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Annual Report Annual Report Report for the fiscal year July 1, 2010–June 30, 2011 Annual Report Report for the fiscal year July 1, 2010–June 30, 2011 Contents Milestones . 3 Acquisitions . 4 Exhibitions . 6 Loans . 9 Clark Fellows . 10 Scholarly Programs . 12 Publications . 16 Library . 17 Education . 19 CEVA . 20 Member Events . 21 Public Programs . 24 Donors . 34 Financial Report . 40 Milestones • The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid opened a special exhibition of the Clark’s full collection of thirty-two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in October 2010. The historic presentation drew critical acclaim across Europe and attracted some 370,000 visitors over the course of sixteen weeks, making it the fourth-highest-attended special exhibition in the Prado’s history. The exhibition marked the first time that the Clark’s entire Renoir collection was presented outside of Williamstown and initiated a cross-cultural collaboration between the two museums that will continue in 2014 when the Clark hosts an exhibition of Rubens, Velázquez, and other masterpieces from the Prado’s royal collections. • In March 2011, the Clark’s first international tour of eighty of the best of its nineteenth- century French paintings began with an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan that drew enthusiastic crowds and strong critical reviews. The exhibition then traveled to the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny, where French audiences attended in record numbers to welcome these works to their country. The exhibition set new attendance records for the museum’s summer exhibition program. • The Clark’s educational outreach program for juvenile offenders, RAISE (Responding to Art Involves Self Expression), was honored by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a Champions of Arts Education Advocacy Award for Outstanding Arts Collaborative in the field of Visual Arts. The state’s Arts l Learning Networking and Advocacy Group presented the award to Ronna Tulgan Ostheimer, head of education programs at the Clark, in a May 2011 ceremony . • The Research and Academic Program completed its Central and Eastern European initiative in May 2011 with a seminar titled Art History Meets Art Theory that was held in Bucharest. The program, hosted jointly with the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study, was the third and final seminar in the Eastern European initiative and drew scholars from across the region. This project was supported by major grants from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation and the Getty Foundation . • The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui made two visits to the Clark in 2011 in conjunction with a special exhibition of three of his woven reliefs at Stone Hill Center, working with the Clark’s curatorial team to arrange the installation that was a highlight of the summer season . In the summer exhibition El Anatsui, visitors were captivated by the unique works of this artist, who was born and raised in Ghana and is currently working in Virginia . 3 Acquisitions Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d’Arpino Bowl from the George Washington Italian, 1568–1640 Memorial Service Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, 1594/95 Chinese, for the American market, c. 1800 Oil on panel Porcelain, enamel, and gilding 11 15 3 20 ⁄16 x 14 ⁄16 in. (52.5 x 38 cm) 2 ⁄4 x 8 in. (7 x 20.3 cm) 2010.7 Gift of Mrs . Phoebe Prime Swain 2010.12.2 Gertrude Käsebier American, 1852–1934 Hermione Turner and Children, c . 1910 Vintage platinum print 1 5 9 ⁄2 x 7 ⁄8 in. (24.1 x 19.4 cm) 2010.8 James Anderson English, 1813–77, active Italy Island of San Giorgio, Venice [Isola di S. Giorgio, Venezia], c. 1860 Albumen print (unmounted) sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Gift of Paul Martineau in memory of John B . Martineau 2010.9 Maxime Maufra French, 1861–1918 The Path Next to the Sea (Le Chemin au bord de la mer), 1893 Color lithograph on cream wove paper 11 1 sheet: 7 ⁄16 x 11 ⁄2 in. (20.1 x 29.2 cm) Gift of Amy and David Dufour 2010.10 Minton & Co . English (Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent), 1793–present Design attributed to Christopher Dresser, British, 1834–1904 Demitasse Cup and Saucer, “Japanese Cranes” pattern, 1880 and 1872, respectively Blue transfer decoration on earthenware 1 3 cup: 2 ⁄4 x 2 ⁄8 in. (5.7 x 6.1 cm) 1 saucer: 4 ⁄4 in. (10.8 cm) Gift of Brian D . Coleman 2010.11 Dish Cover from the George Washington Memorial Service Chinese, for the American market, c. 1800 Porcelain, enamel, and gilding 1 3 1 (with knob 2 ⁄2 in.) x 7 ⁄16 in. (2.5 x 18.3 cm) Gift of Mrs . Phoebe Prime Swain 2010.12.1 Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, 1594/95, by Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d’Arpino. 4 Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946 The Terminal, 1893; printed c. 1910 Photogravure in original frame 1 10 x 13 ⁄8 in. (25.4 x 33.3 cm) Gift of Penelope Tyson Adams in memory of her husband, John Barclay Adams 2010.13 Linnaeus Tripe English, 1822–1902 Amerapoora. A Street in the City, 1855 Coated salt print from a waxed paper negative 3 11 photo: 9 ⁄4 x 13 ⁄16 in. (24.8 x 34.8 cm) 15 13 mounting sheet: 17 ⁄16 x 22 ⁄16 in. (45.5 x 58 cm) Acquired by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with partial funds donated by the Troob Family Foundation 2011.1 Lamentation over the Body of Christ, c. 1645–50, Max Beckmann by Alessandro Turchi. German, 1884–1950 Malepartus, plate seven in the series Hell (Die Hölle), 1919 Lithograph on cream simili Japanese paper 9 33 ⁄16 x 24 in. (85.2 x 61 cm) 7 7 image: 26 ⁄16 x 16 ⁄16 in. (67.2 x 41.8 cm) 2011.2 Francis Martin Drexel American, 1792–1863 Portrait of an Elderly Quaker Lady, c. 1822 Oil on canvas laid on panel 1 30 x 24 ⁄8 in. (76.2 x 61.3 cm) 5 3 1 frame: 39 ⁄16 x 34 ⁄8 x 3 ⁄4 in . (99.9 x 87.3 x 8.3 cm) Gift from their children in memory of Edward and June Gubb 2011.3 Alessandro Turchi Italian, 1578–1649 Lamentation over the Body of Christ, c. 1645–50 Oil on touchstone 13 3 9 ⁄16 x 13 ⁄4 in. (25 x 35 cm) 2011.4 The Terminal, 1893, by Alfred Stieglitz. Acquisitions continued 5 Exhibitions Picasso Davant Degas The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer Museu Picasso, Barcelona November 14, 2010–March 13, 2011 October 15, 2010–January 16, 2011 Drawing on the Clark’s rich collection of Following its presentation at the Clark, works by the celebrated printmaker, this Picasso Looks at Degas traveled to Picasso’s exhibition explored the power of Albrecht birthplace for its European exhibition . Dürer’s work in its day, and why it remains Picasso Davant Degas explored Picasso’s so visually arresting to us more than five direct response to Degas’s work through centuries later . a presentation of more than one hundred Dürer (1471–1528) was celebrated works drawn from the rich collections of the throughout the sixteenth century and co-organizers, along with loans from more is memorialized today for his innovative than forty museums and private collections techniques in printmaking, his visionary worldwide . Among the works paired in the imagination, and his theoretical writing, exhibition were Picasso’s Nude Wringing which transformed the study of human Her Hair (1952) and Degas’s Combing proportion . Deeply embedded in an age the Hair (La Coiffure; c. 1892–96), and of religious reformation, scientific inquiry, Picasso’s Sebastià Junyer Vidal (1903) and and artistic innovation, Dürer created prints Degas’s In a Café (L’Absinthe; 1875–76). that reflected the intellectual and aesthetic Picasso Looks at Degas was organized by activities of the Renaissance in Northern the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Europe . and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona. It The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer was was supported in part by a grant from the presented by Crane & Co . National Endowment for the Arts, by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and with the special cooperation of Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte . Pasión por Renoir: La Colección del Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid October 19, 2010–February 13, 2011 This cultural exchange initiative, comprising the Clark’s collection of thirty-two Renoirs, represented the first time the Clark had exhibited its entire collection of works by Renoir outside of the museum. The first monographic exhibition of the artist’s work in Spain, Pasión por Renoir became the fourth-best-attended special exhibition in the museum’s history. Among the works exhibited were Self- Portrait (c. 1875), Portrait of Madame Monet (Madame Claude Monet Reading; c . 1874), A Box at the Theater (At the Concert; The Clark’s international tour of masterpieces drew huge crowds to the 1880), Onions (1881), and The Bath (Girl Piazza del Duomo in Milan for the opening night of Impressionisti: Capolavori Arranging Her Hair; 1885). della collezione Clark at the Palazzo Reale . 6 Eye to Eye: Dupré, and Constant Troyon, looked to European Portraits 1450–1850 the achievements of Constable and other January 23–March 27, 2011 leading British artists as transformative alternatives to the classical conventions that The thirty paintings and one sculpture had long defined artistic practice . included in this exhibition trace the various modes of European portraiture from the late Many of the paintings and drawings on fifteenth to the early nineteenth century.
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