ANN UAL RE PORT 2002 THE CLE VELAND MUSEUM OF ART
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T H E C L E V E LA N D M U S E U M O F A R T
AN N UAL R E PO R T 2002
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The Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797
Narrative: Gregory M. Donley
Photography credits: Works of art in the collection were photographed by museum photographers Howard Agriesti and Gary Kirchenbauer and are copyright by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The works of art themselves may also be protected by copyright in the United States of America or abroad and may not be reproduced in any form or medium
Brichford: pp. 7 (left, both), 9 (top), 11 (bottom), 34 (left), 39 (top), 61, 63, 64, 68, 79, 88 (left), 92;
Feathered Panel. Peru,
Far South Coast, Pampa Ocoña; AD 600–900; Papagayo macaw feathers knotted onto string and stitched to cotton plainweave cloth, camelid fiber plain-weave upper tape; 81.3 x 223.5 cm; Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 2002.93
Editing: Barbara J. Bradley and Kathleen Mills
Rodney L. Brown: p.
82 (left) © 2002; Philip Brutz: pp. 9 (left), 88 (top), 89 (all), 96; Gregory M. Donley: front cover, pp. 4, 6 (both), 7 (bottom), 8 (bottom), 13 (both), 31, 32, 34 (bottom), 36 (bottom), 41, 45 (top), 60, 62, 71, 77, 83 (left), 85 (right, center), 91; Alicia Hudson Garr: p. 85 (right, top);
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Front cover and frontispiece: As the sun went down, the lights came up: on September 11, the facade was illuminated with colored lights to remember the
The Annual Report
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Diane Hansson: pp. 12, 78, back cover; Robert Mueller: p. 87; Randall Von Ryan: p. 45 (bottom); Deirdre Vodanoff: p. 84 (both); Kelly Williams: p. 82 (bottom); Shamar
terrorist attacks in 2001. Back cover: Early Learning Initiative program preschool children on their way to classrooms to create a work of art inspired by American masterpieces
Howard Agriesti: frontispiece, pp. 8 (left), 10, 11 (left), 29, 36 (right), 38, 42, 44,
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4 Board of Trustees 5 Trustee Committees 6 Director
10 Chairman 11 President 15 Collections 33 Exhibitions 43 Community Support 78 Education, Public Programs, and
Outreach
93 Staff 97 Financial Report 98 Treasurer
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Officers
James T. Bartlett, President
Trustees
James T. Bartlett
- Life Trustees
- Honorary Trustees
- Muriel S. Butkin
- Quentin Alexander
Mrs. Quentin Alexander Leigh Carter
Charles P. Bolton Ruth Swetland Eppig Robert W. Gillespie George Gund III Michael J. Horvitz George M. Humphrey II Anne Hollis Ireland Adrienne L. Jones Robert M. Kaye
Ellen Wade Chinn Jeannette Dempsey Joseph M. Erdelac Maxeen Flower
Michael J. Horvitz, Chairman
James H. Dempsey Jr.
Mrs. Edward A. Kilroy Jr. Morton L. Mandel George Oliva Jr.
Ellen Stirn Mavec, Vice President
Frances Gale
William R. Robertson,
- Vice President
- Robert D. Gries
Katharine Lee Reid, Director, CEO, and Secretary
Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin Edwin M. Roth
Mrs. John Hildt Hayward Kendall Kelley Jr.
- Sherman E. Lee
- Frances P. Taft
Janet G. Ashe, Treasurer
Nancy F. Keithley
Peter B. Lewis
Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr. Alton W. Whitehouse Dr. Norman W. Zaworski
Eleanor Bonnie McCoy Mary Schiller Myers
- Elizabeth Norweb
- Jon A. Lindseth
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William P. Madar Ellen Stirn Mavec S. Sterling McMillan III Stephen E. Meyer Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Alfred M. Rankin Jr. James A. Ratner
Larry J. B. Robinson Viktor Schreckengost Evan H. Turner
Donna S. Reid William R. Robertson Elliott L. Schlang Michael Sherwin Eugene R. Stevens Richard T. Watson
Ex Officio
Daniel F. Austin Betsey Bell Helen Cherry Katharine Lee Reid
Visitors are enthralled by an exhibition of photographs given to the museum over the past 10 years.
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TRUSTEE COMMITTEES
Accessions
Elliott L. Schlang, Chair
Advancement
Donna S. Reid, Chair
- Building
- Education
Adrienne L. Jones, Chair
Finance
William P. Madar, Chair
Legislative Affairs
Jon A. Lindseth, Chair
Oversight
Michael J. Horvitz, Chair
- Quentin Alexander
- Robert W. Gillespie
George Gund III Robert M. Kaye
- Virginia Barbato
- James Karman
Robert M. Kaye Nancy F. Keithley Jeffrey D. Kelly Jon Outcalt
James T. Bartlett Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Donna S. Reid
Charles P. Bolton
Mrs. Quentin
Alexander
Jeannette Grasselli
- Brown
- George M.
Humphrey II
Katherine Bolton
Muriel S. Butkin
Leigh Carter
Jon A. Lindseth
William P. Madar
Ellen Stirn Mavec Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Donna S. Reid
- Elliott L. Schlang
- Sr. Maureen Doyle
Ruth Swetland Eppig Debra Guren
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Elliott L. Schlang
Jean and Walter Caldwell
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Donna S. Reid
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
William R. Robertson
Mrs. John Hildt
Mrs. Bert Laurelle G.
Holt
Capital Campaign Planning
Ellen Stirn Mavec, Chair
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
- Helen Forbes Fields
- Elliott L. Schlang
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Marguerite B. Humphrey
George M. Humphrey II
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
- Robert H. Jackson
- Susan W. MacDonald
James L. Mason
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Trustees
William R. Robertson, Chair
Mrs. Edward A. Kilroy Jr.
James T. Bartlett
African American Advisory
Adrienne L. Jones, Chair
Robert W. Gillespie Michael J. Horvitz Anne Hollis Ireland William P. Madar Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Donna S. Reid
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Michael Sherwin Frances P. Taft
Information Technology
Bruce V. Mavec, Chair
Mary S. Myers Sharon Patton
Robert W. Gillespie Adrienne L. Jones Jon A. Lindseth
Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin
Susan H. Turban Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr. Susan H. Wertheim
Montrie Rucker Adams
Jeffrey E. Christian
Ellen Stirn Mavec
Michael Sherwin Richard T. Watson
Edwin M. Roth Mark Schwartz Eugene R. Stevens Frances P. Taft
Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove III
June S. Antoine Emma Benning Al Bright
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Jennie S. Hwang Trevor Jones
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Collections
Elliott L. Schlang, Chair
- Dr. Paul J. Vignos
- Margot James
Copeland
Joseph P. Keithley Andrew Rayburn
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Dr. Norman W. Zaworski
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
James Crosby
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Charles P. Bolton George Gund III Robert M. Kaye Nancy F. Keithley Jon A. Lindseth Ellen Stirn Mavec Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Donna S. Reid
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Helen Forbes Fields Giesele Greene, M.D.
Executive
James T. Bartlett, Chair
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Mrs. Bert Laurelle G. Holt
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Anne Hollis Ireland Jon A. Lindseth
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Bracy Lewis Franklin Martin
William P. Madar
Ellen Stirn Mavec Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Donna S. Reid
Investment
Alfred M. Rankin Jr., Chair
Reverend Marvin McMickle
A. Grace Lee Mims Steven A. Minter Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Sharon Patton
Eugene R. Stevens
Anne Hollis Ireland
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Mrs. Edward A. Kilroy Jr.
William R. Robertson Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
S. Sterling McMillan
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- Greg Reese
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
Lawrence Simpson Andrew Venable
James A. Ratner Robert S. Reitman William R. Robertson Elliott L. Schlang Richard T. Watson
Compensation
James T. Bartlett, Chair Michael J. Horvitz William P. Madar William R. Robertson
James T. Bartlett,
ex officio
Michael J. Horvitz,
ex officio
Katharine Lee Reid,
ex officio
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DIRECTOR
The museum’s original marble building emerged from scaffolding in 2002, cleaned to a gorgeous soft white. At night the building glows. This first stage of the effort to renew and add to our facilities also included relandscaping the terraces and walkways around the museum and, in collaboration with the Fine Arts Garden Commission, restoring the fountain, walkways, and stairs of the city-owned lagoon and gardens—a complex long known as Wade Park that was designed by the firm of the great l9thcentury landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. An evening ceremony in late May inaugurating the new exterior lighting scheme reminded us of the elegance of our most remarkable setting and how the generosity of our founders and today’s donors has contributed to the high standards of this region’s great cultural treasures.
“It’s exhilarating—and also humbling—to be making the transition from this long period during which we gathered so much information and opinion from so many in our community, into this new phase of actually getting ready to break ground and start
The restoration of the 1916 building and Fine Arts Garden is only one element in our vision for the future. The priorities identified in the strategic plan of 1996—to clarify the gallery structure, to expand and improve spaces for the display, storage, and conservation of works of art, and to enhance public circulation areas both inside and outside the museum—were used to create a facilities master plan in 1999, which identified the approximate
building.” –Katharine Lee Reid
Director Katharine Lee Reid and museum curators review expansion plan design proposals.
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amount of new space needed to meet our objectives and suggested efficient spatial adjacencies.
In 2001, we took the next step with the appointment of Rafael Viñoly as the architect of a museum expansion project. He won the job because he was able to reconcile two motivations—to preserve and restore cherished architecture while questioning and redefining essential functional arrangements—in a coherent vision for the future with a renewed museum complex.
In 2002, the architect’s vision gained form and nuance as he and the museum worked together to gather opinions from many important communities: the public, art educators and students, University Circle neighbors, civic leaders, architects and planners, and museum members, staff, and trustees. A pivotal event in that process was the fourth in a yearlong series of free public forums, organized by Cleveland Public Art, in which Rafael Viñoly shared his concepts with about 1,000 attendees. That effort has paid off in significant and tangible ways.
The City of Cleveland’s Spirit Weekend drew diverse crowds to cultural institutions all over town.
The plan clarifies the gallery structure while allowing visitors more freedom to define how they choose to experience the various parts of the
Docent Gail Calfee leads a highlights tour.
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collection. A number of new “interpretation galleries” allow the presentation of special topics in a concise, in-depth manner. The gallery settings for all are improved and better connected. A grand new courtyard provides a much-needed central point of orientation as well as dramatic and gracious convening space.
Outside the museum, the effect of the expansion on the surrounding neighborhood will be dramatic. The design treats the southern facade as a focal point, celebrating the iconic position that the view across the Fine Arts Lagoon has come to enjoy over the years. The museum will open itself to the west, facing the city of Cleveland with banks of windows looking out from the galleries and restaurant above the wooded hillside. The 1971 Marcel Breuer building, also preserved in the expansion plan, is alluded to by striped motifs in the materials of the new construction.
In September, the museum welcomed Dr. Charles L. Venable as deputy director for collections and programs. In his distinguished career at the Dallas Museum of Art, he was deputy director and chief curator as well as interim director.
The new construction makes ample use of glass, giving the structure a quality museum architecture has often lacked: openness. Visitors inside the museum will be able to see out, and passersby outside will be able to see in. This transcendence of barriers between “inside” and “outside” is symbolic of the strengthening bond between the museum and its community. The museum is not only a major civic asset to its neighborhood and to northern Ohio, it is also part of a broader arts and cultural community that brings more than a billion dollars into the regional economy each year and adds in
Henry H. Hawley, the man most responsible for building the museum’s remarkable collection of decorative arts and sculpture, retired in December after 42 years of stellar service.
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A Community Arts character struts its stuff at the 2002 Chalk Festival in September.
immeasurable ways to the quality of life in Cleveland. Regardless of economic status, race, national orgin, or age, the museum adds value to the lives of all. The museum has for decades played a leadership role in the community. In our new vision, the museum aspires to an even higher level, where the goal is not only to improve an already great museum, but to play a key role in forging a great future for this city.
This annual report documents the museum’s activity in a year during which we faced significant challenges even as we welcomed extraordinary opportunities. As always, the museum staff and its supporters responded with inspired efforts that have made it possible for us to keep our eye on the bright and colorful future before us. I invite all to join us as we work to make our vision for Cleveland—the museum and the place—the vibrant reality it deserves to be.
Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell (right) joined James T. Bartlett, Laurie D’Angelo, and Susan Stevens Jaros (left to right) in the directors ensemble for Parade the Circle Celebration 2002.
Katharine Lee Reid Director
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The initial phase of the museum’s renovation and expansion project was the three-year restoration of the 1916 building and the surrounding terraces. The first time the sun shone on the newly cleaned facade, the effect was dazzling. As the work progressed and the terraces were rebuilt with new marble stonework (over a comprehensive underground drainage system), that effect grew even more dramatic. Finally, the construction fence came down and everyone could once again enjoy this lovely space—now fully accessible to the disabled.
CHAIRMAN
The many sculptures that had spent much of the past three years being cleaned and restored in the conservation labs were reinstalled in improved outdoor settings. The addition of a number of marble benches encourages those strolling through to pause for a bit and enjoy the idyllic environment. During the summer and fall, the final elements of a beautifully conceived landscaping plan were put in place, and the restoration was complete. The wonderful results of this undertaking have been extremely gratifying to everyone involved.
We now move on to the next phase: preparing to build. While the grand vision of Rafael Viñoly’s design is inspiring to us all, I wish to point out that not only the big things create success at this museum. The year 2002 was remarkable for the cumulative effect of many smaller things done by museum supporters and staff members.
Even in difficult economic circumstances in our region and in the world, the museum finished the year with its budget slightly in the black. This was possible thanks to the conscientious effort of the entire staff to find ways to do more with less, and to the continued generosity of our supporters, who despite the financial uncertainty found ways to help guarantee the museum’s continued strength. I believe this kind of collective commitment to the museum and its community will fuel our success tomorrow. Our deepest thanks go to all who have contributed in ways great and small to the life of this museum over the years. The legacy of this commitment will truly be a treasure for future generations to enjoy.
Michael J. Horvitz Chairman
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Katharine and Michael in their remarks provide an overview of 2002 and comment on the exciting plans unfolding for the transformation of our physical space. I can add little to their observations other than to re-emphasize the quality and depth of the support we have received from so many quarters. Our trustees have unanimously endorsed each step of our building project from—the selection of Rafael Viñoly right through the conceptual design phase, our current status. Katharine Reid and her excellent staff have provided vital insights and suggestions about such important matters as the positioning and sequencing of gallery space, the nature and location of visitor amenities, and so much more, all the while maintaining tight controls over operations. Rafael and his team have been resourceful and responsive to our needs, working tirelessly with our staff to get the details right, details that ultimately must be worked through correctly in order to translate a grand concept into physical reality. And last but not least, the community has responded wonderfully to our invitation to include everyone in an open process of designing Cleveland’s new museum.
PRESIDENT
This outpouring of support and solid professional input is critically important, as is the continuing support of our treasured donors and friends of the museum. We are embarked on nothing less than a complete transformation of one of the world’s great art museums and one of Cleveland’s most important civic and cultural assets. Without a broad base of support, it would be an extremely difficult if not impossible task.
We are deeply committed to the success of this enterprise, for we believe the future Cleveland Museum of Art that Katharine describes so eloquently will have a lasting positive—if not electrifying—impact on the city’s future. This is a project that must succeed in order to signal that
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculpture
proved to be a broadly engaging exhibition.
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Kate Hoffmeyer elicits questions from preschool students enrolled in our Early Learning Initiative program. During this yearlong session, children visit the museum’s galleries to view paintings and then create their own works of art.
Cleveland’s immense cultural heritage is being preserved, presented, and honored to the highest standards. Properly executed, we believe our plan for a new museum offers the prospect of leading this community into a new era of cultural expression and fulfillment that will have a profound effect on how this city is viewed by the world.
Much hard work lies ahead. So far, we have generated excitement and support that is heartening and thrilling. As we go forward, we will be asking for still more support and commitment to ensure we have the resources to realize our goal. We are confident it will be there.
James T. Bartlett President
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