Number 43 Fall 2016

NEW SLETTER 2017 Midwest Art History Society Conference Call for Papers April 6-8, 2017 The of Art (CMA) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)

The , Cleveland, . The Midwest Art History Society Italian and Spanish Drawings at the arts. The museum is a significant (MAHS) will hold its 44th annual Metropolitan Museum of Art in New international forum for exhibitions, conference in Cleveland, from April York. Funding for the keynote panel scholarship, performing arts 6-8, 2017, hosted by the Cleveland has been provided by the Istituto and art education and recently Museum of Art (CMA) and Case Italiano di Cultura in Chicago, the completed an ambitious, multi-phase Western Reserve University (CWRU). Italian Art Society, the University of renovation and expansion project Paper sessions and roundtables will Notre Dame, the Friends of Art of across its campus. One of the top be held at the Cleveland Museum CWRU, the Painting and Drawing comprehensive art in the of Art on April 6 and 7, and at Society of the Cleveland Museum nation and free of charge to all, the the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Art, and the Midwest Art History Cleveland Museum of Art is located of Oberlin College on April 8. On Society. in the dynamic April 6, a distinguished keynote Cleveland and its surrounding neighborhood. panel will speak on Raphael’s metropolitan area have a rich Nearby in University Circle, School of Cartoon, which arts scene, including world-class Cleveland’s Museum of is currently undergoing restoration museums, vibrant galleries, and Contemporary Art (MOCA) plays in Milan. The panel will include esteemed art historical resources. an urgent and exciting role in the Don Alberto Rocca, Director of the The Cleveland Museum of Art is city’s cultural landscape. As a non- Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan; Dr. renowned for the quality and breadth collecting institution and the region’s Maurizio Michelozzi, the Florence- of its collection, which includes only contemporary art museum, based paper conservator who is almost 45,000 objects and spans MOCA is ever-changing, introducing undertaking the restoration; and Dr. 6,000 years of achievement in the new exhibitions three times a year Carmen C. Bambach, Curator of continued on page 2 Conference continued from the front

and creating fresh experiences for addition, the Transformer Station is a largest art library in the country. visitors each season. The Cleveland new anchor destination in Cleveland’s The Allen Memorial Art Museum History Center of the Western Reserve rapidly evolving Ohio City neighborhood. (AMAM) at Oberlin College houses Historical Society houses exhibits that The project brings a new cultural facility an encyclopedic collection of more tell the story of through to a mixed residential and industrial than 14,000 works that provide items, documents and artifacts from neighborhood within walking distance of a comprehensive overview of the a variety of collections. Other cultural the restaurants and shops of the Market . Recognized as one of attractions in and around University District and blocks away from the the best academic museums in the Circle include CWRU’s Dittrick Medical Gordon Square Arts District. country, the AMAM works with faculty and students to promote direct study History Center and Museum, the In , the Rock & Roll of original works of art and deepen Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Hall of Fame’s mission is to engage, appreciation for the diversity of the the Cleveland Botanical Garden, historic teach and inspire through the power of world’s cultures, while also serving Lakeview Cemetery, Little Italy, and the rock & roll. The Rock Hall is the world’s a broad regional audience. The world renowned foremost museum devoted to the museum complex includes a 1917 housed in , celebration and preservation of rock & building designed by Cass Gilbert, a masterpiece of Art Deco design. roll music. Next door to the Rock Hall, and a 1977 addition designed by Combining a landmark historical visitors can explore science through Robert Venturi, the architect’s first building with a contemporary minimalist hands-on exhibits at the Great Lakes museum commission. The AMAM Science Center. also shares responsibility with Oberlin Cleveland is also home to Playhouse College for a Frank Lloyd Wright- Square, the country’s largest performing designed house, the first Usonian arts center outside of New York house in Ohio, located in Oberlin. City; a lively music scene; a vibrant Complementing an extensive array of culinary scene including the historic open sessions, wide-ranging thematic and nationally sessions explore current trends recognized restaurants; the award- in art history, Cleveland’s history, winning system; collaborations between universities a fantastic zoo; and three professional and museums, and—building on sports teams. the keynote event—Raphael and his Cleveland and its surrounds are home legacy. For example, one session to distinguished academic departments examines prints and drawings of art history and college art museums. for, by, about, and after Raphael, Next door to the CMA is CWRU, home while another investigates the to the joint program in Art History increasingly urgent field of technical and Museum Studies. This innovative art history, inviting presentations program offers master’s and doctoral on interdisciplinary interventions in degrees, preparing future academics artworks such as the restoration and museum curators through an of Raphael’s drawing on which the Apollo the Python-Slayer, c. 350 BC. intensive object-based curriculum keynote panel focuses. Also building attributed to Praxiteles taught by CWRU art history professors (Greek, c. 400BC-c. 330BC). , copper on the keynote, a special session and stone inlay; overall: 150.0 x 50.3 x in association with museum curators will display selected masterpieces 66.8 cm (59 x 19 3/4x 26 1/4 inches). The and staff. The program takes advantage of early modern graphics from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and of the CMA’s Ingalls Library, the third CMA’s collection for observation and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2004.30 2 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Midwest Art History Society discussion. Two sessions consider, Annual Conference respectively, intersections between research and art studio practice April 6-8, 2017 and museums’ roles as teaching The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and institutions. Another session examines Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) recent acquisitions in Midwestern collections, while others delve into We welcome your participation in the Chair: Edward Olszewski, Case 2017 Midwest Art History Society Western Reserve University, cultural patronage in Gilded Age Annual Conference held in Cleveland. [email protected] Cleveland, gender and the avant- Special, Thematic and Open garde, dialogues between modern Sessions are listed below. In most art and architecture, and objects’ cases, conference presentations Thematic Sessions: transformation through reuse. Other will be expected to be under twenty Art and Architectural topics to be considered include art and minutes long. Proposals of no more than 250 words and a two-page Dialogues in the 20th Century medicine, connoisseurship and the art CV should be emailed (preferably Historically, intersections between market, and the burgeoning field of as Word documents) to the chairs art and architecture have frequently digital art history. of individual sessions. Deadline for continued on page 4 A complete list of sessions appears in submissions: Friday, December 16, the Call for Papers below. 2017. In addition to paper sessions, CMA curators and CWRU professors Special Sessions: will offer “Flash Talks,” highlighting Undergraduate Research masterworks on view in the CMA’s Chairs: Heidi Hornik, Baylor permanent collection galleries. University, Heidi_Hornik@baylor. edu, and Paula Wisotzki, Loyola Curators and professors will draw University Chicago, pwisots@luc. attention to numerous aspects of the edu museum’s celebrated encyclopedic collection, including works in the Early Modern Graphics in galleries dedicated to Asian art as The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection well as Ancient, Medieval, Old Master, This session will display selected Modern, and Contemporary art. The Master Works of the fifteenth CMA will also host a special Art Study and sixteenth centuries from the Room Open House. A selection of CMA collection for observation, European and American drawings and and problem drawings for open prints from the Renaissance through discussion. On display will be works by Pollaiuolo, Raphael, and Federico Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564) the 20th century will be on view in Barocci. Examples to be discussed the Muriel and Noah Butkin Art Study Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet include works by Altichiero/Butinone, Daniel (recto), 1510-1511. Room. We encourage conference Filippo Lippi, Michelangelo, Zuccaro, attendees to take advantage of this Federico Barocci, and Salviati. This Red chalk over black chalk; sheet: 34.30 x 24.30 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 inches); secondary special opportunity to look closely at session is not soliciting papers, but support: 34.40 x 24.40 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 these historically significant works on conference attendees should feel free to email the chair with inquiries about inches). paper, including a number of recent the works on display and topics to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in acquisitions. be discussed. memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick 1940.465.a 3 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS continued from page 3 include: the representation of mental and physical illness; the body as a site of knowledge and surveillance through the medical gaze; the socio-political uses of medical imagery; sexuality, pregnancy, and the representation of the female body; physical perception and the operation of cultural bias; the doctor as a figure of authority; trauma and representation; death and grieving through the arts; and the depiction of beauty, disease, and deformity. Papers are welcomed from art historians, museum professionals, and medical clinicians. Installation image of the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Galleries of Japanese and Korean Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Image by David Brichford, Chair: Andrea Wolk Rager, Case courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Western Reserve University, [email protected] blurred boundaries between the collecting or in the historiography of two fields. In the 20th century in art history. Papers are welcomed on Digital Art History particular, artists affiliated with the any period and geographical region The concept of digital art history Bauhaus, , Constructivism of art. has emerged over the past and De Stijl actively sought to Chair: Catherine Scallen, Case decade to describe an array of transcend the historical divides Western Reserve University, new approaches and practices in separating art and architecture. This [email protected] art history (in both academia and session will examine the dynamic art museums) made possible by and complex relationship between Body and Soul: The Visual the rise of the internet and greater the visual arts and architecture in Arts and Medical Practice accessibility to computational the 20th century, raising questions This session invites papers that resources. These include born- including: How and why do these consider the complex relationship digital publications, new tools and different artistic practices mutually between the visual arts and the techniques for the analysis of art influence each other? What do history of medical practice. The objects and texts as well as building interdisciplinary projects reveal city of Cleveland has been hailed and investigating art and archival about their respective cultural as a hub of bio-medical innovation, collections, and new scholarly contexts? How can we interpret the rendering this an ideal setting interpretations that have resulted repeated collaborations between for exploring the revolutionary from such tools and techniques. It architects and artists? And are they possibilities of interdisciplinary has been manifested by exemplary always successful, or do they ever exchange between cutting-edge art publications and projects as well as result in conflict? history and medicine. This session a robust and growing bibliography Chair: Genevieve Hendricks, will consider not only what lessons and has fostered new forms of Hollins University, hendricksrs@ we can learn from the intertwined collaboration across disciplines and hollins.edu histories of medical practice and institutions. Digital art history has the arts, but also how art historical also been an important impetus for The Art Market and methodologies and critical strategies open access within the discipline. Connoisseurship can inform the practice of healthcare This session seeks papers that In this session we will consider the professionals today. How can illuminate exemplary projects as well entwined issues of the roles of art universities, museums, and medical as lessons learned; that is, speakers markets and of connoisseurship institutions enrich and inform each are expected to share with the in the history of private and public other through the arts? Topics may audience the perspectives they have 4 acquired through developing and garde, and how has this amorphous case studies may include, but continued from page 3 implementing their projects in digital term shifted in response to gender are not limited to, the role of CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS art history so that the session may norms? How has the material African artworks in negotiating result in a meaningful discussion experience of gender informed new identities and profound social of best practices that can be men’s and women’s participation changes wrought by the Atlantic disseminated to the field. in avant-garde movements and world; the impact of diasporic arts Chair: Anne Helmreich, the use of gender in avant-garde on the African continent; African Texas Christian University, representations? Finally, how has artistic responses to slavery and the [email protected] the relationship between gender slave trade; and efforts to re-center and transnationalism permitted and African epistemologies in diasporic Gender and the Avant-Garde limited new forms of avant-garde contexts. This panel seeks to complicate expression? Chair: Matthew Francis Rarey, the meaning of the avant-garde Chair: Namiko Kunimoto, Oberlin College, mrarey@oberlin. in the history of transnational The Ohio State University, edu modern art. While the avant- [email protected] garde can be defined as a praxis Considerations of Material of alterity vis-à-vis the status Is There an African Atlantic? Culture and the Creation quo—whether aesthetic, cultural, The Atlantic Ocean provides of Cultural Infrastructure in social, or political, its history has Africanist art historians a rich Cleveland’s Gilded Age & also been institutionalized globally model of investigation and analysis. Progressive Era as a major “tradition” in modern Connecting Africa to Europe and Jeptha H. Wade’s gift of 63 acres art. Subversive artistic intentions the Americas, the Atlantic maps the of parkland to the City of Cleveland have contributed to revolutionary flows, circularities, and dislocations in 1882, one of the first large gifts change at times, whereas at other of African arts in and out of of open space to the city, set in moments, these reactive models diaspora. But it also separates. motion a complex sequence of can recreate the circumstances In the hulls of slave ships, new human interactions. What were they sought to shake off. This panel worlds were both forged and lost, the interests, ambitions, and examines the historically specific underscoring a separation that lives challenges of the real families ways that the dialectic between on as today even distinctly black that created Cleveland’s cultural marginality and radicality on the Atlantic scholarship often includes infrastructure (as well as much of one hand, and authority and elitism, little space for African ideas and the city’s health, education, and on the other, has manifested worldviews. Responding to the welfare infrastructure) at the end itself in the visual arts produced inclusion of open panels dedicated of the Gilded Age and throughout globally from the 1930s to the separately to both African and the Progressive Era? This session present. We specifically seek to African-American art, this thematic explores fluctuating notions of the open up how gender has informed panel seeks contributions that role of the arts and material culture and challenged avant-garde take up African arts’ indeterminate in the life of the individual and the status. What has been historically space in the Atlantic world as community in the Gilded Age and understood by the term avant- both possibility and pitfall. Such Progressive Era.

Hotel Accommodations: The conference hotel is the Westin Cleveland Downtown, Chair: Holly Witchey, located in the heart of downtown Cleveland, one block from the Rock and Roll Hall Johns Hopkins University, of Fame, and steps from the newly renovated Public Square and the East 4th Street [email protected] restaurant district (777 Saint Clair Avenue NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, 216-771-7700, http://www.westincleveland.com/). The hotel is holding 50 rooms at a conference Rehearsing Raphael: Prints rate of $149 per night, with a 20% discount on valet parking (normally $30 per night). and Drawings for, by, about, Participants have until March 15, 2017 to book before the rooms will be made available and after Raphael to others and the conference rate will no longer apply. Shuttle service to and from the On the occasion of the historic hotel will be available. Detailed information on shuttle service will be forthcoming on the conservation of Raphael’s School of MAHS conference website. Use the following personalized website for conference hotel Athens cartoon at the Pinacoteca registration: Ambrosiana in Milan, this session https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/MidwestArtHistorySociety2017Conference seeks papers that contribute to the Participants can access the site to learn more about the event and to book, modify, or continued on page 6 cancel a reservation. 5 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS continued from page 5 historiography and understanding Chairs: Robert Randolf Coleman, through repeated action transform of the reception of his work from University of Notre Dame, understandings of not only the the sixteenth through the nineteenth [email protected], and Cheryl objects but also the spaces in centuries. How were Raphael’s K. Snay, Snite Museum of Art, which they are deposited or works read, or perhaps misread? [email protected] displayed? Submissions are Is there any evidence of aberrant welcome from all time periods decoding, and what might it tell Shifting Meaning: and geographies that critically us about prevailing interpretive Recontextualizing Objects reflect on the nuanced ways in strategies? What did artists, Through Action which intentional and unintentional collectors, connoisseurs, critics This session will address the long interactions with objects from the and theorists know about Raphael, afterlives of objects, which are by past have the capacity to create and how did they know it? By the very nature of their materiality and transform meaning in the focusing on Raphael’s compositions often intended to survive their present. in either reproductive or original creators. With topics of reuse, Chairs: Amy Sowder Koch, prints and drawings, interpretations recycling, appropriation, and Towson University, akoch@ by subsequent artists can offer conversion in mind, we invite towson.edu, and Susan Ludi new insights about artistic practice papers that explore the multilayered Blevins, Washington University in and attitudes prior to the twentieth aspects of meaning created St. Louis, century. through the physical interactions [email protected] of people and objects in a variety Studio Practice, of cultural contexts: Research Practice public or private, This panel will explore the civic or religious, intersecting worlds of art ritual/ceremonial or making and research practice. mundane, elite or Presentations might explore the non-elite. Questions work of contemporary artists who addressed might reference the art historical past; the include: When pedagogical link between material objects and buildings study, observational experience, are separated in and research; and multi-sensory time from their approaches to research and creators’ original learning. intentions, how do Chair: Cyra Levenson, their later uses fill The Cleveland Museum of Art, out or complete—or perhaps simplify— [email protected] these ‘degraded’ The Teaching Museum: original meanings? What might the Best Practices and Future practice of materially Development College and university art altering an object museums have grown significantly from the past tell in the last twenty years. Many us about later institutions have created new understandings of its museums and/or museum (Italian, 1571-1610). The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, symbolic value? How studies programs, while 1606-1607. Oil on canvas;framed: 233.5 x 184.0 x 12.0 cm might the physical established museums have re- (91 7/8 x 72 7/16 x 4 11/16 inches); unframed: accumulation visited their mission to deepen 202.5 x 152.7 cm (79 11/16 x 601/16 inches). of reused and their educational contributions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund recycled objects 1976.2 6 For example, Oberlin College’s into the museum; and training and museum curatorship, conservation, Allen Memorial Art Museum has mentoring students for careers in and conservation science are pushed to integrate the Museum’s museums, the arts, and education. demonstrating the value of working collection and resources into Chairs: Liliana Milkova, together in an interdisciplinary manner in a burgeoning field of the College’s curriculum as a Allen Memorial Art Museum, study called technical art history. whole, and developed a rigorous [email protected], and docent training program that This session invites papers on Erik Inglis, Oberlin College, serves as a professional portal. recent research that addresses any [email protected] For this roundtable, timed to the aspect of the creation of or later adjustment to the work of art and Allen’s centennial, we seek case- Technical Art History: studies from faculty and museum that challenges accepted views or professionals highlighting how Evaluating the Progress of leads to a new understanding of an museums contribute to a wide the Interdisciplinary Study of object’s place in history. Papers that range of student learning. Such Works of Art demonstrate cooperation between The development over the last cases might include but are not individuals in different fields in a century of the technical examination limited to: empowering students jointly-communicated paper will be of works of art has completely as educators in docent programs; most welcome. altered the ways in which we involving students in the curatorial evaluate objects. Employing Chair: Maryan Ainsworth, process; collaborating with faculty an increasingly wide range of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on teaching exhibitions and analytical tools, researchers from Maryan.Ainsworth@metmuseum. curatorial projects (real or virtual); the fields of academic art history, org bringing STEM faculty and classes

Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775-1851, View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio, 1842, On View, Overall 25 x 36 5/8 inches Framed: 34 7/8 x 47 x 5 inches, Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Bequest, 1944.45 Allen Memorial Art Museum. 7 Open Sessions Islamic Art Recent Acquisitions in Chair: Costa Petridis, Art Institute Chair: Emily Neumeier, Midwestern Collections of Chicago, [email protected] The Ohio State University, Chair: Beau Rutland, African-American Art [email protected] The Cleveland Museum of Art, Chair: David Hart, Cleveland Latin American Art [email protected] Institute of Art, [email protected] Chair: Daniel Quiles, Renaissance and American Art School of the Art Institute of Art Chair: Mark Pohlad, DePaul Chicago, [email protected] Chair: Erin Benay, University, [email protected] Medieval Art Case Western Reserve University, [email protected] Chair: Marian Bleeke, Chair: Michael Bennett, Cleveland State University, South, The Cleveland Museum of Art, [email protected] Southeast Asian, and [email protected] Modern and Himalayan Art Contemporary Art Please note that papers on art Art of the Americas from these regions from all periods, Chair: Caitlin Earley, Chair: Matthew Levy, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, ancient through contemporary, are Metropolitan Museum of Art, welcome. [email protected] [email protected] Chair: Kimberly Masteller, The East Asian Art Nineteenth-century Art Chair: Catherine Goebel, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Chair: Noelle Giuffrida, Case [email protected] Western Reserve University, Augustana College, [email protected] [email protected] Works on Paper Photography Chairs: Robert Randolf Coleman, Chair: Andrea Wolk Rager, Case University of Notre Dame, Western Reserve University, [email protected], and [email protected] Cheryl K. Snay, Snite Museum of Art, [email protected]

Facade of Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio Photography by Mike Reynolds

8 Willard-Newell Gallery of 17th century Dutch and Flemish art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin. Photography by Ralph Lieberman

The Cleveland Museum of Art Ames Family Atrium, image courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Conference Registration: Information on conference registration will be found at the conference link at mahsonline.org. Registration for the conference will commence December 1. Registration online is highly recommended, but you may also register at Gustav Medicus, Editor the conference, paying by check, or by filling out the form available on our School of Art, Kent State University website and mailing the form and check to the treasurer’s address there Kent, Ohio 44242 provided. MAHS membership is required to register for and attend the conference. 9