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Terra Foundation for American Art Report July 2012–June 2014 Terra Foundation Report for American Art July 2012–June 2014 Section a Contents 3 Introduction 4 Grants and Initiatives Inspiring Worldwide Engagement with American Art 36 Fellowships and Awards Fostering a Global Network of American Art Scholars 48 Paris Center Events Cultivating American Art in Europe 56 Collection Loans and Acquisition American Art as Ambassador 68 Board and Staff 70 Financial Information Rembrandt Peale George Washington, Porthole Portrait (detail), after 1824 Oil on canvas, 36 ¼ × 29 ₃⁄₁₆ inches Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.53 b Report 2012–14 Introduction In 2015 we look forward to celebrating the Chicago who invokes American art to help 10-year anniversary of the Terra Foundation’s students develop visual literacy. international grantmaking program—a mile- stone resulting in our support of approximately What these individuals, and many of you reading 500 American art exhibitions and academic this report, have in common is a desire to and research programs in more than 30 coun- participate in a rich and expanding discussion tries altogether. For this achievement, we are about the integral role art plays in connecting deeply indebted to a vast and varied array of people across the globe. This is our measure partners who equally embrace our commit- of success. At the Terra Foundation, we believe ment to share the historical art of the United art has the power both to distinguish cultures States with audiences around the world. and unite them. We strive to nurture a commu- nity that generates new ideas about American In the pages that follow, you’ll briefly meet art and amplifies them vigorously. To all of some of the people with whom we’ve had the you who help us realize this mission: thank you! privilege to work. They include the director of We are pleased to share these stories with the Archives of American Art, where more you, and we look forward to another decade of than 20% of the most significant holdings— working together. nearly 2.5 million files—have been digitized, as well as the recipient of the Terra Foundation’s inaugural research fellowship at Tate. You will also be introduced to a PhD candidate at China’s Tsinghua University who received a travel grant to the United States to conduct Gerhard Casper Elizabeth Glassman research for his dissertation on the Harlem Chairman, President and Renaissance and a museum educator in Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer William Sidney Mount Fruit Piece: Apples on Tin Cups (detail), 1864 Oil on academy board, 6 ½ × 9 ⅟₁₆ inches Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.100 Introduction 3 Grants and Initiatives Through its international grant program, the Terra Foundation actively supports and initiates historical American art exhibitions, academic programs, and research in Chicago, the United States, and around the world. The foundation funds projects that focus on art of the United States made between 1500 to 1980. Chicago Department of FY2013 Cultural Affairs & Special Events July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013 $25,000 To support Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals from Talladega College, organized by the High Exhibitions Museum of Art. Presented at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2013, the exhibition focuses Art Institute of Chicago on six newly conserved, large-scale murals $125,000 that Hale Woodruff executed for Talladega To support the 2013–14 exhibition Art College’s Savery Library between 1939 and 1942. and Appetite, which examines how, from America’s earliest decades, artists DePaul Art Museum continually turn to the subject of food as $12,560 a means of celebrating and critiquing To support the 2013 exhibition For and Against issues of politics, race, class, gender, Modern Art: The Armory Show + 100, a select and economics and of tracing the develop- presentation of prints and drawings from ment of American identity. Along with DePaul Art Museum’s collection and several paintings, the exhibition highlights Chicago-area academic museums. The decorative arts objects related to the exhibition explores both the causes and American table from the eighteenth consequences of the shock waves generated in Mountainville, NY. Photo: Henry Luce Foundation through twentieth centuries. by the 1913 Armory Show. Chinese scholars at Storm King Art Center 4 Report 2012–14 Section 5 fruitful approach has helped to introduce French Regional American Museum Exchange the artist’s work in Europe in more than technical art history into the American art field, $250,000 40 years, at the Ludwig Forum für and has also opened up the conversation to To support Joseph Cornell and Surrealism in Internationale Kunst (Aachen, Germany). practicing artists and art teachers who are New York: Dalí, Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray…, The show focuses on works produced between always eager for deep information about artists’ an exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de 1969 and 1979, a decade that illustrates methods and materials. Lyon and the University of Virginia Art Museum. how Graves vitalized contemporary art with Co-organized by a French and an American striking innovations. What are some current trends in the field? curator, the exhibition concentrates on the One trend in the field recognizes that career of Joseph Cornell in the 1930s and Metropolitan Museum of Art American art has an international context. 1940s, examining his engagement with a set of $300,000 Most American artists did not work in a motifs, artistic techniques, and processes. To support the exhibition American West in vacuum, and many, as we know, studied and Bronze, 1850–1925, presented at the Metro- lived in Europe, showed an interest in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden politan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, Far East, and embraced contact with other $250,000 and the Nanjing Museum. The landmark cultures. New scholarship that points to To support the exhibition, catalogue, and display of some 65 works is the first full-scale such exchange, to overlapping spheres of related programming for Damage Control: exhibition exploring the complex aesthetic influence, to pivotal moments when the Art and Destruction since 1950. Organized by the and cultural impulses behind the creation of American art world embraced or collided with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, bronze statuettes of the American West. international artistic movements, are the exhibition explores the motif of destruction contributing to this expanded context for and includes a diverse range of more than Mona Bismarck American Center American art. 40 international artists working in painting, for Art & Culture sculpture, photography, film, installation, and $20,000 Q&A with What new/exciting project(s) performance. It opens at the Hirshhorn in To support the 2013 exhibition Quilt Art: L’Art Martha Tedeschi are you working on? 2013 and travels to the Kunsthaus Graz (Austria) du Patchwork at the Mona Bismarck American Deputy Director for Art and Research, I’m spending a lot of time thinking about the and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Center for Art & Culture (Paris). The exhibition Art Institute of Chicago training of the next generation of museum Jean (Luxembourg) the following year. includes 25 quilts from the collection of the professionals and how the museum can take a American Museum in Britain exemplifying the How have you been impacted by your leadership role in this critically important Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum diversity and depth of American quilt-making relationship with the Terra Foundation and aspect of our future. We have a number of pilot $150,000 traditions, including early whole-cloth quilts how has it, in turn, impacted the field of projects underway that focus on both graduate To support Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi, a 2013 and more contemporary versions of the quilts American art scholarship? and undergraduate art history education, and exhibition co-organized by the Isamu Noguchi of Gee’s Bend. The Terra Foundation grants for the Winslow I’m excited about thinking in new ways about Foundation and Garden Museum (New York) and Homer and John Marin watercolor projects the museum as classroom. the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The Musée du Quai Branly allowed us to think out-of-the-box about these exhibition focuses on the artistic encounter of $250,000 two much-studied artists. We were able to What is one favorite fun/interesting fact that American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Chinese To support Les Indiens des Plaines, an carry out in-depth conservation surveys, people should know about American art? ink painter Qi Baishi in Beijing in 1930. It is the exhibition of masterpieces revealing the pigment analysis, and to document every aspect At the Art Institute we never tire of surprising first museum show devoted to Noguchi’s Peking continuum of the Plains Indians’ artistic of the watercolor practice of these inventive people with the fact that the famous couple Scroll drawings, created while working with Qi. expression against the backdrop of cultural artists. This approach yielded new insights into in Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic— changes. The exhibition is presented at the minds of these artists, allowing us to usually taken as husband and wife—are actually Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), the Nelson- document the experimental, intuitive, and intended by the artist to be father and $142,208 Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), iterative methods of two artists who shaped the daughter. The models were Wood’s sister To support Nancy Graves Project & Special and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and development of modern watercolor. This and his dentist. Guests, the first comprehensive exhibition of is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue. 6 Report 2012–14 Grants and Initiatives 7 Journeys Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Thomas Hart Benton $100,000 $100,000 Slaves, 1924–27 To support Asia and the New World, which To support the exhibition AfriCOBRA in Chicago, examines the influence of Asia in the arts of a collaboration of the South Side Community Depicting a harrowing scene from the nation’s the Americas during the colonial period.
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