and The In California, Marjorie Harth Beebe has Prior to that she taught art at the University of as associate professor. Graphic designer Jack­ Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. been appointed director of the Galleries of the Colorado at Boulder. son Boelts has been appointed assistant pro­ Andrea Rothe comes to the Getty as conser­ Claremont Colleges, the joint art facilities of Alan Gowans, George Washington University fessor. Vincent Lanier, of the University of vator of paintings from Florence, where he Pomona and Scripps Colleges. Beebe (Ph.D. andCASVA Oregon, joins the faculty for one year as visit­ had worked since 1959 in the laboratory of At York University, Canada, a two-year cand., Univ. Michigan), replacing David S. At the Newark Museum in New Jersey, Susan ing professor of art education. Two more vis­ Lionetto Tintori, restorer of frescoes. Lani M.A. program in art history has just been Rubin has taught nineteenth- and twen­ Newberry has been appointed head of the Alan Gowans, of the University of Victoria in iting faculty during 1981-82 come from Ger­ Latten Duke and Nancy Englander joined established. The program is de;;igned to pro­ tieth-century art history at Michigan and education department. She previously served British Columbia, is the first scholar to hold many. Jurgen Partenheimer will be teach­ the staff of Harold Williams, new president vide research skills applicable in museums, Kenyon College. Most recently she has been as education assistant. the joint appointment of Distinguished Visit­ ing courses in printmaking, drawing, and and chief executive officer of the Museum, as responsible for the graduate museum practice galleries, and private collections as well as in ing Professor in Art History at George Wash­ painting, as well as a course about art of the program development officers. Duke former­ curriculum at Michigan. cooperation with the media. Zdenka Volav­ ington University and Senior Fellow at the 1970s. Gerhard Wind will teach applied ly served as executive director of the Califor­ The Art Museum Association (WAAM) in ka will head the program. For further infor­ Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts design and structural design. nia Federation of the Arts and prior to that San Francisco has announced the promotions mation: YU, 4700 Keele St., Dowrtsview, at the National Gallery for the academic year held several positions at the NEA. Englander of Gigi Dobbs to program development di­ Ont. M3J 1 P3. 1981-82. Gowans will be teaching two courses The Program in Artisanry at Boston Univer­ was previously director of the MacDowell Col­ rector and Jerry M. Daviee to exhibitions at GW, one on American architecture and sity has named Robert Cardinale director. ony in New Hampshire and before that she program director. Dobbs, who joined the As­ society and the other on the popular arts in Cardinale, a metalsmith and jeweler, was was head of the museum program of the sociation's traveling exhibitions program in The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, America. He will also deliver a series of public formerly associate professor of art and chair­ NEH. Walter O'Neill has joined the staff of 1976 and had been exhibitions program di­ aided by a planning grant from NEH and ad­ lectures at GW while continuing preparation man of the Joseph Gross Gallery at the Univer­ the department of public infonnationl edu­ rector since 1979, will research and imple­ ditional support from The Andrew W. Mel­ of his book on the interrelationships of style sity of Arizona. Two assistant professors have cation. O'Neill (M.A., art history, Hunter ment new programs to assist art museums lon Foundation, has inaugurated a CoIIec­ and social function in North American archi­ also been appointed. Fiber artist Barbara Coli., C.U.N.Y.) has worked in museum edu­ throughout the United States. Before coming tion Decentralization Program. The pro­ tecture. Goldberg leaves the Massachusetts College of cation for several years. to WAAM in 1980 as curator for the traveling gram will enable ten American museums to Art to head the surface design studio. James exhibitions. Daviee (M.A., Univ. Texas, Au­ borrow works on a long-tenn basis from the James B. Goodbody has been named director Guggenheim's permanent collection. Intend­ Bennett leaves the Memphis Academy of Arts Jonathan Green, professor of photograp·hy stin) was curator at the Amarillo Art Center of the Portland School of Art in Maine. Good· ed as a model for other art museums, the en­ to join the metals studio. and cinema at Ohio State University for the from 1977 to 1980 and registrar at the Univer­ body, whose background is in law and fi­ tire project will be evaluated after the initial last five years, has been appointed director of sity Art Museum, Austin, from 1974 to 1977. nance, has been closely associated with five-year period and additional museums will Sculptor and art dealer Betty Parsons was the University Gallery of Fine Arts. Before P .S.A. since his move from Washington, be chosen to participate in subsequent years. awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by coming to Ohio State, Green was actingdirec­ D.C. to Maine in 1973 and served as acting Erratum. The item on Bruce Weber in the Mount Holyoke College during their Foun­ tor of the creative photography laboratory at director prior to his present appointment. der's Day ceremonies in November. She was last issue lost its original ending and assumed M.l.T., a program he helped organize with the ending of another item in that section. Initiated by Jan van der Marek, director of cited for her "independent identification and Minor White. Donald Krueger, who regularly "tells it like it encouragement of many promising creative The correct story reads: The Norton Gallery the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, a pro­ is" at the CAA annual meeting placement talents working just after the War. ." and of Art, West Palm Beach announced the ap­ gram for state indemnification for artworks orientation sessions, has been named director for her continuing search for new talent. Richard Stuart Teitz assumes his duties as pointment of Bruce Weber as curator of col­ loaned from other states has been signed into of the new joint studio program of the Clark Mount Holyoke's professor of art and director director of the Hood Art Museum at Dart­ lections. Weber (Ph.D. cand., C.U.N.Y.) Florida law. This makes Florida the first state University/School of the Worcester Art Mu­ of the Art Museum, Jean Harris, has been mouth College in February. He leaves the comes from the University of Kentucky Art to insure artworks borrowed from within the seum. With Clark eleven years, Krueger va­ working with economics professor Sarah Worcester Art Museum where he served as di­ Museum, where he had been curator. He has United States. (Federal Indeminity covers cates his position as chairman of the depart­ Montgomery on a book about the economics rector since 1970, having joined the staff in received fellowships from the Rockefeller works borrowed from abroad.) Other states ment of visual and perfonning arts. Taking of art and the interrelationships between art­ 1964. During Teitz's tenure, a major renova­ Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, are expected to pass similar legislation, which over the helm will be Albert A. Anderson of ists, dealers, collectors, museums, and the tion of the Museum's facilities and expansion Marjorie Harth Beebe, Galleries of the Clare­ and the National Collection of Fine Arts, will significantly lower insurance costs. Clark's philosophy department. government. of its program were implemented. mont Colleges among others. M.N.lR.R.W. II

6 CAA newsletter Winter 1981182 7 grants & awards a guide to the New York print and photograph law

MILLARD MEISS PUBLICATION azines: Their Role in the Development of Ab­ INDIVIDUAL AWARDS InJune 1981 New York enacted a law that extensively regulates the sale oj pTZ~ts.and pho~o­ statute If at the time of the sale a reasonable GRANTS stract Expressionism"; Pamela Gordon graphs in or Jrom that state. The statute requires the written disclosure oj certam z.nformatl.on basis exists for the facts required to be fur­ (Princeton Univ.), a Theodore Rousseau fel­ The American Society for Eighteenth-Centu­ about prz'nts and photographs sold or consignedfor sale and the warranty that the mJormatl?n nished concerning the medium and related The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ lowship: to work on her dissertation on the ry Studies has awarded the Louis Gottschalk is correct. Severe penalties, including actions Jor treble damages and attorneys fees, are proVld­ information set forth in paragraph 5A (3), mittee met in October and announced the paintings and drawings of Charles Delafosse; award of a subvention to Jody Maxmin, Prize to Michael Fried, The Johns Hopkins ed for violations oj the law. above. Eugenie Hoffmeyer, Columbia Vniv., an Unlv" for A bsorption and Theatricalt"ty.' Stanford University, for The Painter ojBerlin Andrew W. Mellon fellowship: to do research Artists and photographers are treated as art merchants with respect to. w~rks c~eated .by Painting & the Beholder in the Age ofDiderot. them. They have the primary obligation for disclosing and guaranteez"!"g the mJormatwn whzch 1686, Aris and Phillips Ltd. on the use of painted decoration in mid-nine­ 7. Disclaimers. A required item of infor­ the statute requires Jor their works. It is thereJore important Jor artlSts and photographers to The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ teenth century American interiors; Kathryn mation is not warranted if the art merchant acquaint themselves wzth the requzrements oj the law, whl·ch may be adopted by states other mittee will next meet in the Spring. Deadline Greenthal (N.Y. V., Inst. Fine Arts), a specifically disclaims knowledge of that than New York. This is a summary oj the provisions oj the new law: for submission of applications: 1 March. Chester Dale fellowship: to continue her specific item. The disclaimer may be made, dissertation research on Augustus Saint-Gau­ however, only after a reasonable inquiry, in 1. What is covered. The statute applies to making the multiple being sold, 1 and (c) If KRESS PROFESSORSHIPS dens; Hongnam Kim (Yale Univ.), aJ. Claw­ accordance with the custom and usage of the sales and consignments for sale in, into or the multiple referred to in 3 (b) is not signed, son Mills fellowship: to work on her disser­ trade, to ascertain the relevant information. from New York State of prints and photo­ disclosure must be made if the artist did not Samuel H. Kress Professors at the National tation, "Chou Liang-Kung and his Painter Disclaimers must be clear and contained in graphs produced in more than one copy and authorize or approve the multiple in writing. 1 Gallery of Art for the academic year 1981-82 Friends: Chinese Painting in the mid-17th the context of other language setting forth the offered for sale for more than $100, excluding 4. Disclosure must be made if the multiple are Frank Edward Brown, professor emeri­ century"; Paula Leveto, Indiana Dniv., an required information. frame. Books and magazines are excluded is a posthumous edition. 1 (a) Disclosure must Andrew W. Mellon FellOWShip: to study the tus, Yale Univ., and Jean V. Bony, Univ. of from coverage; pages or sheets from books frescoes at Santa Maria foris portas at Castel be made if (i) the multiple was made from a 8. Providing required information_ California, Berkeley. Brown will be in resi. and magazines are not. master which produced a prior limited edi­ Seprio; Elizabeth Valdez Moore (Columbia A. The information is to be furnished in dence for the fall term and will continue to tion or (ii) if the multiple was made from a Univ.), aJ. Clawson Mills fellowship: to work an invoice, bill of sale, certificate of authenti­ prepare for publication the results of excava­ 2. Who must make disclosure. The law master which was made from a previously on her dissertation, "The Annunciation Mas­ city, catalog or any other writing which is fur· tions he has conducted at the Regia, the an­ applies to "art merchants." Included are art­ pu blished multiple or the master from which ter of Santo Domingo de Silos"; Sabine nished to the purchaser or consignee prior to cient high priests' headquarters on the Via ists and photographers when they sell or con­ the previously published multiple was made. RewaId (N.Y.U., Inst. Fine Arts), an An­ the completion of the sale or consignment. Sacra in the Roman Forum. He will also con­ sign their own work, as well as dealers, pub­ drew W. Mellon fellowship: to complete her 5. The year or approximate year in which Auctioneers may comply by including the in­ tinue to edit a multi-volume work on excava. lishers, wholesalers and auctioneers. The re­ the multiple was published. dissertation on Balthus; Christopher Riopel­ formation in the auction catalog, provided tions of Cosa. Bony will be in residence for the quired disclosure must be made in connection le(N.Y.V., Inst. of Fine Arts), a Chester Dale 6. (a) Whether the multiple is from a lim­ that their invoice refers to the catalog and lot spring term and will investigate the formation with sales by dealers, auctioneers and artists ited edition; if so, the size of the edition and of Romanesque architecture in England, be. fellowship: to work on his dissertation on the number. to collectors. It must also be made in connec­ whether and how the multiple is numbered. ginning approximately forty years after the drawings of Charles Delafosse; Alan Salz, B. The information need not be supplied Harvard Univ., an Andrew W. Mellon fellow­ tion with sales and consignments between art (b) Disclosure must be made if there are addi­ in catalog flyers or advertisements unless the Norman conquest in 1066. In addition, he merchants, i.e. artist to publisher, publisher tional numbered multiples of the same im­ ship: to continue his research on Ludovico catalog, flyer or advertisement solicits a direct will be working on the final stages of his forth­ to wholesaler, wholesaler to dealer, etc. Deal­ age, exclusive of proofs (such as an edition on Carracci; Anne-Louise Schaffer (1971-1980, sale by inviting payment for a specific multi­ coming book, French GotMc Archztecture of ers consigning works to auction must also different paper), or if the proofs or unnum­ the 12th and 13th Centuries. Dumbarton Oaks), an Andrew W. Mellon fel­ ple. The required information must ap~ear if Peg Weiss, Syracuse University bered multiples of the same image, other than lowship: to continue her work on ancient met­ make the required disclosure. a direct sale is solicited, Instead of the mfor­ trial proofs, exceed the greater of 10 or 10% al Objects from Lorna Negra: Shou-Chien Peg Weiss, Syracuse Univ., is the recipient of mation, the catalog, flyer or advertisement FELLOWSHIPS AT THE MET Shih, Princeton Univ., an Andrew W. Mel­ 3. Definitions. There are two key defini­ of the size of the edition. In such cases there making the solicitation may contain the a 1981-82 NEH Fellowship for Independent tions in the statute which will be used in this must be a statement-of how the additional lon fellowship: to do research on the "blue Study and Research. The grant will enable substance of the statement quoted in the foot­ The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an­ and green" style in the history of Chinese summary. A "multiple" means a print or a multiples or proofs arc signed and numbered. note below, or the statement itself, and the art her to prepare an edition of the correspon­ photograph. A "'master" is the plate, stone, nounced a wide range of fellowships for the landscape painting; Caron Smith, N. Y. U., B. Prints or photographs published prior merchant must comply with the provisions of academic year 1981-82. Recipients are: Ann dence between California art patron Galka block, sneen, negative, etc. from which the to September 1,1981. lnst. of Fine Arts, an Andrew W. Mellon fel­ Scheyer and The Blue Four (Kandinsky, that statement. 3 Jensen Adams (Harvard Dniv.), a Chester lOWShip: to study the Fan K'uan tradition in "multiple" is made, The statute requires less disclosure for Dale fellowship: to work on her dissertation Klee, Feininger, and Jawlensky). prints and photographs published prior to its Chinese landscape painting; Amanda Stin­ 9. Signs. Each art merchant must post a focussing on the paintings of Thomas de Key­ 4. Effective date. Although the effective effective date, the nature and extent of disclo­ checum, (Columbia Univ., PhD 1980), an sign in a conspicuous place in the place where ser; Peter Barnet (Yale Dniv.), a Chester James D. BreCkenridge, Northwestern date of the law is September 1, 1981, the law sure depending upon the date of publication. Andrew W, Mellon fellowship: to research the merchant regularly engages in the sale of Dale fellowship: to complete his dissertation Univ., has been named the first Fulbright Re­ does not apply to sales or consignments made Different disclosure requirements are estab­ kasuri, a particular type of Japanese textile; multiples, including, where applicable, art­ on the Trivulzio Candlestick; Stephanie Bar­ search fellow to the Peoples' Republic of Bul­ prior to March 1, 1982, in order to give art lished for prints and photographs published Tahsin Ozguc, a Norbet Schimmel fellow­ ists' studios and the apartments of private ron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a garia. During spring 1982, in Sophia, he will merchants adequate time to take steps neces­ (i) between January 1, 1950 and August 31, ship: to continue his work for publication on dealers, which says: "Article 12-H of the New McCloy fellowship: to travel to West Ger­ research the history of medieval portraiture, sary for compliance. 1981, (ii) between January 1,1900 and De­ the results of his excavations at the Hittite site York General Business Law provides for the many to investigate private and museum with particular reference to church frescoes of cember 31,1949 and (iii) prior to January 1, of Masat in north central Anatolia. disclosure in writing of certain information holdings of Expressionist sculpture; Susan the First and Second Bulgarian Empires. 5. Information to be supplied. The infor­ 1900. The Disclosure Chart shows the disclo­ concerning prints and photographs. This in­ Bean, Yale Dniv., an Andrew W. Mellonfel­ mation required by the statute varies, de­ sure to be made for prints and photographs Sculptor Michael Croydon, Lake Forest Col­ formation is available to you in accordance lowship: to research elite costumes in 19th­ pending upon the date on which the print or published during each period. 2 VISUAL ARTS AWARDS with that law." century India; Sarah Brett-Smith, Yale lege, is the recipient of the 1981 Inland Steel­ photograph was "produced," i.e. published. Ryerson Foundation's Outstanding Teaching 6. Warranties. The information required Dniv., an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship: to The first recipients of the NEA Awards in the A. Prints or photographs published aJter Award. The $1,000 annual award program to be disclosed is also unconditionally warran­ 10. Sales and consignments by artists. continue her research on the ritual signifi­ Visual Arts, a program established last year to September 1, 1981. The following informa· honors a faculty member who best stimulates ted. There are two exceptions to this rule: A. Artists must make written disclosure of cance of cloth attached to Bambara sculp­ identify promising American artists and pro­ tion must be supplied in writing. students and colleagues and contributes the the information required by the statute when ture; IreneCioffi(N. Y.U., Inst. Fine Arts), a mote their work, were announced. They are 1. The name of the artist. A. In the case of multiples published prior most to the educational spirit on campus. to 1950 the warranty of authenticity- that selling or consigning prints or photographs Theodore Rousseau fellowship: to work on Terry Allen, Fresno, Calif., videotape; 2. Whether the multiple is signed by the Croydon has taught at Exeter College of Art the multiple is the work of the artist named­ created by them to dealers or others, and are her dissertation on Corrado Giaquinto at the Richard Bosman, New York City, painting: artist's own hand and, if not, the source of the and was head of the art department at the deemed to warrant the accuracy of the infor­ Spanish Court; Ian Eaves, The Amouries, Douglas Bourgeois, Gonzales, La., painting; artist's name, as an estate stamp, etc. is governed by the present New York statut.e Dniv. of East Africa. He is the author of a IS mation. H.M. Tower of London, a Markoe fellow­ Marsha Burns, Seattle, photography; Ed­ 3. The medium or process, such as litho­ dealing with this warranty. As that statute biography of Ivan Albright. B. A dealer is solely liable to a purchaser if ship: to investigate the use and development ward C. Flood, New York City, painted graph, engraving etc. and, in the case ofpho­ presently interpreted, an art merchant .wh.o IS the information supplied to the dealer by the of the brigandine; Jack Freiberg (N.Y.D., sculpture; Maurie P. Kerrigan, Philadel­ tographs, the material used in producing the sells a work as being that of a named artist Photographer Ansel Adams is the first not liable for a breach of warranty where at artist is correct but the information supplied Inst. Fine Arts), an Andrew W. Mellon fel­ phia, sculpture; Michael C. Luchs, Holly, multiple. (a) Disclosure must be made if the American to be named recipient of the presti by the dealer to the purchaser is incorrect. If lOWShip: to complete his dissertation on the Mich., painting and sculpture; Stephen artist was deceased when the master was the time of the sale there was a reasonable gious Erna and Victor Hasselblad Gold Med­ l the information supplied to the dealer by an renovation of San Giovanni in Laterano Warren Schultz, Iowa City, painting; Rich­ made. (b) Disclosure must be made if the basis in fact for the attribution, notwith­ al, whiGh carries with it a prize of $20,000. standing subsequent contrary scholarship. artist or any other consignor is incorrect, and under Clement VIII; Ann Gibson (Univ. Del­ ard Shaffer, Arlington, Tex., painting; multiple is a mechanical, photomechanical, The award was presented by King Carl XVI the dealer relied in good faith on that infor­ aware), an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship: to Michael Singer, Wilmington, Vt., sculp­ or photographic copy of a work created in B. In the case of prints published prior to Gustaf of Sweden at the Museum of Modem mation, the artist or other consignor is liable work on her dissertation, "Avant· Garde Mag- ture. Each award winner received $15,000. another medium where the work which is cop­ 1900 and photographs published after 1950, Art in New York on November 18. • ied was not origina By made for the purpose of the art merchant satisfies the provisions of the Continued on p. 10, col. 1 8 CAA newsletter Winter 1981/82 9 {new york print and photograph law {announcements preservation news notes from the Publication Date DISCLOSURE CHART After Dean of Humanities, RU, Houston Texas 1950 to 1900 to Pre A Note of Warning: Art and Industry from makeshift museum/ office. Other sections of women's caucus 8/31181 77001. Deadline: I February. ' 8/31/81 12/31149 1900 the 19th Century the plant may contain documents or prelimi­ I. Name of Artist X X Brown University. The Center for Old An interest in preservation has been spread­ nary drawings used by the firm in making the We are pleased to announce the election of 2, X X Signature -- By artist's Own hand; source, .world ,Archaeology and Art has an opening ing to many varied areas of the visual arts, but objects at the turn of the century, as was the our sixth WCA President, artist-professor if not. III the fIeld of ancient architecture, Greek and one segment that has been sorely neglected, case at the Sevres Porcelain Manufactory Muriel Magenta, who will take over from X X X 3, Medium 0 Roman. Further information from The even forgotten, has been art work produced in before many original artist's drawings were DeRenneCoerr and begin a two-year term in X X a) Was artist dead when master was X X Search Committee, Mellon Post-Doctoral concert with industry during the nineteenth retrieved and placed in a safe- keeping in a March 1982. (School of An, Arizona State made ~elIowship, COWA&A, Box 1837, BU, Prov­ century. Aside from the activities of a few new, modern library. Without a concerted ef­ University, Tempe, Ariz. 85281. (602) X X b) Mechanical, etc. copy of work in 0 0 Idence, R.I. 02912. Deadline: 15 February. enlightened manufactories or the advocacy of fort to retrieve materials, and without a will­ 965-3525,) another medium a few activists, the preservation of documents, ingness on the part of owners to recognize the The WCA annual conference, Women, X X 0 c) If copy is not signed, did artist 0 models, preliminary drawings, and even importance of their past, much of what they Art and Society, will mark our tenth anniver­ authorize in writing Insurance and Collection Programs unique pieces produced by industrial firms still possess is in danger of destruction. sary and will be held February 23 with the X 0 0 4, Posthumous edition 0 !hanks to Artists Equity Association, Wash­ has been peripheral to the systematic research Sometimes. even with the establishment of Coalition of Women's Art Organizations at X X conducted in other areas of art. an industrial archives/library on the grounds Cooper Union; and on February 24-27 with a) Ma~e from master which produced 0 0 mgton: D.C. visual artists can now cut their of an operational firm, accidents still occur the CAA at the New York Hilton. WCA con­ a pnor edition or which was made losses m two areas , The Art,',t,- Eq'ully F'me An inherent difficulty may lie in the resis­ because of a lack of adequate safeguards. ference program registration and member­ from a previous multiple or master Art Insurance Program offers all-risk insur­ tance to maintaining archives dedicated to an~e ,:,h.ic~ covers the anist's Own work both the decorative arts. Despite the fact that the That was the case with the firm of Schuerer ship information may be obtained from De­ from which multiple was made X 0 0 0 ~htle 1t IS m the studio and while it is in tran­ nineteenth century saw a veritable renais­ and Lauth, Thann (in the Alsace), one of the nise Schultz, WCA Operations Manager, 731 5, Year or approximate year of publication X X SIt. The covera?"e is underwritten by the St. sance in ceramics, glass, tapestry, and furni­ few firms still in existence that has made ele­ 44th Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94121. 6, Y Y Limited Edition ._" if so Paul and admInistered by Huntington T. ture, the firms that made many of these ob­ gant materials since the early nineteenth cen­ The WCA Honor Awards for Outstanding X X a) Size and how num'bered 0 0 Block Insurance. In addition, artists no jects have long since disappeared. Naturally, tury. Although the company is still situated in Achievement in the Visual Arts will be pre­ X X b) Additional copies and additional 0 0 longer need to write off bad debts. They can in the eyes of a businessman who is preoccu­ its original location and functioning as a fully sented Thursday, February 25, at the City proofs more than 10 or 10% of now, as most businesses do, turn over their pied with the transfer, closing down, or ap­ modernized plant, its directors made the ser­ Gallery of New York, 2 Columbus Circle, with edition overdue accounts to a collection agency> AEA propriation of premises, the effort and ex­ ious mistake of placing their archives (replete an exhibition reception immediately follow­ X 0 0 0 has contracted with Credit Bureau Incorpo­ pense involved in preserving records or work­ with all their samples, letters, anu .i.fllsts' ing the ceremony. The honorees' exhibition, rated, who will perform the collection work ing models loom large enough for preserva­ drawings) in the oldest building they owned. A Lifetime of Art: Six Women of Distinction, x --- Disclos,ure required; a - Disclosure not re uired' '. . for a 15% co.mmission. Both programs are tion to be deemed of secondary value, or This lack of foresight cost the firm dearly will include visual and written works by pho­ year or penod when multiple publi h d q ,Y -DIsclose eIther approXImate when the entire archives were consumed by tographer Berenice Abbott, fiber artist s e or master produced open. to all artIsts; membership in AEA is not simply inviable. Consequently, far too few reqUIred. For additional information and manufactories have demonstrated a serious fire, in a matter of moments, early in 1981. Claire Zeisler, painter-collagists Charmion forms: Gail Simmons, Executive Director commitment to maintaining records of their Thus, the complete history of the firm disap­ Von Wiegand and Elsie Driggs, art historian both to the dealer and to the purchaser from peared; with it went a large part of the history Elizabeth Gilmore Holt and curator-critic Notes ~EA, 3726 Albemarle Street, N.W., Wash~ heritage. A few specific cases will suffice to the dealer. Ington, D.C. 20016. elucidate this point. of fabric manufactory in the Alsace and an in­ Katherine Kuh_ 1. Ifnmhing issaid about items 3 (a), (b), (c), 4 sight into the ways in which a firm worked Fifteen exhibitions celebrating a wide C. It is no defense that the artist, or any In l:.imoges, France, the Haviland Porce­ a.nd 4 (a) they are deemed inapplicable to the mul­ with artists and entrepreneurs in the nine­ variety of contemporary art by women have other art merchant, makes an honest mistake lain Manufactory, which championed the re­ ~Iple .bemg ~old; disclosure is required only if the teenth century. When I visited the location in been organized by the WCA New York unless the error is harmless. ' Item IS applicable. Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program naissance in commercial porcelain-making the summer of 1981, all that remained was a Continued on p. 12, col. 3 The Roswell Museum and Art Center in New during the nineteenth century, became a huge hole in the ground. > 2. As .enacted. ~he stat.ute contains a printer's Me.xico offers six- to twelve-month grants to model of preservationist acumen when it 11. Remedies and enforcement. Clearly, this tragedy must not be repeated. ~rror which results m a vanation from the sponsors' ~nIsts, which provide a house, studio, mater­ hired an archivist and prepared a small A. An art merchant who offers or sells a What represents a staggering blow to the art IOte~t. The disclosure requirements for multiples Ials, and monthly stipend. Current stipend is museum to house examples of its best work ~ultiple in, into or from New York and who published prior to 1900 and those published he­ historian also impoverishes a general under­ reported by art historian John Howett, Art $350 for a single artist, $450 for artist and from the earlier period. The archivist, him­ e.Ither does not supply the required informa­ tween Jan.uary 1. 1900 and Decemher 31, 1949 standing of past periods, which, in the long Papers, September/October, 1981). The spouse, and $100 for each dependent child self a passionate connoisseur of ceramics, did t.lon, or who provides incorrect information is have be~n IIlverted. We are informed that a correc. run, may give rise to misinterpretation and original plans projected the acquisition of acco~panying the artist. The next scheduled considerable work on the history of the firm habl~ to the purchaser for the purchase price ted versIOn of the statute will be passed prior to misconception. A few simple safeguards (fire 1,000 examples of contemporary sculpture March 1,.1982. This memorandum reflect~ the I'n­ openIngs are for a printmaker in September and wrote many articles that placed the Havi­ plus Interest from the date of sale 1"'1.. control system, sprinklers, necessary modern­ over a ten-year period, a goal never realized. h' ' ,~~~ tended disclosure provisions. 1982 (application dates 1 February-15 land objects in a more prominent position in c as~r must first return the multiple in sub- ization) could have saved these archives. The Sculptures placed in the park included March) ~~d for a general artist (all mediums the overall history of ceramics in the nine­ st~ntlally the same condition in which re­ lack of gravity with which many industrialists works by Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, Kenneth ceived. 3: "Article twe~ve-H of the New York general not. requIrIng presses) in October 1982 (appli­ teenth century. Jean d'Albis, the scholar­ still view the question of preservation remains Snelson, Peter Forakis, Will Insley, etc.-a busl~es~ law prOVides for disclosure in writing of :auon d~tes 1 December- 15 January). For archivist, did much to spur an interest in the B. Where t~e purcha.ser can show that the certam mformation concerning multiples of prints a major obstacle; but, with patience and re­ formidable compendium of the innovative mfo.rmatlOn and applications: The Artist-in­ past, and his activities may have saved many art. mer~hant willfully failed to provide the re­ and photographs when sold for more than one hun­ peated urging, some of these firms may yet concepts of the 1960s. Yet, these works have ReSIdence Program, RM&AC, 100 West 11th letters and documents from certain destruc­ qu~red Information, willfully and falsely dis­ dr~d dollars ($100) each. exclusive of any frame realize that they are as much a part of our her­ been vandalized, and some have been carted Street, Roswell, N.M. 88201. tion by having them placed in municipal ar­ clalrr~ed knowledge or knowingly provided pnorr to effecting a sale of them . Th',.., 10"w rcqUires" itage as the art museum. away, The underlying premise of the complex false tn.formation, the purchaser may recover ~ Isclosure .of,su:h matters as the identity of the art­ chives in Limoges. But the solitary figure of has been destroyed; works placed in trust for three times the purchase price. st, t~e ar,t1st S signature, the medium, whether the M. d'Albis is infinitessimal in comparison to future generations have been attacked with Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowships C. A 'purchaser who successfully Sues l~lUltiple IS a reproduction, the time when the mul. the numerous histories of destruction and ne­ And Today ... such venom as to raise fundamental questions tlple Was produced, use of the master which pro. For undergraduate students interested in ~nder thiS s.tatute may, in the COUrt's discre­ glect. Even within Limoges, a center which The destruction of records, art work, and so­ about how serious-or how platitudinous­ du:c~ the multiple, and thc number of multiples in c.areers ~n t~e museums and related profes­ once boasted more than a hundred finns, the tIOn, ~e e'ntltled to reasonable attorney's and a Ii t d d" called obsolete examples of industrial art is no are commissions from industry, as well as ml e e. ItlOn. If a prospective purchaser so re- SIOns, Hlstonc Deerfield, Inc., in Massachu­ records and materials of those firms which ex.pert s fees. If the action is brought in bad qU,ests, the Information shall be transmitted to him less rampant in our time than it was in the about the preservation of works of art. setts ":111 conduct its Summer Fellowship Pro­ have ceased operation by-and-large have fauh" ho.weve~, the purchaser may in the pnor. to payment or the placing of an order for a days of the early industrial revolution. A case Since the park has now been taken over by gra~ In Early American History and the Dec­ court s discretIOn, be liable for the defen­ multiple If pay t' d b been lost. There were simply too few scholars in point is the desecration of the Southwest the MGIC Investment Corporation of Mil­ .' men IS rna e y a purchaser prior oratIve Ar.ts from 14 June to 13 August, 1982. dant's expenses. to. delivery of.such an art multiple, this information and art historians to act as the conscience of Industrial Park sculpture near Atlanta, Ga. waukee, Wisconsin, the future of the remain­ Between SIX and ten fellowships will be award­ D. A person who repeatedly violates the ~11I b: supplied atthe timc of or prior to delivery. the industry. First opened in November, 1968, this in­ ing pieces remains in doubt. We will com­ ed to students in American or Canadian col­ ~aw ~ay b~ liable for civil penalties and in­ ~n whICh caSe the purchaser is entitled to a refund Even with firms that still exist, the expense dustry-sponsored complex enjoyed the talents ment further on this scandalous problem leges in their sophomore through senior years JunctIve relief in an action brought by the At­ .If, for re~sons related to matter contained in such of hiring an archivist, or of devoting time and of Dallas landscape architect J. O. Lambert later. In the meantime, support from arts .he the multiple substamially as of I Januar~. Full ~nd partial fellowships torney-General. The Attorney-General may :~formatlOn: r:turn~ energy to classifying or saving materials which and of no less a personage than Josef Albers, leaders such as Richard Martin of Arts Maga­ t~e cond~t~on ~n which received, within thirty are avallabl~. I'~r full I~formation and appli­ also sue to seek restitution for any individual. no longer have a commercial value, is amply who coordinated the construction and color zine and others is appreciated, since it is only days of.recelV~n? It. In addition. if after paymcm cations: J. RItchIe Garnson, Director of Edu­ repelling to the owner. Such is the case with arrangements of the buildings. Even more through immediate action that further dese­ Gilbert S_ Edelson II and ?ehv~ry: It IS ascertained that the information cat~on, HDI, Deerfield, Mass. 01342. Appli­ the firm of G.D.A. (Limoges), where valu­ importantly, the park predominantly repre­ cration can be averted. Honorary Counsel, CAA prOVided IS iIlcorrect, the purchaser may he enti. catIon deadline: 4 February. tied to certain remedics." able, unique pieces, originally made for S. sented tastes in modern sculpture, including Gabriel Weisberg II 10 III Bing's shop L'Art Nouveau, languish in a thirty pieces of contemporary initiative (as Chair, Committee on the Preservation of Art

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