newsletter Volume 9. Number (I Fall 1984 nominations for CAA board of directors

The 1984 Nominating Committee has submitted its initial slate of Hagiopetrites," Scnptonum, 1981; "Gospel Frontispieces from the twelve nominees to serve on the CAA Board of Directors from 1985 to Comnenian Period," Gesta, 1982; "A Group of Provincial Manu­ 1989. Of these, six will be selected by the Committee as its final slate scripts from the Twelfth Century," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 1982; and formally proposed for election at the Annual Members Business "The Murals of Abu-Shosh and the Patronage of Manuel I Comnenus Meeting to be held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February in the Holy Land," Crusader Art and the West (BAR International 14, 1985. The preferential ballot is in the form of a prepaid business Series), 1982; '''East Christian Art," McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of reply card which is being mailed separately, Please return it prompt­ Art, Supplement, 1983; book reviews in Art Bulletin, Etudes Byzan­ ly; ballots must be postmarked no later than I November. #nes. AWARDS: Research fellowships from AAUW, ACLS, IREX, NEH and Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; award for SUZANNE BLOOM outstanding teaching and service, Southern Methodist Univ, 1984. University of Houston PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Byzantine Studies Conference, board, 1977-81; program chair, 1981; International Center'Medieval Art, BFA Pennsylvania Acad Fine Arts and Univ board, 1983-86. CAA ACTIVrflES: Editorial Board, Art Bulletin, Pennsylvania, 1965; MFA painting, Univ 1984-; delivered papers at three CAA annual meetings. Pennsylvania, 1968. POSITIONS: Pennsylvania State Univ, instructor, 1969-70; Smith Coll, in­ ELIZABETH CROPPER structor to asst prof, 1970-76: Univ Houston, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, affiliate artist to assoc prof, 1976-; interim and The Johns Hopkins University chair, 1983-84. EXHIBITIONS: prior to 1974, solo paintings and drawings at Pease Gall, BA Cambridge Univ, 1967; PhD Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania Acad Fine Arts, and Ward-Nasse Gall, NYC; since Coli, 1972, POSITIONS: Cambridge Univ, re~ 1974, exhibited primarily photography and video under pseudonym search fellow, 1971-72; Franklin and Marshall MANUAL, a collaborate identity shared with Edward Hill. MAN­ CoIl, visiting lecturer, 1973; Temple Univ, UAL has had solo-collaborative exhibs at Houston Mus Fine Arts, TylerSch of Art, asst tofulI prof, 1973- ; Johns 1980; Cronin Gall, Houston, 1981; Visual Studies Workshop, Hopkins Univ, visiting assoc, 1983-85. PUBLI­ Rochester, 1983; Moody Gall, Houston, 1984; and has participated in CATIONS: The Ideal of Painting: P£etro Testa's numerous group exhibitions. MANUAL has also produced video­ Dusseldorf Notebook, Princeton, 1984; "Disegno as the Foundation tapes, including Push-Pin I, II, and III, Dear Mr. Ingres, A Month of of Art: Some Drawings by Pietro Testa," The Burit"ngton Magaztne, Sundays, others, and has curated two 6-day programs of videotapes 1974; "Virtue's Wintry Reward: Pietro Testa's Etchings of the Sea­ by major artists held at the Smith College Museum of Art. PUBLICA­ sons," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1974; "On TIONS: co-authored with Edward Hill, "Wringing the Goose's Neck Beautiful Women, Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, and the Vernac­ One Last Time; or, Paintingvs. Photography and the Deconstruction ular Style," Art Bullettn, 1976 (awarded CAA's Arthur Kingsley of Modernism," in Afterimage, 1980; also articles and reviews, most Porter Prize); "Poussin and Leonardo: Evidence from the Zaccolini co-authored with Edward Hill, in Artweek, Image, ArtJorum. MSS," Art Bullettn, 1980; plus others; numerous reviews in Master AWARDS: NEA fellowship in video, 1976; NEA photographer's fellow­ Drawtngs, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Renaissance ship, 1978. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Cultural Arts Council of Hou­ Quarterly, Art Bulletzn, The Burltngton Magaztne. AWARDS: research ston, advisory comm, 1980-81; Houston Women's Caucus for Art, grants Amer Philosophical Soc, NEH; fellowships Leopold Schepp president, 1981-82; National WCA, nominating comm, 1982-84; Foundation, I Tatti; visiting scholar I Tatti,Johns Hopkins Center for honors comm, 1982-84; Houston Center for Photography, ex-officio. Italian Studies; Samuel H, Kress Fellow, CASVA; several Temple Univ merit awards for teaching and service and for scholarship. PRO­ ANNEMARIE WEYL CARR FESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: panel, NEH Grants to Museums and Historical Southern Methodist University Assoc, 1983; fellowship comm, Kress Foundation, 1983. CAA ACTIV­ ITIES: delivered papers at two CAA annual meetings; chaired "Italian BA Swarthmore College; MA and PhD Univ Art 1600-1750" session, 1982 annual meeting, NYC. Michigan. POSITIONS: Walters Art Gallery, asst in education, 1963-65; Univ Chicago, visiting CHARLESC.ELDREDGE asst prof, 1976; Southern Methodist Univ, asst National Museum of American prof. 1972-78; assoc prof, 1978-; head, dept Art, Smithsonian Institution art history, 1975-78; acting chair, div fine arts, 1978-79. PUBLICATIONS: "Chicago 2400 and the BA Amherst Coli, 1966; PhD Univ Minnesota, Byzantine Acts Cycle," Byzantine Studies! 1971. POSITIONS: Walker Art Center, education Etudes byzantines, 1976; "The Psalter Benaki, 34.3: An Unpub­ dept, 1967-68; Minneapolis Inst Arts, educa­ lished, Illuminated Manuscript from the Family 2400," Revue des tion dept, 1968-70; Spencer Mus Art and Kress etudes byzantt'nes, 1976; "Women as Artists in the Middle Ages," Foundation dept art history, Univ Kansas, Feminist Art Journal, 1976; "Two Manuscripts by Ioasaph in the curator of collections and asst prof, 1970-71; United States," The Art Bulletin, 1980; "Diminutive Byzantine director and full prof, 1971-82; Natl Mus Manuscripts," Codices Manuscripti, 1980; "A Note on Theodore Conttnued on p. 2, col. 1 Inominations for CAA board of directors Inominations for CAA board of directors

Amer Art. Smithsonian lnst, director, 1982 -. EXHIBITIONS AND PUB­ JOYCE KOZLOFF NY State Council on the Arts an4 State University of New York, 1969- JOHN DAVID SUMMERS LICATIONS: Marsden Hartley, Lithographs and Related Works, Univ 70; George Sugarman, First National Bank of Saint Paul, 1971; Alex Center for Advanced Study Kansas Mus Art, 1972; The Arcadian Landscape: Nineteenth-Cen­ Katz, Wadsworth Antheneum, 1971; Bradley Walker Tomlt'n, Al­ University of Virginia tury American Painters in , Univ Kansas Mus Art, 1972 (with BFA Carnegie Inst Technology, 1964; MFA bright-Knox Gall, 1975-76; Hans Hofmann, Emmerich Gall, NYC Barbara Novak); American Imagt1wtion and Symbolist Painting, Columbia Univ, 1967. POSITIONS: ACE pro­ 1976; Adolph Gottlieb, Emmerich Gall, 1977; New Y9rk-Moscow, BA Brown Univ, 1963; MA Yale Univ, 1965; Grey Art Gall, NYU, 1979; Charles Walter Stetson: Color and Fan· gram, Queens College, instructor, 1971-72; Moscow-New York, San Francisco Mus Modern Art, 1977; The PhD Yale Univ, 1969, POSITIONS: Bryn Mawr lasy, Spencer Mus Art, 1982; others; plus articles in The American School of Visual Arts, NYC, instructor, 1973- Sculpture of Richard StanMewz'cz, S.U.N.Y., Albany, 1978-80; Al ColI, asst prof, 1968-70; Swarthmore Coll, Art journal, Art in Amer£ca, Apollo, ArtJournal, Antiques Monthly, 74; Art Inst Chicago, 1975; Syracuse Univ, Held 1959-1961, Robert Miller Gall, NYC, 1980; TheSchoolofArtat visiting prof, 1969; Univ Pittsburgh, asst to full The Art Gallery, Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, The 1977; Univ New Mexico, 1978. EXHIBITIONS: Yale: 1950-1970, Yale Univ Art Gall, 1981; Alex Katz 1957-1959, prof, 1970-81; Center for Advanced Study, Registrar of the Spencer Museum of Art. AWARDS: Smithsonian fel­ Solo: Everson Mus, 1979; Mint Mus, 1980; Robert Miller Gall; George Sugarman: A Retrospective, Joselyn Art Univ Virginia, full prof, 1981-. PUBLICATIONS: lowship, 1979; Fulbright fellowship to New Zealand, 1983. CAA Renwick Gall, Smithsonian Inst. 1980-81; Mus, 1981; PMlip Pearlstein, Brooklyn Mus, 1983; Mark Rothko, The Sculpture oj V£ncenzo Dan#, New York ACTIVITIES: member, Nom Comm, 1978; editor, "Museum News" sec­ Joslyn Mus, 1982; Inst Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1983; Dela­ Pace Gall, 1983; several others, plus numerous articles and reviews. and London, 1979; Michelangelo and the Eanguage oj Art, Prince­ tion, Art journal, 1979-81. ware Mus, Wilmington, 1984; numerous group exhibitions. COLLEC­ AWARDS; Guggenheim, NEA, and NEH fellowships, PROFESSIONAL ton, 1981; The judgment oj Sense: Studz'es zn the Language oj Re­ TIONS: Brooklyn Mus; MetropoHtan Mus; Mus Modern Art, NYC; ACTIVITIES: Artists Club, program chair, 1956-62; Comm for the Vis­ naissance Art (forthcoming); The Defect oJDistance: Towards a Unt'­ SAM GILLIAM National Gall Art, Washington, DC; Neue Galerie Sammlung Lud­ ual Arts (administers Artists Space), president 1972· 75; International versal H'istory oj Art (in progress); "Michelangelo on Architecture," Washington, D.C. wig, Aachen, West ; many others. PUBLICATIONS: "Thoughts Assoc Art Critics, president, American Section, 1970-76; council of Art BulleU'n, 1972 (awarded CAA's Porter Prize); "Maniera and on My Art," Name Book I, 1977; "Art Hysterical Notions of Progress administration, 1980; Mark Rothko Foundation, trustee, 1980; Art­ Movement: The 'Figura serpentinata,'" Art Quarterly, 1972; "Con­ MA painting, Dniv Louisville, 1961. EXHIBI­ and Culture, Herest'es, 1978 (with Valerie Jaudon); review of Frida ists Talk on Art, board member, 1974-; Arts Council Great Britain, trapposto: Style and Meaning in Renaissance Art," Art Bullettn, 1977 TIONS: Solo: Jefferson Place Gall, Washington, Kahlo exhibition, Art zn America, 1979. AWARDS: Creative Artists consultant, 1980; NEA Visual Arts Overview Comm, chair, 1983-; (awarded CAA's Porter P~ize); "Figure come fratelli: A Transforma­ DC, 1965~68, 70, 73; Phillips Collection, 1967; Public Service grant, NY State Council Arts, 1973, 75; Amer Assoc many others. CAA ACTIVITIES: Art journal, member editorial board, tion of Symmetry in Italian Renaissance Painting," Art Quarterly, Corcoran Gall Art, 1964. 1983; Mus Modern Univ Women grant, 1975; NEA grant, 1977. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVI­ 1979 - ; guest editor, "Modernism, Revisio:nism, Pluralism, and Post· 1977; "Cubism as a Comic Style," The Massachusetts Revt'ew, 1982; Art, NYC, "Projects, ,. 1971; Philadelphia Mus TIES: member, Heresies Collective. Modernism," 1980; chair, Studio Sessions, 1978 annual meeting, "The 'Visual Arts' and the Problem of Art Historical Description," Art, 1975; Fendrick Gall, Washington, DC NYC; chaired numerous individual studio panels at other annual Art journal, 1982; others, plus reviews. AWARDS: NEH fellow, 1973- 1974-76, 78: Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, THOMAS DA COSTA KAUFMANN meetings; Nominating Comm, member, 1976; chair, 1977; Mather 74; Institute for Advanced Study fellow, 1978-79; others. EXHIBI­ 1970, 76, 78, 83; Speed Mus, Louisville, 1976; Princeton University Award Comm, member 1975-76, chair 1977. TIONS: (paintings) solo at Univ Pittsburgh Art Gall and Fayerweather Rutgers Univ Art Gall, 1976; Penn State Dniv, 1977; Univ Kentucky, Gall, Univ Virginia; several group exhibitions. PROFESSIONAL ACTIV­ Lexington, 1978; Univ Gall, Amherst. 1978; Dart Gall. Chicago, BA Yale, 1970; MA Yale, 1971; M Phil War­ BARBAKA MARIA STAFFORD ITIES: American Academy in Rome, fellowship jury, 1983-84, CAA 1979,82; Middendorf/Lane Gall, Washington, DC, 1981,83; Studio burg Inst, 1972; PhD Harvard, 1977. POSI­ University of Chicago ACTIVITIES: read papers 1981 (San Francisco) and 1982 (NYC) annual Mus in Harlem, 1982; many others plus numerous group exhibitions, TIONS: Princeton Univ, asst to assoc prof, meetings; chair "Language and Intention" session, 1985 annual COMMISSIONS: Atlanta Airport Terminal; Detroit Receiving Hospital; 1977-; junior advisor, 1978-80; dept rep and BA Northwestern Univ, 1964; MA Northwest­ meeting (Los Angeles). Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco; Hughes Justice Com­ senior advisor, 1983; Univ Pennsylvania, visit­ ern Univ, 1966; PhD Univ Chicago, 1972. POSI­ plex, Trenton, N,j. COLLECTIONS: Mus African Art; Nat'l Mus Amer ing prof, 1980. PUBLICATIONS: Variatt'ons on the TIONS: National College, Evanston, Ill, instruc­ RUTH WEISBERG Art; Corcoran Gall Art; Mus Modern Art: Metropolitan Mus; Carne­ Impen·al Theme z'n the Age of Max£m£l£an II tor, 1969-70 and 1971-72; Loyola Univ, asst University of Southern California gie Inst; Walker Art Center; Art lost Chicago; Oberlin ColI; others. and Rudolf II, 1978; Drawz'ngsJrom the Holy prof, 1972-73; Univ Delaware, asst to assoc AWARDS: NEA grants, 1967, 1973-75; Art Inst Chicago Harris Prize, Roman Emp£re, 1540-1680: A Selectt'onJrom North American Col­ prof, 1977-81; Univ Chicago, full prof, BS and MA Univ Michigan; laurea in painting 1969; Guggenheim fellowship, 1971; others. lectz'ons, Princeton, 1982; L'Ecole de Prague: la Pez'nture ala Courde 1981-. PUBLICATIONS: Symbol and Myth: and printmaking Academia di Belle Arti, Peru­ Rodolphe II (in press); "Empire Triumphant: Notes on an Imperial Humbert de Superville's Essay on Absolute gia; studied also at S.W, Atelier, Paris. POSI­ EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN Allegory by Adriaen de Vries_in the National Gallery of Art," Stud£es St"gns £n Art, Univ Delaware, 1979; Voyage z'nto Substance: Art, TIONS: Eastern Michigan Univ, asst prof, 1966- Institute of Fine Arts, New York University zn the History ofArt, 1978; "The Problem of Northern 'Mannerism': Scz'ence, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840, 69; Univ Southern California, assoc to full prof, A Critical Review," in Mannerism: Essays z'n Music and the Arts, ed. MIT, 1984; Representz'ng the Unrepresentable: A History of the 1970-; acting assoc dean fine arts, 1974-75 PhD Univ Utrecht, 1958. POSITIONS: Mus Boy­ S.E. Murrau and Ruth 1. Weidner, 1980; "The Eloquent Artist: Changz'ng Concept oj the Med£um (in preparation); "Rude Sublime: and 1976-77, EXHIBITIONS: more than 35 solo mans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, curator Towards an Understanding of the Stylistics of Painting at the Court of The Taste for Nature's Colossi in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nine­ and two-person, including Los Angeles Muni­ drawings and asst curator paintings, 1950-58; Rudolf II," Le£ds Kunsthistorisckjaarboek, 1982; others. AWARDS: teenth Centuries;" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1976; "Toward Roman" cipal Gallery, 1979; Judah L. Magnes Mus, Los Angeles, 1981; Jack Harvard Univ, lecturer fine arts and research David E. Finley fellowship, National Gall of Art, 1974-77; American tic Landscape Perception: Illustrated Travel Accounts and the Rise Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 1983; participated in more than 140 fellow prints and drawings, 1959-60; Yale Council of Learned Societies, dissertation prize, 1977; fellowship, of 'Singularity' as an Aesthetic Category," Art Quarterly, 1977; group exhibitions. COLLECTIONS: Fine Arts Mus, San Francisco; Art Univ, assttofull prof, 1960-77; dirgradstudies 1982; others. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Association for the Study of "Beauty of the Invisible: Winckelmann and the Aesthetics of Imper­ Institute Chicago; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Los Angeles Coun­ history of art, 1965-68; dept chr, 1970-74; Central European Arts (CAA special interest group), founder-mem~ ceptibility," Zez'tschnJt fur Kunstgeschz'chte, 1980; "Characters in ty Mus Art; New York Public Library; Norwegian Natl Mus, Oslo; Yale Univ Art Gall, curator prints, curator ber; president, 1978-81; ACLS-Polish Academy of Sciences Cultural Stones, Marks on Paper: Enlightenment Discourse Concerning numerous others. PUBLICATIONS: as director of Kelyn Press, published drawings and prints, 1960-68; Inst Fine Arts, NYU, prof, 1978-84; Agreement, advisor, and participant; ACLS-Czechoslovak Academy Natural and Artificial Taches," Art journal, 1984; others, plus book two limited edition books, Tom O'Bedlam's Song and The Shtetl, A John Langeloth Loeb Professor, 1984-. PUBLICATIONS: W£llem of Sciences Agreement, advisor. CAAACTIVITIES: speaker, 1977 annual reviews. AWARDS: fellowships from AAUW, ACLS, NEH, Woodrow journey and a Memorz'al, both of which include her prints; text for Buytewech (1591-1624), Amsterdam, Hertzberger & Co, 1959; meeting; session chair, 1980 and 1984 annual meetings. Wilson CenteF,-CASVA, others; Univ Delaware excellence in teach­ Shtetl also by Weisberg; also contributing editor, Artweek, and Draw£ngsJrom the Clark Art Inst£tute, 2 vols, Yale, 1964 (with Stan­ ing award, 1976. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Amer Soc for Eighteenth­ author numerous articles in Images and Issues, The Tamarz'nd dish S. Lawder and Charles W. Talbot, Jr); European Drawz'ngs and IRVING SANDLER Century Studies, executive board, 1983-86; annual meeting session Papers, others. AWARDS: Ford foundation grant, 1969-70; USC fac­ Watercolors £n the Yale Unt'vers£ty Art Gallery 1500-1900, 2 vols. S.U.N.Y., College at Purchase chr, 1976, 78; Soc Architectural Historians, Hitchcock prize comm, ulty recognition award and exhibition; lithograph commission, Yale, 1970 (with Anne-Marie S. Logan); Hercules Segers: His Com­ 1982-83; Newberry Library, fellowship comm, 1984-; others. CAA graphic arts council, Los Angeles County Mus. PROFESSIONAL ACTIV­ plete Etch£ngs, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1974 (with an intro­ BA Temple Univ, 1948; MA Univ Pennsyl­ ACTIVITIES: Porter prize comm, 1978-80; chair, "Art and Science, ITIES: Western Region Women's Caucus for Art, vice president; Na­ duction by K.G. Boon and a supplement, johannes Ruischer, by E. vania, 1950; PhD New York Univ, 1976. POSI­ 1750-1850" session, 1981 annual meeting, San Francisco; read papers tional Printmaking Assoc, board of directors; Los Angeles Artists' Trautscholdt); Corpus Ruben£anum Ludw£g Burchard, Part X, The TIONS: CRITICISM: critic, Art. News, 1956-62; at numerous other CAA annual meetings. Equity, advisory board; past vice president, LA County Mus Graphic Acht"lles Sen'es, Antwerp, 1975; Wadsworth Atheneum Pat'ntt'ngs, NY correspondent, Art Internat£onal, 1960- Arts Council; past president, LA Printmaking Society; past vice presi­ Catalogue I, The Netherlands and the German SpeaMng Countries, 61; critic, New York Post, 1961-64; contrib dent, Coalition Women's Art Organizations; participant, "Art and Fifteenth-Ntneteenth Centuries, Hartford, 1978; Rembrandt: The editor, Arts Magazzne, 1974; contrib editor, Public Policy" American Assembly, 1984. CAA ACTIVITIES: studio Nightwatch, Princeton, 1982. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Print Coun­ Art z'n Amen'ca, 1972. TEACHING: New York panelist, 1983 CAA annual meeting, Philadelphia; studio panel cil of America, secretary, director 1962-65; president, 1971-75; Univ, instructor, 1960-71; S.U,N.Y., College chair, 1982 annual meeting, NYC. II Master Drawtngs, assoc editor, 1963; Kress professor in residence, at Purchase, instructor to full prof, 1971-. PUBUCATIONS: The Tn·· Natl Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968-69; Belgian American umph of Amerz'can Pa£ntt'ng: A History of Abstract Expresst'onism, 1?ATEBOOK: 17 October first 1984-85 Positions Listing mailed ... 1 November postmark deadline preferential ballot. . 1 November dead­ Educational Foundation, board member, 1970-76; scholarship 1970; The New York School: Artists oJthe Fif#es, 1978; Alex Katz, lIne ACLS travel gr~nt applic.at~ons (Conferences Ma~ch-June). . . 5 November deadline submission of positions for November 19 listing ... comm, 1972-; Princeton Univ, advisory council, dept art and ar­ 1978; The Art oJtke Sz'xt£es, forthcoming; The Collected Publ'ished 15 N ove~b~r deadhne submiSSIon of proposals of seSSlOns for 1986 annual meeting (New York City). . . 21 November deadline winter newsletter. chaeology, 1971-. CAA ACTIVITIES: Art Bullettn, editorial board, Writt'ngs ofAlfred Barr; forthcoming; AlHeld, forthcoming. EXHIBI­ The Prellmmary Program for the 1985 annual meeting will be mailed 1 December. 1970-76; member, board of directors, 1970-74. TION CATALOGUES: Paul Burlz"n, Whitney Mus, 1961; Crz'tz'cs Cho£ce,

2 CAA newsletter Fall 1984 3 announcements lannouncements art bulletin editor's statement

Humanities. Science and Technology Minorities Fellowship Program Columbia University Fellowships Travel to Collections "What will you change?" friends ask me, the Art Bulletin, or someone more familiar NEH has opened a new funding category: The Committee on Institutional Cooper· Postdoctoral. Ph.D. completed between 1 An NEH program that provides grants of upon hearing that I have accepted the invita­ with the specific subject in question, will be Research Awards in Humanities, Science and ation's fellowship program is designed to January 1983 and 1 July 1985. Stipend $500 to enable scholars (both affiliated and tion to succeed Creighton Gilbert as Editor· consulted. A new policy of "blind reading" Technology. Proposals that focus on science increase the representation of American $23,000, one half for independent research non· affiliated) to consult materials essential in·Chief of the Art Bulletin. (My first issue will be initiated, that is, authors' names will and technology from the perspectives of art Indians, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and one half for teaching in undergraduate for their research but not readily available will be that of September, 1985.) Behind their not be given to readers. Thus, in principle, history. criticism, and theory are specifically Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans program in general education. For applica· near their homes or regular places of work. query lie two suppositions: that during the and usually in practice (inevitably, some invited. Possible topics could be, but need not among Ph.D. recipients. At least ten four­ tions: Director, Society of Fellows in the Awards may be used towards travel costs, sub­ course of a three-year editorship, substantive readers will guess some authors' identities), he limited to: the form and content of scien­ year full tuition fellowships with annual Humanities, CU, Heyman Center for the sistence and lodging, reproduction and pho­ modifications could be effected; and that the judgments will be made on quality, not pro­ tific knowledge; the processes through which stipends of $6,500 will be awarded for 1985- Humanities, Box 100 Central Mail Room, toduplication fees, and certain other associ­ Art Bullett'n perhaps needs changing. fessional standing. scientific knowledge is developed; the design 86 to minority group members seeking a doc­ N.Y.C. 10027. Deadline: 1 November. ated research expenses. Awards may not be The fonner, simpler assumption is only No uniform standard of length can be ap­ and deployment of technology; the interac­ torate in a humanistic discipline at any of Senior. Two fellowships for faculty who used as salary replacement, for research lead· partially true at best, since by the time an plied to all manuscripts. Clearly, there is a tion among science, technology and other ele­ the eleven participating midwestern universi­ have been teaching full-time for at least five ing to an academic degree, or for travel to Editor's call for any particular kind of submis· need for the Art Bulletin to accommodate ments of culture; and the value conflicts that ties. For complete information: CIC MFP, years, have at least one major publication, professional conferences. For application sions were answered, and those manuscripts very long studies, just as it must continue to may accompany scientific and technological Kirkwood Hall Ill, , but have not yet received tenure. $26,500 plus forms: Program Officer, TC, Div. Research were approved and rearued for publication, publish highly specialized material, however change. For application materials: David E. Bloomington, Ind. 47405. (812) 335-0822_ regular faculty benefits; half-time teaching. Programs, Room 319-GT, NEH, 1100 Penn­ the standard term of office would be nearly limited its immediate appeal may seem. In Wright, Program Officer, HST, Div. Re­ Outside Indiana call toll free (800) 457 ·4422. Appointments normally renewed for a second sylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. over. Of course, this does not argue against these regards, one could liken the Art Bulletin search Programs, NEH, llOO Pennsylvania Application deadline: 15 January. year, sometimes a third. Candidates must be 20506_ (202) 786-0207_ For travel after I initiating desirable changes, but only empha­ to those few newspapers "of record," such as Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. nominated by the chair of their department June, application deadline: 15 January. sizes that modifications of content, unlike the New York Times, wherein significant, or of an appropriate interdepartmental com· lengthy texts are published not for their topi­ Preproposal deadline: 1 January; formal pro­ Fellowships for Women those of layout, can be realized only slowly, mittee; direct applications from indirn'duals posal deadline: 1 March. The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Jewish Museum Metalwork Fellowships over the course of more than one editorship. cal interest, but for future availability. Never· will not be considered. For additional infor­ Radcliffe College provides fellowships and Two fellowships of $500 each are being of­ The second assumption, that the Art Bul­ theless, I strongly believe that such extended mation: same address as above. Deadline: I opportunities for affiliation to women schol­ fered annually to artists with experience in letin needs changing, is far more complex, articles should be the exception, not the rule. November. Stanford External Faculty Fellowships ars and artists at the postdoctoral or equiva­ silversmithing, metalwork, or metal sculp­ given that the journal mirrors the intellectual As a consequence, I expect to favor succinct­ The Stanford Humanities Center will offer lent professional stage to complete a substan­ ture who are interested in creating contempo­ health of American art history. In fact, any ness and those manuscripts that show no con­ five to seven residence fellowships for 1985- tial project in their field. Office or studio Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships rary Jewish ceremonial objects. Fellowships diagnosis of its well-being should be made not fusion between exhaustive and exhausting 86 primarily intended to enable fellows to space, stipend, access to Radcliffe/Harvard In Byzantine studies (including related cover cost of materials and offer opportunity exclusively from th~ forty-some articles pub­ documentation. Likewise, neither tedium nor pursue their own research and writing. Recip­ facilities are provided. Contact: Fellowship aspects of late Roman, early Christian, west­ to work with master silversmith Moshe lished annually, but from all of the submis· pretention should be thought desirable for ients are also expected to devote about one­ Program Applications, BU, RC, 10 Garden ern medieval, Slavic and Near Eastern stud­ Zabari. Prior knowledge of Jewish ritual not sions, which number about three times that scholarly writing in the Art Bullett'n. sixth of their time to teaching or in some other Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138. (617) 495- ies), Pre-Columbian studies, and the history essential. For information: Tobe Pascher many. My concern now, however, is not so The most widespread concern I have heard way contribute to intellectual life at Stanford. 8212. Deadline: 15 October. of landscape architecture. Both junior (work­ Workshop, Fellowship Program, JM, 1109 much with the scope and content of those six· expressed is that the Art Bulletin has become For application materials: Morton Sosna, As· ing on dissertation or other final project for Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. 10028. Application score manuscripts-it is premature to spec­ boring. Perhaps this results from a conflict sociate Director, SHC, Mariposa House, SU, degree) and advanced (postdoctorate) levels. deadline: 18 November. ulate on what will be submitted- as it is with between the journal's catholic purpose and Stanford, Calif. 94305. Application dead­ University of Pennsylvania .Fellowships For further information: Assistant Director, what I will not receive because authors might some of its readers' more limited concerns. Mellon Postdoctoral. For scholars who have line: 14 December. DO, 1703 32nd Street,'N.W., Washington, Fellowships in the Middle East mistakenly believe that journals other than Perhaps it results from over-specialization in held the Ph.D. 3-5 years by October 1985. D.C. 20007. Application deadline: 15 The American Schools of Oriental Research the Art Bulletin would be more receptive to our discipline. Or maybe "interesting" arti­ Proposals invited in all areas of humanities; November. is offering more than $170,000 in research, their writings. cles, whoever's judgment is to define which Fellowships for Venetian Research special consideration to applications that are study and travel grants for the 1985-86 aca­ To dispel misunderstandings and clarify they are, are being submitted elsewhere. Only The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of­ interdisciplinary or do not fit into normal aca­ Harvard Mellon Fellowships demic year and the summer of 1985, from policy, current as well as future, I should em­ this latter possib)lity can be addressed here, fers pre- and postdoctoral grants for research demic programs and to candidates who have For non-tenured, junior scholars who have undergraduate to postdoctoral level. Among phasize that, as in the past, the Art Bulletin by my stating that I will welcome scholarly ar­ in Venice on any aspect of the history of not previously utilized the resources of this completed, at the time of appointment, at them: the Kress Fellowship in Art History, in will publish articles in all fields of art history, ticles based on new methods, inasmuch as I Venice or the former Venetian empire. Ap­ university. Stipend $18,000. For further in­ least two years postdoctoral teaching at col­ Jerusalem, with room-and-board benefits by which I mean the broadest definition of the believe that our field has matured to an age plicants must be U.S. citizens, must have formation: John McCarthy, Chair, Human· lege or university and received Ph.D. prior to and stipend up to $2,700. For further infor­ discipline. 'Understandably, some articles still when fresh approaches, possibly from sister some experience in advanced research, and, ities Coordinating Committee, 16 College June 30, 1983. One-year appointment, July mation: ASOR Administrative Office, 4243 will seem more appropriate for journals that disciplines, can expand our understanding of if graduate students, must have completed Hall/CO, UP, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. 1984-June 1985, with limited teaching Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. (215) concentrate on certain areas. Essays on con­ familiar material. Similarily, scholarly arti· all doctoral requirements except for the dis­ Application deadline: 1 December. duties, departmental affiliation, opportunity 222-4643. Application deadline for most temporary art, for instance, when critical cles on less traditional subjects are invited, as sertation. Grants from $500 to $10,000; some to develop scholarly research. Annual stipend awards: 15 November. rather than historical in nature, are suited to are those that might be different in kind: subsequent publication subvention may be Cornell University Fellowships $21,000. For further information: Richard magazines devoted to the twentieth century, analyses of colloquia or seminars, critical available. For further information: GKDF, 40 Junior postdoctoral. Ph.D. completed by M. Hunt, Progt;'am Dir., Harvard University C.I.N .O.A. Art History Award but this does not mean that scholarly, histo­ essays on the state of research and methodol· West 57th Street, N. Y.C. 10019. Application time of application and one or more years of Mellon Faculty Fellowships, Lamont Library A $5,000 publication subvention is offered by rically focused articles on recent art are inap­ ogies in various fields, etc. Suggestions of deadline: 15 December. college teaching required. Focal theme: Non­ 202, Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Deadline: 1 the International Confederation of Art Deal­ propriate for the Art Bulle#n. The contrary other forms of articles, recommendations for European Traditions in Western Civilization. November. ers for a thesis of university level or compar­ will be policy. future changes, and comments and queries Articles will not be grouped into "theme" will be gratefully received. After all, however National Museum Act For further information: Jonathan Culler, able importance, on the history of art of one issues, which seem particularly befitting com· much an Editor of the Art Bullet£n may wish The National Museum Act, administered by Director, Society for the Humanities, CU, 27 University of Michigan Fellowships of its thirteen member nations. For further mercial magazines and those published more to achieve certain goals, its character and the Smithsonian Institution, is a technical East Avenue, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853. Deadline: Three-year fellowships for artists or scholars information: Gerald G. Steibel, 32 East 57 often than quarterly. Actually, under Creigh­ content are primarily determined by the in­ assistance program that makes grants for 1 November. at the beginning of their professional careers. Street, N.Y.C. 10022. Submission deadline: ton Gilbert's excellent editorship, only select­ terests and commitment of the Association's projects that will improve museum opera­ The Ph.D. within the past three years or com­ 15 November. ed articles have been brought together bysub­ membership. tions. Funds are granted to museums, profes­ National Humanities Center Fellowships parable professional recognition for creative ject. However, the topics announced on the Richard E. Spear • sional museum-related organizations and Approximately forty fellowships, for 'both artists is required. Fellows are appointed with Antiquarian Society Fellowships recent covers of the Art Bulletin have been es­ Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art History associations, and academic institutions with younger (three to ten years beyond doctorate) department affiliation as assistant professor / The American Antiquarian Society will Department of Art museum· related programs in the following and senior scholars. Emphasis is interdiscipli­ postdoctoral scholar. One· third salary and award a number of short- and long-term Vis­ tablished after the fact of coincidentally com­ plementary material, never as pre-planned Oberlin College six categories: Graduate/Professional Edu­ nary, including not only humanities but also time support departmental teaching; the iting Research Fellowships during the year themes. But inasmuch as some authors have Oberlin, Ohio 44074 cation and Training; Museum Internships; sciences, the arts, and the professions. Most balance for independent research. Yearly June 1, 1985-May 31, 1986 to scholars who assumed that this has delayed publication, Stipends to Individuals for Conservation fellowships are for the academic year, a few stipend $18,000, with anticipated annual in­ will make use of the Society's resources in and others have been hesitant to submit topics Studies; Special Studies and Research; for a single semester. Stipends based on usual crements, plus faculty benefits. For further early American history and culture. For full I',' ,:.ro'-'insure rec~'ipt '~£, al'l' CAA 'publica- , they felt never would fit into any likely Seminars; Services to the Field. For further academic salary. For application materials: information: Michigan Society of Fellows, details: John B. Hench, Asst. Director for I''''',doris,,'a~d 'announcement~. please be "theme," the practice will be discontinued in information: NMI, Arts and Industries Kent Mullikin, Asst. Dir., NHC, 7 Alexander 3030 Rackham Building, UM, Ann Arbor, Research and Publication, AAS, 185 Salis· order to preclude any misunderstanding. [',< )n1re 'fO: keep :us'1nfoimed of your cu~~ Building, SI, Washington, D.C. 20560. (202) Drive, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 2'7709. Mich_ 48109. (313) 763-1259. Application bury Street, Worcester, Mass. 01609. (617) As previously, outside readers, whether 357-2257. Application deadline: 15 October. deadline: 15 November. 752-58130r(617)755-5221. • t .entad"""" .' .. someone selected from the Editorial Board of CAA 4 newsletter Fall 1984 5 conferences and symposia /conferences and symposia shows by artist members Van Gogh in Aries The French Royal Academy: Classicism Italian Literature and the Visual Arts Myth in Contemporary Life Issues Related to the Conservation of 20th­ A symposium to be held at the Metropolitan and the Counter~Culture The theme of the 12th Conference of the In­ We've all heard of blockbuster exhibitions; Century Paintings Museum of Art, Friday and Saturday, No­ A symposium to be held at the University of ternational Association for the Study of Ital­ this is what you'd call-or what we'd call-a The topic of the fall seminar program of the A lz'st£ng of solo exht'bt'tions by artISts who are vember 16 and 17. Speakers: On Friday: John Maryland, College Park, and the Walters Art ian Language and Literature, to be held in blockbuster conference. To be held in New Intermuseum Conservation Association, members of the CAA. Those sending t'nfor­ Rewald, Charles A. Whitney. Bogomila Gallery, Baltimore, October 19--20, to in­ Canada (Toronto, Hamilton, and Montreal) York City at The Cooper Union and the New located in Oberlin, Ohio. The ICA seminar mat£on for listt'ng should include name of art­ Welsh-Ovcharov, Charles Moffett, and Fran­ vestigate the aesthetic principles, methods, May 6-10, 1985. Papers are invited on: School of Social Research over three days, Oc­ audience is customarily made up of museum ISt, gallery or museum, dty, dates of exht'bi­ <;oise Cachin; On Saturday: Johannes van der and goals of the Royal Academy in its attempt literary genres and figurative genres (land­ tober 11 through 13, this international, inter­ professionals, but this year ICA particularly tion, and medt'um. Wolk, Ronald Pickvance, Mark Roskill, Voj­ to shape artistic production in from scape, still life, portraiture, etc.); the eye as disciplinary symposium will be divided into intntes the participation of working artISts. tech Jirat Wasiutynski, and Naomi Maurer. 1640 to the mid nineteenth century. Robert constructive metaphor for the text; illustrated six sessions that will examine the manifesta­ Registration fee: $65; deadline 15 October; Katherine T. Andrle. Lansburgh's Win­ Moderators: Philippe de Montebello and Rosenblum, N.Y.U., will by symposium key­ books (illustrations as interpretations of tions of myth in such domains of modem life because number of participants is limited, dow Galleries, Washington, D.C. July 5- Charles F. Stuckey. Tickets $20; $10 with noter: other speakers include: Thomas texts); visual poetry, the figurative world, as literature. the visual and performing arts, early registration is advised. For furtherinfor· August 3. Recent paintings. copy current student I.D. Single-day admis­ Gaehtgens, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Ber­ "calligrammes"; the "non-finito" in art and politics, philosophy, and science. Just about mation: Caroli T. Asia, ICA, Intermuseum Gloria DeFilipps Brush. Univ. Min­ sions, if any vacancies, will be available only lin; Antoinette Lenormand-Romain, Musee literature; assimilative avant-garde theories every speaker is a "star"; to mention just some Laboratory, Allen Art Building, Oberlin, nesota, Morris, Mezzanine Art Gallery. at door. Please note: tz'cketsfoT the exhibition Orsay, Paris; George Levitine, Univ. Mary· (the con~ergence of art and literature in of the luminaries: Kenneth Burke, Stanley Ohio 44074. (216) 775-7331. November 14-December 10. Univ. Califor­ are sold only through Ticketron. Symposium land; Jean-Pierre Mouilleseaux, Monuments avant-garde poetics); narration and descrip­ Kunitz, Bernard Malamud. Harold Bloom, nia Extension Center Gallery, San Francisco. tickets will be processed in order of receipt. Historiques, Paris; Antoine Schnapper, Insti­ tion; the reciprocal relations between figur­ Ursula LeGuin, Neil Harris, Carl Schorske, November. Both recent photographs. Send check made out to Metropolitan Muse­ tute d'Art and Archaeologie, Paris; Barbara ative and literary models; and literature and Umberto Eco, and RobertJ. Lipton. The Vis­ um of Art and stamped, self-addressed envel­ Stafford, Univ. Chicago; David Van Zanten, film. The official language of the conference ual & Performing Arts session (October 12, Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art Sidney Guberman. The Hunter Museum ope to VG Symposium, Dept Education, Northwestern Univ.; Gail Davidson, Long is Italian. Submit one· page abstract for 15- 9:00 A.M., at the New School) will have A symposium to be held on Friday, October of Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. September 9- MMA, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, N. Y. Island Univ.; Elsa Marie Bukdahl, L'Aca­ 20 minute paper in duplicate to A. D'Andrea, Bruno Zevi, T.J. Clark, Earle Brown, and 12, at Albright College, Reading, Penn., October 15. Small sculpture and maquettes 10028. 'demie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Copenhagen. Dept. Italian, McGill Univ., 1001 Sherbrooke Paul Rotterdam, with Kenneth Frampton organized by the Freedman Art Gallery. for monumental projects. SECCA (South­ For additional information: Barbara A. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A IG5. and William Tucker as respondents. It's all Grace Glueck will be the keynote speaker. eastern Center for Contemporary Art), Melvin, Center for Renaissance & Baroque Deadline: 31 December. free: seating is unreserved. For additional Two panels, addressing political and aesthet­ Image and Religious Imagination in Winston-Salem, N.C. December 7-January Studies, Francis Scott Key Hall, UM, College information:Judith Garten (212) 254·7474 or ic issues, will focus on the appropriateness of 15. Painted sculpture. the Quattrocento Park, Md. 20742. Abe Habenstreit (212) 741-5667. public works of specific sites and the sur­ A two-part symposium that will take place at The Fantastic in the Arts rounding environment, the role of public art Ellen K. Levy. Galerie Petra Geilsdorfer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, May The sixth international conference on this in urban and suburban society, the roles of Koin, F.D.R., August 3D-September 29. 29-31, 1985 and at Villa I Tatti, Florence, topic will be held at Lamar University, Beau­ Gothic Sculpture from Burgundy artists and architects in the planning and Paintings and drawings. June 5 -7, 1985. The symposium will consider, New Approaches to American Art mont, Texas, March 14-17,1985. Papers are in North American Collections design of projects, the process of selecting among other topics, the changing role of reli­ Sharon Propp. Inroads Gallery, N.Y.C. A symposium to be held at the Wadsworth invited on: Figure and Text: VISionary Im­ Contributions on this theme are invited for artists and sites, and types of programs for gious orders in the fifteenth century; lay piety June 20-July 7. "Patriotic Proppism." Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., on Saturday, ages t'n the Pictorial Arts wtth Partt'cular the Twentieth International Congress on funding public art projects. Registration is and the role of lay confraternities in artistic October 13, in celebration of the opening of Reference to the Wrt'tten Word, paper and Medieval Studies, to be held in Kalamazoo, free. For program details and registration Elizabeth L. Tracy. New Britain Museum patronage; the interaction of secular human­ its new American Galleries. The symposium 100-word abstract by Dec. 1 to Amy Golahny, Mich., May 9-12, 1985. Preferred are topics form: Judith Tannenbaum, Dir., FG, AC. of American Art. September 23-November ism with traditional Christianity; and prob­ will feature innovative methodologies that Dept. Art, Chatham College, Woodland either proposing a Burgundian localization P.O. Box 516, Reading. Penn. 19603. (215) 4. Works on paper. lems of method arising from the study of Re­ often challenge long-standing assumptions Road, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15232; VISual and on stylistic, technical, and! or documentary 921-2381. naissance culture and religion. The roster of Cynthia Young. Marsha Mateyka Gallery, about American art. Topics and speakers: Non- Verbal Medz'a of Fantasy Art, title evidence, and! or specifically pinpointing the speakers includes: In Florida: Marvin Becker, m Washington, D.C.July 10-31. • Romantz'c Re-vision: UnlocMng the Cultural and 100-word abstract by Oct. 1 to Nancy­ area!locality in which the sculpture was Univ. Michigan; Salvatore Camporeale, Secrets in Amert'can Paini£ng, Bryan Jay Lou Patterson, Dept. Fine Arts, Univ. Water­ made, or the monument for which it was des· O.P., I Tatti; Creighton Gilbert, Yale; Rona Word and Image Wolf, Dept. English, Yale; Themes for a loo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3Gl; tined. A case against a Burgundian origin for Goffen, Duke; Richard Goldthwaite, Johns A four-day symposium to be held at Mar· Sodal History of Early American Material and VISual and Lt'terary Images ofFantasy t'n pieces published or labelled as such in public quette University, November 13-16, in con­ Hopkins, O.B. Hardison, Jr., Georgetown; Beckmann Symposium and Artists Panel Life, Cary Carson. Colonial Williamsburg; Dante, title and 100-word abstract by Oct. 1 collections is also of interest. Send one-page Brian Pullan, Manchester, : Eugene junction with the exhibition ArtIStic Col­ To be held at the St. Louis Art Museum Octo­ Art Versus History: Alternatt've Views of the to Alicia Faxon, Dept. Art and Music, Sim­ abstract including an illustration to: Patrick laboration in the Twentieth Century. Just Rice, Columbia; Richard Trexler, S.U.N.Y. ber 13-14, in conjunction with the Max Beck­ Decoratt've Arts, Michael J. Ettema, Ph.D. mons College, Boston, Mass. 02115. M. de Winter, Sessions Chr., The Cleveland about all the arts will be covered: speakers in­ Binghamton. In Florence: Eve Borsook, I mann Retrospectt've. Speakers and topics: cand, Winterthur: In Defense of Qualt'ty: Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleve­ clude Rudolf Arnheim, Peter Selz, Judith Tatti;· Miklos Boskovits, Universita Cattolica, Carla Schulz· Hoffman, Bayerische Staats­ Ideology and the Problem ofChoice in Amer­ land, Ohio 44106. Deadline: 1 October. Wechsler, Gerald Nordland, Arthur Danto, Milan; Gene Brucker, Univ. California, gemaIdesammlungen, Munich, Beckmann's ican Decoratt've Arts, Oswaldo Rodrigues John Ashbery, Lucas Foss, and lots more. All Berkeley; Salvatore Camporeale, O.P., I Tat­ New England Art Historians Pat'ntings: Freedom and Constrat'nt; Barbara Roque, Metropolitan Museum; "A New events are free and open to the public; "offi­ ti; Robert Hatfield, Syracuse Univ. in Flor­ The art historians of the six land-grant uni­ Contemporary Art C. Buenger, Univ. Wisconsin, From "Night" World"-Amencan Paintz'ng and the Inter­ cial registration" will get you an official pro­ ence: William Hood, Oberlin; Charles Hope, versities in New England are organizing a The fourth annual Symposium on Contem· into "Dream": Beckmann in the Aftermath of national Audt'ence, Trevor Fairbrother, Bos­ gram, information on lodging and transpor­ Courtauld: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Prince­ regional symposium to be held at the Univer­ porary Art will be held at the Fashion Insti­ World War I; Charles W. Haxthausen, Duke ton Museum Fine Arts. Fee: $30, including tation, etc. Write Curtis L. Carter, Director, ton; Nicolai Rubinstein, Univ. London; and sity of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 18- tute of Technology on Friday. October 26, at Univ., Beckmann Criticism m Germany, lunch. To register: (203) 278-2670. MU Museum of Art, 1324 W. Wisconsin others. For further information: Timothy 20, 1985. Attendance will be open to all, but 2:00 P.M. Speakers and topics: April Paul, 1919-1938; Margot Clark, Univ. New Hamp­ Ave., Room 402, Milwaukee, Wisc. 53233. Verdon, Dept Art History, FSU, Tallahassee, papers may be presented only by residents of C.U.N.Y., Introduction a la Pet'nture shire, Max Beckmann's Abstractness: The (414) 224-1669. Fla. 32306. New England or Eastern Canada. Session Moderne Amerz'cat'ne, St'x Young Amen'can Paradox of "Volume z'n the Plane"; Hans Art as a Means of Communication topics and chairs: Art and Polt'tics, Joyce Paz'nters of the Samuel Kootz Gallery: An In­ Belting, Institut fUr Kunstgeschicte, Munich, The theme of first Wright International Sym­ Brodsky, Univ. Connecticut; Artists and fen·or#y Complex t'n Paris,' Judith Wilson, Remarks on Beckmann's Pat'ntz'ngs: The International Congress Proceedings posium on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Biography, Paul Tucker, Univ. Massachu­ Yale, Wz'tches, Vz'rgt'ns, Knights, and Wan­ Amen'can Years. The Proceedz'ngs of the 25th International to be held at The Israel Museum. Jerusalem, setts, Boston; I Never Saw It That Way derers: The Expressz'onlSt Sources of Bob Vernacular Architecture Forum On Sunday, October 14, five students of Congress of the History of Art, which took Dec. 30, 1984-Jan. 2, 1985. Claude Levi­ Before, Iris Cheney, Univ. Massachusetts, Thompson's Black Rz'der; Linda Norden, The 1985 VAF will be held in San Francisco, Beckmann will discuss Beckmann as Teacher place in Vienna in 1983, may now be ordered. Strauss is honorary chair. Papers will be Amherst; Lz'terary to VISual Analyst's, David Columbia, Cy Twombly: Some Cn'tt'cal,Gaps May 1-5. Papers will focus on general ver­ and Influence. James McGarrell, Washing­ The first of the nine volumes will appear this presented by T. Bodrogi, E. Carpenter, E. Ebitz, Univ. Mainei Femt'nlSt Art History, in Crz'tz'cz'sm; Virginia Fabbri Butera, nacular architecture research and on specific ton Univ., will moderate the discussion; the fall; the entire series is scheduled for comple­ Cohen, W. Davenport, D. Eban, P. Gather­ Mara Witzling, Univ. New Hampshire; Pat­ C.U.N.Y., Robert Rauschenberg's "Gold methodological studies; in addition, there Beckmann students are Walter Barker, War­ tion before the beginning of the 26th Con­ cole, J. Guiart, J. Jones, A. Kaeppler, S. ronage and the Art Market, Wendy Roworth, Standard": The Foldt'ng Screen and Perfor­ will be a special session on western and Cali­ ren Brandt. Bernard Chaet, Grace Hartigan, gress, which will take place in Washington in Kaplan, F. Lupu, D. Newton, L. Schele, R. Univ. Rhode Island; Sacred and Secular, mance; David Carrier, Carnegie-Mellon, and fornia topics. Both formal papers (20 min­ and Jim Nutt. Registration is required for fall 1986. The price for the entire Proceedt'ngs Sieber, J. Soustelle, W. Sturtevant, R. Margaret Roland, Univ. Vermont. For fur­ Mark Roskill, Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, utes) and "works in progress" (10 minutes) are symposium; fee $25, students $15. The panel series is Austrian schillings (OS) 3200; in­ Thompson, H. van Geluwe, and D. Waite. ther information, write directly to session Last '&z't: Postmodernism t'n Art and Photog­ invited. Send proposals (max. 400 words) in discussion which concludes the symposium is dividual volumes are available at 5S 390 each. For futher infonnation: International Ltd., chair or to chair of the meeting: Paul F. Nor­ raphy; Craig Adcock, Florida State Univ., triplicate to Thomas Carter, Papers Chair, free and open to the public. For additional For further information: Verlag B5hlau, 12 Schlomzion Hamalka Street, Jerusalem ton, Art History Program, Dept. Art, UM, ~ercePtual Edges: The Psychology ofJames VAF, Utah Div. of State History, 300 Rio information: SLAM, Forest Park. St. Louis, Postfach 200, A-1014 Wein, Austria. 94146, Israel. Amherst, Mass. 01003. Turrell's Light and Space. Admission is free. Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Mo. 63110. (314) 721-0067. •

6 CAA newsletter Fall 1984 7 placement: 1983 - 84 annual review Iplacement: 1983-84 annual review

Last year's annual review, the grimmest ever, ed, since the number of applicants is consist~ Location. Of artist openings, 34% were ity of applicants with earned terminal degrees Interviews. In all categories, four was the ended with the sentence "Let's all hope for a ently conditioned by the location of our an- .cultRlcUJi,JJMVl7tAE,F01t1lfS' located in the Northwest or Mid-Atlantic earned them very recently. median number of interviews. For studio po­ happier report next year." To some extent, nual meeting (mid-Western cities, e.g. To- "}l!~t?,~'8;?~~,Jt~'\~'~m~;;':p~i:~g~:',:l~~~~M'~~~'~',\~Q;,,: the Northeast (43% last year) and 6% in the positions cancelled, and 14 reported that the Reagan, however, some slight explication is in meeting) and the number of openings is up 9P'-t~ill,~\~(}t~:,~e,c~iV~~\~~ft;~~i~c,~ls7';f;' Southeast (17% last year). The Central States positions were still open. Male/Female Ratios. The gender gap in order. First: last year we suffered a loss of 147 (largely owing to those design positions), it 'u1V,m,<'Vi,t~~ J

8 CAA newsletter Fall 1984 9 grants and awards 1986 annual meeting: call for session proposals

Three Kings as the prime social·organiza­ . ACLS GRANTS-IN-AID NOTE: we have not flipped our lid; we know ACLS FELLOWSHIPS tional representation of western Christianity; this is a repeat announcement. It's just that Sixty-five fellowships were awarded for Ninety-two were awarded. Recipients in­ and David Alan Brown, National Gallery of every year a considerable number of people periods of six months to one year for research clude Nicholas Adams, Lehigh Univ.: Poli­ Art Curatorial Fellow: A stylistic and icono­ claim never to have seen the article about the 1 in the humanities and related social sciences. tics in the ideal city of the Renaissance - Pien­ graphic study of Andrea Solario's Lamenta­ new annual meeting program chairs ... . Recipients include Elizabeth H. Hageman za, Pius II, and Cardinal Jouffroy; William L. Bareham. S.U.N.Y.', Fashion Institute of tz'on, (English), Univ. New Hampshire: The image Predoctoral Fellows. Susan MacMillan Technology: The altar paintings of Tiepolo; The 1986 annual meeting will be held in New of Lucretia Romana in the literary and visual Arensberg,Johns Hopkins: The Padua Bible; David Cast, Bryn Mawr: Studies in the Vz'te York City; the New York Hilton will be the arts of the Renaissance; Margaret Haines, Barbara Butts, Harvard: "Diirerschuler" by Giorgio Vasari; Karen Polinger Foster, headquarters hotel. The dates for sessions are Florence, Italy: Public sculpture in Repub­ Hans Suss von Kulmbach; Sarah R. Cohen, Wesleyan: Representation of faces in Minoan Thursday, February 13 through Saturday, lican Florence; Robert Grant Irving, Yale: Yale: The interrelationship between the Fete art; Pat Getz~Preziosi, New Haven, Conn.: February 15. Those wishing to propose topics Sir Herbert Baker, British imperial architect; Galante and 18th·century dance; Francesca Early Cydadic sculpture from Keros; George for sessions for the 1986 annual meeting Kriatin Thompson, Univ. Wisconsin: The Consagra,Johns Hopkins: The De Rossi print L. Gorse. Pomona Coli.: The villa of Andrea should submit them to the appropriate chair international avant- garde cinema during the publishing house; Tracy Cooper, Princeton: Dona: pleasure and politics in Renaissance by November t,5, 1984. 19208; and Paul H. Tucker, Univ. Massa­ The campaign of decoration in the church of ; Jane C. Hutchison, Univ. Wiscon­ Proposals should be submitted in the form chusetts, Boston: Monet and French painting S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; Linda sin: The Rijksmuseum's 100th anniversary ex­ Doch~ of a letter to the appropriate chair describing of the 1890•. erty, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill: A hibition; Carolyn G. Koehler, Univ. Mary· the subject of the session and explaining any Thirty-five fellowships were awarded to search f6r identity: American art criticism land: Ancient Greek container amphoras and special or timely significance it may have for recent recipients of the Ph.D. Among them and the concept of the native school, 1876- trade, 700-400 B.C.; Cynthia Lawrence, your particular field and! or for the discipline Terryl Nancy Kinder, S.U.N.Y., College at 1893; David Gillerman, N.Y.U.: S. Fortu­ Rutgers: Monuments of the 17th-century in general. Other factors, such as ideas about Brockport: The architecture of the five nato; Jeffrey Hamburger, Yale: The Roths­ Dutch naval heroes; Mary Ellen Miller, the session's format or organization, should Janet Cox-Rearick, 1986 Art History Chair Barbara Zucker, 1986 Studio Chair mother-houses of the Cistercian Order in the child Canticles; Lucy MacClintock, Har­ Yale: Art and iconography of monumental also be mentioned. Explanatory or supportive 12th century; Michael J. Marrinan, Colum­ vard: Eug~ne Delacroix and the significance sculpture at Copan and Quirigua; Lawrence materials may be appended. Please include a her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard Zucker, professor of art and chair of the art bia: The ideology of official patronage and its of finish in Romantic painting; Carol Nees, Univ. Delaware: Illuminated manu­ curriculum vitae, preferred mailing address, University. Before coming to Hunter in 1964, department at the University of Vermont. effect on the arts in France, 18:30-1840; John McMichael, Univ. Texas at Austin: Denver scripts from the Court School of Charle­ and both office and home telephone numbers. she taught at Wellesley College and held Zucker received her B.S. from the University Beldon Scott, Univ. Iowa: The painted ceil­ 1893-1941: architecture, urbanism and the magne; Esther Pasztory, Columbia: The To summarize briefly our procedures: (1) curatorial and research positions at the Art of Michigan and her M.A. from Hunter Col­ ings of Palazzo Barberini; and Robert F. Sut~ city beautiful; Sasha Newman, N.Y. U.: mural painting tradition of Teotihuacan; Anyone may submit a proposal for an art his­ Institute of Chicago and at The Frick Collec­ lege. Before coming to Vermont in 1979, she ton, Jr., Loyola Univ. of Chicago: The im­ Pierre Bonnard; Judith Testa, Univ. Chi­ Sheila S. Rinehart, Williamstown, Mass: tory or a studio session. (2) Program chairs tion. A specialist in the Italian Renaissance, taught at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work­ agery of sexual interaction on Athenian vases. cago: The Beatty Rosarium, a manuscript Drawings of antique sculpture for the Museo make their selection from among those pro­ Cox-Rearick is the author of the two·volume shop, Fordham University, the Philadelphia In addition, eleven fellowships were award­ with miniatures by Simon Bening; and Linda Cartaceo of Cassiano Dal Pozzo; Wendy W. posals purely on the basis of merit; however, if Drawt'ngs of Pontormo: A Catalogue Raz'son­ College of Art, and the Pratt Institute, among ed to recent recipients of the doctorate whose Wo1k, Univ. Michigan: The paintings of Roworth, Univ. Rhode Island: A study of essentially the same proposal is received from ne wt'th Notes on the Pat'ntz'ngs., 1964 (revised others. Her sculpture has been seen in solo ex­ research is intended to illuminate and assess Perino del Vaga (1501-1547). Salvator Rosa, 17th-century painter-satirist; two. or more individuals, preference will be and expanded edition, 1981) and Dynasty hibitions at DouglassCollege, A.I.R. Gallery, social and cultural ideas of 19th- and 20th­ Vz'sz'tz'ng Sent'or Fellows. These appoint· Kenneth E. Silver, N.Y. U.: The circle of given to the individual from the region in and Destz'ny z'n Medt'dArt: Pontormo, Leo X, 112 Greene Street Galley, the Pennsylvania century society. The sole recipient for a topic ments are for a maximum of sixty days. For Montparnasse: Jewish artists in Paris, 1900- which the meeting will be held. (3) In addi· and the Two Cosz'mos, Princeton, 1984. She Academy of Art, and the Robert Miller Gal­ that impinges on art history: Debora Silver· fall-winter 1984: Alessandro Bettagno, Uni­ 1940; Jeffrey C. Smith, Univ. Texas at tion to selecting sessions among these propo­ also wrote the catalogues for Ez'ghteenth-Cen­ lery, among others, as welr as in numerous man (History), U.C.L.A.: The ideological versita di Venezia, Anton Maria Zanetti the Austin: German sculpture during the 16th sals, program chairs will balance and shape tury Italz'an Drawt'ngs: A Loan ExMbt'tion, group exhibitions. She has received a Yaddo origins of Art Nouveau in France, 1889-1900. Elder; John Browning Onians, Univ. East and 17th centuries; Webster Smith, Mich­ the program by inviting individuals to chair Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley Callege, 1960, fellowship and an NEA sculpture award. A Anglia, Norwich: The classical orders and the igan State Univ.: The autonomous picture in general or special sessions. In doing so, pro­ and La Collection de Fran~ois I, Louvre, writer as well as an artist. Zucker was anedito­ meaning of architecture; David Van Zanten, NMAA FELLOWS the Renaissance; Suzanne Stratton, Rutgers: gram chairs consider a number of factors, in­ 1972, and has published numerous articles in rial associate at Art News and has published Northwestern Univ.: Louis Sullivan; and The National Museum of American Art has Philip II and the decoration of the Escorial; cluding which topics or periods were not Master Drawt'ngs, Revue de tArt, The Burl­ articles and reviews inArt News, Art t'nAmer­ David Porter, (English), Univ. Massachu­ announced new Smithsonian Fellows and and Sarah B. Wilk, Rutgers: The 16th·cen­ covered in recent eAA annual meetings. As z'ngton Magazz'ne, Mt'ttez'lungen des Kunsthz's­ z'ca, Heresz'es, ArtJournal, and other art peri­ setts, Amherst, associate appointment: Lin­ Visiting Scholars for the period beginning tury redecoration of the Chapel of St. An­ above, all other things being equal, prefer­ torischen Instt'tutes t'n Florenz, Art£bus et odicals. She was one of the co-founders of the guistic structure and the art of Joseph Cor­ May 1984. thony in Padua. ence is given to artists! scholars from the Hz'stort'ae, and other scholarly periodicals. A.1. R. Gallery and has served on the Ver­ Smithsonian Fellows: Sandra L. Langer, nell. Completing appointments for summer region in which the meeting will be held, but Currently, she is working on a book on Bron­ mont Artists Task Force. A member of the Univ.: South Carolina: John Frederick Ken­ 1984: Charles True GOOsell, Virginia Poly­ beyond that there is no geographic, institu­ zino's chapel for Eleonora da Toledo and on CAA Board of Directors since 1982, Zucker sett, A Critical study of His Life and Art; J. technic Institute: The political meaning of tional, or other consideration. the expansion of her catalogue of the collec­ chaired the session on "Color in Sculpture­ Gray Sweeney, Grand Valley State College: civic design; Zsuzsa Urbach, Museum of Fine Art history sessions will be chaired by Janet tion of Francois 1. Address proposals to: Box Sculpture in Color" at the 1980 CAA Annual A Study of Thomas Cole's Iconographic and CASVA FELLOWSHIPS Arts, Budapest: The sources of Breugel's art Cox~Rearick, professor of the history of art at 339, Department of Art, Hunter College, 695 Meeting. Address proposals to: Art Depart­ Stylistic Influence over Mid-nineteenth Cen­ The National Gallery of Art's Center for Ad· and its relation to early Netherlandish paint­ Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. Cox-Rearick re­ Park Avenue, New York City 10021. ment, Williams Hall, University of Vermont, tury American Painting; Cecile Whiting, vanced Study in the Visual Arts has an· ing; and Artur Rosenauer, Institut fUr ceived her B.A. from Wellesley College and ~tudio sessions will be chaired by Barbara Burlington, Vt. 05405. III Stanford Univ.: The American Painter's nounced fellowships in various categories. Kunstgeschichte, Vienna: Donatello's devel­ Response to Fascism, 19:3:3-45; Lisa Koe­ Sent'or Fellows for the full academ£c year opment in the 1430s. nigaberg, Yale: Professionalizing Domesti­ 1984-85. Jonathan J.G. Alexander, Univ. Igrants and awards city: American Women Writer's on Architec­ Manchester: The history of humanistic book ture, 1865-1917; and Karol Lawson, Univ. decoration; Marjorie Elizabeth Cropper, of Virginia: The American Landscape in Temple Univ.: The seventeenth-century ai, Yale: the sculptural reliefs of the Forum ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Nicola Gordon Bowe of Ireland is the recip­ crisis concerning the doctrine of imitation; ROME PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS as a product of Imperial patronage; Herbert New Fellows elected at the 1984 annual meet­ ient of the eighth annual C.I.O.N.A. Art His­ Painting and Prints, ca. 1600-1820. Fellowships to live and work at the American Visiting Scholars: Tina Dunkley. Atlanta Mojmir Svatopluk Frinta, S.U.N.Y., Kessler, Johns Hopkins: the frescoes and ing include the art historian Robert Rosen~ tory Prize. Her manuscript, The Life and Academy in Rome for periods of from six Univ.: Afro-American Art and Museum Albany: (1) The usage of punches in medieval mosaics of the basilicas of St. Peter's and St. blum, New York University, the architects Work of Harry Clarke (1889-1931), will be panel paintings, and (2) Comparison of cer· months to two years beginning in fall 1984 Paul's; John E. Moore, predoctoral, Har­ Henry Cobb (of I. M. Pei and Partners) and published by The Dolmen Press. The prize in­ Studies; Jerry Waters, Yale: Henry O. Tan­ have been awarded to thirty American artists ner's Religious Paintings; Marie lacullo, tain forms present in Italo-Byzantine paint­ vard: the Chz'nea, its architectural impor­ Robert Venturi, and the ,painters Jasper cludes and $5,000 publication subvention. and scholars. Among the recipients: Columbia: Public Demand and the Rise of an ingwith the tradition of Byzantine icon paint­ tance and political ramifications; Louise Johns and Balthus. ARTISTS: Nicholas Dean Blosser, Ohio Art Historical Establishment at the Smithso­ ing; Martin J. Powers, U.C.L.A.: The Rice, predoctoral, Columbia: the altarpieces Marilyn E. Heldman, Washington Universi­ State University and Nazarene College, paint­ nian, 1904-1941; Reginia Perry, Virginia theme of the -immortals and their changing of St. Peter's commissioned under Gregory ty, St. Louis, received an A.C.L.S. travel ing; Benedict LaRico, N.Y. C.: painting; Commonwealth Univ.: A History of Black imagery in the pictorial art of the Han dyn­ XV and Urban VIII: Melinda Wilcox Rinaldo Petrini, University of Houston, has grant to attend the International Conference Houston Convill, S.U.N.Y., Old Westbury: American Art, 1650-1984; and Richard asty of China; Edward Alan Snow, (English), Schlitt, predoctoral, Johns Hopkins: Fran­ been inducted into the Accademia Clemen· of Ethiopian Studies to be held in Addis sculpture; Marsha Pels, Marlboro College Masteller, Whitman ColI.: Satiric Form Rice Univ.: The work of Pieter Bruegel, the cesco Salviati (1510-1563); and David Gi1~ tina di Bologna as an Academician of Honor, Ababa this coming November. Her paper is and Franklin & Marshall College: sculpture. in the 1980s: Dissident Voices, Dissident Elder; Richard C. Trexler, (History), lerman, predoctoral, N.Y.U.: S. Fortunato the highest recognition awarded by the Ital· on Fere ,$eyon, Painter to the Court of ART HISTORIANS: Eve Dambra, predoctor- in Todi. EmperorZar'a yaceqob. III ViJiona. S.U.N.Y., Binghamton: The story of the ian Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts. CAA newsletter Fall 1984 II 10 preservation news people and programs

MUSEUM ARCHIVES: THE NEED FOR PRESERVATION Brooklyn Museum or for examining the way Maten'al for inclusion in People and Pro­ 1981 as department chair; before that he Museum curators and scholars are becoming stltutions this type of publication frequently in which different aspects of taste emerged in grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ taught at the University of Chicago. increasingly interested in the formation of does not exist. one American city. tion, 149 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. 10016. museums and collections throughout the The deterioration of valuable museum ar- The existence of this uncatalogued collec­ Deadline for next issue: 21 November. Elsewhere in Texas, Kenneth W. Prescott, United States during the nineteenth century. chives must be stopped; microfihning some of tion in the center of New York City suggests who has served as chair of the UT -Austin art The documentation needed to write the his- these materials is of first importance, But that there may be many such collections else­ IN MEMORIAM department for the last ten years, stepped tory of these collections is often difficult to once this initial phase has been accomplished where. Now is the moment for museums of all down from that post at the end of the summer locate, however, since it is found primarily in (at present, often under the auspices of the types and sizes to examine themselves, to Jeffrey J. Bayer, chair of the department of to return to full-time teaching and research. letters, diaries, and reports that have been Archives of American Art), there is still much move beyond the objects shown on their walls art and art history at the University of Ala­ While chair, Prescott significantly increased sorely neglected. Accession committee notes that should be assessed and preserved. or housed in storage areas and to mine the bama in Huntsville, died in June at the age of the number of endowed scholarships, oversaw or the minutes of trustee meetings that led to The archives of The Brooklyn Museum, for documentary material that can provide the 41. Bayer came to Huntsville immediately a $3.8 million expansion of the Art Building, the acquisition of an important work for per- example, date back to 1823, when the parent only accurate historical record and context after earning his MFA in sculpture (Univ. and introduced what has become an extreme· manent collections, for example, have been organization of the present institution, the for assessing these objects in the future. In North Carolina, Chapel HilI) in 1967. He had ly popular course, "Collecting Contemporary neither adequately catalogued nor, in some Apprentice Library Association, was found­ some cases, institutions may also have records numerous solo_Jxhibitions, primarily in the Art for the Beginner." cases, even preserved. Notes by curators on ed. At that time, the library was the civic and pertinent to important regional exhibitions South, and was a leader in both the South­ particular pieces or assessment reports by cultural center of the village of Brooklyn. such as those in which European and Ameri­ eastern College Art Conference (vice presi· The University of Pittsburgh, has several new visiting scholars have been misplaced. There Today, the~e archives and those of various can paintings first vied for attention (e.g., the dent, 1979-84) and the Southern Association appointments. Alison Stones joined the is usually little enthusiasm for the task of other institutions that contributed to the arts Carnegie Internationals), which suggests that of Sculptors (president, 1975-79). A scholar­ department as professor of medieval art in locating these materials in a given museum in Brooklyn throughout the nineteenth and archival material associated with these exhi­ ship has been established in his name; contri­ January and Ann Sutherland Harris has until it becomes necessary to write a contem - early twentieth centuries are seriously en­ bitions (letters to participants, notes to art butions may be made to Office of Develop· been named professor of Renaissance and porary report on a piece or to prepare for cat· dangered. Housed in the present Brooklyn dealers, old catalogues, and photographs of ment, UA, Huntsville, Ala. 35899. Baroque art. In the fall term, Edward Fry aloguing a collection. Professional archivists Museum, these archives contain not only the paintings) should also be inventoried. This will be Visiting Andrew Mellon Professor. Herbert Kessler. Johns Hopkins University are seldom employed because many museums history of the museum but often" ... the cor­ would be the first step towards demystifying Betty L. Zimmerman, former assistant Elizabeth Johns will teach a seminar in director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and American painting that same tenn. Missing view archives as a low priority; clearly. respondence of curators with major artists these exhibitions and would provide inval­ Herbert Kessler, chair of the department of initiator, in 1960, of the pilot' and much­ from Pittsburgh during the academic year museum archives have not been given much and the documentation of the world as they uable insights for scholars. In some cases art history at Johns Hopkins, has been ap­ copied docent program, died in July. Zim­ will be Aaron Sheon, who will be a resident thought or attention. (At the Metropolitan saw it," as Deidre Lawrence, Principal Libra­ there may be a need to locate, evaluate, and pointed the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor. mennan joined the Museum in 1953 as head fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Museum of Art, archives are carefully cata- rian of the institution, writes. This collection preserve these records in climate· controlled He is the inaugural professor in this endowed of public service and membership; in 1963 she Princeton, and John Williams, the previous logued and inventoried - an impressive ex· is undoubtedly an invaluable resource provid­ storage facilities; in other cases it may be chair, established in May through a gift by became the first person appointed assistant chair, who will be on sabbatical as a Guggen­ ception to the common situation.) Viewed as ing insight into the way collections were necessary to develop a suitable management Michael Bloomberg. Kessler will spend 1984- director. Upon her retirement in August, heim fellow. Kathy Linduff, who has just pieces of insignificant paper, archival mate- formed and the attitudes of curators and program whereby these materials can be fully 85 as an NEH postdoctoral fellow at the 1982, the Museum's Board of Trustees named returned from an NEH·sponsored sabbatical rials have been shunted aside, stored in out of directors. The Brooklyn Museum archives inventoried and indexed. The ultimate goal American Academy in Rome. the way recesses, and exposed to damage from contain (1) minutes, records and scrapbooks for The Brooklyn Museum archives is to have her Assistant Director Emerita and dedicated year, will take over as chair. a gallery in her honor. She was the coordina· inclement weather. (2) curatorial correspondence (3) photo· all the material accessible and available. This Also at Johns Hopkins: Yve-Alain Bois has tor of the Museum's Centennial in 1981 and William G. McMinn, first dean of the There is no consistent policy on the preser- graphs of the old building of the museum and philosophy should be applied throughout the joined the department as associate professor. organized its history exhibition and cata­ School of Architecture at Mississippi State vation and use of archives in American muse- the different installations of the objects (4) country in a concerted effort to use and ex· Bois, an authority on early twentieth·century logue, Art Palace of the West. University, has been named the new dean of urns; each institution develops its own ad hoc blueprints and architectural drawings of the plore museum archives before it is too late. art and architecture, has published widely on the College of Architecture, Art and Plan­ solution. Unless a concern for these materials original building and subsequent modifi· Interest in the archives is one way in which diverse topics, including Mondrian, axono­ ACADEME ning at Cornell University. McMinn headed develops, however, it will become increasingly cations and (5) artists' letters from the nine· history and aesthetics can merge. Archival metry, Picabia, and Cubism. He leaves a posi­ the departments of architecture at Louisiana difficult to report on the history of an institu - teenth century. These archives are extremely preservation is still in its infancy, but if tion as Charge de recherches at the Centre Fran~ois Bucher, Florida State University, State University and Auburn University and tion, to analyze its acquisition policies, and to rich in their implications, but since they have museums take this area seriously and explore National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. has been elected president of the Southeast also served as director of design with a North record the role played by directors and indi- never been fully catalogued, and have re­ all available governmental funds earmarked Gary Vikan, recently appointed assistant Chapter of the Society of Architectural Histo· Carolina architectural firm before coming to vidual curators in charting its course. The an· mained inaccessible to scholars, it is not for that purpose, much can be accomplished. director for curatorial affairs and curator of rians. He also has taken time out to publish Mississippi in 1974. nual reports of museums tell only one aspect known exactly how important the material Gabriel P. Weisberg • medieval art at the Walters Art Gallery, has of the story, and during the ear!y years. of in- could be for establishing the history of the Chair, Committee for the Preservation of Art his novel on thennonuclear war, Ein Strah­ lendes Ende (Munich, 1984) and has lectured George Thompson, assistant professor in the been appointed adjunct professor. Michael in Zurich, Lausanne, and Munich. College of Architecture and Design, Kansas Fried has been awarded an NEH senior fel­ State University, has organized an exhibit of lowship for next year to complete his study of information the paintings of Gustave Courbet. And Ron­ tion is sought on (1) collections with signifi­ Medievalist Michael D. Taylor has been the architectural designs of E. Fay Jones. Hank Kaminsky, Dept. of Art, University of ald Paulson, author of Hogarth, Literary For a doctoral dissertation, infonnation is cant numbers of his bookplates or othermem­ Arkansas, 116 Fine Arts Building, Fayette­ appointed chair of the art department at Jones studied with Frank Lloyd Wright and the University of Houston. Taylor (Ph.D., continues his tradition of "organic architec· Landscapes: Turner and Constable, and sought on Florine Stettheimer, in particular oriabilia, and (2) his personal life and pro' ville, Ark. 72'701. other works on eighteenth- and nineteenth­ on her friendships with Charles Demuth, Al­ Princeton) had been at the University of Mis­ ture." The exhibit was seen both at KSU and fessional career, particularly from those who century English art and literature, has been fred Stieglitz, William Carlos Williams, Carl souri, St. Louis, for the past ten years, since at . knew him or commissioned work from him. Selected works by the architectural historian appointed jointly to the departments of Van Vechten, Virgil Thomson, Eli Nadel­ Edith A. Rights, Montclair Art Museum, and critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy are being com­ English and the history of art. man, Marcel Duchamp, etc., and on thea­ P.O. Box 1582, Montclair, N.J. 07042. piled for possible publication. Copies, or trical design in America in the 1920s and sources, of her articles, book reviews, corre­ 1930s. Barbara Heins, 2006 Yale Station, For a catalogue raisonne and biography, in­ spondence with architects, and lectures are MUSEUMS New Haven, Conn. 06520. formation is sought on the Italian-American requested by Regi Goldberg, 5 West 20th Renaissance art historian Charles Mitchell artist Jon Corbino (1905-64), in particular Street, N.Y.C. 10011. has been appointed Kress Professor at the N a­ For a publication in connection with the Bau· about works exhibited between 1931 and tional Gallery of Art for the academic year haus-Archiv in Berlin, the Wilhelm Lehm­ 1935 in group shows. Marcia Corbino, 1111 For a series of essays in the history of art edu­ 1984-85. Mitchell, who has been professor bruck Museum is seeking information on N. Gulfstream Ave., Sarasota, Fla. 33577. cation that will deal with some heretofore emeritus at Bryn Mawr College since 1980, the paintings, drawings, prints, and applied unknown or unrecognized art educators, the plans to finish his book on the Tempio Mala­ artworks of Johannes Molzahn and on the For a series of articles on sand casting as a following is sought: (1) names of possible indio testiano, Rimini, and to continue his studies works of his students. B. Lepper, WLM, Dtis­ process for producing jewelry and other small viduals to be included in this series of articles; on the life of Ciriaco d'Ancona, the fifteenth­ seldorferstrasse 51, 4100 Duisburg, West forms, the author seeks information in the fol­ and (2) information on Jay Hambidge, Hoyt Betty L. Zimmerman, century humanist who traveled extensively in Germany. lowing areas: (1) historical; (2) technical; (3) Shennan, Demon Ross, William Whitford. shown with a limestone the eastern Mediterranean and was the first to bibliographical; (4),uppliers of tool,; (5) Arthur Wesley Dow, and Tanno Pasto. Send relief of Seti I (Egypt, acquaint people in the West with Greece. For an exhibition of bookplates by Arthur records of known works; and (6) names and to HaroldJ. McWhinnie, Design Dept., Univ. Abydos. Dynasty XIX, 1313-1292 B.C.) Nelson MacDonald (1866-1940), informa- addresses of persons working in this mediu:m. Maryland, College Park. Md. 20742. • Contz'nued on p. 14, col. 1 13 12 CAA newsletter Fall 1984 Ipeople and programs {people and programs

The National Gallery of Art's 1984 Andrew At the Getty: Thomas Kren, formerly associ­ positions at the Michener Collection at the The new director of the Museum of Art and W. Mellon Lectures will be given by Richard ate curator of paintings. was named curator University of Texas, Austin, and at the Mil­ Archaeology at the University of Missouri, Wollheim, who currently holds an appoint­ of manuscripts effective May 1. Kren (Ph.D. waukee Art Museum. Columbia, is Forrest McGill. A specialist in ment in philosophy at Columbia University Yale) joined the Getty in 1980; before that he the art of South and Southeast Asia, McGill and is Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind taught at Santa Barbara, Northwestern, and Elsewhere in Chicago, Yutaka Minohas been (Ph.D. Univ. Michigan) also will serve as and Logic, emeritus, at University College, Yale. He recently organized Renaissance appointed curator of Chinese and Japanese assistant professor in Missouri's department London. Among Wollheim's publications are Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the art at The Art Institute. Since 1977 Mino of art history and archaeology, where he will Socialism and Culture (1961), On Drawing an Brt'tish Lt'brary. which was shown at the Getty (Ph.D. Harvard), whose particular area of teach courses on the history of Asian art and Object (1965). Art and Its Objects (1968) and and at The Morgan Library. Also on May 1, expertise is Oriental ceramics, had been the on museum practice. Previously, McGill was Art and Mind (1973). The lectures will be Peter F. Fusco (Ph.D. LF.A.), formerly at curator of Oriental art at the assistant director of the Archer M. Hunting­ held on six consecutive Sundays beginning the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Art. Recently he served as guest ton Gallery at the University of Texas, Austin. November 11 at 4:00 P.M. became curator of sculpture. Fusco organized curator for the special exhibition Treasures the major exhibition of French sculpture. from the Shanghaz' Museum, 6000 Years of The Brockton Art Museum's new director is The Romantics to Rodt'n: French Nineteenth At another Washington institution, the Cor­ Chinese Art, shown at Chicago's Field Muse­ Joseph L. Kagle Jr., who comes to Massachu­ Century Sculpture from North American coran Gallery of Art, Ned Rifkin has been um of Natural History. Mino has published setts after six years as director of the Southeast Collectt'ons, in 1980. Myron Laskin Jr., who appointed curator of contemporary art. Rif­ extensively on both Chinese andJapanese art; Arkansas Arts and Science Center in Pine has been curator of European art at the N a­ kin (Ph.D. Univ. Michigan) has been a cura­ his most recent book is Beauty and Tranquz'lz'­ Bluffs. Marilyn Hoffman leaves the Brock­ tional Gallery of Canada since 1968, was tor at the New Museum of Contemporary Art ty: The Elz'Lilly Collec#on of CMnese Art ton to join the Currier Gallery in Manchester, named curator of paintings, effective Sep­ in New York City since 1981; he also served as (with James Robinson, 1983). N.H. as curator. assistant director. From 1977 to 1981 he tember 1. Laskin, (Ph.D. LF.A.) taught at Kathleen M. Monaghan, Akrpn Art Museum Washington University in St. Louis and has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington Rachel Rosenfield Lafo has been named Jay Gates has been appointed director of the published extensively on Italian painting of Samuel Sachs II, The Minneapolis Other appointments in Ohio: As of March 1, and in 1979-80 was also Texas editor of Art­ senior curator at the DeCordova Museum in Spencer Museum of Art at the University of week. Among the exhibitions Rifkin curated the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Bur­ Institute of Arts Kathleen M. Monaghan left the Santa Bar­ ton Fredericksen, curator of painting at the Photo: Gary Mortenson Lincoln, Mass. Most recently special assistant Kansas, Lawrence, where he will also hold the bara Museum of Art to become curator at the at the New Museum are Persona (on- artists' to the director of the Fogg's Center for Con­ title of courtesy professor of art history. Gates use of alter egos as a vehicle for self-expres­ Getty since 1965, has been appointed to the Akron Art Museum. Monaghan (MA Univ. In the midst of all these comings, a going: servation and Technical Studies, Lafo (MA (M.F.A. Univ. Rochester; Ph.D. cando Univ. sion). Stay Tuned (on video in the context of newly created position of senior curator for CalifC)rrua, Santa Batbara), a specialist in Samuel Sachs II, director of the Minneapolis Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst) was previous­ Pittsburgh) had been assistant director of the other mediums), and the forthcoming Leon research. While continuing his research and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Institute of Arts since 1973, has announced ly at the Portland Art Museum. Nelson·Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Golub exhibition. publication of works in the collection, Freder­ art, was a curatorial fellow at the Whitney icksen will supervise the Provenance Index, a that he will resign effective June 30, 1985. before joining the Santa Barbara Museum in Getty-sponsored project that is creating a Sachs has been associated with the Institute Lowell G. Adams leaves the directorship of 1980. Marilyn F. Symmes, a specialist in Eric M. Zafran has been appointed the first computerized archive of information on the for more than twenty years, as director since the Oklahoma Art Center, a post he has held nineteenth- and twentieth-century prints and James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance history of collecting. And fmally: Deborah A. 1973. "Growth in membership, finandalsup­ for seven years, for the directorship of the photographs, has been named curator of and Baroque Art at The Walters Art Gallery Gribbon has been appointed assistant direc­ port, and attendance along with expansion Tucson Museum of Art. Adams (M.A. Wich­ graphic arts at the Toledo Museum. Symmes in Baltimore. Zafran (Ph.D., LF.A.) had tor for curatorial affairs, a newly created posi­ and improvement of the permanent collec­ ita State) has also been director of the Lake­ (MA Univ. Michigan) had been assistant been curator of European art at The High tion. Among other functions, she will partici­ tion reflect the comprehensive professional­ view Museum of Arts/Sciences in Peoria and curator of graphic arts at the Detroit Institute Museum in Atlanta since 1979; prior to that pate in the planning for the new museum in ism and artistic sensibility of Sam's leader· of the Mississippi Museum of Art. of Arts since 1974. he was chief curator of The Chrysler Museum ship," said John Lottes, President of The Min­ Brentwood. Gribbon (Ph.D. Harvard) had At The Ackland Art Museum of the Universi­ in Norfolk. A specialist in northern Renais­ neapolis Society of Fine Arts. "The encyclo· At the Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, been curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner ty of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Timothy sance art, his curatorial responsibilities have pedic breadth and aesthetic quality of the In· Marion L. Grayson has been appointed Museum in Boston since 1976. A. Riggs has been named assistant director. ranged from the sixteenth through the twen­ stitute, its collection and its professional staff director. Grayson (Ph.D. Columbia) was pre­ Riggs (Ph.D. Yale) had been with the Wor­ tieth centuries. His most recent exhibition, Several curatorial appointments have been are ... a perpetual tribute to Sam's many viously curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in cester Art Museum since 1973. as curator of The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the announced at the Los Angeles County Muse­ contributions." Sachs was recently elected St. Petersburg, Fla. and held adjunct teach­ 18th Century, inaugurated the new High prints and drawings since 1976. um of Art. Scott Schaefer, curator of Euro· president of the Association of Art Museum ing positions in art history at Eckerd College Museum last year. pean painting since 1981, will take on the ad­ Directors. and at the University of South Florida. Susan Danly Walther (Ph.D. Brown) has ditional curatorial and administrative duties been appointed assistant curator of the new Also at the Walters, Ellen Reeder Williams for the Museum's European sculpture col­ CurtisL. Carter, a member of the philosophy At the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, Lau­ Virginia Steele Scott Gallery for American was appointed associate curator of ancient lection. Prior to joining LACMA, Schaefer department at Marquette University since ra C. Luckey has been named assistant direc­ Art at the Huntington Library and Art Gal­ art. Lately assistant professor at George (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr) was assistant curator of 1969, has been appointed director of the Mar­ tor for collections and program. Luckey most lery, which opened to the public in July. Washington University in Washington, D. C., European painting at the Boston Museum of quette University Museum of Art. Carter has recently held the dual title (since 1980) of Glenn Markoe, previously assistant curator Williams (Ph.D. Princeton) previously taught Fine Arts and a lecturer at Harvard. Recently served as chairman of the university's com­ associate director and curator of American of ancient art at the Los Angeles County at Johns Hopkins and served as curator of the he co-organized A Day z'n the Country: mittee on the fine arts since 1975, as well as painting at the Museum of Art, R.LS.D. Museum of Art and a visiting curator at the University's Archaeological Collection. Impressz'onism and the French LandScape, administrator of the school's art collection The Amon Carter Museum has announced Before that, from 1964 to 1980, she was on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is now curator LACMA's major international loan exhibi­ and exhibitions, and fine arts advisor for the appointment of Linda L. Ayres as cura· staff of the department of paintings at the of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the At the Houston Museum of Fine Arts: George tion, and co-authored the catalogue. Tim­ planning and development of the museum. tor of paintings and sculpture. Since 1978, Boston Museum. University of Vermont in Burlington. T.M. Shackelford has been appointed assis­ othy B. Schroder will assume the duties of Ayres (MA Tufts) had been assistant curator tant curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth­ The University of Michigan Museum of Art of American art at the National Gallery of Art M. Kirby Talley, Jr., founding director of associate curator of decorative arts on Octo­ In Canada, Kate Davis has been appointed century European painting and sculpture. A has announced the appointment of Hilarie in Washington, where, she participated in the the Culture Ministry's School for Restorers in ber 1. Schroder (MA Christ Church, Oxford) associate curator and curatorial manager, pro doctoral candidate at Yale, Shackelford was Faberman to the position of curator of West- . planning of American Lt'ght; The Lumz'nist The Netherlands, has been named the new has been director of the silver department at tern, of The Edmonton Art Gallery. Davis guest curator of Degas: The Dancers, which em art effective October 1. Faberman (Ph.D. Movement, 1850-1875; Bellows: The Boxing director of Oberlin College'S Allen Memorial Christie's, London, since 1982. (Ph.D. Univ. New Mexico) had been the will be seen at the National Gallery of Art in Yale) is currently acting curator at the Yale Pictures; and An American Perspec#ve: Art Museum. Talley, who succeeds Richard registrar at EAG since 1982. Washington from November through March. Harvey West has been named director of the Center for British Art. Nt'neteenth-Century Art from the Collec#on Spear. wiH become the first full-time director Robert Roman (MA museum practice, Univ. Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston, ofJoAnn andJuhan Gam,Jr. (which was ex­ in the history of the museum, which was Deirdre E. Lawrence has been appointed Michigan; MA arts administration Indiana 111. He succeeds Ronald McKnight Melvin, I. Michael Danoff has been named director hibited at the Carter Museum in 1982). founded in 1917 as the first college art principal librarian of the Brooklyn Museum Univ) has come from the Los Angeles County who held the post since the museum opened of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chi· museum west of the Alleghenies. An author­ and will administer both the Art Reference Museum of Art as Houston's first full-time in 1980. West has been director of the Penn­ cago. Since 1980 Danoff (Ph.D. Syracuse) Stephen Robert Edidin has been appointed ity on English art of the seventeenth and eigh­ Library and the Wilbour Library of Egyptol­ director of education. And Kathleen M. sylvania State University of Art (1970-71), of had been director of the Akron Art Museum curator of collections at the Montclair Art teenth centuries and Dutch art of the seven­ ogy. Lawrence most recently was cataloger Robiilson joined the staff in June as the the Washington State University Museum of in Ohio, where he had redeveloped the muse­ Museum in New Jersey. Edidin was fonnerly teenth century, Talley (Ph.D. Courtauld) is and head of technical services at the Boston Museum's first archivist. The Museum's his­ Art (1971-78), and most recently of the Hen­ um's contemporary collection. Previously, Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate at also a scholar in the history of painting mate­ Museum of Fine Arts Library. torical records go back to 1900. ry Art Gallery, University of Washington. Danoff taught at Dickinson College and held The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. rials and techniques. Contt'nued on p. 16, col. 1

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