« GRADUATE NEWSLETTER Graduate Program in the History of Art offered in collaboration with the Box 8. Williamstown, Mass. 01267 Issued once a year for the Alumni, Students and Friends ofthis Program

NUMBER 18 Spring 1994

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M.A. CLASS OF 1992 (Front row, left to right) Maria Di Pasquale, Victoria Gardner, Victoria Corbeil, Jennifer Berry, Karen Croff, Janet Temos; (Back row) Karen Kowitz, Program A dministrator, Brian Allen, Leigh Culver, David Little, Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Director. Not Pictured: Robert Carter, Timothy Peterson, Joann Winn, Program Secretary. « (f

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M.A. CLASS OF 1993 (Front row, left to right) Tania Lee, Gabriela Lobo, Amy Oliver, Toddy Belknap Munson, Linda Reynolds, Susan Imbriani, Melania Pong; (Back row) Rachel Henrich, Mark Lindholm, Molly Donovan, Karen Kowitz, Program Administrator, Stefanie Spray, Meagan Shein, Christine Scornavacca, Joann Winn, Program Secretary, Frances Lloyd, Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Director. Not pictured: Susan Dimmock, Oya Orme, Todd Weyman.

[The photo negative was misplaced, and this is the largest and clearest(!) print which could be ( ;( made from the contact sheet. Our apologies!] ANNUAL REPORT 1992-3

This is your old Director's last report. As ofJuly I, 1993, he vacated the post he's held since 1980. He will henceforth become a Year 2000." As you may have heard, he has resigned his post in Washington and is the new President of the Rhode Island regular member ofthe undergraduate Department of Artat Williams College but only on "three-fifths time"; i.e., teaching three School of Design. The Mafia lives! courses during the first term and being free from all College chores during the second. While technically "semi-retired," he will '" ( ( I' Our regular, officially designated, Robert Sterling Clark Professor for spring semester 1993 was John Szarkowski, recently still continue to offer a "500-level" graduate seminar. This fall he teaches ArtH 531, The Art, Science. and Modern Mystique of retired, legendary Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His provocative Leonardo da Vinci. For undergraduates, he also teaches ArtH 232, Italian Art 1300-1500, and ArtH 200, Visual Culture of graduate seminar was entitled "Photography in Ink." His public lecture was on the subject of"Photographyand Modernism." Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The George Heard Hamilton (fall) and Julius Held (spring) Lecture Series likewise continued to feature important and The new Director, named after a difficult two-year search, is Charles W. (Mark) Haxthausen, formerly Professor of Art interesting personalities. In September 1991 Duncan Robinson, Director of the Yale Center for British Art, was History and Head of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Dr. Haxthausen received his B.A. from invited to be the third annual Hamilton guest speaker. His two presentations were entitled "Sacred Grove or Super-Store: What the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas in 1966, his M.A. and Ph.D. from in 1969 and 1976, do We Want Our Museums to Be? and "Landscape, History, and British Art: Twentieth-Century Perspectives." He was respectively, and specializes in contemporary, particularly German, art. Prior to Minnesota, he served for eight years in followed in September 1992 by Paul Tucker (Williams '72), Professor of at the University of , curatorial positions at 's Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, Mass. His numerous publications . Tucker, as you may recall, was the organizer ofthe recent block-buster exhibition, "Monet in the Nineties." As fourth include a book on Paul Klee: The Formative Years, New York (Garland Press), 1981, a catalogue of Modern German annual Hamilton lecturer, he spoke on "Nipping at the Heels: Impressionism and Mainstream Painting in Late Nineteenth­ Masterpiecesfrom the St. Louis Art Museum, 1986, and a collection of essays co-edited (with Heidrun Suhr) on Berlin: Culture Century ," and "Monet and Geometry." and Metropolis, Minneapolis (U. of Minnesota Press), 1990. He is currently working on three more books including The Failed On April 15, 1992, Julius Held was 87 years young. In celebration of his birthday (our eighth such occasion), Williams was Muse: Art and Criticism in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. privileged to have Leo Steinberg as guest lecturer. Professor Steinberg took his audience on a thrilling tour of Michelangelo's Besides his administrative duties, Professor Haxthausen will (as did the former Director) be offering three regular courses Last Judgment, focusing on new revelations concerning the most publicized yet enigmatic image in that masterpiece: "The every year: in the first term this year, he taught ArtH 504F, Methods ofArt History and Criticism, and ArtH 561, Joseph Beuys, Devil His Due, or Who's Who in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam?" both graduate seminars; and during the second term, ArtH 300, Methods ofArt History for undergraduate majors only. The On April 15, 1993, as Julius grew yet another year younger, David Rosand, Professor of Art Historyat Columbia University, old Director welcomes Mark Haxthausen heartily to his new stewardship, and wishes him the same good fortune and many did the honors. His two lectures were entitled "Michelangelo and the Meaning of Drawing," and "A Generation Drawing by pleasurable times that he has always enjoyed. In Mark Haxthausen's capable and experienced hands, the Graduate Program is Leonardo da Vinci." sure to prosper well into the twenty-first century. Responding to the Director's special interest in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and culture, Williams College was host to Turning now to events of the past, here follows a brief overview of the last bienniel of the ancien regime. It is with the Northeastern States Mesoamerican Conference, appropriately on October 10-12, 1993, the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of considerable nostalgia, indeed, that the old Director writes these words, for much that is memorable has happened; most very Columbus's first encounter with the "New World." Besides the distinguished panelists which included Michael Coe of Yale, good news, but some, alas, very sad. Gary Gossen of SUNY Albany, Richard Trexler, SUNY Binghamton, Barbara and Dennis Tedlock, SUNY Buffalo, B.L. With deep regret, he announces the deaths of two of the finest people ever associated with this Program, their passing all the Turner, , and Michael Brown, Williams College, the Graduate Program co-hosted two other special more poignant because both were so young. A year ago last July 28, Colleen Heslip died of cancer. She was only 41 years old. Quincentenniallectures: "The Ancient Mesoamerican Ball-Game" by Douglas Bradley, Curator of Mesoamerican and African Many readers will recall that Colleen served as Guest Curator at the Clark Art Institute from 1987 to 1990. In the spring of the Art, Snite Art Museum, Notre Dame University(co-sponsored with the Williams Athletic Department) and "Sky-Watchers of latter year, she gave a graduate seminar on Provincial Painting in America in connection with her highly-regarded Clark Ancient Mexico" by Anthony Aveni, Professor of Astronomy and at (co-sponsored with the exhibition, "Between the Rivers: Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson." Anyone who has not yet, and still Williams Astronomy Department). wishes to send condolences, please communicate with her husband, Michael Heslip, 53 Cole Avenue, Williamstown, 01267. Seminar offerings in the Graduate Program during the past two years (other than those just mentioned by the Visiting Clark July was tragedy-month once again in 1993. On the 7th, we received news that Scott Opler passed away after suffering ( (\ Professors) continued to be built around a core of annually repeated courses by regular staff: David Brooke's "Museum complications from AIDS, a month short of his thirty-seventh birthday. Scott, as many of you know, received his Master's Studies," WRACL's "Art and Conservation," Rafael Fernandez's "Prints and Drawings," and the Director's "Methods of Art Degree from this Program in 1987. He then went on to Harvard to earn a Ph.D., and was in the process of writing his Historyand Criticism." In 1991-2, these were supplemented by Carol Clark's "Homer and Eakins," Carol Ockman's "Ingres," dissertation on Italian Renaissance architecture under the patronage of Pope Pius IV. A special service honoring Scott was held and Tom Fels's (M.A. '83) "Photography and the American Landscape"; in 1992-3, by Alexandra Murphy's "From Barbizon in the Memorial Church, Harvard University campus, on Sunday, September 19. In further remembrance, the Clark Art to Argenteuil: The Revolution in French Landscape," Zirka Filipczak's "Miracles and Marvels," and E.J. Johnson's "Eclectic Institute has instituted a library memorial in Scott's name. New books on the subject ofItalian Renaissance architecture are to Architecture." The Director, of course, gave his regular courses in "Italian Renaissance Art" and "The Visual Culture of be purchased, and anyone wishing to make a contribution may send a check to Ms. Sally Gibson, Librarian. Each gift book will Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica" for both graduate and undergraduate credit. In the fall term 1992 he offered a special graduate be inscribed with a special plate noting both Scott and the donor. seminar on "Piero della Francesca." Graduate students were also able to take seminars and advanced courses in the Happier thoughts return to the old Director's mind as he contemplates the bright futures of his last two graduating classes. undergraduate program, including offerings in ancient Greek and Roman, early Christian and Medieval, and Chinese and June 1992 witnessed the awarding of the M.A. to Brian Allen, Jennifer Berry, Victoria Corbeil, Karen Croff, Leigh Culver, Japanese art. Maria Di Pasquale, Victoria Gardner, David Little, Tim Peterson, and Janet Temos. Brian and Janet maintained the highest In January 1992, the old Director led his last official Winter Study trip to Italy. It was as usual a fast-paced tour up the Italian grade point average in their two years in the Program and were th us named Robert Sterling Clark Fellows during Grad uation boot from Rome and Florence to Venice and Milan. Alumni co-travelers with the regular student group included Jeanne ceremonies. The following June, 1993, saw Mary (Molly) Donovan, Rachel Henrich, Susan Imbriani, Tania Lee, Deborah Donovan (mother ofgraduate student Molly), Catherine Lee (mother of graduate student Tania), Robert ('36) and Helen Elias, Leveton, Mark Lindholm, Frances Lloyd, Gabriela Lobo, Toddy Belknap Munson, Amy Oliver, Oya Orme, Melania Pong, Daniel ('42) and Betty Jones, Wayne ('41) and Suki Wilkins, Betty Leech, and Melissa Palmer (wives of Edward '40 and Linda Reynolds, Christine Scornavacca, Meagan Shein, Stefanie Spray, and Todd Weyman step forward to receive their Robinson '40). coveted sheep-skins. This year two students, Christine Scornavacca and Amy Oliver, were tied for highest grade-point average Since the old Director did not make the trip again in his last year in office, the class of 1994 was led abroad instead by Paul honors and were named Charles Prendergast Fellows because of a special one-time only cash prize donated through the Kaplan, Professor of Art History at SUNY Purchase. The Italian itinerary, ever excellently prepared by our great Florentine generosity of the Prendergast Foundation. travel agent, Piero Verzucoli, remained intact, and the students had a wonderful time. Here are some further highlights ofacademic years 1991-2 and 1992-3. Four distinguished Robert Sterling Clark Professors Readers ofthis Newsletter will naturally be wondering about the future of the Winter Study trip now that there's a change in visited Williams during as many terms. The first, during Semester I, 1991, was Isabelle Hyman from New York University, a command. The good news is that it will go right on under Director Haxthausen, only the venue will be different. Haxthausen is versatile architectural historian who has published widely on both Renaissance and Modern architecture. Her graduate taking the class of 1995 to Germany for three weeks this January, visiting museums and galleries of contemporary art in seminar was "Marcel Breuer and Modernism" (especially apropos because there is an original Breuer house in Williamstown). Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Prague and Vienna. You'll hear much more in his first report in the Newsletter of 1994. Her inaugural lecture was entitled, "Unfinished Fa'Yades in Florence: A Problem of Renaissance Urbanism." Spring Semester 1992 saw the return of Walter Gibson, Mellon Professor of Art Historyat Case Western Reserve University, to the Robert Sterling Clark Chair. Professor Gibson, you recall, served in the same capacity at Williams during the spring of Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. 1989. He is an internationally renowned expert on Northern European Renaissance Art, and offered once more an excellent Director graduate seminar on "The Altarpiece in Western Art." His public lecture was entitled "Love ofthe Mountains: The Alps in the Life and Art of Pieter Bruegel." Fall term 1992 presented some confusion because Roger Mandie (Williams '63, Deputy Director of the National Gallery, ( Washington, D.C.), who was supposed to be Clark Professor, was unable to assume the post because of the sudden resignation «( of the National Gallery's Director, J. Carter Brown. Brian Wallis, Senior Editor of Art in America, happily accepted in his place at the last minute and taught a lively graduate seminar on "Critical Issues in Contemporary Culture." Rogert Mandie, incidentally, did return to Williams the following spring, giving his own "antidotal" seminar on "Connoisseurship Toward The CLASS NOTES

CLASS OF 1974 Trust for Historic Preservation and also Adj unct Assistant Professor of Art History at Marymount College. Henry is also part of the Speakers in the Program, New York Council for the Humanities. Robert Mattison (817 Porter Street, Judith Adams (41 Broad Street, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 INL England) continues to operate a bookshop selling titles on art, ( ((( Easton, PA 18042), Chair of the Art Department of , especially enjoyed interviewing the artists for his third architecture, design and gardens. Jeanne Bresciani (20 Clovewood Road, High Falls, NY 12440) choreographed Isis to Isadora, book, which he expected to be published in fall 1993. Fronia Simpson (327 Hugo Street, San Francisco, CA 94122) does a new full-length work to the music of Respighi which "premiered to great acclaim" when presented in the U.S. and Brazil in free-lance editing projects for museums' exhibition and collection catalogues, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern 1992. During that year Jeanne also completed teaching and performance tours in Brazil and Italy and performed for the Art on JeffKoons, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on Impressionism Documentation, and the International Center of Photography's Benefit "Breaking Bounds," celebrating the one-woman show and monograph Museum ofArt's drawings collection catalogue. Through Hudson Hills Press she has edited catalogues for the Yale Center for honoring the work ofdance photographer Lois Greenfield. Jeanne continues on the NYU faculty and is a doctoral candidate in British Art and the Taft Museum. In her "spare time" Fronia is trying to assemble information on the collecting of Corots in Performance and Choreography there. Elizabeth Agee Cogswell (6916 Paiute Drive, Edina, MN 55439), now Director of America. John Stamper (Via Del Teatro Valle, 51,00186 Roma, ITALY) is Director ofthe Rome Studies Program, University Corporate and Foundation Relations at , is "working hard to make Macalester one of the top ten liberal arts of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Judith Weiss Levy (6336 Wydown Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63105) is at home with colleges in the nation." She is also on the board of a parent organization working to prevent drug and alcohol abuse by daughter Rebecca, now age 5%, doing volunteer work and acting as the Secretary to the Print Council of America. No news school-age children. Her son is active in the Children's Theater Company, the largest children's theater in North from Eileen Casey Jachym, Deborah Coy Ahearn or Susan Dodge Peters and no address for Michael Klein. America.Francesca Eastman (71 MacBain, Atherton, CA 94027) was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Trinity School, Menlo Park, California, where she serves on the Long-Range Planning Committee. She also studies publishing CLASS OF 1978 at U.C. Berkeley. Nancy Klaus (275 South 22 Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103) is Coordinator of Alumnae Affairs and Placement at the Moore College of Art, the only women's college of art and design in the U.S. Diane Musicant Fennelly (220 Leonard Amico (I Rue Des Pyramides, 7500 I ) has been employed on a short-term contract by the Ministere de la culture East 54 Street #8A, New York, NY 10022) is employed by Charter Atlantic Corporation. Gregory Allgire Smith (36 East 45th in Paris to work at the Musee nationale de la Renaissance, Chateau d'Ecouen, while completing his book entitled Bernard Street, Savannah, GA 31405), in his position as Director of Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, continues to build up the Palissyet ses continuatuers, expected out in 1993. John Coffey (622 Smedes Place, Raleigh, NC 27605) continues as Curator of Telfair's public programs and exhibitions. This year, however, was substantially devoted to behind-the-scenes activities: American and Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He has received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to creating the first comprehensive institutional plan, receiving reaccreditation by the American Association of Museums, and research the life and work of Louis Remy Mignot, a forgotten landscape painter ofthe Hudson River School, and he edited the developing a Collections Management program. Greg encourages any WilliamsI Clark colleagues from the early 1970s to visit Museum's scholarly bulletin and contributed to an article on another forgotten character, American Modernist Maurice and let him extend some Southern hospitality. Cynthia Winter (29 Lindbergh Avenue, Albany, NY 12204) is the Arts-in­ Sterne, and his two-year sojourn on Bali. Adrian Hoch (via dei Pilastri, 36, 50121 Florence ITALY) currently is an independent Education Coordinator for the Rensselaer, Columbia, and Green Counties BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational scholar and extends an invitation to graduate students or alumni to contact her when visiting Florence. Carole Cunningham Services) which serves 23 school districts. In this position, she has a variety of responsibilities: coordinating Arts in Education McNamara (304 Linda Vista, Ann Arbor, M148103) holds the expanded title of Acting Collections Manager, which includes programs for regular and special education students, arranging art clinics in drama, visual art, and music, publishing a more curatorial duties, and she reported work on an exhibition and catalogue of the University of Michigan's extensive directory of approved artists, coordinating a juried exhibit of high school students' art work, and exhibiting faculty art work. collection of Whistler's graphic work. No word from Lucinda Barnes, Christopher London, Brian Lukacher and no current This is Cynthia's fifth year as Arts Coordinatorand the function continues to grow and change. No reply from William Gavin address for Jane Boyle or Stephen Edidin. or Nancy Klaus and no address for John Haletsky. CLASS OF 1979 CLASS OF 1975 ({ «(( Hiram Butler continues to run the Butler Gallery at 4520 Blossom, Houston, TX 77007. Wendy Owens (769 avenue Outremont, Jay Fisher (1903 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217) continues as Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Outremont, P.Q. H2V 3N2 Canada) continues as Assistant Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture while she and Baltimore Museum of Art and served as President of the Print Council of America until May 1993. Amy Golahny (884 West husband Peter raise twins Rachel and Rebecca. Sheryl Reiss (5 Leadmine Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002) enjoyed a End Ave. #53, New York, NY I0025) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA. Peter four-month sabbatical in Florence followed by a visiting teaching position at Cornell. No returns from Stephen Eisenman, Hero (510 Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301), as President of the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County, Laura Giles, Franklin Kelly, Margaret Kaufman McCallum, Lily Milroy, Mary Spivy Dangremond or Jennifer Wade. established and will manage an unprecedented $20 million end owment program for the region's 10 largest arts institutions. He continues to serve on the National Council on the Arts, to which he was appointed by former President Bush, and is on the CLASS OF 1980 Council Transition Committee which advised President Clinton on matters related to the future course of the National Endowment for the Arts. Peter delivered a paper on cultural economics at the UNESCO conference in Paris in June 1993 and is Christine Bartolo LeMoal (48 Snowberry Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840) is employed at the Museum of Television and Radio planning a transatlantic sailboat crossing in 1994. No answer from Anna Cohn, Linda Creigh Nyvall, Elizabeth Ely, Irena in New York City. Cheryl Brutvan (PO Box 454, Buffalo, NY 14207-0454) is still organizing the collection of Prints, Drawings Hochman, Johanna Karelis, Jennifer Lester or Cynthia Quay Tashijan and no current address for Jeffrey Thompson. and Photographs at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and has been able to exhibit pieces never before seen from that collection. She has also been working with Sylvia Plimack Mangold on an exhibition of her paintings due to open in November 1994, CLASS OF 1976 which will then go on tour. We received notice of a September slide lecture by Martha Krom Chiarchiaro entitled "Women Artists through the Ages," held at the Wilmington (Massachusetts) Arts Center. Christine Bauer Podmaniczky (1715 North Gary Burger (324 Oblong Road, Williamstown, MA 01267) is still Director of the Williamstown Regional Art Conservation Rodney Street, Wilmington, DE 19806) continues work on the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonne at the Brandywine River Laboratory and also serves as the Treasurer of the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property and as Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. No clue from Ned Hawkins, Paula Koromilas Burke, David Martocci or Vivian Patterson. Chairman of the Association of Regional Conservation Centers. Lois Fichner-Rathus (31 Knollwood Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078) is Associate Professor of Art History and Acting Director of the Women's Studies Program at Trenton State College. CLASS OF 1981 Lois spent summer 1992 with her family in Israel working and studying on a grant at the National Center for Holocaust Studies. Her Prentice-Hall textbook, Understanding Art, is in its third edition. Melanie Gifford (4215 Sheridan St., University Park, Jennifer Gordon Lovett (617 Henderson Road, Williamstown, MA 01267), as Associate Curator at the Clark Art Institute, is MD 20781) is now in the Scientific Department at the National Gallery as Research Conservator for Painting Technology; this working on two sculpture exhibitions. The first is on 19th century sculpture, including methods and materials, using pieces meant leaving practical conservation, but she enjoys focusing on research. At the Walters Art Gallery Melanie finished up some primarily from the Clark and the Williams College Museum of Art. The second, entitled "Brazen Women," which deals with research on Northern European paintings and mounted a technical section for an exhibition on Maerten van Heemskerck. She bronze sculpture by 19th century American women sculptors, will originate at the Clark and then travel. Jennifer also continues to work on her dissertation on early 17th C. Dutch landscape paintings. Philip Verre (473 Munroe Avenue, North announces the arrival ofher son, Jonathan, in August 1992. Laurie McGavin Bachmann (21 Montgomery Place, Brooklyn, NY Tarrytown, NY 10591) continues as Director of the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. Kathy Zimmerer-McKelvie (3235 11215) wrote that she was working on a new Cooper Hewitt publication entitled The Edge ofthe Millennium. which takes a Kallin Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90808) continues as Director of the University Art Gallery, CSU Dominguez Hills, and also "critical look at architecture and design as we face the year 2000." She is also involved with a proposal for the celebration of the writes for various West Coast periodicals including ArtScene, Visions and ArtWeek. No response from Jeanne Berggreen American Academy in Rome's centennial and is developing a design education video series. Sally Mills (Lawrence Apartments Plekon, Gaye Brown, Kee II Choi, Judith McCandless Williams or Michael Shapiro. #F6, West Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540) is finished with Ph. D. coursework at Princeton and is now immersed in getting through ( {( exams and beginning work on a dissertation. Sally and Paul Provost '89 viewed the collections of Williams alumni in the CLASS OF 1977 Princeton area in order to make recommendations for the Third AI umni Loan Exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. Ruth Pasquine(l623 South Broadway, Little Rock, AR 72206) reports that the exhibition "The Family Gandolfi: Seven Beth Carver Wees (289 Gale Road, Williamstown, MA 01267) is Curator of Decorative Arts at the Clark Art Institute and Decades of Beautiful Painting," on loan from the National Gallery ofCanada, will visit the Arkansas Art Center during the fall continues to travel and write. Henry J. Duffy (635 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591) is Curator of Lyndhurst, National 1993. Ruth also mentioned that 1992 was an exciting year to be living in Little Rock! John Pultz (209 Spencer Museum of Art, her office at Harvard Medical School. Megan Smith (13 Shepard Street, Apt. 3, Cambridge, MA 02138) began as Assistant Lawrence, KS 66045) became Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Photography at the University of Kansas in Curator in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, Harvard, in December 1992. No answer January 1993. Catherine Scallen (Fine Arts Department, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06430) enjoys her teaching ( ( from Alice Evarts-Schipper, Jill Steinberg, or Robert WoIterstorff. location, just a half-hour to Yale and one hour to Manhattan. She delivered a paper at a Rembrandt symposium in Amsterdam ( and attended another in London the same year. Besides teaching and publishing, she is active in the New York Swing Dance CLASS OF 1986 Society. Amy Shammash Dane (85 Englewood Road, Longmeadow, MA 0 11 06) reports she is playing "hausfrau" and is on the Steering Committee of the Collector's Club of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. No report from Rachel Burbank, Bonnie Brent Benjamin (15 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) was promoted to Assistant Director for Special Projects and Campbell, Kenneth Ledoux or Ann Rosenthal and no address for Maureen Walsh. Programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in July 1992 and is still rowing on the Charles. Sarah Cash (222 West 4th Street, Apt. 508, Fort Worth, TX 76102) was married to architect Glenn MacCullough on October 23,1993, in Washington, DC, CLASS OF 1982 followed by a wedding trip to Italy. In her work at the Amon Carter Museum, Sarah wrote the catalogue essay for the exhibition "The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade" and organized two other "dossier" exhibitions, one on the Paula KOlOI (PO Box416, Cohasset, MA 02025) is co-owner of Grapevine Antiques, located at 45 Walden Street, in Concord, Museum's Thomas Cole painting The Garden 0/Eden and one on Thomas Eakins' painting The Swimming Hole. During 1992 MA. The shop specializes in formal and country American and English 18th and 19th C. furniture, ceramics, textiles, prints and Sarah had two books published: American Art: Paintings/rom the Amon Carter Museum and American Naive Paintings: export .,Paula is still a member of the Massachusetts Art Commission and recently served on the Cohasset Arts Lottery National Gallery 0/Art, Washington. Laura Coyle (B-3 West Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540) and her husband, Doug, welcomed a Council. Sandra Brooke (767 North Hoosac Road, Williamstown, MA 01267) is an Editor with BHA (Bibliography of the baby daughter in May 1993. Laura is pursuing full-time research on her dissertation, "The Still-Life Paintings of Cezanne, History of Art), formerly RILA. Not heard from: Wanda Bubriski, Minott Kerr, Anne Reed Shannon or John Wetenhall and Gauguin, van Gogh and Bernard," and plans were to spend time in Paris in the fall of'93. Carolyn Halpin-Healy (375 Riverside no usable address for Julia Bernard, Maura Feeney or Nancy Sojka. Drive #5AA, New York, NY 10025) has been a Research Associate for the Woodner Collection, a private collection of Old Master Drawings, and gives gallery lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These part-time positions leave her free time CLASS OF 1983 to spend with Tyler and Anna. During the first half of 1994 the Halpin-Healys will live in Cambridge, England, where Tim will be a fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute. Ann Slimmon (7 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02906) is the proud owner of a c. 1840 Julie Aronson (2530 Q Street, NW, Apt. 33, Washington, DC 20560) is writing her dissertation on the American sculptor, house in the College Hill Historic District, and her position at the RISD Museum is "ever more interesting and challenging." Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955) on a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship and is employed at the National Museum of Elizabeth Triplett Blakelock (67 Hilltop Drive, West Hartford, CT 06107) returned to work at the Connecticut Historical American Art. Tom Fels (PO Box 816, North Bennington, VT 05257) continues as a free-lance curator and writer while Society in January 1993 following the September 1992 birth of their daughter, Judith. Charles Wylie (4475 West Pine #1202, St. working part time at the Clark Art Institute and Williams College Department of Art. He was an essayist for Watkins to Louis, MO 63108), as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, organized two exhibitions of Weston (Roberts Rinehart, 1992) and is "looking hard for light at the end of the arts-funding tunnel." Anne Havinga (96 younger artists (Thomas Woodruff and Willie Cole) in 1992 and was working on three one-artist shows for 1993. Charlie also Hammond Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) is enjoying her work with photographs and Dutch prints and drawings at the MFA installed the Walker Art Center exhibition "Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present," traveled to in Boston. James Weiss (188 Bishop Street, New Haven, CT 06511) reports teaching 20th C. art at the University ofConnecticut Germany in summer '92 for Documenta, AND got a paragraph in Tod (Lippy '87) and Pamela (lvinski '87)'s magazine! No at Storrs, and did a performance entitled "Traces" at the Yale Art Gallery in support of DAY WITHOUT ART. No contact answer from Lucy Durkin, Zheng Hu, Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, or Susan Webster. from Vincent Carnevale, Peter Lynch or Ellen Wood and no address for Cynthia Deith. CLASS OF 1987 CLASS OF 1984 ( (\ Deborah Leveton (2917 High Street #4, Des Moines, IA 50312) continues in her position at the Des Moines Art Center and is Bradley Brigham (cl 0 R.R. Box 10, Route 112, Colrain, MA) works for a division of the Department of Mental Retardation; also involved with the Junior League of Greater Des Moines, as a volunteer tutorI mentor for the Iowa Homeless Youth Center his position involves educating the business communityand seeking employment opportunities for that particular population. and as a member of the Des Moines Women's Club, for whom she is researching their art collection. Diana Linden (623 Carroll On weekends Bradley runs North River Antiquities in Colrain, his own business which handles 18th and 19th C. decorative and Street #3, Brooklyn, NY 11215) organized a symposium at the Brooklyn Museum in 1992 in conjunction with the exhibit fine arts. Thomas McVarish (135 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116) is Senior Editor at the Cardiovascular Biology "Painters of a New Century: the Eight and American Art." Speakers included Lily Milroy '79 (exhibit curator) and Wendy Laboratory at the Harvard School of Public Health, working for the same doctor he has since leaving Williamstown. Tom and Owens '79 (catalogue essayist). Diana also led a workshop at the Annual Feminist Art History Conference at Sharon Rudolph Hemenway '85 (also employed at the Medical School) often meet for lunch. Charles Shepard (28G University on "Feminism, Judaism and Art History" which she termed a big success. Pamela Ivinski (34-2242nd Street #2L, Astoria, NY Park, Orono, ME 04473), as Director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, has been working on a project to put art 11101) enjoys her position as Senior Research Associate at the Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonne, which has included travel to images from the collections and art theory, history, etc. on an image database that will be sent out via networked Macintosh London and Paris. She also continues to work toward the Ph.D. at CUNY and enjoys contributing to the magazinePub/icsjear kiosks to 400 schools and libraries in Maine. Recently we learned from the New England Museum Association Newsletter that which she co-founded with Tod Lippy. Tod and the magazine can be reached at 118 East 4th Street #19, New York, NY 10003. Charles has left Maine to become Director of the new Museum of American Art at Ohio University. No reply from Michael Pamela Patton (3119 University Boulevard #G, Dallas, TX 75205) married Eric White in May 1992 and, after a honeymoon in Floss, Nancy Green, Rod Nevitt, Rob Phelan or Nancy Spector. Williamstown and upstate New York, moved to Texas for Pamela's position as Haakon Fellow in Art History at Southern Methodist University. No reply from Denise Krieger Migdail, Joyce Rolerson Hu, Tom McGrath, Yumi Nakayama Farwell, CLASS OF 1985 Robin Reynolds or Xia Qiu.

Ann Murphy Burroughs (40 Burroughs Lane, St. Louis, MO 63124) continues to enjoy her "job as a domestic engineer." CLASS OF 1988 Occasionally she escapes from sons Charlie and Tim to the Saint Louis Art Museum for a visit with Charlie Wylie '86. Susan Currie (935 York Street, Covington, KY410 11-2164) reported on the renovation and reinstallation work at the Cincinnati Art Courtney Braun Ganz (19 Farm River Road. Branford, CT 06405) is free-lance writing and bringing up Molly, now 3. Becky Museum; the renovated galleries reopened to the public in 1993. During a business trip to New York, Susan bumped into Alice Briesacher (233 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106) has been working as an editor at a pharmacy college, waiting for her Evarts '85 on Madison Avenue! Suzanne Devine Karr (Oak Hill 301, 3-20 Hachiyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, 150 Tokyo JAPAN dream job to be available. She also writes frequentlyfor the Philadelphia Inquirer and has been writing a series of short stories. and 105 West 73rd Street #6D, New York, NY 10023) transferred her Sotheby's job to Tokyo when her husband's investment Diane Dillon (1709 Bolsolver Street, Apt. B, Houston, TX 77005) informed us of her new address and apparent teaching firm asked him to open an office there. Suzanne is studying Japanese which, she says, "makes the Williams French and German position at Rice University in September 1993. James Ganl (19 Farm ~iver Road, Branford, CT 06405), in his last year at the requirement seem so easy in retrospect!" Nora Heimann (2308 North Monroe Street, Arlington, VA 22207) was spending the Philadelphia Museum of Art, catalogued 3,500 French Old Master prints. In January 1993 Jim ent~red the Ph.D. program in '92-'93 year writing her dissertation on a full fellowship from CUNY, under the direction of Linda Nochlin (NYU), Pat art history at Yale. Tony Gengarelly (Mountainside Farm, Hinsdale, NH 03451), Professor of History and American Studies at Mainardi (CUNY) and Norman Bryson (Harvard). Steven High (3804 Kensington Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221), in his North Adams State College, delivered a paper, "Another Look at the Sea: Winslow Homer, Stephen Crane and 'The Open position as Director of the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, is working with architects on the design of Boat'," at the annual conventions of the Northeast Modern Language Association and the Popular Culture Association in a new building and in 1992 traveled to Peru to develop a contemporary exhibition. Gregory Rubinstein (122 Richmond Road, March and April 1993, respectively. Meg Magner Kastler and husband Harry have relocated from Germany to 177 Midwood Cambridge CB4 3PT ENGLAND), besides writing the auction catalogue entries for Dutch and Flemish drawings at Sotheby's Road, Paramus, NJ 07652. Peggy Modan (82 Dawes Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201) is a silver consultant at the Berkshire London, has written exhibition catalogue essays, reviews, given conference papers and managed to do his own research toward ( IS, Museum and Arrowhead, the home of Herman Melville. She and her husband continue to travel frequently to Europe and the dissertation. Last we heard, he and his family were planning a move to London. Sharon Rudolph Hemenway (54 Spring Asia. Mary Ross (345 St. Johns Place, Apt. J, Brooklyn, NY 11238) reported that after taking a pastry-making class, she hoped Street, Lexington, MA 02173) enjoys her days at home with son Daniel but is happy at times to "escape to the relative calm" of to work in a bakery. She also tries to keep up with what the ever-busy New York art museums have to offer. Jon Sorenson (1340 Scott Street #C, San Francisco, CA 94115) still loves working at "one of the best contemporary art galleries in San Francisco" year living in the former Czechoslovakia "teaching English and visiting lovely places" there and in Poland, Hungary, (Gallery Paule Anglim) and travels as often as possible to see family and friends. No response from Priscilla Vail. Austria and Germany. Dan Strong (Department of Art and Archaeology, McCormick Hall, Princeton University, ( Princeton, NJ 08540), while working on his dissertation at Princeton, researched and wrote catalogue entries for a Thomas CLASS OF 1989 Eakins exhibition for early 1993 to appear at the National Portrait Gallery in London. No news from Darsie Alexander, Susan Foster, Deborah Gaston, Julia Graham, Toby Kamps or Katy Rothkopf. Laura Gelfand (2105 Lennox Road #10, Cleveland, OH 44106), completed work toward the Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve in December 1993 and now has joined the job hunt! Joe Giuffre (I Belmont Square #3, Somerville, MA 02143) CLASS OF 1992 organized a lecture series on Non-Western Art at Wellesley and arranged for a Flemish drawing exhibition to be shown at the opening of Wellesley's Museum in fall 1993. Marion Goethals (24 Petersburg Road, Williamstown, MA 01267) is now Brian Allen (738 Whitney Avenue #4, New Haven, CT 06511) is studying for the Ph.D. at Yale. Jennifer Berry (175 East Assistant Director of the Williams College Museum of Art. Jenine Gordon (310 East 44th Street #211, New York, NY 96th Street #25D, New York, NY 10128) works with Sotheby's Educational Studies division as Assistant to the American 10017) is having a great time working with the Theatre Development Fund. Jennifer Huffman (Richmont Cottage, Arts course. Victoria Corbeil (29 Ordnance Street #3, Kingston, Ontario K7K IG3 Canada) is in the 2nd year of a Highwood Estate, Paget PG 05 Bermuda) is the director of a morning television show for the local station. She married two-year program for the Master of Arts in Conservation. Karen Croff (3 Goodwin Place #2, Boston, MA 02114) reported Hans Van Wees on July 3, 1992, and they planned a belated honeymoon during December '92 and January '93 to include she has been working as a museum educator doing outreach programs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and at the the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Arizona. Marni Kessler (100 York Street #9L, New Haven, CT Harvard University Art Museums. Leigh Culver (419 South 45th Street #1, Philadelphia, PA 19104) is specializing in 06511) was dreadfully awaiting Ph.D. oral exams last we heard from her and then planned to return to work on her American Art in the Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. Maria Di Pasquale (1200 Mearns Meadow dissertation entitled "Women's Surveillance: Strategies of Effacement in Late Nineteenth-Century French Avant-garde Boulevard #266, Austin, TX 78758) is working on her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. As with most "new" Painting." Shelley Langdale (I Belmont Square #3, Somerville, MA 02143) was elected to the Print Council in fall 1992 Texans, Maria explains that she missed the changing autumn leaves of Williamstown but likes the milder year-round and made arrangements for the MFA's venue of the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci, the Anatomy of Man, Drawings from temperatures in her new environs. Maria says she and former classmate Victoria Gardner are keeping the phone company the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II," among other projects. While on a courier trip to Madrid, Spain, in business. David Little (3611 University Drive #19S, Durham, NC 27707) is also in a Ph.D. program - at Duke Shelley ran into former classmate Ann MacNary '90, also on a courier trip from the National Gallery of Art. Brooke University. Tim Peterson (449 11.1 S. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212) is Assistant to the Director of Art Programs Marler's latest address is 3456 North Janssen #2G, Chicago, IL 60657. Rebecca Nanovic (6 Verandah Place, Brooklyn, NY at the Lannan Foundation and in that position gets to travel and see a great deal of contemporary art. No update from 11201) married Paul Cheng Lin on July 10,1993. Kathryn Potts (43 Highland Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139) is still a Victoria Gardner or Janet Temos. Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art at the Boston MFA and in organizing an exhibition for fall '93 she has traveled to Germany, Texas and California. Paul Provost (135 Baynard Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540) married Laura Whitman, Williams '89, in July 1993. Paul was planning to defend his dissertation at Princeton in late fall '93. Ellen Zieselman (1903 Siringo Road #1 E, Santa Fe, NM 87505) has transferred out of the State Museum System's Central Education Office to become the Curator of Education at the Museum of Fine Arts there. No reply from Heather Galloway, Nora Nirk, Peggy O'Brien or Christina Yang.

CLASS OF 1990 ( ( Lauren Barth Hewes (25 Bay Crest Drive #508, South Burlington, VT 05403), as Assistant Curator at the Shelburne Museum, designed exhibitions in 1992-93 for the Museum's print gallery. She published "A Permanently Beautiful Appearance: The 19th Century Fashion for Painted Landscape Murals" which put their acquisiton of a painted chamber into perspective. The Shelburne got an NEA Conservation grant to complete a survey of the 2,800 works on paper, which gives Lauren the opportunity to work with a paper conservator on evaluating the collection. Patricia Ivinski (51 Cold Spring Road, Apt., Williamstown, MA 01267), now an Assistant Curator at the Clark, organized an exhibition in 1992 on 19th C. Dutch art, while continuing to help Beth Wees 77 with her comprehensive silver catalogue. The highlight of 1992 for Tricia was her trip to Memphis with Jennifer Lovett ln, who gave a lecture at the Dixon on Alma-Tadema, because they received a V.J.P. tour of Graceland! Ann MacNary (3001 Porter Street NW #202, Washington, DC 20008) is working as Assistant Curator in the Department of Old Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Art. Barbara Myers (2112 Stone Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2535) is still working on the Ph.D. at Princeton and wrote that she would be married on December 31, 1993, in New York City. Christine Oaklander (25-11 Wenard Drive, Newark, DE 19713) is studying for the Ph.D. in American Art at the University of Delaware, where she often sees Deborah Gaston and Jeff Dalton. Chris had an article published in 1992 and was working on two others. Lesley Wellman (13 Chandler Drive, Hanover, NJ 03755) is the Curator of Education at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, "a terrific museum with diverse collections and a fabulous staff." Lesley's biggest news: the Education Department was awarded a five-year, $531,000 grant by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund for special outreach projects to new audiences. Jessica Winston (1148 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128) is studying the Italian Renaissance in the Ph.D. program at Columbia. Not heard from: Michele Bernatz, Meg Goehring, Pamela Kachurin or Robert Lach.

CLASS OF 1991

Kathy Calley (12 East 95th Street #2F, New York, NY 10128) is in the Ph.D. program at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where she hopes to specialize in 18th/19th C. art. Jeffrey Dalton (l8A Yale Drive, Newark, DE 19711) is studying for the Ph.D. at the University of Delaware and missing his old Williams pals. Carla Grosse (1515 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237) is a Research Assistant at the new Guggenheim Museum in Soho, doing research on the permanent collection and for a Robert Morris retrospective. Liz Guenther (Rt. I, Box 88, Corinth, VT) was teaching art history at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire while building her wilderness dream house, and now we understand she is in the Ph.D. ( ( program at Princeton. Linda Johnson (9007 Dodsons Crossroads, Chapel Hill, NC 27516) worked in 1992 at the National Gallery on exhibitions of Ellsworth Kelly and Willem de Kooning as well as on an exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the Phillips Collection. Linda then left the DC scene and moved to North Carolina where she married Patrick Dougherty in May 1993. Diana Nunley Johnson (c/o Box 201, New Lebanon, NY 12125) and her husband, Eric, spent a wonderful