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The Smart Museum of Art Bulletin The Smart Museum of Art Bulletin 1no7 1OQQ The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago CONTENTS Report of the Chair and Director 5 Mission Statement 7 Volume 9, 1997-1998. Photography Credits: Pages 8-15 Jerry Kobylecki Studies in the Permanent Collection Copyright ©1999 by The David and Alfred Museum Photography. Pages 18-26, figs. 1-3, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Mo(o)re on the Other Side 9 Tom van Eynde; fig. 5, Jerry Kobylecki Museum 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, Photography; fig. 6, Tom van Eynde. Pages 28-32, RICHARD A. BORN Chicago, Illinois, 60637. All rights reserved. 34-36, Tom van Eynde. Page 38, Tom van Eynde. Page 40, Tom van Eynde. Page 41, Matthew Artifacts of a Scholar: The Oracle-Bone Calligraphy of Dong Zuobin 19 ISSN: 1099-2413 Gilson. Page 42, Matthew Gilson. Page 43, fig. 1, KRIS IMANTS ERCUMS Matthew Gilson; figs. 2 and 3, Jim Newberry. Page Editor: Courtenay Smith 45 Jim Newberry. Front cover, Tom van Eynde. Design: Joan Sommers Design Printing: M&G Commercial Printing Activities and Support The works illustrated on pages 8-15 are repro­ duced by permission of the Henry Moore Collections 29 Foundation. Every effort has been made to contact rights hold­ Exhibitions and Programs 39 ers for all photographs reproduced. Additional rights holders please contact the Smart Museum. Sources of Support 46 Operating Statement 51 Smart Museum Staff 52 Smart Museum Board of Governors 1997-1 998 Mr. Richard Gray, Chair Professor Jack Flalpern Professor Elizabeth Helsinger, Ms. Joan W. Flarris Vice Chair Professor Neil Harris Mr. Claudio Aspesi Ms. Mary Harvey (ex officio) Mrs. Edwin A. Bergman Ms. Randy Holgate Mr. Robert Bergman (ex officio) Professor William M. Landes Dr. Joel E. Bernstein Ms. Kimerly Rorschach (ex officio) Mr. Robert Feitler Mr. Raymond Smart Ms. Lorna C. Ferguson Professor Joel Snyder (ex officio) Mr. Alan Fern Mr. John N. Stern Mr. Stanley M. Freehling Mr. Michael Wyatt The University of Chicago Visiting Committee Report of the Chair and Director on the Visual Arts Robert H. Bergman, Chair Burton Kanter Ms. Anne Abrons Alan Koppel 1997-98 was a year of great activity for the we expect to complete as the museum cele­ Mrs. James W. Alsdorf Ardith M. Fauerman Smart, as we continued to carry out the initia­ brates its 25th anniversary in 1999. Dorothy Baumgarten Julius Fewis tives of our new Long-Range Strategic Plan, In June of 1997, Joan and Robert Feitler David L. Blumberg Eloise Martin developed with the advice of McKinsey & and the Smart Family Foundation announced Andy Austin Cohen Mrs. Robert B. Mayer Company and adopted by the Smart's Board of their intention to endow the Smart's director­ Phyllis Gordon Cohen Brooks McCormick, Jr. Governors in September 1997. We began plan­ ship in memory of their daughter Dana Feitler. Georgette D'Angelo Mary M. McDonald ning for an extensive renovation of our facilities In 1998, Kimerly Rorschach became the first Gail M. Elden Helen Harvey Mills and reinstallation of our collections, which will Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum. Sally H. Fairweather Evelyn E. Padorr allow us to present larger special exhibitions The museum was very honored to receive this Joan E. Feitler Marshall J. Padorr and more of our burgeoning American and gift, which is both the first endowed position at Robert Feitler Beatrice Perry European modern, contemporary, and East the Smart Museum and the first position other Joan S. Freehling Elizabeth Plotnick than a faculty chair to be endowed at the Uni­ Stanley M. Freehling Margot F. Pritzker Asian collections. The renovation will also pro­ versity of Chicago. Marshall Front Thomas Jay Pritzker vide for a more flexible thematic display of our Allan Frumkin Laura Campbell Rhind Ancient and Old Master works, which will bet­ 1997-98 was an exciting year for exhibi­ Adele B. Gidwitz Joseph J. Rishel ter reflect contemporary trends in art-historical tions at the Smart. We organized and circulated Helen F. Goodkin Irmgard Hess Rosenberger thinking and museum display. We are also cre­ the international exhibition Still More Distant Michael J. Goodkin Joseph P. Shure ating a new Education Study Room, which will Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Richard Gray Farry A. Silver allow us to better serve both university students Segall, which brought to public attention the Joyce Z. Greenberg John N. Stern and primary and secondary school groups, and career of an important but still too-little-known Feo S. Guthman Doris F. Sternberg new storage space for our growing collection of artist. Born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1891, Segall Alice Q. Hargrave Allen M. Turner paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs. studied in Berlin and Dresden, where he was David C. Hilliard James Nowell Wood Designed by John Vinci of Vinci/Hamp Archi­ part of the German expressionist movement. Ruth P. Horwich Mrs. George B. Young tects, the renovation will also include upgrades He later emigrated to Brazil, where he worked of our security and climate control systems, and until his death in 1957. Assembled from collec­ a new state-of-the-art lighting system. This tions in Brazil, and supported by grants from important project will require an investment of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Smart two million dollars, much of which has already Family Foundation, the Brazilian Ministry of been pledged by members of the Smart Muse­ Culture, and Safra Bank, Brazil, our exhibition um's Board of Governors and other generous traveled to the Jewish Museum in New York friends. During 1997-98 we worked to lay the after its showing at the Smart. The fully-illus­ groundwork for this fundraising effort, the trated color catalogue, by Stephanie D'Alessan- Silver Anniversary Renewal Campaign, which dro with contributions by Vera d'Horta and 5 University of Chicago art history professor programs, including gallery workshops for local Reinhold Heller, is the first substantial work in community mentoring groups, and continued English on Segall. We also sponsored a major our renowned Docent for a Day and MusArts international symposium entitled Jews, Society, programs for Chicago public school children in and Art after the Shoah, featuring speakers from 5th—8th grades. We continued our distinctive Brazil, England, and the U.S. education methodology of working collabora­ During the year, we also mounted exhibi­ tively with local schools and other community tions on art from ancient Sumer from the Ori­ partners to create programs that are effective ental Institute Museum collection, African art and responsive to the needs of our education from the Richard Faletti family collection, the program partners. As always, our efforts were British art nouveau designer Archibald Knox, sustained not only by our education department and an influential show of young contemporary staff, but by our wonderful corps of University painters entitled Post-Pop, Post-Pictures. All of Chicago student docents. We were saddened these exhibitions were accompanied by pro­ to say goodbye to our longtime education direc­ grams including lectures, symposia, perfor­ tor Kathleen Gibbons, who left behind an Mission Statement mances, and films, for audiences ranging from impressive legacy of first-class museum educa­ university students and the broader cultural and tion initiatives. We were pleased, however, to The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is spheres of study, the Museum especially seeks to visual arts community to local school children welcome her replacement, Jacqueline Terrassa, the art museum of the University of Chicago. In foster a cross-disciplinary understanding of the and families. former education director at the Hyde Park Art support of the University's educational mission, visual arts by means of its exhibitions and pro­ We acquired 96 works of art in 1997-98, Center. the Smart Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, grams. While embracing and serving the thanks to the generosity of many donors, whose Finally, one of the year's most significant and interprets works of art for the benefit of the University of Chicago audience, the Museum names are listed in the Acqusitions section and events was the second Joseph R. Shapiro Award University community, the citizens of greater also reaches beyond this audience, serving gener­ to whom we are especially grateful. We added Dinner, honoring John H. Bryan, Chairman of Chicago and other general audiences, and the al adult visitors, the greater scholarly and artistic to the collection important paintings by Robert the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Sara scholarly world at large. By means of both its community, and primary and secondary school Barnes and Robert Colescott; sculptures by Lee Corporation, which was held on September own collection and loaned works, the Museum students. By means of its exhibitions, programs, David Smith, Ivan Albright, and Red Grooms; 30, 1997. We were extremely pleased to be able presents exhibitions of scholarly and visual and publications, the Museum makes available and works on paper by Lovis Corinth, Joseph to honor John Bryan, a leader in international merit, in the belief that contact with original the University's unique intellectual resources to Yoakum, Jim Nutt, and Chuck Close; a large business circles who is also widely known as a works of art in a museum setting is an essential this wider audience, thus providing a public group of prints by Roger Brown; and pho­ discerning collector and a model of leadership component of a liberal education and a key fac­ "window" on aspects of the University's scholarly tographs by Graciela Iturbide, Ruth Thorne- in corporate philanthropy of the visual arts. We tor in understanding the world in which we live. discourse. At the same time, the Museum serves Thomsen, and Toshio Shibata.
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