THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 THE MEDIUM THE NEWSLETTER OF THE TEXAS CHAPTER OF ARLIS/NA VOLUME 23 NUMBER 3/4 FALUWINTER 1997

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Well, it's that time of year again. We've eaten our fill of turkey and pumpkin pie and are preparing for the Holidays. It is also the time of year for the last issue of The Medium and reports on our annual chapter meeting which was held this year in Houston, October 9 through 11. I hope that everyone who had the opportunity to attend had a wonderful time. We have a great group of members in Houston, both old and new, who really rallied together to put together an activity-filled meeting. I am very grateful for all of their help and really enjoyed our two organizing lunches in the weeks before the chapter meeting. Jacqui Allen arranged the two delicious dinners at River Cafe and Baba Yega. Phil Heagy organized a delightful tour of The Menil Collection and it's environs, including St. Basil's Chapel at The University of St. Thomas. Jet Prendeville and Margaret Culbertson developed a great walking tour of Rice University's architecture, which Jet lead to perfection. Trish Garrison, one of our new members, arranged for Friday's lunch to be catered by the culinary students at The Art Institute of Houston. Jeannette Dixon and Margaret Culbertson took part in our trial effort at an AskARLIS/Texas session. Jon Evans, another new member, gathered local information and sight-seeing materials for the registration packets. Margaret Ford posted meeting information and last-minute updates onto our chapter web page. It was also wonderful to have the ARLIS/NA Regional Representative, Lee Sorensen, join our meeting and fill us in on the many exciting developments of the Society. Our business meeting was rather longer than usual on Friday morning, and we discussed a great many new ideas. One of the most exciting is a proposal put forward by J anine Henri to expand the geographical boundaries of our chapter to include Mexico. Mexico is currently not represented by a chapter in ARLIS/NA, and Janine explained that she thought expanding our chapter would be a logical step since Texas and Mexico border one another. A change in the bylaws will be necessary in order to incorporate Mexico. By changing the bylaws, the Chapter's name will become the Texas-Mexico chapter of ARLIS/NA and the wording of the bylaws will state that the geographic area covered by ARLIS/Texas-Mexico will include all of Texas and Mexico. We will be having a special vote on these bylaws changes, so watch your mail for ballots. Another note of interest is that we finally have a permanent home for the chapter archives! Lorraine Stuart, Archivist at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and a new member, suggested that the museum's archives could house them, so that they will no longer have to travel from one vice-president to another. Thank you, Lorraine (especially from the future vice presidents)! Speaking of the chapter archives, if members, especially former officers, have files or other documents that should be added to the archives, please contact Bonnie THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 2

Reed, who is organizing the records MESSAGE FROM THE SOUTHEAST before they are sent to Lorraine. REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE As I finish my last column for The Medium, I want to thank my fellow 1. Current list of officers now and for officers for all their hard work and good 1998. Eventually I will get a list of humor. Bonnie, Janine and Sam, it's officer replacements from headquarters. been a pleasure to work with you! I wish Some of you have posted these in the good luck to Bonnie and Sam for the minutes from your last meeting on the upcoming year, which I know will be an WWW. However, it would be most exciting one under their guidance. It is efficient if a designate from each chapter my pleasure to welcome Chia-Chun Shih would respond to this email and let me as our new Vice President/President­ know of names and email (particularly if Elect. Thank you for being willing to they're not the ones in the new take on this post and we all know you handbook) of all officers and appointed will do a great job! On behalf of the heads. I understand that some whole chapter, I also want to thank Past appointments will be rotating off in President, J anine Henri for all her work December. However, if you can let me to make our chapter even stronger. know of current and new people, I'll be Although she is rotating off as an officer, able to purge lists, archive, etc. Thanks. we all know that J anine will be a guiding force for the chapter for a long time to 2. Newsletters to all /South chapters. come. The Chapter Success Book strongly I want to end by thanking all of recommends that newsletters be sent to the members for their support and the other editors in your region. I don't enthusiasm in the past two years. I feel know how well this has been followed. very privileged to have gotten to get to At best, it's hard to do because the know many of you better and have editors change at varying intervals. The enjoyed my term as an officer for Southeast is interested in revamping its ARLISffexas. newsletter completely, and examples Happy Holidays! from other chapters are very helpful. It Marty Stein also helps in information exchange. I'm Freed Image Library Museum of Fine Arts, Houston advised that for 1998, the newsletter people are: The Medium DCIMDNA The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America. Trish Ballard National Gallery of Art FalVWinter 1997 Volume 23 Number 3/4 202-842-6099 [email protected] Editor: Bonnie Reed Texas Tech University Libraries Box40002 Southeast Lubbock, TX 79409-0002 Ann Lindell For subscription information, contact: Architecture/Fine Arts Library Sam Duncan Arnon Carter Museum U of Florida - Gainesville 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. P.O. Box 117017 Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695 THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 3

Gainesville, FL 32611 1998 LOIS SWAN JONES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Texas AWARD Chia-Chun Shih Kimbell Art Museum Award: An annual award of $350.00 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. toward expenses to attend the Fort Worth, TX 76107-2744 ARLIS/NA conference. ccshih@ kimbellmuseum.org Purpose: To support and encourage the 3. I will be sending periodic news involvement of an ARLIS!fexas reports to the newsletter editors to member in the ARLIS/NA annual include in a "From the RR" column. Of conference by contributing toward travel course, do with this what you will. I can expenses. (and probably should) be edited, reconfigured, etc. If everything I write is Requirements: pretty obvious for your chapter, just 1. Applicant must be a member of don't print it. Given time constraints, I ARLIS/NA for one full year; won't be able to write a separate letter 2. Applicant cannot receive full for every chapter. institutional funding for travel to the ARLIS/N A conference; 4. Generally, please keep me informed 3. Preference given to applicants who of changes in addresses, membership, are involved in a conference program etc. Don't be afraid to use me. One duty (i.e. -presenting a paper, serving as a I've been doing is contacting potential moderator or recorder of a session, members in the various chapter regions, serving on an ARLIS/NA committee), encouraging them to join the local or, to first time conference attendees. chapter and the Society. When Chapter presidents also call, it makes a pretty Procedure: Applicants send a letter to strong argument for joining at some the Award Committee no later than level. Please let me know of potential January 15, 1998 stating their members- or fallaways. qualifications, amount of institutional funding for their conference attendance, 5. Email. There's just no other way for and their conference program me to do business. Right now, there's involvement. only one officer who doesn't have an email I can access at the moment, but Notification: The applicants will be she is expecting to add a public account notified by February 2, 1998 to give soon. If there are others who will not be ample time to register for the conference. directly accessible via the wires, kindly let me know, too. Send application to the Chair: J anine Henri Lee R. Sorensen, A.M., A.M. Head Librarian Art Librarian and Bibliographer Architecture & Planning Library Duke University Lilly Library The General Libraries, P.O. Box P [email protected] [email protected] The University of Texas at Austin THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 4

Austin, TX 78713-8916 Fusich's resignation earlier in the year. jhenri @mail.utexas.edu ill. Secretaryffreasurer's Report ANNUAL MEETING SUMMARY Minutes were approved as published in ARLISffX Annual Business Meeting the Winter 1995 issue of The Medium, October 4, 1996 Minutes with the exception of a correction to the (as amended at 1997 business meeting) spelling of Phil Heagy's name in the roster of attendees (Phil Heaghy > Phil Business Meeting attendees: Heagy).

J acqui Allen Acting Secretaryffreasurer Sam Duncan Robert Beebe reported a current ARLIS!fexas account Carl R. Close balance of $1,769.44 (see attached Margaret Culbertson Treasurer's report for detail). He Jeannette Dixon reported that this year's annual meeting Beth Dodd expenses had not been figured and Sam Duncan announced that there appeared to be Steve Gassett adequate funding to support the Lois Phil Heagy Swan Jones award for the coming year. Kathryn Jackson Ann Jones IV. Vice President's Report Darin Marshall Bonnie Reed Vice President Marty Stein reported that Melanie Rodriguez two issues of the The Medium had been Laura Schwartz published to date and that there would Chia-Chun Shih likely be a total of three for the year. Marty Stein Stein also reported that the Lone Star Polly Trump Chapter of VRA is still forming, and ARLIS!fexas members agreed that the I. Call to Order next issue should be sent to VRA members in the state with an invitation President J anine Henri called the to join ARLISffX; they would also be meeting to order in the auditorium of the allowed column space in The Medium. San Antonio Public Library, October 4, The group also agreed that the next issue 1996. She thanked Ann Jones for should contain a notice about ordering coordinating this year's meeting program ARLIS!fexas T -shirts. and local arrangements. V. Lois Swan Jones Travel Award II. Introductions Henri introduced incoming President The 1996 recipient was Laura Schwartz, Marty Stein and acting who was a first -time attendee of the Secretary!freasurer Sam Duncan, who National Conference. She volunteered at had agreed to serve as the registration desk during the Secretaryffreasurer after Monica conference. Beverly Carver was THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 5 announced as the 1997 Lois Swan Jones from the Conference Planning Meeting Travel Award Committee Chair. The held in San Antonio, August 4-9, deadline for submitting nominees will be including a summary of projected January 30, 1997, with the award income, expenses and profits for the announced before February 15, 1997. National Conference. She also There is a possibility that two awards mentioned that there were sponsorship might be issued for 1997 depending on opportunities to make up funding available funding. differences in various sessions. She added that the theme of the 25th VI. Regional Representative's Report anniversary party would be "25 for 25" ; one of the goals of the party would be to Regional Representative Janine Henri raise $25,000 in scholarship funds conveyed ARLIS/NA President Jack through selling $25.00 raffle tickets. Robertson's message that the organization of the 1997 National Local arrangement assignments were Conference was developing nicely and identified: that solid progress had been made to date. Local Arrangement Chairs: Ann Jones and Robert Beebe Henri also reported that the ARLIS/NA Board's main focus has been strategic Exhibits: Phil Heagy planning activities and said that duties Registration: Laura Schwartz had been divided amongst committees. Funding: Milan Hughston The Board has also been concerned with Program: Allen Townsend, Jeannette ongoing performance evaluation of Dixon OMG (Olson Management Group). One Tours: Pat Blackman problem that has been identified is Internet Room: Sam Duncan quality control of publications. ARLIS/NA members are encouraged to Jeannette Dixon distributed a make any other problems known to the preliminary listing of programs. She Board. The Board is also considering reported that Allen Townsend had sent ways of improving membership out a call for abstracts for conference recruitment. The next Board meeting is sessions. set for November 15-17 at Berkeley. Sam Duncan offered to ask for space on Henri also announced sites for future the Amon Carter Museum's server for an National Conferences: ARLISffexas website, but did not commit to managing the site. Some 1998: Philadelphia, PA information regarding the Conference is 1999: Vancouver, BC already available on the ARLIS/NA site maintained by Ed Teague. VII. 1997 ARLIS/NA Conference Planning Report J anine Henri asked the group about whether the membership directory J anine Henri passed along information should be supplied on the website. THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 6

Jeannette Dixon asked about ways to National Conference. She also thanked reach the international audience, i.e. Jeannette Dixon and Allen Townsend for IFLA. Marty Stein suggested sending handling session proposals. out a conference announcement on internationallistservs. IX. New Business

Beth Dodd, who is coordinating an Houston was approved as the site for the ARLIS!fX-sponsored session at the 1997 ARLIS!fexas Annual Meeting. National Conference, asked if the Texas Marty Stein will be Meeting Chair. Chapter could purchase lunch for the panelists/moderators. The group agreed Bonnie Reed was elected Vice that lunch should be covered by the President/President Elect. Chapter, but only for non-members. Janine Henri asked attendees to give her Sam Duncan was officially elected a list of thank-yous that needed to be Secretaryffreasurer. written. J anine Henri recognized new members, VID. Old Business including Beth Dodd, Laura Schwartz, James O'Donnell, Carolyn Porter, Polly The archives of the Chapter will be sent Trump, Stephen Gassett, Melanie J. to the Vice President/President Elect. Rodriguez, and Beverly Carver. Jeannette Dixon, and Marty Stein suggested finding a library school intern Henri asked the group for a moment of to work on the archive of The Medium. silence in observance of the death of Phil Heagy also expressed an interest in Stephen Sorensen. the project. X. Adjournment The group agreed that the "Shy Retiring Librarian" T -shirt should be reprinted as ARLISffX Treasurer's Report needed and also be made available in Account Activity From July 1 to XXL size. The design should remain as September 30, 1996 is with no Chapter information added. The T -shirt will be sold at the upcoming Balance as reported June 30, 1996 National Conference. It was also $763.69 suggested that San Antonio Public Credit adjustment Library T -shirts be sold. Jeannette Dixon + $3.00 added that RLG might be interested in Adjusted balance sponsorship and might underwrite a $766.69 conference tote. Milan Hughston will investigate. INCOME Interest Henri thanked Robert Beebe and Craig $9.25 Likness for their presentation at the 1996 1997 membership renewals/new National Conference in Miami regarding members: $290.00 San Antonio as the site of the 1997 1996 conference registration: $411.00 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 7

Lois Swan Jones Fund President Marty Stein called the meeting $275.00 to order on Friday, October 10, 1997, in T-shirts the Masterson Media Room at the $17.50 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

TOTAL INCOME II. Introductions $1,002.75 President Marty Stein introduced current Balance as of September 30, 1996 chapter officers. $1,769.44 III. Secretaryffreasurer' s Report Sam Duncan Secretary/Treasurer The 1996 business meeting minutes were ARL/SINA/l'exas Chapter accepted by the group as amended by J anine Henri [see corrected version, ARLISfi'X Annual Business Meeting attachment A]. Secretaryffreasurer Sam Friday, October 10, 1997 Duncan circulated a list of members who Minutes had been removed from the membership list because of delinquency. After this Present (22 total): purge, Duncan reported that the current membership is down to 38. Duncan then J acqui Allen reported a current ARLISffexas bank Robert Beebe balance of $821.43 (see Treasurer's Carl R. Close report below). Current meeting Margaret Culbertson expenses had not been figured into that Karen DeWitt balance. Duncan also got approval from Jeannette Dixon the group for synchronizing the Sam Duncan treasurer's report with bank statement Jon Evans periods. Margaret Ford Steve Gassett IV. Vice-President's Report Phil Heagy J anine Henri Vice-President Bonnie Reed reported Milan Hughston publishing expenses for the past two Ann Jones issues of The Medium: spring, $53.82; Darin Marshall summer, $38.50. Reed also informed Jet Prendeville the group that the ARLISffexas archive Bonnie Reed is missing issues of The Medium from Laura Schwartz 1990 forward. Reed will contact past Linda Shearouse officers to gather up back issues. She Chia-Chun Shih also reminded the group to submit news Lee Sorensen items to be included in The Medium. Marty Stein Later in the meeting, the group approved Lorraine Stuart to administer the I. Call to Order ARLISffexas Chapter archive which THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 8

will be kept at the Museum of Fine Arts, co-chairs. The due date for applying for Houston. The archive will cover the the 1998 award is January 15,1998. A period from the inception of the chapter notice will be placed on the up to the last five years. Materials from ARLIS/Texas website. the most current five years will be kept by the President and Vice-President. The group agreed that "Shy Retiring Marty Stein also suggested that the Librarian" t -shirts should be made archive include pictures/images from available in XXL, and an increase in cost past meetings. for the larger size was approved. An order form will be placed on the website. V. Regional Representative's Report Margaret Ford reported on the Regional Representative Lee Sorensen ARLIS/Texas website reported that the ARLIS/NA Board (http://www.neosoft.com/-mford/arlistx/ voted that the ARLIS/NA website is to arlistx.htm). Suggestions for additions be considered the authoritative source to the site included: chapter chronology, for ARLIS/NA information. He added bylaws, membership directory, t-shirt that Susan Kruse has left OMG (Olson sales/form, LSJ Travel Award Management Group). Sorensen referred application (including a listing of past to a message from Barbara Polowy recipients), brief history of the chapter, regarding the issue of over-solicitation: institutional links, job postings, and a ARLIS/N A members who are seeking listing of members' publications. funding should submit a list of prospective donors to headquarters to VII. New Business help protect from over-solicitation. Sorensen informed the group about the The group approved Lubbock as the site San Antonio City Council's decision to for the 1998 ARLIS/Texas annual de-fund gay and lesbian groups. Tom meeting. Bonnie Reed and Karen Riedel is to draft a letter of grievance. DeWitt will co-chair the meeting, which Sorensen recognized Margaret Ford's will be held the first or second weekend efforts in developing the Texas of October. Chapter's site. He also suggested to the group that a chapter history be written Chia-Chun Shih was elected Vice­ (later in the meeting, Marty Stein President/President-Elect. announced that Linda Shearouse will author the history). Finally, he stressed New members were recognized the importance of communication from including Jon Evans, Patricia Garrison, the chapter level to the board level. Diane Sandberg, and Karen DeWitt.

VI. Old Business J anine Henri brought up the issue of Mexico not having adequate Polly Trump was awarded the 1997 Lois representation in ARLIS/NA and Swan Jones Travel Award. Janine Henri suggested the possibility of adding and Laura Schwartz agreed to be the Mexico to the Texas Chapter to form an Lois Swan Jones Award Committee ARLIS Texas-Mexico Chapter. Several THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 9

suggestions were made for reaching the L, adding ARLIS!fexas information in Mexican members including providing registration packets at the ARLIS/N A free copies of The Medium, inviting conference in Philadelphia, and sending them to participate in the South regional a letter to library schools and library meeting, and using resources possibly schoollistservs. Marty Stein suggested available through TLA. Marty Stein that the next issue of The Medium be asked if ARLIS/NA might be sent out to the VR librarians (from approached to underwrite postage Eileen Coffman's VRA Texas list) with expenses, and Lee Sorensen answered a notice that the topic was discussed. that ARLIS/NA should be contacted. Milan Hughston commented that annual It was suggested that a letter from the meeting programming needs to have a ARLIS/NA president could be sent to continuing education component. Mexican members inviting them to join our chapter. Henri moved that the Marty Stein reported that the recent bylaws be amended and the Texas survey showed that the membership is Chapter's name be changed to the satisfied with the current format of The Texas-Mexico Chapter, and that these Medium. Bonnie Reed asked for changes be submitted to the ARLIS/NA suggestions regarding content, format, Board. The proposal was approved by and publishing schedule and circulated the group, and the new bylaws are to be examples of other newsletters. The placed on the ARLIS!fexas website for group agreed that maintaining a flexible review. publishing schedule is important (3 issues per year is sufficient), and Phil Heagy reminded the group that the deadlines for submissions should be up Central Plains Chapter had invited the to the editor. Marty Stein will contact Texas Chapter to join their annual the Lone Star Chapter of VRA to see if meeting in 1990(?). The group approved they are still interested in having a Heagy's proposal that the chapter column in The Medium. reciprocate by inviting the Central Plains Chapter to join the Texas Chapter at the Current column coordinators: 1998 annual meeting in Lubbock. Heagy will draft the invitation. J anine Henri Museum libraries: Steve Gassett asked the group if the Central Plains Exhibition listing: Phil Heagy Chapter should have a voice on the Academic libraries: Margaret Culbertson conference planning committee. Public libraries: Robert Beebe Architecture libraries: Janine Henri The group discussed the issue of Visual resources: Marty Stein decreased membership. Many members who did not renew were visual resources Marty Stein asked members of the group librarians, and suggestions for recruiting to consider serving as an officer in the VR members included sending a copy of chapter. Stein also asked the group The Medium (conference registration about fundraising efforts, and the group issue) to VR librarians, adding more VR­ seemed satisfied with current efforts related programming to the annual (LSJ Travel A ward contributions and t­ meeting~ submitting a message on VRA- shirt sales). THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 10

Vill. Adjournment. new architectural styles. The Chapel, a recent design by Philip Johnson, brings ARLISffX Treasurer's Report to near completion the campus Reporting Period: October 1, 1996 quadrangle which he began work on in through September 30, 1997 the 1960s. The Chapel rises above the other campus buildings on the Balance on September 30, 1996: quadrangle and has a commanding $1,769.44 presence with its white plaster walls and gold leaf dome. The Chapel itself is a INCOME simple box-like structure bisected by an Interest: $24.03 immense dark granite wall which, on the 1996 Meeting Registration (late): $29.00 building's interior, divides the vestibule 1996 Membership Renewals: $50.00 and the main sanctuary. Inside, simple T -shirts: $60.00 ornamentation placed sparingly around Total Income: $163.03 the room provides for a quiet and reverent space. EXPENSES 1996 Meeting Expenses: $329.93 Just a few blocks away is the Byzantine Lois Swan Jones Travel Award: $350.00 Fresco Chapel Museum, the latest ARLIS/NA 1996 Annual Meeting addition to the Menil campus. The Contribution: $250.00 Chapel Museum was conceived as a Medium Printing/Postage Expenses: home for two exquisite 13th century $181.11 frescoes originally housed in a small Total Expenses: $1, 111.04 church in Cyprus. The structure itself is, in a sense, a building within a building. Balance as of September 30, 1997: Designed by Francois de Menil, the $821.43 Chapel Museum preserves the intimate and sacred qualities of the original 13th Sam Duncan century structure by acting as a shell Secretary/Treasurer ARL/SINA/Texas Chapter for a glass-paned outline of the original with the assistance of church with the frescoes placed Steve Gassett accordingly. The unique architectural design allows the visitor to experience Chapel Tour the frescoes with an intimacy one might have found in their original setting. The recent ARLIS Texas Chapter meeting gave us an opportunity to visit a The last stop on the chapel tour was the number of unique local landmarks. On Rothko Chapel. The Chapel, which Thursday afternoon we paid a visit to recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, three of the city's chapels before heading contain a series of fourteen large on to area museums. canvases commissioned by the de Menils and executed by Mark Rothko during The Chapel of St. Basil, on the campus the mid-1960s for this specific of the University of St. Thomas, installation. Within the octagonal-shaped combines an interesting blend of old and space, the canvases of varying shades of THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 11 dark purple and black, surround the Jerusalem, and Boston. Marty then asked visitor and render a sense of stillness and Laura Schwartz to discuss time tranquility. The use of natural light to management in the context of her illuminate the room allows for experience of attending school while considerable variance in viewing the working. The speakers thus addressed works. The chapel is a place for public professional development activities such visitation and also serves as an as publishing, attending professional conferences and getting involved in ecumenical center for a variety of professional organizations, and the services and ceremonies. difficulties of getting it all done. Darin Marshall Head of Libraries Karen De Witt Dallas Museum of Art Architecture Librarian Texas Tech University AskArlisffX: Professional Development Issues Rice Tour Or, "How do I do all the writing and speaking that I need to do and still get A two hour architectural tour of the Rice my ,work done?" University campus was conducted by Jet Prendeville. An informal mixture of This session covered professional history and anecdote emphasized both development in a number of areas. the tradition and innovation present in Marty Stein initiated the discussion by Rice architecture. The Rice "vernacular" raising the question of how often we take use of St. Joe Brick and limestone, red on many different projects, for both tile roofing, articulated brick work, and work and professional development, and symbolic decoration was traced through mentioning that it helps to connect work early buildings by Ralph Adams Cram, and professional development projects. Goodhue & Ferguson (1912- 1914) to Margaret Culbertson then discussed Cesar Pelli's innovative use of color and issues and processes of getting work bold brickwork design in Herring Hall published. She brought a number of ( 1984 ). The essential elements of the items she had had published, including original 1910 campus plan by Cram, the Index to American House Design, Goodhue & Ferguson were reaffirmed by and several journal articles. She Pelli's 1983 master plan for growth. The discussed the ARLIS/NA Publishing formal emphasis on a main axis bisected Grant and the processes of research and by 4 cross axes, academic quadrangles publication. created by buildings linked by arcades, or shaded walkways around open spaces Jeannette Dixon spoke next and or courtyards was observed. Several presented a slide show of her trip to the buildings constructed after 1990 break IFLA conference in Copenhagen. She away from the modest scale of the Rice discussed the workshops and tours they vernacular but vary in the degree to went on and the opportunities for people which careful siting of the building fits to get involved with IFLA. Jeanette in with the special character of the Rice mentioned that the next IFLA meetings campus. Most successful is the will be in Amsterdam, then Bangkok, Biosciences & Bioengineering Building THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 12 by Cambridge Seven with its salleport 1927 by Houston architect, 1ohn Staub. and two attached flanking wings which The collection includes works of echoes Lovett Hall's design. American painting, works on paper, furniture, ceramics, silver, glass, folk art The five buildings chosen for an interior and English ceramics. Many of the tour ranged from the serene Rice objects are exhibited in period rooms Memorial Chapel ( 1958) to the which provide insight into how our flamboyant Duncan Hall by 1ohn American ancestors lived and Outram ( 1996) with its metaphorical use entertained. Highlights of the tour of bright colors, the river motif of the included the Murphy Room, a period terrazzo floor, and a spectacular ceiling room recreating the interior of a mural in the Grand Hall. Understated seventeenth century American house, the elegance describes Herring Hall's Federal Parlor and the Music Room, business library by Pelli, the Islamic feel both with exquisite Federal style of the main hall of Thomas Beeby's furnishings and fabulous period Baker Institute for Public Policy ( 1997), wallpapers, wonderful paintings by John and neoclassical air of the concert halls Singleton Copley and Charles Wilson of the Shepherd School of Music by Peale, and beautiful silver and pewter Riccardo Bofill (1991). Marty Merritt, objects. Our ARLISffexas members Facilities Coordinator and Orchestra were led on a tour of the collection by Manager, shared an insider's knowledge two dedicated and delightful docents. of the acoustical properties of the Although the weather kept us from Shepherd School's four concert spaces. wandering too far from the house, we The Edythe Bates Old Organ Recital were able to see some of the beautiful Hall was perhaps the highlight of the formal gardens and fountains. tour as a graduate student graciously explained the basics of organ Marty Stein construction and playing the instrument, Image Librian Museum of Fine Arts, Houston followed by a brief, but wonderful, concert. DIVISION NEWS Jet Prendeville Art/Architecture Librarian Architecture Archives at the University Rice University of Texas

Tour of The Bayou Bend Collection The Architectural Drawings Collection and Gardens in the Architecture and Planning Library at The University of Texas at Austin is On Saturday, October 11, many of us an archive with a mission to ensure the braved a horrible thunderstorm to tour preservation of architectural records for The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens research and scholarship. Established in of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1979 by Professor Drury B. Alexander, Bayou Bend was the former residence of this small collection has grown from a Miss Ima Hogg, an important Houston nucleus of original architectural philanthropist and collector of American drawings and student measured drawings decorative arts. The house was built in into a major resource now administered THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 13

by The University of Texas General morgue. It was quickly transformed Libraries. The Architectural Drawings into a modem public service center Collection contains over 200,000 before we moved in. This room, which drawings representing a wide range of featured a single electrical outlet, was American architecture, with an emphasis overhauled to include wiring for on Texas and the Southwest. In addition telephones, computers, security and to drawings, over 600 linear feet of additional outlets, as well as new other material such as specifications, ceiling tiles, weatherization and a fresh photographs, models, correspondence, coat of paint. The Architectural contract documents~ clippings, and Drawings Collection temporarily ceased ephemera fully document all aspects of service on January 1, 1997, to prepare the design process. the materials for the big move. Thousands of items were rehoused, Much has changed at the Architectural and 85 flat file cabinets (two thirds of Drawings Collection in the year and a the entire collection), along with half since I came on board as curator. In other furniture and equipment, were addition to our student assistants and moved from the first floor to the volunteers, we now have two new staff ground floor. The Architectural members. Nancy Sparrow joined us last Drawings Collection officially reopened February as a full time curatorial April 15th, 1997, after a symposium assistant, and Diana Vasquez began honoring Charles W. Moore. work in March as a quarter-time technical services assistant. Their hard All of the hard work has paid off. The work has already made a significant Charles W. Moore room provides an impact in handling requests and in entirely new and more efficient point of processing collection materials. public service for the archive. We now have the proper space, light and Our public service area has also taken on accessibility demanded by oversized a dramatic new look as a result of the arc hi val material. We can also acquisition of the Charles W. Moore accommodate tours by classes, large Collection. Accompanying the gift was groups for instruction, and even multiple the promise of a new room, to be named appointments. In the spirit of in Moore's honor. This prospect of new scholarship that Charles W. Moore space became the catalyst in the overall instilled, the room named in his honor re-analysis and rearrangement of our fittingly serves as a regional archival facilities. Added space has given us the center for architectural research. We are opportunity to designate a new public open by appointment from 9am to 4pm, service area, redesign our former office Monday through Friday. Call us at (512) specifically for manuscripts processing, 495-4621 to request a tour of our new and establish a new room for facilities or to set up an appointment to preservation and conservation treatment. view the materials. We are always looking for help in enhancing our Battle Hall 6 is now known as the resources for staffing, preservation Charles W. Moore Room. For many supplies, and acquiring new collections. years Battle 6 housed an old newspaper Please contact us if you are interested in THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 14 assisting in the development of the Dr. Charles F. Stuckey, distinguished Architectural Drawings Collection. For Monet authority who replaced further information, visit our web site at Joachim Pissarro, past senior curator of http://www .lib.utexas.edu/Libs/APUdra the Kimbell Art Museum, assumed wcoll.html his duties in Fort Worth on September 1. The landmark Monet and the Beth J. Dodd, Mediterranean exhibition, from June 8 to Curator, Architecture and Planning Library September 14, attracted some 338,300 The University of Texas at Austin visitors. The economic impact of the Monet exhibition at the Kimbell exceeds Kimbell Art Museum the popular Barnes exhibition of 1994. For news on the upcoming exhibitions, Chia-Chun Shih and Steve Gassett at the you may visit Kimbell's Web site: Kimbell Art Museum have been meeting http://www .kimbellmuseum.org frequently with the other Cultural District Library Consortium librarians Chia-Chun Shih (the Amon Carter Museum and the Librarian Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) in a Kimbell Art Museum joint venture project which plans to add CDLC libraries' holdings to the Texas The Hirsch Library Christian University library's DRA system. The CDLC and TCU librarians As you witnessed from your hotel hope that the service agreement will be window at the Wyndham Warwick when successfully signed and the you were here for the ARLIS!fexas implementation will take place in the meeting, construction is well underway Spring of 1998. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on two new buildings: one is the Audrey As did other libraries, the Kimbell Jones Beck Building, which will exhibit purchased the 34 volume set of the a significant part of the Museum's Dictionary of Art and several CD-ROM collection; and the other is called the products. In addition to BHA, the Fannin Service Center, a multilevel Getty Provenance Index, Art Abstracts, parking garage and visitor center. In and Books in Print have been added this addition, the Watkin-Mies Building year. is being renovated to expand the library to twice it's size and to convert the The Kimbell joined the Texas Higher curatorial offices to a unified education Education Network (THENET) in department. February and uses THENET as our Internet service provider for the The Hirsch Library staff has been museum's web and e-mail services. working with the architects Jim Chia-Chun Shih, librarian as well as Gewinner and Randall Walker from network coordinator, has been assisting Kirksey and Partners Architects on the our contracted Computeam technical design of the library expansion. The staff in setting up and maintaining the library will retain its current space and museum's web server. add the area of the cafe next door and the gallery directly below the library. There THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 15 will be both stairs and an elevator Institutions). This involves selecting the connecting the two levels. The top level papers for the annual conference, will be public access, and the bottom planning the conference for the section, level will be restricted access to staff. and helping produce the newsletter. The lower level will contain the compact Next year's conference is to be held in shelves, the cataloging and acquisitions Amsterdam in late August. All are offices, carrels for curators, and invited to participate. Call Jeannette if Lektriever files for the collection of you are interested in attending or artists catalogs and ephemera files. We presenting a paper. are in our third iteration of the space. Construction is scheduled to begin in Jon Evans, Library Assistant, is April of 1999 and should take 4 to 6 attending library school when not months to complete. The new buildings running the desk or handling will open to the public in April of 2000. acquisitions. Lorraine Stuart, Archivist, In the meantime, the library has been has been supervising the creation of authorized to purchase an online system. several crucial indexes for the Museum. Margaret Ford oversaw the completion One is an index of artists who were in of our retrospective conversion in RLIN group shows at the MFA,H, and another in June of 1997. We have looked at a is an ongoing index to exhibitions held number of potential systems, but we are at the Museum. most interested in Endeavor. Marty Stein at the Freed Image Library The library is open to staff and public a has taken on the responsibility for total of 49 hours per week. We currently duplication and distribution of have about 7~000 library users per year photography for upcoming exhibitions. and conduct over 300 interlibrary loan Because there are so many departments transactions for staff members. We add needing images for different purposes approximately 6,000 items to the and in different formats, the need to collection a year, 2,000 of which are centralize distribution became critical. monographs. The library is also the This has more than doubled Marty's department responsible for the Museum's workload. In addition, she teaches one Webpage. art history class per semester at the Glassell School of Art.

As we get more computerized resources 5 we are spending more time teaching our Jeannette Dixon users how to work with them. In the Librarian & Electronic Communications Director past six months, J acqui Allen has lead Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 12 bibliographic instruction sessions for curatorial assistants, interns, graduate THE FRICK COLLECTION students, docents, and part-time library staff. The Frick Art Reference Library has recently received three gifts, two that Jeannette Dixon is now the Chair of the strengthen its holdings of books and Art Section of IFLA (The International photographs, and one that will improve Federation of Library Associations and access to these collections. Since its THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 16 founding by Helen Clay Frick in 1920, Henry Clay Frick's dealer of choice for the Library has become one of the over 25 years; 65 of the 177 paintings world's most comprehensive resources hanging at the Collection were brought for the study and appreciation of art and from the gallery. Ann Freedman, its history. As The Frick Collection's President of Knoedler & Company, said, educational activities evolve, the "The donation was in part an Library, which has been dramatically acknowledgement of the Frick's revitalized over the past decade, plays a generous assistance in mounting pivotal role. These gifts from Knoedler Knoedler's sesquicentennial exhibition, & Company, the art gallery from which which featured Mr. Frick's activities as Henry Clay Frick bought many of his an extraordinary collector and patron, Old Masters; the estate of art dealer reinvigorating the spirit of this Rudolph Heinemann, through a gift of longstanding partnership." his recently deceased wife Lore; and the Baron and Baroness Thyssen­ From the estate of Rudolf Heinemann, Bomemisza, who have been especially renowned art dealer and collector, the supportive of the Library's Spanish Library has received over 3,000 volumes collections and related publications, are on Western art that comprised his the latest examples in a tradition of personal library. Many of these are patronage that has built this great important and valuable catalogue research collection. raisonnes and out-of-print exhibition and collection catalogs. With the blessing of Knoedler & Company has made a gift of Dr. Heinemann's late widow, those 17,500 photographs and over 800 color books which duplicate the Library's transparencies, which date from c. 1895- holdings will be sold to help finance 1970 - the work of many of the finest art special acquisitions. photographers of the day. These photographs document works by Corot, In December 1996 the final volume and Sargent, Homer, Whistler, Degas, supplement of the Library's four-volume Cezanne, (as well as significant Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the contributions on less well-documented Twentieth Century: A Critical artists), all annotated with inventory Dictionary was published by O.K. numbers which allow access to detailed Hall/Macmillan. The publication records in the Knoedler archive (a provides a long-needed international treasured resource in its own right, and authority on Spanish artists' names and not a part of this gift). These an essential bibliographic tool for art photographs will be incorporated into the historians, academics, collectors and Library's holdings of nearly 900,000 other professionals working in the reproductions of paintings, drawings, Spanish field. In all, 5, 100 artists are and sculpture by European and represented. The Andrew W. Mellon American artists from the fourth to the Foundation, the Baron and Baroness twentieth century, and number many Thyssen-Bomemisza, and the Getty works that remain in private hands. Grant Program provided the greater part Knoedler & Company, which just of the funds for the publication. celebrated its 150th anniversary, was Recently, the Baron and Baroness THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 17

Thyssen-Bornemisza made an additional have shown the ability to provide gift of $116,000 to support the process effective leadership and innovation; of linking the electronic form of these Spanish artist names with approximately have a commitment to user-centered 60,000 images in the photoarchive and services and their ongoing assessment; 20,000 bibliographic materials on Spanish art and artists. Building on the have the ability to work effectively in a Library's commitment to providing side­ collaborative setting; by-side access to visual and printed resources, this project within the Spanish have a vision of libraries as an school will be a prototype for integrated environment of rapidly changing electronic access to the Library's text services rather than a warehouse of and image resources. books and journals;

Patricia Barnett, Andrew W. Mellon are excited about the future of the Librarian, said, "Together these gifts add profession. to the Library's historic strengths- its photo archive and book collections - Description: The incumbent leads and furthering a long-standing tradition of supervises a staff of our FfEs and a building the collections through gifts of varying number of student employees research materials, while also enhancing (10-12), works with staff and users on access to its collections by electronic both short and long range planning and means. Over the Library's 77 year evaluation of services, participates in history, important gifts from dedicated library and university meetings, and readers and those who appreciate the monitors a student wages budget and Library's contribution to art historical other budgets. In addition, the scholarship have helped to make it one department head participates in the full of the world's finest and most accessible range of services of the library, including art historical resources." serving as the subject specialist for architecture and landscape design. As a Martin Duus member of the libraries' management The Frick Collection group the incumbent will participate in New York the design and development of library services for onsite and remote users. The University of Texas at Arlington Reports to the Associate Director for Libraries Special Collections, Branch Libraries, Head, Architecture and Fine Arts and Programs. Library Qualifications: Require: MLS or The University of Texas at Arlington equivalent from an ALA-accredited Libraries is seeking a creative, flexible, library school. Progressively responsible energetic, and dynamic leader to fill an professional library experience in important and visible department head architecture or related fields, and a position. We want you to apply if you: vision of user-centered library services. Willingness to think beyond traditional THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 18 ways of delivering services to users. Screening of applications will begin on Excellent communication skills and an December 1 and will continue until the ability to work effectively in a team position is filled. A letter of application, environment. Preferred: Undergraduate resume, and the names, addresses, and degree, graduate-level work, or relevant telephone numbers of three references experience in architecture, art, music, or should be sent to: Laura Blessing, related field. Reference and library Personnel Librarian; UTA Libraries; instruction experience in an architecture POB 19497; Arlington, Texas 76019- and/or fine arts library setting. 0497; (817) 272-3000, ext. 4951; fax (817) 272-5797. UTA is an Equal Architecture and Fine Arts Library: The Opportunity, Affirmative Action AFA Library is one of three libraries on Employer. the UTA campus. The AFA Library has more than 40,000 monographic titles, 1998 POLLOCK INTERNSHIP IN 300 serial titles (150 active), 2,500 ART LIBRARIANSHIP reference titles, 400 portfolios, 6,500 LPs, 500 CDs, 600 scores, and access to The Mayer Library of the Dallas a host of electronic databases. The Museum of Art is very pleased to accept library houses a listening laboratory. applications for the 1998 Shirley The branch serves more than 500 Philipson Pollock Internship in Art undergraduate students, 150 graduate Librarianship. The Pollock Internship, students, and 30 faculty members in the named in honor of a long-time friend and School of Architecture and more than supporter of the DMA and its library, 500 undergraduate students and 35 was created to provide work experience faculty members in the departments of for recent graduates or soon-to-be art and music in the College of Liberal graduates of library or information Arts. science graduate programs. The six­ week, full-time internship will give the Salary: Negotiable to $40,000 recipient hands-on experience in a depending on qualifications. Includes a special library. The intern will gain comprehensive benefits package. practical knowledge of reference work, technical services and administrative UTA Libraries: The UTA Libraries is issues. one of the largest academic research libraries in north Texas, consisting of a While preference will be given to central library and two branches. It candidates who have recently completed serves a community of more than 700 a Library Science degree, all applicants full-time faculty and approximately should have completed at least one year 19,000 students with a collection of over of graduate coursework in a library a million volumes. Arlington, Texas, is science program. Basic computer part of the Dallas-Fort Worth literacy is essential, and knowledge of metropolitan area and is located mid­ art history is highly desirable. way between the two cities. The libraries' home page may be browsed at The internship stipend for the six-week http://www .uta.edullibrary/ period is $1 ,260. The recipient is THE MEDIUM FALL/WINTER 1997 19

expected to work 35 hours per week. Sandy River who offered editorial suggestions. Applications for the 1998 Shirley Philipson Pollock Internship in Art Bonnie Reed Librarianship should be made by letter to Vice President/President-Elect Darin Marshall, Head of Libraries ' Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. UPCOMING ISSUES OF Harwood, Dallas, Texas 75201. THE MEDIUM

The typed application should include the We would like to include additional following: information about our members and member institutions in The Medium. We * A letter of application, including the are interested in new positions held by applicant's name, home address and our members, new job listings, and telephone number, and a statement publications by members. Profiles of regarding the applicant's interest in art institutions or special collections are librarianship or special libraries. important topics. Book reviews of recent publications may be included. * A full resume, including education and Please forward your announcements to Chia-Chun Shih, Kimbell Art Museum employment experience, and college ' transcripts. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107-2744, *Three recommendations, from either ccshih@ kimbellmuseum.org academic, library, or recent employment sources.

Please submit applications no later than April 22, 1998. Applicants will be notified by mid-May. The internship will run for six weeks from the beginning of June.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Many thanks to all who have contributed to The Medium during my tenure as editor. I would especially like to thank Marty Stein, Sam Duncan, Janine Henri, and Phil Heagy for their contributions to each issue. From TTU Libraries I ' would like to acknowledge and thank Terri Wilson for her major contribution to the compilation of this newsletter and THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 20

EXHIBITIONS IN TEXAS

ABILENE MUSEUMS OF ABILENE -Abilene Treasures-- Through January 10, 1998

ALBANY THE OLD JAIL ART CENTER - Tum, Turning, Turned -- Through 19 January 1998 -City Focus: Abilene Artists-- 24 January- 22 March 1998 - Vessel Traditions : Ceramics 1940-1970 -- March 28 - May 30, 1998 -Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smith on the Open Range-- June 6- August 8, 1998 - James Malone: Locations -- August 8 - October 4, 1998 - Photographs & Papers : Kathy Lovas & Karen Simpson --August 8 - October 4, 1998 -Take a Seat-- Opens November 7, 1998

AMARILLO AMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART - The Collection : Recent Acquisitions & Promised Gifts -- December 6, 1997 - January 4, 1998 -Master Works from the Permanent Collection-- December 6, 1997- January 4, 1998 -Native Voices: The Hartman Collection of Native American Art-- January 17- March 15, 1998 -Bodmer-- January 17- March 15, 1998 - WTAMU/AC --March 21- April19, 1998 - AISD -- April 23 - May 10, 1998 - Flat Bed Press -- March 21 - May 10, 1998 -Amarillo Collects: The Allure of the East-- May 16- July 5, 1998 -Public/Private : Early 20th Century American Modernist Paintings from the Museum's Collection Merged with 2 Important Private Collections-- May 16- July 5, 1998 -Observed Fact: New Realism-- July 11- August 23, 1998 - 1997 Price Collection Gift -- July 11 - August 23, 1998 - Blaffer Foundation: Old Master Paintings-- September 12- November 7, 1998 -Persian Traditions: Carpets from the Middle East-- September 12- November 7, 1998

ARLINGTON CRCA GALLERY(UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON) - Pervasive Impressions : Contemporary Prints -- October 17 - November 22, 1997 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 21

AUSTIN ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (ART BUILDING) -Print Study Exhibition-- November 1 -December 14, 1997 -Prints from the Elgin W. Ware, Jr.ffexas Medical Association Collection (at TMA headquarters on 13th Street)-- November 3, 1997- February 27, 1998 - From Minimal to Conceptual Art : Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection-- November 1 -December 14, 1997 -Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing-- January 16- March 8, 1998 - Art Students' Exhibition -- March 27 - April 12, 1998 - Print Study Exhibition, Spring Semester -- March 27 - May 10, 1998 -Other Worldly Visions: Persian and Indian Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution -- March 27 - May 10, 1998 -Master of Fine Arts Exhibition -- April 24 - May 10, 1998 -American Masters: Sculpture from Brookgreen Gardens-- June 12- August 16, 1998

AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART AT 823 CONGRESS -Michael Ray Charles 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work-- December 14, 1997 -Committed to Abstraction: Ten in Texas-- Through January 25, 1998

AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART AT LAGUNA GLORIA -Works from the Ceramics Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Art-- Through January 4, 1998

THE HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - Modem American Book Design at the Ransom Center -- September 8, 1997 - January 30, 1998 -Selections from the Elizabeth Olds Collection of Art-- November 3- December 19, 1997 -The Critical Difference-- November 3, 1997- January 30, 1998

TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM, UNNERSITY OF TEXAS - Rural Maya Stone Technology at Colha, Belize -- September 12, 1997 through January 4, 1998

BEAUMONT ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS -Paul Caponigro: Meditations in Light-- Through November 23, 1997 - Visions of Texas, 1900-1950 -- Through November 30, 1997 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 22

CANYON PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM -Elizabeth Walmsley-- Through January 5, 1998 - XIT : The Ranch that Built the Texas Capitol --Through January 1998 - Patrocino Barela Taos Sculptor I Early Taos Printmakers --November 22, 1997 - January 18, 1998 -Christmas Art-- December 5, 1997- January 11, 1998 -Vintage Christmas Card Exhibit-- December 5, 1997- January 5, 1998 -Antique Toy Exhibit-- December 5, 1997- January 5, 1998 -Builders on the Plains: Emmett F. Rittenberry & Guy Carlander --January 20- July 13, 1998 - Loeffler & Kloss : Two Taos Legends -- January 24 - April 26, 1998 -Frank B. Hoffman-- January 24- April 26, 1998 - J .H. Sharp : 15 Etchings -- January 24 - April 26, 1998 -Chimayo Weavings of Northern New Mexico-- Opens February 6, 1998 - From Pueblo to Art Colony : Taos in the 19th Century -- Opens February 27, 199.8 - Green Mountain : E. I. Couse in Taos, 1902 -1936 -- May 2 - August 23, 1998 - W. Herbert Dunton-- May 9- August 23, 1998 -Taos Reflections-- July 17- November 15, 1998 - Nicholai Pechin -- September 5 - November 25, 1998 -Taos Art from Texas Collections-- September 5, 1998- January 1999 -Christmas Art-- December 4, 1998- January 5, 1999

COLLEGE STATION J. WAYNE STARK UNIVERSITY CENTER GALLERIES, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - Ikebana Containers from the Benz Collection -- Through December 20, 1997 -Modernist Prints 1900-1955 --October 23- December 18, 1997

MSC FORSYTH CENTER GALLERIES, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY -British Glass: From the Broadfield House Glass Museum and Himley Hall, Stourbridge, England-- September! -December 14, 1997 - Songs Without Words: The Art the Paperweight, Rick Ayotte -- November 1 - December 14, 1997

MSC VISUAL ARTS GALLERIES, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY -David Murray Composite Landscapes-- December 3, 1997- January 30, 1998 - Ivana Candiago Polyopsia -- Febuary 9 - March 20, 1998 - ArtFest Student Art Competition -- March 23 - April 10, 1998 - William Farr Bladder & Spleen -- April 13 - May 29, 1998

DALLAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 23

- Discover Greatness : An lllustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball -- Through December 28, 1997 - First I look at the Wood: Animal Carvings by Isaac Smith -- Through March 22, 1998

DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART -Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum- September 28, 1997 to February 1, 1998 - Monet at Vetheuil -- March 28 to May 17, 1998 -"That Earlier, Wilder Image": Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830-1900-- June 14 to September 13, 1998 - The Divine Comedy and After : Fifty Years of Surrealism (Two series of prints by Salvador Dali) --Date TBA - Stitches in Time: American Quilts from the Permanent Collection -- August 17, 1997 - January 12, 1998 -Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania -- September 28, 1997 to February 1, 1998 -Faces of the Nation: Colonial American Portraits-- October 19, 1997 to January 10, 1998 -Linda Ridgway: A Survey, The Poetics of Form-- January 11 to AprilS, 1998 - Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking -- January 25 to March 29, 1998 - Monet: A Turning Point -- March 28 to May 17, 1998 -"That Earlier, Wilder Image": Oil Sketches by American Landscape Painters, 1830-1900 --June 14 to September 13, 1998

MEADOWS MUSEUM (SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY) -Content Drives Form: Recent Work of Bill Komodore --November 7, 1997- January 11, 1998 - The Sleep of Reason : Goya's Los Caprichos -- January 30 - March 29, 1998

ELPASO EL PASO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - Interiors, Portraits, and the Still Life -- Through December 31, 1997

FORT WORTH AMON CARTER MUSEUM - Masterworks of the Photography Collection: Visions of Public America -- Through February 8, 1998 -A Passion for Birds: Eliot Porter's Photography-- November 8, 1997-January 18, 1998 -Fire and Pride: Nineteenth-Century Fire-fighting Prints and Photographs from the Permanent Collection - Through February 7, 1998 -Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smith on the Open Range-- January 24-May 10, 1998 -Masterworks of the Photography Collection: Transforming Nature-- February 14-June 7, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 24

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM -Treasures of the Tervuren Museum-- November 9, 1997- January 25, 1998 - Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces: The Rudolf Staechelin Family Foundation Collection of Basel, Switzerland -- October 5, 1997 - January 11, 1998 -Hidden Treasures from Tervuren: Masterpieces from the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium-- November 9, 1997- January 25, 1998 -Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians I Treasures from the Republic of Bulgaria-­ May 3- July 19, 1998 -King of the World: A Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle-­ May 31 - August 23, 1998 -Design as Art: Towards Modernism, 1880-1940/The Norwest Collection-- June 21- September 13, 1998 - The Brilliance of Eternity : Ancient Egypt in Faience -- January 31 - April 25, 1999 - Matisse and Picasso : A Gentle Rivalry-- February 2 -May 2, 1999 -For the Imperial Court: Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art - December 7, 1997 - March 1, 1998 - Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age -- February 8 - April 26, 1998

MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH -Georg Baselitz --Through January 25, 1998

GALVESTON GALVESTON ARTS CENTER -Helen Altman: Just Ahead-- November 29, 1997- January 11, 1998 -Kate Breakey: Small Deaths-- November 29, 1997- January 11, 1998 - George and Kaneem Smith : Legacy -- January 24 - February 7, 1998 -Keith Carter: 25 Years-- March 7- April 12, 1998 -A Galveston Sampler-- March 7- April 12, 1998 - AI Souza : Layers -- April 18 - May 31, 1998 - Deborah Luster : View South -- April 18 - May 31, 1998 - Domith Doherty : Specimens -- January 24 - February 7, 1998 -Sharon Engelstein/AAron Parazette --June 6- July 12, 1998 -Kimberly Gremillion: Cirsus Shadows-- June 6- July 12, 1998 -Linda Ridgway: Frozen Moments-- July 18- August 23, 1998 -Steve Watson: Distillations-- July 18- August 23, 1998 -Sandi Seltzer Bryant: Monotypes --November 29, 1997- January 11, 1998

HOUSTON BLAFFER GALLERY (UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON) - 1998 Student Exhibition -- April 4 - 26, 1998 - 1998 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition -- May 9 - 24, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 25

-Putt Modernism: 18-Hole Miniature Golf Course & Exhibition-- June 13- August 8, 1998 - Mein Kampf: The photography of David Levinthal -- Through 5 January 1998

CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM -Ann Hamilton-- Dec. 13, 1997- Feb. 1, 1998 - Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective -- February 12 - May 17, 1998 -Houston Photography Now-- March 6- April 19, 1998 -DeWitt Godfrey-- April24- June 14, 1998 -Alexis Rockman-- Nov. 21, 1997- Jan. 11, 1998 - David McGee: Black Comedies and Night Music -- Jan. 16 - March 1, 1998 -James Turrell: Spirit & Light.-- June 6- July 26, 1998

THE MENIL COLLECTION - Surrealism -- Through January 11, 1998 -Joseph Cornell-- October 3, 1997- January 4, 1998 -The Drawings ofTheophile Bra-- December 12, 1997- March 29, 1998 -Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective-- February 12- May 17, 1998

THE CY TWOMBLY GALLERY AT THE MENIL COLLECTION - Cy Twombly Collection-- Ongoing

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON - Modernism In A Century Of Change : Cubism And The Heroic Years Of Abstraction -­ October 18, 1997- January 1998 - Linda Ridgway: A Survey, the Poetry of Lineffhe Poetics of Form -- October 10 - December 7, 1997 -The Dark Mirror: Picasso & Photography-- November 16, 1997- February 1, 1998 -American Images: The SBC Collection of 20th-Century American Art-- November 9, 1997- January 25, 1998 - The Body of Christ in the Art of Europe and New Spain, 1150-1800 -~ December 21, 1977 - April 12, 1998 - Years that End in Nine -- March 1 - April 26, 1998 - Intimate Encounters : Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France -- May 31 - August 23, 1998 - Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective -- February 12 - May 17, 1998

MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY - Edna Hibel : Lithographs -- Through December 8, 1997 - Sacred Tibetan Books and Art -- November 13 - December 10, 1997 - 200 Years of Lithography: The Democratic Art -- January 17 - April 5, 1998 - The History of the Personal Ad, 1640-1998 -- February 12 - April 6, 1998 -John Biggers-- April 9- May 29, 1998 - Victorian Interiors : The Role of the Printer in the British Design Movement -- May 21 - September 7, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 26

- The Circus Poster -- June 4 - August 7, 1998 - Contemporary Japanese Woodblock Prints -- Opens April 2, 1998

RICE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY -To the absent Friend (Charles Howard drawings for Douglas MacAgy) --November 13 - December 21, 1997

LUBBOCK LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PIONEER GALLERY - Area High School Art Competition --Through December 5, 1997 -Texas Historical Society "Photography 1997" --December 19, 1997- February 1, 1998 -Charles Valentine-- February 9- February 28, 1998 -Jean Badger-- March 2- April3, 1998 - LCU Art Student Spring Exhibition

LUBBOCK FINE ARTS CENTER - Celebracion -- October 27 - December 19, 1997 - FAC Annual-- January 12- February 13, 1998 - Days of Invention -- March 2 - 27, 1998 - llluminance -- April 13 - May 8, 1998 -Family Place-- May 26- June 26, 1998 -Untitled 2 --July 13- August 14, 1998 -Visual Vanguards-- August 31- September 25, 1998 - Celebracion --October 12- November 13, 1998 -Crafts Etc.-- November 30- December 24, 1998

THE LANDMARK GALLERY (TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY) -Annual Faculty Exhibition-- December 5, 1997- January 24, 1998

MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - Friends in Focus -- Opens December 7, 1997 -Luis Jimenez Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture-- Opens December 14, 1997 - The Diamond M Fine Art Collection -- Through December 31, 1997 - Art of Faith/ Arte de Fe -- Opens November 24, 1997 -Selections from the Museum ofTTU Art Collection-- Opens November 10, 1997

MIDLAND MCCORMICK GALLERY (MIDLAND COLLEGE) -Midland College Fall Student Show --November 24 -December 14, 1997 -James Tisdale-- January 17- February 15, 1998 - 0. Rufus Lovett & John Hilliar --February 21 -March 30, 1998 -Midland College Spring Student Show-- April21 -May 5, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 27

MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST -Richard Wood: Painting-- November 1- December 28, 1997 -Ned Jacob: Sol y Sombra --November 13, 1997- January 4, 1998

ODESSA ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM -The Inventions of Leonardo-- November 25, 1997- February 9, 1998 - Selections from the Mari & James C. Michener Collection of 20th Century American Art-- December 5, 1997- January 11, 1998 - Joie de Vivre: Watercolor Paintings by Evelyn Boren-- January 15 =March 1, 1998 - Odessa Art Association Juried Show --March 5 -29, 1998 - Ector County lSD Secondary Student Show -- April, 1998 -Celebrate Texas Quilters --May 3- June 28, 1998 - Metal Arts '98 -- TBA

SAN ANTONIO MCNAY ART MUSEUM -Masterworks from the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts-- October 7, 1997- January 11, 1998 -The Art of Enchantment: Children's Book lllustrators --October 7, 1997- January 11, 1998 -Matisse at the McNay-- November 9, 1997- January 4, 1998 -Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-43 --December 19, 1997- February 15, 1998 -O'Keefe and Texas-- January 27- AprilS, 1998 - The Garden Setting: Nature Designed -- March 23 - May 31, 1998 -Watercolor Masterpieces from the McNay Collection-- March 3- May 3, 1998 -Impressionist Prints from the McNay Collection-- May 2- May 25, 1998 - McNay Print Fair/1998 -- May 2 - 3, 1998 -Third in South Texas artist retrospective series -- June- August 1998 -Gabrielle MYnter --October 20, 1998- January 3, 1999 - Collectors Gallery X:XXll -- October-November 1998 -The Great American Pop Art Store-- January 19- March 14, 1999 - Christopher LeBrun -- Spring 1999 - Fourth in South Texas Artist Retrospective Series -- Summer 1999 - After the Photo Secession: American Pictorial Photography 1910-1955 -- August 17 - October 17, 1999 - Collectors Gallery X:XXill -- October 1999

SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART - El Alma del Pueblo : Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas -­ Through January 4, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 28

SOUTHWEST CRAFf CENTER - Endeavors 9 -- Through December 24, 1997

TYLER TYLER MUSEUM OF ART -Charles Schorre: A Retrospective 1925-1996-- Through January 3, 1998 - Art Nouveau: Glass and Pottery -- Through January 4, 1998 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 29

1997 ARLIS/Texas Directory Jacqueline Allen Beverly Carver * Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Fort Worth Public Library P.O. Box 6826 300 Taylor St. Houston, TX 77265-6826 Fort Worth, TX 76102-7333

(Art Reference Librarian) (Head of Reference) 111 Beverly Lane office: (817) 871-7701 (main) Bellaire, TX 77401 office: (713) 639-7327 Sherman Clarke fax: (713) 639-7399 14 Washington Pl. #6J e-mail: jacqui @mfah.org New York, NY 10003 home: (713) 666-8509 (Head of Original Cataloging) Robert W. Beebe Bobst Library - Cataloging 680 E. Basse Rd., Apt. #135 New York University Libraries San Antonio, TX 78209 70 Washington Square S. New York, NY 10012 (Collection Development Coordinator) office: (212) 998-2462 San Antonio Public Library fax: (212) 995-4366 600 Soledad St. e-mail: [email protected] San Antonio, TX 78205 home: (212) 253-0762 office: (210) 207-2657 fax: (210) 207-2653 Carl R. Close e-mail: [email protected] Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum home: (210) 821-1398 P.O. Box 6069 San Antonio, TX 78209-0069 Rita Paschal Bibb Dallas Museum of Art (Catalog Librarian) 1717 North Harwood 215 Emporia St., Apt. 7 Dallas, TX 75201 San Antonio, TX 78209-4027 office: (21 0) 805- t'726 (Visual Resources Manager) fax: (210) 824-0218 office: (214) 922-1281 e-mail: [email protected] fax: (214) 954-0174 home: (210) 822-2830

Patricia R. Blackman Margaret Culbertson 13235 Hunters Spring 945 Bayland San Antonio, TX 78230 Houston, TX 77009

(Reference Librarian) (Architecture & Art Librarian) San Antonio Public Library University of Houston 600 Soledad St. Architecture & Art Library San Antonio, TX 78205 4800 Calhoun office: (210) 207-2500 ext. 2652 Houston, TX 77204-2091 e-mail: 72732.2564 @compuserve.com office: (713) 743-2340 home: (210) 492-9535 fax: (713) 743-9778 e-mail: [email protected] home: (713) 880-3711 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 30

Karen DeWitt Jon Evans 4602 54th St., Apt. 267 14335 Ella Blvd. #1706 Lubbock, TX 79414 Houston, TX 77014

(Architecture Librarian) (Library Assistant) Texas Tech University Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Architecture Library Hirsch Library Mail Stop 2091 P.O. Box 6826 Lubbock, TX 79409-2091 Houston, TX 77265 office: (806) 742-8058 office: (713) 639-7325 fax: (806) 742-2855 fax: (713) 639-7399 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] home: (806) 793-7317 home: (281) 875-9766

Jeannette Dixon Margaret Ford Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston P.O. Box 6826 P.O. Box 6826 Houston, TX 77265-6826 Houston, TX 77265

(Librarian & Electronic Communications (Associate Librarian) Director) 5405 Evergreen 1119 E. 7Y2 St. Bellaire, TX 77401-4832 Houston, TX 77009 office: (713) 639-7327 office: (713) 639-7326 fax: (713) 639-7399 fax: (713) 639-7399 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] home: (713) 661-7304 home: (713) 868-1091 Patricia Garrison * BethJ. Dodd The Art Institute of Houston University of Texas at Austin 1900 Yorktown The General Libraries Houston, TX 77056 P.O. Box P (BTL 200, S5430) Austin, TX 78713-8916 (Resource Center Director) office: (713) 623-2040 (Curator, Architectural Drawings Collection) fax: (713) 966-2701 2204 B Mountainview Rd. e-mail: [email protected] Austin, TX 78703 office: (512) 495-4621 Stephen R. Gassett e-mail: dodd.beth @mail.utexas.edu Kimbell Art Museum home: (512) 478-6578 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76107-2792 Sam Duncan Amon Carter Museum (Assistant Librarian) 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. 5417 Voider Dr. Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695 Fort Worth, TX 76114 office: (817) 332-8451 ext. 254 (Assistant Librarian/Cataloguer) fax: (817) 877-1264 2908 W. Cantey St. e-mail: [email protected] Fort Worth, TX 76109-1114 home: (817) 737-9686 office: (817) 738-1933 ext. 245 fax: (817) 738-4066 e-mail: sam.duncan@ cartermuseum.org home: (817) 924-2045 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 31

Ann Graham Kathryn Jackson University of North Texas Southern Methodist University School of Visual Arts Hamon Arts Library P.O. Box 5098 Dallas, TX 75275-0356 Denton, TX 76203 (Fine Arts Librarian) (Visual Resources Curator) 4719 Cole Ave., Apt. 206 1209 Stratford Dallas, TX 75205-3562 Denton, TX 76201 office: (214) 768-2796 office: (817) 565-4019 fax: (214) 768-1800 fax: (817) 565-4717 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] home: (214) 521-8391 home: (817) 387-6198 Ann Jones Phillip T. Heagy 717 Imlay Menil Collection Library San Antonio, TX 78209 1511 Branard St. Houston, TX 77006 (Head Librarian) McNay Art Museum Library (Librarian) P.O. Box 6069 5466 Indigo St. San Antonio, TX 78209-0069 Houston, TX 77096 office: (21 0) 805-1728 office: (713) 525-9426 fax: (210) 824-0218 fax: (713) 525-9470 or 525-9444 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] home: (21 0) 828-1159 home: (713) 666-7805 Lois Swan Jones Janine J. Henri 3801 Normandy 4604 Yell ow Rose Tr. Dallas, TX 75205-2106 Austin, TX 78749 home: (214) 528-2732 fax: (214) 637-4572 (Head Librarian) e-mail: [email protected] Architecture and Planning Library The General Libraries Craig Likness The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Box 120333 P.O. Box P (BTL 200) San Antonio, TX 78212 Austin, TX 78713-8916 office: (512) 495-4623 (Assistant Dir. for Public Services and e-mail: jhenri @mail.utexas.edu Collections) home: (512) 892-7884 Library Trinity University Milan R. Hughston 715 Stadium Drive Amon Carter Museum San Antonio, TX 78212 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. office: (210) 736-7344 Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695 e-mail: [email protected] home: (210) 734-8032 (Librarian) 3564 W. 5th St. Fort Worth, TX 76107 office: (817) 738-1933 ext. 243 fax: (817) 738-4066 e-mail: milan.hughston @cartermuseum.org home: (817) 735-9457 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 32

Patricia Cummings Loud * Jet M. Prendeville Kimbell Art Museum 1736 Y2 Banks 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. Houston, TX 77098 Fort Worth, TX 76107-2744 (Art/Architecture Librarian) (Curator of Architecture and Museum Archivist) Rice University 4108 Hartwood Dr. The Fondren Library Fort Worth, TX 76109-1609 6100 South Main Street office: (817) 332-8421 ext. 243 Houston, TX 77251-1892 fax: (817) 877-1264 office: (713) 527-4832 home: (817) 924-0159 e-mail: [email protected] home: (713) 529-1091 Darin Marshall Dallas Museum of Art Bonnie Reed Mayer Library 3708 64th Dr. 1717 N. Harwood Lubbock, TX 79413 Dallas, TX 75201 (Fine Arts Librarian) (Manager of Libraries) Texas Tech University Libraries office: (214) 922-1276 Lubbock, TX 79409-0002 fax: (214) 954-0174 office: (806) 742-2236 e-mail: [email protected] fax: (806) 742-0737 e-mail: [email protected] JulieS. Morgan home: (806) 792-2631 29 Lakeway Drive Heath, TX 75087 Melanie J. Rodriguez* 303 Goodhue Ave. (Part-time Librarian) San Antonio, TX 78218 Dallas Museum of Art Mayer Library (Library Assistant) Dallas, TX 75201 McNay Art Museum Library e-mail: JBM1 @msg.itg.ti.com 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave. P.O. Box 6069 Sarah C. Pierce San Antonio, TX 78209-0069 University of Texas at San Antonio office: (21 0) 805-1727 Visual Resources Collection fax: (210) 824-0218 6900 North Loop 1604 West e-mail: [email protected] (work) San Antonio, TX 78249-0642 [email protected] (home) home: (210) 655-2299 (Slide Curator) 920 Canterbury Hill Diane Sandberg * San Antonio, TX 78209 1124 Danbury Rd. office: (21 0) 691-4360 Houston, TX 77055-6829 fax: (210) 691-4347 e-mail: [email protected] (Cataloging Assistant) home: (210) 828-2037 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 B issonnet Houston, TX 77006 office: (713) 639-7327 home: (713) 956-0633 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 33

Laura Schwartz Thelma K. Stone * University of Texas Fort Worth Public Library Fine Arts Library 300 Taylor The General Libraries Fort Worth, TX 76102 FAB 3.200 Austin, TX 78713-8916 (Humanities/Arts Manager) 6351 Vega Dr. #504 (Art Librarian) Fort Worth, TX 76133 1622 Garden St. office: (817) 871-7739 Austin, TX 78702 e-mail: [email protected] office: (512) 495-4476 home: (817) 346-7045 fax: (512) 495-4490 e-mail: [email protected] Allen Townsend home: (512) 477-3556 Philadelphia Museum of Art Library P.O. Box 7646 Linda N. Shearouse Philadelphia, P A 19101 15919 Mesa Verde Houston, TX 77059 (Head Librarian) home: (281) 480-2374 1815 Spruce St. #3B Philadelphia, PA 19103 Chia-Chun Shih office: (215) 684-7651 Kimbell Art Museum fax: (215) 236-0534 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. e-mail: [email protected] Fort Worth, TX 76107-2792 home: (215) 893-1383

(Librarian) Polly Trump 435 Rifleman Trail P.O. Box 1163 Arlington, TX 76002 Fraser, CO 80442 office: (817) 332-8451 ext. 242 fax: (817) 877-1264 (Reference Librarian) e-mail: ccshih@ kimbellmuseum.org Fraser Valley Library home: (817) 468-8605 P.O. Box 160 Fraser, CO 80442 Marcia (Marty) Stein office: (970) 726-5689 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston e-mail: ptrump @tripath.colosys.net P.O. Box 6826 home: (970) 726-6813 Houston, TX 77265-6856 (Image Librarian) Annette K. Weir 8326 Vintage Creek Dr. 6445 Shady Brook Ln., Apt. 2348 Spring, TX 77379 Dallas, TX 75206-1322 office: (713) 639-7525 fax: (713) 639-7709 (Research Librarian) e-mail: mkstein @mfah.org Dallas Museum of Art home: (281) 376-1370 Mayer Library 1717 N. Harwood Dallas, TX 75201 office: (214) 922-1279 fax: (214) 954-0174 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] home: (214) 691-3386 THE MEDIUM FALL 1997 34

Chapter Officers, 1997:

President: Marcia (Marty) Stein Vice-President/President-Elect: Bonnie Reed Secretary-Treasurer: Sam Duncan Past-President: Janine Henri ARLIS/NA South Regional Representative 0997-1999): Lee Sorensen

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