Chrysler The Members’ Magazine | Fall 2017 GRACIOUS GIFTS OF GLASS
board of trustees 2017–18 Chrysler Thomas L. Stokes, Jr., Chairman The Members’ Magazine | Fall 2017 In 1971 Walter P. Chrysler Jr. and Jean Outland Chrysler made Lelia Graham Webb, Vice Chairman a transformational gift to the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Brother Rutter, Secretary Sciences and the City of Norfolk. The collections of the newly Yvonne T. Allmond renamed Chrysler Museum of Art were immediately recognized Dudley Anderson for their quality and breadth, especially in the areas of European Shirley C. Baldwin and American painting and Glass. Since that time, the Museum Kathleen Broderick Deborah H. Painter has continued to grow its collections through gifts and Paul D. Fraim director’s note purchases. Simultaneously, we build on our traditional strengths Edith G. Grandy Inside Front Cover and expand into new areas. For instance, in the 1990s, we began Virginia C. Hitch to collect photography comprehensively and more recently, James A. Hixon we have sought to acquire more works by important but Claus Ihlemann in the galleries underrepresented African-American artists like Elizabeth Catlett Marc Jacobson 2 Exhibitions on View and Beauford Delaney. Linda H. Kaufman Pamela C. Kloeppel 6 Camerawork at NASA Langley In order to maintain our position as one of the great collections Harry T. Lester 8 Norfolk Society of Arts— of glass in America, we need to keep building. That is why Suzanne Mastracco Centennial Gift Colin M. McKinnon the recent promised gift from Lisa and Dudley Anderson is On view beginning November 17, Peter M. Meredith, Jr. so important. (See the article on p.10) Over several decades, in Multiple Modernisms 10 Anderson Gift Charlotte M. Minor the Andersons have assembled an outstanding collection of Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887-1986 J. Douglas Perry Black Door with Red, 1954 cover story contemporary glass in the country. They have collected broadly C. Arthur Rutter III Oil on canvas but also in depth. For instance, early in their collecting life Bob Sasser Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 12 Enchanted by Glass they recognized the importance of the Czech artists Stanislav Lisa B. Smith Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová and over time they acquired Richard Waitzer chrysler news many of their most important works. The Andersons have Joseph T. Waldo already donated three monumental pieces by this influential Wayne F. Wilbanks 16 Peers and Partners couple to the Museum. Additionally, the Andersons acquired Cheryl Xystros 18 Interns at the Chrysler excellent works by most of the leading figures in the studio chrysler magazine 19 Camp Chrysler glass movement. Meredith Gray, Director of Communications 20 Reflections from the Edge It is very gratifying to know that Lisa and Dudley have chosen Jane Cleary, Graphics Manager 22 For the Culturally Curious the Chrysler as the eventual home for this impressive collection. All photographs by Ed Pollard, I believe it speaks to the overall quality of our collection and Museum Photographer unless René Lalique (French, 1860−1945) 24 Staff Notes otherwise noted Automobile Mascot on Base professionalism of the institution. We will remain conscientious Victoire (Victory), 1928 stewards of the art that has been entrusted to us by the Chrysler Magazine is published Mold‑pressed, assembled, acid‑etched member exclusives Chryslers, the Andersons, and many other generous collectors. for and mailed to Chrysler Museum 2011.3.345, gift of In this way, we will continue to fulfill our mission to enrich the Members as a benefit of their Elaine and Stanford Steppa, 26 People, Parties, and Patriotism generous support. The Corning Museum of Glass lives of all the visitors to the Museum. 28 Members’ Art Travel Update or verify your membership information at http://reservations. chrysler.org or contact Database last look Manager Fleater Allen at 757-333-6287 | [email protected]. 29 Summertime Family Fun The Chrysler Museum of Art, all rights reserved © 2017 Erik H. Neil, Director on the cover René Lalique (French, 1860−1945) Perfume Bottle with Stopper Bouchon mûres (Berry stopper), 1920 Mold‑blown, mold‑pressed, applied patina, acid‑etched 2011.3.250, gift of Joey Kirkpatrick (American, b. 1952) Elaine and Stanford Steppa, Flora C. Mace (American, b. 1949) The Corning Museum of Glass Alphabet of Flowers, 2012 Blown glass, crushed glass powder, glass thread drawing Photography by Scott Leen Root and Flower: René Lalique: In The Box: Dust Tail Thomas Hart Benton Glen McClure: Picturing Innovation: The Natural World of Enchanted by Glass Opening September 21 and the Navy The Shipyard Workers The First 100 Years at Exhibitions Joey Kirkpatrick and Opening the evening of Closing September 24 in of Hampton Roads NASA Langley Contemporary Peruvian artist Thursday, September 14 the Focus Gallery (G. 229) Closing September 24 in Opening October 7 in the Flora C. Mace Elena Damiani’s multimedia On view through in the Norfolk Southern own fine holdings of French the McKinnon Wing of Frank Photography practice incorporates the The 1941 bombing of Pearl February 18, 2018 in the Special Exhibitions Gallery art glass. Modern and Contemporary Galleries and Focus Gallery disciplines of geology, Harbor inspired American artist Glass Projects Space (G. 118) (Gs. 101–102) and the The exhibition is organized by Art (Gs. 226 and 227) (G. 228–229) Waitzer Community Gallery The Corning Museum of Glass, geography, cartography, and Navy veteran Thomas Hart Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace (G. 103) Corning, New York. archeology, and astronomy Benton to create a series of Over the past four years, To commemorate the are intimately connected to in order to reinterpret the works celebrating the ships, Norfolk-based photographer 100th anniversary of NASA Revel in the luxury of French the natural world and deeply world around us. In her recent submarines, and sailors who Glen McClure visited nearly a Langley Research Center engaged with the world glass, jewelry, and decorative dozen shipyards throughout in Hampton, Virginia, the Member’s Exhibition work Dust Tail (2016), the artist fought in World War II. To mark arts created by one of the Hampton Roads, making Chrysler Museum mined they study. On their farm in Preview Party overlays numerous images the centennial of Naval Air great turn-of-the-century hundreds of portraits of the agency’s photographic Washington State, they find Get the first look at our fall of comets’ blazing dust tails Station Norfolk, the Chrysler masters of the art, René Lalique. the men and women who archive. With more than 100 inspiration that translates keynote exhibition at our to form a stimulating collage presents an exhibition of the The Chrysler’s fall keynote keep the region’s economy images, the exhibition depicts into realistic drawings of tree special roaring twenties soiree! printed on silk chiffon. The artist’s works from the Navy exhibition features more than afloat. Captured on the many of Langley’s pioneering roots and a countless array of Enjoy a comprehensive look airiness of the material causes Art Collection, on loan from 200 works—from vases and docks and decks that line our innovations—from pilots wildflowers that they dissect, at one of the most influential it to ripple, suggesting the the Naval History and Heritage perfume bottles to desk sets waterways, his photographs testing experimental planes reassemble, and preserve in designers of the 20th century, movement of the stars. The Command in Washington, and automotive ornaments— are monumentally scaled, and engineers operating the a permanent state with resin live jazz performances, work hangs in three layers, D.C. These 25 paintings and that highlight the artist- yet intimately detailed— facility’s famous wind tunnels and glass. As partners in life and a speakeasy lounge. forming a half ellipse, which drawings reveal Benton’s industrialist’s talent for design, celebrating the skill, knowledge, to astronauts preparing to take and art, Kirkpatrick and Mace Admission is free for all is also part of the orbital fascination with modern décor, and distribution. Most and individuality of these the first steps on the moon. A began their collaboration three Museum Members. trajectory of a comet. military technology and his of the objects in the exhibition dedicated workers. The Chrysler tribute to Langley’s rich history, decades ago at Pilchuck Glass Tickets for all others are $15. sensitivity to the rhythms of come from the unrivaled proudly presents 21 of their Picturing Innovation explores School. Their humanistic work RSVP by Wednesday, daily life below deck. Steppa Collection of Lalique faces and workplaces, and a how photographs not only encapsulates their personal September 6. works at The Corning Museum searchable touch-screen of document innovations but also relationship to nature through https://reservations. of Glass, complemented by more workers’ portraits. inspire them. explorations with glass, wood, chrysler.org metal, and drawings. stunning additions from private collectors and the Chrysler’s
clockwise from left: Elena Damiani (Peruvian, b. 1979) Dust tail, 2016 Digital print on silk chiffon, steel Photographer: Carl Henrik Tillberg Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm
Thomas Hart Benton and the Navy Gallery View
Glen McClure (American, b. 1954) David Dragon, Yard Paint Foreman, Lyon Ship Repair, Norfolk, VA, 2014 Archival inkjet print (photograph) ©courtesy of the artist
Langley's First Wind Tunnel, ca. 1920 Courtesy NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC)
Joey Kirkpatrick René Lalique (French, 1860−1945) (American, b. 1952) Illuminated Surtout de Table Flora C. Mace (Table Decoration) (American, b. 1949) Oiseau de feu (Firebird), 1922 3 Bloom Tazetta, 2015 Mold‑pressed, acid‑etched; bronze Flower, composite, glass, 2011.3.189, gift of paint and steel Elaine and Stanford Steppa, Photography by Ann Welch The Corning Museum of Glass
2 | fall 2017 in the galleries | 3 Gifts in Honor of Multiple Modernisms AT THE PERRY IN OUR Now Arriving: AT THE HISTORIC Jefferson Harrison Opening November 17 GLASS STUDIO COMMUNITY New Works from the HOUSES Opening November 15 McKinnon Galleries Ongoing Chrysler Museum McKinnon Gallery Vestibule 102 The history of modern Glass Studio Team (Gallery 223) and contemporary art is Come see work by the newest Ongoing at Norfolk International Airport, 2200 The Museum celebrates always changing. Despite generation of glassmaking Norview Avenue, Norfolk Dr. Jefferson Harrison’s an established chronology, professionals and artists, as incredible 33-year tenure scholars continuously bring well as objects by established The Chrysler Museum’s Perry as Curator and Chief Curator forth new information about artists, such as our Studio Glass Studio presents a survey Emeritus at the Chrysler, from well-known artists, while also Team leaders and guest artists of imaginative works made 1982–2015, with an exhibition introducing emerging ones from the community. Look by its diverse and talented of gifts donated in honor of his or those whose careers were back (or forward) to Vestibule faculty. As a reflection of the service. These works span all of widely overlooked. In essence, 102 exhibitions on our online institution’s varied programs, our collection areas and include there are numerous narratives archive at www.chrysler.org/ the works range widely in Ansel Adams’s iconic Moonrise, about art and artists occurring glass-studio/vestibule-102. technique, scale, and scope. This Hernandez, given by Selina and simultaneously, consecutively, is a partnership exhibition with Tom Stokes, Chuck Close’s Phil and interrelatedly. Multiple the Norfolk Airport Authority. Crosshatch, given by Susan and Modernisms presents works David Goode and Louis-Maurice John Vachon (American, 1914–1975) within the Chrysler’s permanent Construction Worker and Boutet de Monvel’s Portrait of a collection that have never been Family Living in Trailer Camp, Young Girl given by the Joseph T. on view or not been seen in Portsmouth, Virginia, March 1941 Waldo Family. decades, introducing visitors to Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 a few of these complex stories . Chrysler Museum purchase that demonstrate arts’ breadth and depth. Willoughby-Baylor House 601 E. Freemason St., Norfolk A New Deal Near Here During the depths of the Great Depression, the federal government created the Farm Security Administration to combat poverty. The agency deployed photographers throughout America to document Americans enduring economic deprivation, and many photographers spent time throughout Hampton Roads and along Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Their pictorial essays show everyday Americans whose lives center on family, faith, labor, and leisure. Explore the lives of our forbearers— and see how much life in our region has changed and how it remains the same. The Norfolk Rooms Ongoing on the second floor
Moses Myers House 323 E. Freemason St., Norfolk
Moses Myers: Maritime Merchant Barton Myers: Now Arriving: Works from the Norfolk Visionary Faculty of the Chrysler Museum of Adeline’s Portal Art's Perry Glass Studio, Norfolk by Beth Lipman Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Nick Cave, American, b.1959 International Airport French 1851-1913 Soundsuit, 2010 These permanent installations are supported by a Portrait of a Young Girl, 1880 Mixed media generous gift from the late T. Parker Host, Jr., and the Oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art purchase Friends of Historic Houses Gift of the Joseph T. Waldo family with funds donated by the in honor of Jeff Harrison, Chief Friends of African-American Art Curator Emeritus of the Chrysler and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Museum of Art by exchange 4 | fall 2017 in the galleries | 5 Camerawork at NASA Langley
The photographic archive at NASA Langley Langley has also made extensive use of Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, includes schlieren (German for “streak”) photography. millions of images that document the history The technology, developed in 1864, enables of aeronautic research, space exploration, and the visualization of density changes in the atmospheric analysis. The exhibition Picturing flow of air. As early as 1939, Langley scientists Innovation: The First 100 Years of NASA Langley, began using this technique in wind tunnels to on view in the Frank Photography Galleries understand the shock waves that create power- until March 11, 2018, draws from this archive, sucking drag, degrade airfoil performance, and highlighting the research center’s revolutionary destabilize aircraft as breakthroughs. The photographs include they approach the images of pilots testing experimental planes, speed of sound— engineers calibrating the facility’s famous wind commonly known as tunnels, and astronauts training to take their first the sound barrier. To steps on the moon. While the exhibition richly travel faster at higher illustrates the history of Langley to celebrate speeds, planes its centenary, it also highlights photography’s had to overcome instrumental role in supporting aeronautical these shock waves, research and producing new insights. Visitors will and schlieren find numerous photographs that depict scientists photography not using cameras in their research as well as the only helped envision stunning images they produced. the waves, but also led researchers Among the most innovative photographic to discover that projects developed at Langley was the Lunar narrowing a plane’s fuselage at the wing junction Orbiter mission, which created photographic could minimize them, a major breakthrough in maps of the lunar surface in order to identify supersonic flight. More recently, Langley scientist potential landing sites for Apollo astronauts. Leonard Weinstein advanced the technology In the mid-1960s, researchers at Langley when he discovered how to make schlieren developed the Lunar Orbiter satellite—in photographs of full-sized aircraft flying in the essence, an extraterrestrial camera outfitted with sky, rather than scale models in wind tunnels. In an ingenious dual-lens camera, an on-board Shockwaves of X-15 Model 1993 he used an eight-inch diameter telescope film processor and optical scanner, and a data in the National Transonic Tunnel, with a special optical system pointed toward the March 23, 1962. transmitter. While hurtling around the moon, the edge of the sun to capture a T-38 Talon flying Courtesy NASA Langley Research satellite captured detailed imagery of the lunar Center (NASA-LaRC) at supersonic speeds above Virginia’s Wallops surface frame by frame, thanks to an advanced Island. This imaging technique is now being at right optical sensor and a dynamic roller system that used to help design quieter and more efficient Lunar Surface Image Taken by compensated for the satellite’s velocity relative supersonic aircraft. theLunar Orbiter, 1967. to the moon’s surface. Once processed, scanned, Courtesy NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) and transmitted, the Orbiter’s images were —Seth Feman, Curator of Exhibitions, received by Langley, recorded onto magnetic Acting Curator of Photography tape, and transposed to 35-mm film. Researchers then assembled the filmstrips like a mosaic and rephotographed the composition, resulting in the most detailed lunar maps of the day.
6 | fall 2017 spotlight exhibition | 7 NSA Gift Norfolk Brings Society of Major Arts Work Lecture to the Series Chrysler 2017–2018
Frank Lloyd Wright, Designer American (1867-1959) Linden Glass Company, Manufacturer, Chicago, Illinois Window from Darwin D. Martin House, ca. 1903–1909 Glass and Brass Museum purchase and gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange When Alex Mann became the Chrysler’s Brock Egyptian-born artist Ghada Amer; a selection Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Monday, Curator of American Art in 2011, he was surprised of three mid-19th-century albumen prints by September 13, 2017 November 29, 2017 February 28, 2018 May 7, 2018 Annual that the Museum’s outstanding collection lacked (and one of) pioneering British photographer Colette Loll Graham C. Boettcher, PhD Lisa Freiman, PhD, Director Luncheon and Meeting a major American romantic landscape painting. Julia Margaret Cameron; and a rearrangeable Founder and Director of Art Deputy Director and The Institute for Contemporary Meryl Gordon “Where’s our Niagara?” he asked, referring to mosaic mirror work and drawing by Iranian artist Fraud Insights, LLC, and William Cary Hulsey Curator Art, Virginia Commonwealth Meryl Gordon is the author Frederic Edwin Church’s famous masterpiece Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Ultimately, co-curator of Treasures on of American Art University of three biographies: of Niagara Falls. “Why don’t we have a world- Natural Bridge won the NSA’s vote. The Museum Trial: The Art and Science of Birmingham Museum of Art “Making History: The 2011 Bunny Mellon: The Life of class picture of Virginia’s own great wonder, contributed matching funds toward the purchase. Detecting Fakes, Winterthur “Tiffany’s Dragons: Venice Biennial and the ICA” an American Style Legend, Natural Bridge?” Museum, Garden & Library The Viking Revival in Mrs. Astor Regrets, about Long held in private hands, Ward’s painting of “Grand Tales behind American Art” the philanthropist Brooke A recent generous gift from the Norfolk Society the remarkable rock formation is a museum- Wednesday, Winterthur’s Exhibit of Astor, and The Phantom of of Arts (NSA) put his concerns to rest. The NSA worthy treasure. In 1835, the artist traveled to March 28, 2018 Treasures on Trial” Fifth Avenue, a biography promotes and enhances the cultural life of the study Natural Bridge firsthand. With cows in the Wednesday, Kathleen A. Foster of copper heiress Huguette South Hampton Roads community through foreground, the work presents Natural Bridge January 24, 2018 (Mary Ellis Jarvie Lecture) Clark. Gordon is the Director lectures, special events, and financial support to as a portal between civilization and wilderness, Wednesday, Jeff Harrison, PhD The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior The Norfolk Society of Arts is of Magazine Writing at New the Chrysler Museum of Art. This year, in honor of connecting Virginia’s orderly agrarian society to October 25, 2017 Chief Curator Emeritus Chrysler Curator of American Art, American Art, Gallery 211. York University’s Arthur L. Jacob Caleb Ward the NSA’s 100th anniversary, its members proudly the dangers and riches of the frontier. Thomas pleased to announce its slate Barry Bergdoll Museum of Art and Director, Center for Carter Journalism Institute. (American, 1809-1891) presented the Museum with a remarkable Jefferson once called Natural Bridge “the most of distinguished speakers (Mabel Brown Lecture) "American Maverick: American Art View of Natural Bridge, Meyer Schapiro Professor of The Extraordinary Life Philadelphia Museum of Art Virginia American artwork, Natural Bridge, by Hudson sublime of Nature’s works.” In 1774 he actually for the year. Each month’s “Bunny Mellon: River school artist Jacob Caleb Ward. The Norfolk purchased the land to preserve this divine Art History and Archaeology, and Collecting Career of “American Watercolor in the ca. 1835 event begins with a coffee The Pursuit of Perfection” Oil on wood panel Society of Arts formally conferred the painting to monument for future generations. Columbia University Walter P. Chrysler, Jr." Age of Homer and Sargent” Gift of the Norfolk Society of the Museum at its annual meeting on May 1, 2017. reception in Huber Court at Curator, Department of The Chrysler's Chief Curator Arts in commemoration of its Director Erik H. Neil is proud to see Natural Bridge 10:30 a.m., followed by the Architecture and Design, Emeritus, Jeff Harrison, 100th anniversary and Museum When considering their special centennial gift to on the walls of the Chrysler. “We are pleased to Purchase, 2017 The Museum of Modern Art invites you to join him as the Museum, the group’s leadership collaborated have partnered with the NSA to bring in such a free lecture in the Museum’s "Unpacking the Archive: he reminisces about Mr. with Chrysler curators to determine possible new rare and early Virginia landscape. It fills a gap in Kaufman Theater at 11 a.m. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150" Chrysler and offers insights accessions. In addition to Natural Bridge, they our collection and allows us to tell a fuller story into his legacy as one of examined a ca. 1520 composite suit of Maximillian of the history of landscape painting in America.” 20th-century America's most Field Armor made in Nuremburg, Germany; a The work is currently on view in the Meredith adventurous art collectors. five-foot-diameter bronze sphere sculpted by Gallery (G.211).
8 | fall 2017 the norfolk society of arts | 9 The Lisa and Dudley Anderson Collection at the Chrysler Museum of Art
or Lisa and Dudley Anderson, collecting art is a passion that has taken them around the world. While their interests include drawings, prints, Fand ceramics, their primary focus is on studio and contemporary glass from the 1970s to the present. Dedicated and knowledgeable collectors, the Andersons enjoy the excitement of discovering new artists and museums; the connections built through long-term friendships; and the joy of exploring new places, both in the United States and abroad. In seeking a permanent home for their collection, the Andersons turned to the Chrysler Museum of Art. In December 2016, they promised 96 works to the Chrysler, establishing a legacy that will complement and greatly advance the already outstanding glass collection. This bequest constitutes the Museum’s largest Our annual single gift of works in glass since the arrival of Walter Chrysler’s Major Donor artworks in 1971. Dinner celebrates The diversity and depth of the Anderson gift is represented the Chrysler’s through 40 artists from seven countries. Significantly, 47 works most beneficent are by the pioneering Czech couple Stanislav Libenský and contributors Jaroslava Brychtová, whose light-filled sculptures are at the to express our apex of technically mastery. Previously, the Andersons donated the artists’ Green Eye of the Pyramid (1993–97), Astronomical gratitude for their Calendar Sphere (1994), and 3V Victory Column (1997); each is generosity. This monumental in scale and a major contribution to the field of September, the glass sculpture. The new gift also includes work by Ivan Mareš, Museum will honor Dana Zámečníková, Marion Karel, Václav Cigler, Vladimira Lisa and Dudley Klumpar, Pavel Tomecko, and Václav Machač, further cementing Anderson in the Chrysler as a noteworthy repository for contemporary recognition of the Czech glass. The promised gift also includes a ceramic sculpture by the California artist Robert Arneson, as well as 10 prints 96 works from their personal Stanislav Libenský, and drawings by Dale Chihuly, Italo Scanga, Ann Wolff, Harvey (Czech, 1921-2002) Littleton, Erwin Eisch, and Ulrica Hydman-Vallien. collection donated Jaroslava Brychtová, to the Chrysler (Czech, b. 1924) With the successful completion of the 2017 Glass Art Society clockwise from top left: Conference and the publication of the new glass collection Museum of Art. Astronomical Calendar Sphere, catalogue, the renown for the Chrysler’s collection and studio 1994 Cast glass is growing exponentially. This glass collection, so thoughtfully Gift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson assembled by the Andersons, will enable us to explore new and Dudley Buist Anderson ideas and themes in exhibitions and permanent displays, as we juxtapose 3V Victory Column, 1997 glass from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with the rich historic Cast glass with Formica base Gift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and glass collection, as well as integrate it into galleries throughout the Dudley Buist Anderson, in honor Museum. The Chrysler is an enthusiastic and extremely grateful recipient of Stanislav Libenský and of this generous donation. Thank you, Lisa and Dudley, for your ongoing Jaroslava Brychtová commitment and tremendous support to glass and the Chrysler Museum Modern & Contemporary Galleries of Art. with Green Eye of the Pyramid. 10 | fall 2017 collection connection | 11 The career of René Lalique (1860–1945) began during France’s Belle Époque (“beautiful era”), a relatively peaceful time between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when creativity in French visual arts flourished. He came of age at the time of the artistic genius of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Auguste Rodin, the scientific advancements of Louis Pasteur, and the technical achievements of the Lumière brothers. During this same period, a host of world’s fairs and international expositions brought France the Eiffel Tower and the rest of the world Art Deco. A designer and craftsman, Lalique achieved success early on with his designs for jewelry, which were exhibited at the Musée du Louvre in 1884, and maintained it throughout his career, ending with the decorative glass objects made at his factory at Wingen-sur-Moder in the 1940s. An entrepreneur and industrialist, Lalique produced visually stunning and technically challenging work, initially in the style of Art Nouveau and later in that of Art Deco, for both the wealthy and middle class. His name is synonymous with exceptional quality and novel design, and his legacy in glass continues today at the Lalique factory, which is still in operation. Lalique’s work is the focus of the extraordinary exhibition René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, on view at the Chrysler Museum through January 21, 2018. His innovative approach is revealed in more than 200 creative designs in a broad range of forms across the color spectrum. The glass objects, captivating as singular works, are contextualized by period advertisements and photographs that convey the stimulating visual world of his day, that of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Organized by The Corning Museum of Glass (May 17, 2014–January 4, 2015), René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass was inspired by a major gift of Lalique’s work to that museum by Stanford and Elaine Steppa. Their bequest of 385 objects, representing nearly the entire range of production of the Lalique factories, became the basis for this remarkable exhibition. apprenticed to the Parisian jeweler Louis Aucoc with his new wife, Alice Ledru (with whom he that included Alice Roosevelt, Helen Gould, Sarah René Lalique in his studio at when he was just sixteen. He attended art school would have two children, Marc and Suzanne), Bernhardt, and Calouste Gulbenkian. His jewelry 40 Cour-la-Reine, Paris, n.d. The story of Lalique is told in eight major sections: jewelry, perfume Image courtesy of Musée Lalique, bottles and dressing table accessories, smoking accessories, lighting and in Sydenham, near London, for several years, remained his home until his death in 1945. was first exhibited in the United States in 1904 at Wingen-sur-Moder but by 1880 he had returned to France and was the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (often called desk accessories, statuettes, tableware, vases, automobile mascots (hood Working in the emerging Art Nouveau style, working as a freelance illustrator and jewelry the St. Louis World’s Fair), where Henry Walters, ornaments), and architectural glass for luxury railcars and ocean liners. which was especially popular in the decorative designer in Paris. Lalique enjoyed success in the founder of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Woven into the exhibition is the narrative of Lalique’s life and career, his arts at the time, Lalique began to deviate from jewelry business, securing such clients as Cartier acquired nine pieces. stylistic evolution, and the progression of his technological achievements. the traditional approach to fine jewelry making, and Boucheron, and eventually established The show culminates with a look at the fascinating and often mysterious incorporating semi-precious stones, enamels, Lalique’s use of vitreous enamels and small his own atelier. By 1890, Lalique’s workshop process of glassmaking, and includes wax models and plaster molds as glass, and other inexpensive materials into his castings in his jewelry led him to more significant employed several dozen people, and he had well as a short film about the Lalique factory. de luxe pieces. He boldly combined elements of experiments in glass. One of his earliest vessels, a settled into a new space at 20 Rue Thérèse. By cast glass and pâte de verre (glass paste) with gold, small perfume vial made with the cire perdue or Few individuals manage to forge not one but two artistic careers in their 1902 he purchased property at 40 Cour-la-Reine, diamonds, and other precious gems, selling his lost-wax casting process, was an ambitious move lifetime, as did Lalique. He mastered both the creation of fine jewelry which functioned as studio, exhibition gallery, one-of-a-kind examples to a wealthy clientele to a three-dimensional form. and glass production. Seeking work after the death of his father, René and residence. That building, where he moved
12 | fall 2017 cover story | 13 It was not until the first decade of the twentieth quantities because of the complexity of the century though that Lalique abandoned the art process, his body of work in the cire perdue of joallerie (jewelry made with precious materials) method was refined. These cire perdues require a to devote himself solely to glass. Throughout high-level of craftsmanship and are thought to be the 1890s and into the 1900s, Lalique grew more studies that resulted in a large production series. adventuresome, casting shallow relief panels, The outbreak of World War I interrupted Lalique’s investigating the use of mechanical molds, rapid rise in the world of glass design. During the blowing glass into metal armatures, and creating war, he turned to the production of laboratory new glass recipes. To facilitate this work, he set up and hospital glass, offering supplies that a new shop at Clairefontaine, near Paris, in 1898. previously had been imported from Germany. The most decisive factor in his move to all-glass He also designed war medals and souvenir production, however, was his relationship with medallions that were sold to benefit orphans his neighbor on the fashionable Place Vendôme: and widows. At the end of the war, Lalique was the perfume entrepreneur François Coty. In commissioned to design gifts for the French 1905, Lalique, now 45 years old, opened his first government to bestow on visiting dignitaries at retail space at 24 Place Vendôme. Coty, who the Paris Peace Conference. An elegant brooch had established the House of Coty in 1904, was with doves resting on olive branches, presented located at 26–28 Place Vendôme. in a Lalique-designed box, is one such gift and With the death of maître verrier Émile Gallé in was given to Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of U.S. 1904, there was a void in the art-glass market, President Woodrow Wilson. It now resides in the Lalique was unofficially hailed as his successor collection of the Smithsonian Institution. and France’s new master glassmaker. Gallé had After the war, Lalique was encouraged by championed Lalique and his work, pronouncing French President Alexandre Millerand to him “the supreme exponent of the Beaux Arts.” rebuild his glassmaking business in Alsace, a Before the turn of the century, perfume in France German-occupied region returned to France was purchased at the pharmacy. The scents under the Treaty of Versailles. Lalique took over were often created by the druggist and sold in the glass factory at Wingen-sur-Moder and plain, unassuming glass bottles wrapped in wax resumed his pre-war work in 1921. Excellent opposite page clockwise top left paper. Struggling to sustain his business in 1907, A 1928 advertisement for the raw materials were available for glassmaking Coty approached Lalique to design a paper label French perfumer, Worth, showing in the Alsace region: potash was used for the two Lalique designs, for his perfume bottle or flacon. An ambitious glass batch and pine forests provided wood Vers le jour, Dans la nuit artist, Lalique suggested a more comprehensive (For the day, For the night). for the furnaces. In addition, the railways could approach; he would design the bottle as well as its Collection of the transport merchandise to Paris quickly and Rakow Research Library, caption packaging. With this new venture secure, Lalique efficiently. The factory used machine presses The Corning Museum of Glass quickly set up a glass press. A year later, he rented and other mechanized processes to produce and subsequently purchased the glassworks René Lalique tableware, vases, and other works in series. French, 1860-1945 at Combs-la-Ville, near Fontainebleau. In 1909, The perfume industry recovered, and Lalique Vase, Martins-pêcheurs sur fond Cyclamen, a new flacon for Coty, was illustrated created new designs for Coty and other perfume de roseaux (Kingfishers on a in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. It was made by background of reeds), 1930 manufacturers. Thousands of American soldiers blowing compressed air into a mold. That same Mold-blown using a cire perdue returning home from France brought perfume (lost wax) mold year, Lalique applied for patents for glass-molding with them, and Lalique used such opportunities 2011.3.188, gift of processes to make decanters, bottles, and vases. Elaine and Stanford Steppa, to develop new marketing strategies. The French perfume industry saw tremendous The Corning Museum of Glass growth in the next decade and so, too, did Although the glass coming out of the Wingen A postcard from the 1925 Paris Lalique’s business. From 1913 to 1920, the value of factory was produced in multiples, Lalique Exposition depicting a night view French perfume exports increased from 60 million asserted a great deal of quality control over his of Lalique’s monumental fountain, products and limited them to small runs. The Les Sources de France to 700 million francs, with a large percentage of it (Springs of France). sold to customers in the United States. contemporary art critic Nilsen Lauvrik praised Collection of the Lalique’s ability to maintain creative integrity Rakow Research Library, Lalique continued to expand his new designs for while making use of modern technology: The Corning Museum of Glass decorative and utilitarian glass objects, which garnered the attention of popular magazines [His] accomplished craftsmanship has enabled him to René Lalique French, 1860-1945 like Art et Décoration and were exhibited in utilize the services of the machine without in the least Perfume bottle, Worth, fashionable art galleries alongside work by affecting the artistic quality of his productions. In Vers le jour (Daybreak), Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, and Édouard his hands, it is no longer mechanically meaningless; designed 1926 it has become a tool of the artist wherewith he may Mold-blown bottle and mold- Vuillard. He continued to focus his attention on pressed stopper, acid-etched techniques that would improve semi-mechanical communicate his ideas to a greater number than was 2011.3.289, gift of production. Although never made in large ever possible to the craftsmen of old. Elaine and Stanford Steppa, The Corning Museum of Glass Continued on page 28 14 | fall 2017 cover story | 15 ARTMatters | Peers and Partners
Museum staff recruited interested docents, and Alzheimer’s Association staff briefed them on the basics of Alzheimer’s disease. They were trained on effective communication and teaching approaches that enhance learning for those with a diagnosis. The Museum and the Alzheimer’s Association both promote the program, which has not only provided involvement from the local chapter’s existing early stage community, but has also appealed to those who have not yet connected with the Association or visited the Museum. “One of the great things about this program is that we don’t talk about the diagnosis,” says Katie McDonough, LCSW and Director of Programs and Public Policy for the Southeastern Virginia Chapter. “When an individual is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia, it often The Chrysler’s mission statement, …“The Chrysler takes over one’s entire identity. This program Museum of Art is a catalyst. We bring art and allows folks to participate in a safe, caring people together to enrich and transform lives.” environment while learning something new.” This is a fitting motto for our Museum program Care partner and participant Ann Bolen is ARTMatters: Peers and Partners. Through this enthusiastic about the joint venture, “This very special collaboration with the Alzheimer’s program is something to look forward to. It is Association Southeastern Virginia Chapter, we something to talk about with our care partner come closer to fulfilling our inspiring mission. both before and after, and then we also have Most second Fridays of the month you will find a little time to socialize with others who share a small group of family members enjoying a our journey. It is a blessing to all who are able docent-led tour of one of the Museum’s many to attend.” galleries. At first glance, this group may not seem The program continues monthly at the Museum particularly different from many that visit the from September through June. Facilitator-led arts museum daily. However, if you stop to talk to classes will be a new feature of the program this any member, you will quickly learn that each has year. Funding for the coming year’s program is something in common with the others—they generously provided by a grant from the Altria are all living with a diagnosis of early stage Companies Employee Community Fund. Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. —Jonathan Markham, Manager of Curriculum, Last year, the Alzheimer’s Association ARTMatters: Peers and Partners, Chrysler Museum of Art and Gallery Programs, Southeastern Virginia Chapter partnered with 2017. A social and cultural Chrysler Museum of Art gathering for families who have a the Museum to provide a specially designed arts —Katie McDonough, LCSW, loved one diagnosed with early- engagement program for those diagnosed with onset Alzheimer’s participating Director of Programs & Public Policy, Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s and dementia. The program includes with the Alzheimer’s Association Association Southeastern Virginia Chapter Southeastern Virginia Chapter. a monthly gallery tour and lunch at the Museum. 16 | fall 2017 chrysler news | 17 Chrysler Summer Interns Summer Camp Success
or some, summer is a time of relaxation and fun-in-the-sun. But for eight bright, young college students and recent college graduates Fthe summer provided an opportunity to work in their chosen fields of study at the Chrysler. A variety of departments welcomed interns, from Education and Development to Curatorial and Communications. Our interns hit the ground running. Some spent their first week visiting other institutions, researching upcoming exhibitions, or re-thinking website design. Others tagged along for TV interviews or created Photo by Marina Maye outreach kits for public schools. Each intern kept a blog that chronicled his or her summer experiences. Fun was had by all this summer! For the This summer Delaney Mithcell and James Stewart were able to work first time we offered a STEAM (Science, with the Curatorial department. They spent their days translating Technology, Engineering, Art, and Chinese propaganda posters and learning as much as possible about Mathematics) Camp. This camp aimed to NASA. James, a recent graduate of the University of Mary Washington show middle schoolers the connections wrote on his blog, “This research has allowed me to use the tools of among art, science, and mathematics. visual analysis that I learned in college.” Campers participated in robotics workshops, Rachel Owens worked with the Design staff this summer to create glass science demonstrations, and art- digital materials for various projects and departments. She designed a promotional sign and advertising for the exhibition René Lalique: making with an engineering focus. This Enchanted Glass. On her blog she shared her experiences, saying, week-long camp not only reinforces what “It meant a lot to me that they were willing to trust me to create actual the campers are currently learning in school, promotional materials.” but also prepares them for their upcoming Victoria Blow drew on her course experience in Strategic years in high school. Communications to work with the Communications department. She enjoyed attending meetings, seeing how the different Back by popular demand, Camp Chrysler, departments worked together, and learning about the Chrysler for kids aged 8 to 12, returned in August. collection. After observing a monthly exhibitions review meeting, Campers spent a week creating art, she posted her reflections on her blog, declaring, “The collections exploring our collection, and inventing clockwise from top right: were all so captivating and creative. It would be hard for me to Interns at the Hermitage(l-r): decide on an exhibition as well!” their own designs, drawings, and sculptures. Marina Maye, Rachel Ciampoli, Jacqueline Lucente, Rachel Internships are important experiences. We at the Chrysler can see the We capped off the week with an art show, Owens, Delaney Mitchell, Sarah wonder and excitement in these interns’ eyes as they go from learning where campers shared their work and Frost, James Stewart; Rachel Owens, Design Intern; James in a classroom to working in the field. Ultimately, some of our interns experiences with adults and peers. Stewart, Curatorial Intern; Victoria loved the department they chose and felt even more assured that they Blow, Communications Intern, had found their calling. Others decided it might take longer to realize Jacqueline Lucente, Director Intern; Hermitage Museum visit; where their true passions lie. Either way, this experience has shaped Sarah Frost, Development Intern their futures.
Photos by Marina Maye —Maegan Douglas, Public Programs Coordinator
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gayle forman: One major element of this conference in Norfolk, beginning with the early planning stages Reflections from the Edge: was the addition of evening performances, thanks nearly two years before the conference. Glass Art in large part to the contributions of the Chrysler Society Staff, GAS Committee Members, and local Museum Glass Studio (CMGS) performance series, organizations coordinated additional programming Glass, Art, and Performance Third Thursdays. Did this make the Norfolk conference to offer conference attendees a multitude of arts feel different from others? events beyond the regular glass activities offered at the conference. colin mckinnon: Yes. I think the addition of evening IN EARLY JUNE THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART AND THE performance art programming gave conference gf: Similarly, what did you feel was the biggest attendees a chance to see in person why the CMGS takeaway for an attendee of the conference, especially CHRYSLER MUSEUM GLASS STUDIO WERE THE PROUD HOSTS Third Thursdays have been receiving such widespread one who had never been to Norfolk before? OF THE GLASS ART SOCIETY’S 46TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, acclaim. It also added an additional activity for cm: All the feedback I've received indicates that attendees, who have otherwise had few organized ENTITLED “REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDGE: GLASS, ART, AND attendees from out of our area were really impressed, arts activities in the evenings. maybe pleasantly surprised, with Norfolk, the Chrysler PERFORMANCE." FOR THREE DAYS ATTENDEES AND THE gf: Did you have any favorite performances? Museum, the Glass Studio, and the treatment artists left to right LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATED IN A VARIETY OF GLASS received from the studio team. Go team! Burnt Asphalt performance cm: I liked Hannah Kirkpatrick’s performance for the DEMONSTRATIONS, LECTURES, TECHNICAL DISPLAYS, AND ethereal feel it created and because it was homegrown gf: Finally, among all of the incredible demonstrations, Hannah Kirkpatrick performance by one of the Chrysler’s own. And I found Eddie lectures, performances, and displays, what was a EVENING ACTIVITIES. THE MAGNIFICENT EVENT WAS DUE IN John Miller demonstration Bernard's bumbling glass magic show very entertaining. highlight moment? LARGE PART TO THE INCREDIBLE DEDICATION BY THIS YEAR’S gf: Another important facet of each GAS conference is cm: As with all GAS conferences, there were so many CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS, VIRGINIA HITCH, COLIN MCKINNON, the connection to the host community. You and your competing activities that you couldn't take it all in, CHARLOTTE POTTER, ROBIN ROGERS, AND DIANE WRIGHT. co-chairs worked with the neighboring businesses but I particularly enjoyed John Miller’s crazy huge and community organizations. How do you think glass demo and listening to Nobel Prize laureate and GAYLE FORMAN SAT DOWN WITH COLIN MCKINNON TO DISCUSS the community responded to the conference guests NASA astrophysicist John Mather describe the many HIS REFLECTIONS ON THIS SPECIAL WEEKEND. and attendees? ways glass is used in space exploration—that was a hidden gem. cm: Everyone we talked with in the local arts, government, and business organizations was —Gayle Forman, Program Assistant and Staff Instructor extremely supportive of having the GAS conference 20 | fall 2017 chrysler news | 21 For the Culturally Curious
EXPLORE THE CHRYSLER perfect focus. Then the camera robotically steers to exactly where it needs to be to capture COLLECTION IN EXTRAORDINARY every detail close-up. Finally, software stitches DETAIL AND SHARE IT EASILY WITH the images together, creating a single, and YOUR FRIENDS FAR AND WIDE. wondrously detailed, composite image. The Art Camera has captured 58 paintings from the Have you ever wished you could see the minute Chrysler collection. When our virtual visitors tour detail of a painting, down to the smallest brush the galleries in Museum View, an icon will alert stroke? Or look closer at that section the wall them to the paintings that have been captured label says is a dog? Beginning this fall, you will with the Art Camera. The zoom capability shows be able to view some of your Chrysler favorites more detail than you can see with the naked eye. in extraordinary detail online. Madison Whitesell, the Communications Last year, the Museum partnered with Google Department’s 2016 Summer Intern, spent hours to expand our worldwide reach. Founded in 2011, uploading metadata to make the Chrysler’s the Google Cultural Institute has collaborated Google Project searchable. Each object record with hundreds of museums, cultural institutes, includes a basic description of the work, the and archives to host the world’s cultural name of the artist, the title, medium, etc. Going treasures online. You can explore the project a step further, Madison uploaded the complete here: www.google.com/culturalinstitute. wall label text and additional descriptions, which The Chrysler has been a leader in the field when not only provides more information to online it comes to sharing our collection online. Our visitors, but helps refine their searches. In May of entire collection has been searchable on this year, Google expanded their general search Chrysler.org since 2007. Google’s two programs— function to include the Cultural Institute, so now Art Camera and Museum View—take us to the every time someone searches Google for an next level digitally. artist whose work is in the Chrysler collection, the Chrysler’s art will appear in the results. This allows Using Google Museum View, online visitors not only the general public, but also scholars can explore the Chrysler’s diverse galleries and and researchers, to access the Chrysler collection objects that span more than 5,000 years of in a new way. opposite page history. Virtual guests are able to walk through Our partnership with the Google Cultural clockwise from top left the ancient and non-western galleries taking Art Camera capture by the in 360-degree views. They can then head Institute allows us to take our mission “to bring Google Cultural Institute upstairs and explore the contemporary or art and people together in ways that enrich and transform lives” into the 21st Century. We look Streetview capture by the Baroque galleries. The Chrysler joins more than Google Cultural Institute 440 leading museums from around the world, forward to partnering with other institutions, including the British Museum in London, expanding our relationship with Google, and Art Camera capture by the bringing our collections to the public in Google Cultural Institute the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, that interesting ways. participate in Museum View. The Art Camera takes thousands of ultra-high- resolution close-ups of a single work of art. It uses a laser and sonar system (like a bat!) to measure the distance from the artwork’s surface, ensuring
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Kate Wilson As a leader in her field, Wilson presented at Mirna Blair THE BIRDSONG Development Director The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy Human Resources Manager We are pleased to announce the appointment NEXT conference in 2016 and is a member of Mirna Blair joined FAMILY of Kate Hofheimer Wilson as Director of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. the Museum as has long been known for Development. Kate brings At the Chrysler Museum, she will oversee gift Human Resources over 13 years of nonprofit cultivation, project fundraising, grant writing, Manager in July. Most making smart philanthropic development experience board engagement, special events, and recently, she worked investments in institutions in Hampton Roads to the donor relations. in Human Resources that make a difference in Museum, where she will set Wilson graduated from the University of for CMA CGM, a large Gift of Books by fundraising goals and develop Virginia in 1995 with a degree in Art History. She shipping company, and countless lives; including strategies to secure support. previously worked for attended Norfolk Academy and recently served recently the Chrysler Museum Bill and Leslie Hennessey “I am thrilled to join the as president of the Norfolk Academy Alumni Norfolk Southern. She talented staff of the Chrysler Association. She is a member of the CIVIC is currently working on a Master’s Degree in of Art. In gratitude for their Human Resources and Employment Relations The Drs. Hennessey enhanced the holdings Museum to bring even more Executive Leadership Institute Class of 2018, philanthropy, the Museum amazing art and creative and also also serves on the board of the Irene at Penn State University and holds a degree in of the Jean Outland Chrysler Library with opportunities to the greater Leache Memorial Foundation, an organization Business from Old Dominion University. Blair is pleased to recognize an extraordinary donation of books and brings to the Chrysler experience in conducing Hampton Roads community,” with longstanding ties to the Chrysler Museum. their contributions to the research materials. Bill, Director of the Chrysler Wilson said. “Art, and especially full cycle recruitment, performance coaching and counseling, and developing diversity and Chrysler by renaming one from 1997 to 2014, and Leslie, a longtime art the Chrysler Museum, have Tim Menzie Facilities Manager inclusion training. historian, educator, and lecturer, relocated played important roles in my of our European galleries as life, Tim Menzie recently Amber LoMele The Birdsong Family Gallery. to Manhattan in 2016. As they planned their and I look forward to sharing that passion to joined our team as the Special Events Coordinator move, they selected books and papers engage benefactors and inspire robust support Museum’s new Facilities The gallery is home to some Amber LoMele joined from their vast personal collection, which for the Museum.” Manager. Menzie has over 25 years of project our team in May of our best examples of lined the walls of nearly every room of their Museum Director Erik Neil feels Wilson is management and as Special Events uniquely qualified to lead development at European romantic painting beautiful West Ghent home. Amassed over field experience in Coordinator. Born and the Chrysler. “Kate has a wealth of experience two lifetimes of scholarship, the volumes facility management, raised in Hampton and sculpture, including sustaining and growing nonprofit institutions, and civil and general Roads, LoMele has works by Doré and Delacroix. cover the history and teaching of fine art, and a deep knowledge of the philanthropic construction. He deep roots in the area architecture, specific artists and exhibitions, landscape in Virginia, both of which will We thank the Birdsong served in the U.S. Navy and has worked as a and the event industry. support the Museum’s goals,” he said. historic houses, and their own personal art construction contractor, with an emphasis on Amber graduated from Family for their dedicated and education research. Among the 110 Most recently, Wilson served with the facility upgrades and waterfront and electrical Christopher Newport University with degrees in Communication support and generosity boxes of their valuable contribution are rare Chesapeake Bay Foundation as the Director construction. Menzie offers the Museum of Principal and Major Giving in Virginia. She Studies and Political Science. While at CNU, to the Museum. volumes and tomes of scholarly materials not expertise in the areas of quality assurance, managed, and completed the $21 million safety standards, project management, and she worked in Special Events for the Office of previously included in the JOCL collection. comprehensive campaign to build the Brock emergency management. He studied Business Admission. Before joining the Chrysler, Amber Thank you, Bill and Leslie, for your generosity! Environmental Center in Virginia Beach. at Fort Hays State University and has OSHA worked at Antonia Christianson Events and Previously, she held development positions certifications. was an intern at Walt Disney World in Orlando, with WHRO Public Media and the Virginia where she developed keen customer service Opera Association in Norfolk. and sales skills.
24 | fall 2017 chrysler news | 25 People, In March, the Chrysler Museum was proud to host the Luke Jerram’s Play Me, second annual Corporate Leadership Alliance (CLA) I'm Yours exhibition Parties, luncheon recognizing the significant financial support the launched with an Museum receives from area businesses. Bob Sasser, CEO of opening reception at and Dollar Tree, Inc. and Chair of the Museum’s Development the Glass Studio in May. Committee served as the speaker. Nearly 200 people Jerram played a tune on Patriotism attended representing 42 businesses that contributed to the Monir Shahroudy the Museum last year. Bryan Campell, BCAS; George Faatz, Farmanfarmaian Virginia Natural Gas; Mark Johnson, SunTrust Bank; Lisa inspired piano, designed Wigginton Doud, BCAS; Bob Carter, Joe Waldo, Bob Sasser, by Glass Studio staff. Erik Neil; Bob and Pam Sasser, Dollar Tree; The Honorable Alan Krasnoff, City of Chesapeake Photos by Gary Marshall Photos by Glenn Bashaw, Images in Light
Members of the Masterpiece Society gathered in May for their annual spring program. Tina Oldknow, former senior curator of modern and contemporary glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, spoke on sources of inspiration in contemporary art in glass. clockwise from left: Ron Reamer, Barbara Gornto, Staci and John Katsias; Carol Anne Kent, Tom Kent, John Cameron; Linda Kaufman, Tom Hubbard, Linda Dickens, Christy Hamlin; Erik Neil, Tina Oldknow, Virginia Hitch; Henry Garrity, Ina Levy, Dick Staub Photos by Eleise Theuer
In May, we celebrated our Military and Shipyard Workers with the opening of Thomas Hart Benton and the Navy and Glen McClure: The Shipyard Workers of Hampton Roads. We turned back the clock to the 1940’s, a time of rations and patriotism. Huber Court was filled with the boogie-woogie musical notes of America’s Sweethearts, an Andrews Sisters style act. Guests danced the night away, made their own vintage-inspired tie clips, and toured the exhibitions. Photos by Eleise Theuer
26 | fall 2017 member events | 27 Art Travel Summer The Chrysler ushered in the summer with Triple Play Family Day, an event related to three summer Family exhibitions, Having a Ball: George Sosnak’s Striking Portraits from America’s Pastime, Thomas Hart Benton and the Navy, Fun and Glen McClure: The Shipyard Workers of Hampton Roads. Over 1,000 people joined in the day’s activities, which included face painting, nautical crafts, a talk on the history of the Negro Baseball League by Derrick Jones, lawn games, and more. Photos by Glen Bashaw
The Lalique factory at Wingen-sur-Moder, 1922. © Musée Lalique Collection, Wingen-sur-Moder, France. Continued from page 15 In 1919, the Brooklyn Museum hosted Lalique’s first post-war glass exhibition. A few years later, in 1925, he installed a magnificent display at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, presented throughout multiple building across the fairgrounds. This was a triumphal moment in his career, showcasing his modern luxury products that were River Life along the Dutch Waterways accessible to the middle class at relatively affordable prices. Such objects April 18–26, 2018 were seen by visitors in Lalique’s own pavilion and in an elegant dining Cruise for seven nights through Holland and room at the Sèvres pavilion. Welcoming visitors to the Lalique pavilion was Flanders aboard the exclusively chartered, the magnificent 40-foot-high fountain Les Sources de France (Springs of deluxe AMADEUS river ship. See the France), which was illuminated at night by electricity. As a critical voice and picturesque Dutch tulip fields in bloom, major contributor to the decorative arts field, Lalique was invited to write and meet local residents during the the introduction to the exposition catalogue, in which he applauded the enriching RIVER LIFE FORUM®. Tour the organizers for recognizing the importance of glass. Kröller-Müller Museum. Visit Amsterdam, Loan exhibitions on glass come along infrequently. The Chrysler is thrilled Bruges, Hoorn, Maastricht, Antwerp, and to present this show that looks deeply at the work of a French master Keukenhof Gardens. glassmaker and connects seamlessly to one of our collection specialties. Walter Chrysler’s encyclopedic collection is particularly strong in European nineteenth-century—especially French—glass. Visitors are met at the beginning of the exhibition with the Chrysler’s own exceptionally crafted Grafton Gallery Vitrine, an ornate wooden cabinet designed by Lalique in about 1903. The cabinet boasts thistle-patterned cast-glass inlays and bronze fittings, and was once used to display fine objects at London’s premier Art Nouveau gallery. On view currently in the Chrysler’s permanent glass galleries are Lalique favorites, such as the mold-pressed vases Tourbillons (“whirlwind”) and Bacchantes, both designed in 1927. Nearby are excellent examples in glass by Lalique’s French contemporaries: Émile Gallé, Amalric Walter, François-Émile Décorchemont, and Maurice Marinot, among others. Galleries adjacent to the French works showcase the Chrysler’s fine collection of nineteenth-century American glassmakers, Louis C. Tiffany and Frederick Carder, both of whom are inextricably linked to the progress and success of European glass production and design. Lalique’s brilliance Mark your Circumnavigation of Iceland shines equally alongside his fellow glassmakers and as highlighted in this July 25–August 2, 2018 monographic exhibition. We invite you to enjoy the experience with Lalique calendars for Discover Iceland on this seven night and be enchanted by his glass. Out of circumnavigation aboard the Five-Star, small Writings on René Lalique by Kelley Elliot, Nicholas Dawes, ship M.V. STAR PRIDE. See ancient Viking and Lennart Booij were consulted for this article. This World ruins and glittering glaciers atop simmering —Diane Wright, Family Day on volcanoes. Cross the Arctic Circle and cruise Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass along Surtsey. Includes round-trip airfare October 28 from and attractively priced air add-ons from select cities. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.! Photos by Gohagen and Company last look | 29 28 | winter 2017 non profit org. u.s. postage One Memorial Place | Norfolk, VA 23510 paid 757-664-6200 | chrysler.org norfolk, va permit #138
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