It was only after his death, when Ills son legacy permeates his translations, with their Soper remembers "Fogg" having told her and daughter-in-law, John and Ann Soper, careful, illuminating footnotes. These transla- that his chief interest in religion was that by opened the Rosemont home in March to a tions willremain, I suggest, among the most taking his wife to church he could observe small group, that I realized how little I actu- eloquent ever produced in our field. her profile uninterruptedly. ally knew about his roots, his personal and Aocording to his children, Professor The Depression in the earl)' thirties pre- family history, his relationship to the com- Soper adored his mother, whose gentle vented the young graduate from finding a munity that surrounded him when he humor, love of the beauty oflandscape, and job as an architect, and he "dabbled" III wasn't being "Professor Soper." I have tried encouraging nature stood in some contrast Chinese philosophy, literature, and history in these remarks to fill some of the gaps that to the expectations of a father who positively at Columbia and Harvard Summer School. you may share. enjoyed military life. The Soper way of dabbling included transla- Alexander Coburn Soper I[I was born in Young Soper followed his grandfather tions of Chinese texts with C.C. wang. 11 Chicago 1Il 1904, the eldest of two sons born and father to Hamilton College. The winters was always amazing to those of us who need- to Alexander Coburn Soper, Jr., and Bertha were shockingly cold to the young ed all the help we could get in Chinese, that Dunlop Soper. His brother, Arthur, was a Californian. He was admonished, however, he was essentially self-taught. few years his junior. The roots of the Soper by his father to refrain from the inappropri- The reason he did not become an archi- family in America were already generations ate extravagance of buying a fur coat, and tect was that, according to him, he wasn't deep. Professor Soper's grandfather, the was encouraged 10layer, a sartorial habit he good at it. He found the drafting agonizing; first Alexander Coburn Soper, was born in kept. I remember observing on many occa- and in the end "one hadn't even used one's Rome, New York, and was a member of the imagination." A close friend and colleague Sons of the American Revolution. He from the program at Princeton, who in attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New "Rowley argued 'Style' as the Soper's eyes was a naturally gifted architect, York, and later became a generous benefac- standard of truth in art, suggested to him that he try something else. tor. He spent most of his successful business It was apparently a shocking revelation and career in Chicago as the head of a lumber against which Soper would it brought him up sharply. The remark is company, !"etiring to Lakeville, New Jersey, mount his standard of the kind of thing that I might have expected and keeping a summer house in York from Soper himself, to one of us. He could Harbor, Maine. 'Penetration by Texi'" be witheringly candid. Perhaps having Professor Soper's father, Alexander, J I looked himself in the eye, he expected the grew up in Chicago. He prepared for col- sions in his office on the north side of the rest of us to be equal to it. lege 8lFA Alumni Newsletter I continue to wonder why Professor the double radiance of the Sun Goddess and mind, continuously fed as it was by records Soper, whose interest in Asia seems to have her Imperial descendant." from times and places it described. He had begun with China, applied to the (This mock-heroic beginning prefaces a an extraordinary capacity to see things Rockefeller Foundation in 1935 to study description of the arrival around the point of whole in his mind. He would often describe Japanese Buddhist architecture m Japan. the Emperor, returning from a fish-viewing a painting from memory, even when a pho- can only observe that he expressed a life- expedition at sea that forces the sun-bathing tograph lay on the table, clasping his hands long admiration for the humanism of Japanese to jump offthe diving raft and and turning his head to the side, holding Chinese culture, but that he seemed person- tread water. Dislocated from his air of supe- the image in thought, turning it this way ally drawn to the spiritual aesthetics of rior detachment, as he watches the scene and that with language. Buddhism, expressed in the ritual beauty of from the diving raft, by the wild eye of an Parenthetically, Soper also served for two temple art and architecture, of which so approaching policeman, Soper realizes that years on the South Pacific Islands of Wallis much more remained in Japan than China. it is a streamlined, 1937 application of the and Samoa. He told me he understood There is a record in a notebook contain- ancient usage which forbids a subject to Oauguin's attraction, and had considered ing his handwritten translation of the occupy a higher level than the Emperor, and living there himself. Diamond Surra that records an aspect of his he dives in too, "to survey the further pas- His career from Bryn Mawr to the involvement with Japanese Buddhism. The sage of the Imperial party from sea level."] Insuuue of Fine Arts, as author, teacher, entry, dated "Los Angeles, December 7, The sojourn of the Soper family in Asia and editor of ajournal that reflected his 1940," ,ays he decided against taking initia- was brought to an end by the Japanese broad interests, his care for language, his tions from a high priest of the Shingon sect aggression at the Marco Polo Bridge in july painstaking attention to text, will be of Esoteric Buddhism during the Roshi's of 1937, later viewed as the beginning of addressed by others here. unusual visit to Los Angeles, but later by World War 1I in Asia. Professor Soper But before turning you over to the rest of strange chance found himself present at the intended the next phase of his Asian odyssey the program, I would like to convey what Roslu's performance of the Fire Ceremony, for the mainland, but his time there was lim- good company he was. What he said was ,I ritual connected with the Diamond Surra, ited to brief visits. On one such visit the always original. His choice of words was a text that he, Soper, was In the midst of intrepidly curious Soper bicycled OUL with a often stunning. His generous expenditure friend to the Manchu section of Peking to of time was flattering. And, to top it off, his translating. The Roshi's picture, cut from see for himself the notorious recluse and sense of humor was wonderfully indulgent, the photo in The Los Angeles Times, is placed charlatan, Sir Edmund Backhouse, around in the from of the notebook recording the decidedly wicked, and highly personal. whom much speculation SWIrled for his sus- Among his papel"'; I found a note that said: translation. pected forgeries of diaries from the Chinese "One of my own irradicable weaknesses has The Soper-in-Japan I imagined was the Court. Professor Soper told me that been my tendency to find the comic aspects abstemious Soper of woolen caps and sub- Backhouse himself answered the door [of things] and to [express them] in some dued plaid sportshirts buttoned to the collar dressed in the middle of the day in ,I tuxe- unforgettable way. Every degree of expres- in winter, and white shirt-sleeves in sum- do. In 1938, the Soper family returned to siveness is at the ready; from gentle satire to mer-the Soper that I knew. I was not pre- the United States. raucous parody; and in some cases at least, I pared for a photograph in the family's The notes Professor Soper brought back wish I'd been able to refrain." possession: the Soper family about 1937, with him from Japan were the basis for his As for his "camp" within the spectrum of young .John in his arms, and his daughter dissertation on early Buddhist architecture art historians, he built his theories from and wife in kirnonu.d ohn recalls that he was In Japan----charaetcristically original obser- close examination of particulars, bound spoken to only ill japanese by his nanny. vations built from texts and meticulous tightly with textual support, and he extract- Professor Soper described the house he observation. He once told his children that ed meaning from individual lives. To this lived in, in Japan, a., frightfully cold in the he didn't like studying what other people extent, he was indeed a "historical particu- winter and unbearably hot in the summer, wrote; and was happy when he got them out larist." But he never left one stranded in but nor was I prepared for the grand beauty of the way in his reading, so he could follow the particular. He never succumbed to what surrounded by the hills of Kyoto shown in a his own line of thought. Riegl called the "cult of individual facts." family photo. The characteristically ironic This capacity for independent thought is Particulars for Soper were bricks for the inscription on the back of the photo is also consistent with the relative isolation in architecture of his insight and imagination. "Soper home in Kyoto-- The Practical which he conducted his professional life, I think he enjoyed mightily this architec- Choice." developing relationships primarily through ture of mind where he could exercise the From the family archives is a brief essay teaching, letters, and as editor of Arubus power of imagination that he felt denied in about this period entitled "The Lure of Old Asiae. During the period 1 knew him, this the craft of building buildings. He raised japan" which also bears the stamp ofhis man who tackled the most esoteric vocabu- observations to their place in pauern, and h~mor and wit. I will read you the begin- laries of Chinese, who had served in the composed broad arcs of history. The indi- fling: Marines as ,I document translator at Pearl vidual for whom the tomb was built, or the "Recent world events have bought back Harbor and as the head of a group of lan- general assigned to such and such a post, vividly to my mind the period in which I guage personnel in occupied Japan, PO~I- played a role in the drama of history. was temporarily a neighbor of the Emperor tivelv avoided spoken Chinese or japanese, Soper's translations of texts were vehicles to of Japan. Our relationship, as I remember and, I would go so far as to say, those who the splendor of palaces, to the radiance of it, never ripened into anything like real inti- spoke them. He had little interest in travel houses of worship, to spirals of philosophi- macy; it was perhaps no more than coinci- to contemporary China or Japan and sur- cal inquiry, to the moods of nature and the dence that made my family and the rounded himself with neither Asian friends possibilities of the brush: and to a deeply Hir-ohito family choose the same spot for nor things-the badges both natural to the humanistic interpretation of the value of Summer relaxation back in the peaceful situation, and explicitly cultivated by my art. 1930s; but the association, abortive though generation as a measure of cultural immer- If he left some of us outside sometimes; It was doomed to be, at least gained for me a sion and acceptance. But whether motivat- and if be left all Increasing body of new number ol beauufulmemories .. ed by aHogance or insecurity, this man, evidence aside, it was, I assume, because he "Hayama, the seaside village near largely self-taught in both language and remained so busy with what he carried Yokohama which in pre-war days was the culture, seemed disinclined to dilute his within. summer residence of the SOil of Heaven, is a brilliant vision with the cultural inheritance pleasant beach resort, backed by pine-cov- afforded in varying degrees of interest by Delivered by Caron Smith, Executive ered hills and facing across the water toward race alone. Administratorfor the President, The Metropolitan the familiar silhouette of ML Fuji. Japanese Out of this concentration came the vivid MU-\elUn of Art, at the memorial service at the crowded there in July and August to bask in constructs of his subtle and far-reaching Institute oj Fine Arls on StfJtf-mber 10, 1993. Continued on page 12 IFA Alumni Newsletter 9 ostalgia from the photo files Ctockioise from above: Proper dress for puHing lantern slides-stockings and heels, coats and ties. Teatime at the "first" IFA-the vVarburg house on East 80th Street. Seminar study with Professor Walter Friedlander. Can you identify any of these students? We'll publish names in next Newsletter. IFAAJumni Newsletter 11 In Memoriam Continued career, teaching, by accepting a professor- But no text at all. The argument would be ship at the Institute. He taught here until he carried by the choice and arrangement of Charles Sterling retired in 1973. Then, back in France, came the illustrations alone. Then, he would add, (1901-1990) nearly twenty years of continuing research "Of course, such an article would take a long and publication. The final volume of his time 10 read," Professor of Fine A rts Peiruure midiiva1e IiParis appeared only a few Delivered by Donald Posner, Institute of Fine I first came to know Charles Sterling well days before he died. Arts, al Charles Sterling's memorial ceremony al in 1962, when I started to teach here as a Charles Sterling's publications number the Instil ute of Fine Arts, April 24, J 991. junior professor. Charles had joined the nearly two hundred items. And what a Institute faculty a year earlier. l t seems to range they cover! French art from the 14th Frederick Hartt me that the first thing he must have done through the early 20th century-from (1914-1991) when he arrived at the Institute was to sur- Fouquer to Clouet to Poussin to Boucher to For more than a half-century Frederick vey the slide collection. Looking at the iden- Daumier to Cezanne. And if French art was Hartt and 1 were fellow workers in the same tifying labels on the slides, he discovered, as vineyard-the art ofthe Renaissance Italy. he told me, that "everything was rnisaurib- "Perhaps he saw so well \Ve were friends as well 12 IFAAIumni Newsletter ume Hi.:,IOIJ of Painting, Sculpture and University of California at Santa Barbara, Architecture of 1976. Through his mature Burr died of AIDS at fifty, at the peak of his Faculty News career, however, his chief concern was with career, in October. That he was deprived of the art of Michelangelo. the pleasure of seeing the long-awaited publi- I have observed that there tends to be a cation of his major work, the brilliant study The following reports from faculty arui alumni correlation between art historians and the Bosch and Vainglory--- The Forgotten Deadly Sin were compiled with afew exceptions in 1990-91. subjects on which they choose to write. (Princeton University Pressj-cadds to the The next issue of the newsletter will publish their There is a kind of consonance of character cruel disappointment. Jan Sanders van news of 1992 to the present. between them, as well as something we may Hemessen was the subject of his doctorate in call a relative relationship of scale. It was not 1976 and a monograph that provided a most JONATHAN J.G. ALEXANDER accidental, then, that Fred should have cho- important study of a neglected 16th-century Pmji}.lsor of Fine Arts sen to attach himself to Michelangelo's star. master of the Netherlands. Burr's scope went VISITING PROFESSORSHIP The result more than justified the choice: far beyond Northern art. Deeply interested in University College, London, 1991-92. Fred's contribution to Michelangelo studies 20th-century graphics, he organized the exhi- PUBLICATIONS has been of prime importance. And while bition "The Cubist Print," which was shown at "The Livy (Ms. I) Illuminations for Gian Fred's writing was dedicated selflessly to the the National Gallery of Art, the Santa Barbara memory ofthat supreme artist, it must be Museum, and the Toledo Museum of Art in Giacomo Trivulzio by the Milanese Artist acknowledged also as an enduring monu- 1981-82. He also prepared a show of Picasso's 'B. F.','· Yale University Libral} Caseue, supp. ment to Fred himself. aquatints lor Florida, Wisconsin, and Kansas 66 (1991), Pp 219-39.-"Illuminations by The world did Fred much deserved City in 1984. Wallen was the author of a Matteo da Milano in the Fitzwilliam honor during his lifetime. In 1946 he major study of Pillipario ware, A Majolica Museum," Burlington Magarinc, no. 133 received a knighthood of the Order of the Seroicefor Isabella d'Este, which was his (1991), pp. 686-90. Crown of Italy from a government that was Master's thesis of 1966. The ground-breaking PAPERS still royal; in 1967 he was given the Italian conclusions of this investigation have just nov,' "Written Programs for Medieval Republic's Order of Merit in the rank of been confirmed by special studies at. the Illuminators," St. Hilda's College, Oxford, Knight Officer. The dignity of which he was Victoria & Albert Museum. November 1991 and Paleography Room, most proud, however, was the honorary citi- In youth wallen's was a beautiful pres- London University Library, December zenship of the city of Florence-an exceed- ence-strikingly like the serene, golden 1991.~ "The Bible of the Poor, Social ingly rare distinction for a foreigner- statute of Saint Louis by Donatello. Yet his conferred on him for his role in saving being was far from that tranquil image: Burr Meaning in Western Medieval Art," Art Tuscan art in World War II. But we should was destructively ironic, bitterly self-depre- History Graduate Symposium, Florida State remember of Fred not only that he pre- cating, an eternal outsider, beyond the safe University, March 1991. served this art: his teaching and his writing harbor of illusion, without the crutches of have given it, for all of us who have heard convention. Burr deserved and required a COLIN EISLER or read him, a renewed life-c-like that to different world, especially in early years, that Rubert Lehman Professor of Fine Ar(\ which he has ascended now. sad fact almost as much our loss as it was his. PUBLICATIONS Teaching so gifted a person was ever a privi- Durer's Animals, Smithsonian Press, 1991. Delivered Iry Sydney I Freedberg lege, an opportunity, and an occasion I shall Jabo F, Haskins never cease bemg grateful to Burr Wallen (l919-1991) for sharing his learning with me. GUNTER H. KOPCKE Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humannies John Haskins had a Bachelor of Fine Written by Colin Eisler Arts from the University of Colorado and PUBLICATIONS worked as a cartographer and draftsman; Also Communicated "Handel," Archacologia Homerica. Chapter.'\1, he came to the Institute in 1948 as a veteran Couingen, 1990. Margery Barber of World War [I (1941-46) in which he PAPERS (March 16, 1992) served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in "Three Lectures in Early Greek History," the China-Burma-India theater. He also Jacob Bean Tel Aviv University, May 1991 served in the Korean War (1950-53). A stu- (1924-1992) dent of Professor Salmon)', he completed Curator of Drawings, The Metropolitan his dissertation, "The Fifth Pazyryk Kurgan Museum of A.rt. ROBERT S. LUBAR Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and the 'Animal Style," III 1960. After Balcomb Greene PUBLICATIONS teaching at Finch College and then at (1904-1990) Columbia University, he was a professor at "Salvador DaH and Modernism: Vision and the University of Pius burgh from 1964 until Diana Hirsh Representation," in The Salvador DaH his retirement in 1988. (November 14, 1992) Muse/WI Collection, Boston, 1991, pp. 9-18.- He was internationally known for his Sheldon Keck "Joaquin Torres-Garda y la Formacion research in the ancient art of central and (1910-1993) Social de la Vanguardia en Barcelona," in eastern Asia, and his numerous publications Former director of the Conservation Barmdas/Torres-Garcia, Galeria Guillermo de and lectures ranged from China to the Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Osma, Madr-id, 1991, pp_ 19-32.- Joan steppes of Siberia, to the Black Sea, the University. Pone, Barcelona, 1992 (in pressj.c-rMiro en Balkans, and England. Widely traveled and Bernard S. Myers 1918: Vanguardia y Clasicismo," in conversant in thirteen languages, he was a (l909-1993) L'Avantguarda Catalana, Barcelona, 1992 (in witty raconteur who carried his erudition Ann M. Potter pressj.c-r'Miro i Dali al Museu d'Art lightly. His passion for racing cars was Modern en 1941," Actes dcllV}ornades exceeded only by his love of his students, (May 6, 1992) Cotalnno-Americanes, Barcelona, 1992 (in who will remember him for his extraordinary Eleanor Tufts press).-"Millares y la pintura espanola de generosity and concern for their well-being. (December 2, 1991) Professor, Southern Methodist University, van guardia en America," La Balsa de la WriUen by Ellen Callmann Dallas, Texas Medusa, Madrid, May 1992 (in press). Burr Wallen Daniel W. Woods PAPERS (1941-1991) (1905-1992) "The State of Research in Modern Spanish The loss of so distinguished a "dissertation Former head of the Department of Classics Art History," American Society for Hispanic son" is a bitter one. Long on the faculty of the and Archaeology, Manhattanville College. Art Historical Studies annual meeting, CAA IFAAlumni Newsletter 13 annual confer-ence, washington, D.C., Present, Future," Artstudio, no. 20 (spring February 1991 .-"T radition and Modernity: 1991), pp. 34-43.- SeQ/I Burton. The Last Alumni News Avant-Dar-de Painting in Spain and the Tnhleau, whitney Museum of American Art, Process of Culrur-e," The Meadows Museum, New York, 1991.-"The Fall and Rise of Dallas, Texas, March 5, 1991.-"Fonlles ell jacques-Louis David in Dublin," in Brian P. ROBERT L. ALEXANDER ellwd6 i evoluti6--11ibracionisml! de idees: Kennedy, ed., Art is My Life; A Tribute to Joaquin Tot-rex-Car-cia, Rafael Barradas, and [nmes wtute, The National Gallery of Professor Emeritus, School of Ar/ & Art History, Univenit}' of Iowa, Iowa Cil)' the Catalan Avant-Cat-de,' in "I nverted Ireland, 1991, pp. 167-71.-'The Withering PUBLICATIONS Map: The School of the South-(Post) Green Bell: Aspect'; of Landscape in Modernist Issues," Symposium, The Archer Twentieth-Century Painting," in S. Wrede "Wealth Well Bestowed in Worship': St. M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of and W.H. Adams, eds., Denatured Visions; Paul's in Baltimore from Robert C,ll"y Long, Texas at Austin, November 22-23, 1991. Landsr;a/!e and Culuae in the Tsoemieui elmlury, Sr., to Richard Upjohn,' Maryland Museum of Modern Art, New York, 199/, Historical Magazine, no. 86 (1991), pp. 122- PROJECTS 49.-"Sausga and the Illite Ivory from "Spanish Painting from the Generation of pp. 33-41.-"Resurretling Bouguereau," in Megiddo," Joumal of Near Eastern Studies, 1898 to the Civil War," all anthological Willil1m-Adolphe Boufjl1o'CIW, 'L'Art Pomjlier', no. 50 (1991), pp. 161-82. exhibition tentatively planned for The Borghi & Co.. New York, 1991, pp. 7-11. Spanish lnstitute, New York, 1993/94,- PAPERS THEODORA ASHMEAD joint research project with Professor "Abstract Expressionism and Tradition," Director, Corporate and Foundation Relatians, Estrella de Diego, Universidad compultense Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona, and [VAAl, International House of Philadelphia de Madrid, on Rafael Barradas, Uhraismo. Valencia, October 1990.-"Reconstructing and the historic avant-garde III Madrid, 20th Century German Art," Busch- MILTON W. BROWN 1920-1925. Reisinger Museum, Harvard, September PUBLICATIONS 1991.-" DcGhirico's Long Shadow: From "Introduction," Jack Levine, New York, Surrealism to Post-Modernism," DONALD POSNER 1990.-"An Explosion of Creativity: jews Symposium, "The Italian Presence in Aitsa jl,fpflrm Bruce Professor of Firll' Arts, and American Art in the 20th Century," American An, 1920-/990," Fordham Depu/y Direclor, Institute oj Fine ArL, Painting a Place in America: .lewish Artists in University, November 1991.-"La APPOINT.~'IENTS New Vork, 1900-/945, New York, 1991.- Crepuscule du Siec!e des Lurnier-cs;' in the Chan-man, Art Bulletin Editorial Board, "Die Armory Show: Ein Medienereignis, series "Le Romantisme Nnir,' Musee du 199/-94 New York,/Chicago 1913," Die Kunst del' Louvre, Paris,./anuary 1992.-"The Au:;tel!llng, ed. Herrid Kluser and Katherina VISITING PROFESSORSHIP Spanishlless of Picasso's Slill Lifes," Picasso Hegewisch, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, University of Wasllington, Seallle, spring SymposIum, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.-"The Arnlory Show Aftermalh," quarter 199/. February 1992. 1915, 1he Cultumt MOIlwnl, ed, Adele Heller PuHLlCATIONS and Lois Rudnick, New BrunSWICk, 1991.- "Pierro da Cortonil, Piuolli and the Plight of MARVIN TRACHTENBERG "The Three Roads," Paul Simnd: Essa)':;on I'olyxena," Art Bulletin, September 1991, pp_ Edith Kitzmiller Professor in the History of Fine Hi~Lifeand Work, New York, 1991. 399-414.-"Boucher's Beauties," in exh. cat. ArL~ Loves of the Gods: I\'lythotogical Painting from APPOINTMENTS MARCUS B. BURKE WalleUl/,to David, Paris, Philadelphia, and Edith Kitzmiller Professor in the History of Fort Worth, 1991-92. Independent Scholar Fine Arts, InstitlJte of Fine Arts, New York APPOINTMENTS University, 1990 PAI'ERS Visiting Professor of Religion and the Arts, On Boucher, North Carolina Museum of PUBLICATIONS Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Art dnd UnIversity of Washington, Bothdl, "Archaeology, Merriment, and Murder: Arts, Yale UniversilY, 1990.-Distinguished on Pietro da Cortolla, University 01 The First Corule oflhe Palazzo Vecchio and Visiting Lecturer- III Hispanic Studies, Washillgton, Seattle; on Ihe "aesthetics of Its Transformations in the Renaissance," ATt WiJliam Paterson College, New Jersey, handling," Univenlly of Wisconsin, Bulletill, December 1989, pp. 565-609.- 1990.-Adjunct Professor of Religion and Milwaukee, University ofNonh Carolina, "Gothic/ltalian Gothic: Towards a the Arts al Yale University, 1991 ,-AdJllllct Greensboro, and The J Paul Geny Redellililion,"./ournal oflhe Society oj Prole~sor, Soutllern Connecticut Stale Museum. Archi/ecillmi His/oriaIlS, March la91, pp. 22- University, New Haven, 1991.-Adjunct PROJECTS 37 Professor, Rutgen, New Brunswick, New A study of the Parisian art world In Ihe 171h PAPERS jersey. century. "The Old Sacristy as Model in Early EXHIBITIONS Remussan<.:e Church Archite(!llre," Centre Co-curator, "Mexico: Splendors of Thirty ROBERT ROSENBLUM d'elude~ sllperietlres de la Ren;jissance, Centuries," The Metropolitan Museulll of H H;>III)I fltlesol!, Jr., Professor or Mlldfr7l TOUIS, lI'lay 1990.- Urbanisti<.: Art. '.mo/Jean Art Scenography as Civic IdentiIY," CAA, annual PAPERS VISITING PROFESSORSHIP conkrence, New York, February 1990.- "Hispanidad, lheridad," keynote address, frelc Unil'crsitjt, Berlin, Sunllner 1990 "Towards a Redefinition ofltalian 'Gothic' International Conference on Spain and Arthiteourc," SAH annUil1 meeting, tloston, I'UBLICATIONS Portugal of the Discoveries, Washington, 1990; "Rules of Planning in Trecelllo "Cubisln as Pop An," in K. Varnedoe and A. D.C., October 1990,-Chair, HisPilllic Florence," Princeton, Harvard, Oberlin, Gopnik, eds., Modern Art aml Popular Bibliography session, CM annual confer- Culture: Headings ill High & Uiw, New York, and University of Virginia, 1989-92. ence, 1991. 1990, pp. 116-32.-"Friedrichs from Russia: PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS An lntroduClion," in S. Rewald, ed., The Articles on the Pozzi Chapel and Floremine Essays and entries in Me.\1co: Splendors of Romantic Vision of Caspar David Fnerlrich; trecemo urbanism, and a book on the Thirty Centuries, The Metropolitan Museum Painting.1 arJd Dmwingsfrom the u.s. SR., The Palazzo Vecchio. of Art.-Catalogue of the Mexican Colonial i\lelropolitan Museum of Art, New York, collection of the Davenport Art Museum (in 1990, pp. 3-17.-"Roy Lichtenstein: Past, press). 14 IFAAlurnni Newsletter PROJECTS Council for Minority Affairs, University of The Heroic Years," The Museum of Fine Book on Mexican Colonial art of the Wisconsin, Parksicle (ongoing).-Kenosha Arts, Houston, October 1990, Renaissance and Counter-Reforrnation.c-. Redevelopment Authority, a City PROJECTS Book on Spanish collectors of the 17th cen- Commission (1981-86).- The Commission, An Arman retrospective exhibition, tury (with the Ceny An History Information Keep Kenosha Beautiful (1989-92).-Works Houston, from November 1991. Project). with public school systems in Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin. JOSEPH GUTMANN STANTON LOOMIS CATLIN Retired, Wa)'ne State University Professor Emeritus, Museum Studies and Art PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS History, Swocvse University Setting up a studio-gallery in Kenosha, WI, [udische Zeremmuolkunst, Frankfurt am Main, APPOlNTI\,IENTS with a retrospective of his work as the 1963.-Jewish Ceremonial Art, New York, Pan-time Professor, Department of Fine prospective first exhibition. It will include a 1964, I968.-lmages of the Jewish Past, Ar-ts, Syracuse University, spring semester, small painting he did while attending the Cincinnati, 1965.-Beauty in Hounes: Studies 1991-92, seminar "Mexican Mural Institute of Fine Arts, 17 E. 80th sr., called inJewi5h Customs and Ceremonial Art, New Painting-cLos Tres Crandes," initial semi- The Blue Room, featuring Dr. Cook lecturing York, 1970.-No Graven Images: Studies in nar ofa teaching-research program to gath- on ancient Spanish art.-Book on Ancient Art and the Hebrew Bible, New York, 1971.- er and organize data for a catalogue Black An and History. Die Dormuadter Pessach Haggadah, Berlin, raisonne of the mural oeuvre ofOrozco, CHARLES D. CUTTLER I972.-The Dnra-Europos Synagogue: A Re- Rivera, Siqueiros.c-Visiting Professor, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, Iowa City Evaluation, Missoula, 1973.- The S)'Iwgogue: Institute de Investigaciones Esteticas, PAPERS Studies in Origill5, Archaeology and Architecture, Univcrsidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico, "Bouts, Bosch, Schon gauer," Schongauer New York, 1975.-Mo5e5jacob Ezekiel: t;\ll 1992, to continue above-mentioned pro- Symposium, Strasbourg, Colmar, Memoirs [rom the Baths of Dindetiau, with S.F. gram. September 28-0ctober 2, 1991. Chyet, Detroit, 1975.-The Temple of Solomon. Avcboeotogicoi Fact and Medieval PAPERS PUBLICATIONS Tradition in Christian, Islamic and Jewish A 11, "Plurality vis-a-vis Priority in Latin Revision of Northern Pointing (in press).- Missoula, I 976.-Ephmim Moses Lslien's American Art," Latin American An session, "Exotics in Post-Medieval Art: Chiefly [erusalem, New York, 1976.-The Image and CM annual conference, Chicago, February Giraffes and Centaurs," Artibus et Historiac the Word: Cordrontanons in judaism, 1992. (in press).-"Holbein's Inscriptions," The Christianity and Islam, Missoula, 1977.- CAROLYN LOESSEL CONNOR Sixteenth Century Journal (in press). Hebrew Ma.nuscript Painting, New York, Lecturer in Art Hist01y, Department of Art, The PROJECTS I 978.-Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Univenit] of North Caroline at Chapel Hill Essays on Bosch. Community, with V. Mann, Detroit, 1980.- GRANTS MELISSA FELDMAN Publication Grant, University Research Ancient Synagogues: The State of the Research, AS50ciate Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Ann Arbor, I 981.-TlteJewish Sawtuary, Council, University of North Carolina at University of Pennsylvania Leiden, 1983.-The.lewish Life C)'f:le, Leiden, Chapel Hill, 1991-92. EXHIBITIONS I987.-Sacred Images: Studies injewishArt PAPERS "Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960- from Antiquit)' to the Middle Ages, London, "The Question of Color on Late Antique 1990,"' june-july 1990.-'·Helen Chadwick: 1989.-The Dnm-Emopos Syl!ligogue, /932- and Byzantine Ivories," Byzantine Studies De- light," March-April 1991 1992, Atlarua, 1992, Conference, walters An Gallery, Baltimore, TOM L. FREUDENHEIM MD, October 1990.-"The Monastery of LUCY WATERMAN HAMILTON Assistant Secrelaryfor Museums, Smithsonian PUBLICATIONS Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: Mosaics Institulion co-author, book on the stained glass in and Topography," North Carolina Society PAPERS Detroit. of the Ardlaeulogical Institute of America, "Inhumanity in Art," Indiana University, JUNE HARGROVE April 1991.-"Byzilntine Art and October 19S9.-"Museurns and Power," Projossor, Depllrtlllerlt ofArt Histor}' nnd Hagiography: The Cretan Prophecy and Cooper Union, February 1990.- Hosios Loukas," International Congress of Archaeolog}', Universit)' oIMal)'lond, College Symposium Oil "Museums and the National Park Byzantine Studies, Moscow, August 1991.- Spirit," Israel Museum, jerus IFA Alumni Newsletter 15 , London, Institute of Historical Research, PAPERS CARL F. RITER June 1990. "American Watercolors from The Professor of Art, Emeritus, Lawrence University PUBLICATIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art," Oklahoma PROJECTS "Notes on the Formation ofCiuseppe City An Museum, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Research in Islamic An based on thousands Wagner's 'Bella Maniera,' and His Venetian and New York Studio School, 1991. of my own color transparencies, most Printshop," Aleneo Veneto, CLXXVII (spring JAY A. LEVENSON recently in Iraq, Turkey, and Greece. 199 I).-Contributed to the catalogue for APPOINTMENTS LINDA JONES ROCCOS the exh "Venetian Baroque and Rococo Managing Curator for exh. "Circa 1492," Assistant Director, Lexicon !conogmphiculll Paintings," Walpole Gallery, London,June- National Gallery of An, washington, D.C., Mythologiae Classiwe, Rutgers University, New July 1990.-Contribuled Lathe permanent 1991. Brunswick collection catalogue of the Taft Museum, CECELIA LEVIN GRANTS Cincinnati, Ohio, 1992. Festival of Indonesia Fmtr1dolion National Endowment for the Humanities, PROJECTS APPOINTMENTS Travel-to-Collections Grant, 1991, for Working full-time to complete a monograph Organized festival of Indonesian cultural research at the Beazley Archive, Oxford, on the lfith-cemury Venetian artist,Jacopo events, which took place nationwide, [990- England.-American Philosophical Society Amigoni. 91. Fellowship, 1992, for research on Greek Maidens in the fourth century B.C. at the MARY TAVENER HOLMES ALISA LUXENBERG A(lj"lIl1clAssisumc Professor of Fine Arts, Ba1llch APPOINTMENTS American School of Classical Studies, Athens. College, CUNY Gould Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton EXHIBITIONS University, 1991-92. PUBLICATIONS "Nicolas Lancrer 1695-1743," The Frick "Athena from a House of Areopagus," PUBLICATIONS Collection, New York, and the Kimbell Art Hesperia, vol. 60, no. 3 (1991), pp. 397- Catalogue essay on foreign artists who trav- Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991-92. 410.-"Lynkeus I and Idas" and eled to Spain in the 19th century, for cxh. at "Marpessa," in Lemon !conogmphicwn LUC D'IBERVILLE·MOREAU the Equitable Gallery, NYC, curated by Mythologial! Classicae, vol. 6, 1992.- Director, Ml~}(!edes f1rts dicorolifs de stontrsot Suzanne Stratton. EXHIBITIONS "Perseus," "Pegasis," and "Polydektes," in CAROL CARUSO MANCUSI· UNGARO "Design 1935-1965. What Modern Was," Lexicon ]conogrophicum Mythologiae Classicae, Chief Conservator, The Menil Cotieaian, traveling exhibition sponsored by IBM. vol. 7, 1994 (forthcoming). Houston, Texas PROJECTS DALE KINNEY PAPERS Research on the Apollo Kitharoidos, a 4th- Professor, neponme-u of Histol)' of Ar/, Bryn "The Rothko Chapel: Treatment of the century R.C. Greek sculpture. Mawr Cotfege Black-form Triptychs," International PAPERS Institute of Conservation 13th International IDA ELY RUBIN "Carolingian Art 11l Rome?", 26th Congress, Brussels, Belgium, September 3- President, The Americas Foundation I II rernational Congress on Medieval Studies, t, 1990. PUBLICATIONS Kalamazoo, MI, 1991. Article on the art.and gardens of Roberto PROJECTS Burle Mar-x, distinguished Brazilian land- PUBLICATIONS Ongoing documentation ofliving artists and scape architect and botanist, in Remeui: Latin "Mirabilia Ur-bis Rornae," in The Classics in their attitudes toward the aging of their art, American Literature and Art, March [992. the Middle Ages, I 990.-"The Apocalypse in funded by the Mellon Foundation. HONORS Early Christian Monumental Decoration," in CHARLES S. MOFFETT The Premio Colombia, in a ceremony in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (in press). Senior Curator of Pain/ing,l, National Gallery of NORMAN L. KLEEBLATT Art 1993 at the Colombia Consulate, NYC, rec- ognizing her years of work as President of Curator of Collections, Tirejewish Museum, New CAROL LAYTON PARSONS the University of the Andes Foundation and Vork Owner, Layton Castle, ,'I'/onroe, L4 (National as President of the Americas Foundations, in EXl-IlBrrrONS RegL\ter of Historic Houses), ] 9tfH;entwy which she provided educational opportuni- Curator and author of 'The Dreyfus Affair: Rmnonesoue Revival castle ties to students and assistance to artists from An, Truth, &Justice," University of PROJECTS Colombia. A former fellow of the Belgian California Press. Archival research on Layton-Brv papers, American Educational Foundation, she was restoration of interior and exterior, and gar- GRANTS elected to its board of directors in 1993. Henry Allenmoe Prize, Honorable Mention, dens of castle: tours. Gives tours at the for museum catalogue. Philadelphia Museum of Art. PROJECTS PAUL N. PERROT Active with the Council for the Arts at PAYERS M.[ T., of which she was a founder. "Zola & the Dreyfus Affair: Art, Politics & Director, Santa Barham MI/seum of Art Iconography," Centre National de APPOINTMENTS WARREN SANDERSON Recherche Scienti!i(jue, Paris International Advisory Corurninee, Proji!ssor, His/ory of Art awl Architecture, Intercultura. C01Jcordia University, iV/ontreal, Quebec, Canada VICTOR KOSHKIN-YOURITZIN APPOINTMENTS Associate Projessor of Art History, UnitiCTsityof PROJECTS President Emeritus (since 1988), Canadian Oklahoma Internationa[ Advisory Committee, World NatioJla[ Committee of the International APPO[NTMENTS Monuments Fund; Treasurer, Museum Committee of the History of An.-Visiting Elected to Board of Directors ofthe Computer Network: Board Member, Research Professor, Institute of Koussevitzky Recordings Society. AA.!\I/ICOM: rrustee, Winterthur Museum; Architectural History, University of Museum Management Program, Boulder, EXHIBITIONS CO. Cologne, Germany, [989. Team taught Helped select pieces for n;Jtional traveling seminar "Carolingian Architecture."- exhibit, "American Watercolors from the PERSONAL Visiting Scholars, Department of History of Metropolitan Museum of An," 1991. \Vrote Retired from Directorship of the Virginia An, Harvard University, I 990.-Editorial the catalogue's introduction. Museum ofFineAns,July 28, 1991. Board (since 1988), RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne/Canadw.n Art His/ory Review). 16 IFA Alumni Newsletter GRANTS In summer 1994 she led a two-week study on the Architecture of Medieval Islamic Social Sciences and Humanities Research trip from Paris to Santiago de Compostela Hospitals," CAA annual conference, 1991.- Council of Canada, 3-year grant for the under the auspices ofthe SAH, following in "Typology and Hydraulics in Medieval study of Carolingian art in Trier concluded, the bus tracks or Carol Herselle Krinsky and Islamic Gardens," in ed. J.D. Hunt, 1988.-Sabbatical year research grant, Guy Walton, who have previously led SAH Landscape and Garden History, Dumbarton Concordia University, 1989-90. tours in England and Sweden, respectively. Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1992. PAPERS PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS Lecture on Carolingian mural techniques, The Middle Ages, Cambridge Introduction to Book, Power and Piety in the A)yubid University of Basel, November 1989.- the History of Art. series Gust published in Architecture of AlejJjJo, 1/80-1260. "Medieval Art and Architecture, 4th-14th Norwegian,joining trans. in Italian, Spanish SAFWANTELL Centuries," session chair, University Arts Portuguese, and Japanese). Co-author of Director General of the DtjJ(JrtrnenttifAntiquities Association of Canada, 1991. Eng. trans. and annotated critical ed. of anon. of Jordan 12th-century Latin Pilgrim's Guide to PUBLICATiONS RICHARD TOWNSEND Santiago de Compostela, 3 vols., forthcoming. "Considerations on the Ononian Monastic Huih G. Hardman Curator oj European and Church ofSt. Maximin at Trier," in Saukunst HONORS AmeJicanArt, nit Philbrook Museum of Art des Mitlelaller,1 in Europa, thefeslschnft for From women's Caucus for Art, one of two PROJECTS Hans Erich Kubach's 75th birthday, 1989.- 1994 President's Awards in Recognition of Reinstallation of the Philbrook Museum's "Review: H. Hoffman, Buchkunst und Contributions to the women's Movement permanent collections of European an in Ktinigtum im otunasdi und friihsalischen Reich, and the Arts. Villa Philhrook.L-Writing catalogue of the Philbrook Museum's Samuel H. Kress col- Stuttgart, 1986," RACAR, 1989, pp. 76-77.- JOYCE HILL STONER "Review: A. Zettler, Die [riihen KlO.lterbauten C}U1i1~ArtConservation DejJtutment, University lection of Italian painting and sculpture to der Reichenau, 1988," Speculum. ,1 journal of of Delaware, and Director, University of accompany a special exhibit opening in Medieval Studies, january 199I.-"Review: Delaware/Winterthur Art Conservation Prcgmm. December 1991, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of tile Kress gift to the H.E. Kubach and A. Verbeek, APPOINTMENTS Architekturgeschichte und Lrmdsc!w{t: Awarded tenure, january 1991.-Senior Philbrook. Romanische Boukumst an Rhein und Maus, consultant, treatment of Whistler's Peacock WILLIAM TRAVIS Berlin, 1987," Journal. Society of Architectural Room, Freer Gallery of Ar-t, Smithsonian Adjnnct Foculty, Ma1}Ia1ld Institute, College of Historians, vol. 49, no. 4 (December 1990), Institution, Washington, D.C., 1988-93. A,I pp. 441-43.-"Medieval Architecture and the HONORS PAPERS Liturgy 750-1400," and "Gone, Art and Ceuens Service Award, American Institute "Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture of," for the Macmillan Dictionary for Conservation,june 1991. Above-Ground Archaeology," Plymouth of Art, London (1993). State College, Plymouth, NH, April 1990.- PAPERS "La Sculpture t-omane de Montceaux- PROJECTS "George Stout: The Early Years of Art Art and Patronage in Trier at the Threshold l'Etoile: Histoire et symbolisme," Conservation in the U.S.," Worcester Art Montceaux-I'Etoile, August !990.-"Points of' rhc Middle Ages. 7fiO-9fiO:-Book, Museum, May 14, 1991.-Pane1ist forsvm- Architecture between Antiquity and the of View in Romanesque Sculpture," posium "Recent Lining Methods and Southeastern Medieval Association, Raleigh, Middle Ages. Related Processes," Getty Conservation ).le, September 1990.-" Unfinished ANNE·LOUISE SCHAFFER Institute, Paris.j cne 17-18, 1991.-Panelist Romanesque Sculpture," Florid" State Assistant Curator, Art ofAfrim, Uceauia, & the for symposium "Readings in Conservation" University, Tallahassee, FL, Man;h 1991. Amenws, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston books pl~jeet, Getty Conservation Institute, EXHIBITIONS july 1991. PUBLICATIONS "Unfinished Rom"nesque Sculpture," Expansion, renovation, and re-instalJation PROJECTS AllulJIor, no. 11 (1992). of permanent galleries for Subsaharan Opening chapter for an Abrams book on Mrica, Oceania, Pre-Columbian America, care or works of an, The Morlalil)' of Things: ELENI VASSILIKA Ker.jlerof Antiquities, The Fitzwilliam At useUJII, and Southwest Native America, almost 400 How Call YOII Pmlect the Possessions YOIt Care works of art. Aboul~-Art.-histOrical and technical Cambridge, England EXHIBITIONS PAPERS research on rhe late nudes or Whistler. Also "A Corpus Connois~elJr: The Antiquities Three lectUl-es on t.hree different topics in lyrics for two musiGll theatre works, one and Coins ofS"muel Savage Lewis," lWOdifferent. cities based on Whistler for summer of 1992, and another which is an updated version of The Fitzwilliaw Mll~eum, October 22-January 5, PUBLICATIONS Canterbury Tales with actors on the New 1992, 'The Maya 'Posture of Royal Ease,'" in Sixth jersey Turnpike, "Tales of the Turnpike," HONORS Palenqlll! Ronnd Table, 1986, University of january I992.-0rganizing international Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Oklahoma Press, Norman and London, benefit auction at Christie's New York, to Cambridge, England. 1991. raise endowed art conservation Ph.D. PROJECTS PROJECTS research fellowships named for the great Continued research on 1990's Getty Travel, research, and lalalogue writing for Belgian technical art expert, Or. Paul Fellowship project on Ptolemaic the exhibition "On the Edge or the Maya Coremans (1908-1965), scheduled for Iconographyal Edfu and Thebes.- World. Slone Vases from the UI(la Valley, October 10, 1991. Honorary sponsors for Handbook of the Egyptian Collection at the Honduras." the auction include Robert MotherwelJ, Fitzwilliam,-Research on Egypti;\n bronzes ANNIE SHAVER·CRANDELL Andrew \Vyeth, Steve Martin, Jacqueline of the first millennium B.C. Onassi~, and II museum directors from Professor, Ali Department, City College of New MARC VINCENT around the U.S. York, CUNY Ph.D. candidate, Universit), of Penns)'lvania APPOINTMENTS YASSER TABBAA GRANTS Recently promoted to Full Professor at Assistant Professor, Department of the Hislory of Fulbright to France, 1990. CUNY, she is former Chair of the Art Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Department (1989-92) and a past president PAPERS ofthe Women's CaulUs for Art (1986-88). "Sound Healt.h in Sound Design: Thoughts IFA Alumni Newsletter 17 .. VIRGINIA L. VOLTERRA PROJECTS Associate and Buyer, Galiena dei Cosman Writing catalogue of the Renaissance hold- (AnliqIHlrialo), Rome, Italy ings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. PERSONAL KAREN L WILSON This gallery, the largest in the 'centro stori- Curator, The Orienlal Institute Museum, The (0' of Rome, deals primarily in antique Universit), of Chimgo European and Oriental furniture, paintings, and carpets. APPOINTJI.-1ENTS Taught a course in the Art Departmem, IAN BRUCE WARDROPPER University of Chicago, winter 1990-91. Eloise W Marlin Curator of European EXHIBITIONS Decorative A ns and Sculpture and Classical Art, The Art Institute of Chicago "Another Egypt: Coptic Christians at EXHIBITIONS Thebes (7th-8th Centuries AD.)," October 1990-.June 1991.-"Silting the Sands of Co-curator, "Medieval A•.rt fr-om the Mcrropoliran Museum of Art and The Art Time: The Oriental Institute and the Institute of Chicago," The Hermitage, Ancient Near East," October 1991-June Leningrad, Pushkin, Moscow, ] 990.-Co- [992.-"Vanished Kingdoms ofthe Nile: curator , "Private Taste in Ancient Rome: The Rediscovery of Ancient Nubia," February-December 1992. Selections [10m Chicago Collections," 1991.-Co-curator, "Austrian Architecture PUBLICATIONS and Design. Beyond Tradition in the "Oriental Institute Excavations at 1990s," 1991 Khorsabad, Iraq (1929-1935 l," in Eleanor PAPERS Ouralnick, ed., The Ancienl Eastern "Currents ill French Renaissance Sculpture Mediterranean, Chicago, 1990, pp. 27-33.- Robert T Buck, Director, The BTOllklyn from Primaticcio to Pilon," The .I. Paul "Hulllan-headed Winged Bull from Museum, gave the Council of Friends lecture Getty i\'luseum.-"Le Style de [a sculpture Kborsabad," Orieruat tnsinute Museum (or 1993 de Dominique Fiorenrin, [550-1570," Featured Object no. 8, May 1990, Chicago, 1990. CoUoque Pilon. Mu see du Louvre. In 1994 yourcontribut.ions to the PROJECTS PUBLICATIONS Council of Friends Support Fund helped Multi-million dollar renovation and expan- European Decoratiue Arts in the AI'/ institute ~( ten outstanding Institute students, a larger sion of the present Oriental lnstiture facili- Chicago, with Lynn Springer Roberts, number than ever before. Council of ties to introduce climate control and expand Chicago, 199 I. Friends assisted one first-year student, storage facilities. JACK WASSERMAN \Villiam Haluska, and nine continuing stu- Praji!.t>oJ;Temple Universnv, Retired ALICE S. ZIMET dents: Isabelle von Samson is a Ph.D. candi- PAPERS Vice President and JHaJiager, Cultural Ajfairs, date working in the field of Spanish "Aspects of Pomot-mo's Paintings between The Chase Monhauan Bank Baroque art with Jonathan Brown; _. .~-../ APPOfNTMENT ]525 and [530," CAAanllua\ conference, Elizabeth Cornwell and Kather-ine Romba Washington, D.C., February 1991.- Trustee, New York City Trust for Cultural are completing the requirements for the Resources. "Historic Sculpture and the Role of Master's degree; and three students are Contemporary Replication," Lehigh working with Jonathan Alexander m Univer~ity,Aprillg91. medieval art: Domenic Leo, who jusr com- pleted his first yC 181FAAlumni Newsletter - members of the Institute faculty. In October the group saw the Metropolitan Museum's AN INVITATION IFA Courses Open to "19th Century Works on Paper" with Linda Nochlin, and in December, also at the TO JOIN THE Members of Council of Metropolitan Museurnvj onarhan Hay dis- cussed the exhibition "Tang Family Gifb of COUNCIL OF Friends Chinese Painting." On March 14, Benefactors attended Conservation Center FRIENDS OF THE Chairman Peggy Ellis's informative talk, Fall 1994 "Caring for Your Collections," and took a INSTITUTE OF tour of the Center's studios and laborato- Donald P. Hansen, "An and ries; and as a final exceptional treat, on May FINE ARTS Archaeology of Early Mesopotamia," 25 Robert Rosenblum gave a lecture for TH, 1:00 - 3:00 Patrons and Benefactors and their guests he Council of Friend, of on the exhibition at the Meuopolnan Evelyn B. Harrison, "Greek Sculpture, the lnstiurte of Fine Arts Museum, "Picasso and the Weeping 5th Century BC," W, 1:00 - 3:00 was started III 1975 with 'Nomen." The Council's new Vice two main aims. The first Thomas F, Mathews, "Middle Chairman Judy Steinhardt was host at a was to introduce to a handsome reception following the taJ k. Byzantine Art and Architecture I," M, wider community the On May 2, James Cuno, Director of the 3:15 - 5:15 lnsutute of Fine Arts of Harvard University Art Museums, gave the New York University and its important Roland R.R. Smith, "Roman Art From annual Council of Friends Lecture, a lively work in the training of art historians, Trajan to Constantine," F, 1:00 - 3:00 talk with the provocative title, "Jacques- archaeologists, museum curators, and con- Louis David and the Vicissitudes of Art dur- Priscilla P. Soucek, "Figural Tradition servators of works of art at the graduate ing the French Revolution." Always to Islamic Art," W, 3: IS - 5: I 5 level. The second aim was LO raise an interesting and enjoyable, these talks pro- annual fund from dues and donations that Robert Rosenblum, "British Painting, vide an excellent opportunity to introduce could be used to support those Institute prospective members of the Council T.O the I 760-1800," TU, 10:30-12:30 activities not covered by the regular bud- work of the Institute. I hope you will join us get, especially student fellowships. Today, Edward ]. Sullivan, "Painting in again next year. the Council awards the annual Council of Mexico, 1870-1950," W, 5:30 -7:30 Exhibitions and Events for Friends Fellowship and several scholar- ships to first-year students. Spring 1995 Friends The Council's participation in the lite and work of the Institute of Fine Arts There were several marvelous exhibi- extends beyond financial support. Dieter Arnold, "Ancient Egyptian tions in 1993 that Friends, Patrons, and Friends (donors of at least $700 annual- Architecture,' M, lO:30 - 12:30 Benefactors attended. In the fall, the group ly) are entitled to audit all lustiuue lecuu-e saw the Ribera exhibition at the Jonathan Hay, "Chinese Landscapes, courses 1Il the historv 01 art; t.hey receive I Oth-12th Century: Cultural Meaning Metropolitan Museum with Jonathan an invuauon to the annual Council of Brown and the drawings of Fra Friends Lecture, presented each fall by a m the Structure of Visual Space," TH, Bar tulornrneo at the Morgan Library with distinguished art historian, and enjoy 3:15-5:15 Kathleen weil-Garris Brandt. InJanuary access during staffed hours to the the group attended the Matisse show at the Thomas F, Mathews, "Middle I nsunne's Stephen Chan Librar-y of Fine Museum of Modern An and was fortunate Byzantine Art and Architecture II," Arts, coritaini ng over !00,000 volu rnes cov- to have as guide the curator of the exhibi- ering all aspects of art history, architec- TU, 3:15 - 5:15 tion,.1 ohn Elderfield. In the spring term, ture, and archaeology, and the technology Jonathan J.G. Alexander, "Early Evelyn Harrison took a group to 'The and structure of works ofart. The Library Greek Miracle" and Donald Hansen led a Medieval Art III Western Europe," TU, is house-d at [he Institute, one of New tour of "Royal City of Susa,' both at the York's most beautiful landmark buildings, 10:30 - 12:30 Metropolitan Museum. In addition, the James B. Duke House at Fifth Avenue Gunter H. Kopcke, "From Caesar to Benefactors were invited to see the magnifi- and 78th Street. Charlemagne: France, Germany, and cent collection or Impressionist art at the Patrons (donors of :$2,500 and over home ofMr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb. Britain In the First Millennium," F", annually) are invited, III addition, to spe- 10:30 - 12:30 Following is the list of courses open to cial evening seminars, conducted by mem- auditors for the 1994-95 academic year. bers of the Institute faculty on a topic in Jonathan Brown, "Spanish Painting, Please let Joan Leibovitz know what courses the professor's specialty and 10 visits 10 dis- 1598-1700," TH, 1:00 - 3:00 you will be attending. tinguished private collections. Jean-Louis Cohen, "Architecture ca. On behalf of tile Institute's faculty and I!' you wish to join the Council, please students, I want LO thank you for your con- make your check pavable to NYU, Council 1900," W, 10:30 - 12:30 tinued, generous support. A, you may of Friends, Institute of Fine Arts. If you Robert Lubar, "Spanish Painting and know, the Institute is in the middle of a have questions or require further informa- Sculpture from the Generation of 1898 campaign to increase its endowment. Please tion, please tdephoneJoan Leibovitz ar consider making a girt for this purpose. 772-5812 to the CIVil War," \V, 1:00 - 3:00 Charlotte Douglas, "Modern Russian Painting," \-\', 3: 15 - 5; 15 All Courses are Subject 10Change IFAAlumni Newsletter 19 & 'Dear fellow scholarships make a critical difference to the Duke Mansion), the annual Cook lec- selected students, who use the money for ture, and this, the Alumni Newsletter. Yes, alumni/alumnae' special programs and living expenses while the newsletter, which after a long delay has-. by Beth L. Holman they study here or travel abroad. We also finally moved into the 20th century and Treasurer, Alumni Association help pay for small improvements to the onto computer disk. With this issue we facilities at the Institute: if you wish, you can resume regular publication and promise It's not too late for you to reach for your target your contribution - for example, to annual reports about your friends, col- checkbook and send a donation to the the Institute Library or [or replacement of leagues, and former teachers. Institute's Alumni Association! Your dollars the now dilapidated study chairs (where we Please send us your news-and please are important in supporting the Institute spent so much time). write that check, for whatever you can give. and its students. As New York City becomes Alumni funds also pay for the reunion at Every tax-deductible dollar helps! increasingly expensive, Alumni Association the CAA convention (this past February at r ------_._------.------_._---._---._------_._------._---tear off Mail your news to: Alumni Newsletter, Institute of Fine Arts, I East 78th 51., New York, NY 10021-0178 Please type and provide dates. 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