Tell As a Whole Collaborations Between Artists and Architects from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present November 15–16, 2013

The Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture and Symposium in American Art Tell as a Whole Collaborations between Artists and Architects from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present November 15–16, 2013

Organized by the Yale University Art Gallery To “tell as a whole,” as the American muralist Edwin Howland Blashfield wrote in 1898, is to combine all the elements of art and architecture into a decorative interior of seamless unity. The 2013 Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Symposium in American Art is inspired by one striking manifestation of Blashfield’s sentiment: the American murals created for Collis and Arabella Huntington’s Fifth Avenue mansion in 1893 and 1894, now owned by the Yale University Art Gallery. These recently conserved works, currently installed in the American art galleries, serve as a jumping-off point for investigating other key collaborations between artists and architects. Over the course of the symposium, scholars will explore such artistic expressions—from murals to sculpture to ironwork—conceived as integral parts of architectural spaces from the late nineteenth century to the present. Schedule

Friday, Saturday, November 15 November 16

5:30 pm 9:00 am 11:45 am The Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Coffee and Registration Q & A Memorial Lecture in American Art Creating the American Renaissance: 9:20 am 12:15 pm Trinity Church and the Boston Welcome Lunch (on your own) Public Library Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II 2:00 pm Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Director, Yale University Art Gallery Professor and Chair, Department of Rothko: Beyond the Walls Architectural History, University of 9:30 am David Anfam, Managing Director, Art Exploration Consultancy Ltd., and Virginia Coming of Age: Edwin Blashfield, Senior Consulting Curator, Clyfford Reception to follow American Mural Painting, and the Still Museum, Denver New Congressional Library Annelise K. Madsen, Terra Curatorial Free and open to the public; 2:45 pm Fellow, Department of American Art, seating is limited. Art and Architecture, Art in Art Institute of Chicago Architecture: Paintings for Walls 10:15 am Large and Small Robert Storr, Dean and Professor The Quadrivirate of the Nebraska of Painting and Printmaking, Yale State Capitol: Goodhue, Alexander, School of Art Lawrie, and Meière Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, Adjunct 3:30 pm Faculty, Department of History, A Walk on the Beach and Other Philosophy, and Art History, Journeys Roosevelt University, and Editor, Michele Oka Doner, artist Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine 4:15 pm 11:00 am Q & A Beyond the Controversy: Rivera’s Rockefeller Center Mural and the Free and open to the public, Politics of Space registration required; seating Anna Indych-López, Associate is limited. Professor of Art History, the City College of New York (CCNY) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY); and Chairperson, Art Department, CCNY

The lecture and symposium are free to all, but we ask Saturday participants to sign up in advance. To register, please contact Janet M. Miller, Museum Assistant, at 203.432.0616 or [email protected] by November 8, 2013. Speakers

David Anfam Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in of American painting in the 1930s, is Managing Director of the Art the United States, 1927–1940 (2009) organized by the Art Institute Exploration Consultancy Ltd.; and Diego Rivera: Murals for the of Chicago (2016–17). Madsen Senior Consulting Curator at the Museum of Modern Art (coauthored holds a Ph.D. in art history from Clyfford Still Museum, in Denver; with Leah Dickerman; 2011). She Stanford University (2010) and a and Commissioning Editor is presently working on a book b.a. from Washington University for Fine Art at Phaidon Press, manuscript on the U.S. muralist in St. Louis (1999). Her research London. Dr. Anfam received his Judith F. Baca, to be published has been supported by the Terra Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute by the University of Minnesota Foundation for American Art, of Art. His many books and Press and the Chicano Studies the Luce Foundation/ACLS, the catalogues include groundbreaking Research Center of the University Mellon Foundation, the Radcliffe studies of Abstract Expressionism, of California, Los Angeles. Institute for Advanced Study, Color Field painting, Jackson and the United States Capitol Pollock, Howard Hodgkin, Gary Annelise K. Madsen Historical Society. Hume, Anish Kapoor, and Brice is the Terra Curatorial Fellow in Marden. Anfam also wrote the American Art at the Art Institute Michele Oka Doner landmark Mark Rothko: The Works of Chicago. She is a cocurator of is an internationally renowned art- on Canvas; A Catalogue Raisonné the exhibition Art and Appetite: ist whose career spans five decades. (1998), which received the Mitchell American Painting, Culture, and Whether in large-scale architec- Prize for the History of Art in Cuisine (November 2013–January tural projects or intimately scaled 2000, and, most recently, Brice 2014 at the Art Institute of objects, her work is fueled by a life- Marden: Recent Work (2013). In Chicago; February–May 2014 long study and appreciation of the 2007 Anfam curated Bill Viola’s at the Amon Carter Museum of natural world. Her numerous public Ocean without a Shore for the fifty- American Art) and a contributor art installations include Radiant second Venice Biennale. to its accompanying catalogue. Her Site at New York’s Herald Square scholarship on late nineteenth- and subway, Flight at Reagan National Anna Indych-López early twentieth-century civic art Airport, and A Walk on the Beach at is Associate Professor of Latin includes essays in the Smithsonian the Miami International Airport, American Art History at the City American Art Museum’s jour- as well as installations in feder- University of New York’s Graduate nal American Art (summer 2012); al courthouses, public libraries, Center and at the City College of Women Building History: Public Art hospitals, universities, and public New York (CCNY). She re- at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, parks throughout the United States. ceived her Ph.D. from New York by Wanda M. Corn (2011); and Represented by Marlborough University’s Institute of Fine Arts Pageants and Processions: Images Gallery, her work is in the col- and is currently Chair of the Art and Idiom as Spectacle, edited by lections of the Art Institute of Department at CCNY. Her books Herman Du Toit (2009). She is Chicago, the Dallas Museum of include Muralism without Walls: currently working on an exhibition Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Oral History Project of the Art numerous catalogues, articles, and at the Louvre, Princeton University Institute of Chicago. She is the books, including Philip Guston Art Museum, the University of author of the building descriptions (1986), Cage: Six Paintings by Michigan Museum of Art, the in The Architecture of Harry Weese, Gerhard Richter (2009), September: Whitney Museum of American by Robert Bruegmann (2010), A History Painting by Gerhard Art, and the Yale University Art the coauthor (with Catherine Richter (2010), and the forthcoming Gallery, among others. Publications Coleman Brawer) of The Art Deco Intimate Geometries: The Work and about her work include Michele Murals of Hildreth Meière (2014), Life of Louise Bourgeois. Oka Doner: Natural Seduction, by and the editor of the Chicago Art Suzanne Ramljak (2003), Oka Deco Society Magazine. Richard Guy Wilson Doner: Workbook, by Arlene Raven holds the Commonwealth et al. (2004), and Michele Oka Robert Storr Professor’s Chair in Architectural Doner: HumanNature, by Donald is Professor of Painting and History at the University of Kuspit (2008). Her numerous Printmaking and Dean of the Virginia. A frequent lecturer and honors include the Pratt Legends School of Art at Yale University. a television commentator he has Award and the United Nations He was Curator and then Senior also published widely on different Society of Writers and Artists’ Curator in the Department of aspects of American and modern Award of Excellence. A graduate of Painting and Sculpture at the architecture. His books include the University of Michigan School Museum of Modern Art, New McKim, Mead & White, Architects of Art and Design, she received her York, from 1990 to 2002. In 2002 (1983); The Machine Age in America, B.S.D. in 1965 and her M.A. in 1966. he was named the first Rosalie 1918–1941 (coauthored with Solow Professor of Modern Art Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Kathleen Murphy Skolnik at the Institute of Fine Arts at Tashjian; 1986); Thomas Jefferson’s holds an M.A. in art history from New York University, a position he Academical Village: The Creation of the University of Illinois, Chicago, held until 2006. Subsequently, he an Architectural Masterpiece (editor; where she specialized in architec- was Director of the 2007 Venice 1993, rev. 2009); Campus Guide: tural history. Her thesis, “Nicolas Biennale, the first American-born University of Virginia (coauthored Le Camus de Mézières and the curator to be named to that post, with Sara A. Butler; 1999); The Architectural Genius of Sir John and from 2005 to 2011 he was Colonial Revival House (2004); Soane,” applied sensationalist Consulting Curator of Modern Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House theory to Soane’s London house and Contemporary Art at the (2008); and Edith Wharton at and museum. She currently teaches Philadelphia Museum of Art. He Home: Life at the Mount (2012). art and architectural history has been a contributing editor in the Department of History, at Art in America since 1981 and Philosophy, and Art History at writes frequently for Artforum, Art Roosevelt University and has con- Press (Paris), Corriere della Serra, tributed to the Chicago Architects Frieze, and Parkett. He has written

Location Acknowledgements The Yale University Art Gallery Tell as a Whole: Collaborations is located at 1111 Chapel Street. between Artists and Architects from the Late Nineteenth Century The lecture and symposium to the Present is supported by will take place in the Robert L. the Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at the Memorial Lectureship Fund, Gallery; enter at Chapel Street. established by a generous gift from the Chipstone Foundation For more information, please see and contributions by family, our website, artgallery.yale.edu or friends, and colleagues in memory call 203.432.0600. of Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, b.a. 1972, m.a. 1975, a scholar of Accommodations American paintings and decorative arts, and the Friends of American The Study at Yale Hotel Arts at Yale. 1157 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06511 Front cover: John La Farge, Study Tel: 203.503.3900 for Angel in Decoration of Tower, Toll Free: 866.930.1157 Trinity Church, Boston, ca. 1876. www.studyatyale.com Graphite and watercolor, 9 x 11 9/16 in. (22.8 x 29.3 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Neva Bicknell A block of rooms is being held un- Hecker, 1986.50.2. Inside cover: til October 28 at the special room Harry Siddons Mowbray, Muse of rate of $179.00, plus applicable state Architecture, ca. 1894. Oil on canvas, and local taxes. To receive this 39 1/2 x 78 3/4 in. (100.3 x 200 cm). Gift rate, be sure to indicate when mak- of Archer M. Huntington, hon. 1897, ing your reservation that you will 1926.100. Left: Michele Oka Doner, be attending the Yale University Cosmic, from A Walk on the Beach, Art Gallery symposium. 1995–2010. Miami International Airport, north-terminal floor. Installation of epoxy terrazzo, bronze, and mother-of-pearl. Photo: Nick Merrick for Hedrich Blessing.

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