MEMORIAL ART GALLERY BIENNIAL REPORT 2002• 04 527,896 visitors welcomed ‘02–03: 284,867 ‘03–04: 243,029 48,869 schoolchildren and adults toured the Gallery ‘02–03: 30,108 A ‘03–04: 18,761 G H 5,686 C B individual and corporate members as of 6/30/04 * 5,529 students enrolled in Creative Work- shop art and art history classes ‘02–03: 3,110 ‘03–04: 2,419 158,857 D hours contributed by volunteers E F I J ‘02–03: 86,983 (1,630 volunteers) ‘03–04: 71,874 (1,331 volunteers) $33,659,986 value of endowment as of 6/30/04 The Years in Review 2002-2004 $11.3 million art acquisition $22.3 million general operating *adjusted to reflect active members only A In October 2002, ballerinas from Rochester C “Make It and Take It” workshops were a E In June 2003, periodontist Frederick Halik G After nearly half a century, Clothesline I “A difficult and challenging task.” That’s City Ballet mingled with guests at one of three favorite feature of MAG’s popular Family was one of a team of forensic experts on hand still reigned as Rochester’s oldest and largest how director Grant Holcomb (shown in the member previews for Edgar Degas: Figures in Days. In January 2004, this young artist to study an unusual set of CT scans and x-rays. arts and crafts festival—and MAG’s biggest recording studio) described the process of Motion. When the show closed ten weeks later, it learned about Hispanic holiday traditions The subject—a mummy from Peabody Essex fund-raiser. The September event attracted selecting 25 works for the Director’s Audio- had attracted 71,137 visitors, shattering all previ- at Three Kings Day. Museum—was destined for MAG’s new inter- 33,000 visitors in 2002 and 32,000 in 2003. tour. The tour, which debuted in May 2004, ous MAG attendance records. It also attracted active exhibit Protected for Eternity: The Coffins Both years, M&T Bank continued its long- was made possible by gifts from Robert record support, including major grants from D As a child, Jean Bellows Booth (shown of Pa-debehu-Aset. In the end, the 2000-year-old standing support. and Joanne Gianniny, Jay Advertising and presenting sponsor M&T Bank and supporting here with daughter Emily) often modeled mummy gave up no secrets. While there were The Studios at Linden Oaks, and donors to sponsor Verizon Wireless. for her father, American master George numerous fractures (most likely post-mortem), H The Gallery continued its commitment to the 2003 annual campaign. Bellows. In April 2003, she traveled to there were no obvious signs of trauma to American craft with the acquisition of such B During Degas’s last two weeks, the Gallery Rochester for the opening of Leaving for account for the young man’s death. works as Wendell Castle’s Upside Down Chair. J In spring 2004, art lovers and Civil War extended its hours to accommodate capacity the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock, Made of maple and jelutong, an exotic hard- buffs flocked to a major touring exhibition 1 crowds. Above, Lori Maneiro and Beatrice Harris which included this famous portrait of her F Adults, teens and children as young as 2 ⁄2 wood, the trompe l’oeil work went on view to of works by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the were among those who came on the final day. with her mother and sister. Organized by continued to enjoy classes in the Gallery’s delighted visitors in April 2004. 19th-century master known as “America’s MAG, the acclaimed show had a national Creative Workshop. In addition to studio Michelangelo.” Above, visitors admire tour and was the occasion for a sympo- courses in all media, such as the still life Victory, who in larger form graces the sium featuring author Joyce Carol Oates painting class above, the Workshop offered Sherman Memorial at the entrance to and four other Bellows scholars. art history surveys and expanded its popular New York’s Central Park. Art Day School program. PHOTOS ABOVE: Gary Graham (A, D, J), Danese Kenon/Democrat and Chronicle (B, E), Brandon Vick (C), Warren Mianecke (F), Richard P. Wersinger (G), James M. Via (H), John Corridi/Jay Advertising (I). COVER PHOTO: Richard P. Wersinger. 2 Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion show- In 1922, George Bellows spent the spring and Rembrandt’s World explored the Dutch Augustus Saint-Gaudens modeled Protected for Eternity opened in the Gill Discovery Center in Among the artists in Dimensions cased a complete set of 73 bronzes by summer building a home for his family in his Golden Age through prints and Standing Lincoln on his full-scale October 2003. This interactive exhibit showcased one of the in Pop were Andy Warhol, Claes the legendary French Impressionist, plus beloved Woodstock, NY. The results were drawings from the MAG collection. monument for Chicago’s Lincoln most significant acquisitions in Gallery history—a pair of Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, selected pastels, paintings and prints. documented in My House, Woodstock (1924), one Above is Rembrandt’s evocative Self- Park. It was just one of the treasures lavishly decorated coffins that once held the mummy of an whose Sweet Dreams, Baby (1965) Shown here is Dancer Looking at the of the masterworks in Leaving for the Country. Portrait with Raised Sabre (1634). on view by “America’s Michelangelo.” Egyptian official. is shown here. Sole of her Right Foot (ca. 1895–1910). Exhibitions Exhibitions GRAND GALLERY Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Literacy for Little Comrades: NEW ACQUISITIONS GALLERY American Sculptor of the Gilded Age The Anti-Religious Alphabet Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age New Acquisitions for a New Millennium February 15–April 8, 2004 March 26–June 6, 2004 June 16–August 25, 2002 Long-term installation This exhibition was organized by The Trust for Museum Organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, Circa Exhibitions, Washington, DC, in cooperation with the Saint- Pompelmous, Surinam and Centaurea Cyanus: Botanical 1900 was a collaboration between MAG, AKAG and four other Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH. In Rochester, it Prints from the Collection of Jacquelyn and William Pinch upstate museums—the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, was sponsored by M&T Bank, with additional support from Sentry June 18–August 29, 2004 LUCY BURNE GALLERY Museum of Art, in Utica; the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse; Group. The media sponsor was the Democrat and Chronicle. Sponsored by the Georgia O’Keeffe Society and Claude Monet the Albany Institute of History and Art; and the Herbert F. Society of the Gallery’s Director’s Circle. Print Club of Rochester Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. In Rochester, the June 20–August 15, 2003 exhibition was sponsored by the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Fund. LOCKHART GALLERY The Creative Workshop also presented frequent exhibitions of Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion GILL DISCOVERY CENTER work by its faculty and students. Portrait of Life: The Etchings of October 13, 2002–January 5, 2003 About Face: Copley’s Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith This exhibition was organized and circulated by Joseph S. Arthur William Heintzelman June 21–September 8, 2002 Through May 27, 2003 Czestochowski, International Arts, Memphis, TN. In Rochester, This exhibition was made possible with support from Dorothy PRINT STUDY CASE it was made possible by major grants from Presenting Sponsor Meanwhile: Works by Contemporaries of Edgar Degas and Dan Gill and by the Museum Loan Network, a program M&T Bank and Supporting Sponsor Verizon Wireless. Additional September 13, 2002–January 5, 2003 administered by MIT’s Office of the Arts, funded by the John S. Guarneri’s Ombra su Praga support was provided by the Riedman Foundation.The media and James L. Knight Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts. February 18–April 27, 2003 sponsor was the Democrat and Chronicle. Dimensions in Pop Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for January 17–March 23, 2003 the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Vanden Terry Winters Prints Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock May 1–11, 2003 April 13–June 22, 2003 The Prints of George Bellows: Brul Conservation Fund. This exhibition was underwritten by the Henry Luce Foundation An American Master in Black and White Protected for Eternity: The Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset American Scene: Works on Paper and Joan and Harold Feinbloom. Additional support was provid- April 12–June 22, 2003 Opened October 8, 2003 from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s ed by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency, Sponsored by the Georgia O’Keeffe Society and Claude Monet This exhibit was made possible by funding from Dan and May 13–August 3, 2003 the Gallery Council and the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Fund. Society of the Gallery’s Director’s Circle. Dorothy Gill. Additional support was provided by the Prints and Drawings by Mexican Artists The show was organized by MAG and circulated by Curatorial Museum Loan Network, a program administered by MIT’s Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE). All Around The Town: Artists’ New York August 5–October 26, 2003 July 22–November 19, 2003 Office of the Arts, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Offered in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month. 59th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company. Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and by grants August 3–October 5, 2003 from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York In His Own Words: The Drawings of Henry Moore This exhibition was sponsored by The Rochester Group.