January-March 2016 Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud

1 Director's Welcome Reading Women: Rebecca Solnit in Dear Friends, Conversation with Carrie Schneider Portraits tell stories. Some reflect Free with MFA admission how important people want to be Sunday, January 17, 3 p.m. remembered. Others record people as Final Day of Carrie Schneider: Reading Women they were. Sponsored by: Artists have a way of challenging conventions and expectations, of bringing their own insights into play. Of course, we often create our own stories while standing in front of a portrait. Just listen to students in our galleries, some as young as four-years- old. They let their imaginations take flight, something we Carrie Schneider (born in 1979) earned her BFA from Carnegie adults can do, as well. Mellon University in Pittsburgh and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives in New York. She has Our Museum is fortunate to have a wide variety of had solo shows at the Museum of exceptional portraits – from Robert Henri’s masterful Contemporary Art Chicago and the Village Girl – Lily Cow to Élizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun’s Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. She portrait of her daughter Julie to Philip Pearlstein’s sensitive has participated in group exhibitions painting of his favorite model Kilolo Kumanyika. Now we and screenings at the 2011 Pittsburgh are presenting our most expansive exhibition of portraits Biennial at The Andy Warhol to date. Museum, The Kitchen in New York, and the Haggerty Museum of Art at Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches Marquette University in Milwaukee. from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud features 152 rare Her work is in the collections of the portrait drawings and oil sketches from the late eighteenth Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum Photo by Paul Germanos into the twenty-first century. They are drawn from the of Contemporary Photography fascinating collection of noted curator and collector at Columbia College in Chicago, and the Centre Canadien Robert Flynn Johnson. He did not aim for a chronological d’Architecture in Montreal. overview, selecting instead works which interested or moved him. His is a highly personal collection, which has Based in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit is the author of 17 books many gems and just as many surprises. about art, community, the environment, geography, and politics, as well as numerous essays in anthologies and exhibition catalogues. Robb and Susan Hough have also developed a personal Her books include: Hope in the Dark: collection – of guitars – which has inspired us to offer our Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; first exhibition of musical instruments. The classical guitar The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise as we know it today was developed by talented Spanish Built in Hell: The Extraordinary luthiers at the end of the nineteenth century. Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: Major museums have important instruments in their A History of Walking; and River of collection, because, like portraits, they help tell the story Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and of civilization. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New the Technological Wild West. She York, for example, has the 1937 Hauser guitar which the received the National Book Critics legendary Andrés Segovia made famous; we will display Circle Award in criticism and the Photo by Jude Mooney Photography its twin. The MFA Guitar Festival will accompany the Lannan Literary Award for River of exhibition, presenting five concerts by internationally Shadows. She is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair acclaimed musicians and a lecture by a respected guitar- column for Harper’s and is a frequent contributor to the political maker/restorer. We are deeply grateful to Robb and site www.tomdispatch.com. She holds her BA from San Francisco Susan for sharing their exceptional collection with the State University and her MA in journalism from the University of community. California, Berkeley.

We have many other exhibitions and programs, as we Ms. Schneider’s Kim reading Rebecca Solnit (A Field Guide to Getting begin a new year. Art in Bloom 2016, presented by The Lost, 2005) is part of the Reading Women video and exhibition. Margaret Acheson Stuart Society and the MFA, will fill the galleries with gorgeous flowers in the spring, and the popular Beer Project returns. Please join us for a banner season as we begin our 51st year of public service.

Sincerely, On the cover: Vanni Rossi (Italian, 1894-1973) Self-Portrait Smoking (1920) Oil on canvas Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson MFA Photos: Thomas U. Gessler

2 Members’ Opening Reception Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud and The Art of the Classical Guitar CURRENT | UPCOMING | EXHIBITIONS Friday, February 12, 7-9 p.m. Contemplating Character: Cash Bar, Lite Bites Portrait Drawings & Oil Complimentary Valet Parking at the Bayshore Drive entrance Sketches from Jacques-Louis Please RSVP: www.fine-arts.org/rsvp David to Lucian Freud or 727.896.2667, ext. 210. in their grandeur, helplessness, pride, and vulnerability. Every Hazel Hough Wing drawing in this exhibition has moved me deeply in some way, and Saturday, February 13-Sunday, May 29 it is both my conviction and hope that individuals who view this exhibition will make a similar connection and feel the presence of Portraits have captivated humanity throughout time. Just think of the personalities represented who have been drawn and painted the many images of people from around the world and over the over the last two centuries.” centuries that can be seen in the Museum’s galleries. In addition to David and Freud, Mr. Johnson has selected such Lucian Freud, one of our time’s most provocative portrait painters and significant artists as Théodore Rousseau, Edgar Degas, Édouard the grandson of the pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, once Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Elie Nadelman, Frank Stella, and George noted: “I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is Bellows, to name a few. Four drawings are by Adolf von Menzel, why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures whose name may be unfamiliar to many Americans. He was one of from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.” Germany’s most admired artists working in the nineteenth century. Degas called him “the greatest living master.” Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud is the most expansive exhibition In an expressive drawing, Menzel treats his right hand as a portrait, of portraits ever presented at the MFA. It spotlights 152 rare portrait which he drew with his left. Maximilien Luce, imprisoned for his drawings and oil sketches from the late eighteenth into the twenty- anarchist political views, depicts his hand pressing against the wall first century, with most from the nineteenth. Artists from 15 of Mazas Prison. Brassaï focuses on The Hands of Matilda, Paris 5 countries are April 1949. All challenge our conception of the portrait. So, too, do represented, Henry-Bonaventure Monnier’s watercolor, Self-Portrait Dressed as with a large a Woman (1869), Aubrey Vincent Beardsley’s fanciful caricature of number presumably the writer Oscar Wilde (1892), and Charles Henry Sims’ from modernistic Self-Portrait in Distress (about 1928). France and England. Not surprising for a curator, Mr. Johnson was drawn to artist self-portraits and portraits of artists. One of the former is by Dora The works Maar, a talented artist who shared a decade with Pablo Picasso. She are drawn sliced her self-portrait in two, a strong visual suggesting mental from the turmoil. Another is Alfred Hitchcock’s unmistakable Self-Portrait remarkable Profile (around 1960), which introduced his popular TV series Alfred collection Hitchcock Presents to millions of Americans. of Robert Flynn There are two portraits of Jacques-Louis David, one while he was in Johnson, prison. A supporter of the French Revolution, David was imprisoned Curator after the fall of Robespierre and later found favor with Napoleon. Emeritus, There are others of the English Romantic poet-artist William Blake, Achenbach American author Washington Irving, influential British critic- Foundation artist John Ruskin, French symbolist Odilon Redon, and the great for Graphic American realist Thomas Eakins in silhouette. Arts, Fine Arts The exhibition has many other gems, including a miniature portrait Museums of George Washington (around 1795) by an anonymous artist and of San Bonnard’s Crying Woman (about 1890-1895), created in a flowing, Francisco. seemingly spontaneous line. There are even drawings (one of a Devil He has Woman) by the American cartoonist Robert Crumb, who developed a written: cult following for his countercultural comic books like Weirdo. “I am fervently A host of works capture family members, friends, and lovers in drawn to tender moments, and a number resonate with paintings in the the vast Museum’s collection. Contemplating Character was organized by variety of Martha Miller (American, born 1954) Mr. Johnson with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, depictions The Artist’s Daughters (1987) California, in association with Denenberg Fine Arts, West Pastel on paper Hollywood, California. of human Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson beings ©Martha Miller 3 50 Artworks for The works encompass all media and range in date from antiquity to the present day. Large numbers of photographs and prints have 50 Years: been added, as well as choice paintings, contemporary sculpture, decorative arts, and more. The MFA’s comprehensive collection of Second Look world art now numbers approximately 20,000 works – for the most Saturday, January 9 - part due to a legion of loyal donors and friends. Sunday, March 13

For our 50th anniversary, the MFA initiated this project to secure 50 works for the collection. So far, more than 100 works have Marks Made: entered the collection, requiring a second exhibition. A selection Prints by American Women Artists of these gifts will be displayed in the second-floor Works on Paper Gallery and throughout the Museum. “50 for 50” labels will from the 1960s to the Present identify the donations, which will be rotated in the galleries during FINAL DAYS, Through Sunday, January 24 the year.

Hung Liu (American, born China, 1948) FU (Happiness), 2005 Jacquard tapestry Gift of Hazel and William R. Hough in honor of the Museum’s 50th anniversary

Hung Liu (American, born China, 1948) Butterfly Dreams: Thinking (2011) Lithograph on Arches paper with embossed foil Printed by Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum Purchase with funds donated by Martha and Jim Sweeny Image courtesy of Hung Liu

Daniel Vertangen (Dutch, about 1598-before 1684) The Expulsion from Paradise (seventeenth century) Oil on panel Gift of Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert and Michele Kidwell-Gilbert in honor of the Museum’s 50th anniversary 4 Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity I Remember Birmingham Through Sunday, February 14 Lee Malone Gallery In summer 2015, Piotr Janowski made international headlines Through Sunday, February 28, 2016 after creating a large-scale installation at his rented home in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Using aluminum foil, he wrapped every This technically innovative and spiritually inch of his bungalow moving installation is John Scott’s and driveway, as well response to the tragic church bombing in as the palm trees Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, on the property. He 1963. Four girls lost their lives that also added sculptural Sunday morning at the Sixteenth Street elements, reminiscent Baptist Church. This dark day occurred of the human just three weeks after the Rev. Martin ear. Some of his Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have neighbors complained a Dream” speech on the steps of the vociferously, and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. media covered the story extensively. I Remember Birmingham (1997), which will remain on view throughout African John Scott Inspired by the light American History Month in February, is and vegetation of a ritual piece. It provides a quiet place for Florida, Mr. Janowski people to gather and reflect. The artist emphasized that his work is aimed to highlight “about man’s inhumanity to man” and he described it as a “poem to the artistry of nature. their [the girls’] potential. All I can do is scream in their absence for He wrote: “The them.” meticulously applied and highly reflective The glass blocks placed on pedestals bring to mind the dramatic medium invites the cemeteries in his native New Orleans, but the installation is, by no viewer to explore every groove and hair of the bark. It does this means, stark or grim. Lit from within, the blocks are striking and mainly by exceptionally strong reflectance at sharp angles, and an spiritual. They could be viewed as fragments of church windows, unpredictable, scrambled appearance of colors and light coming in once shattered, now transformed through art. Mr. Scott (1940-2007) from the surrounding environment. In the uncovered palm tree, once noted that his brilliant use of color is designed to draw people expected colors and shadows conceal the natural complexity and into the piece. His elegant calligraphy on the blocks records both his beauty to the viewer. Paradoxically, the installation is revealing pain and his hope for the future, conveyed in eloquent poetry. through concealing.” The relief prints on the wall were made from the glass blocks, and Mr. Janowski has now completed an art installation on the in two colors, deep black and palest ivory. These somber images Museum grounds. He applied aluminum foil to eight palm trees provide a dramatic contrast to the glass blocks and encourage a and again attached abstract forms, suggestive of the human ear. dialogue within the space and within the viewer’s heart and mind. While the MFA has previously shown sculpture outside, this is the first time a large-scale, contemporary installation has been created Mr. Scott created for the grounds. I Remember Birmingham at Public art can be a controversial topic, and its context is paramount Graphicstudio, to its understanding. Curiosity raises many issues. How does the the highly perception of a work change with its placement? Does a museum respected setting confer greater acceptance and encourage more engagement? collaborative How does the installation, which can be seen by everyone, enlarge institute at the the Museum’s presence in the community or alter views of the MFA University of itself? What are the similarities and differences between the artist’s South Florida, intent and audience reaction? Tampa that creates fine art Although Curiosity began as a means to explore the land and editions. The MFA light of Florida, Mr. Janowski’s practice is evolving to incorporate is honored to issues of sustainable energy. His goal is to eventually create have I Remember sculpture that generates electricity, resulting in highly functional, Birmingham in contemporary artworks. the collection, an acquisition made Piotr Janowski (born in Poland in 1962) studied at the Academy of possible with Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland and at The School of the Art Institute of funds provided Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at Stawski Gallery, Palace of by The Margaret the Arts, in Cracow; The Polish Museum of America in Chicago; the Acheson Stuart John Scott (American, 1940-2007) Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw; and Society, the MFA’s I Remember Birmingham (detail), 1997 Laudon Studio in Vienna, where he currently lives. dedicated service Seven hand-pigmented glass blocks and organization. seven hand-burnished relief prints on Seichosen paper from the glass blocks Museum Purchase with funds provided by The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society

5 of the musician who took the instrument to new heights. It is now The Art of the in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The MFA will display another 1937 Hauser that has been called “the Classical Guitar sister guitar” to Segovia’s famous instrument. Saturday, February 13-Sunday, May 29 These guitars can be admired for their beauty alone, but that is only Sponsored by the Hough Family Foundation and The Margaret the beginning of the story. The sound produced and interpretations Acheson Stuart Society by talented musicians are central to their full enjoyment. Recordings made on the very instruments on view will allow visitors to hear Classical guitars, also known how they actually sound. In addition, the MFA Guitar Festival will as Spanish guitars, combine offer a host of concerts by world-class musicians. aesthetically pleasing forms and finely crafted woodwork Segovia once noted: “Among God’s creatures, two, the dog and to produce both intricate and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not gorgeous sound. Handmade, to be separated from man” and he felt that his favorite Hauser had the finest guitars take a a mystical quality, which he called “soul.” The Art of the Classical month or more to create. Guitar pays tribute to one of our most beloved instruments. The makers of stringed instruments, called luthiers, spend years perfecting their craft, and their names – Torres, Ramírez, Hauser, Simplicio, Friedrich, Fleta – have become well known among musicians and collectors around the world.

The Art of the Classical Guitar February-May 2016 draws on the collection of Robb and Susan Hough Celebrating The Art of the Classical Guitar and highlights memorable achievements in the history This dynamic series spotlights some of the brightest stars in the of the instrument. Stellar guitar world. Tickets per concert are only $10 for students, $15 examples from the 1840s to for Marly Music Society members, and $20 for non-Marly Music the 1990s will be on view. Society members. Advance tickets for the entire series are $80 This is the first time the MFA (lecture is not included) and must be purchased before the first has presented an exhibition of concert on Thursday, February 25. musical instruments. All Guitar Festival tickets include admission to the entire Museum. Stringed instruments, the Please purchase tickets online at www.fine-arts.org/rsvp/ or call precursors of today’s guitar, 727.896.2667, ext. 210. There are no refunds or exchanges. have been made and played for centuries, but the acoustic Michael Chapdelaine guitar, as it is known today, is Thursday, February 25, 6:30 p.m. a relatively modern creation. Changes and developments Michael Chapdelaine continues to in the guitar’s design in the win over music-lovers around the nineteenth century led to a Hermann Hauser I (German, 1882-1952) world with his superlative technique rich, powerful, and delicate Guitar (1937) on both steel-string and classical Spruce top and Rio rosewood/ sound that expanded the jacaranda back and sides guitars, his expressiveness, and his repertoire for performers. Collection of Robb and Susan Hough versatility as a soloist, composer, and The guitar was transformed arranger/producer. He is equally at from a minor or supporting home in New York’s Lincoln Center and Austin’s famous Cactus instrument to the center of attention in concert halls. Café and equally adept at Bach, country, R&B, and pop.

The Spanish luthier Antonio de Torres (1817-1892) is considered His impressive awards helped launch his career. He is the only the father of the modern guitar, and among collectors, his work is guitarist to win first prize in both the Guitar Foundation of likened to Stradivarius in the violin market. He brought together America International Competition and the National Fingerstyle alterations in size, shape, scale distance, internal construction, and Championship at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival. He also bridge design still found in guitars today. Of the approximately earned first prize in the Music Teachers National Association 300 guitars he made, less than 100 have survived. The exhibition Guitar Competition and was twice selected for the coveted National features an impressive example made entirely by Torres from Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant. birds-eye maple for the sides and back and Spanish pine for the soundboard. His Sonata Romántica CD (re-released as Mexico) has been praised as one of the instrument’s definitive recordings. Acoustic Guitar raved: Luthiers followed Torres’s lead, making further refinements, but few “ ... if I were marooned on a desert island with a limited selection of achieved the fame of Germany’s Hermann Hauser I (1882-1952). recordings, this one would be among my choices ... I have seldom The legendary Andrés Segovia, who was very particular about heard a more beautiful album. Other young guitarists have excellent his guitars, received his 1937 Hauser as a gift from the luthier. He technique, but few have such style and musicality, and Chapdelaine’s called it “the greatest guitar of our epoch” and played it for most of beautiful tone is the nearest to Segovia’s that I can recall.” his career. It was a perfect match – an historic guitar in the hands

6 In 1994 he turned his attention to pop by arranging, producing, and He has performed as a soloist with approximately 100 orchestras, recording Time-Life’s Music beautiful Guitar by Moonlight collection including the Cleveland, Houston, Toronto, and San Diego and (also released as with love.) It sold 250,000 copies in its first two years. closer to home, The Florida Orchestra. He has collaborated with such conductors as Jahja Ling, Stefan Sanderling, and Michael Stern. Mr. Chapdelaine is Professor of Music and Head of Guitar Studies at the University of New Mexico and has presented master classes His CDs have received rave reviews from leading guitar magazines around the globe, from South America to Asia, and at some of our and critics. His release, Bach: Works for Lute, Vol. 1, hit No. 13 finest music schools and universities. The great Andrés Segovia on Billboard’s classical chart after its first week. He was the first was one of his teachers, and like the master, Mr. Chapdelaine has classical musician to be featured on NPR’s popular Tiny Desk series. become an international ambassador for the guitar. At 19, he became the youngest winner of the prestigious Guitar Jeffrey Elliott Foundation of America International Competition. He has also Lecture Only received a Naumburg Foundation top prize, a Cleveland Institute of Saturday, March 19, 3 p.m. Music Alumni Achievement Award, and a Salon di Virtuosi Career Free with MFA admission Grant.

One of our country’s most accomplished Mr. Vieaux has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1997 guitar makers and restorers, Jeffrey Elliott and became head of the guitar department in 2001 – the youngest will discuss “Forensic Lutherie: Behind the department chair ever at this distinguished conservatory. He Scenes of Historical Guitar Restoration.” cofounded the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music Lutherie refers to the crafting of stringed in 2011. The following year, the Jason Vieaux School of Classical instruments, including the guitar. His lecture will focus on the Guitar was launched with ArtistWorks Inc., providing one-on-one restoration of two famous classical guitars, an 1869 Francisco online study with Mr. Vieaux for guitar students everywhere. González and an 1888 Antonio de Torres. Adam Holzman Mr. Elliott fell in love with the guitar at 16, and at 20, visited guitar- Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. maker Richard Schneider’s workshop in Detroit, which changed the course of his life. Two years later, he began a six-year apprenticeship For more than 20 years, Adam Holzman – with Mr. Schneider and then struck out on his own, moving to performer, recording artist, and educator Portland, Oregon, where he resides with fellow luthier Cyndy – has been at the forefront of a generation of Burton. In 1975, Mr. Elliott wrote and coproduced the color slide guitarists. The New York Times has praised presentation, The Handcrafted Classic Guitar, which accompanied his playing as “polished and quite dazzling,” one of his guitars in The Harmonious Craft. That exhibition was and the Toronto Star has called him displayed in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art “masterful.” He has performed at Carnegie Museum in Washington, D.C. Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the 92nd Street Y in New York, at countless music festivals, His guitars are constructed in the Torres/Hauser tradition and are and in concert centers in our country, tailored to the individual. A limited number are produced annually, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. He was one of five American with a current waiting period of 12 years. His clients include Julian artists to appear in a 2013 concert honoring Andrés Segovia at the Bream, Ralph Towner, Marcelo Kayath, Leo Kottke, Jonathan 92nd Street Y. Leathwood, and Earl Klugh. He has also restored guitars made by such significant craftsmen as Manuel Ramírez, Santos Hernández, A native New Yorker, Mr. Holzman began the guitar at seven as a and Herman Hauser I and II, as well as the subjects of his MFA student of his older brother Bruce and continued private study with lecture. Albert Valdés Blain and Eliot Fisk. He later worked with his brother at Florida State University where he received his music degrees. Mr. Elliott is an active member of the Guild of American Luthiers He has won five major international competitions, including first and has conducted demonstrations and workshops across the prize at the 1983 Guitar Foundation of America International country. He has taught guitar-making at the American School of Competition. He was chosen twice to perform in the legendary Lutherie and has written articles for American Lutherie magazine. master classes of Andrés Segovia.

Jason Vieaux His recordings for the Naxos label have been critically acclaimed. Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m. Gramophone called his discs of Fernando Sor’s music “irresistible.” Presented by the Marly Music Society The American Record Guide praised The Venezuelan Waltzes of Antonio Lauro as “masterly” and wrote that his performance of rarely heard National Public Radio (NPR) describes selections for HRH Records was “ ... so flawless he makes it all Jason Vieaux as “perhaps the most sound easy.” He has been featured on the covers of Classical Guitar precise and soulful classical guitarist of Magazine and GuitArt Magazine. his generation,” and Gramophone places him “among the elite of today’s classical Mr. Holzman founded the Guitar Department at the University of guitarists.” His most recent solo album, Texas at Austin, where he has been named The Parker C. Fielder Play, won the 2015 Grammy Award for Regents Fellow in Music and has received the Robert W. Hamilton Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Fine Arts Award. From 1992-1994, he held the title Maestro Extraordinario from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Mr. Vieaux is known for performing a wide range of music and in Monterrey, Mexico, where he was artist-in-residence. In 2001, has premiered works by a number of contemporary composers. he was awarded the Ernst von Dohnanyi Prize for Outstanding When the great jazz artist Pat Metheny heard Mr. Vieaux’s CD, Achievement from Florida State University. Images of Metheny, he declared, “I am flattered to be included in Jason’s musical world.” His solo recitals have been a highlight of Future Concerts every major guitar festival in North America and at many others in Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m.: Award-winner Jérémy Jouve Europe, Asia, Australia, and Mexico. Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m.: Grammy-winner Andrew York

7 during the Bronze Age, the character of the destructions, and the exploitation of the war stories by later residents at Troy for economic purposes.

Dr. Rose has served as the President of the Archaeological Institute of America and is currently director of the Gordion excavations and head of the post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy. From 2003-2007 he led the Granicus River Valley Survey Project, which focused on recording and mapping the Graeco-Persian tombs in northwestern Turkey. LECTURES | TALKS | SPECIAL EVENTS Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and visit www.fine-arts.org His publications have focused on the archaeological sites of Troy for updates on public programs. These events are sponsored in part and Gordion and on the political and artistic relationship between by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Rome and the provinces. For nearly a decade, Dr. Rose has offered Council on Arts and Culture, and the State of Florida. The Margaret pre-deployment education and training on cultural heritage Acheson Stuart Society provides major support. Additional funds awareness and protection for armed forces personnel bound for Iraq come from the City of St. Petersburg and Westminster Communities of and Afghanistan. He currently serves on the advisory council of St. Petersburg. Programs are subject to change without notice. the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage and on the Board of Directors of the Council of American Overseas LECTURES & GALLERY TALKS Research Centers.

Free with MFA admission Dr. Rose was awarded the 2015 gold medal of the Archaeological Institute of America. He has been a trustee of the American Gallery Talk by Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Academy in Rome since 2001 and chairs the Executive Committee Dr. Jerry N. Smith on The Art of the Classical Guitar of the Board of Trustees. He was elected Vice President of the Saturday, February 13, 3 p.m. American Research Institute in Turkey in 2015 and is a member of Dr. Smith, who joined the MFA in October, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. was formerly Curator of American and European Art to 1950 and Art of the American Before joining the Penn faculty, Dr. Rose taught in the classics West at the Phoenix Art Museum. During department at the University of Cincinnati from 1987-2005. He his tenure, he curated and supervised nearly was named the Cedric Boulter Professor of Classical Archaeology 40 exhibitions that spanned the art of the and chaired the department for three years. He holds his BA in Renaissance to American modernism through classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Haverford College contemporary art of the American West. and his MA and PhD in art history and archaeology from Columbia University. His diverse exhibitions in Phoenix included Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and The Power of Observation, Cézanne and American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe: Ingénue to Icon, and Andy Warhol: Portraits. He also focused on The Migrant Series of Colorado-based artist Don Coen, whose large-scale paintings capture the dignity of these farmers; the work of Ernest Blumenschein, co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists; retablos (small devotional paintings of Mexico and the Southwest); and even the engraved guns of master Sponsored by craftsman Ray Wielgus. The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission In addition, he was instrumental in selecting and recommending art for the collection, which numbers more than 18,000 works. He Thursday, January 7, 6:30 p.m. and has written a number of catalogues, most recently Don Coen: The Sunday, January 10, 3 p.m. Migrant Series. Cézanne and American Modernism, for which he wrote Richard Jolley an essay on the artist and the American West, was published by Yale Richard Jolly has maintained a glass University Press. Dr. Smith holds his BA magna cum laude and his studio in Knoxville since 1975 and MA from Arizona State University and his PhD from the University has received 65 solo museum and of Kansas, all in art history. gallery exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His work Lecture by Dr. C. Brian Rose on Assessing the Evidence for the has also been selected for a wealth of Trojan War important group exhibitions surveying Sunday, March 6, 3 p.m. contemporary glass and sculpture. Glass art by Richard Jolley

One of the foremost scholars in his field, His first major retrospective, Richard Jolly: Sculptor of Glass, Dr. Charles Brian Rose is the James B. traveled to 14 museums over five years. In 2011, the Mobile Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the Museum of Art presented his extensive oeuvre, along with that of University of Pennsylvania. He is also his wife Tommie Rush, in A Life in Glass. He was commissioned to Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the create a glass sculpture, Everything and the Cosmos, for New York’s Mediterranean section of the Penn Museum Seven World Trade Center in 2007. and was Deputy Director from 2008-2011. With approximately one million objects, This imaginative artist is represented in more than 33 public the Penn Museum is the country’s largest collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the university museum. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New Dr. Rose’s MFA lecture will examine York; and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. He was the the recently discovered evidence linked to the Trojan War and its youngest visual artist ever to receive the Governor’s Distinguished aftermath. He will include an overview of the defenses of the citadel Artist Award in Tennessee, and he was recognized in 2010 for

8 Outstanding Accomplishment in the Field by the Art Alliance for Virginia; and the Tacoma Museum of Glass. He has been featured Contemporary Glass. in Glass Magazine, American Craft, and the Glass Quarterly.

Mr. Jolley studied glass under Michael Taylor at Tusculum College Paul Joseph Nelson has been a successful independent glass artist, in Greenville, Tennessee and then at George Peabody College based in Louisville, Kentucky, for more than 20 years and has in Nashville (now part of Vanderbilt University), where he shown his work widely. He studied with Stephen Rolfe Powell at completed his BFA. He also advanced his technique at the noted Centre College, where he earned his BA in studio art and world Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina under the instruction of religions. He holds his MFA in sculpture from the University of Richard Ritter. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thursday, February 11, 6:30 p.m. Save the Date: Sunday, April 10, 3 p.m. Glass artists Martin Rosol and Sunday, February 14, 3 p.m. and Benjamin Cobb Stephen Rolfe Powell Stephen Rolfe Powell has had an Coffee Talks with Nan Colton enormous impact on glass art from the campus of highly respected Sponsored by: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He received his BA in painting and ceramics from Centre in 1974 and then discovered glass while a graduate Second Wednesday of the Month BIX Lascivious Manic Lurch student at Louisiana State University, Free with Museum admission. by Stephen Rolfe Powell where he received his MFA in ceramics. Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and He returned to Centre in 1983 and founded the glass program in embodiment to the two-dimensional. 1985, which has attracted students from across the country. The The MFA’s extremely popular artist-in- first studio resided on the rooftop of a college building. He later residence Nan Colton creates scripts Nan Colton as designed and completed a state-of-the-art glass studio, which inspired by special exhibitions and the Agatha Christie opened as part of the new Jones Visual Arts Center in 1998. Museum collection. These 30-minute presentations introduce great artists and other historical figures, as Since 2004, he has been the H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill well as the times in which they lived. Enjoy refreshments at 10 a.m., Professor of Art and was twice named Kentucky Professor of the Year Ms. Colton’s performance at 10:30, and a general docent tour at 11:15. by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Visit www.fine-arts.org/coffeetalks for her complete 2016 schedule. the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Through his influence, many talented artists, including Lino Tagliapietra, have January 13: Queen of Mystery instructed Centre College students, who have gone on to pursue Ms. Colton captures the spirit of Agatha Christie, one of the most notable artistic and teaching careers of their own. popular mystery writers ever, as she shares the inspiration for her stories at a book-signing. This performance honors Carrie Schneider: Mr. Powell exhibits his work and participates in workshops, Reading Women, which closes Sunday, January 17. demonstrations, and lectures around the globe. His glass art was February 10: Living with Genius on view during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and at In the month of love, Ms. Colton portrays the remarkable and Venezia Aperto Vetro in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Italy in 1998. charitable wife of inventor Thomas Edison in celebration of the He was one of only eight American artists invited to participate. His couple’s 130 th wedding anniversary. work is part of the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the March 9: Fairyland Luster Corning Museum of Glass, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and The inventive, eccentric Daisy Makeig-Jones, the designer of The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, among others. Wedgwood’s Fairyland Lustreware, comes to life in this interactive presentation. His career from 1983 to 2007 is documented in Stephen Rolfe Powell: Glassmaker, published by the University Press of Kentucky. Glass Focus called it “a stunner of a book.” He has been featured on CBS Art and Spirituality TV’s Sunday Morning and in such publications as American Style, Glass, and Ceramics Monthly. In 2010, he received the Kentucky Sand Mandala Artist Award, one of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Sunday, January 3-Saturday, January 16 Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory Free, regular admission to the rest of the Museum Thursday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 13, 3 p.m. John Miller and Paul Joseph Nelson The Venerable Lama Losang Samten, renowned Tibetan scholar and John Miller began working with glass in 1987 in the undergraduate former Buddhist monk, served as the attendant to His Holiness the program at Southern Connecticut State Dalai Lama. In 1988, Losang was instructed to demonstrate the art University. A decade later, he earned an of sand painting as the first to be offered MFA in sculpture at the University of Illinois in the West. Since then he has created at Urbana-Champaign. From 1993 to the sand mandalas in many museums, present, he has been a key staff member at including the American Museum of Pilchuck Glass School near Seattle. He has Natural History in New York, the Asian contributed to Pilchuck artists and students Art Museum in San Francisco, and the as a technician, coordinator, gaffer, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as instructor. He is also Associate Professor of at universities across the country. Glass at Illinois State University. Losang served as religious technical His work is part of the collections of the advisor and sand mandala supervisor for Museum of Arts and Design in New York; Rib Cage Series and appeared in Martin Scorsese’s film the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, by John Miller about the Dalai Lama, Kundun, which he

9 will introduce at the MFA on Thursday, January 7, at 6:30 p.m. He is also the spiritual director of numerous Buddhist Centers in the Before joining the VMFA, Mr. Nyerges was Director and CEO of the United States. Dayton Art Institute (1992-2006). He has also been Director of the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and the DeLand Museum of Mandalas have been referred to as “visual scripture,” which can Art in Florida. He holds his BA, with a double major in American be seen as dwellings for enlightened beings. Sand mandalas are civilization and anthropology/archaeology, and his MA in museum created with great care and detailed accuracy, bringing the sacred studies, both from George Washington University. symbols to life in order to share an uplifting message. For more information, please go to www.losangsamten.com. February 9: Inge Hatton fell in love with folk art when she moved to Nova Scotia and discovered the Nova Scotia Folk Art The MFA schedule follows: Festival in 2000. She was inspired to learn more about the artists, began collecting their work, and even opened a gallery, The : Drawing of the Mandala Sunday, January 3, noon Spotted Frog. Monday, January 4-Friday, January 15, 10 a.m.-noon and : Creation of the Mandala (Losang will take a day of 1-5 p.m. At the outset, Nova Scotia folk artists chiefly whittled wood and rest on Monday, January 11, and will resume work on the mandala would often give their pieces to family and friends, who would the next day.) sometimes try to craft similar objects of their own. They primarily : Blessing of the Sand Monday, January 4, 2 p.m. responded to nature – the fields, sea, and woods – and produced : Book-Signing, Ancient Teachings in Saturday, January 9, 2 p.m. whimsical, engaging works. They have even ventured into political Modern Times by Losang Samten, Museum Store satire. Ms. Hatton will share some of her experiences with the : Dismantling Ceremony Saturday, January 16, noon artists and will specifically discuss the work of Rick Brittain, Richard Crowe, Bradford Naugler, Leo Naugler, Mark Robichaud, The decorative arts – fine furniture, and Julie Smith. jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA : Noted collector and FODA member will expands understanding of their variety March 8 Jim Sweeny explore Art Deco Miami Beach, which was chiefly built in the 1930s and beauty. Plus, you will make new to appeal to middle-class tourists. The majority of the buildings friends at the meetings. Annual dues are were hotels or apartments and shared many characteristics: flat $20 in addition to Museum membership. roofs, poured concrete walls, glass-block partitions, terrazzo floors, “eyebrow” and porthole windows, and nautical deck railings. FODA programs are held on the second Tuesday of the month . Non-FODA members can attend for $5, at 2 p.m. during season Usually two to four stories tall with 50-75 rooms, the buildings plus MFA admission. Carolyn Nygren is the volunteer coordinator. were mostly white with pink, turquoise, lavender, seafoam Upcoming events follow: green, and powder blue accents. Neon was used to highlight architectural details. Laura Cerwinsky has written that “this was : , Director of the Virginia Museum of January 12 Alex Nyerges resort architecture intended to lift the visitor from the gloom of the Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, will introduce his museum’s Depression; to merge his shelter with the glories of surrounding world-renowned collection of decorative arts, with a special focus nature. They were venues where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on Art Nouveau and Art Deco objects. The VMFA is one of our could be imagined to dance the night away in a moonlit rooftop county’s leading museums, with 33,000 works in its comprehensive nightclub, while the waves lapped on the beach across the street.” collection. Jim and Martha Sweeny are two of the Museum’s best friends. Mr. Nyerges has been the Through their donations of artworks and funds, they have helped VMFA’s Director for 10 years build the MFA’s collections of work by self-taught American and led a four-year expansion artists, mostly from the South, and of prints by American women. project which added more Nearly all of the works in Marks Made: Prints by American Women than 165,000 square feet to Artists from the 1960s to the Present are gifts from the Sweenys the previous 380,000 square or were purchased with funds provided by the couple. The feet. For the grand reopening Sweenys began their still active collecting odyssey in the world of in 2010, he brought Picasso: decorative arts. Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Paris to Richmond. He serves on the boards of many professional, educational, and civic organizations, including the executive committee of the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (American) French American Museum Punch Bowl with Three Ladles (1900) Exchange (FRAME). That Glass, gilding, silver, and wood initiative fosters collaboration Collection of the Virginia between museums in Museum of Fine Arts Free with MFA admission. Complimentary snacks. 13 French and 13 North Sydney and Frances Lewis American cities. He was Art Nouveau Fund Thursday, January 7, 6:30 p.m. Kundun (1997), directed by Martin elected Chevalier de l’ordre des Scorsese Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France in 2014 in appreciation of his many efforts to encourage cultural exchange. Legendary director Martin Scorsese looks at the early life of the boy recognized as the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Kundun Photography is a special interest. He has curated the traveling derives from the honorific title of the Dalai Lama, meaning The exhibitions Edward Weston: A Photographer’s Love of Life and In Presence, as in the presence of the Buddha. It complements the sand Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American mandala installation by the Venerable Lama Losang Samten, who West. He has also organized two major traveling exhibitions of appears in the film and offers a brief introduction. art and artifacts from regional museums throughout China. 10 Music & Art Course Mirrors in the Renaissance Instructors: Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Drum Connection Three Weeks: Wednesday, March 16, 23, and 30, 10-11:30 a.m. $60 for MFA members, $85 for non-members (includes light refreshments) To register, please call 727.896.2667, ext. 210, or visit www.fine- arts.org/rsvp/

This class explores the parallels between music and the visual arts in the Renaissance. Participants will delve into the development of Renaissance music including chant and the three M’s of vocal music (madrigal, motet, and mass). Discover how Renaissance artists looked back to the ideals of ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration 2015 Winner’s and learn about humanism, the cultural movement emphasizing Release Party human potential. Second Thursday of the Month, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 21, 2016, Free with Museum admission, which is only $5 after 5 p.m. on 6–8pm @ the MFA Thursday

Join Keep St. Pete Lit, a local organization that supports the literary community, for a book club connecting the visual and literary arts. Each month’s featured book will relate to the MFA’s collection or special exhibitions.

January 14: Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost will offer an introduction to this gifted writer, who will engage in a discussion with artist Carrie Schneider at 3 p.m. Sunday, January 17, at the MFA. That is also the final day of the exhibition Carrie Schneider: Reading Women. February 11: J. Ryan Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest is an ideal choice to complement the images of food in our collection and the publication of Food + Art, The Stuart Society’s cookbook. March 10: The portraits in Contemplating Character will inspire you to meet the quirky and influential people in Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Youth & Family

First and Third Saturday of the Meet Travis & Chris, the home brewers who took home month, 10 a.m. “BEST OF SHOW” for their Strawberry Rhubarb. Taste Ages three and older the limited batch fruit beer brewed in partnership with $5 per person (includes admission to Green Bench Brewing Co. and learn more about the entire Museum). Please bring a towel or yoga mat. upcoming 2016 events. FREE FOR MFA MEMBERS. $5 non-members (includes galleries). Kidding Around Yoga uses the yoga poses Visit www.fine-arts.org/rsvp to reserve your glass today! or asanas creatively tucked into partner yoga, games and activities, original music, Who are these libation artists? Chris and Travis are stories, and more. The class is designed childhood friends who started the adventure of home for kids, but entire families are welcome. brewing in the summer of 2014. They enjoy making a Practicing yoga with children creates a special bond. variety of styles, especially experimenting with sours and fruit. To find out more about what’s brewing, you Second and Fourth Friday of the can follow them on Instagram @ranchroadbrewing. month, 11 a.m. ASL-accessible program Visit www.fine-arts.org/beer-project for updates and event details. For parents/guardians and their children up to six-years-old $5 per family

Interested in sponsoring THE BEER PROJECT for 2016? Discover art and learn a new language as a family. Gain an Contact our Development Office at 727.896.2667 or introduction to ASL (American Sign Language) vocabulary while [email protected]. touring the galleries. Classes are designed and presented by certified ASL instructor and interpreter Carol Downing.

11 MFA: Make and Take Saturday First and Third Saturday of the month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Marks Made: Free with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Prints Members’by American Opening Women Reception, Artists fromWednesday, the 1960s October to the 14 Present For ages five and older, but entire families are encouraged to participate. (Left to right) Marie Yoho Dorsey, who is represented in the exhibition; Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection Martha Sweeny; Dimitri Lykoudis of and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. the MFA staff; and Jim Sweeny. The Sweenys donated the vast majority of the prints in the show to the Museum. January 2 and 16: In a nod to Food + Art, children – and adults – will love sculpting edible play dough. February 6 and 20: Contemplating Character reveals how a simple line can be transformed into an expressive and memorable portrait. With some imagination and a good pencil or marker, you Jane Hammond with her will create your own journal of personalities. work Love Laughs (2005). March 5 and 19: Inspired by The Art of the Classical Guitar, you will use everything from shoe boxes to rubber bands to make your own musical instrument.

Elisabeth Condon with her untitled monotype (2007).

(Left to right) Noted collector Lothar Uhl, Katherine Pill (Assistant Curator of Art after 1950 and curator of Marks Made), and Lynn Whitelaw, the first Director and later Chief Curator of the Leepa- Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg Sally (left) and Katherine Robinson College, who recently retired.

Second and Fourth Saturday of the month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Adults and families are welcome. Children must be accompanied Thomas and Donna Brumfield, who by an adult. have donated many works from $5 per person their collection to the Museum. Presented by Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Drum Connection

Explore the many cultures represented in the MFA collection by experiencing them to a rhythmic beat. Feel the momentum Dr. Byung-Joon Ahn of St. Luke’s grow while you drum and use other percussion instruments to Cataract & Laser Institute and his bring art alive. No experience is necessary. Just come and have fiancée Allison Canfield (Director fun. of Communications and Events for The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society) with Joyce and Treasurer Visual Metaphor of the Board Wayne (Skipp) Fraser.

Monday, March 21-Sunday, April 24 Sponsored in part by The DMG School Project Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture Sunday, October 18 This audience favorite spotlights work by many of the most Käthe Kollwitz, one of the founders of the Guerrilla Girls, drew a talented students in the Pinellas County Schools. Their teachers capacity crowd to the Parrish Lecture during the opening weekend select the art, which encompasses a wide array of media. A of Marks Made. The Guerrilla Girls joined together in 1985 to protest reception for the students and their parents and teachers will the treatment of women artists by museums, galleries, critics, and be held on Wednesday, April 6, from 6-8 p.m., with awards scholars. They use pseudonyms based on the names of major, presented at 6:30 p.m. deceased female artists and wear gorilla masks in their protests and appearances to preserve their anonymity. Talking after the lecture were (left to right) Master Printer Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Martha Sweeny, Ms. Kollwitz, Katherine Pill (Assistant Curator of Art after 1950 and curator of Marks Made), and Sunday, April 24, from noon-4 p.m. on the MFA Lawn Jim Sweeny. The Parrish Estate and the Sweenys made this compelling lecture possible.

12 50th Anniversary Reception Wednesday, October 28 Members of Clementine Japour Sherman’s family gathered for this memorable occasion: (left to right) Anne Japour, Charles and Leidia DiMascio, Christie Pratt, Mary and Jeff Pratt, Tess Mullinax, Katherine Japour, and Paul Japour. A plaque was dedicated in the Sculpture Garden honoring Clementine Japour Sherman, one of the most dedicated and influential people in the Museum’s history. She was a close friend and advisor of Museum Founder Margaret Acheson Stuart.

(Left to right) Langston and Carol Holland with trustees Laura Militzer Bryant and Fay Mackey, the 50th anniversary chair.

(Left to right) Trustee Hazel Hough; the Museum’s third director Michael Milkovich, who served for 19 years; former trustees Judy Stanton (left), a William R. Hough and Jacqueline Piper; past president of The and current Director Kent Lydecker. Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, with Janet Raymond.

Executive Committee member Fred and Gail Razook.

Marianne and Mark Mahaffey, Chairman of the Museum’s Board of Trustees.

Dr. Richard Eliason (far left) with Sam and Demi Rahall. Dr. Eliason is the chair of the Marly Music Series and Mrs. Rahall is a former trustee and Founding President of the Collectors Circle.

(Left to right) Susan Gordon (past chair of the Docent Council), past trustee Dr. Franklin and Anne Massari, Mary Wheeler, and Seymour Gordon, President of the Collectors Circle and past President of the Board. (Left to right) Noted art collector and appraiser Eric Lang Peterson, past trustee and Stuart Society president Mary Shuh, and past President of the Board Carol A. Upham.

13 The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society For the latest information, please visit www.thestuartsociety.org. Like us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/thestuartsociety, or send us a tweet, www.twitter.com/stuartsociety. Carol Russell is the President and Allison Canfield is Director of Communications and Events.

Thursday, April 7-Monday, April 11 Presenting Sponsor:

Art in Bloom 2016 will be stunning. More than 50 floral designs by professional florists, talented hobbyists, and members of The Stuart Society will fill the Museum. In addition, four tablescapes, See more than THURSDAY, APRIL 7 inspired by works in the collection, will Bryan Redman of Redman 50 stunning floral ART IN BLOOM OPENS TO THE PUBLIC Steele Floral Design FLOWERS AFTER HOURS PARTY be on view in The Junior League Great interpretations that Hall. The title of a recipe from Food + Art, Studio created this FRIDAY, APRIL 8 gorgeous arrangement respond to individual ART IN BLOOM LUNCHEON the new Stuart Society cookbook, will be for Art in Bloom 2015. included on each table. works in the Museum. Floral demonstrations, SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Extended hours will allow everyone to see the flowers. They are: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DESIGNERS Conversations with the 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, April 7; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, April 8; To view the complete schedule, visit 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 9; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, April 10; Designers and more! thestuartsociety.org and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, April 11. The MFA Café will offer a floral-themed special each day. Jan Stoffels is the overall coordinator, and Karen Banfield is chairing Art in Bloom 2016 ad.indd 5 11/12/15 10:00 AM the exhibition of floral designs.Deann Coop and Sue Knipe are the chairs of “Flowers After Hours,” and Linda Dow, Marian Yon Maguire, and Rhonda Sanderford are chairing the luncheon. For reservations to “Flowers After Hours” and the Art in Bloom Luncheon, please contact Liz Curry: [email protected] or 727.823.3798.

Thursday,Flowers April After 7, 6:30 p.m.Hours Tickets: $85 per person. Be one of the first to view the inventive floral designs and enjoy sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, wine, and jazz in the Marly Room. You will never look at art – and flowers – the same way again.

Friday,Art Aprilin Bloom 8, 11:30 a.m. Luncheon Grand Ballroom of the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club Tickets: $90 per person The luncheon will feature an outstanding speaker, beautiful centerpieces on each table, and many more surprises.

Sunday,Conversations April 10, noon-2 with p.m. the Designers No reservations required. Valet parking. Come early, as this event always draws large crowds. Floral designers will be in the galleries to discuss their creations, inspiration, and techniques. Questions and comments are welcome. Have brunch in the MFA Café and spend the day at the Museum.

14 Food + Art: Cooking around Tampa Bay with the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida Sold-Out Launch Party Wednesday, October 21 Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory

Elise Minkoff (left) and Toni Lydecker, co-chairs of the Food + Art Committee. Mrs. Lydecker is the editor of the striking cookbook celebrating the MFA’s 50th anniversary.

(Left to right) Chris Sherman, editorial consultant for the cookbook; Lennie Bennett, Art Critic of the Tampa Bay Times; and Jeremy Duclut, Executive The capacity crowd arrived early and stayed late. Chef of Cassis American Brasserie.

(Left to right) Deann Coop; Gui Alinat, Executive Chef and owner of Artisan Boutique Catering; and Veronica Waldo.

(Left to right) Betty Jean Miller, Judy Stanton, Louise Chapin, Mary Evertz, Lynn Cox, and Iris Salzer. Kristyn Fuqua of Olympia Catering Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Stanton, and Mrs. Chapin are past & Events; Janet Keeler, journalism presidents of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society. instructor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg; Matt Cummings, Chef of the MFA Café; and Maxine Buchholtz.

(Left to right) Joann Barger (a past president of The Stuart Society), Audrie Rañon of the MFA staff, Jean Catanese, and Judy Preston. Jane Beam (left) Mrs. Catanese chaired the and Betty Shamas. Launch Party with Elise Minkoff and Toni Lydecker. Ms. Preston assisted with public relations.

The Plaza of Honor at the Bayshore entrance to the Hazel Hough Wing Order an Engraved Brick, the Perfect Memorial or Tribute.

• Commemorate an engagement, wedding, anniversary, milestone birthday, or graduation. • Memorialize relatives or special friends. • Honor family, teachers, volunteers, or donors. • Show support for the MFA.

Forms are available at the Welcome Desk. For more information, please contact chair Libby Salamone, (Left to right) Dr. Kanika Tomalin, Deputy Mayor of the City of St. Petersburg; MFA Director [email protected]. Kent Lydecker; and Carol Russell, President of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society.

15 THE MARGARET ACHESON STUART SOCIETY presents

Sold-Out in July! Wednesday, October 30 (Left to right) Trustee Mary The Vinoy Renaissance Alice McClendon, Mardi St. Petersburg Resort Johnson, and past Stuart and Golf Club Society president Bonita Cobb.

TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS St. Petersburg

SMartLY DRESSED chair Rachael Fashion Show, Luncheon & SilentRussell (front) and Auction her mother Carol Russell, President of The FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015Margaret Acheson Stuart Society. The Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club (Left to right) Stuart Society Treasurer Maggi McQueen, Fashions presented by John William Barger III, Sarah Howe, and Angela Rouson.

Judy Bistany (left) and Melissa LeClair. Ms. Bistany represented sponsor Matter Brothers Furniture and Mrs. LeClair, sponsor Echelon, LLC.

Master of Ceremonies (Left to right) Natavidad (Nata) Dion Lim, anchor and reporter for WTSP, Purchase your tickets by visiting www.thestuartsociety.org Cibran representing sponsor St. Petersburg Pediatrics, Channel 10, news. Sponsorships are available by contacting Rachael Russell at 727.501.4374 or Montserrat Cerf, and Stuart [email protected] Society member Audrie Rañon of the Museum staff.

Saks Fifth Avenue (Left to right) Past Stuart presented the Society presidents Glenn latest fashions. Mosby, Margaret Amley, Gail Phares, and Joann Barger.

The male models (Left to right) Jean always receive lots of Getting Irwin and applause at The Stuart past Stuart Society Society fashion show. presidents Charlotte Kendall and Vicki Fox.

16 Museum Store Meet the Artist: Leslie Joy Ickowitz Thursday, March 17, 5-7 p.m. In May, Tampa photographer Leslie Joy Ickowitz traveled to Havana and Varadero on a People to People Cultural Exchange and met Cuban artists, musicians, organic farmers, and even a fashion designer who works on the rooftop of her home under the blazing sun. Cubans are the masters of invention. Ms. Ickowitz will show photographs from her series Love Affair with Cuba in anticipation of the MFA’s first organized trip to the country March 24-31. The artist has written that her images “celebrate the raw, beautiful energy and authenticity of our mysterious island neighbor.” For more information on her work, please go to www.LeslieJoyOriginal.com.

Past presidents of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society were honored at a luncheon on Thursday, September 24. Attending were: (seated, left to right) Mary Shuh, Charlotte Kendall, Betty Jean Miller, Bonita Cobb, Joann Barger, and Jeanne Tucker, and (standing, left to right) current President Carol Russell, Elise Minkoff, Gail Phares, Marilyn Hobbs, Vicki Fox, Margaret Amley, Margaret Bowman, Chris Chapman Hilton, and Susan Hicks.

Photo by Leslie Joy Ickowitz

Annual Fund Thank You The MFA is grateful to the following donors who contributed to the Annual Fund between August 26 and November 23:

More than 50 years ago, Margaret Acheson Stuart $25,000 and Up $500 to $999 realized her dream of establishing a fine arts museum Jim and Martha Sweeny George and Deborah Baxter in St. Petersburg. It began with one woman, but she Jim and Emily Gillespie had a host of supporters. From the beginning, the $10,000 to $24,999 Robb and Susan Hough MFA has been the community’s museum. $5,000 to $9,999 Up to $499 Mrs. Stuart once said, “If one child benefits from the $1,000 to $4,999 AmazonSmile Foundation Museum, it will all be worthwhile.” More than 17,000 Charlotte Bacon Dr. Edward and Margaret Amley students visited the MFA last year. For many, it was Matt and Laura Bryant Dr. Raymond and Kathleen their first encounter with art and a museum. At the Dr. Richard and Niela Arsenault end of his school tour, one student shared, “I like Eliason Janet Augenbraun art!” to which his classmate replied, “I wish our tour George Ellis Robert Bauman could have been longer!” Thank you, Mrs. Stuart. Skipp and Joyce Fraser Elizabeth Coerver Thank you to all of our loyal friends over the years. Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert and David Connelly Michele Kidwell-Gilbert Help continue Mrs. Stuart’s legacy by contributing Johnson & Johnson Matching Gifts Lynne Hensley to the Annual Fund. Such contributions account for Program David and Alice Hoffman Maurice Kurtz and Linda a significant36% of the Museum’s annual operating budget. Your gift is vital to shaping children’s William R. and Hazel Hough Osmundson relationship with art, celebrating and showcasing our Kathleen Swann Brooks Vytas and Gerda Maceikonis world-class collection, and enhancing the cultural life Family Foundation John Mahoney of our city. Clark and Monica Mason Claude Meyer and Kevin Armington Jim Reichert Ella Morin Every gift makes a difference! Jean Rocchi Janet Raymond Robert and Nancy Shannon Sydni Shollenberger If your company has a matching gift program, you may Eugene and Julia Sorbo Robert and Carol Stewart be able to double the impact of your donation. For more William and Kathleen Robert Strickland information or assistance with your gift, please call Stover Jean Thompson Director of Development Daryl DeBerry at 727.896.2667, Carol A. Upham Sterling and Jane Weems ext. 250.

17 Circle Level Members Casamo, Joan and Linda Clarke Hubben, Jane Raja, Deena and Mark Casorio, Dianne Humphreys, Joe and Katherine Rampolla, Heather and Ron Director’s Circle Castellon, Pedro and Alexander Hundley, David and Dawn Rao, Dwaraka Edwards, Bill and Joanne Veliz Vadnais Reynolds, Beth Hough, William R. and Hazel Chase, Beth and Cory Jackson, Kelly and Jesse Miller Riley, Caitlin and Tron Valentine James, Tom and Mary Ciancanelli, Helen James, Sara Rivera, Darren Mahaffey, Mark T. and Marianne Clark, Allen and Daniela Joyce, Carol and Tom McDonnell Rosen, Kenneth and Paula Vinik, Jeff and Penny Clark, Steven and Martin Justice, Charles and Kathleen Sargeant, Daniel and Michelle Concepcion, Joe and Lauren Kallen, Corinne Sawa, Kate and Michael Founder’s Circle Kasmer Keeler, Janet and Scott Schmidt, Jeffrey Edwards, William P. and Ann Cubito, David and Jennifer Khavina, Charis and Marianne Scott, Jennifer and Michael Mosby, Glenn and Dav Cummins, Kathryn Kite-Powell, Krissy and Rodney Shaw, Charlie and Mary Novack, Patti and Irwin Davis, Gerald and Shane Kmetz, Laura and Hosein Taheri Sheick, Alfred and Kim Wittner, Jean Giles Delashmutt, Doug Kragiel, Matt Short, Tony and Michelle New/Upgraded Demas, Carole and Steve Kuhlman, Keith and Marsha Sims, Dennis and Patrick Demiduk, Kristin and Paul Lawson, David William and Sinibaldi, John and Lenore Sustainer/Benefactor Desai, Rajkumari and Raju Nina Sue Smith, Deena Ferraro, Francis and Patricia Diez, Anthony Lazzara, Morgan and Steven Smith, Jennifer and Troy Higgins Dunlap, Gray Lense, Elizabeth Smith, Jerry and Vickie Duttweiler, Raleigh and Peggy Lentz, Jennifer and Jennifer Smith, Peggy and Raleigh New General Dziubek, Jacquelyn and Paul Thompson Snyder, Lucy and Mark Members Ebersold, Betty Letterman, Gretchen Staney, Tim and Matthew Eldred, Michole Lindenberg, Elizabeth and Starr, Jeffrey and Trina September 3 – November 16 Escarraz, Patricia and Frank Hunter Stewart, Matthew and Tim Friend Smith Loinaz, Maria and Raechelle Strum, Luise and Judy Schreiber, Lisa Falco, Salvatore and Carolyn Wilson Thompson Haack Long, Jim and Deborah Taylor, Jess and Adriana Family Fargo, Charles and Jean Long, Jim and Valerie Terry, Deborah Alexander, Dirdre and George French, Helen and Jonathan Mallett, Benjamin and Leslie Thornton, Donald and Kathleen Baruday Ganes, Jennifer Mallett, Janet and Victor Tomor, Michael Allen, Susan and Richard Rolfes Gangotena, Camila Marie, Laura and Ariana Shelton Urban, Cindy and Michael Anderson, Jeremy and Jessica Gates, Mike and Dawn Martin, John and Kathleen Verrill, David and Jackie Antonacci, Robert and Tim Geddes, Florence and John McLoughlin, Dianne and Russell Walden, Greg and Jennifer Atkinson, Jennifer Geddes, John and Sarah Wright Walker, Christian and Shannon Avila, Lisa and Matthew Generallo, Adriana and Jess McMahon, Molly and Gina Warchola, Robert Baird, Lisa and Allen Giuffre, Chris and Jennifer Vivinetto Warner, Don Ongchangco Glover, Mindy and William Milano, Stephen and Ana Whelan, Marilyn Ballew, Angel Higgins Mines, Sarah and John White, Blanka Bataclan, Maria Gomez, Catherine Mitchell, Charles and Ruth Anne Whiteside, Aimee and Jeff Baynard, Sally and Tom Gravina, Nicholas and Gregory Morris, Kathy Williams, Osceola Bennett, David and Mayli Hartung Mottox, Martin and Steven Witbreuk, Irma and Alan Berberich, Barbara and Dennis Grilli, Barbara and Lou Munderback, Julie Yerger, Barbara Grimes, Elizabeth and Ken Nagy, Minda Bimler, Martin Individual Bittles, Mark and Deena Groeller, David and J. Patrick Nahat, Michael Bocik, Robert and Zoe Mercier Nardi, Matthew and Sarah Adams, Suzanne Bof, Olga Grooms, Annette and Gary Nelson, Kim and Maureen Alberdi, Marcy Bontrager, Giovanna and Gross, Dawn and Mike Ness, Barbara and Matthew Amparado, Joy Jonathan Hallock, Elizabeth and David Nguyen, Dzuy Antonietti, Luisa Boos, Bob and Shelley Brisson Wishner Nguyen, John and Maggie Bale, Patrick Breskin, Pearce Hammons, James and Miriyam Niemann, Brian and Susan Barancik, Elizabeth Bryan, Larissa and Stephan Nitzberg Nillson, Bo and Pia Barenis, Elizabeth Burke, Lesli Hanke, Brenda and Doug O’Brian, Patrick and Dennis Barone, Carl Burke, Patricia and Tom Hanks, Cynthia and Michael O’Neal, Bert and Claudia Barth, Demeree Burkey, Mick and Michele Manning Osburn, Stephen and Vicki Bates, Jordan Caruso Harrell, Corbitt and Alicia Zizzo Paisner, Brent and Joyce Beigel, Larraine Burr, Donald Harrison, Rachel and Jaye Pertik, Maria and David Benedict, Ashley Burton, Monica Sheldon Rynerson Boewe, Stefanie Byers, Jane Haseltine, Philip and Valerie Peters, Marie and Paul Bolton, Stephanie Cabezas, Ana and Stephen Morgan Peterson, Ken Bonner, Sharon Calhoon, Jane and Patrick Hastings, Jan and John Pollack, Anne and Woody Bray, Bonnie Campbell, Wayne and Louis Haynes, William Porter, Michelle and Tony Bruin, Ann DeRienzo Hebdon, Alan and Irma Purcell, Cat and Jareth Burchard, Matthew Carley, Angela and Michael Hinton, Rebecca Quast, Daniela and Troy Burchell, Merrill Carson, John and Suki Hopkins, Sara and Adam Rabin, Barbara Burke, Chris Calandrino, Gloria 18 Camacho, Tony Kieny, Sarah Spencer, Lisa Caputo, Jeanette Kurnett, Dierdre Stokes, Linda Carey, Mary Laidlaw, Stephanie Stolarik, Debbra Music in the Marly Carroll, Lynn Laird, Anne Street, Daphne Tickets are first-come, first-served, cost $20 for adults and $10 for Carter, Debby Polis Lampkin, Timothy Swanson, Haley students 22 and younger with current ID, and can be purchased online Chapman, Melissa Lane, Marsha Teehee, Jeffrey by going to www.fine-arts.org. Marly Music Society members pay only Charette, Daniel Langford, Leslie Venouziou, Ester $15 per concert. Admission to the entire Museum is included in the Chesley, Shirley Largent, Virginia Vergin, Matthew ticket price. Concerts are sponsored in part by the Friends of Joe Sprain Chiesa, Martha Lauder, Anne Walker, Michael in his memory; the Estate of Mrs. Elvira Wolfe de Weil; the Tampa Bay Chill, Rosemary Leber, Jessica Wallace, Heather Times; WUSF; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Clark, Shannan Lewis, Ursula Wang, Clark Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Clark, Stephen Lino, Sherry White, Sally Cook, Kevin Mayer, Susan Wolling, Linda Sunday, January 3, 2 p.m. Costa, Roseanna Mays, Chrisje Wood, Patricia The Fred Moyer Jazz Trio Cruz, Michael McCollum, Michael Woodall-Metas, Dalsemer, Patrick McCollum, Victoria Sue Frederick Moyer, piano, Peter Tillotson, bass, Dekkers, Carol McDonough, Woods, Catherine and Bob Savine, drums Donahoe, Irma Christine Woods, Fred Fred Moyer and friends perform their Donahoe, Lynne McGowen, Odette Woodward, own arrangements and improvisations of standards from the Great Driscoll, Gina Meyer, Alice Destiny American Songbook, as well as music by jazz trios led by Erroll Evans, D. Lily Miller, Jessica Zabala, Carmela Garner, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and other giants. Fasso, John Mitchell, Mark Fisher, Suzanne Moffitt, Karen Scholar During his 35-year career, Frederick Moyer has been a soloist with Geddes, Stephen Morales, Cheryl Andrews, Hannah many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Boston, Gore, Susan Nestor, Amy Annis, Shannon Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and London. His far-flung venues Graham, Mary O’Connor, Sandra Bunce, Thomas have ranged from Windsor Castle in England to Suntory Hall in Gravina, Karen Odening, Scott Burke, Tracy Tokyo, from the Sydney Opera House in Australia to the Kennedy Grindea, Lidia Oldja, Lauren Edwards, Lyman Center in Washington, D.C. His 22 recordings of works by more than Growney, Lauren Ottowitz, Suzanne Elmer, Bridget 30 composers reflect his eclectic interests – from classical to jazz. He studied music and piano performance in two of the country’s most Hall, Ray Page, Christine Fetterhoff, prestigious programs – the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia Hartney, Jaleen Pickett, Paula Elizabeth and Indiana University in Bloomington. Helmer, Peter Rathle, Joyce Grondin, Ida Hendrick, Virginia Michele Howard, Sarah Peter Tillotson’s journey has ranged from garage bands to Lincoln Holtzclaw, Marcia Rhubottum, Geoff Lucas, Patricia Center, from bebop to bluegrass. He has performed with members Houghton, Roen, Elisabeth Majjeusle, of the Boston Symphony, as well as with numerous pop stars and Summer Russell, Vincent Elizabeth entertainers. The Count Basie Orchestra, Barenaked Ladies, Sheryl Hudson, Tim Ryan, Virginia Prendergast, Alice Crow, the Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Paul Simon, Hughson, Bonnie Sakss, Selga Sharp, Brittny and Bonnie Raitt have sought his technical expertise in acoustic Hulon, Sandi Sanders, Henry Sherf, Donna amplification. Jacobs, Ingrid Sinclair Stevenson, Clifford Bob Savine began his formal musical training at Pennsylvania State Joffe, Julia Sarvarinne, Anja Stoddard, Kim University where he received his BS in music education. He later Johnson, Joie Scarpa, Marc Tomko, Sydney studied at the respected Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has Jones, Pamela Scarpa, Vivian performed with a diverse group of singers and instrumentalists, Julien, Sheila Schilke, Joellen including The Artie Shaw Orchestra, Keely Smith, Mike Metheny, Karczewski, John Scott, Dana and many more. Kelley, Gail Shaw, Kelly Kennard, Tracy Sitten, Robert Kent, Eric Skopal, Marcella Kern, Jill Smith, Mirella Board of Trustees 2016

Executive Committee The Hon. Richard Kriseman, Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey, Mayor of the City of Chairman St. Petersburg, ex officio, Mrs. Cathy Collins, Vice nonvoting Memorials & Tributes Chairman Mr. Darryl A. LeClair Mr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser, Ms. Fay Mackey In honor of Debbie and George In memory of Sam H. Mann Jr. CPA , Treasurer Mrs. Mary Alice McClendon Baxter William R. and Hazel Mr. Clark Mason, Secretary Mrs. Patti Novack Bob and Chris Hilton Hough Ms. Ellen Stavros Mrs. Glenn Mosby Eric and Ann Rascoe Mr. Harold E. Wells Jr. In memory of Helen Gandy Mr. Fred S. Razook Jr. Mrs. Carol Russell, In memory of Mark Davies O’Brien Dr. Kent Lydecker, Director Dr. Earnest and Sally Truby Cary Bond President, The Margaret William R. and Hazel Trustees Acheson Stuart Society In memory of Joan Gessler Hough Mrs. Erin Smith Aebel Rep and Simone DeLoach Honorary Trustees, Mr. Roy Binger nonvoting Dr. Earnest and Sally Truby In memory of Joan Taylor Ms. Laura Militzer Bryant Street Mrs. Isabel Bishop, In honor of Dr. Jennifer Mr. Gary Damkoehler Eric Lang Peterson Honorary Memorial Hardin Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert Trustee Rep and Simone DeLoach In memory of Phyllis Stover Mr. James R. Gillespie, JD, Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq. Williams In honor of Leila Lumford LLM Mr. Charles Henderson Patsy Anderson Dr. Earnest and Sally Truby Mr. Robert L. Hilton Mr. Peter Sherman Mrs. Hazel C. Hough Mrs. Carol A. Upham

19 He also has an extensive photography collection; selections have comprised another traveling exhibition. Mr. Johnson once said: “When I am asked what it takes to become an accomplished collector, it is not the qualities of knowledge, judgment, or that elusive term ‘taste’ that comes to mind. Instead, it is the ability to be curious that is the crucial element in the makeup of a true collector – the ability to ask questions, to learn, and to get answers Lecture Series regarding works of art that catch your eye and move your emotions.” Free with MFA admission, open to the public His passion for art was sparked at McGill University in Montreal, followed by his first curatorial position at the Worcester Art Sponsored by: Museum in Massachusetts. He then became Assistant Curator This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art of Prints and Drawings at the Baltimore Museum of Art and was historians, curators, artists, and collectors. The public is invited recruited by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. He to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors transformed those holdings into one of the premier such collections Circle members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour in the country, now numbering approximately 90,000 works. before the lecture. Seymour Gordon, Honorary Trustee and past Mr. Johnson has curated a wealth of exhibitions and is the author President of the MFA Board, is President of the Collectors Circle. of many books and exhibition catalogues. His publications include: Lucian Freud: Works on Paper; Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.: Charles Jones; Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts, 1952-1963; and Dr. Gloria Groom is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author on nineteenth- The Face in the Lens – Anonymous Photographs, among others. century European painting and sculpture. She is Senior Curator and David and Mary Winton Green Curator of Nineteenth- Study Trips Century European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sponsored by: Dr. Groom has curated many major traveling exhibitions and was the lead curator for the groundbreaking The Collectors Circle visits other museums, galleries, and Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (2012- private collections and homes throughout the year. Members 2013), which opened at the Musée d’Orsay receive private tours and also enjoy lunch or dinner at some in Paris. Others include: Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the finest restaurants. of the Avant-Garde (2006-2007); Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (2005); Manet and the Sea (2003); Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting Wednesday, February 24, 2016: The John and Mable by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930 (2001); Renoir’s Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. Private tours of the new Portraits: Impressions of an Age (1997); Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Center for Asian Art and the major exhibition Samurai: The Impressionist (1995); and Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams (1994). Her Way of the Warrior from the Stibbert Museum in Florence, exhibition Van Gogh’s Bedrooms will be displayed at the Art Institute Italy. The show features approximately 70 objects, including of Chicago from February 14-May 8, and Gauguin, Painter-Sculptor full suits of armor, helmets, swords, and saddles, as well as (2017) will be presented in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay. exquisite writing boxes and incense trays. The author of numerous catalogues and essays, Dr. Groom has Tuesday, May 10-Friday, May 13, 2016: Study trip to lectured across the country and in Europe. Her book, Edouard Boston. Watch for more details soon. Vuillard: Painter-Decorator, was published by Yale University Press. Since 2009, she has led the project for the monographic online scholarly collection of catalogues for Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Manet, Gauguin, and Caillebotte. This effort has involved an international team of scholars, conservators, and scientists. Dr. Groom was elected Chevalier and Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, respectively, by the Republic of France in 2005 and 2013 and was made Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2015. She holds her BA from the University of Oklahoma and her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. She also received a graduate certificate from the École du Louvre in Paris. Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.: Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud spotlights the fascinating collection developed by Robert Flynn Johnson over the course of his impressive career. Mr. Johnson was Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for 32 years until his retirement in 2007. At that time, he was named Curator Emeritus. Dr. Arthur Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National His lecture is titled “A Journey, not a Destination: Adventures over Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., presented the Collectors Circle Lecture Four Decades in the Pursuit of Portraiture.” He will explore the on Thursday, November 10. Enjoying the reception were (left to right): origins of his interest in portraiture, his love of drawings, and his Dr. Wheelock, Michele Kidwell-Gilbert, Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert, past Collectors interaction with art historians, dealers, collectors, and even some Circle president Barbara McCoy, Richard Parke of sponsor Northern Trust, of the artists themselves in forming his highly personal collection. Aila Erman, and current Collectors Circle President Seymour Gordon. 20 Collectors Circle Collectors Circle Corporate Member Appreciation Party and Foundation Sponsors at the home of Rhonda Shear and Van Fagan 2020 Brightwaters Boulevard N.E., St. Petersburg Astral Extracts Helen Torres Foundation Thursday evening, January 14, 2016 The Bank of Tampa Matthew Lytell & Hors d’oeuvres, wine and cocktails Christie’s Associates, Complimentary valet parking Comegys Insurance affiliated with Agency Northwestern For more information, please contact Sheila Tempelmann, Fifth Third Private Bank Mutual [email protected] or 727.864.1338. Green, Henwood and Northern Trust Chair: Cynthia Astrack Hough Investment Group, RBC Wealth Underwritten by: Management

Bridging the Bay Tuesday, October 13 Tampa Museum of Art

Presented by:

(Left to right) Jacqueline Ley Brown and Dr. William Brown with Guna Carr.

(Left to right) Frank Bonsack of sponsor Fifth Third Private Bank, Debra Williams McDaniel (Chair of the Tampa Museum of Art Board), Michael Tomor (Director of the Tampa Museum of Art), Cary Putrino of Fifth Third, event chair Mary B. Perry, President of the Collectors Circle (Left to right) Gene and Julia Sorbo, Seymour Gordon, and MFA Director Kent Lydecker. Farbod Sorreshteh, and Dr. Ali Saberi.

(Left to right) Michele Kidwell-Gilbert with her husband MFA trustee Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert and Cathy Collins (Vice Chair of the MFA Board).

(Left to right) Howard Mills (past President of the MFA Board), Maureen Cohn (Tampa Museum of Art trustee), and William Knight Zewadski.

(Left to right) Brian Lamb of Fifth Third Bank, Catherine Schrader, Julie Rhode of Fifth Third, and MFA trustee Roy Binger.

Penny Vinik (left) with Mary B. Perry. Both are members of the Executive (Left to right) Demi and Sam Rahall, past Committee of the Tampa President of the MFA Board Carol A. Upham, Museum of Art Board. Jan Stoffels (left) with Karen McKinney, Cathy Unruh, Mardi Johnson, Susan Gordon. and Dr. Calvin Johnson (no relation). Rep and Simone DeLoach. 21 Thomas Gessler Retires Thomas U. Gessler, the longest serving and one of the most valuable staff members in the Museum’s history, retired at the end of Collectors Choice XV Gala December. He has been associated with the MFA for nearly 45 years, since his student ContemplatingFriday, April 29, C6:30haracter p.m. days at Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College). MFA Members and the Public Welcome Tom’s titles do not even begin to describe his contributions. He is a talented photographer, exhibition preparator and installer, an expert on the collection and the mechanics of the building, supreme problem- solver, and historian. He has supported and advised four out of the MFA’s five directors. He knew Museum Founder Margaret Acheson Stuart, and, until his retirement, continued to use her lighting equipment for MFA photography. While a college student, he completed an internship at the Museum from February-May 1971. After graduating with a BA in painting and photography, he served as part-time staff from June 1971-January 1972. He returned as a full-time employee in January 1975 and made the MFA his home. He knows the Museum’s history because he has lived it and has been such a key figure in its development. When a full-time building superintendent was added in 1990, Tom could devote more of his time to photography, exhibitions, and the collection, but he still was a “go to” person for issues related to the building. At one time, he even laid out the Mosaic, when articles were pasted on the page. Tom’s popularity with staff, donors, volunteers, trustees, and members of the community is legendary. He was the first man to be named an honorary member of The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society. Tom will be profoundly missed. The MFA would not be where it is today without him.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872-1898) Caricature Portrait Presumed to be Oscar Wilde (1892) Pen and ink on paper Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson Sponsored by Pick-a-Pic Friday, October 2

And the winner is ...

Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, gourmet seated dinner, select wines, and champagne.

MFA Director Kent Lydecker, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jerry Smith, and Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, will present three artworks for possible Museum acquisition. Collectors Circle members in attendance will select their favorite.

Black-and-White Attire, Black-Tie Optional $250 per person Complimentary Valet Parking from the Beach Drive entrance

Please send check, made payable to the Museum of Fine Arts with Collectors Choice in the memo line, or credit card information, including security code, to Daryl DeBerry, Director of Development, Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Drive N.E., St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Julie Blackmon (American, born 1966) New Chair (2014) Archival pigment print All proceeds support the Collectors Circle Acquisitions Museum Purchase with funds donated by the Friends of Fund to purchase works for the collection. Photography for the Museum’s 50th Anniversary

22 Wednesday/16 Music & Art Course: Mirrors in the Renaissance, presented by Sally and to Remember Katherine Robinson of the Drum DATES Connection, 10-11:30 a.m. Carrie Schneider: Reading Women introduce his museum’s world-renowned Saturday/13 Thursday/17 FINAL DAYS, Through Sunday, collection of decorative arts, 2 p.m. Contemplating Character and The Art of Meet the Artist: Photographer Leslie January 17 the Classical Guitar open to the public. Joy Ickowitz, presented by the Museum Friends of Photography: Visit to the Store, 5-7 p.m. Marks Made: Prints by American Women home of collectors David Hall and Judy Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. Artists from the 1960s to the Present Tampa, 7 p.m. Gallery Talk: Hazel and William Hough FINAL DAYS, Through Sunday, Wednesday/13 Chief Curator Dr. Jerry N. Smith on The Saturday/19 Art of the Classical Guitar, 3 p.m. , 10-11 a.m. January 24 Coffee Talk with Nan Colton’s Queen of Kidding Around Yoga Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity (installation Mystery, docent tour, and refreshments, Sunday/14 MFA: Make and Take – Making a Musical Instrument, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Museum grounds) 10-11 a.m. Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Through Sunday, February 14 Thursday/14 Glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell, 3 p.m. MFA Guitar Festival: Lecture by Jeffrey Elliott on “Forensic Lutherie: Behind the I Remember Birmingham Book Club @ the MFA: Rebecca Solnit’s Last Day to see Piotr Janowski’s Curiosity A Field Guide to Getting Lost, 6:30 p.m. on the Museum grounds. Scenes of Historical Guitar Restoration,” Through Sunday, February 28 3 p.m. Saturday/16 Monday/15 50 Artworks for 50 Years: Second Look Sunday/20 Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, January 9-Sunday, March 13 : Grammy-winning , 10 a.m.-4 p.m. MFA Guitar Festival Contemplating Character: Portrait Wiki-Edit-a-Thon Thursday/18 classical guitarist Jason Vieux, presented Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques- MFA: Make and Take – Sculpting Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. by the Marly Music Society, 2 p.m. Edible Play Dough, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Louis David to Lucian Freud Collectors Circle Lecture: Dr. Gloria Monday/21 Saturday, February 13– Sunday, May 29 Groom, Senior Curator and David Dismantling Ceremony, the Sand ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. Mandala, noon and Mary Winton Green Curator of The Art of the Classical Guitar Nineteenth-Century European Painting Visual Metaphor (Pinellas County High Saturday, February 13-Sunday, May 29 Sunday/17 and Sculpture at the Art Institute of School Exhibition) opens. The Contemporaries: Reading Women: Visual Metaphor (Pinellas County High Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday/23 School Exhibition) Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Carrie Schneider, 3 p.m. Saturday/20 Music & Art Course: Mirrors in the Monday, March 21-Sunday, April 24 Renaissance, 10-11:30 a.m. Carrie Schneider: Reading Women closes. Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Art in Bloom 2016 Friday/25 Presented by The Margaret Acheson Monday/18 MFA: Make and Take – Creating a Character Journal, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Stuart Society and the MFA ILLUMINATE, Session B, 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 7-Monday, April 11 Thursday/25 Saturday/26 Thursday/21 MFA Guitar Festival: Classical guitarist Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. General Tours, Monday-Saturday, Porch Party, 5:30-7 p.m. Michael Chapdelaine, 6:30 p.m. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m. Beer Project Winner’s Release Party, Wednesday/30 Friday/26 : Mirrors in the Family Tours, Saturday, 11 a.m. 6-8 p.m. Music & Art Course Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Renaissance, 10-11:30 a.m. Friday/22 JANUARY Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Saturday/27 Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. APRIL Saturday/2 Saturday/23 Sunday/28 Wednesday/6 Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. I Remember Birmingham closes. Visual Metaphor for students MFA: Make and Take – Sculpting Sunday/24 Reception and their parents and teachers, 6-8 p.m. Edible Play Dough, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Marks Made: Prints by American Women Awards Presentation, 6:30 p.m. Sunday/3 Artists from the 1960s to the Present closes. MARCH Thursday/7 Music in the Marly: The Fred Moyer Saturday/5 Art in Bloom 2016 opens, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Jazz Trio, 2 p.m. FEBRUARY Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. by the – Making a Flowers After Hours, presented by The Drawing of the Sand Mandala Monday/1 MFA: Make and Take Venerable Lama Losang Samten, Mary Musical Instrument, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, Marly , Session A, 10-11:30 a.m. Alice McClendon Conservatory, noon ILLUMINATE Room, 6:30 p.m. The Contemporaries Lunchtime Sunday/6 Museum Store closed through Tuesday, Friday/8 Lecture, noon Lecture: Dr. C. Brian Rose, James B. January 5, for inventory Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the Art in Bloom 2016 continues, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday/6 Monday/4 University of Pennsylvania, on “Assessing Art in Bloom Luncheon, presented by Kidding Around Yoga, 10-11 a.m. the Evidence for the Trojan War,” 3 p.m. The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society, ILLUMINATE, Session A, 10-11:30 a.m. – Creating a Grand Ballroom of the Vinoy, 11:30 a.m. continues MFA: Make and Take Monday/7 Creation of the Mandala Character Journal, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. through ILLUMINATE, Session A, 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday/9 Friday, January 15, with a day of rest on The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society Art in Bloom 2016 continues, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. presents The Contemporaries Lunchtime Monday, January 11. Wine, Whiskey, and Wonder: , noon , cocktails at 6:30 Lecture Sunday/10 , 2 p.m. The Grape Escape Blessing of the Sand p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday/8 Art in Bloom 2016 continues, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday/7 : Noted , Sunday/7 Friends of Decorative Arts Conversations with the Designers Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations collector Jim Sweeny on “Art Deco noon-2 p.m. Wine, Whiskey, and Wonder: Jazz with glass artist Richard Jolley, 6:30 p.m. Miami Beach,” 2 p.m. by MFA Director Kent Lydecker Brunch, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Lecture Cinema at the MFA: Kundun, directed Wednesday/9 on the artworks selected for the Tuesday/9 by Martin Scorsese and introduced by with Nan Colton’s Fairyland tablescapes in The Great Hall, 2:30 p.m. : Inge Hatton Coffee Talk the Venerable Losang Samten, 6:30 p.m. Friends of Decorative Arts Luster, docent tour, and refreshments, : on Nova Scotia folk artists, 2 p.m. Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations Friday/8 10-11 a.m. Glass artists Martin Rosol and Benjamin Wednesday/10 Cobb, 3 p.m. Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Thursday/10 with Nan Colton’s Coffee Talk : Running with Monday/11 Saturday/9 Living with Genius, docent tour, and Book Club @ the MFA Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, 6:30 p.m. Last day to see Art in Bloom 2016. Drumming @ the MFA, presented by refreshments, 10-11 a.m. Sally and Katherine Robinson of the Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Sunday/17 Drum Connection, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday/11 Glass artists John Miller and Paul Joseph : Award-winning : MFA Guitar Festival Book-Signing: Ancient Teachings in Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations Nelson, 6:30 p.m. classical guitarist Adam Holzman, 2 p.m. Modern Times by the Venerable Lama Glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell, Friday/11 Thursday/21 Losang Samten, Museum Store, 2 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Collectors Circle Lecture: Robert 50 Artworks for 50 Years: Second Look Book Club @ the MFA: J. Ryan Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest, 6:30 p.m. Saturday/12 Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus of the opens. Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at Drumming @ the MFA, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday/10 Friday/12 the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, : Art and Sign Language, 11 a.m. Sunday/13 on Contemplating Character, 6:30 p.m. Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations : Glass artist Richard Jolley, 3 p.m. , Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations Members’ Opening Reception Glass artists John Miller and Paul Joseph Sunday/24 Contemplating Character: Portrait Tuesday/12 Nelson, 3 p.m. Painting in the Park, noon-4 p.m. Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques- : Alex Visual Metaphor closes. Friends of Decorative Arts Louis David to Lucian Freud and The Art of 50 Artworks for 50 Years: Second Look Nyerges, Director of the Virginia the Classical Guitar, 7-9 p.m. closes. Friday/29 Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, will Collectors Choice Gala, 6:30 p.m.

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The Art of the Classical Guitar

Antonio de Torres (Spanish, 1817-1892), Guitar (detail), 1890, Spanish pine top and birds-eye maple sides and back, Collection of Robb and Susan Hough

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