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Celebrating Twenty-five Years in the Snite Museum of Art: 1980–2005 SELECTED WORKS SELECTED WORKS S Snite Museum of Art nite University of Notre Dame M useum of Art SELECTED WORKS SELECTED WORKS Celebrating Twenty-five Years in the Snite Museum of Art: 1980–2005 S nite M useum of Art Snite Museum of Art University of Notre Dame SELECTED WORKS Snite Museum of Art University of Notre Dame Published in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Snite Museum of Art building. Dedicated to Rev. Anthony J. Lauck, C.S.C., and Dean A. Porter Second Edition Copyright © 2005 University of Notre Dame ISBN 978-0-9753984-1-8 CONTENTS 5 Foreword 8 Benefactors 11 Authors 12 Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art 68 Native North American Art 86 African Art 100 Western Arts 264 Photography FOREWORD From its earliest years, the University of Notre Dame has understood the importance of the visual arts to the academy. In 1874 Notre Dame’s founder, Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., brought Vatican artist Luigi Gregori to campus. For the next seventeen years, Gregori beautified the school’s interiors––painting scenes on the interior of the Golden Dome and the Columbus murals within the Main Building, as well as creating murals and the Stations of the Cross for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. In 1875 the Bishops Gallery and the Museum of Indian Antiquities opened in the Main Building. The Bishops Gallery featured sixty portraits of bishops painted by Gregori. In 1899 Rev. Edward W. J. Lindesmith, C.S.C., gave the collection of Native American art he had amassed while a chaplain at Fort Keogh, Montana, to the Museum of Indian Antiquities. In 1917 Rev. John W. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., In 1955 Father Hesburgh invited Croatian acquired over 100 paintings for Notre Dame, sculptor Ivan Meštrovi´c to teach and work and these were complemented by a 1924 gift at Notre Dame, and the Meštrovi´c Sculpture of 108 paintings from Charles A. Wightman. Studio was constructed for the “maestro.” The growing art collection was exhibited in During the last seven years of his life, 1924 within the Charles A. Wightman Meštrovi´c created public artworks for the Memorial Art Gallery, located in what was campus, including sculptures installed in 1984 then the University’s library (now Bond Hall). within the Shaheen-Meštrovi´c Memorial, which illustrates the story of Jesus and the Samaritan In 1952, at the request of Rev. Theodore M. woman at the well. Meštrovi´c’s masterpiece, Hesburgh, C.S.C., Ignatius A. O’Shaughnessy his Pieta, is located in the Basilica of the Sacred funded construction of the liberal arts build- Heart. The Meštrovi´c initiative was followed ing, O’Shaughnessy Hall. It included the in 1964 by Fathers Hesburgh and Edmund P. O’Shaughnessy Art Gallery, which opened Joyce commissioning nationally recognized in 1953 and remains today an integral part artist Millard Sheets to create the Word of Life, of the Snite Museum of Art. a granite-mosaic mural on the exterior of the Hesburgh Library. 5 FOREWORD In 1975 the Fred B. Snite family donated funds worthy that certain sections of the handbook to construct the Snite Museum of Art. The have grown dramatically since 1987, in particu- new building opened in 1980 and bridged the lar Mesoamerican art, old-master drawings, O’Shaughnessy Art Gallery with the Meštrovi´c and photography. Sculpture Studio, which was converted into a I thank the Fred B. Snite family for funding the gallery. In this expanded space, the Museum construction of the building, which was the was able to exhibit its rapidly developing col- catalyst for the collection’s dramatic growth lections of art and to interpret them with over the past twenty-five years. I also acknowl- extensive art education programs directed by edge the benefactors listed on page 8, who have two curators of education. made this second edition necessary. These indi- Therefore, the Snite Museum of Art, University viduals, families, endowments, and foundations of Notre Dame, is honored to publish this have made gifts of art or have provided funds updated Selected Works collection handbook on for the purchase of objects for the permanent the twenty-fifth anniversary of the construc- collection––the soul of the Museum. Many tion of the Snite Museum building in 1980. The of these benefactors are alumni, members of first edition, published seven years after the the Snite Museum of Art Advisory Council, Museum opened, is no longer representative and Friends members. Special thanks are also of the breadth and richness of the collection, offered to the curators and directors who because—thankfully so—many fine works of guided the development of the collections in art have been acquired since then. It is note- concert with these benefactors. In 1975 the Fred B. Snite family donated funds to construct the Snite Museum of Art. The new building opened in 1980 and bridged the O’Shaughnessy Art Gallery with the Meštrovic´ Sculpture Studio, which was converted into a gallery. 6 I am especially grateful to Dr. R. Stephen and ally brief, in anticipation of the more complete Maureen Lehman for their generous gift, which history that Director Emeritus Dean A. Porter has made printing this handbook possible. is writing.) Stephen is chair of the advisory council, and, in In short, I am deeply indebted to the many observance of our celebration, he has produced individuals who have made this publication a video that describes the staff and council’s possible with their gifts of art, funds, talents, vision for the next twenty-five years. and time. Curator of Photography Stephen R. Moriarty, It is indeed long overdue. May it soon become with Allyson Klutenkamper, April Wilkins, obsolete. and Katie Yenglin, prepared the handsome photographs that illustrate this publication. Charles R. Loving The authors, who are listed on page 11, wrote Director and Curator of Sculpture interpretive essays that provide useful insights into each art object. I thank them for their fine writing and for their discipline in meet- ing both the production deadline and my strict word limit for essays. Anne Taaffe Mills and Sarah McGaughey Tremblay skillfully edited the essays, and Assistant Professor Robert Sedlack tastefully combined images with text. Thanks are also given to Curator of Native American Art Joanne M. Mack for informa- tion shared earlier in this foreword regarding the Bishops Gallery and the Museum of Indian Antiquities. (This Museum history is intention- 7 BENEFACTORS PRINTING OF SELECTED WORKS Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Lehman BENEFACTORS OF WORKS OF ART FEATURED IN SELECTED WORKS Mr. Lester S. Abelson Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Browning Mr. and Mrs. Julian Aberbach Dr. M. L. Busch Purchase Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf The Butkin Foundation Marilynn B. Alsdorf Mr. L. Russell Cartwright Alsdorf Foundation Mr. James A. Chism Mr. Ernst Anspach Mr. Harold L. Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Ignacio Aranguren and Sons Mrs. Thomas Cusack Mr. Emil Arnold Arthur J. Decio Purchase Fund Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Ashbaugh, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Decio Dr. R. Austgen Mr. B. Nelson Deranian William and Leslie Banks Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dillon Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Barton Mr. and Mrs. Terrence J. Dillon Walter R. Beardsley Endowment for Mr. and Mrs. Terrence J. Dillon Endowment Modern and Contemporary Art Dr. Tom Dooley Art Purchase Fund Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beech Mr. and Mrs. Gary Doran Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A Bergman Mr. and Mrs. William J. Doran Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Berlin Mr. and Mrs. Robin Douglass Kennett B. Block Family Mr. Charles K. Driscoll Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Bodnar Mr. and Mrs. Randy Dukes Mrs. J. C. Bowes Ms. Mary Dunbar Raymond E. Britt Family Mr. and Mrs. James H. Dunfee, Sr. Theodora Winterbotham Brown Mr. Robert Dunfee 8 Dr. and Mrs. R. Charles Eades Mr. Charles Jones Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg Mr. Peter David Joralemon Mr. and Mrs. William N. Farabaugh Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Feddersen Fritz and Milly Kaeser Endowment for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fein Purchase Fund Liturgical Art Mrs. Fred J. Fisher Milly Kaeser Fotsch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kahn Mr. Edward Fowles Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kiefer Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation Walter and William Klauer Purchase Fund Mrs. Lorraine Gallagher Freimann Family of William Klauer Purchase Fund Lee Krasner Friends of the Snite Museum of Art Samuel H. Kress Foundation Betty Gallagher and John Snider Lake Family Endowment Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gillon Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Lake, Jr. Mrs. Dorothy Griffin Mrs. Walter Lake Mrs. James M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lapierre Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Rev. Anthony J. Lauck, C.S.C., Purchase Fund Sculpture Endowment Ms. Carolyn Hammerschmidt Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Lehman Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hammes Mr. and Mrs. Judd Leighton Mr. Kevin Healy Rev. Edward W. J. Lindesmith, C.S.C. Mrs. Frank E. Hering Ms. Carol Lipis Mr. and Mrs. John T. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lobdell Laura Holt Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Lockhart Mr. Richard J. Huether Ms. Elsie Manby Humana Foundation Endowment for Mr. Paul Manheim American Art Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Markovits Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson Mr. Cedric Marks 9 BENEFACTORS Mr. and Mrs. John S. Marten Mr. Peter J. Ruskin Virginia Marten Sansom Foundation Mrs. Robert B. Mayer Mr. Janos Scholz Mary R. and Helen C. McDevitt Janos Scholz Family Mr.