Number 34 Fall 2007
NE W SLETTER MAHS Conference 2008, Chicago, Illinois, April 2-5, 2008 The Midwest Art History Society’s 35th annual meeting will be The MAHS business lunch will take place on Friday. On Friday held April 2-5, 2008 in Chicago. Hosted by Loyola University, evening the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia Columbia College and the Art Institute of Chicago, the con- College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan, www.mcop.org will be the ference takes place with the partnership of DePaul University, location of a MAHS reception. Saturday morning, April 5, The Lake Forest College, and the School of the Art Institute Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue, www. Chicago. Further assistance has been provided by the Museum of mcachicago.org, will host an early opening, continental breakfast, Contemporary Art and the Terra Foundation for the Arts. The and curator’s tour of the current exhibitions – “Alexander Calder conference hotel will be the Club Quarters, conveniently located in Focus” and selections of the museum’s permanent collection. in Chicago’s Loop at 111 W. Adams Street. The conference’s morning sessions will also be held at the MCA. The conference sessions and programs Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 North Michigan Avenue have been selected with an eye to (just two blocks west of the MCA) www. showcasing areas of specialization luc.edu/LUMA, will be the site of a closely associated with Chicago and luncheon on Saturday. The conference’s its educational and cultural insti- afternoon sessions will be held at LUMA tutions. Additional emphases on on Saturday where “Gilded Glory: American and Renaissance art have European Treasures from the Martin been designed to coordinate with D’Arcy Collection” will be on view. the Terra Foundation of the Arts’ In addition to the scholarly sessions that sponsored American Art American will develop from the Call for Papers, City initiative and the Renaissance two additional sessions will be presented: Society of America (which is meeting Recent Acquisitions of Renaissance Art April 3-5, 2008 at The Renaissance in Midwest Collections chaired by Judith Chicago Hotel). A complete list of Mann of the Saint Louis Museum of sessions for the MAHS conference Art, and a round table on recent con- appears in the Call for Papers on the Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2004, versation projects undertaken by the inside pages of this publication. Millennium Park, Chicago Art Institute of Chicago chaired by On Thursday and Friday a full range Martha Tedeschi. of scholarly sessions will take place The Recent Acquisitions panel, a at the conference hotel. A welcome tea will be held Thursday staple of the Midwest Art History Society’s program, will focus afternoon at the hotel. Thursday evening conference attendees this year on Renaissance objects, including painting, sculpture, are encouraged to attend one of two talks at the Art Institute of and decorative arts, both North and South, presented by curators Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue: At 6:00 pm. in Fullerton from throughout the Midwest. The conservation session, titled Hall Tom Hines will be speaking on Hollywood design of the “Partnerships in Conservation: Case Studies at the Art Institute 1920s. At the same time in Morton Hall Judith Barter, Field- of Chicago,” will involve curators, conservators, and conservation McCormick Chair of American Art at the museum, will lecture scientists from the Art Institute discussing technical analysis and on the Edward Hopper exhibition, on view nearby. Entrance restoration of works from the Art Institute’s collection, ranging to the Art Institute (and admission at the lectures) is free from from ancient Egyptian sculpture to a turn-of-the-century cabinet 5:00 to 8:00 pm. on Thursday evenings, however the Hopper and designed by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, as well as watercol- another American exhibition – “Watercolors by Winslow Homer: ors by Homer. Emphasis will be placed on the collaborative pool- The Color of Light” – will be ticketed. Advance tickets for these ing of curators’ and conservators’ expertise, and application of new exhibitions may be ordered at www.artic.edu/aic. tools and methodologies in conservation, which have yielded continued on page 2 MAHS News and Announcements Charles D. Cuttler, co-founder of The University of Michigan Museum of Guinea has, since 1995, been housed MAHS, suffered a health crisis earlier this Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, continues with at the provincial headquarters of the year. As of the writing of this newsletter, the restoration of Alumni Memorial Hall. Crosier Fathers and Brothers in Shoreview, his condition has stabilized. We all wish Through 2008 it is operating a temporary Minnesota. him well. exhibition space located immediately adja- Keith Joseph Adkins is the 2007 The Art Institute of Chicago announces cent to the University’s central campus. For Duncanson Artist-In-Residence at the the acquisition of Virgin and Child with more information, visit www.umma.umich. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint edu. It continues to build its permanent A playwright and screenwriter, Adkins Cecilia, and Angels by the Florentine paint- collection, recently celebrating the gift of earned his bachelor of arts in communica- er Piero di Cosimo. a Urhobo maternity figure from the Niger tions from Wright State University and his Delta region of West Africa. The Contemporary Art Museum Saint master of fine arts from the University of Louis announces that it has successfully The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has Iowa’s Iowa Playwrights Workshop. raised $5 million for its endowment and received a major gift of photographs from Truman State University, Kirksville, once again balanced its $2 million operat- Frederick B. Scheel. Comprising more than Missouri, has undergone academic reor- ing budget, thereby meeting the final con- six hundred prints, the collection include ganization, and from July 1, 2007 the ditions of a major challenge set by Emily examples by Anselm Adams, Berenice Department of Art is a department within Rauh Pulitzer. Pulitzer, in turn, has agreed Abbott, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. the newly-formed College of Arts and to forgive the Contemporary’s remaining The University of St. Thomas is the new Sciences. indebtedness, subject to confirmation by home for the American Museum of Asmat The Wichita Art Museum has recently independent auditors. Art. This collection of tribal art from New acquired sixteen photogravures in the pictorialist style. The group of objects includes works by Alfred Stieglitz, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Edward Steichen. MAHS Conference 2008, continued from page 1 surprising discoveries and new informa- and Naturalism in Renaissance Art (for Upcoming Conferences, tion. Panelists will include: Martha further information on the latter three Tedeschi, Curator of Prints & Drawings, sessions, see Call for Papers). Those Symposia, & Workshops Dept. of Prints & Drawings, panel chair; registered for the RSA conference will be The University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Kristi Dahm, Assistant Conservator of welcome to attend MAHS Renaissance Chazen Museum will present the sympo- Prints and Drawings; Gloria Groom, panels, and a reciprocal arrangement will sium “Competition and Collaboration in David and Mary Winton Green Curator, allow MAHS registrants to show their Edo Print Culture: A New Perspective” on Dept. of Medieval through Modern conference badges to attend art history Saturday, November 3, 2007. This sym- European Painting and Sculpture, sessions at the RSA. Please note, this posium is held in conjunction with the and Karen Manchester, The Elizabeth collegial exchange does not extend to exhibition Competition and Collaboration: McIlvaine Curator of Ancient Art, Dept. sessions with other than Renaissance art Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School. of Asian and Ancient Art. history topics, or to receptions or other MACAA CONFERENCE 2008 special events for either organization. The Renaissance Society of America The 2008 MidAmerica College Art (RSA) is meeting in Chicago over the Registration forms and travel and lodg- Association (MACAA) Conference will
same days as the MAHS conference. In ing information are available in the back be held at the Herron School of Art and order to take advantage of this synchron- pages of this newsletter and online at the Design | IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana, icity special attention has been given MAHS website. Proposals for papers are October 15-18,2008. Herron School of to arranging MAHS sessions related due by December 15, 2007 to the ses- Art and Design is conveniently located to that period and subject, including sion chairs. The call for papers is includ- in downtown Indianapolis across from Judith Mann’s session on Renaissance Art ed in this newsletter and is also available Military Park, and in walking distance objects, a special session to honor Charles online. To receive the early bird rate for from the Indiana State Museum and the Cuttler, co-founder of MAHS, chaired conference registration, please register by Eiteljorg Museum. More than 100 visual by Burton Dunbar of the University of February 15, 2008. art venues and nearly 60 public art works Missouri – Kansas City, a session on and points of interest are within the city’s women artists and patrons in early mod- six cultural districts. For updates on the ern Europe chaired by Marilyn Dunn of conference, please visit the MACAA web- Loyola University, and Ann Roberts (Lake site at www.macaart.org/ or contact the Forest College)’s session on Narration Conference Chair, Vance Farrow at vfar- [email protected]. M IDWE S T A RT H I S T O R Y S OCIE T Y
M IDWE S T A RT H I S T O R Y Outstanding Exhibition S OCIE T Y Has a New Identity Catalogue Award Our new logo was introduced at the Indianapolis meeting and Winner of the Midwest Art History Society Award for now appears on our website at MAHSonline.org and the masthead Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of our Newsletter. Biedermeier:The Invention of Simplicity Chris Hoot, a professor of graphic design at The University of The Midwest Art History Society Board of Directors is Akron, created the new logo; one that represents the diversity of pleased to announce the winner of the award for the 2006 interests of MAHS members while also communicating the vital- Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue - Biedermeier: The ity of the organization. Professor Hoot writes that: “The variety Invention of Simplicity, Hans Ottomeyer, Klaus Albrecht of letterforms in the MAHS logotype represents the wide range Schröder, and Laurie Winters. The catalogue was produced of diverse art history areas within the field and the membership. by the Milwaukee Art Museum. This collision of styles and forms also suggests a postmodernist sensibility. The M has a simplified, abstract modernist feel and Many wonderful catalogues were submitted, and only after suggests a doorway or entrance. The A’s calligraphic form suggests careful review and deliberation did the Award Committee, writing and the expressive hand skills of an artist, while the H is Leesa Fanning (Chair), Joseph Becherer, and Robin Clark, very refined, structured and indicates a classical sense. The S hints select Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity. at a more hand-crafted, indigenous approach, all-encompassing and vital.” Selection of the Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue was based on the conception of the catalogue, contributions to The color version of the logo has a playful quality while reinforc- contemporary scholarship, and excellence in design. ing variety through chromatic range. Many Indianapolis confer- ence attendees were presented with, or purchased, the handsome This represents the third year of the award for notebooks produced to introduce the new logo, and these will be Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue. The Call for available at next year’s Chicago conference as well. Nominations for catalogues produced in 2007 will be sent As the Midwest Art History Society looks ahead we see our new out this November, with a deadline for submissions in identity as a way of increasing awareness of the organization and February. The winner of the 2007 award will be announced stimulating interest in it. We believe it will serve as an appropri- at the annual Midwest Art History Society meeting in ately scintillating introduction to the Society as we publicize our Spring, 2008. activities and attract new members.
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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Akron Art Museum—Akron, Ohio Centre College, Aegon Gallery—Danville, Kentucky www.akronartmuseum.org www.centre.edu Picturing the African American Experience: Children’s Book Illustrations 19th Century French Bronze Sculptures, through by Kadir Nelson, through January 6, 2008 November 30, 2007 Close to Home: Watercolors by William Sommer and Raphael Sculpture by Jeremy Lampe, February 8, 2008 – March 7, 2008 Gleitsmann, through January 27, 2008 Humanities Exhibit of Landscape Painting, Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: Two Pilgrimages, October 27, 2007 - March 13, 2008 – April 11, 2008 January 27, 2008 Student Art Exhibit, April 18, 2008 – April 30, 2008 American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, November 10, 2007 Senior Art Student Exhibit, May 7, 2008 – May 18, 2008 – February 3, 2008 Chazen Museum of Art – Madison, Wisconsin A Shared Vision: The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Photography www.chazen.wisc.edu Collection, February 23, 2008 – May 25, 2008 Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School, Family Album: The Karl and Bertl Arnstein Print Collection, February through January 26, 2008 23, 2008 – June 1, 2008 Drawing with a Brush: British Watercolors, November 10, 2007 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College—Oberlin, Ohio January 6, 2008 www.oberlin.edu/amam/ Cincinnati Art Museum—Cincinnati, Ohio From Africa to America : Selections of African and African-American Art, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org through December 23, 2007 Vanishing Frontier: Rookwood, Farny, and the American Indian, On Line: European Drawings, 16th–19th Centuries, through December through January 20, 2008 23, 2007 Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, through Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland—Cleveland, Ohio December 23, 2007 www.MOCAcleveland.org “Great Criticism”: Paintings from Modern China, through December Cleveland Museum of Art—Cleveland, Ohio 23, 2007 www.clemusart.com Art Institute of Chicago—Chicago, Illinois The museum is temporarily closed www.artic.edu Sculpture Center—Cleveland, Ohio Jasper Johns: Gray, through January 6, 2008 www.sculpturecenter.org Edward Hopper, February 16, 2008 – May 11, 2008 Brent Green: Animation in Four Dimensions, November 9, 2007 Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, February 16, 2008 – January 5, 2008 – May 11, 2008 Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Sculpture from the Region, June 6, Ed Ruscha and Photography, March 1, 2008 – June 1, 2008 2008 – through July, 2008. Benin-Kings and Ritual: Court Arts of Nigeria, July 3, 2008 – September 21, 2008 Columbus Museum of Art–Columbus Ohio Edvard Munch and European Modernism, www.columbusmuseum.org February 14, 2009 – May 10, 2009 In Monet’s Garden: The Lure of Giverny, through January 20, 2008 Victorian Photocollage, October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Edna Boies Hopkins, December 14, 2007 - March 2, 2008 Matisse and the Methods of Modern Construction, Contemporary Arts Center—Cincinnati, Ohio March 20, 2010 – June 6, 2010 www.contemporaryartscenter.org “Barbarian Kingdoms,” Ancient Treasures of South and Southwest China, Julian Stanczak, through February 3, 2008 April 3, 2010 – July 5, 2010 Cranbrook Art Museum—Bloomfield Hills, Michigan www.cranbrookart.edu/museum Brunnier Art Museum—Ames, Iowa Material Memory: World Textiles from the Collection of Cranbrook Art www.museums.iastate.edu Museum and Gerhardt Knodel, through December 30, 2007 Albert Paley: Portals and Gates, through January 15, 2008 Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, November 17, 2007 – Cedar Rapids Museum of Art – Cedar Rapids, Iowa March 30, 2008 www.crma.org Dallas Museum of Art—Dallas, Texas Laurie Hagin, through January 13, 2008 www.dm-art.org Ulfert Wilke, through February 3, 2008 Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting, Americans Abroad, February 2 – May 11, 2008 November 18, 2007–January 27, 2008 Goya’s Disasters of War, July 19 – November 2, 2008 J. M. W. Turner, February 10, 2008 – May 18, 2008 Julian Onderdonk: Bluebonnets and Beyond, March 23, 2008 – July 20, 2008 Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, Note June 8, 2008 – September 14, 2008 Future exhibition listings are encouraged at any time. Detroit Institute of Arts—Detroit, Michigan www.dia.org Images with caption information are also welcome and The museum is temporarily closed encouraged. Beginning November 1, 2007, send all Earlham College—Richmond, Indiana information to Gustav Medicus. If you are not a MAHS www.earlham.edu member, join us! Please fill out and return the convenient Living and Learning: Art from the Kaimosi, Kenya, Friends School, membership form in this newsletter. through December 15, 2007 George Baker, Indiana Landscapist, through December 15, 2007 Faces in Strange Places: Art from Papua New Guinea, through December 15, 2007
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions (cont from page 4) University Art Gallery, Eastern Michigan University Krannert Art Museum—Urbana-Champaign, Illinois www.emich.edu www.kam.uiuc.edu/ Figge Art Museum—Davenport, Iowa Facades, through December 30, 2007 www.figgeartmuseum.org Blown Away, January 25, 2008 – March 30, 2008 Go West! through January 13, 2008 Krasl Art Center—St. Joseph, Missouri Seen Inside: The Body and Photography, through February 3, 2008 www.krasl.org Fort Wayne Museum of Art—Fort Wayne, Indiana Kresge Art Museum’s ‘Toon Art, through December 31, 2007 www.fwmoa.org Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University—East Lansing, Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier; The Phelan Michigan Collection, November 10, 2007 – January 6, 2008 www.msu.edu/~kamuseum Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of the The Impressionist Era: Works on Paper, January 7, 2008 – Associated Press, January 12 – March 9, 2008 March 16, 2008 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art—Norman, Oklahoma Silk Road to Clipper Ship: Trade, Changing Markets, and East Asian www.ou.edu/fjjma Ceramics, May 3, 2008 – August 1, 2008 Out of Oklahoma: Contemporary Artists from Ruscha to Andoe, through Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University—Dallas, Texas January 6, 2008 www.smu.edu/meadows/museum Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park—Grand Rapids, Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s: Michigan November 30, 2007 – February 24, 2008 www.meijergardens.org Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Gilcrease Museum—Tulsa, Oklahoma Rodrigo, Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona www.gilcrease.org Museum of Art, March 22, 2008 – June 22, 2008 Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University—Milwaukee, Miami University Art Museum, Miami University—Oxford, Ohio Wisconsin www.muohio.edu/artmuseum www.marquette.edu/haggerty University of Michigan Museum of Art—Ann Arbor, Michigan Wifredo Lam in North America, through January 21, 2008 www.umich.edu/~umma Indianapolis Museum of Art—Indianapolis, Indiana The museum is closed during a building project. www.ima-art.org Milwaukee Art Museum—Milwaukee, Wisconsin Roman Art from the Louvre, through January 6, 2008 www.mam.org/ Breaking the Mode, March 16, 2008 – June 1, 2008 Martin Ramirez, through January 13, 2008 To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public July 13, 2008-September 7, 2008 Library, January 10, 2008 – March 23, 2008 Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures, September 26, 2008 – Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, February 9, 2008 November 21, 2008 – May 4, 2008 Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Gilbert & George, June 14, 2008 – September 1, 2008 October 26, 2008 – January 11, 2009 Minneapolis Institute of Arts—Minneapolis, Minnesota European Design After 1985: Shaping the New Century, February 22, www.artsmia.org 2009 – May 10, 2009 Georgia O’Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction, through Indiana University Art Museum—Bloomington, Indiana January 6, 2008 www.indiana.edu/~iuam/iuam_home.php Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection, February 24, 2008 – University of Iowa Museum of Art—Iowa City, Iowa May 25, 2008 www.uiowa.edu/~artmus Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography, Laylah Ali: Drawings from the Typology Series, through January 6, 2008 May 3, 2008 – September 7, 2008 Joslyn Art Museum—Omaha, Nebraska Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, September 14, 2008 – www.joslyn.org January 4, 2009 Chuck Guildner: Ranch Photographs, through February 3, 2008 Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri— The Art of Robert Bateman, November 24, 2007 – Columbia, Missouri February 3, 2008 www.maa.missouri.edu/exhibitions Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, The University of Michigan—Ann Daumier’s Paris: Life in the Nineteenth-Century City, through Arbor, Michigan June 2008 www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/ Museum of Contemporary Art—Chicago, Illinois Closed for renovation and expansion www.mcachicago.org Kent State University, The Kent State University School of Art Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Gallery—Kent, Ohio through January 6, 2008 www.kent.edu/museum/ Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, Mood Indigo, through August 31, 2008 February 2, 2008 – May 4, 2008 Jeff Koons, May 31, 2008 – September 21, 2008 University of Kentucky Art Museum—Lexington, Kentucky Jenny Holzer, October 18, 2008 – January 16, 2009 www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum U.K. Art Department Faculty Exhibition, through December 9, 2007 Miniature Worlds: Art from India, February 10 – May 11, 2008 Kimbell Art Museum—Fort Worth, Texas www.kimbellart.org Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art, November 18, 2007 – March 30, 2008 Current and Upcoming Exhibitions (cont from page 5)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art—Kansas City, Missouri Walker Art Center—Minneapolis, Minnesota www.nelson-atkins.org/ www.walkerart.org Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839 to Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need, through November 18, 2007 1885, through December 30, 2007 Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum—St. Rising Dragon: Ancient Treasures from China, through Louis, Missouri February 10, 2008 www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/ American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh, January 26, Beauty and the Blonde, November 16, 2007 – January 26, 2008 2008 – April 6, 2008 Wayne State University, The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery—Detroit, Oakland University, Meadow Brook Art Gallery—Rochester, Michigan Michigan www.art.wayne.edu www.oakland.edu/mbag Urban Planning: New Work by Dennis Jones, November 17, 2007 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum—Minneapolis, Minnesota – December 23, 2007 www.weisman.umn.edu Denise Whitebread Fanning, January 12, 2008 – February 23, 2008 Documenting China, Contemporary Photography and Social Change, through November 25, 2007. Philbrook Museum of Art—Tulsa, Oklahoma www.philbrook.org West Bend Art Museum – West Bend, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright and The House Beautiful, November 11, 2007 www.wbartmuseum.com – January 20, 2008 Wexner Center for the Arts—Columbus, Ohio Price Tower Arts Center—Bartlesville, Oklahoma www.wexarts.org www.pricetower.org William Wegman: Funney/Strange, through December 30, 2007 Oklahoma Modern: The Art and Design of Olinka Hrdy, through Wichita Art Museum—Wichita, Kansas January 13, 2008 www.wichitaartmuseum.org Saint Louis Art Museum—St. Louis, Missouri Art of the Needle: Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum, www.slam.org through January 13, 2008 Beyond the Marker’s Mark: Paul De Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Bold Expressions in Modern Art: The Buddy Greenberg Collection, Collection, through January 20, 2008 through February 17, 2008 George Caleb Bingham: The Making of “The County Election,” through Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum—Wausau, Wisconsin March 9, 2008 www.lywam.org Frank Breuer: Photographs, December 14, 2007 – March 16, 2008 Rivers, Sea and Shore: Reflections on Water, November 17, 2007 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis—St. Louis, Missouri – January 20, 2008 www.contemporarystl.org Wendell Minor: In the American Tradition and Denise Fleming: Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, through December 30, 2007 Painting with Paper, February 2, 2008 – April 13, 2008 The Age of Armor: From the Higgins Armory Museum, April 19, 2008 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame—Notre Dame, – June 22, 2008 Indiana www.nd.edu/~sniteart Day of the Dead Installation by Ramiro Rodriguez, through December The College of Wooster Art Museum 16, 2007 www.artmuseum.wooster.edu/ Face to Face: Drawings by Rev. Martin Nguyen, C.S.C., November 25, Northeastern Waters: Selections from the John Taylor Arms Print 2007 – December 23, 2007 Collection, November 13 – December 14, 2007 Speed Art Museum—Louisville, Kentucky Ancient and Contemporary Ceramics from the Permanent Collection, www.speedmuseum.org January 22 – March 2, 2008 The Architecture of Gee’s Bend Quilts, January 2, 2008 — 2008 Five Colleges of Ohio Student Biennial, March 25 – May 11, March 23, 2008 2008 Medieval and Renaissance Treasures From the Victoria and Albert Museum, January 22, 2008 – April 20, 2008 Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, American Art 1660-1893 from the Yale University Art Gallery, September 9, 2008 – January 4, 2009 Spencer Museum of Art—Lawrence, Kansas www.spencerart.ku.edu/ Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, through December 2, 2007 Visit the MAHS website Sheldon Swope Art Museum—Terre Haute, Indiana www.mahsonline.org www.swope.org Taft Museum of Art—Cincinnati, Ohio The MAHS website now is being updated on a much www.taftmuseum.org more regular basis. New features include a list of cur- Jewels of Time: Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, rent and upcoming “Exhibitions in the Midwest” that November 30, 2007 – January 27, 2008 is updated twice annually, and a positions listing for Toledo Museum of Art—Toledo, Ohio www.toledomuseum.org job openings in the field at the “MAHS Online Career Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay, through January 6, 2008 Center.” Also, relive the history of MAHS with the photo gallery archives.
Editorial Notes lication so as to acknowledge the ongo- Also, relive the history of MAHS with The Cuttler Fund was established ing contributions and accomplishments the photo gallery archives. by of the of our member institutions. Images of Professor Charles D. Cuttler Association of Historians of to provide travel new acquisitions are also welcome. The University of Iowa American Art Seeks Members support to students presenting papers sooner these materials arrive, the more at the annual MAHS meeting (this possibilities there are for publication. Teachers, museum professionals, stu- year in Milwaukee). The fund is sup- Please include the relevant exhibition or dents, and independent art historians ported by contributions from MAHS acquisition information on each image. involved in the history of the art of the members and friends. Please contact (Consult this newsletter for caption United States of America are invited Randy Coleman, MAHS Treasurer, formats.) Send to: MAHS Newsletter, to join the Associations of Historians at [email protected] if you would Gustav Medicus, School of Art, Art of American Art. AHAA was founded like to donate to the Cuttler Fund Building, Kent State University, Kent, in 1979 to promote scholarship in the or receive information for requesting OH 44242, or [email protected]. history of American art by providing a forum for presenting and advancing support. Visit the MAHS website – new approaches, examining problems Museums and galleries are invited to www.mahsonline.org that confront the field, and identifying send press releases and images (images The MAHS website now is being scholarly needs and opportunities for on disc preferred) to the editor when- updated on a much more regular basis. its members. Membership dues are ever exhibition press packets are ready. New features include a list of current and $20 and support two newsletters per Although preference is given to exhi- upcoming “Exhibitions in the Midwest” year, a membership directory, sessions bitions open when the newsletter is that is updated twice annually, and a posi- at CAA, travel grants for emerging mailed and received (October 1 for the tions listing for job openings in the field scholars, and a website. For informa- fall issue; May 1 for the spring listings, at the “MAHS Online Career Center.” tion on joining, see www.ahaaonline. all images will be considered for pub- org/Join_AHAA.
Significant Publications by Members
Lynne D. Ambrosini and Rebecca A.G. Faculty Learning Community,” in the Heather Pulliam, Western Kentucky Reynolds have published Hiram Powers: Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. University, has published Word and Image Genius in Marble (Taft Museum of Art, Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State in the Book of Kells (Four Courts, 2006). 2007). Ambrosini, with the assistance University, has published “Black is the Jeffrey Schrader, University of Colorado of Tamera Lenz Muente, has published Color: Lester Julian Merriweather and at Denver, has published: La Virgen de Nineteenth-Century German Paintings from Invisibility’s Sticky Side,” in Artpapers, Atocha: Los Austrias y las imágenes mila- the Milwaukee Art Museum (Taft Museum July/August 2007. grosas, trans. Fabián Chueca and Teresa of Art, 2007). Theresa Leininger-Miller, University Sans (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2006); Robert Randolf Coleman (Notre Dame of Cincinnati, has published “A’Lelia review of Paintings for the Planet King: University) and Babette Bohn (Texas Walker” and “Madam C.F. Walker,” Philip IV and the Buen Retiro Palace, Christian University) have published in Encyclopedia of African American ed. Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos (Museo The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and History, 1896-Present: From the Age of Nacional del Prado, 2005) in caa.reviews Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art Segregation to the Twenty-first Century (5 July 2006); and “The Standardization (Georgia Museum of Art, January 2008). (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and Management of Digital Media for and “James P. Ball,” “Palmer Hayden,” Instruction in the History of Art,” VRA Andrew E. Hershberger, Bowling and “Albert Alexander Smith,” in Bulletin 34 no. 2 (Summer 2007). Green State University, has recently pub- African American National Biography lished “The Medium Was the Method: (Oxford University Press and Harvard Marcella Sirhandi, Oklahoma State Photography and Iconography at the University, forthcoming). University, has published Modern Indian Index,” in Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Molly Lindner, Kent State University Works on Paper (Exh. Cat., University of Computing, eds. A. Bentkowska-Kafel, et – Stark Campus, has published “The Georgia, Athens, 2006). She has also al (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007), 63-76. Woman From Frosinone: Honorific published Lubna Agha: Points of Reference He is also the lead author of a forthcom- Portrait Statues of Imperial Women,” The (FOMA, Karachi, Pakistan, 2006). ing article with seven interdisciplinary Memoirs of the American Academy of Rome, co-authors entitled “The Ripple Effect: 51 (2006/2007). Lessons from a Research and Teaching
Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, April 3-5, 2008 Call For Papers PROPOSALS ARE DUE ON DECEMBER 15, 2007. They Session chair: Helen M. Nagata should be typed, single-spaced, no longer than 250 words. Assistant Professor of Art History Remember to include/attach a c.v., and indicate your MAHS School of Art membership status. All conference participants must be Art History Division MAHS members at the time of the conference. Session chairs Northern Illinois University will notify applicants about their decisions by February 1, DeKalb, IL 60115 2008. It is strongly recommended that submissions be emailed (815) 753-7863 as MSWORD documents to the web addresses listed below [email protected] with a subject line that includes “MAHS.” Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art African Art This session will showcase new research in European art, This session seeks to highlight the diversity of approaches that architecture, and urbanism c. 1600-1800. Priority will be characterizes the field of African art as it is studied today. Of given to proposals that emphasize methodological approaches particular interest are papers that query the boundaries of the to problems. Topics related to European colonial possessions of field in terms of media or methodology, that are cross-cultural the period are also encouraged. in scope, or that emphasize connections to other areas of art Session Chair: John Beldon Scott history. University of Iowa Session Chair: Mark D. DeLancy [email protected] Dept. of Art and Art History DePaul University Byzantine Connections 1150 W. Fullerton Ave., 3rd Floor This panel explores the complexities of cultural and artistic Chicago, Il 60614-2204 exchange between Byzantium and its neighbors. Papers that (773) 325-8601, Fax: (773) 325-1950 challenge textbook notions of Byzantine art and examine [email protected] artistic connections across political or religious boundaries are especially welcome. Papers investigating any chronological American Art, 1938-1950 aspect of Byzantine art and architectural history will also be The impact of impending World War and the immediate considered. post-war years provided many paths for American artistic Session Chair: Elena Boeck expression. Scholars are encouraged to explore the artistic 1150 W. Fullerton Ave, 3rd Floor responses to the War and to the Bomb, the demise of realism as Art and Art History Department well as the surviving forms of magic realism, surrealism, social DePaul University realism, and the spiritual and religious responses to secular Chicago, IL 60614 modernism. Papers address these topics in painting, sculpture [email protected] and the decorative arts are welcome. Chicago Architecture and New Urbanism Session Chair: Judith Barter This session invites submissions from scholars working on any Field McCormick Chair of American Art topic that addresses the history of Chicago architecture in new Art Institute of Chicago ways. Also welcome are papers that investigate theories, prin- [email protected] ciples and working models of New Urbanism and sustainable development. Asian Art: Problems, Special Issues Relating to Researching and Exhibiting Asian Art Session chair: Cheryl Bachand This panel invites scholars of any area of South, Southeast, Senior Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs and East Asian Art to present papers on recent research of Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust exhibition projects that have posed unusual problems, raised 931 Chicago Avenue important issues (including benefits), or resulted in unexpected Oak Park, IL 60302 outcomes. A huge challenge for many, Asian art research or (708) 848-1976, ext 242 exhibition projects is how to introduce effectively to the pub- [email protected] lic whole cultures, religions or philosophies, historical eras, The Criticism of Art Criticism artistic genres, literary traditions, or social ideals as they relate Art criticism often finds itself the object of a good deal of criti- to the interpretation of Asian art. Participants are encouraged cism and complaint: that there is no good criticism to read; to share how cultural information relating to Asian art might that nobody reads criticism anyway; that it is necessary but be better synthesized, translated, shared and made relevant to lacking; or that it is superfluous and should be cut out. The today’s public audience. contradictions of this “crisis” of criticism can be hinted at by its simultaneous “death” in periodicals as the publishing venues for
Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, April 3-5, 2008 Call For Papers (continued from page 8) sustained and critical reflection shrink and its “birth” in univer- documents to [email protected]. You must include the sities and art academies as programs of art writing and criticism word “MAHS” somewhere in the subject line of your email to are instituted, or in the antagonisms between the artist, critic ensure proper processing. and art historian as well as the interesting moonlightings that Session Chair: Greg Foster-Rice each does in the other’s job. This session invites the submission Assistant Professor of the History of Photography of papers that grapple with art criticism’s vexed status and rela- Columbia College Chicago tionships within the fields of modern and contemporary art. Are [email protected] there historical models from which we might gain insight? Or, are there illuminating examples of art criticism in the present? Keepin’ It Real: Material, Visual, and Conceptual Practices in Are there different, perhaps more productive ways of framing African the problems or articulating the terms of this “crisis” in art criti- American Art and Its Scholarship cism? The papers in this session will examine how the relationships Session Chair: Annika Marie, Ph.D. between material and visual culture in African American art Visiting Faculty in Art History have contributed to contentious notions of authenticity or Department of Art + Design being “real.” Drawing from sources as diverse as mass produced Columbia College stereotypes to folk traditions, African American artists have long 600 S. Michigan Avenue drawn from high and low sources. Chicago, Illinois 60605 From the sign making practices of landscape painter Edward [email protected] Bannister to the comic book sources in the work of Laylah Ali and Kerry James Marshall to the hip hop portraits of Kehinde Historic Preservation in the 21st Century: New Challenges Wiley, merging sources is common and meaningful. Papers and Innovative Solutions could question the role of exhibition or collecting practices in Since the passage of the National Preservation Act in 1966, the framing our awareness of artist’s source material. Others might field of historic preservation in the United States has developed consider the cumulative effect of bringing the past into the into a highly professional movement, with complex strategies present. How does the meaning of a body of work shift when to protect historic sites and structures. Papers submitted should it moves from street to museum? Or vice versa, what are the illuminate the complicated techniques used to achieve success in implications of vernacular artists quoting canon? Moreover, historic preservation issues in the new century. how, do we as art historians perpetuate this essentializing Session Chair: David Bahlman construction of identity in our scholarship and the shows we President, Landmarks Illinois curate? Please email proposals to both session chairs. 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1315 Session Chairs: Amy Mooney Chicago, IL 60604 Assistant Professor [email protected]. Columbia College Chicago: The History of Photography as the Study of Photographs [email protected] Photography has undergone a fairly significant shift in the AND Kymberly Pinder past few decades – from the rapid growth of digital technolo- Associate Professor gies to the ascendance of the medium within contemporary School of the Art Institute of Chicago art collections. Yet despite all the resultant theorizing about [email protected] photography (as idea, technology, and cultural phenomenon), there is paradoxically little written about specific photographs, Medieval Art and Architecture at least compared to the historiography of art. This is further This session invites proposals for papers that consider any reflected in the fact that our subfield is called the “History of topic in the history of western medieval art and architecture Photography,” not the “History of Photographs,” thus empha- from late antiquity through the 15th century. Intentionally sizing process over product. Working against the grain, this broad in its focus and designed to transcend national and session invites participants to think about specific photographs cultural boundaries, this session particularly welcomes papers as objects, commodities, and experiential phenomenon with dis- that shift the interpretive emphasis of what is conventionally tinctive material, economic, historical and/or phenomenological thought of as medieval “art,” a concept called into question in qualities. Virtually any subject matter is open to consideration recent years by scholars in the field, from aesthetic or formalist – from anonymous daguerreotypes to photoessays in LIFE mag- toward function, agency, presentation and reception. Papers azine to Andreas Gursky’s mural-sized prints to digital images extending disciplinary boundaries and utilizing interdisciplin- on cameraphone screens. The goal is not to ignore the broad ary approaches and methodologies are particularly encouraged. theoretical ramifications of “photograph” as a category, but Submissions from postgraduate students are most welcome for to examine them from the perspective of the close visual and consideration. material analysis of specific photographs and/or photographic reproductions. Submission should be emailed as MSWORD Jeff Koons Rabbit 1986 Stainless steel Partial Gift of Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson Collection Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago, Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 Illinois Gelatin silver print, Gift of Frederick B. Scheel In Jeff Koons Minneapolis Institute of Arts — Minneapolis, Minnesota May 31, 2008 – In The Search to See: Photographs from the Collection of September 21, 2008 Frederick B. Scheel, July 7 2007 – November 4, 2007 Museum of Minneapolis Institute of Art Contemporary Art, Chicago
Paul Cezanne Man in a Blue Smock c. 1896-97 Oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum – Fort Worth, Texas In The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso June 17, 2007 – September 16, 2007 Kimbell Art Museum
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks1942 Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection Art Institute of Chicago, In Edward Hopper, February 16, 2008 – May 11, 2008 Art Institute of Chicago
10 George Caleb Bingham, The County Election, 1851-52 Oil on canvas, Museum purchase Saint Louis Art Museum – Saint Louis, Missouri Breguet & Fils, Quarter-Repeater Watch In Bingham: The Making of “The County Election About 1810, Gold and enamel October 12, 2007 – March 9, 2008 Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Saint Louis Art Museum Photograph ©1999 by John Bigelow Taylor, New York, New York In Jewels of Time: Watches from the Munson- Williams-Proctor Art Institute November 30, 2007 – January 27, 2008 Taft Museum of Art – Cincinnati, Ohio
Piero di Cosimo Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels, c. 1505. Oil on panel Lacy Armour Fund Art Institute of Chicago – Edward Hopper, Nighthawks1942 Chicago, Illinois Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection Art Institute of Chicago, In Edward Hopper, February 16, 2008 – May 11, 2008 Art Institute of Chicago
11 Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, April 3-5, 2008 Call For Papers (continued from page 9) Session Chair: Susan Solway or other modes of cultural transfer and exchange, while not Department of Art and Art History required for inclusion on the panel, it will nonetheless be a plus. DePaul University, 1150 W. Fullerton Ave. Questions about the panel sent by email (shc@northwestern. Chicago, IL 60614 edu) will be promptly and cheerfully answered. Tel: (773) 325-4121 Session Chair: Hollis Clayson [email protected]. Northwestern University Narration and Naturalism in Renaissance Art [email protected] This session will explore the relationship between the story- Northern European Art, 1400-1600: A Session in Honor of telling functions of Early Modern art (sculpture, painting, Charles D. Cuttler prints, manuscripts, tapestry, etc.) and their attempts at veri- Session Chair: Burton Dunbar similitude, or naturalism. Ideally, the session will deal with University of Missouri-Kansas City a broad range of narratives—religious, historical, political, or [email protected] mythological themes—and come from a variety of European regions to explore regional preferences or patterns. Among the Open Session issues that could be addressed are: Are techniques that con- The Open Session is intended to provide a showcase for schol- tribute to “naturalism” useful (or not) in story telling? How do arly work-in-progress whose subject matter doe not readily fit the technical requirements of a medium affect the relationship into any of the designated historical and thematic sessions. between naturalism and narration? Do regional traditions in Session Chair: Simone Zurawski literary narratives inform the creation of visual images? What is Department of Art and Art History the function of narratives executed in a “realistic” mode? Papers DePaul University may deal with one region or type of narrative image or present 1150 W. Fullerton comparative examples of works of art that tell stories. Chicago, IL 60614 Session Chair: Ann M. Roberts, Lake Forest College (773) 325-7228 Professor of Art [email protected] Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 [email protected] Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art of Latin America Submissions are welcomed on any aspect of Latin American art Nineteenth-Century American Art, Science and Technology and architecture from the Pre-Columbian period until indepen- As our ability to conceptualize and visualize the physical world dence in the 19th century. expands steadily outward (into the far reaches of the universe) Session Chair: Virginia E. Miller and inward (into increasingly complex images of the body), Department of Art History the historical intersections of art, science and technology have University of Illinois at Chicago assumed greater significance for historians of American art. (312) 413-2467 Recent scholarship has been far-ranging, investigating the arts in [email protected] relation to evolutionary theory, kinesthetics, vision, and percep- tion, to name just a few. Deliberately broad in focus, this panel Public Art in Chicago invites proposals that give new consideration to the relationships From the civic sculptures of the Gilded Age through the Sixties between any aspect of 19th century American visual culture (in era exemplified by the mural movement and the Picasso, to the all media) and scientific and technological advances. extraordinary success of Millennium Park, Chicago has been Session Chair: Sarah E. Kelly and continues to be a major site for the creation of public art. Associate Curator of American Art In addition, its art schools, universities, and colleges have edu- Art Institute of Chicago cated generations in the theory and practice of public art. This [email protected] session will examine the evolving role of public art in Chicago. Papers for presentation are sought on all aspects of public art Nineteenth-Century European Art particular to the city. Topics could range from specific studies This is an open session addressing any and all nineteenth-cen- of works of public art, their genesis, reception, an analysis of tury European works of art, design, and other visual cultural their place in present-day guides to the city, etc., to the pedago- artifacts. Papers are invited that will focus closely and exhaus- gy of public art in Chicago: its history, theory and/or practice. tively upon a single work or an ensemble of closely-related SessionChair: Levy Smith works. Papers that engage current historiographic and theoreti- [email protected] cal debates, build upon hitherto unknown or unused evidence, and deploy an interdisciplinary perspective will be especially welcome. If a paper studies conditions of transnationality
12 Midwest Art History Society Annual Call for Submissions Conference, April 3-5, 2008 Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art is seeking submis- Call For Papers (continued from page 12) sions for future issues. The journal publishes articles dealing with all time periods, cultures, media, and/or methodologies Twentieth-Century American Art within the field of art history. Manuscripts to be consid- This panel is an open session addressing any aspect of art ered should be sent to: Lillian H. Zirpolo, 255 Glen Road, history on topics in 20th-century art of the United States. Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey 07677 and Joanna Gardner- Proposals are particularly encouraged on topics that address Huggett, Art Department, DePaul University, 1150 W. current historiographical and theoretical debates in the field, Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614-2204. For further analyze significant new evidence, address understudied art and/ information, consult the journal’s web site (www.arthistory. or approach topics from an interdisciplinary perspective. In rutgers.edu/aurora). addition, proposals that engage with questions concerning the Women’s Arts News is seeking front-page, biographical articles increasing globalization of U.S. culture and the internationaliza- about well-known women visual artists, from any time tion of art markets and debates throughout the 20th Century period, art movement, style or medium. Articles should be will be particularly of interest. Applicants may also consider that written for a general audience. As biographical essays, the the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting two major shows in submissions should contain factual information about the 2008 on Hopper and Homer, respectively, and wish to investi- person’s life; analysis of art work is not needed. Length is 700 gate complementary topics. Nevertheless, all proposals will be words or fewer.Submission preferred via email at the web site considered for a balanced and dynamic panel. Questions or (www.womenstudiocenter.org). For more information call proposals can be sent to [email protected] . 718-361-5649. Session Chair: Paul B. Jaskot DePaul University [email protected] Graduate Student Fellowships, Women Artists and Patrons in Early Modern Europe This session invites papers which consider the cultural dynam- Grants, and News ics implicit in women’s creation and patronage of art in the Three students from the University of Missouri-Columbia have early modern period. Papers might explore such issues as the received external fellowships to support their dissertation projects ways female artists and patrons absorbed dominant cultural this year. Megan Thomsen is at the American School of Classical ideals and concepts of gender but also challenged these in their Research in Athens, Greece; Robert Darby is at the Albright practice; how they negotiated agency; or how they created iden- Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem; and Stephanie tity. Participants may examine the topic either through a study Pryor is at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, of specific artists or patrons or through a broader treatment of Jordan. these issues in their relation to art. Session Chair: Marilyn Dunn Self-Portrait 4 Associate Professor Department of Fine and Performing Arts 2003 Loyola University Chicago In Persian Visions: Mundelein Center 905 Contemporary 6525 North Sheridan Road Photography from Iran Chicago, IL 60626 September 29, 2007 (773) 508-8307 – December 30, 2007 [email protected] University of Michigan Museum of Art — Ann Arbor, Michigan
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13 MAHS Member Museums and Galleries Contacts, websites and e-mail addresses* *Please contact the editor ([email protected]) to Cincinnati Art Museum—Cincinnati, Ohio Detroit Institute of Arts—Detroit, Michigan report changes in this listing. www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org www.dia.org Akron Art Museum—Akron, Ohio Natalie Hastings, Assistant Director of Pam Marcil www.akronartmuseum.org Communications 313-833-7899 t Elizabeth Quirk Sheeler, [email protected] [email protected] Communications Officer 513-639-2954 t 313-833-1732 t [email protected] 513-639-2888 f 313-833-7881 f 330-376-9186 x 213 t Contemporary Arts Center—Cincinnati, Figge Art Museum—Davenport, Iowa 330-376-1180 f Ohio www.figgeartmuseum.org University of Akron, Mary Schiller Myers www.contemporaryartscenter.org Angela Carlson School of Art—Akron, Ohio Sarah Hawkins, Public Relations Manager [email protected] www.uakron.edu/art [email protected] 563-326-7890 Shelly Gracon, Art Events Coordinator 513-345-8415 t 319-326-7876 f [email protected] Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland— Flint Institute of Arts—Flint, Michigan 330-972-5951 t Cleveland, Ohio www.flintarts.org 330-972-5960 f www.MOCAcleveland.org [email protected] Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Kelly Bird, Director of External Affairs Rachelle Richert, Public Relations College—Oberlin, Ohio [email protected] 810-237-7304 t www.oberlin.edu/~allenart 216-421-8671 t 810-234-1692 f 216-421-0737 f Leslie Miller Fort Wayne Museum of Art—Fort Wayne, [email protected] Cleveland Institute of Art, The Reinberger Indiana 440-775-8670 t Galleries—Cleveland, Ohio www.fwmoa.org 440-775-8799 f www.cia.edu/gallery reinberger Linda Dykhuizen, Public Information Art Institute of Chicago—Chicago, Illinois Linda Zeck Coordinator www.artic.edu/aic [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 216-421-7403 t 219-422-6467 t Eileen Harakal or John Foley Hindman, Dept. 216-421-7438 f 219-422-1374 f of Public Affairs Cleveland Museum of Art—Cleveland, Ohio Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art— 312-443-3626 t www.clemusart.com Norman, Oklahoma 312-443-0193 f Julie Limpach, Marketing and www.ou.edu/fjjma Brunnier Art Museum—Ames, Iowa Communication Assistant Stephanie Royse www.iastate.edu [email protected] [email protected] Dana Michels, Curator of Exhibitions 216-707-2265 t 405-329-8233 t and Collections 216-229-5095 f 405-325-7696 f [email protected] Cleveland State University, The Cleveland Frederik Meijer Gardens—Grand Rapids, 515-294-7087 t State University Art Gallery—Cleveland, Michigan 515-294-7070 f Ohio www.meijergardens.org Buffalo Bill Historical Center—Cody, www.csuohio.edu Sally Littlefair, Public Relations Coordinator Wyoming Mary Grodeck [email protected] www.bbhc.org [email protected] 616-975-3143 t Jan Jones, Communications Department 216-687-2290 t 616-957-5792 f 216-687-9229 f [email protected] Freeport Arts Center—Freeport, Illinois 307-587-4771 t Cranbrook Academy of Art Art Museum— Becky Connors, Director 307-587-5714 f Bloomfield Hills, Michigan [email protected] Centre College, Aegon Gallery—Danville, www.cranbrookart.edu/museum 815-235-9755 t Kentucky Gregory Wittkopp, Director 815-235-6015 f [email protected] www.centre.edu Gilcrease Museum—Tulsa, Oklahoma Judith PointerJia, Gallery Coordinator 248-645-3323 t 248-645-3324 f www.gilcrease.org [email protected] The Wallas Group 859-238-5469 t Dallas Museum of Art—Dallas, Texas Susan Witt 859-238-6977 f www.dm-art.org [email protected] Chazen Museum of Art—Madison, Ellen Key, Communications Department 918-742-5699 t Wisconsin 214-922-1344 t 918-747-2025 f www.chazen.wisc.edu Jeanne Chvosta, Communications Department Patricia Powell 214-922-1376 t [email protected] 214-954-0174 f 608-263-2068 t 608-263-8188 f 14 MAHS Member Museums and Galleries Current PR Contacts, websites and e-mail addresses* Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of University of Kentucky Art Museum— Miami University Art Museum, Miami Art, Marquette University—Milwaukee, Lexington, Kentucky University—Oxford, Ohio Wisconsin www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum www.muohio.edu/artmuseum www.marquette.edu/haggerty Carolyn Payton, Public Relations Coordinator Kelly Albin, Coordinator of Audience www.marquette.edu/haggerty [email protected] Development Tina Sosnowski 859-257-5716 t [email protected] [email protected] 859-323-1994 f 513-529-5007 t 414-288-3657 t Kimbell Art Museum—Fort Worth, Texas 513-529-6555 f 414-288-5415 f www.kimbellart.org University of Michigan Museum of Art— Indiana University Art Museum— Mindy Riesenberg Ann Arbor, Michigan Bloomington, Indiana [email protected] www.umma.umich.edu www.indianaedu/~iuam 817-332-8451 x 241 Stephanie Rieke, Public Relations Emily Powell, Manager of External Relations 817-877-1264 f [email protected] [email protected] Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois 734-763-UMMA t 812-855-5445 t at Urbana-Champaign 734-764-3731 f 812-855-1023 f www.art.uiuc.edu/kam Milwaukee Art Museum—Milwaukee, Indianapolis Museum of Art— Diane Schumacher Wisconsin Indianapolis, Indiana [email protected] www.mam.org www.ima.art.org 217-333-9866 t Pam Kassner, Senior Director, Marketing and Katie Zarich, Public Relations Manager Krasl Art Center—St. Joseph, Missouri Communications [email protected] www.krasl.org [email protected] 317-923-1331 x295 t [email protected] 414-224-3240 t 317-931-1978 f Cara Kuball Vicky Reddin, Communications Manager University of Iowa Museum of Art— 616-983-0271 t [email protected] Iowa City, Iowa 616-983-0275 f 414-224-3243 t www.uiowa.edu/~artmus Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State Minneapolis Institute of Arts—Minneapolis, Brad Chenoweth, Director of Development University—East Lansing, Michigan Minnesota Betty Breazeale www.msu.edu/~kamuseum www.artsmia.org [email protected] Susan Bandes, Director Anne-Marie Wagener, Director of External 319-355-1727 t [email protected] Affairs 319-335-3677 f 517-353-9836 t [email protected] Joslyn Art Museum—Omaha, Nebraska 517-353-6577 f 612-870-3280 t 612- 870-3169 f www.joslyn.org Julie Thomson, Outreach Coordinator Amy Rummel, Media Relations Coordinator [email protected] Museum of Art and Archaeology, University [email protected] 517-353-9834 t of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri 402-342-3300 t 517-355-6577 f www.research.missouri.edu/museum 402-342-2376 f University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Art Bruce T. Cox, Coordinator, Membership, Institute—Louisville, Kentucky Marketing & Development Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, The [email protected] University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, www.art.louisville.edu John Begley 573-882-6724 t Michigan 573-884-4039 f www.umich.edu/~kelseydb [email protected] Todd Gerring 502-852-6794 t Museum of Contemporary Art— [email protected] 502-852-6791 f Chicago, Illinois 734-764-9304 t Loyola University Museum of Art—Chicago, www.MCAChicago.org 734-763-8976 f Illinois Carla Loring [email protected] Kent State University, The Kent State http://luc.edu/luma/ Maeve Kiley, Director of Communications 312-397-3834 t University School of Art Gallery—Kent, Ohio 312-397-3934 f www.kent.edu [email protected] Dr. Fred T. Smith, Director 312-915-7712 t University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Sheldon [email protected]/art Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture 330-672-7853 t University—Dallas, Texas Garden—Lincoln, Nebraska 330-672-4729 f www.smu.edu/meadows/museum www.sheldon.unl.edu/default Janice Driesbach Kent State University, Gallery 138—Kent, Craig Boleman, Manager, Marketing & Public Relations [email protected] Ohio 402-472-2461 t www.kent.edu/art/138 [email protected] H. Anderson Turner III, Gallery Director 214-768-3785 t Gallery [email protected] or [email protected] 330-672-9772 t 330-672-9773 f 15 MAHS Member Museums and Galleries Current PR Contacts, websites and e-mail addresses* Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art—Kansas City, Speed Art Museum—Louisville, Kentucky Wayne State University, The Elaine L. Jacob Missouri www.speedmuseum.org Gallery—Detroit, Michigan www.nelson-atkins.org Penny Peavler www.art.wayne.edu Scott Stuart [email protected] Sandra Dupret [email protected] 502-634-2735 t [email protected] 816-751-1278 x 3 502-634-2727 f 313-577-2423 t 816-561-7154 f Spencer Museum of Art—Lawrence, Kansas 313-577-8935 f Oakland University Art Gallery—Rochester, www.ukans.edu/~sma Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Michigan Sally Hayden, Public Relations Director University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, www.oakland.edu [email protected] Minnesota Jacky Leow 785-864-0135 t www.hudson.acad.umn.edu/WAMinfo [email protected] 785-864.3112 f Ann Benrud, Director of Public Affairs 248-370-3005 t Sheldon Swope Art Museum—Terre Haute, [email protected] 248-370-4208 f Indiana 612-625-9685 t Philbrook Museum of Art—Tulsa, Oklahoma www.swope.org 612-625-9630 f www.philbrook.org Nathan Richie, Curator of Collections West Bend Art Museum—West Bend, Peggy Striegel, Marketing Consultant and Programs Wisconsin [email protected] [email protected] www.wbartmuseum.com 918-748-5385 t 812-238-1676 t Thomas Lidtke 918-743-4230 f 812-238-1677 f [email protected] Saint Louis Art Museum—St. Louis, Missouri Taft Museum of Art—Cincinnati, Ohio 262-334-9638 t www.slam.org www.taftmuseum.org 262-334-8080 f Kendra Gramlich, Media Relations Officer Tricia Suit, Public Relations Manager Wichita Art Museum—Wichita, Kansas [email protected] [email protected] www.wichitaartmuseum.org 314-655-5493 t 513-684-4526 t Ashle Stratton, Public Relations Coordinator 314-726-7974 f 513-241-7762 f [email protected] Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis— Toledo Museum of Art — Toledo, Ohio 316-268-4985 t St. Louis, Missouri www.toledomuseum.org 316-268-4980 f www.contemporarystl.org Sara Stacy, Marketing Assistant Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum— Jennifer C. Gaby, Manager of Public Relations, [email protected] Wausau, Wisconsin Marketing and Events 419-254-5771, x 7301 www.lywam.org [email protected] 419-254-5773 f Marcia Theel 314-535-4660 t University of Tulsa School of Art, Alexandre [email protected] 314-535-1226 f Hogue Gallery—Tulsa, Oklahoma [email protected] Saint Louis University, Samuel Cupples www.utulsa.edu 715-845-7010 t House and McNamee Gallery—St. Louis, Thomas Martin 715-845-7103 f Missouri [email protected] College of Wooster Art Museum— www.slu.edu/the_arts/cupples/mcnamee 918-631-2734 t Wooster, Ohio 314-977-3025 t 918-631-3423 f www.acswooster.edu Margaret Anthony Walker Art Center—Minneapolis, Minnesota Kitty McManus Zurko, Director 314-977-3575 t www.walkerart.org [email protected] 314-977-3581 f Karen Gysin, Associate Director, Public 330-263-2375 or 330-263-2495 t University of St. Thomas, Art Space Relations 330-263-2633 f Gallery—Minneapolis, Minnesota [email protected] Wright State University, University Art www.stthomas.edu 612-375-7651 t Galleries—Dayton, Ohio Sue Focke 612-375-7618 f www.wright.edu/artgalleries [email protected] Washington University Gallery of Art— Barbara Siwecki 651-962-5560 t St. Louis, Missouri [email protected] 651-962-6410 f www.artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/artarch.html 937-775-2973 t Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Mark S. Weil, Director 937-775-4082 f Dame—Notre Dame, Indiana Stephanie Parrish www.nd.edu/~sniteart [email protected] Gina Costa, Marketing & Public Affairs [email protected] Specialist 314-935-5490 t [email protected] 314-935-7282 f 574-631-4720 t 574-631-8501 f
16 Officers, Board and Committee Members as of October 1, 2007 Officers E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (312) 857-7134 President Michelle Fricke (2010) E-mail: [email protected] Fred Smith (2008) Department of Liberal Arts Paula Wisotzki (2008) School of Art, Kent State University Kansas City Art Institute Loyola University Kent, OH 44242 4415 Warwick Blvd. Department of Fine and Performing Arts Phone (330) 672-1359, Kansas City MO 64111 Department Fax (330) 672-4729 Phone (816) 802-3386 Mundelein Center 904 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 6525 N. Sheridan Road Secretary Laura Gelfand (2008) Chicago, IL 60626 Jane Campbell Hutchison (2008) Myers School of Art Phone (773) 508-8306 University of Wisconsin-Madison The University of Akron Fax (773) 508-7515 Chazen Museum of Art Akron, OH 44325-7801 E-mail: [email protected] 800 University Avenue Phone (330) 972-8055 Conference Chair (Chicago 2008) Madison, WI 53706 Fax (330) 972-5960 Paula Wisotzki Phone (608) 263-2349 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] (See Board) Patricia J. Graham (2009) Site Coordinator for Annual Conference Treasurer 1641 Rhode Island Street Robert Randolf Coleman (2008) Lawrence, KS 66044 Judith Mann 715G Hesburgh Library Phone, Fax: 785-841-1477 (See Officers) University of Notre Dame E-Mail: [email protected] Committees Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629 Phone (574) 631-4547 Heidi J. Hornik (2009) Awards E-mail: [email protected] Baylor University Joe Becherer Department of Art (See Board) Past President One Bear Place #97263 Judith W. Mann (2008) Waco, Texas 76798-7263 Leesa Fanning The Saint Louis Art Museum Phone: (254) 710-4548 (See Board) One Fine Arts Drive Fax: (254) 710-1566 Heidi J. Hornik St. Louis, MO 63110-1380 E-mail: [email protected] (See Board) Phone (314) 655-5218 Patricia J. Graham Fax (314) 721-6172 Gustav Medicus (2008) (See Board) E-mail: [email protected] School of Art Art Building Communications & Newsletter Archivist Kent State University Geraldine Fowle Kent, OH 44242 Randy Coleman Department of Art and Art History Phone (330) 672-1364 (See Board) University of Missouri-Kansas City Fax (330) 672-4729 Sally Metzler 5015 Holmes E-mail: [email protected] (See Board) Kansas City, MO 63110-2499 Sally Metzler (2008) David Stark Phone (816) 235-2993 (See Board) E-mail: [email protected] Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive Paula Wisotzki Founder Chicago, IL 60605 (See Board) Charles D. Cuttler Phone (312) 922-9410 Membership 1691 Ridge Road E-mail: [email protected] Iowa City, IA 52245 Randy Coleman Phone (319) 337-2208 Costa Petridis (2010) (See Board) E-mail: [email protected] Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Laura Gelfand Board of Directors Cleveland, OH 44106 (See Board) Joseph Becherer (2010) Phone (216) 707-2678 Judy Mann Frederik Meijer Gardens and E-mail: [email protected] (See Board) Sculpture Park Marcella Sirhandi (2008) Janet Snyder 1000 East Beltline NE Department of Art (See Board) Grand Rapids, MI 49525 Oklahoma State University Nominating Phone (616) 977-7685 Stillwater, OK 74078 Michelle Fricke Fax (619) 957-5792 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] (See Board) Janet Snyder (2010) Linnea Stonesifer Dietrich (2008) Marcella Sirhandi Department of Art (See Board) Art Department NAB116 College of Creative Arts Miami University P.O. Box 6111 Linnea Stonesifer Dietrich Oxford, OH 45056 45 Huckleberry Lane (See Board) Phone (513) 529-7421 West Virginia University Publications Fax (513) 529-1532 Morgantown, WV 26506 Jane Hutchison E-mail: [email protected] Phone (304) 594-0261 (See Officers) E-mail: [email protected] Leesa Fanning (2010) Gus Medicus Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art David Stark (2010) (See Board) 4525 Oak Street Museum Education Kansas City, MO 63112 Art Institute of Chicago Costa Petridis Phone (816) 751-0414 111 S. Michigan Avenue (See Board) Fax (816) 931-7208 Chicago, IL 60603
17 Midwest People/People in the Midwest Upcoming Lectures Colleges and Universities On Thursday, October 25, 2007 at Ellen Adams has been appointed Bridget Sandhoff has been hired as 5:30 p.m. the University of Michigan Assistant Professor at Miami University, a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Museum of Art will present Lynn Oxford, Ohio. She recently received her Department of Art and Art History at Nicholas and The Rape of Europa as Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She the conclusion of UMMA’s Nazi-era NYU. earned her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. provenance research project. The museum’s director, James Steward, Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University, Jeffrey Schrader has been appointed will moderate the program. has organized an exhibition that will open assistant professor of art history at the at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, on March College of Arts and Media, University David J. Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux 14, 2008: “Disegni di Guido Reni e la of Colorado at Denver. His interests lie Professor Emeritus of Film Studies, scuola reniana.” An exhibition catalogue in early modern Europe and Spanish Department of Communication authored by Bohn will be published in America. He was previously a lecturer Arts, University of Wisconsin conjunction with the exhibition. at the Department of History of Art, – Madison, will present Mizoguchi: Secrets of the Exquisite Image on Elizabeth C. Childs has been named University of Michigan. Sunday, November 11, 2007 at the Chair of the Department of Art History Kristin Schwain has been promoted Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, and Archeology at Washington University from assistant professor to associate Wisconsin. in St. Louis. She succeeds William E. professor with tenure in the Department Wallace in that role. of Art History and Archaeology at the Carter Wiseman, lecturer, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Sara E. Orel has been promoted to University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a Haven Connecticut, will present Professor in the Department of Art specialist in American art. Michael Yonan Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and at Truman State University, Kirksville, completes his transition to teaching in Style on Friday, January 11, 2008 at Missouri. the same department. Yonan was a new assistant professor last year, but was also 6:00 p.m. at the Kimbell Art Museum, Heather Pulliam has recently left Western on a research leave supported by the Getty Fort Worth, Texas. Kentucky University to accept a position at Institute; this fall he began his teaching Philip Fisher of Harvard University the University of Edinburgh. - - schedule with courses in 18th and 19th will speak on institutional collecting century European art. the work of Jasper Johns at the Art Institute of Chicago at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 6, 2007. Midwest People/People in the Midwest Galleries and Museums Gerie Greenspan has been named Cleveland Museum of Art. He has taken Associate Director of Development at the a leave of absence from Case Western 2006 MAHS Graduate University of Michigan Museum of Art, Reserve University for the current aca- Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was most demic year. Student Award recently Executive Director of the City The Museum of Art and Archaeology The MAHS Graduate Student Opera House Heritage Association in at the University of Missouri-Columbia Presentation Award is granted to the best Traverse City, Michigan. announces the appointment of Mary paper presented by a graduate student at Christopher Monkhouse has been Pixley as the Associate Curator of the MAHS annual conference. Candidates name the Eloise W. Martin Curator and European and American Art. She are nominated by their panel chairs and the Chair of the Department of European earned her Ph.D. at the University of winning paper is selected by a committee of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Pennsylvania. MAHS board members. The prize is gener- Chicago. From 1995, he has been James Jacob Proctor is the University of ally a book in the winner’s field of interest in Ford Bell Curator and head of the Michigan Museum of Art’s new Associate art history. Department of Architecture, Design, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts, Crafts and Sculpture at The paper selected for the award at the Art. He was a curatorial fellow at the the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where he 2007 conference in Indianapolis was by Harvard University Art Museums, and is also served as Chief Curator from 2000 Kathryn E. O’Rourke, Ph.D. candidate at completing his doctorate in modern and to 2004. the University of Pennsylvania. Her paper contemporary art at Harvard. was entitled “Modern Architecture and Constantine Petridis has recently been Modern Health in Mexico City.” promoted to Curator of African Art at the
18 Midwest Art History Society 35th Annual Conference Registration Form April 2-5, 2008
Hosted by Loyola University, Columbia College and the Art Institute of Chicago, with the partnership of DePaul University, Lake Forest College, and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Further assistance has been provided by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Terra Foundation for the Arts. Name______
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Conference Registration Fee (includes meeting materials, tea on Thursday afternoon, and lunch on Friday) ______Early Bird Member Fee (by February 15, 2008) $120
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Special Events (advance registration and a nominal fee is required for the following events) ______Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Friday evening reception $10.00
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Paula Wisotzki Associate Professor of Art History Department of Fine and Performing Arts Mund. Center #904 Loyola University 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60626
Hotel accommodations
The conference hotel is the Club Quarters, 111 W. Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. Conference rates will apply for reservations made on or before February 15, 2008. Please call the Club Quarters Reservations Office between 7:00 am. and 9:00 pm. EST at 212-575-0006. Reference the group code “DEP402” when you are making your reservation. Specific room rates will be determined in November 2007 when updated information will be posted at www.mahsonline.org. Expected rates are $148.00 single or $163.00 double plus tax.
For additional hotel choices and information about the city of Chicago: www.cityofchicago.org
Questions: Please email Paula Wisotzki at [email protected]
19 Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Honors Amy Golahny, Lycoming College, and Special Collections. In the summer Professor of Art History, Middle Williamsport, Pennsylvania held the Ailsa of 2007 he was also a visiting scholar at Tennessee State University, has been Mellon Bruce Senior Visiting Fellowship the Arizona Senior Academy, University named “Contributing Editor: at CASVA in January-February 2007, of Arizona, where he gave five lectures Alabama+Tennessee” for the journal Art and was awarded a NEH Summer on “Abstract Expressionism: Painting, Papers. Stipend. Photography, Film.” He has also received Theresa Leininger-Miller, Associate his fifth Research and Development Andrew E. Hershberger, Bowling Green Professor of Art History, University of Grant associated with the “Research and State University, is the 2007 Coleman Cincinnati, has received the Faculty Teaching Faculty Learning Community” Dowell Fellow for Study on Experimental Bonus Award for Outstanding Research that he co-founded and facilitates at BG- Works at New York University. He is using Teaching, and Service, for 2003-2006. the award to continue his research into SU’s Center for Teaching, Learning & Paula Wisotzki, Associate Professor of photographic negative prints in NYU’s Technology. Art History, Loyola University Chicago, David Wojnarowicz Archive, Fales Library Wendy Koenig, Assistant was named a Master Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences for 2006- 2007. Would You Like to Serve on the MAHS Board? All members of the Midwest Art History Society are invited to submit suggestions for new board members to members of the Society’s Nominating Committee. Board members are elected on a rotating basis each spring for three-year terms. Anyone interested in serving, or who would like to suggest another member for consideration, should contact a member of the Nominating Committee.
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