2018–2019 MFAH Annual Report
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston annual report 2018–2019 MFAH BY THE NUMBERS July 1, 2018 –June 30, 2019 Attendance • visits to the Museum, the Lillie and Hugh 1,269,626 $6.4 Tuition Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Bayou Bend Collection 9% Other Revenue $10.7 and Gardens, Rienzi, and the Glassell School of Art $2.4 14% 3% Membership • 101,971 visitors and students reached through learning Revenue $3.4 and interpretation programs on-site and off-site 5% FY 2019 • 77,821 youth visitors ages 18 and under received free Operating Revenues Endowment or discounted access to the MFAH Operating (millions) Spending Fund-raising $37.5 $14.2 50% • 37,986 schoolchildren and their chaperones received 19% free or discounted tours of the MFAH • 7,969 Houstonians were served through community engagement programs off-site Total Revenues: $74.6 million • 118 community partners citywide collaborated with the MFAH Exhibitions, Curatorial, and Collections $14.8 Auxiliary 22% • 3,439,718 visits recorded at mfah.org Activities $4.6 7% • 442,416 visits recorded at the online collections module Fund-raising $6.3 9% • 346,400 people followed the MFAH on Facebook, FY 2019 Education, Libraries, Instagram, and Twitter Operating Expenses and Visitor (millions) Engagment $14.7 22% • 316,229 online visitors accessed the Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art Website, icaadocs.mfah.org Management and General $9.6 Buildings and Grounds 14% and Security $17.5 • 234,649 visits to Vincent van Gogh: His LIfe in Art 26% Total Expenses: $67.5 million • 87,934 individuals identifi ed as members of the MFAH as of June 30, 2019 • 1,671 volunteers and docents served the MFAH • 663 permanent and temporary staff were employed by the MFAH CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2018–June 30, 2019 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 4 Board of Trustees 5 Committee Chairmen 6 Report of the Director 20 Accessions Illustrated works on the cover and on pages 21–67 American Art, 68 Art of the Americas, 68 Art of the Islamic Worlds, 68 Asian Art, 68 The Bayou Bend Collection, 69 Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, 70 European Art, 72 Latin American Art, 72 Modern and Contemporary Art, 73 Photography, 73 Prints and Drawings, 80 The Rienzi Collection, 84 86 Exhibitions Major Loan and Permanent-Collection Exhibitions, 86 Additional Displays from the Permanent Collection and Gallery Rotations, 98 106 Departmental Highlights 108 Learning and Interpretation 110 Membership and Guest Services 111 International Center for the Arts of the Americas 112 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation 113 The Glassell School of Art 114 Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 115 Rienzi 116 The Brown Foundation Fellows Program The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France 117 Development 130 Report of the Chief Financial Offi cer 135 Staff BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS LIFE TRUSTEES Mr. Martyn E. Goossen HONORARY TRUSTEES AND Mr. Samuel F. Gorman TRUSTEES EMERITI Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Isaac Arnold, Jr. Ms. Cecily E. Horton Chairman Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mrs. Mary Farish Johnston Mrs. Carol C. Ballard Mrs. Clare A. Glassell Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Mr. Raphael Bernstein Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Ms. Tanya Brillembourg Vice-Chairman and Secretary Mrs. Elise Elkins Joseph Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Mr. Lenoir M. Josey II Mrs. Gisele Chulack Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. Joe Hudson Mr. Evan H. Katz Mrs. Joyce Z. Greenberg Treasurer Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. George B. Kelly Mr. Adolpho Leirner Mrs. Cornelia Long Ms. Carla Knobloch Mr. Thomas V. McMahan Mrs. Cornelia C. Long Mrs. Sara Scholes Morgan Mr. Andrius Kontrimas Mrs. Nancy Peterkin Chairman Emeritus Mrs. Nancy Brown Negley Mrs. Colleen Kotts Mrs. Isla Reckling Ms. Anne Schlumberger Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofi m Ms. Alice C. Simkins Mr. Douglas L. Lawing Ms. Barbara Slifka Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Mrs. Rolanette Lawrence Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw Mr. R. W. Wortham III Mr. Michael C. Linn Mrs. Lynn Wyatt Mr. James Edward Maloney EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Mrs. Judy Erlich Margolis Mrs. Polly Bowden ELECTED TRUSTEES Mr. William N. Mathis Bayou Bend Committee, Chair Mrs. Kirby Cohn McCool Mrs. Nancy O. Abendshein Mrs. Nidhika Oberoi Mehta Mr. Dwight A. Boykins Mrs. Gail Adler Ms. Nancy Powell Moore Houston City Council, Mrs. Sushila Agrawal Representative, District D Ms. Joan Morgenstern Mrs. Ann Bookout Mrs. Bobbie Nau Ms. Ellen Cohen Mr. Brad Bucher Ms. Franci Neely Houston City Council, Mr. Rusty Burnett Mrs. Pamela F. Ott Representative, District C Mr. Charles Butt Mrs. Cynthia Petrello Mrs. Rosslyn Crawford Mr. Frank N. Carroll Ms. Mary Lawrence Porter Rienzi Committee, Chair Ms. Bettie Cartwright Mrs. Susanne Pritchard Mr. Thomas Casparie Mrs. Susan A. Diehl Mrs. Macey H. Reasoner Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney MFAH Volunteer Guild, President Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. Dr. Anne S. Chao Mr. Francisco Rivero Mrs. Nancy R. Gordon Mr. Peter R. Coneway Ms. Beth Robertson River Oaks Garden Club, President Mrs. Mary Cullen Mr. Manolo Sánchez Mrs. Rania Daniel Ms. Kate Kraycirik Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofi m The Junior League of Houston, Mrs. Linnet F. Deily Dr. Ruth Simmons Representative Ms. Sara Paschall Dodd Mrs. Eliza Erwin Stedman Mrs. Zeina N. Fares Ms. Debbie McNulty Mrs. Aliyya Kombargi Stude Mrs. Cherie Flores City of Houston, Director of Mrs. Judy Spence Tate Cultural Affairs Mr. Gregory E. Fourticq, Jr. Ms. Ann G. Trammell Mrs. Barbara G. Gamson Dr. Sarah A. Trotty Mrs. Dana Painter Parkey Mrs. Sonia Garza-Monarchi The Garden Club of Houston, Mrs. Phoebe Tudor Mrs. Lela W. Gibbs President Mr. Barron F. Wallace Mr. Thomas S. Glanville Mrs. Barbara Webber Mrs. Jacqueline N. Puhl Mrs. Sandra S. Godfrey Mrs. Cyvia G. Wolff Bayou Bend Docent Organization, General Chairman Mr. Gary Tinterow Director, MFAH 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MUSEUM BAYOU BEND COLLECTION AND GARDENS Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. R. W. Wortham III Executive Committee Collections Committee Latin American Art Mrs. Polly Bowden Subcommittee Bayou Bend Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mr. Frank N. Carroll Audit Committee Africa, Oceania, and Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Carol Jean Moehlman the Americas Subcommittee and Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Bayou Bend Collection Mr. R. W. Wortham III (Co-Chairs) Subcommittee Buildings and Grounds Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Modern and Contemporary Committee American Painting and Art Subcommittee THE GLASSELL SCHOOL Sculpture Subcommittee OF ART Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. James Edward Maloney Compensation Committee Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian Photography Subcommittee Mr. Brad Bucher and Ms. Franci Neely Executive Committee Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofi m (Co-Chairs) Ms. Franci Neely and Development Committee Art of the Islamic Worlds Mr. Michael S. Zilkha Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney Subcommittee (Co-Chairs) Glassell Core Subcommittee Mr. Joe Hudson Mrs. Lynn Wyatt Finance Committee Mrs. Phoebe Tudor (Founding Chair) RIENZI Arts of Europe and the Film Subcommittee Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. Mediterranean Subcommittee Mrs. Rosslyn F. Crawford Endowment Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Rienzi Committee Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Prints and Drawings Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Chair) Subcommittee Mrs. Cyvia G. Wolff Long-Range Planning Mrs. Nidhika O. Mehta Rienzi Collection Committee (Co-Chair) Mr. Joe Hudson Subcommittee Asian Art Subcommittee and Ms. Alice C. Simkins Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Co-Chairs) Mrs. Laura B. Rowe Crawford Nominating Committee Ms. Cecily E. Horton Conservation Committee Rienzi Gardens Subcommittee Decorative Arts Subcommittee Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Exhibitions Committee Mrs. Macey Hodges Reasoner Learning and Interpretation Committee Ms. Terry Ann Brown Library Committee 5 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR curators, and library. The handsome new Blaffer Foun- dation Center for Conservation provides lofty, light-fi lled studios as well as state-of-the-art laboratories, with ample room for future expansion. We are deeply grateful for the collaboration and support of the Blaffer Foundation Board of Trustees, as well as the many descendants of Sarah Campbell Blaffer, a key force in the development of the Museum for nearly fi fty years, in addition to a host of additional donors, acknowledged on pages 14–19. This year’s exceptional attendance was driven by the exhi- bition program, coordinated by Deborah Roldán, associate director for exhibitions. The season opened brilliantly with Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol. Organized in collaboration with the National The year that concluded on June 30, 2019, will certainly Portrait Gallery, London, this was the fi rst exhibition be viewed in retrospect as extraordinary, one marked to be mounted in the United States of four centuries of by unexpected heights of achievement: with more than royal portraiture from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. Drawn 1,250,000 visitors, total attendance at all of our facilities primarily from the collections of the National Portrait exceeded the record set two years ago by 25 percent; Gallery, the selection was overseen by David Bomford, the our staff conceived and mounted unique exhibitions Beck Curator of European Art. He added extraordinary exclusive to Houston—most notably Tudors to Windsors, loans from the Prado, Madrid, the Galleria Borghese, Contesting Modernity, and Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Rome, the National Gallery, London, and the Metropolitan Art; fi ne works of art entered our permanent collections, Museum of Art, New York, to create a stunning survey including the exciting new discovery by Eugène Delacroix, with masterpieces by Holbein, Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, Women of Algiers; contributions from the community rose and many modern masters. from the previous year; the capital campaign reached its goal of $450 million and continued to climb, thanks to Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975 the Kinder Foundation Challenge; our net assets reached was the latest path-breaking exhibition conceived by Mari a new record level, $1.8 billion (excluding the value of our Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American collections); and we posted a record-breaking operating Art.