Expand Your Mind and Stay Connected to the World

SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 CROCKER ART MUSEUM MEMBERS MAGAZINE Expand your mind and stay connected to the world.

Our lives have changed There is much to explore! Find upcoming classes and programs, and register to participate at but our loves have not. crockerart.org/calendar. Art, discovery, and community are still available through the UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND CLASSES Crocker’s array of engaging Wee Wednesday • EVERY WEDNESDAY programs, classes, and Sunset and Nocturnal Photography • TUE, SEP 15 Collection Focus: Martín Ramírez • SUN, SEP 20 resources, including in-person Artful Meditation • SAT, SEP 26 and online opportunities. Thiebaud 101 • THREE WEDNESDAYS, OCT 14 – 28 / TABLE OF CONTENTS /

7 19 27

News On View Members & Patrons

5 14 20

DIRECTOR’S LETTER WAYNE THIEBAUD 100: MUSEUM SUPPORT PAINTINGS, PRINTS, AND Thank you to everyone who is helping DRAWINGS the Crocker overcome the financial losses 6 To celebrate the 100th birthday of sustained during the COVID-19 quarantine. Sacramento’s most renowned artist, CONNECTIONS the Crocker presents an exhibition representing his many achievements. 27

8 MUSEUM STORE 18 A Thiebaud-inspired feast for the eyes INSIDE LOOK Local artists color Sacramento hopeful THE EDGE OF ELEGANCE: / Visitor Voices from quarantine PORCELAINS BY ELSA RADY Drawing inspiration from the Song 11 Dynasty of China and Art Deco buildings, Elsa Rady reimagines familiar and utilitarian porcelain vessels into objects of COLLECTION NEWS geometric simplicity and beauty. The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules is welcomed to the collection.

NEW ON VIEW Thomas Lawrence’s graceful portrait Miss Glover of Bath joins the Crocker’s holdings of British art.

ARTLETTER STAFF

Editor in Chief Contributors Contributing Christine Calvin William Breazeale, Ph.D. Photographers Maria Segoviano Brian Suhr Art Director Scott A. Shields, Ph.D. Priscilla Garcia Jayme Yahr, Ph.D. Cristina Urrutia

CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Randy Sater Mike Genovese Vice President Gloria Naify Chris Holben Treasurer Timothy Lien Daniel Howard Secretary Susan Edling Gary King Past President David Townsend Donna Lucas Garry Maisel Katherine Bardis-Miry Wm. Jahmal Miller James Beckwith Mitchell S. Ostwald Janine Bera, MD Simone Miller Rathe Susie Burton Trish Rodriguez Simon Chiu Susan Savage Daniel Farley Chrisa Pappas Sioukas Steven Felderstein Glenn Sorensen Laura Fergerson Julie Teel Kimberly Garza R. Parker White

CROCKER ART MUSEUM CO-TRUSTEE

Jay Schenirer, City Council Member, District 5

ON THE COVER

Wayne Thiebaud, Boston Cremes (detail), 1962. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 in. Party Crocker Art Museum Purchase, 1964.22. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. at the CONTACT INFORMATION General Information Hours (916) 808-7000 Thursday – Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM crockerart.org Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Crocker! @crockerart Christmas, and New Year’s Day Looking for the perfect spot for a The Crocker is located in Admission Sacramento at 216 O Street, FREE for members company retreat, holiday party, between 2nd and 3rd streets. and children (5 and younger) Adults $12 or fabulous cocktail soiree? We acknowledge that the Crocker Art Seniors, college students, and military $8 The Crocker is now taking Museum is on the traditional land of Youth (6 – 17) $6 the Nisenan people, and California is Every third Sunday of the month is reservations for 2021 events. the homeland of many tribes. We are “Pay What You Wish Sunday,” honored to be here today. sponsored by

To inquire about private events at the Museum, email [email protected].

Funded in part by the Cultural Arts Award of the Sacramento Metropolitan Printing partially under- Arts Commission with support from the written by Fong & Fong city and county of Sacramento. Printers and Lithographers. 4 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! / FROM THE DIRECTOR /

DEAR MEMBERS,

he first draft of this letter was written on Memorial Day I am and will be working with both staff and the Museum’s T weekend; that draft was discarded, as May now seems a co-trustees to create a plan with specific and measurable outcomes million years ago. Since then, George Floyd was murdered and the on DEAI actions. I look forward to sharing our actions with you world seemed to awaken to the racial injustice that has plagued this and the entire community. country for more than 400 years. In addition, the COVID-19 crisis Along with the important work on DEAI initiatives, we are in California mushroomed, thwarting the planned re-opening of working to provide you with a variety of engagement opportunities the Crocker in early July, and the nation’s awareness of a potential built around the Museum’s collections and exhibitions. In October financial meltdown has increased. On top of this, staff members at of this year, we mark both the 10th Anniversary of the opening of art museums across the nation have called for the decolonization the Teel Family Pavilion and the 100th birthday of Sacramento’s of museums and a prioritization of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and most celebrated artist: Wayne Thiebaud. We will be feting Wayne People of Color) in all aspects of a Museum’s work, from external with the opening of a major retrospective of 100 of his paintings, communications, to hiring, art acquisitions, exhibition, and other prints, and drawings. program offerings and visitor services. Now, as we ready the Museum again for re-opening, your There is no doubt that American art museums must embrace health remains a top priority. We are fortunate the Crocker is DEAI (diversity, equity, access, and inclusion) initiatives. During spacious and uses hospital-like air filtration systems that make my tenure at the Crocker we have built one of the most diverse your masked and socially distanced visit as safe as it can be. We staff leadership teams of any general art museum. We have also will reduce the number of people allowed in the building at any worked at diversifying our collection and program offerings. This one time to a fraction of our capacity. Timed entry tickets, free to work has happened, in part, because I needed to search, study, members, will be available at tickets.crockerart.org. and decode to see myself represented in art museum collections, I look forward to seeing you in the galleries and to thanking and I understood that museums matter more to people who see you for your on-going support of the Crocker. We know the themselves represented. I am proud of the work the Crocker has Museum is a place of peace and tranquility for many of you and done to represent and welcome people of all ages, backgrounds, we are excited for you to enjoy it again soon – in person. and abilities, but I also realize we have not done enough. In the interim, I hope you have availed yourself of many of our Crocker At Home offerings; these have been made possible because of your generosity. Thank you!

Lial A. Jones Mort and Marcy Friedman Director & CEO

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 5 / CONNECTIONS /

Staff hand out coloring books with meals at George Sim Community Center.

Color Us Hopeful Distribution The Museum’s Color Us Hopeful: Coloring Book was the first in a series of art activities produced by the Museum during the COVID-19 shutdown. Along with colored pencils, 2,500 coloring books featuring original works by local artists were distributed through essential service partners throughout Sacramento. The Crocker’s second offering Color Us Hopeful:

Activity Book was provided to community centers and senior living ACTIVITY communities across the region. BOOK

Color Us Hopeful was made possible in part by Bank of America, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP, and Sacramento Office of Art & Culture.

Coloring, word play, mindful moments, I-Spy, and more!

Color Hopeful 1

6 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! Virtual Art Camps Providing access to art and education is fundamental to the Crocker, and it became even more critical for the Museum to provide resources and activities to families during quarantine. Crocker staff took swift action to redesign spring and summer art camps into virtual experiences children could enjoy from home. Adult studio classes and programs were also reconfigured, so all people in the community can participate in live classes, book clubs, curator talks, and more.

Working From Home Serving our community and connecting people through art is at the core of the Crocker’s mission. Museum staff was challenged and motivated to develop all-new programs and resources, which are now accessible to everyone at crockerart.org/fromhome.

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 7 / INSIDER LOOK /

VISITOR VOICES

We enjoyed the Jessica Fichot concert immensely and appreciated the expertise it took to present that. Additionally, we meditated with the audio meditation and are so impressed with the offerings you are making possible.… Please accept our thanks for the efforts you are exhibiting. We are grateful.

– Cathleen & Magnus Berglund

“I will be in the group standing in line on the Nine year old Zaímah shows off her coloring book at Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum. 1st day that the museum reopens, I don’t care what is on display. Take care.” Color Us Hopeful – Crocker Member Shirley Leonard A pandemic-born project by the community, for the community. I just wanted to say thank you, I had so much fun with the Art Interactive hrough its Block by Block arts partners, including La Familia Counseling part of the magazine! The Todd Schorr Hydra activity had me looking T engagement initiative, the Crocker Center, Wellspring Women’s Center, at a painting that I’d previously been has been co-creating workshops, cultural Roberts Family Development Center, uninterested in because it was just too events, and neighborhood activities Sacramento Native American Health busy for me. I actually spent an hour throughout Sacramento for more Center, Hmong Youth and Parents searching and finding old and newer than four years. These events foster United, and others, the Museum was able marketing characters!! I got my husband healthy communities, encourage social to employ artists and provide a creative involved too when I could not locate change, celebrate community-based art outlet for recipients. Mr. Clean. He found it. I learned about experiences, and bring people together to The art included in Color Us Hopeful: the coloring book and podcasts and Redmond and Kambon’s art and more. share art and ideas. Coloring Book is as varied and rich as the I just wanted to say more of this please. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit creators themselves. The artists behind It was delightful. I also loved seeing and our community found itself isolated, the pages hint at the great diversity of the artworks that were submitted for the Museum had to rethink the ways in Sacramento and include those from the auction and spent a good amount which it could offer support and art to the Latinx, African American, Native of time perusing them too. I love kid the city at large. One of many solutions American, Asian, LGBTQ+ communities. activities even though I’m not a kid. the Crocker developed was a bi-lingual Color Us Hopeful: Coloring Book was I really learned from this issue and coloring book illustrated by 15 diverse the first in a series of art activities produced wanted to let you know. Thanks again!! local artists and distributed with colored by the Museum during the COVID-19 – Judith Olson-Lee pencils through local food banks and shutdown, and there are surely more to partner organizations. We called it Color come. To download the coloring book Us Hopeful: Coloring Book. and learn more about Block by Block, visit With funds from the Institute of crockerbxb.org. u Museum and Library Services and Bank of America, and support from community

8 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! There’s more to explore with Crocker at home.

From art activities and digital tours to curator talks and educational programs, crockerart.org/fromhome is the place to be for relaxation, fun, and entertainment. Here is just a hint of what we have to offer:

• A mini concert with a cosmic cabaret • A quiet look at California poppies • Paper sculptures kids can make Find it all here! • Interviews with a comicbook illustrator • Virtual art classes and camps • Online exhibitions

crockerart.org/fromhome Aik Brown, Untitled 1, 2020. COMING JANUARY 24 – AUGUST 15, 2021 Legends from Los Angeles Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar in the Crocker Collection

Lezley Saar, Zerpenta Dambullah: Born under the shade of a black willow tree in New Orleans in 1826 sat on a rock turning rain into tobacco smoke, 2019. Acrylic on fabric with fringing, braided tassels, and curtain rod, 68 x 40 in. Crocker Art Museum purchase with funds provided by Emily Leff and James Davis III, 2019.98. Photo: August Augustsson, courtesy of Walter Maciel Gallery. 10 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! / NEW ON VIEW /

Historic Exposition Charger Acquired by the Museum

hen San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International W Exposition (PPIE) opened on February 20, 1915, it was the greatest world’s fair to date in the American West. Officially, the exposition celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal, but it also repositioned San Francisco as an economic and cultural leader following the earthquake and fire of 1906. The official image for the exposition,The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules, was created by Perham Wilhelm Nahl, son of Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl and nephew of Charles Christian Nahl, both early California artists prominent in the Crocker Art Museum’s collection. Perham Nahl’s image depicts Hercules, traditionally associated with 12 seemingly impossible labors in mythology, now performing a 13th: pushing apart two continents to allow for the building of the Panama Canal. Buildings from the exposition, despite being in San Francisco, are visible between the cliffs. After appearing as a prize-winning poster, Nahl’s image was used in advertising and on exposition maps and catalogues. Ceramic artist Louis Robert Samish also used it to create a hand-  Louis Robert Samish (American, 1879–1963) after Perham Nahl (American, 1869–1935) painted porcelain charger, a work that recently become part of for Samish’s Hand Painted China, The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules, ca. 1914. Hand- painted porcelain, 18 1/4 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Sacramento the Crocker’s collection through the generosity of the Sacramento Pioneer Association and Donna Ewald Huggins, 2020.11. Pioneer Association. Distinct from Nahl’s poster in its circular format, the charger also varies in other small details, most notably in the background buildings. Samish initially learned china-painting from his father, an immigrant from Austria, and eventually become a leader in the ceramics field, selling his wares out of a shop on Stockton Street in San Francisco. Known for his skillfully executed designs, he decorated his wares with matte, gloss, and luster glazes, sgraffito (etched) decoration, and, frequently, metallic or enamel highlights. “Samish’s Ceramic Arts” had a booth at the PPIE, which featured china-painting demonstrations and a working kiln, along with an array of vases, lamps, fireplace tiles, and decorated functional wares. The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules charger held pride of place in the display, contributing to the overall excellence of the presentation and prompting exhibition judges to recognize Samish’s efforts with a gold medal. u

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 11 COMING FEBRUARY 21 – MAY 16, 2021 Spirit Lines: Helen Hardin Etchings With works by her mother, Pablita Velarde, and daughter, Margarete Bagshaw

Helen Hardin, Deerslayer’s Dream, 1981. Etching, ed. 1/65, 18 1/2 x 26 1/8 in. Loan from Helen Hardin #1's LLC. / NEW ON VIEW /

Thomas Lawrence’s Miss Glover of Bath

oth an artist and collector, Thomas B Lawrence was the most important British portraitist at the turn of the 19th century. Through the generosity of Alan Templeton, Lawrence’s graceful portrait Miss Glover of Bath recently joined the Crocker’s growing holdings of British art. Talented since childhood, Lawrence was not yet a teenager when he began a career for himself as a pastellist in the fashionable city of Bath. Later mentored by Sir Joshua Reynolds, he gained recognition through his submissions to Royal Academy exhibitions. Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, requested that the 20-year-old artist paint her portrait in 1790, a sign of royal acknowledgment that spurred his career. Lawrence became painter to King George III within two years and a full member of the Royal Academy within four; he  Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Miss Glover of Bath, n.d. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 1/4 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Alan Templeton, eventually became the Academy’s president. 2019.100. Favored by the Prince Regent, later George IV, Lawrence reached the apex of his popularity reading, since around her neck, in addition handsome painting. A 16th-century Italian in the 1810s though he continued to produce to a golden chain, hangs a small magnifying drawing, An Angel Playing a Lute by Fra portraits of the royal family, nobility, and glass. Though this personal detail lends Bartolommeo, and Rembrandt’s important literary figures such as Jane Austen until his intimacy, the artist has also placed her before 17th-century etching The Death of the Virgin, death in 1830. backdrop elements drawn from two traditions both now at the Crocker, were in Lawrence’s Dated at the beginning of the 1810s, of European grand portraiture: the window’s collection of prints and drawings, which was Miss Glover of Bath is a sensitive evocation of corner shows sky beyond that originated with one of the largest in Britain at the time. Not the sitter’s personality. Portrayed as if about Titian in 16th-century Venice; and the velvet only does the portrait of Miss Glover of Bath to speak, she gazes at an unseen person to curtain suspended in mid-air derived from Sir show the artist’s close observation of his sitter, her right. Lawrence devotes great energy to Anthony van Dyck in 17th-century Flanders it demonstrates an art-historical knowledge achieving the rich blacks in her dress, her and Britain. that he gained, in part, through his own sheer scarf, and the whites of the rose on her Lawrence held connections to the Crocker collection. u bodice. Miss Glover has been interrupted from as a collector prior to the acquisition of this

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 13 OCTOBER 11, 2020 – JANUARY 3, 2021

ayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings acknowledges, “gave me something essential.” Local shop W celebrates the 100th birthday of Sacramento’s windows, the California State Fair, neighborhood bakeries most renowned artist through 100 works. Best known for and delis, community members, and river landscapes have his tantalizing paintings of desserts, Thiebaud has long all factored into his art. been affiliated with Pop Art, though his range is far more In 1960, Thiebaud began teaching at the University of expansive. This exhibition represents the artist’s achievements California, Davis. Two years later, he gained widespread in all media and through a broad array of subjects, with recognition for his still lifes of food and commonplace pieces drawn from the Crocker’s holdings and the collections objects through the success of his exhibition at the Allan of the Thiebaud Family and Foundation — many of which, Stone Gallery in New York. He subsequently began until now, have not been shown publicly. rendering the people he knew and then For the Crocker, the show continues Based in observation turned to depicting the landscape. The a tradition of hosting a Thiebaud latter led to his series of urban San exhibition every decade since 1951, and convincingly executed, Francisco views, and, subsequently, when the Museum held the artist’s first Thiebaud’s art looks real rural Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta one-person show, Influences on a Young and often feels comfortingly scenes. All the while, he has continued Painter—Wayne Thiebaud, an exhibition to explore the food subjects that made that, like the current exhibition, included familiar, qualities that have him famous. paintings, prints, and drawings. led most viewers to describe Based in observation and Thiebaud’s art has long been beloved it as realist. convincingly executed, Thiebaud’s art in Sacramento, and today this is the case looks real and often feels comfortingly among audiences internationally. Born familiar, qualities that have led November 15, 1920, in Mesa, Arizona, Thiebaud spent most most viewers to describe it as realist. At the same time, of his childhood in Long Beach, California, and, for a time, extended looking evidences its unreality, as the artist in southern Utah. He came to know the Sacramento region in filters his subjects through his memory, knowledge of art 1942 while stationed at Mather Field (now Mather Air Force history, and imagination. Only in his sketches and, to a Base) with the United States Army Air Forces. In 1950, he certain degree, his representations of the human form, began attending Sacramento State College (today California does Thiebaud directly record what’s at hand. Most of State University, Sacramento) and while pursuing his his finished works are manipulations of reality, capturing Master’s degree there started teaching at Sacramento Junior what he knows or feels about an object or place, not just College (now Sacramento City College). “Sacramento,” he its appearance.

14 Thank you for supporting the Crocker!  Two Seated Figures, 1965. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in. Courtesy of the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY.

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 15  Boston Cremes, 1962. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 in. Crocker Art Museum Purchase, 1964.22. © 2020  Pastel Scatter, 1972. Pastel on paper, 16 x 20 1/8 in. (sheet). Courtesy of the Wayne Thiebaud Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY. Foundation. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Nearly everything Thiebaud depicts is either man-made, are his well-known rainbow halations of color that he mass-produced, or somehow manipulated. This human- perceives under strong illumination and uses to enliven the centered combination of reality and artifice is integral to edges of his subjects and transition them into their stark Thiebaud’s work. In terms of his still lifes, food is rarely backgrounds. Thiebaud’s abundant use of white also helps straight from the garden (or orchard) but is processed and to create the perception that his paintings emit their own often laid out cafeteria-style, in orderly rows and display light. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik describes the light cases. He also frequently showcases a single type of food, in Thiebaud’s paintings as manifesting “the sudden glare” such as pie or ice cream, a departure from the random of the West Coast, “just after you take off your sunglasses.” assemblies of disparate objects so often depicted in the Also setting Thiebaud’s work apart from that of many of still lifes of art-historical tradition. Thiebaud’s landscapes his contemporaries (both early on and now) is his obvious also demonstrate human manipulation, which he then esteem for his craft. During the Pop Art era, for instance, transforms still further. This is certainly the case with artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein relied on his city scenes, which he conceives through an assembly photomechanical methods of expression, which projected of sketches that he combines into fully realized paintings an air of impersonal detachment. Thiebaud’s art, by and prints with dizzying results. Even in Thiebaud’s less contrast, has always been labored over and loved, making trammeled landscapes, where human intervention is not it decidedly more personal and, by extension, inherently so apparent, the implied presence of people remains critical more optimistic. This does not imply that it fails to critique to the work. “If that implication isn’t there,” he explains, consumerism and the isolation one can feel even in a world “there’s something uninhabitable about the picture.” of abundance. It does. And yet, Thiebaud’s undeniable The same is even true for Thiebaud’s renderings of reverence for the act of creation is also celebratory, validating people themselves, though they generally remain closer to the pleasures and foibles of our contemporary world as their original source, as he most often works from models, subjects worthy of our attention and of art. u including friends and family. He nevertheless portrays people as having been shaped by their time and place: Following its debut at the Crocker Art Museum, the exhibition hairstyles and clothing are emblematic of their era; faces will travel to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; the suggest a familiar weariness associated with modern life; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; the and poses frequently connote isolation, even in groups. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; and the Brandywine Most recently, Thiebaud has been portraying people as Conservancy & Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. circus clowns. The exhibition is accompanied by a 212-page catalogue In all the genres in which Thiebaud works, he is published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc., with essays concerned with formal artistic problems and conveying the by Scott A. Shields, Margaretta Markle Lovell, Hearne Pardee, properties of light. The harsh scrutiny of manufactured, and Julia Friedman, along with a chronology by Mary Okin. fluorescent light is certainly emblematic of his art, as

16 Thank you for supporting the Crocker!  Park Place, 1995. Color etching hand-worked with watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel, 29 9/16 x 20 3/4 in. (sheet/image). Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artist’s family, 1995.9.50. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY.

 Bow Ties, 1993. Color lithograph hand-worked with pastel, 9 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (image); 15 x 19 7/8 in. (sheet). Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artist’s family, 1995.9.38. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY.

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 17 MARCH 21 – NOVEMBER 1, 2021

he Edge of Elegance: Porcelains by Elsa Rady her vessels (fig. 2). Inspired by the streamlined forms T features more than 50 works from the Crocker’s of Art Deco buildings, she began to cut even deeper collection, all part of a 2018 gift from the Rady into her porcelain rims, which seemed to capture the family. This exhibition, the first solo show of the spinning motion of a potter’s wheel. Her longtime artist’s work in more than a decade, explores Rady’s New York gallerist Holly Solomon first pointed out transition from creating functional objects to the to Rady that the dynamic edges also mimiced the elegant, nonfunctional pieces for which she is best swirling hems of dancers’ dresses, which seemed known today. Rady’s insistence on the refinement of appropriate given that Rady’s mother was part of color, shape, and surface pushes her pieces beyond the famed Martha Graham Dance Company. These utility and into the realm of sculpture, which in turn notches, or “wings” as Rady called them, impart a has made her porcelains icons of design (fig. 1). dynamic energy to an otherwise static form. Elsa Rady (1943–2011) began learning pottery- For most of her career, Rady worked from her making at Greenwich House in New York at age studio in Venice, California, where she reimagined 11; she later attended the acclaimed Chouinard Art familiar and utilitarian porcelain vessels into objects Institute in Los Angeles (now part of the California of geometric simplicity and beauty (fig. 3). She felt Institute of the Arts). At Chouinard, under the that working with porcelain humbled and disciplined tutelage of ceramists Vivika and Otto Heino, and her, as she was always at the mercy of the material, Ralph Bacerra, she learned glazing techniques that the glaze, and the kiln. Though early in her career would become a cornerstone of her work. Early in her Rady felt she needed to make the perfect piece, she career, Rady created ceramics inspired by those from later learned to turn accidents into moments of the Song Dynasty of China but became dissatisfied spontaneity and, as she liked to say, to “let it fly.”u and started cutting diagonal notches into the rims of

18 Thank you for supporting the Crocker!  Fig. 1: LEFT: Elsa Rady, Bowl, 1979. Glazed porcelain, 3 x 9 1/4 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes. CENTER: Elsa Rady, Bowl, 1979. Glazed porcelain, 2 1/4 x 8 1/2 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes. RIGHT: Elsa Rady, YK1BVPID, 1985. Glazed porcelain, 7 x 11 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes.

Rady’s insistence on the refinement of color, shape, and surface pushes her pieces beyond utility and into the realm of sculpture, which in turn has made her porcelains icons of design.

 Fig. 2: Elsa Rady, Bowl, 19 7 7. Glazed porcelain, 2 7/8 x 4 1/8 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes.

 Fig. 3: LEFT: Elsa Rady, Bowl, 1980. Glazed porcelain, 4 x 6 1/2 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes. CENTER: Elsa Rady, Black A, 1981. Glazed porcelain, 7 1/2 x 5 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes. RIGHT: Elsa Rady, Bottle Vase, 1980. Glazed porcelain, 7 x 3 1/2 (diam.) in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Jane Rady Lynes. / MUSEUM SUPPORT /

Thank You for Supporting the Crocker Quarantine Challenge!

Nancy and Alan Brodovsky Louis Connolly Susan Edling Ellen Broms Roberta Cook and Jose Canela Emily Edmond hen the Crocker Art Museum closed its doors Lisa Levering and Kathleen and Charles Cooper Allison and Mark Edmonds W at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, William Bronston Edna and Ruzwa Cooper Liz and Harlan Edmonds Susan Brooking Virginia and Michael Corcoran Regina Edwards much was uncertain, however it was clear we would need Farel and Paul Brosio Johnnie Lou and Michael Corlew Julia Edwards Amber Brown Joanna Corman and Tom Verdin Pam and Steve Eggert support from our members more than ever. In early April, Lucille Brown Bertha Corona Basim Elkarra a longtime Crocker member challenged all members Kathryn Brown Deborah and Alan Corr Robin Ely Laurye and Jeff Brownfield Ann and Fred Costello Adrienne and Robert Emmering to join him in supporting the Museum by making an Patricia Brubaker Laurie Cotulla Bill and John Eng Susan D. Buck Debbie Covert and Jennifer Ertl additional donation during our closure. The response to Heath Buckmaster Meghan Russell Kenneth Etheridge this challenge was tremendous, and along with proceeds Lois Buncher Marge and Bill Crichton Colleen Evans and Michael Neff Donna Burgess Barbara Crist David Evans from Big Day of Giving, more than $180,000 was raised Pamela Burmich Betty and Lloyd Crockford Joan Fecteau and Bob Kurtz Susan Burr and Buzz Breedlove Penelope Ann Cross and Andreea and Amina to help the Crocker continue serving our community Susie and Jim Burton Ella Cross Federspiel-Otelea by bringing people together and connecting them in Shelly Butler Lyn and Jim Crouch Sandra and Steven Felderstein Barbara Joyce Byers Nancy and Ethan Cutts Laura and Rick Fergerson unexpected ways with art, ideas, each other, and the Brookes and Max Byrd Melanie Dahl Sandy and Darrell Ferreira Lynne Calonico Lana Daily Selma Fields world around them. Christina Calpo Anne Dasch Nancy and Kurt Findeisen We sincerely thank the following members and Robert Calvin Chris and Dana Daubert Lydia Finerty Armida Campa and Herb Terry Elizabeth Daugherty Evan Fletcher donors who generously contributed to the Crocker Barbara J. Campbell Rebecca Davis Leah Florence and Hank Florence Patricia Campbell and Susan and Rodney Davis Sally and James Flynn during the Museum closure: Peter Caton Dawn Davison Scott Folena Cannady-Ford Family Fund Gail and John Day Kathryn Foley Grace Aasen Ted and Melza Barr of the Sacramento Region Katie Day Marsha Fong Cynthia Abbott and Linda Barrera and Jason Gray Community Foundation Bunny Day-Angello Elfrena Foord and Bruce Hester Bob Erlenbusch Diane Barrett and Pieter Stroeve Elizabeth Capell Jeremy de Ocampo Martin Forrester Thomas Adams Lynne Bartz and Robert Bulman Daniel Cardenas Kathy and Douglas Dean Sunny Foster and Elizabeth Aguilar Peter Batkin Susan Carey Tony and Eli DeCristoforo James Lawson Margaret Ahern and Sandra Bauer Dennis and Ellen Carlson Kathleen and James Deeringer Tania Fowler Bobby Medina Kellie Bear Crystal Carter and Sandy Delehanty Jane Fox and Bob Garcia Maria Alcala and Kaitlyn Garcia Dennis Beck and Chris Beck Oliver Kollar Gail Dellagnena George Foxworth Barbara Alexander Christopher Befumo Lacy Carter and Delury Family Fund of the Deborah Franklin and Kanoe Allen and Terry Gibney Ruth Begell Brendan McGuire Sacramento Region Douglas Mitten Melba and Drew Allen Susan Bell Rocio Castro and Derek Newell Community Foundation Esther Franklin and Norma Allison Susan Benedetti Diane and William Catlett Barbara and Charlie Demmon Penelope Taylor Barbara Allman Karen Benson and Molly Benson Lauren Celello and David Denes Wendy and Jerrold Franklin Samira Al-Qazzaz Gerald Bergen Kyle Gradinger Margaret DeRiggi Patty French Judith Alsop Wil Bergkamp William Chambers Deborah M. Derov Mort and Marcy Friedman Fund Faviana Alvarez Hazel Bergtholdt Marilyn Champa Sandy and Thomas Devine of the Sacramento Region Holly Ames Robert and Margaret Beukers Lloyd Chan Stephanie Dingman and Community Foundation Jacqueline Ames Rhony Bhopla Aaron Chandler Shelley Rubach Ianna Frisby Ryan Andersen and Megan Blackwell Kim Chang The Dobaks Alison and Jim Fritzsche Daniel Lausevic George Y. and LaVona J. Blair Bernardine Chapman Marge and Joe Dobrowolski Rachael Fulp-Cooke and Candy and Paul Anderson Carol Blake Nancy Chapman and Kelly Dodge David Cooke Julie Andrews and Laura Blazin David Lindquist Charlotte Dodgson Esther Gajarian Christensen Joanne Blossom and Jim Charlton and Jane Robb Joanne and Art Domingue Erin Gall Deborah Ange and Ron Azevedo Robert Haltom Sara Chatfield Cassandra and Adam Donaton Sandra Gallardo and Valerie Antkowiak and Joan and Jack Blyskal Arwen Chenery Dennis and Patty Dong David Zlotlow Mark Pallone Serena Bodine-Clark Eric Cherwin Kathryn Donovan and Peter Gannett Susan and Thomas Aoki Janina Z. Boel Gracie Chikasawa Larry Aronson Elisabeth Garcia and Richard Archbold Geralyn and Clifton Bollong Grant and Lurline Chin A.D. and Thomas Dopson Paul Gepts Judith and Troy Armstrong Jean and Robert Bonar Rebecca Chinn Spears and Dean S. Dorn Eva and Frank Garcia Tamsen and Jeffery Armstrong Bowker Family Trust Fund of Colin Spears Midge Dorn Patricia Garcia and Eva Lee Arriaga the Sacramento Region Nancy Chin-Vanderslice and Jennifer Dow James Mattesich James Arriola Community Foundation Bill Vanderslice Karyn and Jaliyah Dramera Priscilla Garcia Kathleen Asay Todd Boyd Constance Christensen and Deb Duckett and Robert Morris Laura and Len Garfinkel Michael Austin Lisa Bradley Myrna Mussetter Janelle Fallan Dunham Ingrid Garland and Elizabeth and Russell Austin Lesley Bradshaw Karen Christian Susan Dunn Greg DeCastro Isa Maria Avancena Linda Brandenburger Charitable Terri Clark and Martin Lay Virginia Dunstan Julianne Garrett Kathleen Babin Fund of the Sacramento Region Ilaina and Ron Clement Leslie Dunsworth Diane and Paul Garritson Diana Bachelor Community Foundation Ruth Coelho Mary and Claude Duplat Kimberly Garza ,Jacqueline Ball Barbara Brandes Lex Coffroth Barbara and Jonathan Durst Gregory Geeting Judy Ballester William Breazeale Dawn Cole Donell and Melvin Duvall Jan Geiger Barbara Baran Jill Brigham Claudia D. Coleman Christine and Pat Eady Susan Geiger Margaret and Paul Barkin Debra Brock Michelle Collins Jeannette Eagan

20 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! Susan Geiger and Lisa Heilman-Cozzalio and Brenda Kidd and Clyde Kidd Angelina Martin Ose Adams Fund of the Bryan Shragge Vic Cozzalio Donna and Keith Kihara Kim Carter Martinez Sacramento Region Nancy Gelbard Patricia Heim and Helen and Aileen Kim Stephen Martinez Community Foundation Anne Geraghty Marcia Webber May and Michael Kim The Martorano Family Ose Family Fund of the Bonnie Germain and Steven Heimerle Linda and Roy Kimura Eugene Masuda Sacramento Region Thana Brunges Beverly and William Heinze Bertha King Betty Masuoka and Robert Ono Community Foundation Chris and Gordon Gerwig Phyllis Heisler Gary and Jillian King Susie Mathews Pearl Osecheck Harry Gibbons and Spencer Helfen Allenya Kirby and Robert Knapik Doris Matsui Mitchell and Teri Ostwald Debra Zidich Gibbons Michiyo Heller Dorothy and Raymond Kiser The James and Susan McClatchy The Owens Family David Gibson and Cynthia Hennessy Ann and Bryan Koenig Fund of the Sacramento Region Elizabeth Ozbun William Ishmael Rosanna Herber and Barbara Kohn Community Foundation Cathy Palmer and J.R. Sinetos Jason Gieger and David Toise Kim Lundquist Donna Komure-Toyama and Marilyn McCloskey Kelsey Papst Maureen Gill Laurie and Albert Herson Titus Toyama Janet McDermott Margaret Park Nicholas Gilman Virginia and Michael Herte Lesley and Steve Koonce Candace McGahan and Ruth Pauff Mark M. Glickman and Lanette Ashley Hill Karen and Cary Korobkin Louise Simpson Janie Payne and Russell Febrero M. McClure Jeannine and Robert Hobkirk Linda Korth Kim and Morgan McGreevey Cherril Peabody Vern Goehring and Heather Hoganson Pamela Kozlowski Laura McLean Jill and Michael Pease Christie Goehring Cheryl and Christopher Holben Ann and Chris Kronser David McMurtry The Rufie Pease Memorial Golden 1 Credit Union Virginia and Richard Holloway Judith Kurylak Deborah and Kevin McNamara Foundation Crystal Gomez Christine Holmstrom Carol and Takao Kusama Mary and Sam McPherson Roberta Peck Elizabeth Gonzales Susanne Honey William Lam Allison and Luke McReynolds Ulrich and Susan Pelz Julie and Joe Gonzales Doris and Michael Horton Beverly and Ronald Lamb Mary Ellen and Clement Meier Bonnie Penix Sheryl and Ruben Gonzalez Alice Howell Brian and Dorothy Landsberg Joy Melnikow Donna and James Peoples Carol Goodman and Tracy Huddleson Irene Lara Sonia Menenberg Barbara Perkes Tony Gane Vicki Hull Martha Larkey Dr. Linda and Mr. Steven Katherine and Robert Perrone Linda Goodrich Jeana and Larry Hultquist Trudy Larrieu and Edmond Larrieu Merksamer Claudia Peterson and Bertha Gorman Susan Hunn Chelsea and Karl Larson Lori Merwin Richard Ashby Joanne Graham and Stephanie and David Hunt Sandy and Rob Larson Marcy Meyer Erin Peth and Luke Pearson Nathan Hitzeman William Hunter Elizabeth Lasensky Charlotte Delaire Meyers Breck Petrinovich Sandra and Jeffrey Granett Lindalee and Melissa Beth Huston George Laster Cynthia and Robert Meyers Yvonne Pielenz and Patricia Grant and Ruth Rezos Patricia Ingoglia Annette Laughlin Lisa Meyers Aaron Smart Madeline Gray Darlene Ishigo and Toni Lavelle Carolyn and Daniel Meza Carla Pinkney Stacy Gray Andrew Lutz Nancy Lawrence Carolynn Michaels Dianne and Claude Poinski Sue Gray Patricia and Stephen Itaya Linda M. Lawrence Karen and Roy Michel Monique Poldberg Mary Doval Graziose Anita Jackson Marie and J. Robert Leavitt Mimi Miller Janet Poole Patricia Gregory Amanda Jacobs and Leslie Ang Carol Ledbetter Wm. Jahmal Miller Gail and Cary Porter Amalia Griego Marijane and Dean Jacobs Bob Lee Kathleen Mills Susan Portney Sheryl Griego Tammi James and Nancy P. Lee Randall Millsop and Xuan Xu Susan and Robert Potter Georganna Griffin Laura Winemiller Nancy and Steve Lege Brennen Milton and Stacey Powell and Dakota Walker Mary Groesbeck Jerome Jeffries Joan Leineke Michael Bradley Patricia Pratt Sherry and Stephen Grubman Laura and Brian Jenkins Mary Lou Lentz Bernadette Miskit Pressey & Associates Susan and Farl Grundy Janet Jensen Kathleen Les and Harold Thomas Eleanor and Jerry Mitchell Sabina and Werner Raab Peggy Gulshen Thomas Jevec Christopher Lief Stephanie Mitchell Hope and Jeff Rabinovitz Elise Gumm Clara Jewell Dorothy and Norm Lien Sarah Modeste Liane Ramirez Raymond Gundlach and Maggie Jimenez Kimberly and Timothy Lien Phyllis McMaster Moist Alejandra Ramirez-Cordell Laurie Wood-Gundlach Liming Jin Steven Lilley Rose Montillano Pamela Ramos and Shelly Morris Suzanne and Patrick Guthrie Amanda Johnson Amy Lilly Anne Moore Katherine Randall Jane Hagedorn Charles B. Johnson, Jr. Sheena Link Diane Moore Carolyn Rannefeld Heidi Halderman Gale and Michael Johnson Eva, John and Madison Lisle Erin Moos and Matt Rallens Simone and Mark Rathe Diane and R. Stanton Hales John Johnson and Laurel and David Lively Rick Moran Colene Rauh Amanda and Dave Hall Douglas Patton Zandi Llanos and Brandon Louie Mary Moran and Amy Lawrence Monika Ray and Naveen Atray Celia and Seth Hall Kathaleen and Daniel Johnson Heather and Donald Lockhart Lori Abbott Moreland and Meda Rebecca Lyra Halprin and Alan Jackson Melissa Johnson and James Heidelinde Longoria John Abbott Nadira Redd MJ Hamlton and Dave Reed Ferguson Michelle and Eduardo Lopez Kevin Morrill Amanda and Shane Reese John and Diane Hamlyn Sandy and Dave Johnson Shirley Lorenzen and Donna Moyer and Cathy Reiner Katherine Hammer Walt and Deirdre Johnson David Barrett Keith McFarland Sherry Reser Elizabeth Hammond and Carolee and Michael Johnstone Jennifer Lorenzo Tanya and Jim Mullen Tara Reynolds Randall Strossen Lial A. Jones Doris Loughner Rosemary Robert Mundhenk Gretchen and Stuart Richardson Nancy and Jack Hampton Carol Jong Kristi and Hayworth Louie Suzanne and Perry Myers Irma Richardson and Susan Handy and Jane and Michael Jonsson Ronald Louie and Gloria Naify Erica Richardson Eleanor Richter Susan Joseph-Taylor and Hollis Wilson-Louie Howard Nathan James D. and Lori K. Richardson Christy Hanley Terrence Taylor Christine Lovett Claudia Neal and Erika Neal Karen and Craig Richey Lorell and Morley Hardaker Sharon Justis and Michael Justis Zori Lozano-Friedrich Shannon Neely Dominique Ritley and Roy Dean Hardy Julie Ann Kanoff Jeanette Luttman The Neethling Family Ted Calvert Kat Haro Gretchen Karl and Pamela Lynch Ursula and John Neil Georgiana Rivera Michelle Kuo Harris and Emily Maverick Margaret MacDonald Joyce and Frank Nein Suzanne Rivers Fedolia Harris Kay Kauffeld Steve and Lisa Mackay Timothy Nelson Helena Roberts Kay and Rick Harse Mary Robertson Kay and Helen and Barry Mackintosh Maria Nemeth and Rita Saenz Jim and Sue Robison Margaret Hartshorne John Kay Paul and Frieda Maisel Fund Chester A. Newland Maeve Roche Cathy Haskell Jennifer L Kaye Hope Fund of the Sacramento Region Jane Nichols Paula Rodgers Rod and Karen Hass of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation Sheila and William Nolan Tracy Rodgers Alison Hastings and Community Foundation Kendra Malek Kathleen O'Connor Rafael Rodriguez Jeff Graham Charlotte and Martin Keale Ying Sang Man and Page O'Connor Trish and Artagnan Rodriguez Donna Haught Patricia Keast Michael Redman Brenda O'Donnell Bill and Nancy Roe Joan Haug-West Michael Kelly Joe Manes and Tommy Royston Teresa Ogan and Dylan Besk Carol Rogers and Jon Courtway Stephen Hayhurst Jennifer Kennedy Maxine and Michael Mantell Peggy and Steve O'Guin Lon Rohlfing Cynthia Hearden David Keskeys Tosi Marceline and Mohammad Oloumi, Jr. Lynn Roller Paul Heaton Catherine Kesseler Philip Kitchen Linda Olsen Sylvia Romo and Joshua Clark Alexia Heckers and Leonard Keyes Diane and Richard Marconi Robert Olson Margaret Rose and the Heckers Family Ann and Shabad Khalsa Barbara Marcotte Tamara and Roger Olson William Trinkle Eric Heckers Lynda and Fred Khasigian Jack and Paula Marsh Arlene Rose

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 21 / MUSEUM SUPPORT /

Amy Rosenkranz Julia Stagg and Marjorie Dussault Janet and Roy Vogel Corinne and William Betts Marilyn and Tim Parish Dana Ross Jennifer Stiger Jon Vorhees Shelley Biermann Margaret Park Robert Rossi William Stokes Barbara Wackford Carole Bodnar and Dr. Patricia Jones Penn Thomas Rotelli Elizabeth and Madeline Stone Pam Wade Darryl Freeman Breck Petrinovich Barbara and Bernard Rothman Daria Stoner Katharine Wagner and Denise and Robert Borcyckowski Christy Porter Flip and Louise Rouse Joyce Strand Steven Smith Sarah Bowling Angela Ramirez and Maya Smith Pat and Dave Royalty Maryann and Douglas Straub Dorothy and Douglas Wagor Rebecca Boyd Nancy Rice Victoria and David Ruderman Janet and Patrick Streight Patty Wait Deborah Braver Karen and Craig Richey Cathy Ruhl and Jack Kemp Paul Stringham Michael Waits Alida Bray Davis Richmond Sue Rupp Patricia Stromberg John Walker Kathryn Brown Pamella Rivera and Roger Zabkie Kathy and Richard Sabbagh Linda and Harry Struthers Peter Walsh and James Fitzpatrick Elizabeth Brusati Susan Tracy Rodgers and Leslie Sabin and David Potts Jack and Diane Stuppin Fund Shipley and Richard Walters Cerena and Gordon Burns Richard W. Budenz Sacramento Region Community of Community Foundation Ella S. Warloe Eleanor Burns Neal Rosenblatt Foundation Sonoma County Marilyn and Marianna Warmee Madelynn and Robert Burton Karen and David Roughton Ann and August Saibeni Kathleen Styc and Jonathan Warren Lori Callaway Angelica Rubalcaba Jean Salfen Karen Fagerstrom David Warren Sara Carle Constance Rubio Pamela G. Saltenberger The Suhr Family Claire Warshaw Teresa Carle and David Martinez Erika Rypich Estelle G. Saltzman Kimi Sue Swaback Jim Watkins and Jan Linver Susan Caron Patsy Schiff Pam Sammons Cathy and Chris Swanson Susie Marks Watt Marilyn Champa Greg Schmidt Jane Samuelson Paula Swayne Arlene and Jerry Waxman Jane and Larry Chavez Christine and Gerald Seaman Deborah Sands Nancy Sweet Lisa Weber Joan Chlarson Earlene and Herb Seymour Laura Santos Linda Sweetman Shirley Webster Anita and Miles Constantine Karen and Mark Seymour Michael Sapoznikow John, Vanya, and Xiola Musick Susan and Larry Weinstein Glenda and Dustin Corcoran Stephani Shanske Randall W. Sater Patty and Joe Symkowick Ann Weldy Marie and Kenneth Corey Stephanie and Bruce Shaw Susan Sawyer Celes and Scott Syphax Dr. James W. Wells and Debbie Covert and Emily Sheffield and Shane Romick Claudia and T.R. Schaezlein Thao Ta Dr. Patricia Will Meghan Russell Sharon Shiraga and Eric Ernst Jeri and Marvin Schechtman Harmon Taber Karen Wells Judy and David Covin Elizabeth Siggins Mary Anne Schendzelos Susan Tabor Laura and Robert Wendel Terry Acebo Davis and Karen and James Silva Amy Scherschligt and Hayata Takeshita Mandy Werrin Mark Weiss Jennifer Smith and Catherine Smith Heidi Grasty Karen Taranto GL Rose Wesley Eric Louis and Sam Dickson Lucas Smith Patsy Schiff Francie F. Teitelbaum Caroline West Deb Duckett and Robert Morris Regina Souchek Marsha Schindler Theresa Tena and Jason Murphy Diane West Barbara Dugal Amber Stewart Marchetta Schneider Kimiko Teramoto Heidi J. West Rachel Dutch Susan Straine Gabriele Schoff Alona and Jerry Thomas Deborah Westover Julie and Brent Enck Andrea Strohl Linda and Jerry Schroeder Elizabeth and Craig Thomas Todd Weygandt Norman Fong Linda and Tim Sullivan David and Patricia Schwartz Teresa Thomas Helen and Frank Wheeler Patsy and Richard Fontaine Diane Taggart Carol and Patrick Scott Holly and Tom Thompson Mary Whitney Nancy and Harvey Foster James and Joyce Teel Linda Canfield Scott Monica Thorderson Gary Widman Janet Gardner Glennah and John Trochet Jennifer and Martin Sengo Norman Thornburg Barbara and Kenneth Wiesner Delores Glaeser Rachel Uffer Marianne and Richard Separovich Janeen Thorpe and Harry Esterley Cheryl Williams and Patricia Grant and Ruth Rezos Rosalind VanAuker and Suzanne Sharkey Nancy Thym Michael Werner Ione and Michael Green Ken Endelman Graham Sharpe Gwendolyn and Glenn Tilton Judith and Prescott Williams Andrea Grover and Dawn and Jose Vargas Larry Shaw Ronald and Linda Tochterman Seleda Williams and Robbie Rousseau Catherine and Thomas Vigran Gayle and Douglas Sheeks Jean Torcom Greg Griffin Lisa Guirguis and John Lee Charlene Wardlow Robert Shelburne Christina and David Torres-Rouff Joan Frye Williams Cara Gulati and Cathy Feenstra Denise and Paul Watts Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick Kevin Triplett Daniel and Mary Wilson Diane Baker Hayward Jodie Weber and Barbara Shepard and Joanie Tristant Kerry Wood Cynthia Hearden Stephanie Weber David Crowe Kelly Trottier Erlina and Leonard Woolams Tamara Heisey-Collins and Caroline West and Kate Grace and Christopher Shim Michael Trouchon Deborah Wright John Collins Scott-Dawkins Yoko Shimizu Pamela and Norman Trump Jen Wu Jeffrey Henderson Marilyn Wickland and Tracy Shirhall Shirlee Tully Family Fund of the Mary and Rick Wurster Zheyla Henriksen Stacia Wickland Nancy and Chuck Shulock Sacramento Region Community Judy Wydick Fernando Hernandez Janet Williams Marion Silva Foundation Lynn and Jim Yahr Corrine Howell Wendy York and Ardavan Aslie Judy Simmons Paula Turner and Marsha McGill Timothy Yale Anita Jackson Dean Simonton Vivian Turner Lynne Yamane Denise and David Jared Helene and John Skratt Catherine Turrill-Lupi Malia and Scott Yang Steven Jeck The impact of the Deborah Slonecker Jason Tyburczy Alan and Helen Yee Jerome Jeffries Museum closure will The Smith Family Evelyn Umeda Rebecca Yee and Pat Larson Jamie Khan and George Steffes Julia and Chris Smith Lynn Upchurch William Zeile Kate and Tom Klein be felt for some time Karen W. Smith Gurseerat Uppal and Anne Zeman and Kimberly LaCroix to come, and ongoing Nancy Smith Jordan Simpson Tony Manzanetti Holly and Erik Langeland SK Smith Sharon Usher and The Zimmer Family Sharon and Keith Larick support is still needed Julie and Barry Smooke David Townsend Sandy and Rob Larson — and very much Sharon and L. Miles Snyder Liliana Vaananen and (Contributions as of June 15, 2020) Charlotte Layland Helen Solanum and Kalle Vaananen Thomas Lee and Marc Lee appreciated. To donate Jennifer Wood Marissa Vadi In addition, we truly Debi Lewis today please visit Shandell and Guerren Solbach Kathleen Valentine Suzanne and Charles Linebarger Colleen Soracco Rosalind Van Auker appreciate the following Marie Lopez crockerart.org/donate, Sonja Sorbo Richard VanCuren members who have Lily and Doug Lowe call (916) 808-7843, Rebecca Sorel Joe Vandepeute Renee and Tom Lyons Glenn W. Sorensen, Jr. Family Lisa and Jeanne Vanderfin shown their support by Marilyn McCloskey or use the enclosed Roger and Freda Sornsen Leslie Scofield VanderMolen joining as new members Sonia Menenberg and envelope to mail your Nikke V. Sosnick Donna Vann Emma Thatcher Regina Souchek Breanna Vargas or upgrading their Shell Mercurio and Paul Shantic donation to the Marilyn and Donald Spiegel Susan Veneman memberships: Doreen Millon and Julie Boughn Crocker Art Museum Frances Spivy-Weber and Denise Verbeck Jenny and Scott Mohler Michael Weber Carole and Philip Vercruyssen Mia Bahlhorn David Newman at 216 O Street, Evelyn and David Spottiswood Phoebe Verkouw Sharon Ball and Roger Young Steven and Austin Oerding Sacramento, CA 95814. Carol Spurgeon Gina and Harry Viani Rebecca Ballew and Ace Wright Sandra and Mark Ostrau Trisha St. Clair Sandra Vickrev and John Vickrev Sharon Bass The Owens Family Kelsey and David Stager Lou Ann and Steve Vidmar Sara Baumann and Joshua Rae Jaci Pappas

22 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! WAYNE THIEBAUD 100 Paintings, Prints, and Drawings

Title Sponsor Table Sponsors Marcy Friedman Ted and Melza Barr Presenting Sponsor Pam and Steve Eggert Hughey Phillips, LLP Julie and Michael Teel Western Health Advantage Signature Sponsor Joyce and Jim Teel Join the Crocker and your fellow members  Self-Portrait (4 Hour Study), 1989. Oil on board, 11 1/2 x 12 in. for a Thiebaud birthday Collection of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud Trust. celebration!  Watermelon and Knife, 1989. Pastel on paper, 8 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artist's family, 1995.9.30. Program details coming soon.  Bow Ties, 1993. Color lithograph hand-worked with pastel, 9 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (image); 15 x 19 7/8 in. (sheet). Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artist’s family, 1995.9.38.

© 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), NY. / MUSEUM SUPPORT / How You Can Support To learn more or to donate today, visit www.crockerart.org/donate The Crocker or call (916) 808-7843

Renew or Upgrade Donate to the Museum’s Become a Sponsor your Membership Annual Fund Whether you are an individual, small Crocker membership gives you priority A donation to the annual fund goes to work business, or represent a large organization, access to exhibitions, invitations to special immediately, making our exhibitions and you can support the Museum with an events, and retail discounts while you free programming possible. Annual fund exhibition sponsorship or by sponsoring one support the Museum. donations are essential to our mission of of our signature events. promoting an awareness of and enthusiasm for human experience through art.

Plan for the Future Give in Honor or in Ask Your Employer Make a lasting impact and communicate Memory of a Loved One to Match Your Gift what you hold dear by including the Celebrate a birthday, special occasion, or Many employers will double your Crocker in your estate plan, living will, remember a loved one with a tribute gift. contribution to the Crocker by matching donor advised fund, or make a gift to the your donation dollar for dollar. Ask your endowment. employer today!

24 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! / MUSEUM SUPPORT /

A Virtual Success!

big thank you to everyone who helped make the Crocker Art Museum’s first ever DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE virtual Art Auction Season a smashing success! Although we were unable to gather A Members who have joined or upgraded in person, this year we opened the auction to hundreds of bidders from throughout the in the Director’s Circle membership region and around the world. Over 200 works of art by both emerging and renowned program between February 1, 2020 regional artists were available for online bidding, and for both new collectors and veteran and June 15, 2020.* art patrons alike, there was something for everyone. Together, Big Names, Small Art, the Silent Auction, and Live Auction raised Jo Ann and Solon Barbis nearly $280,000 after expenses, and these funds will help the Crocker continue key Glenda and Dustin Corcoran operations during this economic downturn that has severely impacted the cultural Lisa Guirguis and John Lee community. Jamie Khan and George Steffes Jennifer and Edward Lee A special thank you to the participating artists, sponsors, and patrons who helped Karen and David Roughton make this Art Auction Season possible. Renee Vlitos-Rowe and Kevin Rowe Christine and Gerald Seaman

Title Sponsor Table Sponsors Thank you to the *Names in bold have upgraded. Anthem Blue Cross following Silent and Hughey Phillips, LLP Live Auction artists L and D Landfill & who donated 100% the Lien Family of the proceeds from Mark and Simone Rathe the sale of their art. Runyon Salzman, Inc. Dean Burton Estelle Saltzman Annette Corcoran SMUD Sandy Delehanty Western Health Advantage Doug Glovaski Patron Supporter Daniel Gobert Supporting Sponsor Matt Gonzalez Gail Dellagnena E. F. Kitchen Join Director’s Circle members for Brenda Louie Supporters Roy Michel exclusive virtual talks and happy BNSA Presenting Dr. Jose Abad and Miriam Morris hours. These bi-weekly meetings Elizabeth Welsh Abad Sponsor Timothy Mulligan via Zoom offer opportunities to Shane Bharat Mel Ramos† Denise and Donald Donnell Brown Mehdi Saghafi see behind-the-scenes on the Timmons Linda and Bob Buckley Ward Schumaker Museum’s upcoming exhibitions, Mark Fink Maryann Steinert-Foley Patron Table Sponsors conversations with curators on Kimberly Garza and Jack Zajac Extreme North Daniel Stanush works in the Crocker’s collection, North Table Mark M. Glickman and † Deceased and art experiences with program Sutter Health Lanette M. McClure educators. Mary Hargrave Tracey L. O'Reilly Pamela Heid Zaiss and To learn more about the Director’s Conrad Zaiss Circle and how you can help support the Museum through your membership, please contact Amalia Griego at (916) 808-1177 or [email protected].

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 25 The Museum Store now offers curbside pickup! The Crocker Holiday Artisan Market has been postponed until November 2021. To place an order call Shop our 2019 artists online now at (916) 808-5531 or email us at crockerholidayartisanmarket.com. [email protected].

Be a patron on Museum Store Sunday

Visit the Crocker Art Museum Store on November 29 to support local business, find unique holiday gifts, and give back to the community!

Museum Store Sunday only: Members receive 20% and nonmembers 10% off all purchases. 11.29.20

26 Thank you for supporting the Crocker! / MUSEUM STORE /

A Celebration of Delights

ayne Thiebaud is turning 100 this W year, and to celebrate Sacramento’s most renowned artist, the Crocker presents Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and 1 Drawings (October 11, 2020 – January 3, 2021). Curated by the Museum’s Associate Director & Chief Curator Scott A. Shields, the exhibition is complemented by a full- color catalogue and a trove of delights available in the Museum Store, including prints of Thiebaud paintings from the Crocker’s collection. 1. 2021 Calendar. Member price: $13.49 2. 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles. Member price: $17.06 3. Set of notecards. Member price: $15.26

4. Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, 2 and Drawings. Member price: $45

$50.00 US $65.00 CAN All prices reflect the Individual, Family, SHIELDS SCOTT A. SHIELDS, associate director and chief curator at the Crocker Art Museum, holds an MA and PhD in art WAYNE THIEBAUD 100 and Associate member-levelhistory from the University of Kansas. Hediscount has twenty- of 10 five years of museum experience in the Midwest and California. Having curated more than seventy-five exhibitions, he has been the primary or sole author of WAYNE THIEBAUD percent. Discountsnumerous increase exhibition catalogues, including for the follow-members at the elebrating the 100th birthday of one ing Pomegranate publications: Edgar Payne: The Scenic of America’s most respected and Journey; Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage; E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit; Richard Diebenkorn: C beloved artists, Wayne Thiebaud 100: Contributor levelBeginnings, and 1942–1955 above.; and Granville Redmond: The Paintings, Prints, and Drawings honors a lifetime Eloquent Palette. of extraordinary achievements across many

MARGARETTA MARKLE LOVELL, the Jay D. McEvoy Jr. genres. Best known for his tantalizing paintings of Professor of American Art History at the University of desserts, Thiebaud has long been affiliated with California, Berkeley, received her PhD from Yale and Pop Art—his bright palette, consumerist imagery, specializes in American and British art, architecture, and graphic presentation perfectly suited to the design, and literature. Pop Art moment—though his body of work is far HEARNE PARDEE, professor of Art Studio at the more expansive. University of California, Davis, holds an MFA from Born in Mesa, Arizona, Thiebaud grew up in Columbia University. His work addresses the everyday landscape in Northern California; he also writes about Southern California and Utah. He spent much art for the Brooklyn Rail and other publications. of his working career in Sacramento, teaching

at Sacramento Junior College (now Sacramento

JULIA FRIEDMAN, an independent art historian, critic, 100 and curator, has been a regular contributor to City College) in the 1950s and then, beginning Artforum and the New Criterion. Her current research in 1960, at the University of California, Davis. is on Wayne Thiebaud’s portraiture.

After achieving widespread recognition for his MARY OKIN, doctoral candidate at the University of Paintings, Prints, Drawings and nontraditional food still lifes in a 1962 exhibition California, Santa Barbara, is working on Painting in at New York’s Allan Stone Gallery, he began Place: Wayne Thiebaud in Postwar American Art, the first dissertation devoted to Thiebaud’s contributions rendering people, doing so in beautifully realized to the history of American art. figure studies and portraits on canvas. He subsequently created urban views and rural landscapes, all the time continuing to explore the cover: Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. food subjects that made him famous. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Philip L. Ehlert in memory of Dorothy Evelyn Ehlert, 1974.12 Wayne Thiebaud 100 accompanies an exhibition of the same name, continuing a Crocker Art © 2020 Crocker Art Museum Museum tradition of hosting a Thiebaud exhibition Images © Crocker Art Museum, except where noted each decade since according the artist his first Wayne Thiebaud’s art is © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / solo show in 1951. In addition to the 100 paintings, Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), prints, and drawings featured in the exhibition, this New York publication includes numerous other contextual Pomegranate Communications, Inc. paintings by Thiebaud, art by the masters who 19018 NE Portal Way, Portland, OR 97230 pomegranate.com inspired him, and photographs of the artist with family and friends, taken over the course of his Europe office: Number 3 Siskin Drive long and distinctive career. Middlemarch Business Park Coventry, CV3 4FJ, UK [email protected] 3 Designed by Stephanie Odeh ITEM NO. A295 ISBN 978-1-0875-0117-8 Printed in China 55000

9 781087 501178 Paintings, Prints, and Drawings 4

crockerart.org SEPT | OCT | NOV | DEC 2020 ARTLETTER 27 #crockerart

Current exhibitions Opening soon

Legends from Los Angeles: Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar in the Crocker Collection JANUARY 24 – AUGUST 15, 2021 In the 1970s, Betye Saar (born 1926) emerged as part of the Black Arts Movement and remains well known for her collage and assemblage works that challenge racial stereotypes. Her daughters, Lezley Saar (born 1953) and Alison Saar (born 1956), are also accomplished artists who engage with themes of race, gender, spirituality, and identity. Legends from Los Angeles features approximately 20 paintings, prints, and mixed media works, all from — or promised to — the Crocker. Spirit Lines: Helen Hardin Etchings FEBRUARY 21 – MAY 16, 2021 Helen Hardin (Santa Clara, 1943–1984) emerged in the 1970s and Wayne Thiebaud 100: 1980s as a trailblazer for Native American women artists wishing to break from tradition. In 1980, Hardin began using the copper- Paintings, Prints, and Drawings plate etching process, a printing technique that allowed her precise OCTOBER 11, 2020 – JANUARY 3, 2021 lines and detailed compositions to reach a broader audience. Spirit Wayne Thiebaud, Boston Cremes, 1962. Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 in. Crocker Art Museum Lines consists of the entire first edition set of Hardin’s 23 copper-plate Purchase, 1964.22. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. etchings, which at the Crocker will be accompanied by original paintings by Hardin, Pablita Velarde (1918–2006), and Margarete Todd Schorr: Atomic Cocktail Bagshaw (1964–2015). THROUGH JANUARY 2021 The Edge of Elegance: Porcelains by Elsa Rady MARCH 21 – NOVEMBER 1, 2021 Al Farrow: The White House Elsa Rady (American, 1943–2011) reimagines familiar and utilitarian THROUGH FEBRUARY 28, 2021 porcelain vessels into objects of geometric simplicity and beauty. Early in her career, she created ceramics inspired by those from the Song The Splendor of Germany: 18th-Century Dynasty of China but became dissatisfied and started carving diagonal Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum notches into the rims of her work. Inspired by the streamlined forms of THROUGH MAY 9, 2021 Art Deco buildings, she began to cut even deeper, the dynamic edges also taking inspiration from swirling hems of dancers’ dresses. These notches, or “wings” as Rady called them, impart a dynamic energy to an otherwise static form. Dates subject to change.