Chrysler The Members’ Magazine | Spring 2016 SMILING AT A NEW PORTRAIT

The striking portrait on the cover of this edition of Chrysler is of board of trustees 2015–2016 the noted author James Baldwin, painted by his friend Beauford Lewis W. Webb III, Esq., Chair Thomas L. Stokes, Jr., Vice Chair Delaney. This is one of the Museum’s latest acquisitions—and it’s Lelia Graham Webb, Secretary one that particularly pleases me. Yvonne T. Allmond Dudley Anderson, M.D., F.A.C.P. This impressive painting captures the sensitivity of a man who Tony Atwater was one of the most significant authors and essayists of the last Shirley C. Baldwin 100 years and who was particularly incisive in his examination of Carolyn K. Barry Kathleen Broderick the African American experience. Both the artist and the sitter Deborah H. Butler were gay black men living and working in New York in the mid 20th Susan R. Colpitts century, biographical facts that are not irrelevant to the meaning Elizabeth Fraim of the painting. These factors may also account for the limited Edith G. Grandy James A. Hixon appreciation of Delaney’s work in his own lifetime. Thankfully, that Marc Jacobson assessment has changed in recent years, and now collectors and Linda H. Kaufman museums avidly seek his work. Pamela C. Kloeppel Harry T. Lester The neon yellow-green background crackles with energy and Suzanne Mastracco hints at Baldwin’s own intellectual vitality. The quality of this Oriana M. McKinnon Peter M. Meredith, Jr. extraordinary portrait matches the standard set by the best works J. Douglas Perry in our collection. Its presence in our galleries allows us to tell C. Arthur Rutter III a fuller story of painting in America. It also begins to redress a Lisa B. Smith key weakness in our collection: the underrepresentation of Bob Sasser Richard Waitzer African American artists. Joseph T. Waldo Central to our mission is the desire to serve the broadest range Wayne F. Wilbanks of people. That is why we offer free admission and an eclectic chrysler magazine exhibition schedule. To test this philosophy, we often ask how our Denis Finley, collection and our mission match. While many factors influence our Director of Communications Cheryl Little, Museum Editor/ acquisition decisions, among the basic considerations are: Publications Manager Does the work build on our existing strengths? Does it fill Ed Pollard, Museum Photographer Jane Cleary, Graphics Manager notable gaps in our collection? How might this object speak to our patrons? What stories could we tell with this work? Chrysler Magazine is a quarterly publication produced for and mailed Is it of exceptional quality? Can we afford it? to Chrysler Museum Members as a benefit of their generous support. The Delaney painting, as well as other recent purchases now on view such as Alvar Aalto’s Savoy Vase, Liza Lou’s Gild Amber/Divide, Update or verify your membership information at http://reservations. and Carleton Watkins’ historical photograph of Yosemite, fulfill all chrysler.org or contact Database our requirements, as well as those of our Collections Committee. Manager Fleater Allen at: And the generosity of various donors has made it possible to acquire Chrysler Museum of Art One Memorial Place, other important works of art that will enhance our collection Norfolk, VA 23510 and improve our visitors’ experience. I believe these well-chosen (757) 333-6287 | [email protected]. accessions make our great Museum even better. You can read more The Chrysler Museum of Art, about our new additions in our cover story, but better yet, come all rights reserved © 2015 take a look for yourself and tell us what you think. I think you’ll be on the cover pleased as well. Beauford Delaney (American, 1901–1979) Portrait of James Baldwin, 1965 Oil on canvas Museum purchase © Estate of Beauford Delaney, used by permission Erik H. Neil, Director Chrysler The Members’ Magazine | Spring 2016

inside front cover Director’s Note

in the galleries 2 Exhibitions on View 5 Loans, Here and There 6 Spotlight Exhibition: In and Out of The Box with Kota Ezawa 8 Collection Connection: New Light on Land: Photographs from the Chrysler Collection

Photo by Charlie Gunter for the Chrysler for Gunter Charlie Museum of Art by Photo cover story Members’ Exhibition Opening for Edward Burtynsky: Water 14 New Additions to the Chrysler Collection

chrysler news 11 Always Learning: Education and Our Docent Corps 13 A New Way of Seeing: Touch Tours for the Vision Impaired 20 In Memoriam: Michele Ward Franklin Ann Dearsley Vernon

Photo by Ed Pollard, Museum Photographer Pollard, Ed by Photo Community Service, Community Fun Docent-led Touch Tours 21 22 Jean Outland Chrysler Library News 23 At the Perry Glass Studio 24 Good News for Donors 24 Norfolk Society of Arts Lectures

member exclusives and special events 25 Art Travel Opportunities 26 A Look Back at Member Events 27 Don’t-Miss Events for Members

last look Visiting Artist Series 2016 at the Perry Glass Studio 28 A Season of Water Rik Allen (American, b. 1967) Night Walk, 2015 Blown glass, silver and steel back cover Image by KP Studios, Camp Chrysler courtesy of the artist Edward Burtynsky: Water Norwood Viviano— Cities: Departure Closing May 15, 2016 in the Edward Burtynsky: Water is Exhibitions Norfolk Southern Special organized by the New Orleans and Deviation Exhibitions Gallery Museum of Art. Ongoing in the Glass (Gs. 101–103) Edward Burtynsky’s exhibition is but Project Space (G. 118) Water is so present in one of several water-themed programs Precisely blown glass forms in our lives that it can be a across Hampton Roads this season. Check out more of the offerings in this gradating shades of white, gray, challenge to comprehend issue’s Last Look on page 29. and black tell the centuries- all that it means. In this old stories of urban growth, keynote exhibition, Canadian suburban flight, and the rise artist Edward Burtynsky and fall of industrial influence provides a compelling global in this data-driven exhibition. perspective on this essential Norwood Viviano transforms resource and humanity’s population statistics for 25 complex connections to it. American cities into 3-D graphs More than 60 expansive that serve as a starting point color photographs—some for conversations touching on elegant, some haunting— commerce, race, technology, hover between the worlds of culture, sustainability, and painting, photography, detail change. The artist created and abstraction. Together, the glass graph of Norfolk they weave an ambitious specifically for exhibition at representation of water’s the Chrysler. ever-more-fragmented Norwood Viviano—Cities: lifecycle, raising questions Departure and Deviation is on about our increasingly stressed loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, relationship with our most vital Houston. Norfolk addition is on loan from the artist and Heller Gallery, natural resource. New York.

Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955) Xiaolangdi Dam #1, Yellow River, Henan Province, China, 2011 Digital chromogenic print, 60 x 80 inches © Edward Burtynsky Image courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York Norwood Viviano (American, b. 1972) Installation detail of Cities of Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco from the series Cities: Departure and Deviation, 2011 Blown glass and vinyl cut drawings Installation photo by Ed Pollard, 2 | spring 2016 Museum Photographer In The Box: Kota Ezawa In The Box: Tony Oursler Meet and Greet / Artist Beyond the Tangible: Extended through April 10 Opening the evening of Talk with Tony Oursler The Roots of Abstraction in The Box Third Thursday, April 21 Third Thursday, April 21 in American Art Reimagine the familiar as our in The Box Free for Museum Members On view in the Roberts new-media gallery features the Two of the world’s most and students with current ID, Wing | 20th-Century Art San Francisco artist known for influential avant-garde artists $5 for all others Gallery (G. 222) join forces as the Chrysler Our Modernist art gallery is his animated audiovisual mash- TC: The Most Interesting Man Alive, a ups of popular culture and art debuts their new collaboration. movie by Tony Oursler in collaboration reinstalled with 15 masterworks history. Enjoy his lightbox take Tony Oursler, renowned for his with Tony Conrad, and its related by artists on the forefront of on the iconic Earth From Moon, imaginative multimedia art installation works in The Box are on the American avant garde: loan from Lehmann Maupin, New York. as well as two recent video and installations, presents the Charles Sheeler, Georgia works. City of Nature presents international premier of TC: The O’Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Niles unpopulated nature scenes Most Interesting Man Alive. Spencer, and Stuart Davis, to from more than 20 feature films His short movie focuses on Tony name a few. Their quest was, as in paint-by-number-kit style, Conrad, legendary conceptual Arshile Gorky said, “to extract while Beatles über California artist, filmmaking innovator, the infinite out of the finite.” remixes footage of the Fab minimalist composer, and Explore the blend of vision, Four’s 1964 Ed Sullivan Show educator. This improvisational imagination, and symbolism appearance with a 1979 punk biopic presents how Conrad that they present as they soundtrack by Dead Kennedys. became an artistic tour de force experiment with flatness, color, The artist’s In The Box exhibition works and explores how personal and rhythm—and blur the are on loan from Murray Guy, New York. histories become the building lines between representation Kota Ezawa has more to say about his blocks of creative possibilities. and a radical new way of seeing. art at the Chrysler. Learn more in this This project between two issue’s Spotlight Exhibition story on longtime friends promises an pages 6–7. unforgettable experience in experimentation.

Kota Ezawa (German, b. 1969) Oscar Bluemner Earth from Moon, 2005 (American, 1867–1938) Single-channel HD video, Red Green in Grey, 1934 3 mins., 54 secs. Oil on board © Kota Ezawa Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Image courtesy of Murray Guy, New York Tony Oursler (American, b. 1957) TC: The Most Interesting Man Alive, 2016 Photographic still from movie installation © Tony Oursler Image courtesy of Oursler Studio, New York

in the galleries | 3 AT THE HISTORIC HOUSES A Moveable Feast: New Light on Land: Seascapes by A Reconfiguration of Photographs from the William Trost Richards Contemporary Art Chrysler Collection Closing May 1 in the On view in the McKinnon Closing May 15 in the Frank Focus Gallery (G. 229) Wing of Contemporary Art Photography Galleries In the 1870s, William Trost (Gs. 223–227) (G. 228) Richards (1833–1905) discovered The Chrysler takes advantage Whether pastoral or polluted, the beauty of the ocean. Over of the Museum’s modular wall the landscape has been an the next three decades, he system with the first major enduring subject in the history visited and painted some of reinstallation of our 20th- and of photography. New Light on the finest beaches and most 21st-century art since our Land draws from the Museum’s dramatic rocky coastlines reopening in 2014. Sprawling rich photography collection to of New England and Europe. canvases, imaginative sculpture, explore how nature has inspired Thanks to a generous gift from and other popular favorites photographic innovation and the painter’s granddaughter, return to the galleries as we creativity since the advent of the Chrysler Collection includes reimagine our expansive wing the medium. Presented as a scores of oils, watercolors, for contemporary art. Many companion to Edward Burtynsky: and drawings by this master Harry Cowles Mann of the works show the unique Water, this exhibition offers landscape painter. Trace (American, 1866–1926) collecting tastes and insider eclectic perspectives from Richards’ working process from Cape Henry Lighthouse, ca. 1918 dealer relationships of the environmentalist critiques sketchbook pages to finished Gelatin silver print on texturized paper Museum’s key benefactor, to grand visions of the canvases and experience a Anonymous Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection untrammeled earth. diverse selection of seascapes, standouts by Larry Poons, Nam Different eyes see different things. including recently conserved Willoughby-Baylor House Jun Paik, Barkley Hendricks, Five Chrysler Museum staff members paintings on display for the and Idelle Weber headline this share their insights on these landscape first time. 601 E. Freemason St., Norfolk photos in our Collection Connection new display. Harry C. Mann: highlight on pages 8–10. Norfolk Photographer Opening April 16 | First floor Discover the pioneering photographic work of Harry Cowles Mann (1866–1926). Between 1907 and 1924, Mann’s camera documented the bustling commercial life of Granby Street and downtown Norfolk. Featuring 50 vintage prints from the Chrysler Collection, this exhibition also presents his experiments in capturing waves, clouds, and shadows on the sand dunes of Virginia Beach, evidence of his powerful but unsung artistic ambitions. The Norfolk Rooms Ongoing | Second floor in the Norfolk History Museum

Moses Myers House 323 E. Freemason St., Norfolk Moses Myers: Maritime Merchant Nam June Paik Robert Glenn Ketchum William Trost Richards (American, b. South Korea, 1932–2006) (American, b. 1947) (American, 1833–1905) Barton Myers: Hamlet Robot, 1996 Jedediah, After The Rain, ca. 1978 Seascape, ca. 1890s Norfolk Visionary Video installation Cibachrome print, Oil on millboard Museum purchase and gift of Joan Dalis Martone, from the portfolio American Gift of Edith Ballinger Price Adeline’s Portal Fran and Lenox Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock, Jr., Photographs in the by Beth Lipman Susan and Paul Hirschbiel, Renée and Paul Mansheim, National Parks and Robert McLanahan Smith III Gift of Jack B. Ketchum © Estate of Nam June Paik © Robert Glenn Ketchum 4 | spring 2016 our McKinnon Wing of Modern From the Road: On the and Contemporary Art. The Bath is still on view in Loans Amid Road Here Gallery 216, but won’t be for Our Collection long. The charming 1868 oil and There painting goes to Paris later this | spring for Charles Gleyre (1806- 1874): The Repentant Romantic. Chrysler France’s first solo show of the artist’s work runs at Musée Loans in the d’Orsay May 9–September 11. In addition to lending our own Charles-Francois Daubigny Spotlight works, the Chrysler Museum headlines the traveling also benefits from loans from art exhibition Daubigny, Monet, collectors who are friends of the Van Gogh. Our 1873 oil painting, Museum. On your next visit, look Art from the Chrysler The Beach at Villerville at for these and many other fine Sunset, is at the Taft Museum Collection is always artworks on loan to us. of Art in Cincinnati through in demand for special May 29, then the show crosses McKinnon Wing of Modern the Atlantic for engagements and Contemporary Art exhibitions across the Franz Kline’s Hot Jazz is Our Edward Hicks’ Scene from at the Scottish National Gallery Stanislav Libenský helping Germans explore “The Tempest” goes on loan Jaroslava Brychtová country and around the in Edinburgh and the Van Gogh the intertwining influence of to the Baron and Ellin Gordon Museum in Amsterdam, the Green Eye of the Pyramid Promised gift of Lisa and world. If you’ll be traveling, American jazz on poetry, music, Art Galleries at Old Dominion Netherlands. and the visual arts throughout University in April. The ca. 1825 Dudley Anderson you may see these Europe and America. I Got canvas will be featured in Saint Philip by Georges de la Joan P. Brock Galleries Rhythm: Jazz and Art Since 1920 Shakespeare and the Americas: Tour blesses Museo Nacional del Érard favorite works on loan is on view at Kunstmuseum A Look Back to the World of Prado with its presence in a key Napoleon III Ormolu-Mounted Stuttgart through March 6. “The Tempest.” The exhibition international exhibition. Our Satinwood and Parquetry to other museums. celebrating the Bard 400 years ca. 1625 masterwork is one of 30 Grand Piano Five historic albumen after his death is on view paintings by the long-forgotten Lent by the Norfolk Education prints from our acclaimed through September 25. artist, perhaps the most Foundation collection of Civil War photos important French painter of the are featured in the Alexander It’s an unusual German- Winslow Homer 17th century, now on view in Girl with a Four-Leaf Clover Gardner: The War and the themed work for French artist Madrid, Spain, through June 12. Promised gift of West in Washington, D.C. The Henri Fantin-Latour, but The Mrs. Frank Batten exhibition is the Smithsonian’s Rhinemaidens is in the Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for first major retrospective of the spotlight in Wagner’s Ring: the Camera, here at the Chrysler Frank Photography Galleries, in New Light on Land photographer’s work and the Forging an Epic. The ca. 1880 last summer and fall, continues Sally Mann finale of the National Portrait oil painting really sings thanks its successful run. Now at Tufts Untitled University Art Gallery (through Gallery’s seven-part series to a recent restoration by Lent by Lelia Graham and May 22), the exhibition moves commemorating the 150th our Conservation Team. The Randy Webb anniversary of the Civil War. musically themed exhibition to the Block Museum of Art, The show closes March 13. is at Engelhard Gallery of The Northwestern University, Tung Hing Scene from Foo Chow, China Morgan Library & Museum in September 17–December 11. Jackson Pollock Our swirling Number 23, 1951 Lent by Susan and Paul Hirschbiel (American, 1912–1956) New York until April 17. The Chrysler has three photos in is one of an unprecedented Number 23, 1951, 1951 the show: National Grassland, Waitzer Galleries of Glass 31 black paintings featured in Our St. Andrew makes its West Enamel on canvas South Dakota; Niagara Falls, George Woodall Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots. On Coast debut as Kehinde Wiley: © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ New York; and The Shrine of Cameo Plaque Artists Rights Society, New York view at England’s Tate Liverpool A New Republic moves from Democracy: Mount Rushmore, (Girl Carrying Fruit) for much of 2015, the popular Fort Worth to Seattle. The Lent by James and Stanislav Libenský Black Hills, South Dakota. (Czech, 1921–2002) show includes 70 of the great acclaimed exhibition returns Rebecca Summar abstract expressionist’s works. East for a culminating run For images of other Chrysler Jaroslava Brychtová Collection art on the road, see our Joel Philip Myers (Czech, b. 1924) The exhibition is at Dallas at the Virginia Museum of #ChryslerMuseumTravels posts at Dr. Zharkov’s Gold One Green Eye of the Pyramid, Museum of Art now until Fine Arts in Richmond from instagram.com/chryslermuseum. 1933–97 Lent by Carolyn and Dick Barry Cast glass March 20. June 3–September 5. After that, Promised gift of Lisa Shaffer our key accession of 2014 comes Anderson and Dudley Buist home to the Chrysler to grace Anderson © Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová in the galleries | 5 Out-of-the- Box Art in The Box | Kota Ezawa

If you haven’t yet seen our current show in The Box, our new-media and video gallery, you’re in luck. seth feman: How did the works now on view at SF: You’ve described your process of transforming the Chrysler become your exhibition here? photographs and film into animation as “just Kota Ezawa’s exhibition like translating a text into English from Chinese.” kota ezawa: The idea to show these three works Would you elaborate on this and on how you at the Chrysler has been together in The Box came out of a conversation select and create your imagery? between Janice Guy, my gallerist in New York, extended until April 10. Chrysler Museum Director Erik Neil, and me. I KE: Since my work starts with an existing film or Chrysler asked Seth Feman, really appreciate the collaborative aspect of photograph, there is a relationship to a source exhibition-making. This makes every show unique. material. It’s similar to a translated text that has its roots in an original. I also like to compare my work our Curator of Exhibitions Earth from Moon (2005) is a drawing from my to the job of a translator because I try to bring ongoing series The History of Photography Remix. and Acting Curator of across the essence of an image, just as a translator Prior to this series, almost all my work was in attempts to preserve the character of a text. Photography, to talk video form. A lightbox looks a lot like a TV, but it only shows a single image. As a video artist Another parallel is that making art for me is really with the acclaimed artist this gave me a natural entry to this format. My work. I’m not just sitting around in my studio with about how his imaginative drawing is a remake of the famous photograph a glass of wine, waiting for inspiration to hit. As taken by an Apollo 11 astronaut gazing at the in translating, there is a lot of tediousness and works have such Earth from space. It’s said that this photograph meticulousness required. started the environmental movement. universal resonance. But this is only one aspect of what I do. The other City of Nature (2011) is an animation based on portion I could describe as a form of visual DJing. 40 nature scenes from narrative films, including It involves a lot of cutting and editing, all with The Old Man and the Sea, Fitzcarraldo, Swept the purpose of initiating a conversation with the Away, Brokeback Mountain, and many others. The viewer. It’s much like the way a DJ tries to animate animation was constructed in a way that one the dance floor. I pick the subject and source scene leads to the next—a creek leads to a river, material for my work very quickly and intuitively. which leads to an ocean, which leads to a shark. I trust my initial ideas more than those that come You could say that this piece functions like a out of long contemplation. But the actual creation cinematic chain reaction. of the work involves a slow and meditative process—hours and hours with a drawing tablet And Beatles Über California (2011) is a mash-up. in front of a computer or with a paintbrush on a I re-animated the Beatles’ 1964 performance on piece of paper. the Ed Sullivan Show with the Dead Kennedys’ famous 1979 punk anthem “California Über Alles.” SF: Maybe it’s the bright colors or cartoonlike It surprised me how easy it was to sync up the animation, but City of Nature has been especially existing images with the newer music. Image popular with children. Adult visitors often try to and sound are two very different experiences, connect the animated clips to the source movies, but they naturally form a pact. You can almost but children don’t care about the origins. Many of pair any sound with any image—but some your works draw on memory and nostalgia, but is combinations are more powerful than others. there a value in seeing your work with fresh eyes? 6 | spring 2016 KE: In other works of mine, like The Simpson of Robert Mapplethorpe Verdict, people experience a kind of ghost effect. or Karen Finley. Although They see the shadow of their own memory of an their art doesn't image that’s in my work. Though City of Nature necessarily have any samples many well-known films, the references activist agenda, it has had are more obscure. Nature is less recognizable than huge reverberations in a human face or an iconic building, so that ghost American society. effect is less noticeable. City of Nature addresses If my work is “political,” viewers in an almost purely experiential way. This I would consider this a might explain why children are drawn to it. compliment. Of course, Subject matter is only one thing I consider when it is my wish to move the making the work. I hope that viewers can access thoughts and feelings the work from different directions. I’ve heard of the viewer, but I people say that they like the way I draw eyes and also realize that this is a noses. To me, this comment is just as meaningful difficult and complicated as a comment about the content of the work. task. The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah SF: It’s hard for me to watch the grazing sheep Arendt once remarked in City of Nature without laughing, but there’s that beauty is political. I something a little audacious in the work. What can totally relate. Without place do humor or irreverence have in your work? beauty in our lives, we KE: The German artist Martin Kippenberger once wouldn't have anything facing page said that whoever is serious is lying. I kind of see to fight for. Kota Ezawa (German, b. 1969) it the same way. What you call “irreverence” might Self-Portrait, from The History Beatles Über California may be one of my more be the residue of my punk rock upbringing. Even of Photography Remix, 2006 political pieces. People spontaneously applauded © Kota Ezawa though my work looks almost like graphic design, when it was screened in public in Miami and it borrows a lot from the attitudes and strategies above Moscow. It is also my only video that you can of punk musicians and artists of the era. One Kota Ezawa (German, b. 1969) easily find online—30,000 people have watched of the big accomplishments of punk was that it Beatles über California, 2011 it so far. That may make it the most democratic Still from black and white video brought culture to eye level. Musicians jumped work I have created. with sound off the stage and became a part of the crowd. © Kota Ezawa SF: What new projects are you are developing? My visual style is often referred to as “paint-by- Kota Ezawa (German, b. 1969) What can we look forward to seeing in the future? numbers,” something usually associated with the Video still from City of Nature, 2011 work of hobbyists and bored teenagers. To me KE: I just debuted Gardner Museum Revisited at Single-channel HD video, this is almost a compliment. Making “paint-by- Murray Guy in New York, and it is currently on 3 mins., 54 secs. numbers” art might be comparable to writing view at Christopher Grimes Gallery in L.A. In this © Kota Ezawa songs that only use three chords, which is what new work, I recreated the 13 artworks stolen Images courtesy of Murray Guy, a lot of punk bands did in the ’70s. from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in New York 1990. Along with the color lightboxes, I present SF: During your talk here last fall, you showed an animation based on the surveillance footage Beatles über California. When you described über recorded the night before the theft at the alles, a term often associated with the Nazis, you museum. The tape was recently released by the said, “For a German person, it almost doesn’t go FBI. The response to this work has been quite over the lips. It’s a very distasteful title, but it just strong, and I might add more elements to it for worked well for the piece.” future exhibitions. Then you said you showed the work in Moscow I am also working on a new animation with James not long after members of the punk band Pussy Rogers, who is a dancer with Houston Ballet. Riot were arrested for disorderly conduct, which The project is still in the beginning stages, but many in the international community saw as the I am excited to have my first collaboration with Kremlin cracking down on free speech. It’s hard a performing artist. The project will open at the to see your Dead Kennedys’ song as an accidental Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco choice. What is the role of politics in your work? at the end of July. KE: Any work that influences the thinking of SF: Thanks for giving us this in-depth view of your the viewer is political, in my opinion. It is not art, Kota. Understanding you and your process necessary that the work carry a specific political will help us appreciate your upcoming projects message. Just by having an impact, art can even more. change the course of events. Consider the work

spotlight exhibition | 7 Ten Eyes on | New Light on Land

Chrysler asked several the photographs in new light on land there’s a fleeting urgency to landscape tell many surprising stories, often because what photography—and it’s keenly felt in O. Winston Museum staff members you see is only a half-truth. Link’s Creek Junction, Bridge 52. The train races by on the bridge and track built over the river, with an affinity for This image of a couple looking out over Niagara framed by trees that engulf it on either side. Falls from Prospect Point suggests that they Shadows seem to dance playfully along the photography to are communing with transcendent nature, and bottom half of the photograph before they yield they almost certainly were. The Catholic Church select an interesting to an uncluttered, open sky above. The choice recognized the falls as a “pilgrim shrine” in 1861, to create this image in this orientation, more as a image from our new and faithful tourists travelled from far and wide to portrait than a landscape, shows that his subject take in the beauty and glory of God’s earth. exhibition of landscape truly is the steam train. The photographer Platt D. Babbitt, often hiding It’s clear that Link was meticulous in setting up photography from the his camera in a pavilion overlooking this site, the picture, finding the right angle at the right would make photographs of unwitting tourists, time of day, and then patiently waiting for the Chrysler Collection. later approaching them with their image in hand train. A careful composition can change in an and offering it for sale. So there’s one truth—a Enjoy seeing these instant with a cloud passing overhead, a bird couple, possibly unaware of the camera, is having circling back around, or a train charging through photos from their a candid moment with nature. the scene. After such deliberate preparation, he different viewpoints. But there’s another truth you can’t exactly see— would have had only a few seconds to get the Babbitt was a clever and sometimes cunning arrangement he wanted. If something had gone businessman. Fiercely competitive, he was known wrong, if he’d snapped the photograph too late, to have aggressively defended this vantage from for instance, he would have to wait again for other photographers. There even are reports of another train to come by in an ever-changing him running out with an open umbrella to disrupt landscape. their work. I imagine there are photos out there As a photographer myself, I know that feeling. capturing that truth, but I haven’t seen one yet. Sometimes a beautiful moment will come and —Seth Feman, Acting Curator of Photography go, and the chance to get that image is gone and Curator of Exhibitions forever. That’s something that’s mirrored in Link’s

8 | spring 2016 attempts to immortalize the disappearing world a lineage to the New Topographics. This stylistic facing page of steam trains. This photograph, to me, seems approach to landscape photography stripped Attributed to Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1823–1879) to be a collision of multiple worlds—the serene away all artistic frills and often focused on human A Honeymoon Couple, old landscape with a modern bustling train, the occupation of the land, with all of its uses and all Niagara Falls, ca. 1860 patience of setting up the composition with the of its industrial and domestic structures. Ambrotype Gift of Dr. Robert W. Lisle, M.D. urgency of capturing the photograph at just This style had an incredible moment in 1975 when the right instant, and the disappearing world of O. Winston Link the International Museum of Photography at the steam trains being replaced by diesel. Thankfully, (American, 1914–2001) George Eastman House put on the exhibition Creek Junction, Bridge 52, 1956 Link captured an amazing moment in time before New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Gelatin silver print this era came to an end. Lent by David and Susan Goode, Landscape. Its 10 photographers presented a with intent to give —Christine Gamache, combination of natural and built scenes that Senior Visitor Services Representative wrested supremacy from the convention of above David Graham (American, b. 1952) romantic landscape photography. They decided Route 64, West of Route 89, to face the environment we’ve made for ourselves i always gravitate to the photographs Arizona, 1986 and depict what they saw. Their work said that Chromogenic print that seem casual or deadpan, but have a layer the genre á la Ansel Adams, with nature as the Gift of Joyce F. and of humor or subtlety underneath. Route 64 Robert B. Menschel center of attention and without any sign of epitomizes a style of photography that has this human intrusion, wasn’t enough. Crucial to them compelling dual component. At first glance the was the way people associate with their world. All images seem objective, a documentary mirror places matter—not just vast vistas of the largely of what is in front of the lens. But they also untouched, natural world, but also less striking hold the opposite possibility, a subjective view places that too easily go unnoticed. All places of the scene that expresses the feelings of the deserve our attention. photographer. David Graham’s image may be about the land, preservation, or nature as real While radical in 1975, photographers like estate—and it doesn’t matter to me that his Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, and Lewis Baltz intent is unclear. themselves had links weaving back to Walker Evans’ 1930s work and 19th-century survey Threads to past work and influences weave in photography of the American West. And their and out of photo history, and Graham’s work has collection connection | 9 impact continues today with the narrative in the landscape form found in the work of Alec Soth, Mark Ruwedel, and European exponents of the Düsseldorf School like Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Struth. In my personal work, it’s obvious that I've absorbed this strain of photography. —Ed Pollard, Museum Photographer francis frith’s tours of egypt and the Middle East were the most ambitious and systematic photographic undertakings of the region in the 19th century. Beginning in 1857, Frith presented to the public more than 500 images in eight published works. A retired grocer and devout Quaker, he brought a religious zeal to his efforts. Considering the difficult conditions in the desert, with dust and extreme heat affecting the delicate process of developing a wet plate collodion negative, extraordinary determination was required to produce such an extensive body of work. Frith had experienced a religious epiphany as a young man, and his quest to portray the Holy Land and the places mentioned in the Bible through photography can be directly linked to his beliefs. Though the biblical or historical import of a site guided many of his selections, he also sought to realize a profitable enterprise. In some time, had a way of bestowing honor and dignity Francis Frith (English, 1822–1898) cases, he chose to photograph a certain place on the impoverished people she was charged The Temple of El Karnak, because “the scriptural interest in the locality from the South East, 1857, with documenting. In Men Cradling Wheat, Near from Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem, is so great.” In these choices he was following Sperryville, Virginia, two men go about their daily 1858 itineraries established by the writers of guide task, paying little attention to the overwhelming Mammoth albumen print in books and travel memoirs of the Middle East— original mount natural surroundings that seem to be closing Museum purchase as well as feeding the appetites of his devout in on them. Their body language suggests Victorian-era audiences. His view of the Temple resignation. They are front and center in the Dorothea Lange of El Karnak near Thebes is at once a careful (American, 1895–1965) frame, but look small compared to the landscape. Men Cradling Wheat, Near composition of spectacular ancient ruins and a The viewer can almost see the men moving slowly, Sperryville, Virginia, June 1936 very marketable recollection of the fallen glory listlessly to complete their work, wondering if it Gelatin-silver print of the pharaohs. really matters. Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund —Erik Neil, Museum Director But the photograph also captures a measure of pride in these men. The eye keeps going to the the farm security administration, created tiny hole in the man’s shirt. Is it a meaningless in 1935 to raise awareness of rural poverty during detail or a metaphor for the tear in the the Depression, produced some of the greatest country’s social fabric? I don’t believe Lange’s documentary photographers in history. The work compassionate eye ignored symbolism. This of these artists inspired me to pursue a career in beautifully evocative photograph challenges photojournalism, which I have always believed, the viewer to empathize with those suffering in its purest sense, combined art and journalism. during the Great Depression and who have been treated cruelly by fate and the natural world. I wanted to be just like them and, as Cliff Edom, That was the noble goal of the FSA project, to legendary photojournalism educator, said, “Show “introduce America to Americans.” And I imagine the truth with a camera.” So I studied their work Lange saying to the viewer, “Romanticize this and tried to emulate their grace and truthful style. photograph at your own risk.” Dorothea Lange, whose photograph Migrant —Denis Finley, Director of Communications Mother is one of the most famous images of all

10 | spring 2016 Educating Our Educators | Docents Love Ongoing Training

ne of the most dedicated groups at the intricacies of the content-rich exhibition Saints Chrysler Museum of Art is its Docent and Dragons: Icons from Byzantium to Russia. Barry OCorps. More than 75 individuals bring our Curator of Glass Diane Wright presented deep educational mission to life for school students and background on several of the Museum’s recent groups of visitors. Docents give tours to 12,000 acquisitions in glass, including a philosophically students each year, facilitate art projects during inspired new accession by renowned Danish artist our Family Days and weekend activities, and give Steffen Dam. In preparation for Tseng Kwong Chi: free public gallery tours at 1 p.m. every day that Performing for the Camera, our docents had not the Museum is open. All in all, between training only a private tour from Manager of Interpretation sessions, meetings, outreaches, and tours, our Seth Feman, but a chance to hear personal docents contribute about 2,500 hours of volunteer reflections from the late artist’s sister, Muna Tseng. service each year. The Chrysler’s docents also are quick to take the But if you ask any one of them why they invest so opportunity to share their individual collection much time in the Chrysler, each one will give the expertise and teacher-training strengths with Powers Peterson, M.D. (right), same answer—they love exciting people about fellow docents. Randy McDaniel and Betsy helps Chrysler Museum docents art and they love learning. Browne offered a four-week class on Greco- Richard Brown and Pat Behlmer, Roman Mythology in which participants also physicians themselves, to And they are always learning. In this past year researched, wrote, and gave presentations in diagnose ailments and illnesses alone, our docents participated in a myriad of front of their classmates. And monthly, shorter, in paintings throughout the continuing educational opportunities. Much Chrysler Collection. more informal sessions take place. In recent Lunch of their expert training focused on special and Learn sessions, Jean Gulick gave a talk on In Briton Rivière’s War Time, exhibitions and new art acquisitions at the a faithful dog looks out for his Art Nouveau art and furniture; Barbara Gornto Chrysler. For Georgia O’Keeffe: A Place of Her Own, teary-eyed master, glasses in hand and Garnett Shores talked about costumes and after reading about the death of Brock Curator of American Art Alex Mann gave fashion in art; and Virginia Kitchin shared her love his son in battle. The sheepherder’s them an insider’s view of the groundbreaking slumped posture conveys an of modern and contemporary art. empty sadness typical of clinical artist and her work. Laura Garrity-Arquitt depression. from the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Two docents took training a step further and Massachusetts, prepared docents and staff for the provided sessions for the Museum’s Visitor

chrysler news | 11 Services staff. Richard Brown led Gallery Hosts This kind of enrichment not only prepares, but It’s hard to miss The Lunatic of through the masks and mystique of our African energizes our Docent Corps to do serve even Étretat’s deranged behavior. In Hugues Merle’s painting, a Gallery, sharing his experiences of nearly three more effectively. “When I gave my first SAPLINGS barefoot, disturbed woman sits decades of practicing medicine in Africa. Gayle tour, things fell flat. Despite all my preparation, beside a well, swaddling a log Nichols, who also works as a Gallery Teacher the first-graders just weren’t very interested,” instead of a baby. Her defiant eyes telegraph withdrawal, anger, and at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art docent Joan Nesbitt confessed. “But the Engaging distrust of the outside world— near the beachfront, helped the Gallery Hosts Young Children training session made all the all classic signs of paranoid practice Visual Thinking Strategies, a technique difference. I put what I learned into practice and schizophrenia. for fostering dialogue within groups, particularly the results were amazing!” It’s a refrain heard Though Gustave Doré’s clear-eyed with students. regularly among these die-hard volunteers. Neophyte is having an epiphany Docent Pat Behlmer, a retired neurologist, felt the with his first experience of the To enhance the docents’ learning opportunities, monastery, the visual acuity of same way about The Artist’s Vision. “The training the Museum also brought in several guest his spiritual brothers seems more was a great way to pair my medical experience clouded. The older monks to the lecturers and facilitators on special topics. Powers with my love of the Museum. Now I have brand left exhibit signs of cataracts Peterson, M.D., created a customized workshop and myopia (nearsightedness). new ways to look at art.” for docents that drew on her expertise as a Whether the bearded devotee to the right is deep in prayer, physician and a clinical pathologist. The Artist’s Becoming a Chrysler docent is a great narcoleptic, bored, or drifting off Vision: Interactions of Illness and Art encouraged opportunity to learn, to meet new people, and to sleep is debatable. them to look for medical conditions portrayed to give back to your community by sharing your Many viewers notice that Joseph in works of art or experienced by the artists love of art. The Education Department will start Noel Paton’s soldier returning themselves. Virginia Lamneck, Program Director recruiting for a new class of docents to begin Home has lost an arm in war, at Equality Virginia, presented Creating an training in Fall 2016. For an application or more but few look closely to see that his mother’s gnarled hand on Inclusive Museum: Welcoming LGBT Students and details, contact Ruth Sanchez at rsanchez@ his shoulder is wracked with Visitors. Finally Betsy Bowers, Director of the chrysler.org. rheumatoid arthritis, one of the Center for Innovation in Early Learning at the most common auto-immune disorders among the elderly. Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, led a full-day training session on how to keep toddlers and preschool children engaged in the Museum’s galleries.

12 | spring 2016 A New Way of Seeing | Docent Touch Tours Photo by Ed Pollard, Museum Photographer Pollard, Ed by Photo

ow do you make the visual arts accessible ac: Just a few days ago, you “showed” our to everyone—especially to Museum guests collection to a fourth-grader who is visually Hwho are blind? You look for a different impaired. When you and Grace toured the kind of vision. Director of Education Anne Corso galleries, what was her experience? recently sat down with longtime Museum docent gp: Grace has never had sight, and not Gray Puryear to discuss one creative way that our surprisingly she had never been able to touch docents can help visually challenged guests to art in a museum. As I led her to several objects, “see” the Chrysler Collection. including the Egyptian Sekhmet and the anne corso: Gray, you’ve been a docent for Roman sarcophagus, she was very quiet and 11 years now and have given hundreds of tours contemplative. She took her time really “seeing” to both adults and children. Some people might each piece. Ironically, she spent more time with be surprised to know that we offer special tours each work than most sighted visitors do. for visitors with visual impairments. ac: Did Grace have a favorite? gray puryear: If a visitor doesn’t have sight or gp: I’d say yes. She absolutely spent the most time To arrange a docent-led has limited visual abilities, we can offer them a with Elizabeth Catlett’s Ife. It’s such a beautiful touch tour of the Museum touch tour. It’s an alternate experience where they piece: so tactile and so engaging. I was really can wear protective gloves and feel works of art galleries, please contact honored that I could help Grace experience it. that have been preselected by our conservator. Ruth Sanchez in our On a tour, a docent will guide participants by ac: Gray, do you have any words of wisdom for Education Department at describing the art to them, then allowing them to docents who might want to try giving a touch [email protected]. experience the works by touch. tour, but are nervous to do so?

ac: How many touch tours have you given? gp: While I have been through training on how to give a touch tour, it’s not the kind of thing that gp: I’ve probably given about a half a dozen tours you have to get certified to do. There’s really no to people with visual impairments. Typically I’ve right or wrong way to lead it. The most important led adult groups on touch tours. They are always thing is that you have a passion for the art—and a talkative and inquisitive. They understand that passion for helping people to see it in a new way. they are having a very special experience.

chrysler news | 13 The Collection Grows | New Acquisitions of Note

Architect-designer Alvar Aalto Artist Peter Halley donated Alvar Aalto, designer applied the same curved forms Divide as a tribute to the life (Finnish, 1898–1976) Karhula-Iittala, manufacturer seen in his architecture and and work of our curatorial Hämeenlinna, Finland furniture to his best-known colleague Amy Brandt after Aalto, or “Savoy,” Vase, 1937 work in glass, the Savoy or learning of her passing. Halley Mold-blown glass Museum purchase Aalto Vase. Part of a submission met Brandt in 2009 when for a glass competition held she began researching her Peter Halley by Karhula-Iittala in 1936, this dissertation on New York’s East (American, b. 1953) vase was displayed in the Village art scene in the 1980s. Divide, 2011 Fluorescent acrylic, metallic acrylic, Finnish national pavilions also Her study broke new ground by pearlescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex designed by Aalto at world’s exploring how artists like Halley on two attached canvases fairs in Paris (1937) and New adapted past visual styles to Gift of the artist in memory of Amy L. Brandt (1978–2015), the York (1939). In 1937, this model address contemporary concerns. McKinnon Curator of Modern and decorated the luxury Savoy When MIT Press published her Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Restaurant in Helsinki, giving research in 2014 as Interplay: Museum of Art, 2011–2015 © Peter Halley 2011 Images by Ed Pollard, the vase its nickname. Recalling Neoconceptual Art of the 1980s, Museum Photographer the rounded shapes of the Halley’s work illustrated the islands and lakes of Aalto’s cover. His paintings, with their native Finland, the Savoy is an geometric cells, networking iconic example of Scandinavian conduits, and contained spaces, modern design, and is still evoke the modern experience produced today in a variety of of physical isolation and control, sizes and colors. though their rough, plump textures and Day-Glo colors suggest the euphoria and hyper-exuberance that is also a part of modern life.

14 | spring 2016 After organizing the first major A rare vintage platinum print The Chrysler crosses new Tseng Kwong Chi museum retrospective of Tseng is the first work by esteemed frontiers with the acquisition (American, b. Hong Kong, 1950–1990) Kwong Chi’s work in 2015, the photographer Lotte Jacobi to of its first Western bronze, the Cape Canaveral, 1985 Chrysler received a remarkable enter the Chrysler’s collection. selection of the Masterpiece Gelatin silver print, printed 1995 gift of seven prints by the Before Hitler’s atrocities forced Society at the 2015 Art Purchase Gift of Carlos H. Schenck, M.D. © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., photographer/performance her immigration to America in Dinner. Modeled from life in New York artist. Taking on the persona 1935, Jacobi ran a portrait studio 1903 by American sculptor and of “the ambiguous ambassador” in Berlin, following in the painter Charles Schreyvogel, Lotte Jacobi (American, 1896–1990) in a Mao suit, Tseng traveled footsteps of her photographer The Last Drop depicts a brave Woman with Veil, ca. 1935 to iconic tourist sites and father and grandfather. This cavalry officer sharing water Platinum print posed for carefully composed haunting image shows only a from his canteen with his horse Museum purchase photographs. His images play pair of eyes behind a web of during a harsh trek through © Lotte Jacobi Estate with perceptions about racial black lace. The subject may the deserts of the Wild West. In Charles Schreyvogel and cultural identity. The donor, be one of the artist’s friends mint condition, this work shows (American, 1861–1912) a collector in Minneapolis, from Berlin’s vibrant theater the extraordinary level of detail The Last Drop, 1903 Bronze cast by learned about the Chrysler and cabaret scene, whose possible with the lost-wax Roman Bronze Works, from Muna Tseng, the artist’s dramatic lighting, costumes, method, a technique of bronze Brooklyn, N.Y., cast no. 75 sister and manager of his and poses inspired her to casting newly introduced to Gift of the Masterpiece Society, 2015 estate. Muna Tseng had worked experiment with high contrast America at the turn of the 20th closely with Amy Brandt, our and unconventional framing. century. The sculpture will late curator of modern and With the purchase of this be a centerpiece of the major contemporary art, and was a work and a 1951 photo by Ruth traveling exhibition Branding major lender to the exhibition. Orkin, the Museum is steadily the American West, our Fall 2016 With this generous donation, building its holdings by female keynote exhibition, opening the Chrysler has become a photographers. this October. leading institution for the study of the artist’s work.

cover story | 15 Liza Lou facing page Liza Lou works exclusively with James Turrell’s popular Luke Jerram’s flameworked (American, b. 1969) Carleton E. Watkins tiny glass beads. In Gild skyspaces play with light and model HIV is from his Gild Amber/Divide, 2012–2014 (American, 1829–1916) Woven glass beads on canvas From the Sentinel Dome, Amber/Divide, the beads are visual perception. His most continuing Glass Microbiology Museum purchase, with funds Down the Valley, Yosemite, woven together by using a famous work to date is perhaps series, which depicts viruses provided by Pat and Doug Perry, ca. 1865–1866 peyote stitch—each bead his ongoing project to turn enlarged nearly 1,000,000 Linda H. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Mammoth plate albumen print Robertson, Meredith and Brother from glass negative interlocking and snugly pressed the Roden Crater, a dormant times. Made entirely of Rutter, Leah and Richard Waitzer, Museum purchase with funds against its neighbor, staggered volcano in Arizona, into a sort colorless glass, the artworks Joe Waldo, in memory of Amy provided by Michael Bakwin, so that there is a minimal gap of celestial observatory. In our stand in contrast to the Brandt, Carolyn and Richard Barry, Susan and David Goode, between them—to form a new suite of six numbered artificially colored imagery of Patterson and Colin McKinnon, Penny and Peter Meredith, Virginia and John Hitch, Shirley Nancy and Everett Martin, fabric. These strips of beads prints, Turrell uses a variety diseases traditionally used to Baldwin, Deb Painter, Selina Mary Ellen and Daniel Dechert, are then sewn onto a canvas of technologies to document illustrate scientific publications. and Tom Stokes, Leslie Friedman, Christina and George Kemp, and stretched on a frame the ongoing transformation. Today, images of Jerram’s virus Suzanne and Vince Mastracco, and and Amy and Kirk Levy Adriane and Stephen Thormahlen to give it a rigid shape, 5 ½ Created in collaboration sculptures often appear in place © Liza Lou Edward S. Curtis feet square. From Lou’s most with master printmaker Joe of embellished drawings in (American, 1868–1952) recent body of work, this Segura, the images include medical journals and textbooks. James Turrell The Vanishing Race, 1904 (American, born 1943) Platinum print minimalist composition in his design of a room for lunar By creating deadly viruses Image Stone: Moon Side (detail), Museum purchase two shades of gold looks like observations and projections, as transparent, jewel-like 1999 a color-field painting from far the specially conceived stone sculptures, he presents a Series of six, photogravure, Oliver Harvey Willard aquatint, and photographic (American, 1828–1875) away. Only close examination on which the image of the tension between the intrinsic lithography Artillery, Corporal, 1866 reveals the meticulously moon will appear, and views beauty of these glass models Museum purchase Albumen print detailed beadwork. Requiring of the moon in four different and the often deadly reality © James Turrell with watercolor Museum purchase a tremendous commitment phases. This acquisition not they represent. Jerram’s work Luke Jerram of time and physicality, Gild only enhances our growing raises challenging questions (English, b. 1974) Amber/Divide challenges us to collection of contemporary about global issues that many HIV, 2013 meditate on the fulfillment to art, but anticipates a future communities face as they deal From the series Glass Microbiology, 2004–present be found in our labors. collaboration between the with both the tragic history Flameworked glass Chrysler and one of the world’s and ongoing concerns of HIV Museum purchase most prominent artists. and AIDS. © Luke Jerram

16 | spring 2016 Disturbing the Peace: Beauford Delaney’s James Baldwin Arrives at the Chrysler

Beauford Delaney (American, 1901–1979) Portrait of James Baldwin, 1965 Oil on canvas Museum purchase © Estate of Beauford Delaney, used by permission

“Artists are here to disturb the peace,” James Baldwin said in a 1961 interview. With its fluorescent yellow background and the sitter’s penetrating stare, Beauford Delaney’s portrait of the author is a striking—perhaps disturbing—new acquisition. Baldwin was a celebrated writer and spokesperson for the Civil Rights Movement. In novels like Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) and the essay collection The Fire Next Time (1962), he challenged racism and prejudice. This 1965 portrait is by his mentor Delaney, who, Few had ever seen Yosemite’s By the time Edward Curtis Following the success of our like most African American artists of earlier generations, received dramatic beauty when made this picture, often exhibition Shooting Lincoln, limited acclaim during his lifetime. Today Delaney’s vivid layers of Carleton Watkins created this considered his signature the Chrysler’s impressive color and abstract swirls are recognized as brilliantly blending the photograph. The region’s image, Native Americans had collection of Civil War-era emotional energy of Van Gogh with the spiritual rhythms of gospel soaring peaks and plunging endured decades of forced photography grows with and jazz. cliffs had shielded it from assimilation and relocation to the acquisition of three settlers, and cumbersome reservations. The pioneering works by early Philadelphia Born in 1901, Delaney’s uphill battle began in poverty in Knoxville, camera equipment made 19th-century photographer photographer Oliver H. Willard. Tenn. By the 1930s he was in New York meeting the leaders of the images of the site rare. This believed his prints served to Commissioned in 1866 by the Harlem Renaissance: black painters like Jacob Lawrence and Romare photo only hints at the labor document the traditions of Army’s Quartermaster General, Bearden and poets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Artistically, required to create it. Watkins the so-called “vanishing race.” supervisor of equipment however, he gravitated toward white, European-inspired circles of loaded a pack of mules with Though he spent 30 years on his and supplies, these vintage modern artists and became friends with Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas more than 2,000 pounds of 40-volume photographic record, albumen prints are from a large Hart Benton, and Stuart Davis. baggage: an enormous camera, The North American Indian, his set documenting the distinctive Despite these prestigious connections, Delaney struggled to pay tripods, a darktent, glass plates, images show no evidence of the uniforms belonging to different rent for his unheated studio in Greenwich Village. He worked odd processing chemicals, and conflicts that destroyed Native ranks, divisions, and duties jobs, including stints as a caretaker, porter, and telephone operator camping supplies for a months- American customs, nor of the among soldiers. The same at the fledgling Whitney Museum. Wealthy patrons gave him long journey. He had to coat ongoing efforts to sustain model, a bearded, middle-aged second-hand clothes, including a raincoat that he later cut up when and process his glass plates them. Instead, soft edges and man, changed costume to he couldn’t afford canvas for his paintings. Like his friend Baldwin, on-site, but if dust settled on muted tones make this visual pose for all works in the series. Delaney understood that talent was no guarantee of comfort for them or if wind rustled the metaphor seem especially In Artillery, Corporal, he holds black artists, and both ultimately moved to France for a more leaves during the long exposure, dreamlike. It is as if the Native a long rifle and turns to face tolerant social climate. the photo would be ruined. By Americans riding away from viewers. To show the uniforms’ providing a pristine view of the camera already were fading colors—here a dark blue coat, Beauford Delaney’s Portrait of James Baldwin is a landmark nature in all its glory, Watkins into memory, or as Curtis light blue trousers, and red acquisition, the Chrysler’s first-ever purchase of a painting by set a precedent for generations described it, “the darkness of stripes on the sleeves— a deceased black artist. We welcome its fearless color into our of landscape photographers an unknown future.” the black-and-white prints galleries, where it shines a blazing yellow spotlight on America’s to follow. were carefully hand-tinted history of injustice toward minorities. But the fight for equality and with watercolor. respect continues, and we promise to bring you more works of art that disturb the peace. events | 17 PaJaMa facing page The Chrysler has new PaJaMas. At the age of 95, Frederick Greta Pratt, when she’s not American, active 1937–1950s Préfecture de Police de Paris, Maintaining our reputation Carder was still at the top teaching at Old Dominion Paul Cadmus Service de l’Identité Judiciare (American, 1904–1999; Paris, France as a pioneer in collecting of his craft. The co-founder University, crisscrosses the Jared French Crue de la Seine. Quai Debilly. photography, the Museum of Steuben Glass created country in search of modern- (American, 1905–1988; Paris, Janvier 1910 and Juillet purchased at auction two 1940s this intricate homage to the day rituals that are in dialogue Margaret Hoening French 1910, 1910 (American, 1889–1973) Gelatin silver prints photos collaboratively made ancient Roman cage cup in with the past. The Chrysler is George Platt Lynes and Jared Museum purchase, in memory by Paul Cadmus, Jared French, 1958, just a year before he proud to have exhibited and French, Fire Island, ca. 1940 of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank and Margaret French. Sharing a retired from glassmaking. purchased her Nineteen Lincolns Gelatin silver print camera, this trio staged photos Like the luxury glass factory series, as well as acquired Museum purchase Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel © Estate of Paul Cadmus / (French, 1851–1913) of themselves and friends he directed, Carder’s own one of the photographer’s Licensed by VAGA, New York Portrait of a Young Girl, 1880 during summer retreats to artistic work was known for newest works. Julee and Her © Jared French Oil on canvas beaches on Long Island and exceptional quality, ambitious Daughters, Chandler, AZ is from © Margaret French / Gift of Joseph T. Waldo, Artists Rights Society, New York in honor of Jeff Harrison and Cape Cod. They signed these design, and bold color. Using her ongoing project A Cloud his 33 years of service to the joint works “PaJaMa,” an the lost wax process, he of Dust, in which Pratt turns Frederick Carder Chrysler Museum of Art acronym based on the first crafted a remarkable vessel of her lens from the American (American, b. United Kingdom, 1863–1963) Christopher Dresser, designer letters of their names. Notice marbleized clear and opaque presidency to another historical Diatreta Vase, 1958 (British, b. Scotland, 1834–1904) the visual balance of the two blue glass. Raised latticework, subject: the Wild West. Like Pâte de verre (glass) James Couper & Sons, men seated on sawhorses in grotesque masks, and small Pratt’s Lincoln presenters, the Gift of Leah and Richard Waitzer manufacturer in recognition of Chief Curator Glasgow, Scotland this photo—typical of the cartouches emulate the Bradys and their horses charm Emeritus Jeff Harrison and Clutha Pitcher, ca. 1895 artists’ astute use of symmetry ancients, as does an inscription: audiences with their vintage his 33 years of service to the Blown glass and composition to create their Straight is the line of duty. costumes. By showing us a Museum purchase Chrysler Museum of Art haunting images. Instead of Curved is the line of beauty. dynamic family of cowgirls Greta Pratt (American, b. 1955) casual vacation snapshots, the All of the work on this rare who win rodeo pageants, Pratt Julee and her Daughters, PaJaMa group produced bold signed vessel was Carder’s offers a witty, even subversive, Chandler, AZ, 2014 and surreal experiments in own: astonishing, significant, alternative to the traditional Archival pigment print, printed 2015 space, shape, and shadow. and uniquely his. iconography of the West as Gift of the artist, © Greta Pratt a place only for lonesome cowboys.

18 | spring 2016 When the Seine River rose six This exquisite oil portrait is Christopher Dresser was one feet above normal levels in but one of several fine works of the great industrial Scottish the winter of 1910, massive recently given to the Chrysler designers of his day, creating flooding drove thousands in in honor of Chief Curator distinctive, culture-melding central Paris from their homes. Emeritus Jeff Harrison. Louis- styles for ceramics, metalwork, The city police sent teams of Maurice Boutet de Monvel, furniture, and textiles. His photographers to document also one of the foremost eclectic designs for glass were the devastation, and six children’s book illustrators of produced by James Couper & months later, long after the his generation, painted this Sons of Glasgow and retailed water had receded, a second attentive young girl in France at the fashionable Liberty round of images were made around 1880. In contrast to & Co. department store in in the same locations. The the loose, impressionist style London. Dresser’s Clutha Chrysler has purchased one of of Pierre August Renoir or pitcher shows his keen interest these rare before-and-after Mary Cassatt, he renders her in combining decorative photo pairs, two views of penetrating blue-eyed gaze styles from many parts of the the Quai Debilly in the 16th in sharp detail, evidence of his world, incorporating elements Arrondissement, just north of academic training. Critics hailed inspired by historical Roman the Pont d’Iena. Looking at Boutet de Monvel’s mastery and Islamic glass. Companies the reflections of facades in of expression and character, in the 19th century often the flooded street, one senses particularly in his paintings of employed a range of exotic that these anonymous Parisian children. This charming portrait names to market lines of photographers appreciated the makes it easy to see why. glass—in this case borrowing beauty of their city even during Clutha, the Latin name for the this moment of crisis. River Clyde in Glasgow.

cover story | 19 In Memoriam

Michele Franklin Ward (1958–2015) Ann Dearsley-Vernon (1938–2015) Possibly the most colorful employee to ever No one who knew Ann Dearsley-Vernon would grace the halls of the Chrysler Museum of Art, be surprised to learn that the night before she Michele Franklin Ward was also the longest died at 77, she spent an evening with friends at serving member of our staff at the time of her the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Ann loved passing in November 2015. Michele came to the life, adored the arts, and was a fighter who was Chrysler in 1980 and quickly established herself passionate about her beliefs. True to form, she as a dedicated security officer and one of our was one of a handful of white students who most recognizable employees because of her joined black protesters at the now famous distinctive personal style. Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C. in 1960. Her irrepressible personality would not allow her to sit still. She studied art at Tidewater More than a decade later, Ann displayed that Community College, painted at home, created same fearlessness when she wrote to the Chrysler jewelry and fiber art, and wrote poetry. When Museum of Art to suggest improvements to a Michele Franklin Ward poses she wasn’t busy with those pursuits, Michele Picasso exhibition that included four paintings beside her 2006 portrait of satisfied her creative urge with an abiding love of from Walter Chrysler, Jr.’s collection. Chrysler, her son, Genesis, as a baby. music. She not only performed in an alternative who headed the Museum then, immediately The oil painting was her contribution to the 2009 staff rock band, Hegemony, in area venues, she also summoned the unemployed art teacher for art show, After Hours. performed solo, playing guitar and singing her a meeting, then hired her on the spot to be Photo by Ed Pollard, own compositions. Michele was famous around the Chrysler’s first director of education. Museum Photographer the Chrysler for her creative hairstyles and She remained in that role for almost 30 years, frequent changes in hair color. She sported a building our volunteer Docent Corps and Ann Dearsley-Vernon was the variety of wigs in accordance with her preference coordinating exhibitions that focused on her Chrysler Museum of Art’s first of the day or week, yet she was never out of place lifelong passion—educating young people, Director of Education. Hired directly by Walter P. in the accepting environment at the Museum. especially about social justice. Chrysler, Jr., she served Michele was a Norfolk native and graduated from In 2011, Ann’s health took a turn when she almost in the position for nearly Maury High School. We here at the Chrysler and three decades. died from heart failure. Rather than fixate on her her friends will remember Michele as a fiercely Chrysler Museum Archive photo illness, she allowed herself to be outfitted with an creative spirit with a quiet, gentle demeanor. experimental heart and used that experience as a She loved people and life, and always brought a catalyst to take up painting again. She produced a smile to the faces of those with whom she came series of artworks she called My Mechanical Heart, in contact. two of which hang in the Sentara Heart Hospital. Gifts in memory of Michele Franklin will go to a Ann was a positive force for life and for doing college savings plan to benefit her son. what you love. Her community spirit lives on and American Funds offers a life lesson to everyone here. Memo: Chester Ward, Custodian for Genesis Ward Gifts in memory of Ann Vernon will benefit the Wall Einhorn & Chernitzer, P.C. Chrysler Museum of Art’s educational programs c/o Linda Dore, Paraprofessional and public outreaches. 150 W. Main Street, Suite 1200 Norfolk, VA 23510

20 | spring 2016 As part of the Chrysler’s Impact Salute to Service last November, veterans and Across active-duty military members crowded Our State the Perry Glass Studio for our third annual free ornament blow for Veterans Glassblowing Day. Photo by Glass Studio staff

Robin Rogers, with help from Hannah Kirkpatrick, had the honor of creating an ornament to hang on the tree in Virginia’s Executive Mansion. He fashioned a clear-glass anchor at the Perry Glass Studio to represent our city’s naval heritage. Photos courtesy of City of Norfolk

December’s Third Thursday was an encore partnership with the Governor’s School for the Arts. A Common Thread marked their second annual fashion show of wearable art inspired by works in the Chrysler Collection or our exhibitions. The GSA Jazz Band warmed up the crowd before students showcased their original creations on the Huber Court catwalk. Photos by Eleise Theurer for the Chrysler Museum of Art

The Virginia Department of Forestry awarded its prestigious Browning Award for 2015 to the Chrysler’s Team Smokey for our partnership in presenting Celebrating Smokey Bear: Rudy Wendelin and the Creation of an Icon. Photos by John Campbell, Virginia Department of Forestry

chrysler news | 21 Books and More | A JOCL Update

Throwback Thursday: The hundreds of volumes, monographs, A Chrysler Weekly Favorite catalogues, and specialized publications in his Each week the Throwback Thursday section of gift include not only fundamental tomes on Webmaster Gary Marshall’s weekly e-blast offers glass, but many now-hard-to-find publications visual time travel for its readers as we share on scientific, archaeological, technical, aesthetic, favorite memories preserved in the archives of historic, and exhibition aspects of the subject. the Jean Outland Chrysler Library. The donation augments the JOCL’s holdings with a significant collection of research books Subscribers have seen the inside a fully staffed published by Corning, as well as a nearly operating room at St. Vincent’s Hospital in comprehensive set of works he has written and Norfolk in 1904, watched Coxswain Herman edited. Though duplicate copies were offered cry “stroke” to his crew at the U.S. Naval Training to our Perry Glass Studio Team to improve Station of Hampton Institute in 1943, and seen their personal collections, the vast majority of into a 1944 diorama of the dining room of the the books we cataloged are new accessions Moses Myers House as it probably looked in 1791. for the JOCL. We are deeply grateful for this Photo from the Jean Outland These images just skim the surface of a diverse exceptionally generous gift. Stop by the Library Chrysler Library Archives archive that includes many periods of regional to see some of these new additions. December 22 was moving day history, U.S. history, the business and family as the Jean Outland Chrysler affairs of Moses Myers, and, of course, the Library donated several boxes A Donation with a Purpose: famous M. Knoedler & Co. art dealership of duplicate books to Norfolk- Youth Development reference collection. based Teens With a Purpose. Several boxes of duplicate arts books from the back: Terry Benson and Mike To enjoy our Throwback Thursday features, opt in to JOCL needed a new home, and who better than Braun (CMA Facilities Team) receive our weekly electronic update here: chrysler.org/ a local youth organization to benefit from our membership/sign-up-for-email. center: Emeka Onyirimba, bounty? Marvin Parker, Elijah Judson, —Jeannine Harkleroad, Michael Berlucchi (CMA Teens With a Purpose, also known as TWP—The Community Engagement Jean Outland Chrysler Library Assistant Manager), Deirdre Love (TWP Youth Movement, are active in peer-led poetry Executive Director), Jeannine slams, art creation, and musical and dance events Books on Glass: A Historic Gift Harkleroad (JOCL Assistant) across Hampton Roads. The nonprofit’s mission Paul N. Perrot, director of the Corning Museum front row: Amakhatmaati is “to empower young people to use their voices, Tyehimba, Mary Yaeger of Glass from 1960–1972, has enhanced the energy, abilities, and talent” to change their lives and Benjamin Boshart JOCL’s holdings about glass with a substantial and their communities for the better. (CMA Gallery Hosts), donation of 16 boxes of books from his personal Photo by Michael Berlucchi collection. He developed his reference library The teens helped staff from the Chrysler relocate during the 20 years he was with Corning and in the books from the JOCL to TWP’s Norfolk the years following as he served in leadership headquarters, and were excited to explore the roles at the Smithsonian Institution, the Virginia donation boxes. In addition to encouraging Museum of Fine Arts, and the Santa Barbara them in their arts endeavors, the well-rounded Museum of Art. Perrot, who is retired in Houston, selection of books has been entrusted to the says he has “followed the splendid development care of one of their students, Elijah, an aspiring of the Chrysler Museum of Art” for more than librarian. Learn more about Teens With a Purpose 50 years. His donation to the Jean Outland at twp-themovement.org. Chrysler Library is certain to delight glass —Allison Termine, Dickson Librarian researchers everywhere.

22 | spring 2016 Big Names in Glass at the Perry

Again in 2016, the Chrysler Museum’s Perry Guest Artist Lectures Judith Schaechter Glass Studio continues to bring notable names Wednesday, April 6 | 6 p.m. | Free in the world of glass to Norfolk. Some will create Judith Schaechter’s secular stained glass is famed the world over. Though she uses traditional new work before the public in our Visiting copper foil-and-lead techniques, her subject Artist Series. Others, whose artmaking takes matter is decidedly contemporary and sometimes confrontational. In evocative glass panels, she more time, will present illustrated lectures on presents the dramedy of everyday emotions their work. In all cases, these invited guests are and challenges as parables. Her award-winning works are known for their pathos and power, acclaimed for their solid success as cutting-edge melancholy and mystery. Truly an original, with contemporary artists. an incredible sense of humor, Schaechter is highly regarded in the art world and exhibits her work nationally and internationally. She was included The Visiting Artist Series 2016 in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2012 Venice Rik Allen Biennale, and in 2013 she was inducted to the Rik Allen’s futuristic explorations in glass focus on American Craft Council College of Fellows. Join us rocketry and space travel, conveying the wonder to hear directly from Judith herself what she has and humor of science fiction’s mid-20th-century in mind to create next in her own inimitable style. vision of the future. Allen has been a staple of the Seattle glass world since 1995, working Joyce Scott both at Pilchuck Glass School and on the glass Thursday, May 12 | 6 p.m. | Free sculpture team of William Morris. He and his wife, Joyce Scott’s cultural combinations and diverse artist Shelley Muzylowski Allen, teach at leading aesthetic have raised the profile for artists international glass schools. They also exhibit their of color for more than four decades. She is highly collectible work regularly at American hailed for her narrative sculpture, provocative museums and galleries. performances, and mixed-media art created with appropriated objects. Her mixed-media Rik Allen (American, b. 1967) March 3–6 | Free sculptures provide a biting social commentary Coribitous Ocularium, 2014, Come watch Rik Allen sculpt imaginative new Blown glass, silver and steel on racism, sexism, violence, and stereotypes, but Image by KP Studios, courtesy of works inspired by his love of science and by the with an overarching theme of spiritual healing. the artist 100th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and A signature of her best-known works is detailed Space Administration. Judith Schaechter glass beadwork, which she painstakingly hand- (American, b. 1961) Working live in the Perry Glass Studio sews to create intricate and often figurative Battle of Carnival and Lent, 2012 Thursday, March 3–Saturday, March 5 works. Her incisive work is in the collections of Stained glass, cut, sandblasted, engraved, painted, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 2:30–5 p.m. the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia stained and fired, cold paint; Sunday, March 6 | 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American assembled with copperfoil Art Museum. Come discover how Scott’s richly Live Narrated Demos | Daily | noon Image courtesy of the artist textured works are as thought-provoking as they Joyce Scott (American, b. 1948) Artist Lecture | Sunday, March 6 | 4 p.m. are beautiful. Buddha (Fire & Water), 2013 Hand-blown Murano glass —Robin Rogers, processes, beads, wire, and thread Assistant Manager, Perry Glass Studio Image courtesy of the artist

chrysler news | 23 Wednesday, March 23 Good News Colin Bailey, Ph.D. Director, The Morgan Library & Museum, for Donors New York History of The Morgan and the John Pierpont Morgan, the most influential financier in American history, was also a voracious Museum art collector in virtually every medium, including rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and The comprehensive tax and ancient artifacts. Discover how the venerable spending law that Congress institution he founded in 1924 became one of the recently enacted contains world's great treasuries of seminal artistic, literary, one measure that will serve musical, and historical works. as a great gift to the Chrysler Museum of Art and those who Monday, April 18 support us. Included in the Lindsay Pollock law is a provision that restores Editor-in-Chief, Art in America the IRA Charitable Rollover permanently. Contemporary Art in the Each month’s event Post-Internet Age The IRA Charitable Rollover begins with a The World Wide Web changes allows individuals age 70 ½ everything, including how 21st-century coffee reception to donate up to $100,000 artists conceive and conceptualize to charitable organizations in Huber Court at their latest work. Increased accessibility directly from their IRA without 10:30 a.m., followed to millions of images that can be the disbursement counting appropriated, altered, or animated as taxable income. To qualify, by the free lecture give today’s artmakers new digital the donation must be made to in the Museum’s strategies and tools for personal a public charity and must be Kaufman Theater made from a traditional or a expression, collective creation, Roth IRA. at 11 a.m. and easy-upload distribution to

international audiences. Engaging Courtesy of Lindsay Pollock It’s a great incentive for and sometimes ephemeral, these new Americans to give back to works—whether on view digitally or in reality— the organizations they care present novel possibilities, relationships, and about during their lifetimes. challenges as they redefine art in our day. Many donors who use this gift instrument are now able to Annual Meeting, Benefit Luncheon, and Raffle give substantially more, giving After the lecture, the NSA concludes this season them the opportunity to see with a brief annual meeting and a special how their generosity helps luncheon to benefit of the Chrysler Museum of nonprofits transform their Art. Tickets cost $75. To make your reservation, communities. please contact Alice Koziol at (757) 417-8494. The Rollover was allowed Luncheon guests may buy raffle tickets ($10 each, to expire in 2008, but was 3 for $25, cash or check) for a chance to win one renewed by Congress of several fun-themed baskets donated for the annually until January 2015. benefit. The stunning orchids that adorn each The legislation making the table also will be available for purchase. rollover permanent helps nonprofits by removing the uncertainty of whether donors can continue to count on this powerful incentive to give. The Norfolk Society of Arts promotes and enhances the cultural life of the South Hampton If you would like find out Roads community through lectures, special more about making a tax- events, and financial support to the Chrysler advantaged contribution to Museum of Art. NSA membership is open to all. the Chrysler Museum of Art, For more information about membership or please contact Director of the Society, please contact Edith Grandy at Development Brian Wells at (757) 621-0861 or [email protected]. (757) 965-2032.

24 | spring 2016 Join fellow Chrysler Museum Members on special World trips that offer unique opportunities to learn about the artistic and cultural life of destinations Travels both far and near. Our Art Travel Program offers excursions that include arranged activities as with the well as time for independent exploration. Your Chrysler dream vacation awaits! Exclusive 2016 Travel for Upper-Level Museum Members Sicilia: An Adventure in Art and Culture April 2–15, 2016 Members at the Director’s Circle and above are invited to join Museum Director Erik Neil and his wife, artist Luisa Adelfio, on an exclusive art The Great Journey through Europe travel experience to Sicily. Travelers will cross the July 5–15, 2016 island to visit cultural centers including Palermo, This extraordinary 11-day Grand Tour of Europe Agrigento, and Siracusa, with breathtaking sights lets you explore the picturesque waterways, in between. Erik and Luisa are excited to share lakes, mountains, and countryside of Switzerland, their personal knowledge and passion for the France, Germany, and The Netherlands. Cruise Whenever and wherever island they know so well. aboard the deluxe Amadeus Fleet along the most you travel take your scenic sections of the Rhine River. Ride aboard CMA membership card 2016 Trips for All Chrysler Museum Members three legendary railways—the Matterhorn’s with you. Gornergrat Bahn, the famous Glacier Express, and Lucerne’s Pilatus Railway.

Chrysler Museum Members at the Associate level and above enjoy free admission and member benefits to The Rich Heritage of Southern Italy and more than at more than 250 The Dalmatian Coast North American museums Island Life of Cuba April 28–May 6, 2016 through ROAM, the Reciprocal October 20–November 7, 2016 Enjoy an exclusive seven-night voyage from Organization of Associated Be among the first U.S. travelers to experience Rome to Dubrovnik aboard Le Lyrial, a new Museums. Cuba during this unprecedented, nine-day small-ship launched last spring. Its 122 exterior People to People opportunity. See Old Havana, Chrsyler Members at the Friend staterooms and suites and many amenities will Santa Clara, Matanzas, and Pinar del Río. Enjoy level and above gain benefits make you feel like you’re sailing aboard your own comfortable accommodations, interact with local at an additional 75 U.S. and yacht as you explore these culture-rich locales. experts, and immerse yourself in Cuba’s history, Canadian culture organizations culture, art, language, cuisine, and daily life. trough the Museum Alliance Reciprocal Find out more about any of our art travel programs at Chrysler.org/membership/art-travel-program. For pricing Membership Program. or to book your next vacation, contact Donor Stewardship The full list of participating Manager Kerry Martinolich at (757) 333-6318 or kmartinolich@ chrysler.org. museums is available online at chrysler.org/membership. Photos by Gohagen and Company, iStock photo © Darios44

member exclusives | 25 Exclusive Andrew Raftery was our guest speaker for the Members’ Fall Program of The Masterpiece Society. Events The contemporary printmaker is known for his classically styled burin engravings and visual storytelling. Peggy and Barry Pollara, Michael Bakwin, and Carroll Frohman Masterpiece Society Chair Virginia Hitch and artist Andrew Raftery Bill Pinkham, Dana and Linda Dickens Photos by Eleise Theuer for the Chrysler Museum of Art

Our Honorable Society of Former Trustees and current Board Members met last fall for an evening focused on the Museum’s latest conservation efforts. Jerrauld and Lyn Simmons Jones; Paul Hirschbiel and Rev. Joseph Green Photos by Echard Wheeler for the Chrysler Museum of Art

Evening with the Director on January 19 thanked 125 guests from our Masterpiece Society, Corporate Leadership Alliance, and Director’s Circle for their support. Vickie Bilisoly, Betsy Hardy, and Lorrie Saunders; Meredith and Cynthia Rose Photos by Eleise Theurer for the Chrysler Museum of Art

26 | spring 2016 The Masterpiece Don’t-Miss Events and Society Art Purchase Dinner set a new Benefits for Members attendance record in 2015 as 310 guests attended the Third Thursday December 15 event. The evenings of March 17, April 21, and May 19 Society Members heard Our monthly after-hours evenings at the Museum and the Perry Glass Studio offer eclectic programs, artful entertainment, and the Museum’s curators a cash bar to enjoy with friends. Museum Members at all levels and director present always are admitted for free. It’s only $5 for all others, so bring works of art they sought someone new and introduce them to the Chrysler. to acquire for the Museum. After three Conversations with the Curators spirited rounds of voting, The evening of Thursday, March 31 they agreed to purchase Come see the Chrysler up-close and behind the scenes. The The Last Drop by Charles Museum welcomes Members at our Patron level and above to be Schreyvogel, adding the our guests for this perennially popular program. After cocktails, our curators and conservators share their unique insights first Western American into the Chrysler Collection. Kindly R.S.V.P. when your mailed bronze to the Chrysler invitation arrives to select your favorite topics. Collection. Contributions by generous donors also Feldman Chamber Music Society Concert Discounts allowed the Chrysler Monday, April 4 | Hermitage Piano Trio to obtain two other Chrysler Museum Members save 20% on single $25 tickets desirable artworks by purchased at the door for FCMS concerts in our Kaufman Liza Lou and Carleton Theater. WHRO’s Dwight Davis hosts a preconcert reception Watkins. (Learn more at 7 p.m., with the performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more information, see feldmanchambermusic.org. about these and other noteworthy new Water: An Insiders’ Tour for Members accessions in this Saturday, April 23 | 9 a.m. issue’s cover story on Members at the Friend level and above are invited to join us for a pages 14–19.) special breakfast and a docent-led tour of our keynote exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: Water. Invitations will by arrive by mail. Space Museum Director is limited, so please reserve your spot early. Erik Neil, Curator of Exhibitions Seth Feman, The Masterpiece Society Spring Program Barry Curator of Glass The evening of Thursday, May 12 Diane Wright, and Brock At this season’s exclusive program, Masterpiece Society Members Curator of American Art welcome the co-curator of The Costumes of Downton Abbey. Jeff Alex Mann Groff, Director of Public Programs at Delaware’s Winterthur Bebe Edmonds, Museum, details how this exhibition came together and how Monique Adams, and PBS acquired the period costumes for its popular Emmy-award- Lynne Monroe winning drama. Invitations will arrive by mail this spring. Betty Willcox and ••• Gudi Stambuk study the winning statue. The Chrysler Museum of Art offers personal, household, and corporate memberships at 10 different levels of investment. Henry Light, Bill and Choose the one that suits your interests and needs. All Members Nancy Oelrich, and enjoy invitations to exclusive Member events, art travel Angelica Light opportunities, and discounts on Glass Studio classes, dining at Photos courtesy of Glenn Wisteria, and purchases at The Museum Shop. Bashaw/Images in Light, for the Chrysler Museum of Art Join the Museum at the Welcome Desk or the Perry Glass Studio when you visit, or discover all the benefits at each level and become a Member online at www.chrysler.org/membership. To renew or upgrade your membership to a higher benefits level, please contact Development Officer Megan Frost at (757) 333-6294 or [email protected].

member exclusives | 27 Open Water | Members Dive Into New Show

Frigid air and a warm Chrysler welcome made our Canadian headliner feel at home for the Members’ Exhibition Opening Party for Edward Burtynsky: Water. Our new keynote show debuted on February 11 for nearly 500 Members and special guests. The packed Kaufman Theater audience enjoyed a fascinating talk between the globetrotting photographer and Museum Director Erik Neil. Afterward, though Huber Court was awash with partygoers, the galleries were the real attraction. Guests reveled over 60 wall-spanning digital prints of amazing detail, promising to bring friends to impress on their next Museum visit. Photos by Charlie Gunter for the Chrysler Museum of Art

28 | spring 2016 A Flood of Activity

Water is the unofficial GLASS WHEEL STUDIO WORK | RELEASE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CHRYSLER MUSEUM Norfolk | glasswheelstudio.com Norfolk | CONTEMPORARY ART PARTNERSHIPS theme for Norfolk for 2016. workreleasenorfolk.com Virginia Beach | Norfolk | chrysler.org This NEON District gallery space virginiaMOCA.org In the spirit of sharing offers two environmentally Native Hampton Roads Sea-Level conscious exhibitions. Whether one hails from afar or Water inspires much of MOCA’s Rise Adaptation Forum our Edward Burtynsky In Dioramas for the has always called Norfolk home, spring schedule. In Surface Organized by the Hampton our waterfront community’s Tension, Crystal Wagner turns exhibition, we share some Anthropocene, Jennifer Roads Planning District Bueno combines satellite culture spills into daily life and common synthetic materials Commission, Old Dominion of the other “must-sea” images with glassmaking and seeps into its art. This exhibition into an organic, sculptural University, and Virginia painting to transform alarming of 21 new works by local installation that engulfs its Sea Grant, and hosted by artistic offerings from views of pollution and sea-level creators gives a glimpse into the gallery. Courtney Mattison: the Chrysler Museum, this rise into jewel-like, floating impact that waterways have Sea Change presents large February 18 discussion focused across the area. microcosms of our planet had an on our region. Curated hand-crafted porcelain works on sea-level rise in our in flux. Rachel Schmidt’s by artists Charlotte Potter that celebrate the fragile beauty community, especially how it Apocaloptimist: A Future and Gayle Forman from the of the endangered marine relates to the arts, culture, and True Story playfully creates Chrysler’s Perry Glass Studio, ecosystem. An interactive, reef- education in our locale. Artist a mythical miniature model this show, presented by the focused ARTLab and Just Add Norwood Viviano, whose work city that merges nature into Rutter Family Art Foundation, is Water, an exhibition of short is on view at the Museum, was the urban wilderness. Video on view through March 19. animated films, complete the a special guest contributor. projections and audience thematic immersion. All are on VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY, Blue Planet Forum— participation create a new view through April 17. VIRGINIA SYMPHONY Water: A Blessing and a Curse future that is less gloom- ORCHESTRA, AND MARINERS’ MUSEUM The Chrysler partners with and-doom than dystopia. VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL Newport News | the Chesapeake Bay Both the shows are on view Norfolk | vastage.org marinersmuseum.org Foundation, the National through March 20. Three leading arts organizations Most everything at America’s Oceanic Atmospheric join to present William National Maritime Museum Administration, and Old Shakespeare’s The Tempest, has a direct connection to Dominion University to adapted and directed by VSC’s water—exhibits on scrimshaw, present this May 15 forum inspired by Edward Burtynsky: Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955) Patrick Mullins. This fully miniature ships, and Admiral Ölfusá River #1, Iceland (detail), 2012 staged theatrical production, Nelson, as well as a seminar Water. A panel of six respected Digital chromogenic print, promoting boating safety at scientists, environmental 48 x 60 inches April 16–17 at Chrysler Hall, © Edward Burtynsky features the music of Jean sea. The museum’s annual leaders, educators, and artists Image courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Sibelius performed by the Battle of Hampton Roads will explore local and global Gallery, Toronto; Howard Greenberg issues related to our most vital Gallery, New York; and Bryce Wolkowitz Virginia Symphony Orchestra Weekend, held this year on Gallery, New York and the VSO Chorus under the March 5–6, commemorates the and valuable natural resource. baton of JoAnn Falletta. It’s epic confrontation between a sight-and-sound storm you the ironclads USS Monitor and won’t want to miss. CSS Virginia in 1862.

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general admission is free The Chrysler Museum of Art is and supported by partially supported by grants Museum Kids’ Camp Teen Hot Glass Camp Museum Members! from the City of Norfolk, the Ages 7–10 Ages 13–17 Join the Chrysler on site, Virginia Commission for the Monday–Friday, July 25–29 | Monday–Friday, June 20–24 | on the phone at Arts, the National Endowment 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. (757) 333-6298, for the Arts, the Business or online at chrysler.org/ Our theme is STEAM—learn Teens: heat up your summer Consortium for Arts Support, membership. and the Edwin S. Webster how “art is the queen of with a sizzling week of Foundation. all sciences (Leonardo da glassmaking techniques. Try Vinci).” Campers: explore glassblowing, flameworking, the Museum’s galleries, coldworking, and more, plus various artmaking methods, gain the confidence and and innovation to create a experience you’ll need to take portfolio of your own work. more classes at the Studio. Cost: $175 per camper for Cost: $575 per camper for Museum Members, Museum Members, $275 for all others $750 for all others

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