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This year both the National Endowment for cated to organize and because they make business meeting the Humanities and the J. Paul Getty Trust unusual demands upon the participants. have supported the planning and special costs These sessions attempt to address some of the The 73rd Annual Members Business Meeting related to several of the exceptional art histo­ central concerns in our field, concerns of rele­ will be held on Thursday, February 14,1985 ry sessions to be held during the CAA Annual vance to all sub-fields of art history, and to do at 1:00 P. M. in the Gold Room (Galeria Meeting this February 14-16 in Los Angeles. so meaningfully and in a way that still reserves Level) of The Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Their financial support supplements annual a significant block of time for discussion from meeting expenditures traditionally allocated the floor. Also, individuals are expected to by the CAA Board of Directors. give exemplary presentations in which their Elections The NEH's Division of Education Pro­ own research interests often have to take sec­ The rnajar item on the agenda of the Annual grams awarded the CAA a grant to partially ond place to the larger goals of the sessions. Members Business Meeting is elections. fund Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt's session, Although participants in anyone session may OFFICERS. The Board of Directors proposes Conservation and Restoration of Italian specialize in very different periods or even the following to serve as officers for 1985: Renaissance Art: Masaccio, Fra Angelico, disciplines, they nonetheless had to reach a President: John Rupert Martin, Princeton Leonardo, and Michelangelo. The session consensus on what the fundamental issues University; Vice President: Paul B. Arnold, arises from the extraordinary coincidence really are and a strategy for presenting them Oberlin College; Secretary: Phyllis Pray that several of the most important Italian that best creates a context for discussion. This Bober, Bryn Mawr College. Renaissance works are currently undergoing opportunity for a high level of advance plan­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Candidates to serve as cleaning and treatment. The NEH grant ning was therefore essential. In the final directors are nominated by the Nominating principally provides for four Italian specialists analysis, the Getty conference itself became a Committee, which is guided by the returns on to come to Los Angeles to report on the works: symposium on our discipline, and developing the preferential ballot. This year, 1808 ballots Giorgio Bosanti (Fra Angelico's San Marco this type of session was an expected and happy were received, one of the highest returns ever. frescos and Michelangelo's Don£ Tondo), by-product. The slate reported by the Nominating Com~ Umberto Baldini (Masaccio's Brancacci Cha­ The conference was the first to be spon­ mittee for election to the Board of Directors in pel), Carlo Bertelli (Leonardo's Last Supper), sored by the Getty Center. Kurt Forster, its 1985 (to serve until 1989) is: Sam Gilliam, and Fabrizio Mancinelli (Michelangelo's Sis­ Director, welcomed the participants and ex­ Washington, D.C.; Egbert Haverkamp­ tine Ceiling). The session, which is specially pressed his support for the general goals of the Begemann, Institute of Fine Arts, N. Y. U.; scheduled for Friday evening, February 15, symposia sessions. He explained that al­ Joyce Kozloff, New York City; IrvingSand­ after Convocation, will consist of reports on though he had formally taken office only a ler, S.U.N.Y., College at Purchase; Barbara the sometimes dramatic results of the restora­ month earlier, the topics under discussion Maria Stafford, University of Chicago; and tions and a discussion of their historical impli­ that weekend were such as to make it an Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern Cal­ cations. Discussants are John Shearman and appropriate first project of the Center and ifornia. Craig Hugh Smyth. that in the future he expected the Getty Cen­ NOMINATINGCOMMITrEE: Those nominated The J. Paul Getty Trust has contributed to ter to sponsor important conferences of its to serve on the 1985 Nominating Committee the meeting in a number of ways. The Trust own. (which selects those directors who will be itself awarded the CAA funds to help meet the The program for the weekend conference elected in 1986) are: Jules Prown, Yale Uni­ unusually high demand for travel subsidies was planned with the six symposia chairs and versity, Chair; Clinton Adams, University of this year. This demand arises from there be­ all arrangements were handled by the Getty New Mexico; Nicolai Cikovsky. Jr., Nation­ ing more sessions and more speakers sche­ Center staff under the supervision of Herbert al Gallery of Art; Thalia Gouma-Peterson, duled, the west coast location of the meeting, H. Hymans, Assistant Director, Visiting College of Wooster; and Philip Pearlstein, and the relatively large number of parti­ Scholars and Conferences, and Tim Whalen, Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. Procedures for cipants from other disciplines and from Chief Administrative Officer. The thirty­ placing additional candidates in nomination Europe. eight participants met in lengthy planning are described in the Notice of Meeting, which In addition, the]. Paul Getty Center for the sessions, either by symposium or in general was mailed on December 14. History of Art and the Humanities, one of the assembly. The conference took place at the For those who will be unable to attend the activities of the Trust, hosted a planning Getty Center offices in Santa Monica except Annual Members Meeting, proxies have been meeting last September 21-23 for partici­ for a dinner Saturday night at the J. Paul included with the Notice of Meeting. pants in the six symposia. The Center will also Getty Museum in Malibu. All travel and local help offset travel expenses to the national expenses for the participants were reimbursed meeting for European participants in these by the Center. Win A Trip! sessions. Harvey Stahl. Chair • An innovation, perhaps the stellar attraction The planning meeting was necessary be­ 1985 Art History Sessions of this year's Annual Members Business Meet­ cause the symposia are particularly compli- ing, is the drawing for two free roundtrip air­ line tickets to anywhere in the Continental ANNUAL MEETlN"G DATEBOOK.' 12l'ebru.ry .Placement Orientation ... 13-15 United States for which anyone booking tick­ February Placement iRoperation .', ..' 14 February Annual Members Business Meeting ets through the CAA's official travel agent is eligible. For full details, see inside front cover ... ,}4-16 Februa,ry Session~ ,.' .. 15"February Conyocation., '- '. of the Preliminary Program. • conferences and symposia Iconferences and symposia preservation news

U .C.L.A. Grad Students Symposium American Painting before 1900: Caravaggio Symposium Victorians at Home Restoration and Revolution role of museums in society as they carry out To be held April 20, 1985. Abstracts on both New Perspectives An international symposium with seven The topic of the ninth annual meeting of the The assassination of Indhira Gandhi reflected their obligations to preserve and interpret our non-western and western topics are invited The theme of a one-day symposium to be held speakers on The Age of Caravaggio will be Midwest Victorian Studies Association, to be issues of restoration and conservation as well cultural and natural heritage for an ever­ from graduate students in Canada and the at the University of Delaware on April 12. held on Sunday, March 31 and Monday, April held in Chicago, April 26-27, 1985. For in­ as political issues. India had been tough in its broadening audience in an uncertain future." United States. Papers will be selected by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Museum of Fine 1, 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. fonnation: Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Dept. dealings with the representative organizations The results of their findings have just been U. C. L. A. art history graduate students on the Arts, Boston, will be moderator. Topics and There will be a private viewing of the exhibi­ English & Communication, DePaul Univ., of the Sikhs in Punjab and had broken off published. To order: AAM, Box 33399, basis of an open discussion of all abstracts re­ speakers:John Clavin and the Rise ofthe Mid­ tion for those who attend. Ticket requests will 2323 N. Seminary Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60614. talks with the political party Akali Dal and the Washington, D.C. 20033. Non-AAM mem­ ceived. Abstracts should not exceed two type­ dle Class: Economics and ReHgion in the be processed in order received. Please state principal temple management committee of bers, $17.95, with substantial discounts for 10 written pages; presentations will be limited to Iconography of Colonial American Portraits, names and addresses of persons who wish to the Golden Temple of Amritsar. The Indian copies or more. twenty minutes. Transportation, food, and Wayne Craven, Univ. Delaware; Defining an attend. There is no charge for the tickets. International Symposium on government had elbowed them aside to start lodging will be provided for out-of-town American Art: The Contr£butions of John Fatehpur-Sikri work repairing damage to the Akal Takht Send SSAE to CS, Dept. Public Education, Conservation Training speakers. Submit abstracts or questions to Vanderlyn and Rembrandt Peale, William MMA, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, N.Y.C. To be held October 17-19, 1985 in Cam­ (the immortal throne of Sikh spiritual and Future training in conservation in North Emiko Terasaki and Holly Barnett, Dept. Oedel, Univ. Massachusetts at Amherst; The 10028. bridge, Mass. The symposium, which is being temporal power). The Sikhs were very much America was the theme of a meeting held at Art, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, Landscape in the Historiography of Amer­ held in conjunction with the exhibition Fa­ opposed to this. The temple management the Fogg Art Museum last May. The papers, Calif. 90024. Deadline: 21 February. ican Art, Elizabeth Johns, Univ. Maryland, tehpur-Sikri and the Age ofAkbar opening at committee insisted that the work be done by which may provide the nucleus for a curric­ College Park; Patterns of Collecting Amer­ the Asia Society, N.Y.C. on October 10, will kar seva (voluntary labor prescribed for all ulum for conservation education, will be pub­ icanArt of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Law­ The Life and Times of examine architectural and art historical ques­ religious Sikhs), but the government called in lished by the National Institute for Conserva­ rence A. Fleischman, Kennedy Galleries, John Singleton Copley tions as well as broader issues concerning Fa­ a warrior band of Sikh nihangs to begin clear­ Sixteenth Century Studies tion and distributed by the Getty Foundation N.Y.C.; John Singer Sargent's Sensibility: A symposium sponsored by the Timken Art tehpur-Sikri's historical and social context. ing the debris of war. The Sikhs were con­ The 1985 conference will meet in Columbus, and the Fogg Art Museum. Ohio, October 24-26. Carlo Ginzburg will be Some Speculations, Patricia Hills, Boston Gallery, San Diego, in association with the La Seminar size is limited. For program and regi­ cerned that the temple would be pulled down the banquet speaker. Proposals for sessions Dniv. and Whitney Museum; Winslow Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, to cele­ stration infonnation: Michael Brand, F-SS, by them; it would then have had to be recon­ and papers are invited. Papers by recent Homer in His Art, Jules Prown, Yale Univ.; brate the Timken's recent acquisition of the Dept. Fine Arts, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, structed according to Sikh tradition. Conservation Internships and Fellowships Ph.D.s and grad students are eligible for the and Putting Women in Their Place: A Fem­ Copley portrait Mrs. Thomas Gage (1771). It Mass. 02138. Three graduate conservation internships (two in painting, one in paper) and an undeter­ Carl S. Meyer Prize; the Conference also inist Perspective, Roger B. Stein, S.U.N.Y., will take place at the LaJolla Museum on Feb­ 99 and 44/100% Obsolete mined number of fellowships are offered to awards the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for Binghamton. An exhibition of nineteenth­ ruary 9. Speakers include: John Walsh, Jr.,J. While preparing an article on Federal pa­ Paul Getty Museum; Joseph]. Ellis, Mount graduates of conservation training programs an outstanding article in sixteenth-century century paintings will accompany the sympo­ tronage of the visual arts between 1933 and sium. For further information: Symposium Holyoke College; Jules Prown, Yale Univ.; or those with equivalent apprenticeship expe­ French history. Inquiries to R.B. Wadding­ The Wonder of Work: Industry, Labor, 1943, I came to use the Post Office mural ton, Dept. English, Univ. California, Davis, on American Art, Clayton Hall, UD, New­ Robert R. Wark, Henry E. Huntington Li­ and Process in American Art, 1800-1940 project records for the state of Connecticut. rience by the Intermuseum Conservation As­ brary and Art Gallery; David Bull, National sociation at the Intermuseum Laboratory in Calif. 95616. ark, Del. 19716. (302) 451-2214. A session to be held at the annual meeting of Here, as throughout the country, artists were Gallery of Art. Registration $15; students and Oberlin, Ohio. Applications for the 1985-86 the Society for Industrial Archeology, in asked to describe the materials used by them senior citizens, $10. For tickets and reserva­ internships must be received by winter 1984- Newark, N.j., May 11,1985. Papers are in­ and to make recommendations for the main­ 85 (exact date not given) and fellowship ap­ The Bible in the Middle Ages: tion information: TAG, 1500 EI Prado, Bal­ vited on any aspect of the relationship be­ tenance of their paintings. Their suggestions plications by March 3. For information and Its Influence on Literature and Art boa Park, San Diego, Calif. 92101. (619) tween America's art (in any medium) and her offer a cross-section of popular conservation 239-5548. applications: Caroli T. Asia, IL, Allen Art Papers on this theme are invited for the nine­ industrial and technological past; interdis­ techniques in common use at the time. J.S. Bach and His World Building, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. (216) teenth annual conference of the Center for ciplinary approaches particularly welcome. Kindred McCleary used egg tempera in the The theme of the seventh interdisciplinary 775-7331 or 8455. Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies to be Send one-page abstract to Betsy Fahlman, Aston Magna Academy on 17th- and 18th­ South Nonvalk Post Office and suggested the held October 18-19,1985, at S.U.N.Y. Bing­ Dept. Art, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, paintings be cleaned with bread or kneaded century culture, to be held at Rutgers Uni­ Art and Society in 18th-Century England hamton. Abstracts will be considered, but Va. 23508. Deadline: 1 February. rubber only when absolutely necessary. The Institute for Museum Services versity, June 16-July 6. Christian Otto, Cor­ A summer institute Oune 30-July 28) to be completed papers (20-30 minutes) will be same conservation practices were recom­ The programs of the IMS, available for proj­ nell University, is among the scholars who will hosted by the Yale Center for British Art, sup­ given priority. Submissions or inquiries to: ects in conservation and collection mainte­ join the Foundation's artist faculty to present ported by a grant from NEH. The aim of the mended by Alton Tobey in East Hartford, Bernard S. Levy, CMERS, SUNY, Bingham­ nance, have been renewed at $3,430,000. a cross-disciplinary view of Bach's world. institute is to provide enrichment for full-time although he suggested also that if the painting ton, N.Y. 13901. (607) 798-2730 or Scholars and advanced students are eligible to teachers from American colleges and univer­ Basic Training for Slide Curators didn't respond to these methods, castile soap 798-2130. Deadline: 20 May. apply. For infonnation: AMA, Aston Magna sities by means of a program of lectures, sem­ An intensive workshop for fine arts and archi­ and water could be used sparingly. Karl Request for General Support Anderson, who did the murals in the West­ Foundation, 317 Main St., Great Barrington, inars, and research within the context of tecture slide and photograph curators will be Since the National Conservation Advisory Mass. 02130. (413) 528-3595. Yale's collections. For further information: held June 17-22,1985 at The University of ville Post Office, believed that the oil colors Council became the National Institute for the Avant Garde Art & Literature: Toward a Duncan Robinson, Director, YCBA, Box Texas at Austin. Topics covered will include would not collect dirt because they were Conservation of Cultural Property, Inc., it Reappraisal of the Heritage of Modernism 2120 Yale Sta., New Haven, Conn. 06520. current trends in microcomputer technology, painted on a fairly smooth surface. If they has continued to be engaged in three major A conference to be held November 14-16, Application deadline: 1 March. special classifications in architecture, and the did, shaving soap and a little water would do, activities: (1) developing and conducting sci­ 1985 at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N. Y. design of cataloguing schemes and cross-ref­ or warmed oil of turpentine with a little copai­ ientific research in support of conservation; Papers are invited (not to exceed 20 minutes) erence for diverse users. The teaching team ba balsam. In Southington, Ann Hunt Spen­ (2) implementing educational programs for and should be submitted in duplicate to Bar­ Buell Talks in American Architecture comprises Nancy S. Schuller, Univ. Texas; cer used ivory soap suds instead of shaving appropriate audiences; and (3) serving as the bara Lekatsas, Coordinator, AGA&L Con­ A series of annual scholarly meetings at Co­ Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art Christine Sundt, Eugene, Ore.; and Susan R. soap; Frede Vidar suggested using a soft cloth national forum and information clearing­ ference, HU Cultural Center, Hempstead, lumbia University to be inaugurated next A symposium celebrating the publication of a Hoover, Dniv. Texas. For complete informa­ with turpentine. Think about how many of house on the conservation of cultural prop­ N.Y. 11550. (516) 560-5974/5669. Selected April. Each two-day session will draw to­ new interdisciplinary annual of the same title tion and registration materials: Fine Arts these practices we would still use todayl erty in the United States. papers will be published. Deadline: 1 April. gether approximately fifteen doctoral candi­ will be held at the Loeb Student Center of Continuing Education, UT, Fine Arts Bldg., The financial resources of the NIC have dates in American architectural subjects to New York University on March 16. Topics Suite 2.4, Austin, Tex. (512) 471-1655. A Basic Conservation Bibliography been limited, in part because conservation present their findings to distinguished schol­ and speakers: Sexual Identification and the Under the editorship ofJames Bernstein (Fine has not been a high financial or philosophical Women Imagined: Myths, Realities, ars in the field. The candidates will be nom­ Choice of Media i'n the Artistz'c Developments Arts Museums of San Francisco), the Nation­ priority in this country (the United States is and the Future inated by the departments of their selected of Michelangelo and Picasso, Francis V. al Institute for the Conservation of Cultural the only major nation without a national con­ A sesquicentennial symposium series pre­ participating universities, one per institution; O'Connor, N.Y.C.; Eugene Delacroix and Correction Property has produced a list of selected publi­ servation policy). The NIC, therefore, must sented to Wheaton College. A symposium in applications from individuals will not be con­ George Sand, Jack]. Spector, Rutgers Univ.; The two-part symposium Christianity and the cations of interest to a broad conservation undertake a campaign for general support the arts will be held on March 9. Keynote sidered. The first program is now being or­ Claude Monet and Narcissism, Steven A. Le­ Renaissance: Image and Religi'ous Imagr,na­ audience. It is designed as a preliminary re­ from the private as well as the public sector. speakers: Joyce Kozloff and Carrie Rickey; ganized by a committee composed of Vincent vine, Bryn Mawr. Respondents: Joseph Col­ tion zn the Quattrocento was incorrectly listed search tool emphasizing recent English lan­ Contributions and suggestions of potential panelists: Jean E. Feinberg, Judith Knight Scully, Yale; George Collins, Columbia; Wil­ trera, N.Y.U. Medical Center; John E. Gedo, in our last issue under its subtitle only. The guage publications. The cost: $7.50, send to: contributors should be sent to Janet Sennett Nulty, Anne-Imelda Radice, Elisa]. Roth­ liamJordy, Brown; and Robert A. M. Stern, Chicago Inst. for Psychoanalysis; Mary Ma­ datesJor the section to be held at Florida State NIC, A&l 2225, Washington, D.C. 20530. Long, Development Officer, NIC, A & I stein; moderator: Leslie Brubaker. For regis­ Columbia. Further information: Julia thews Gedo, Chicago; and Robert S. Liebert, University are March 28-30, 1985 (not May 2225, Washington, D.C. 20560. tration information: Ann Woodcock Hurd, Bloomfield, Asst. Director, Buell Center, Columbia Univ. For information: Laurie 29-31). For further (and correctl) informa­ Museums for a New Century Annabelle Simon Cahn II Sesquicentennial Celebration Office, WC, Avery Hall, Rm. 400, CU, N.Y.C. 10027. Wilson, Dept. Art & Education, NYU, 239 tion: Timothy Verdon, Dept. Art History, In 1982, the American Association of Muse­ Public Information Officer Norton, Mass. 02766. (212) 280-8262. Green St., Rm. 735, N.Y.C. 10003. FSU, Tallahassee, Fla. 32306. III ums (AAM) undertook a study to clarify "the Committee for the Preservation of Art

2 CAA newsletter Winter 1984 3 announcements {announcements solo shows by artist members Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships Metropolitan Museum Programs Summer Seminars for College Teachers Internships in Prints & Photographs Nicholas Hill. Thornhill Art Gallery, The best news in a long time is this new fellow­ Summer College Internshzps. Fourteen This NEH program provides opportunities A listing of exhibit£ons by artists who are The Prints and Photographs Division of the Avila College, Kansas City, Mo., October ship program, designed to give outstanding work-study internships for college students in­ for faculty at undergraduate and two-year members of the CAA. Those sending infor­ Library of Congress has a fascinating shop­ 1-31. "Confluence," paintings. young art historians (less than six years past terested in museum careers. The ten-week colleges to work with distinguished scholars in mation for listing should include name of art­ ping list of research projects that need doing the doctorate) a year "free" of other obli­ program runs from 10 June to 16 August. their own or related fields at institutions with ist, gallery or museum, dty, dates of exhibi­ involving its extraordinary collection of more Robert Hooper. Madeleine Carter Gal­ gations for research and writing. Twenty fel­ Juniors and seniors, and recent graduates who major library collections, suitable for ad­ tion, and medium. than 11 million items. Through its Academic lery, Brookline, Mass., November 3-Decem­ lowships of $25,000 each will be awarded in have not entered graduate school, may apply. vanced research. Each seminar has twelve Intern Program, it offers advanced under­ ber 31. Paintings. 1985-86. They flow in two parallel streams: Honorarium $1,600. For more information: participants and lasts eight weeks; each par­ graduate and graduate students the opportu­ Cecile Abish. Contemporary Gallery, Cen­ (1) ten American institutions with distin­ Coordinator, College Internship Program, ticipant receives a stipend of $3,000. Bro­ Garry Neill Kennedy. 49th Parallel, Cen­ nity to gain experience and valuable training ter for Creative Photography, University of guished art history departments have been Office of Academic Affairs, MMA, same as chures describing the content of each seminar tre for Canadian Contemporary Art, N. Y ,C.,_ by working on these projects under the super­ Arizona, Tucson, November4-December 13. designated to select one recipient each: and above. Application deadline: 22 February. are available from the Public Affairs Office, December 1-22. Figure paintings. vision of its professional staff. No money "Say When." (2) the other ten fellowships will be awarded Summer Graduate Assistantshtps. Ten Room 409, NEH, Washington, D.C. 20506. changes hands. For additional information: Margot Kernan. Davison Art Center, in an international competition that is open assistantships for graduate students inter­ Detailed information about the subject mat­ Katherine T. Andrle. Capital Gallery, AlP, LC, Washington, D.C. 20540. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., to all qualified candidates who have not had ested in museum careers. Strong background ter and requirements of individual seminars Landover, Md., October 1-31. Recent work. January 23-February 20, 1985. "Light­ an affiliation with any of the designated insti­ in art history and completion of at least one and about housing availability, and applica­ tutions within the past three years. The fel­ year of graduate school required; interest in tion instructions and forms, are available Fulbright Occasional Lecturer Program Ruth Bavetta. San Bernardino Valley Col­ lands," color photographs. lege Gallery, October 29-November 8. Color lowships are completely portable; generally the humanities and museum education as directly from the seminar directors. Applica­ Opportunities for colleges and universities Geoffrey Lardiere. Gilman Galleries, Chi­ throughout the United States to invite visiting $21,000 will be given as a stipend to the fellow important as academic qualifications. The tion deadline: 1 April. drawings. cago, October 12-November 8. Paintings and $4,000 as a subvention to the institution program runs from 10 June to 16 August. "Related fields" can be broadly interpre­ Fulbright scholars to lecture at their campus­ Gloria DeFilipps Brush. Real Art Ways, and constructions. Barbara Gillman Gallery, where he or she decides to work. Both compo­ Honorarium $1,800. For more information: ted, and there are topics of possible interest to es are available through this program, admin­ Atrium Gallery, Hartford, February 1- Miami, November 16-December 7. Paint­ nents of the program will be administered by Graduate Assistantship Program, Office of art historians in practically every discipline. istered by the Council for International Ex­ March 16, 1985. Recent Hand-Colored Pho­ ings and constructions. the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Academic Mfairs, same as above. Applica­ Specifically in art history or very closely change of Scholars. Nearly 900 visiting schol­ tographs. Bay Vista Photo Gallery, Florida Foundation, which also administers the Mel­ tion deadline: 30 April. Telated are: ars are listed in the Directory, available Judy Loeb. Ford Hall Gallery, Eastern International University, North Miami, Feb­ lon Fellowships in the Humanities. The ten The Medieval Illumz'nated Book: Context without charge. The Council has funds to Michigan University, Ypsilanti, October 29- ruary 14-March 7. New Image' Gallery, institutions designated to select recipients for andAudz'ence, 17 June-9 August. Robert G. assist in meeting travel expenses to campuses November 21. "The Months of Mesas and James Madison University, Harrisonburg, 1985-86 are: Bryn Mawr; Univ. California, Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellowship Calkins, Dept. Art History, 35 Goldwin Smith and is particularly interested in institutions Mountains. JJ March 18-ApriI6. Berkeley; Columbia; Harvard; Johns Hop­ A new annual fellowship enabling students to Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14853. with little opportunity for international lec­ Gerald A. Matlick. Swearingen Gallery, kins; Michigan; N.Y.U.; Princeton; Stan­ study an aspect of Dutch art from the six­ Images of Paris in Modem Art, 17June-9 turers. For Directory and further informa­ Ed Colker. Sarah Lawrence College, Rau­ Louisville, Ky., September 29-November 6. ford; and Yale. Candidates for the open com­ teenth through the eighteenth century in Hol­ August (seminar location: Parisi). Theodore tion: Mindy Reiser, CIES, II Dupont Circle, shenbush Library, Bronxville, N.Y., October Watercolors. petition(i.e., those who have not had an affil­ land. Applicants must hold an M.A. in the Reff, Dept. Art History and Archaeology, c/o N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. 15-November 15. "Prints for Poetry: Selec­ iation with any of the above within the past history of art and must be working towards a Summer Session Office, 418 Lewisohn Hall, tions from 25 years of limited edition works." Florence Putterman. Canyon Gallery, three years) may request application forms Ph.D. Stipend $5,000, including travel ex­ Columbia University, N.Y.C. 10027. Fellowship in Asian Art History Fort Lauderdale, Fla., September 1984. Robert Cronin. Klonaridis, Inc., Toronto, from WWNFF, ·P.O. Box 642, Princeton, penses, for six months. Recipients will be af­ Embellishing the Temple of Liberty: The The Asian Cultural Council awards one fel­ Segal Gallery, N.Y.C., December 1984. September 8-29. Polychrome sculpture. N.]. 08542. ftliated with the Mauritshuis. Send applica­ Decoration of the u.s. Capitol (1790-1870), lowship annually to an American doctoral Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, N.Y.C., tions with description of project, academic 17 June-9 August. Egon Verheyen, Dept. candidate in art history for dissertation Juliet Rago. Dittmar Memorial Gallery, October 9-November 3. Sculpture. background, and two letters of recommenda­ Art History, The Johns Hopkins University, research in Asia. Selection is based on past Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., Sep­ Brooklyn Museum Internships tion to the selection committee chair: E. Baltimore, Md. 21218. tember 17-0ctober 5. Collage/paintings. academic achievement and the significance Leila Daw. Soho 20 Invitational Space, The Brooklyn Museum has particularly Haverkamp-Begemann, Inst. Fine Arts, 1 Perception in Literature and Art, 17 of the proposed research. Applicants must be N.Y.C., December 29, 1984-January 23, strong collections in American art, Egyptian East 78th Street, N. Y.C. 10021. Deadline for June-9 August. Mary Ann Caws, Ph.D. Susan Scott. Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, full-time, ABD students at an American uni­ 1985. Journeys, sojourns, and connections art, decorative arts and the arts of Oceania, 1985-86 academic year: 30 March. Program in French, CUNY Graduate Center, B.C., May II-June 10; Art Gallery of Greater versity. Send one-page summary of research with the environment, documented by an in­ Native Americans, and Africa. It is well 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y.C. 10036. Victoria, June 21-July 27; Saidye Bronfman plans and statement of financial needs to: stallation, works on canvas, artist's books. known for its innovative programs for chil­ Politics ofthe Image: French Film and Fic­ Centre, Montreal, August 14-September 16; ACC, 280 Madison Avenue, N.Y. C. 10016. The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University dren and adults. Internships are available in tion Between the Wars, 17 June-9 August. Inessa De. Pictogram Gallery, N.Y.C., Art and Science Society Deadline: 15 February. of Toronto, October 11-November 8; Agnes many areas from Education to Development Andrew Dudley and Steven J. Unger, Pro­ March 7-31, 1985. Recent paintings. A founding meeting for an international Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, so that students can interface directly with the society and a journal devoted to the histories gram in Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242. Nancy Deffebach. Bry Art Gallery, Kingston, Ont., December 15, 1984-January public or work on behind the scenes projects of the arts and sciences "in the spirit of Leo­ Walker Art Center Scholar-in-Residence Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, 20, 1985. Works 1974 to 1983. that enable the museum to function effective­ nardo" (and thus named) will be held at the A Rockefeller Foundation residency pro­ October 29-November 15. "An ofrend a (of­ ly. For more information: Coordinator of CAA annual meeting in Los Angeles. The gram. Five-and-one-half and eleven-month Sheba Sharrow. Marion Art, Lancaster, Kress Fellowships in Conservation fering) for Frida Kahlo." Interns, BM, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, founding meeting is being convened by fellowships for postdoctoral scholars to work Pa., September 7-22. Recent work. N.Y. 11238. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation offers a lim­ Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Western Kentucky ited number of grants to aid students in inde­ with the Walker's curators and program Raffaello Dvorak. The North Point Gal­ Priscilla Bender Shore. Cunningham State University, and Martin Kemp, Univer­ pendent advanced conservation training. Ap­ directors on special projects and also pursue lery, San Francisco, July 3-August 11. Draw­ Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield Museum sity of St. Andrews, Scotland. It will be held plicants must be U.S. citizens and must independent research at the University of ings, paintings, woodcuts. of Art, Bakersfield, Calif., June 5-July 1. Institute on Anglo-Saxon England on Saturday, February 16, at noon. already be accepted into the training/ intern­ Minnesota. Appointments begin September Paintings. Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and ship program for which they seek support. For 1, 1985 or February 15, 1986. For more infor­ Oriole Farb Feshbach. Mary Ryan Gal­ lery, N.Y.C., September 21-0ctober 14. Early Renaissance Studies at SUNY-Bing­ application forms: Conservation Fellowship mation: Office of the Director, WAC, Vine­ Patricia Sloane. Olin Fine Arts Center, Offset lithographs. hamton, June 24-August 2, 1985. Partici­ A Grin on the Interface Program, KF, 174 East 80th Street, N.Y.C. land Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Washington and Jefferson College, Washing­ pants should be full-time teachers of \luder­ Yes, Virginia, there is an alternative to Lud­ 10021. Application deadline: 30 January. Judith Godwin. Ingber Gallery, N.Y.C., ton, Pa., December 1-15. Works on paper. graduate medieval subjects at two-year post­ ditisml And this gentle, reassuring, and fre­ October 9- 27. "Episode of Animals," paint­ Cynthia M. Young. Foundry Gallery, secondary institutions in the United States. quently funny guide, subtitled Word Proces­ Ucross Foundation Residencies for Artists ings. Stipend $2,500. Guest faculty includes Ashley S.A.H. Guide Washington, D.C., February 1984. "Floating st"ng for the Academt"c Humanist, can help Residency sessions are from January through Images." II Crandell Amos, Carl T. Berkhout, Rosemary show the more fearful among us the way. Do you advise students who hope to do grad­ May and from September through December, Barbara Goodstein. The Bowery Gallery, Cramp, Donald K. Fry, Stanley B. Green­ Published by the Modern Language Associa­ uate studies in architectural history? You and and may run from two weeks to four months. November 9-28. Figurative reliefs. field, C. Warren Hollister, SimonD. Keynes, tion and edited and largely written by Alan T. they can obtain copies of the newly revised A complete etching facility is available. No Judy Graham. Susan B. Anthony Gallery, Paul Meyvaert, Robin S. Oggins, Joel T. McKenzie, professor of English at Purdue Guide to Graduate Degree Programs in Ar­ To insure receipt of all CAA publica~ fees are charged to residents and no services or University of Wisconsin-Madison, October Rosenthal, and William C. Voelke. Further University, it is practical, relatively simple, chitectural History, compiled by the Society products are expected from them. For further dons and announcements, please be information: PaulE. Szarmach, Director, lA­ and sympatico! ("Did Keats 'process' words, of Architectural Historians, The price is 12-- November 4. Drawings. information: SASE to Heather Burgess, Res­ sure to keep us informed of your cur­ did Emily Dickinson?") Bibliography and $3.00, including postage. Order from: SAH, SE, CEMERS, SUNY, Binghamton, NY idency Program, UF, Ucross Route, Box 19, Salvatore Grippi. Hiestand Gallery, 13901. (607) 798-2130/2730. Application 1700 Walnut Street, Suite 716, Philadelphia, rent address. glossary, ix plus 82 pp. From MLA, 62 Fifth Clearmont, Wyo. 82835. Application dead­ Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, September deadline: I March. Pa. 19103-6085. Avenue, N. Y.C. 1001l. $12.00; paper $7.00. line for fall 1985 session: 1 March. II 23-0ctober 9. Recent paintings. 4 CAA newsletter Winter 1984 5 grants and awards people and programs

MILLARD MEISS GRANTS GETTY MUSEUM PROGRAMS Yale: Italy; Sura Levine, Univ. Chicago: Material for inclusion t'n People and Pro­ to the Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, The CAA's Millard Meiss Publications Fund The Department of Academic Affairs of the J. Belgium; Denise S. McColgan, Yale: Aus­ grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027. Committee met on November 3, 1984. Sub­ Paul Getty Museum offers several programs tria; Michelle M. Murray, Columbia: Italy; tion, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 10016. ventions were awarded to the following: ranging from clerical positions to research­ Richard J _ Powell, Yale: Denmark; Leslie Deadline for next issue: I March. Donald Robertson, professor of art history at Edgar Peters Bowron, North Carolina oriented ones, depending on the level of the Ross, Mill Valley, Calif.: United Kingdom; Newcomb College, Tulane University, and a Museum of Art, Pompeo Batoni: A Complete student: the Fellowship Program (Ph.D. stu­ Henri K. Stegemeier, Harvard: West Ger­ IN MEMORIAM specialist in pre-Columbian and Latin Amer­ Catalogue of his Paz'ntings and Drawings, dents); Student Intern Program (M.A. stu­ many; Carolyn E. Tate, Univ. Texas, Aus­ ican art, died in October at the age of 65. Harold E. Wethey, professor emeritus of the Phaidon Press Limited. dents); Student Assistant Program (B.A. tin: Mexico; C. von Bogendorf-Rupparth, Robertson earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from history of art at the University of Michigan, Richard M. Cooler, Northern Illinois Uni­ students); and Work-Study Program (B.A., Univ. Maryland, College Park: Netherlands. Yale in 1944 and 1956 respectively and stud­ died in September at the age of 82. Wethey versity, The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma: M.A., or Ph.D. students). Participants in the ied also at Mexico City College and at the received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1934 and The Magic Pond, E. J. BrilL 1984·-85 programs: Joshua Chernoff, B.A., Institute of Fine Arts. He joined the New­ taught at Bryn Mawr and Washington Uni­ Marvin Eisenberg, The University of comb faculty in 1.957. Robertson's publica­ Yale: student assistant, public information; versity in St. Louis before joining the Mich­ Michigan, Lorenzo Monaco and His Work­ Nicolas Debs, sophomore, Yale: s.a., public tions include Mexican Manuscript Painting igan faculty in 1940. A specialist in Spanish shop, Princeton University Press. information; Randi Ganulin, B.A., com­ of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropol­ and Latin American art and in Italian art of Carol Herselle Krinsky, New York Uni­ munication design, Otis Art Inst.: s.a., pub­ NEWBERRY LIBRARY itan Schools, considered to be the definitive the Renaissance and Baroque, Wethey was versity, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, lications; Maurice Luker, B.A., Duke: s.a., FELLOWSHIPS study of Mexican Indian codices, and Pre-Co­ the author of Colonial Architecture and History, Meaning, The Architectural History manuscripts; Peter Reid,- B.A. cand., Fifty-three were awarded for the 1984-85 lumbianArchitecture. He also contributed to Sculpture in Peru (1949, recipient of the SAH Foundation. R.I.S.D.: s.a., publications; Bridget Ritter, academic year. Among the recipients: Fer­ the ethnohistory volumes of the Handbook of Book Award); Alonso Cano, Painter, Suzanne Lewis, Stanford University, The B.A. cand., Calif. State Univ., Fullerton: nando Gonzalez, CoIl. Architecture, Domin­ Middle American Indians, edited at Tulane. Sculptor & Archt'tect (1955); El Greco and Art of Matthew Paris in the "Chronica Ma­ s.a., photography; Katrin Schultheiss, ican Rep.: monuments of architectural and A member of the advisory committee for Pre­ His School (1962), and-his major scholarly jora, " The University of California Press. B.A., Yale: s.a., paintings; Bill Fox, B.A. historical interest in the Caribbean: David Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, achievement - the three-volume monograph John Abel Pinto, Smith College, The cand., classics, Stanford; s.a., photo ar­ March, Univ. Michigan: the works of Leon Robertson was also vice president for colonial and catalogue raisonne Titian (completed in Trev'; Fountain in Rome, Yale University chives; Louise Stover, B.A. cand., Pomona Battista Alberti, 1428-1568; Virginia Mil­ art of the Association of Latin American Art, 1975). To the end of his life, Wethey was a Christine Verzar Bornstein, Ohio Press. ColI.: s. a., photo archives; Patricia Bou­ ler, Univ. Illinois at Chicago: sculpture of a special interest group that meets annually State University "regular" at CAA annual meetings; we shaH The Committee will next meet in the telle, M.A. cand., Univ. Southern Calif.: stu­ Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico; Gustavo with the CAA. A Donald Robertson Memori­ spring. Deadline for submission of appli­ dent intern, manuscripts; Christine Daul­ More, Univ. Nacional Pedro Henriquez miss him in Los Angeles. al Fund is being established. Contributions From the Ohio State University comes news of Urena, Dominican Rep.: monuments of should be sent to the Office of the President, the appointment of Christine Verzar Born­ cations: 1 March. ton, M.S., art conservation, Univ. Delaware Howard Hibbard, professor of art history at Winterthur Program, s.i., paintings conser­ architectural interest in the Caribbean; Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 70118. stein (Ph.D. Univ. Basel) as associate profes­ Pablo Ojeda-O'Neill, architect, Dominican Columbia University, died in October at the sor and chair of the history of art department. vation; Carol Elkins, M.A. cand., age of 56. Hibbard earned both his B.A. and Rep.: monuments of architectural and histo­ ACADEME A specialist in northern Italian Romanesque U.C.L.A.: s.i., antiquities; Karol Ferber, M.A. at the University of Wisconsin and re­ M.A. cand., U.C.L.A.· s.i., antiquities; rical interest in the Caribbean. sculpture, she comes to Columbus from The ceived his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1958. He At Oberlin College, Richard E. Spear, who University of Michigan and succeeds Anne Gloria Williams, M.A. cand., Univ. South" has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of joined the Columbia faculty in 1959, became Morganstern, who returns to the classroom. WHITNEY MUSEUM FELLOWS ern Calif.: s.i., drawings; Benedicte Gilman, a full professor in 1966, and served as chair of The Art Bulletin, is acting chair of the de­ Arline Meyer (Ph.D. Columbia), guest cura­ Twenty-seven American and European ad­ M.A., anthropology, Boston Univ., M.A. the department from 1978 to 1981. During partment of art. William Hood is iri Florence tor of the recent exhibition onJohn Wootton vanced undergraduates and graduate stu­ cand., journalism, Calif. State Univ., North­ 1976-77 he was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at with a fellowship from I Tatti and John Pear­ at Kenwood House, London, joins the faculty dents have been chosen to participate in the ridge: s.i., publications; Lee Hendrix, Ph.D. INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Oxford University. A prolific scholar, Hib­ son is on leave with a grant from Oberlin. for the year to teach southern Baroque and Independent Study Program of the Whitney cand., Princeton: s.i., drawings; Carolyn New members of the faculty for the year are bard was the author of Bernini (1965), Carlo 18th Century, replacing Barbara Haeger Museum of American Art this fall. Helena Gay Neida, M.A. prog., history of decorative Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein received a Phillip Chan, teaching drawing; Judy Ho in Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580- and Francis L. Richardson, who are on Rubinstein Fellows entering the Museum arts, Cooper Hewitt Museum: s.i., decorative 1984 individual research award from the 1630 (1972), Michelangelo (1975), and Cara­ Far Eastern; and Linda Klinger in Renais­ Studies Program; R. David Clark, B.A., arts; Jennifer Smith, M.A., Univ. Kansas: American Association of University Women, leave. Richardson, a new member of the edi­ vaggio (1983), and at the time of his death he sance art. Sculptor Athena Tacha had a solo torial board of The Art Bulletin, is a fellow at Oberlin; Joshua Deeter, B.A., S.U.N.Y., s.i., paintings; Bill Cohen, M.A. cand., to study the life and work of Fanny Palmer, was working on a book on Rubens. For a more exhibition (catalogue, with essay by Lucy Villa I Tatti this year. Howard G. Crane is Purchase; Corinne Diserens, Lic. et Mai­ U.C.L.A.: s.i., library; Vance Koehler, printmaker for Currier & Ives. general audience, he wrote Masterpieces of Lippard) in October-November at the Max the recipient of a Smithsonian Special For­ trise, Inst. d'Art & d'Archeologie, Univ. M.A. prog., history decorative arts, Cooper Western Sculpture (1977) and The Metropol­ Hutchinson Gallery in New York. CAA vice­ eign Currency Program Grant for work on Is­ Paris; David Lurie, B.A., Swarthmore; Hewitt Museum: s.i., photo archives; Mimi Barbara M. Stafford, University of Chicago, £tan Museum of Art (1980). He was book re­ president Paul B. Arnold will retire after lamic architecture in South India. Pam Maslansky, B.A., Vanderbilt Univ.; de Maricle Kotner, M.A., medieval history, is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Interna­ view editor of The Art Bulletin from 1961 to forty-five years of teaching at the end of this Amy Mizrahi, B.A., Vassar; Elizabeth U.C.L.A.: s.i., photo archives; Julia Muney, tional Center for Scholars (Smithsonian) for 1965 and editor-in-chieffrom 1974 to 1977. A semester; there will be an exhibition of his Shriver, B.A., Barnard; Vicente Todoli, M.A. cand., N.Y.U.: s.i., JPG Center; Ute 1984-85. Her topic: Tangible Visions: The Howard Hibbard Memorial Fund is being es­ selected prints at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Joining the Department of Art at Duke Uni­ Ph.D. cand., C.U.N.Y.; Mary-Katherine Wachsmann, Ph.D. cand., art history, Univ. Role of the Apparitional in 18th Century Art tablished; contributions should be addressed Art Museum May 21-summer. versity this year are Charles W. Haxthausen Weatherford, B.A., Princeton; Ziba de Bonn: s.i., photo archives, JPG Center; Gail and Theory. as visiting associate professor and Frances Week, Ph.D., Univ. Geneve and M.A., Co­ Aronow, Ph.D. cand., Columbia: fellow, Gillespie as visiting artist. lumbia. Participants in the Studio Program: paintings; Consuelo Dutschke, Ph.D. cand., Ruth Samson Luborsky, Philadelphia, has Albert Aniel, fihnrnaker, San Francisco Art dept. Italian, U.C.L.A.: fellow, manuscriI:'ts. been awarded a two-year Research Resources Inst.; Kendall Buster, sculptor, Corcoran Grant by the National Endowment for the At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sch. Art; John Chow, architect, Pratt; An­ Humanities to continue work on English William T. Oedel (Ph.D. Univ. Delaware) drew Cogan, photographer, Harvard; Paula Books wt'th Woodcuts: 1536-1603. The cata­ has joined the faculty to teach American art Crawford, painter and sculptor, San Francis­ logue is being made in collaboration with and museum studies. Anne Mochon(modern co Art Inst.; Kathy Dieckman, filmmaker, FULBRIGHT-HAYS AWARDS Elizabeth Ingram. and contemporary art) was granted tenure Vassar; Mark Dion, painter, S. V .A.; Sandra Of the 497 awards for U.S. graduate students and promoted to associate professor. Paul F. Elgear, perlormance artist, Ontario ColI. for 1984-85, the following are in art history: Daniel D. Reiff, S.U.N.Y., Fredonia, has re­ Norton is currently coordinator of the art Art; Robin Hutt, performance artist, On­ Cristelle L. Baskins, Univ. California, Berk­ ceived a National Endowment for the Hu­ history program; Craig Harbison is director tario CoIl. Art; Laura Lynch, sculptor, eley: Italy; Patricia G. Berman, N. Y. U.; manities Fellowship for College Teachers for of the graduate program. Walter B. Denny California Inst. Arts; Anna O'Sullivan, per­ Norway; Linda Cabe, Yale: United King­ January-June 1985, for research on Mail­ (Islamic) and Kristine Haney (Medieval) formance artist, Coll. Art & Design, Dublin; dom; James D. Clifton, Princeton: Italy; order and Catalog Houses, 1890-1940: Ex­ have both recently received grants from the David Meieran, video artist, Oberlin; Steve Michael Conner, Indiana Univ.: Malawi; tent, Impact, and Meaning. NEH. J. Leonard Benson, professor of Clas­ Pallrand, painter, Oberlin; Aimee Rankin, CharlesE. Doherty, Univ. Wisconsin, Madi­ sical art and archeology since 1966, retires at sculptor, San Francisco Art Inst.; Liz Rod­ son: United Kingdom; Kenneth S. Ganza, Ilene D. Lieberman, Villanova University, is the end of this academic year. Iris Cheney riguez, video artist, Otis/Parsons; Jason Indiana Univ.: Taiwan; Elizabeth Horton, the recipient of an ACLS grant-in-aid. Her (Italian Renaissance) is also teaching Renais­ Howard Hibbard sance art at Amherst College, fall semester. Simon, filmmaker, Sarah Lawrence; Eliz­ Univ. Michigan: Japan; Nancy C. Keeler, project: An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Fran­ 1928-1984 abeth Vahlsing, painter, Vassar. Univ. Texas, Austin: France; Linda Landis, cisChantrey, R.A. • Photo: Jonathan Levine Continued on p. 8, col. 1

6 CAA newsletter Winter 1984 7 Ipeople and programs Ipeople and programs information

Patricia Mainardi has joined the Harvard ings at the Spencer. Scheduled to receive her MUSEUMS At the Worcester Art Museum, Elizabeth de For a dissertation in progress, information is faculty as assistant professor of modem art Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard, Giles has been a Sabato Swinton has been promoted to the sought on the location of paintings and water­ history. Mainardi (Ph.D. C.U.N.Y.) taught research assistant at the Louvre and the Mu­ position of curator of Asiatic art. A member colors by the late nineteenth-century expatri­ at Goddard College 1976-81, where she was seum of Fine Arts in Houston and a curatorial of the Worcester's curatorial department ate artist Henry Bacon. Please contact Sara also director of the MFA Visual Arts Pro­ assistant at the Fogg. Stephen H. Goddard since 1978 and a specialist in Japanese art, Junkin, American Studies, Boston University, gram, and was in Paris 198]-84, first as a has been appointed assistant professor of art Swinton holds degrees in both East Asian 226 Baystate Road, Boston, Mass. 02215, CASVA Chester Dale fellow and then teach­ history and assistant curator of prints. God­ Studies (M.A.) and fine arts (Ph,D,) from ing at the American College in Paris and the dard (Ph.D. Univ. Iowa) just completed a Harvard University. She was formerly on the Information concerning paintings and draw­ Cleveland Institute program in Lacoste. museum internship at the Yale University Art faculty at Tufts. At the CAA annual meeting ings by Archibald John Motley, Jr., and the Gallery; he also just had an article accepted in L.A., she will be giving a paper on art collector Carl W. Hamilton is requested by The Art Bullett"n. Finally: Former CAA Hokusai's books. by Jontyle Theresa Robins, Dept. Art History, president Marilyn Stokstad, University Dis­ Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322. tinguished Professor of Art History, has been appointed Commissioner-at-Iarge to the For an exhibition being organized on Sir Commission on Institutions of Higher Educa­ David Wilkie (1785-1841), information is tion for the North Central Association of Col­ sought on works by the artist in North Amer­ leges and Universities. Her four-year term ican collections, including paintings, draw­ began in September 1984. ings and prints. Please contact William J. Chiego, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Blvd., Raleigh, N,C, 27607, Memphis State University has several newap­ pointments, Melinda Parsons (Ph.D. Univ. For a doctoral dissertation on depictions of Delaware) has joined the department of art as Joanne M. Kuebler, Indianapolis Museum Tudor and Stuart history by American art­ assistant professor of modern art. Beverly of Art ists, 1830-1865, information is sought on the Kissinger, who comes from Mississippi Uni­ location of relevant works, in any medium, in versity for Women, has been named assistant Joanne M. Kuebler has joined the staff of the private and smaller public collections. Please professor in interior design. Rita E. Freed Indianapolis Museum of Art as assistant contact Wendy Greenhouse, 1459 W. Belle (Ph.D. N.Y.U.) has been appointed director Thomas W. Sokolowski, Grey Art director of education for academic affairs. Plaine, Chicago, Ill. 60613. Gallery, N.Y.U. of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archae­ Currently a doctoral candidate in twentieth­ ology, The newly established institute, which The new director of N. Y. U.'s Grey Art Gal­ century art at Indiana University, Kuebler For a monograph and catalogue of the paint­ (M. A. Hunter) taught at the Herron School of works with the Egypt Exploration Society in lery is Thomas W. Sokolowski, formerly er Jan Weissenbruch (1822-1880), if you its excavations at ancient Memphis, formally chief curator at the Chrysler Museum in Nor­ Art and at Nazareth College in Rochester and own any works or have any information on the opened in October, 1984. Returning to cam­ folk, Va, A Baroque specialist, Sokolowski was a curator at the Bronx Museum of Art. life and work of Weissenbruch, please contact pus after a semester's leave in New York City is Wim Laanstra, Govert Flinckstraat 17, 1506 (M.A., I.F.A.) taught at Kent State, the Uni" Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, Worcester Lawrence E. Edwards, former chair of the versity of Minnesota, the University of British Art Museum LK Zaandam, The Netherlands. department. James Watkins is preparing to Columbia, and Old Dominion University be­ leave this coming spring, having been award­ fore joining the Chrysler in 1981, Among the For a monograph, information is sought on ed a Professional Faculty Assignment to study the location of drawings and paintings by exhibitions he curated there are The Sailor as Ella M. Foshay has been appointed curator computer art. Visiting artist Mark Wilson Fanny Palmer, lithographer for Currier & Melvin H. Pekarsky, State University of a Demigod z'n Amer£can Art oj the '30s and of painting and sculpture at The New York will join the staff in February to conduct Ives, Biographical data would also be appre­ New York at Stony Brook '40s; Surrealism and Its Antecedents, and Historical Society. Forshay (Ph.D., Colum­ special workshops in computer art. ciated by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, 2680 Photo: Photography Program. Stony Brook European Porcelat"n t"n the Age oj Mozart. bia) taught at Vassar, the C.W. Post College, Victoria Drive, Laguna Beach, Calif. 92651. and the New School for Social Research and At the State University of New York at Stony Just what the doctor ordered: A $1,000 an­ has been a guest curator at the Whitney. A II Brook, Melvin H. Pekarsky has been elected nual scholarship in art history in honor of At another New York university, Nina Sun­ specialist in American art, she is the author of chair of the department of art. The depart­ Alessandra Comini has been established at Reflections oj Nature: Flowers t'n American ment began its Master of Arts in Art History Southern Methodist University. The donor: dell has been named director of the new Leh­ Art (1984). and Criticism this academic year; it was ori­ Ralph Broadwater, M.D., presently a res­ man College (C.U,N.Y.) Art Gallery. The ginated and developed by Lawrence Alloway ident in surgery, who studied our favorite dis­ founder and co-director of the New Gallery in Kimberly Rorschack is the new curator of (now retired) and Donald Kuspit, both reci­ cipline with Comini and Eleanor Tufts be­ Cleveland and of Independent Curators, arts at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in pients of the CAA's Frank Jewett Mather fore cutting out for his current - obviously Inc" Sundell has organized exhibitions on Three senior staff appointments were an­ Philadelphia. A specialist in eighteenth-cen­ Award for art criticism. On leave this year are more lucrative-trade. The scholarship is for Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, and numerous nounced by the National Gallery of Art in tury English and French art, Rorschack is an Michele Bogart, with an NEH grant, and an undergraduate art history major (senior), other contemporary artists. She is an alumna Washington. Jack Cowart (Ph.D.; Johns advanced doctoral candidate at Yale. Last Nina A. Mallory, with NEH and Kress Foun­ to be selected by Comini entirely on the basis of the High School of Music and Art, N.Y. U., Hopkins) has been named head of the depart­ year she organized an exhibition entitled The dation grants. James Rubin is director of of merit, and is intended to complement the and Queens College, where she earned an ment of twentieth-century art. Cowart was Early Georgian Landscape Garden for the M.A. degree. graduate studies and Jacques Guilmain of Haakon scholarship currently available for previously at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Yale Center for British Art. undergraduate studies. CAA Board member graduate study at S.M.U. where he organized exhibitions on Matisse Howardena Pindell has returned from (the paper cut-outs), De Kooning, Lichten­ Esther de Vecsey, Blaffer Gallery, University New York City real estate developer and col­ India, where she was working on an NEA In Ohio, Bowling Green State University pro­ Glenn D. Lowry, formerly director of the stein, and new German art. Danielle Rice of Houston lector Ian Woodner has contributed $1 mil­ grant, and is again overseeing the undergrad­ fessor Adrian R. Tio' is working on a major Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of (Ph.D., Yale) has been appointed curator of lion to endow a curatorship of drawings at the uate studio internship program. mural depicting the history of mass commu­ Art at the College of William and Mary, has education. She comes to Washington, from Esther de Vecsey, formerly associate director Fogg Art Museum. Not suprisingly, Konrad nication. Tio', who is currently president of been appointed curator of Near Eastern art the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the Oberhuber, curator of drawings at the Fogg At the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Patri­ the CAA-affiliated society F.A.T.E" expects for the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gal­ where she held a similar position since 1979. University of Houston-University Park, has and professor of fine arts at Harvard since cia Fister has been appointed assistant pro­ that the project, which is co-sponsored by the lery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, A Maygene Daniels, formerly special assistant been appointed director of the gallery. She re­ 1975, was named the first occupant of the new fessor of art history and assistant curator of School of Journalism and the Department of specialist in Islamic art and architecture, to the deputy archivist of the United States, places William Robinson, who has left the curatorship. Oriental art at the Spencer Museum. Pre­ Radio, Television, and Film, will take two Lowry is co-curator and author of the cata­ was appointed chief of the NGA's newly university, Among the widely praised activi­ viously Fister (Ph.D. Univ. Kansas) was a re­ years. Cal Kowal, who regularly teaches pho­ logue for Fatehpur-Sikri and the Age oj formed Archives department. The impor­ ties during de Vecsey's tenure as associate Sanford Sivitz Shaman, formerly director of search fellow and curator of Japanese art at tography at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Akbar, an exhibition of Mughal Indian art tance and the problems of museum archives director was last year's exhibition of works by Washington State University's Museum of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Laura M. was visiting artist at the School of the Art that will open at the Asia Society in New York were discussed by Gabriel Weisberg, chair of Leon Golub, accompanied by the artist's visit Art, has been appointed director of the Penn­ Giles has been appointed assistant professor Institute of Chicago from September through City in October 1985 as part of the nationwide the CAA Committee on the Preservation of and an interdisciplinary symposium on the sylvania State University Museum of Art, ef­ of art history and assistant curator of draw­ December. observance of the Festival of India, Art, in the last issue of this newsletter (p. 12), artist as social critic. fective 1 November. III S CAA newsletter Winter 1984 9 ICAA statement re NEH CAA statement re NEH reauthorization Conservation of Photographic Resources cially viable would be of enormous assistance forced many institutions to reduce or elim­ The legUlation authorizing the establishment of the National Endowment for the Human~ This problem is confined to older collections to smaller libraries. inate support. Assistance is needed. ities expires in 1986. Congressional hearings on reauthorization will be held in 1985. As a at a few institutions. Nineteenth century pho­ means of gathering pertinent testimony, the American Council of Learned So~ieties asked tographs and lantern slides are themselves Support of Visual Resources_ The open­ Conferences, Symposia, Summer Courses all its constituent societies to prepare a statement outlining what they perceive to be the now documents of value, often representing ing of China and growing interest in the art of for Faculty Development. The best 'of these: principal needs of their discipline over the next few decades. Following if the statement works which have either been destroyed or "Third World" countries presents a challenge are proven modes of scholarly dissemination, submitted by the CAA Board of Directors. radically altered through deterioration. Pho­ analogous to that faced by European art his­ and they should continue to be funded. Spe­ tographs crumble, lantern slides break, and torians a century ago. Intelligent campaigns cial priority should be given to activities that lenge private dollars to remember the nation's THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION concern at the center of our understanding of in the case of glass plate slides, are irretriev­ of photography and architectural drafting hold promise of advancing/redefining OF AMERICA what it is to be human. cultural needs. ably lost. Such materials should be retired should be anticipated, and supported contin­ aspects of the fields, and to courses for sec­ While the scholar often offers new informa­ from teaching service, converted to 35mm. gent upon appropriate at-cost dissemination. ondary school teachers who teach art history The College Art Association of America tion, his/her contribution ultimately is inter­ Difficulties of the "System" of Art film with a stipulation that converted mate­ but do not have formal training in the field. (CAA) , founded in 1911, senres as the princi­ pretation, to the end of understanding that Scholarship rials be available to other institutions at cost. Support of Archeological Resources_ The Not too long ago a scholar of art could do re­ pal national learned society of historians, humanity. We believe that a healthy nation art historian/ archeologist usually lacks both search abroad on a fully paid leave, acquire museum professionals, artists and critics of benefits from the enterprise of art, and ad­ Translation the competence and resources to investigate The Popular Dissemination of Scholarly the visual arts. It is dedicated to the advance­ vancement of the understanding of it is as photographs or have them made at low cost, If, as seems likely, interest in the art of non the nature of materials, techniques, and state Knowledge ment of scholarship and teaching in the field. surely a national priority as many more tan­ return and write his/her book in a library Euro-American countries grows, translation of conservation, essential questions in many We are committed as a profession ofthought­ gible aspects of the social agenda. which as a matter of course acquired all signi­ from "exotic" languages will be required if historical investigations. Funds are needed to ful interpretation of art for popular audi­ ficant new titles, pay low reproduction rights, INTRODUCTION anyone other than a handful of specialists is to acquire this expertise from authorities. ences, and sensitive to the fact that these The Social Imperative occasioned in part by for-profit middlemen, be reached. Such work should be done by audiences vary in their interests and state of Through support of individual scholars, insti­ More people are scholars and critics of art, and the need of non-profit owners to meet those competent in both the language and the Language Training. Marginal foreign preparedness. tutions of learning and teaching, public pro­ more students formally pursue its study, and their own lean budgets. While excellent man­ substantive subject matter, which will entail language adequacy has been a bane of Amer­ grams, and resources for scholarship, the more people frequent museums than ever be­ uscripts are as hard to come by as ever, even inducement to specialists more inclined to ican humanists. A rise in interest in non-west­ Audio-Visual Aids. While it is usually NEH has been instrumental in raising signifi­ fore in American history. Enhanced access to the capable scholar finds fewer scholarly pub­ other pursuits. ern art will compound the problem, for mas­ assumed that western art is well documented, cantly the quality of the study and under­ higher education and shifting demography lishers now willing to do art books because of tery of these languages is a long and expensive there is a scarcity of good slides for teaching standing of art during the past two decades. have, and increasingly will, provide new au­ the high cost of illustrations, and publishers Creation of New Knowledge process. Consideration should be given to purposes. Non-profit projects with a dissemi­ For this support, and on behalf of the individ­ diences with new needs. Neglected cultures frequently require a significant subvention. supporting scholars at any stage of their nation component should be encouraged. Pointing a finger of blame is beside the point: uals and institutions served by CAA, the Asso­ will receive new attention, and issues we be­ Support of Individual Scholars. This re­ career who require further language training, Films on art, architecture, and artists the system is simply extraordinarily strained. ciation registers its lively gratitude. lieved settled will be reinterpreted. Scholars­ mains a cornerstone of scholarly progress. If, with summer total immersion especially should be encouraged, with the dual criteria We believe that there are new challenges teachers and their audiences will become as seems likely, economic austerity continues encouraged. of scholarly excellence and state-of-the-art ahead, and that the Endowment will have a racially and ethnically more diverse. The face and or deepens in academia, the institution­ film technique. THE NEEDS FOR THE COMING key role to play in many of them. of the field of art history is changing in an ally-supported leave may become rare. A new Surprisingly, given the state of technology, DECADE After describing briefly the cultural, social, evolutionary manner, and we believe for the dimension, to be with us for some years, is the The Dissemination of Scholarly Knowledge most instruction in the history and criticism of and financial imperatives for federal funding social good. All that can be done to foster this scholar who is unaffiliated because no posi­ art remains a matter of an instructor with two We briefly describe major needs of the field, in general, we speak to the difficulties that the diversity will be money well spent. tion is available. The problem is deepened by Publication Subvention_ We see no relief slide projectors. So far the potential of com­ without reference to current NEH programs, "system" of the study of art is facing, and the extension of mandatory retirement to age to the financial plight of non-profit publish­ puter graphics, video disk and similar innova­ finally state important areas of need for the The Financial Imperative and without prejudice as to whether or to 70, which means support of younger scholars ing, and believe a broad_program of subven­ tions plays little role in our classrooms. We what extent a reauthorized NEH should be­ future. We should stress that we do not pre­ We see the role of federal funding as a part­ is a particularly acute need. Those few tion will be necessary for both journals and believe consideration should be given to come involved. A priority order is not implied. sume to suggest which of these needs should nership with the private sector, public money sources of research assistance for such persons books. This seems a particularly fruitful area teams of scholars and media engineers who be addressed by a reauthorized NEH, or to as stimulus, challenge, leverage to the best must be maintained, and an effort made to for challenge or matching grants, a possible propose to develop new audio-visual technol­ Conservation of Works of Art what extent. Our purpose is to offer a repre­ performance of individual and institutional accommodate research schedules that do not requirement being that the major fmancial ogies which will advance pedagogical tech­ sentative list of our needs, in the conviction philanthropy. We believe that the well-being of works of art coincide with annual or academic calendars. sponsor of the research contribute a percent­ niques on a replicable and cost-efficient basis. and the adequacy of environments in which that a partnership of public and private mon­ In current and foreseeable circumstances, age of the subvention, as is frequently the Funding should be for promising pilot proj­ they are preserved is a matter of highest ies is the best way to meet them. any lowered federal commitment to the arts Support of Groups of Scholars. Support practice in the sciences. ects to allow scholars to concentrate for peri­ and humanities would bring damaging conse­ urgency, and a growing problem in times should be given proposals for collective invest­ ods of time on pedagogical development. If THE ROLE OF FEDERAL SUPPORT quences, for three reasons. when restricted finances and unresolved pol­ igation of issues whose complexity and/or Alternatives to Conventional Publica­ successful such ventures should become com­ First, the inflation rate of scholarly goods lution problems threaten what by definition is scope exceed the grasp of an individual schol­ tion. Support may be needed for intelligent mercial on a self-sustaining basis. Support a unique and irreplaceable resource. Special In a climate where reasonable persons in some and services runs well ahead of the inflation ar. The increase in the number of collabor­ supplements to conventional printed journals should fund the initial development of "soft­ attention should be given to twentieth cen­ quarters have questioned the appropriateness rate in general. The sharply escalating costs ative efforts in art history suggests that this is a and books. It is difficult to predict the possi­ ware," not a general program for support of tury works of art whose media are often non­ of federal investment in culture, it is useful to of books, journals, photographic services, promising trend. bilities offered by evolving technologies, but equipment. traditional and physical properties not wholly describe briefly some cultural, social, and and reproduction rights are cases in point. "on demand" refereed publication with elec­ economic imperatives that we believe make Second, the activities of scholar-teachers understood, and to art in the form offilm and Support of Centers for Advanced Study. tronic retrieval is an example of such a possi­ Electronic Communication. Satellite video. The hour is late, and it would be folly the investment not only proper but necessary. are heavily centered in colleges and univer­ Centers whose "free market" worth has been bility. There will be false starts, but also transmission, interactive telecommunica­ sities. The combination of unfavorable popu­ not to make this a high national priority. proved by attracting a variety of productive promising initiatives worthy of funding. tions, as many as 200 cable channels by 1990; The Cultural Imperative lation statistics and austere financial circum­ scholars should continue to receive support. technology has arrived, awaiting intelligent Expenditure of public money to understand stances means that many essential scholarly Conservation of Archival and Library Such centers provide a different sort of cross­ Photographic Reproduction Rights_ proposals from the custodians and interpre­ better what it means to be civilized needs no services will be in jeopardy, pushed aside by Resources fertilization than is available in a departmen­ CAA and the Society of Architectural Histo­ ters of culture. The opportunity is here both We are only beginning to realize the magni­ apology, even if there is no practical outcome, personnel costs. tal setting, and are invaluable to the scholar rians have committees at work in an attempt to reach larger audiences than ever before, tude of the library problem before us, graver no utilitarian end. Third, it seems likely to us that mounting who normally works in isolation. to ameliorate the situation. Whatever the and to focus upon special audiences. Again in art than in some other fields in that micro­ Art is the one product of humankind found intractable urban social problems will rightly outcome, the financial strains are such that we believe pilot projects will be worth fund­ form is often a poor substitute for original il­ in all ages and all inhabited parts of the globe, escalate the pressure on limited philanthropic Support of Libraries. The time is prob­ the "system" may need support to facilitate ing, and that they are likely to emerge in both and constitutes our main cultural under­ dollars. lustrations. Archives and libraries until lately ably past for a wide program of building fine the plight of both owners and users. The sums academia and museums. Multi-source sup­ standing of the millenia before written his­ With academic and museum budgets in a have not been sensitive enough to the health duplicate libraries on a regional basis. How­ should not be great, but will be most impor­ port will be needed, and projects must be held tory. The unbroken history of the making of steady or reduced state, and costs escalating, of their collections, and often now find them­ ever, proposals to repair serious lacunae in tant if a significant bottleneck is to be cleared. to a strict qualitative test. Intelligent use of art objects, questions about the mind of the the undesirable consequence will be less selves in a poor financial position to deal with particular fields, should be entertained, and the new media offers one of the most promis­ maker, the insatiable urge to write and speak scholarly communication in the long run, an the problem. Research on effectiveness and related to specific scholarship in progress at a Travel Funds_ National and international ing avenues to improved international under­ of art and artists, the battles of taste, the phe­ outcome that would erode the enterprise of efficiency of methods is needed, as well as a given institution. Support of reprints of clas­ meetings are a major stimulus to scholarly standing. nomenon of collecting, the mass appeal of teaching and learning. It therefore is essential degree of operational assistance for this spe­ sic works in editions too small to be commer- communication, yet budget constraint has Continued on p. 12, col. 3 both young and old - all are symptoms of a that government set an example and chal- cial need. Winter 1984 II eAA newsletter 10 classifieds ICAA statement re NEH

The CAA newsletter will accept classifieds of HUMANISM AND THE ARTS IN RENAIS· Museum Education Programs. We should a professional or semi-professional nature SANCE ITALY: A Traveling Seminar stress that much of what has been said above (sale of librarz'es, summer rental or exchange directed by William Melczer, Professor of applies to the problems of museums no less of homes, etc.). The charge is 50r per word, Comparative Literature, Syracuse University than it does to college and university settings. minimum charge $10.00, advance payment Gune 17-July 19, 6 credits, undergraduate/ In this section we speak particularly of the en­ required. Make checks payable to CAA. graduate; mature learners welcome). Renais­ tire educational support system for both per­ sance Italy is the uncompromising stage for manent and temporary exhibits. Nowhere is The Annual Meeting of the ACCADEMIA this intensive interdisciplinary traveling semi­ the need greater for sensitive response to audi­ DEGLI IPPOPOTAMI will take place this nar offered for the ninth consecutive year. All ences of different educational levels of year in Los Angeles on Friday February 15th lectures are delivered in situ at artistic and achievement, and varying linguistic, racial at Harry's place. Avanti gli ippopotamil historical sites, monuments, galleries, muse­ and ethnic backgrounds. That need varies ums, cathedrals, and cloisters. The group has from the desirability of sophisticated cata­ THE ART ARRANGER. Organizes papers, been granted access to major museums and logues widely distributed to proper linguistic book and artworks for collectors, artists, insti­ galleries, including the Vatican Museum, at representation on education staffs. All of tutions. Anywhere on location, 1-4 months. times normally closed to visitors. About one­ these educational activities tend to suffer in Contact: Umbrella Associates, P.O, Box third of the program is taken up by field trips that corporate philanthropy is often attracted 40100, Pa,adena, CA 91104. (818) 797-0514. in and around historic Florence, and about to the higher visibility offered by support of two-thirds, by travel to Pisa, Siena, Perugia, the exhibition itself. PAINT IN ITALY THIS SUMMER; magni­ Assisi, San Sepolcro, Urbino, Ravenna, ficent Lake Como. Oil, pastel, watercolor, Padova, Vecenza, Naples, Pompeii, Venice Research on the State of the Profession sculpture. 18th century villa. Gourmet meals. (three days), and Rome (five days). For fur­ Support of information gathering and statis­ Escorted art tours, Florence/Rome/Venice. ther information contact Syracuse University, tical analysis in the interests of understanding Calli write free brochure and information Division of International Programs Abroad, the health of the field and planning improve­ about expense-free travel: Art Workshops 119 Euclid Avenue, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210. ments is badly needed. Such support might International, 345 E. 56th Street, New York, Tel. 315/423-3471. come either to individual learned societies, or NY 10022. (212) 355-1455. to a national organization working on behalf ACADEMIC EXCHANGE 1985/86 wught of the learned societies. ART & ANTIQUES is starting a new column, by Medieval Art Historian. T. Garton, His­ "Discoveries," profiling recent discoveries in tory of Art, King's College, University of CONCLUSION the fine and decorative arts, architecture, Aberdeen, AB9 2UB, Scotland. and archaeology. Please send information to: We have tried to give a sense of representative Celia Betsky McGee, Senior Editor, Art & A n­ ART HISTORY ABSTRACTS: Mid-Amer­ needs (as opposed to wishes) our field will face tt'ques, 89 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. ica College Art Association. $1 each for Mod­ in the years ahead. We will have to help our­ 10003. ern, Asian, Medieval & General. Mail to selves to run effective and efficient institu­ Sheila Bills, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleve­ tions, and to give our best efforts in making EXHIBITION SPACE for rent in Soho, land, Ohio, 44106. our case to private philanthropy. It is our con­ N.Y.C. 1,000 sq. ft. Available from June 28 viction that federal support will be a critically through August at $1,500 per month. Con­ APOCRYPHA, SUNY Binghamton's Grad­ important partner in realizing these needs, tact: Katie Brown, (212) 673-3210. uate Student Journal of Art and Architectural and that as through history, so now, a society History, is now soliciting manuscripts for its is judged in part by the quality of nurture it CENTRAL HALL GALLERY, a cooperative Fall 1985 issue. All papersshouldfoll

Non-Profit Org. G44 newsletter U.S. Postage ©1984 PAID College Art Association of America New York, N.Y. 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016 Permit No. 4683 Editor: Rose R. Weil Associate Editor: Minerva Navarrete

Winter 1984