Joslyn Art Museum 2 0 0 7 A N N U A L R E P O R T YEAR AT A GLANCE 201,021 visited Joslyn Art Museum. 293 works of art were acquired by Joslyn Art Museum through gift or purchase in the following areas: Modern and Contemporary (142); American (140); European (8); and Asian (3). 60 works of art were lent by Joslyn to other institutions. 28 works of art were lent by other institutions and individuals to Joslyn's permanent collection. 10 special exhibitions were on view at the Museum. 38,774 attended tours, lectures, gallery talks, special programs for adults, art classes, camps, and other programs at Joslyn. The Museum ended the year with 5,971 membership households and an additional 10,000 members through the Passport Partners program. 46,298 attended music programs at Joslyn. 68,041 participated in Joslyn outreach programs. Volunteers logged 7,855 hours of service for the Museum's Art Reference Library; Museum Shop; Joslyn Art Museum Association events; Young Art Patrons events; and Membership, Education (including the docent program), and Marketing and Public Relations departments (including music series and visitor services). Joslyn's Abrahams Library acquired 699 new volumes, and there were 258 outgoing interlibrary loans. Joslyn Art Museum receives numerous requests from around the world for images of art works from its permanent collection. These images are used in textbooks, exhibition catalogues, books, and other publications; featured on posters, cards, and calendars; and used in films, videos, or television programs. In 2007, there were 77 completed reproduction requests, 46 of which were for works by Karl Bodmer. Annual Report January 1 - December 31, 2007 Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102-1292 Telephone 402-342-3300 Facsimile 402-342-2376 www.joslyn.org Museum Hours Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-4 pm Sunday noon-4 pm Closed Monday and major holidays. Extended hours for some special exhibitions. Museum Admission $7 adults; $5 senior citizens (62+) and college students (with ID); $4 ages 5-17; free for children ages four and younger and Joslyn members. Group rates available. Public admitted free Saturdays 10 am-noon, funded by a grant from the Peter Kiewit Foundation. Additional charge for some special exhibitions. On the Cover, Top to Bottom: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842), Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (detail), ca. 1788, oil on canvas, Collection of New Orleans Museum of Art; Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945), Woman in the Lap of Death (Tod mit Frau im Schoss) (detail), winter 1920/21, woodcut, Museum purchase with funds provided by Patricia and Charles Lontor in honor of Penelope Smith, and the Art Purchase Fund; Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919), Self Portrait (detail), 1875, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Gorham Manufacturing Company, Beaux-Arts Punch Bowl (detail), 1893, silver and silver gilt, Gift of a former Nebraskan Above Right, Top to Bottom: College Night, February 16; Spared from the Storm Family Fun Day, September 9; George Sugarman (American, born 1912), Yellow Ascending, 1977, painted steel, Museum purchase in memory of Leo A. Daly, 1983, Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, newly conserved and sited in Joslyn's future Discovery Garden, October 10; Dancing on the grand staircase at Jazz on the Green, August 23 1 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Executive Marian Andersen Mary Landen Sylvia B. Cohn Committee Robert D. Bates Melissa Marvin Lifetime Member Cynthia Bay Frank Matthews James R. Young Harold W. Andersen Chairman Susan Butler Beverly Maurer Governor Emeritus Barbara Call Michael McCarthy John E. Gottschalk J. Brad Chapman Cynthia McGowan Vice Chairman Mary Daugherty Terry Moore Bruce R. Lauritzen William Donaldson Daniel Neary Secretary Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr., Diane Nelson David A. Rismiller USNR Rubens J. Pamies, M.D. Treasurer Steve Erwin Lenore Polack Marshall Faith Karen Riley Charles F. Heider Rex Fisher Thompson Rogers John P. Nelson Norma Fuller Suzanne Scott John P. Schlegel, S.J. Wayne Gary Gates W. David Scott Walter Scott Elinor Greenfield William S. Singer, M.D. Frederick J. Simon Sharon Griffin Allan Tubach Nancy C. Webster Marianne Hawkins David Wiesman Michael B. Yanney Howard L. Hawks Philip J. Willson David Jacobson John K. Wilson Kirk Kellner 2 YEAR IN REVIEW Joslyn Art Museum contemporary art at Joslyn, as guest speaker at its Annual completed its 75th anniversary Dinner. She discussed Sugarman’s career and the Joslyn year with many exciting and work, Yellow Ascending. some remarkable achievements, I am especially thrilled with the new, elegant, and thanks to the dedication and expanded Museum Shop and enhanced Visitor Services generosity of the Board of Center, completed in November and made possible Governors, patrons, volunteers, through the generosity of Suzanne and Walter Scott. and members, and the hard The new Shop features much more room for merchandise, work of staff. updated and attractive décor, and a lighted glass wall for The long awaited and much display of fine objects. A Grand Opening Celebration on discussed strategic plan, the first November 15 featured over a dozen local and regional such comprehensive approach to the Museum’s operations jewelry and glass artists and other craftsmen showcasing and programs in recent memory, approved by the Board their merchandise. The new Visitor Services Center better in December 2006, was advanced. The plan identifies serves incoming visitors with a flat panel screen behind several areas of excellence, among them Joslyn’s Margre the desk that promotes current and upcoming events, H. Durham Center for Western Studies and the Museum’s a new area for lockers and wheel chairs, and a new award-winning education programs. The strategic plan coat room. also establishes specific goals and objectives in all areas Joslyn’s three major exhibitions — Collecting the of the Museum. In 2007, the implementation component Impressionists, Spared from the Storm, and The Art of Robert of the plan was drafted, and staff began to make progress Bateman — helped the Museum exceed 200,000 visitors in toward reaching the outlined goals. 2007. From the Clark Art Institute, Collecting the The Museum began a major improvement of the Impressionists was a small but mighty presentation of 12 grounds in 2007. The exciting sculpture garden and exceptional examples of Impressionist painting by Degas, campus redevelopment project broke ground in April, and Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, and Renoir. Michael phase one of this two and a half year undertaking was Conforti, Director of the Clark, was on hand for the completed in the fall, including a new parking garden, Director’s Preview, more than 1,000 attended the Members the new entrance off of Dodge Street, an enhanced 24th Preview, and a related Family Fun Day drew 1,400 guests. Street entrance, landscaping, and other amenities. Complementing the exhibition was Paris Revealed: Kenneth Snelson’s Able Charlie (1983) has been newly Impressions from the 19th Century, a selection of about 45 French prints and posters from Joslyn’s collection as well as promised gifts from private lenders, including works by Daumier, Degas, Manet, Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Spared from the Storm alone received more than 100,000 visitors during the summer and fall. These included 81 school groups and nearly 1,000 guests at a free Family Fun Day celebration in September. Joslyn welcomed visitors from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and eight foreign countries during the show, including H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco! The exhibition of important and rare 17th– through mid 20th–century works from the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) came about when I became aware that John Bullard, NOMA’s director and a friend of mine, was willing to loan prized works from View of Joslyn's new parking garden, looking west, October 10 their collection to other museums in exchange for much sited at the 24th Street entrance. George Sugarman’s needed funds as they returned to normal operations following refurbished Yellow Ascending (1977) is now situated north the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. I eagerly pursued his of the Museum in what will become the Discovery Garden. offer and as a result, Joslyn was the first museum to present John Henry’s untitled red metal sculpture (1981) commands the NOMA masterworks to a larger audience. The Joslyn a prominent spot in the parking garden. Phase two, Art Museum Association, with honorary chairmen Gail including the creation of the Garden and Garden Plaza and Michael Yanney, put on an extraordinary and lively spaces, water features, and the addition of more sculpture, Gala with “Festivities Fit for the French Quarter” in honor will begin in spring 2008. of the show. Bullard was our special guest, and he was On the occasion of the conservation and reinstalla- thrilled to see his “children,” as he refers to the NOMA tion of the Sugarman sculpture, Joslyn’s Contemporary works, looking so exquisite in Joslyn’s galleries. Unique Art Society welcomed Holliday T. Day, former curator of programming included a series of presentations about New 3 Orleans art and culture as well as Hurricane Katrina’s George Catlin on long-term loan to Joslyn. The paintings impact on the city. Further, the summer’s Jazz on the Green join two other Catlin works from the Field in the Lauritzen concert series, in a tribute to the Crescent City, included Gallery and greatly enhance our American Western rousing performances by Big Red & the Zydeco galleries. Also in the Lauritzen Gallery is a group of Playmakers of Hillister, Texas, and, from Bourbon Street paintings by 10 members of the Taos Society of Artists, in New Orleans, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers. on loan from the private Olson Family Collection (Palm Thanksgiving weekend marked the U.S.