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Μ˙ the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 μ˙ μ˙ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston annual report The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of Fine The Museum 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 MFAH BY THE NUMBERS July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018 Attendance • 1,067,307 visits to the Museum, the Lillie and Hugh Tuition $4.7 Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Bayou Bend Collection Revenue 7% Other $2.0 $6.9 and Gardens, Rienzi, and the Glassell School of Art 3% 10% Membership Revenue • 106,210 visitors and students reached through learning $3.4 THE MUSEUM OF 5% and interpretation programs on-site and off-site FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, FY 2018 • 67,338 youth visitors ages 18 and under received free Operating Operating Revenues Endowment or discounted access to the MFAH Fund-raising (millions) Spending WARMLY THANKS $16.4 $35.3 24% 51% • 37,492 schoolchildren and their chaperones received THE MORE THAN free tours of the MFAH 1,000 DOCENTS, • 6,947 Houstonians were served through community engagement programs off-site Total Revenues: $67 million VOLUNTEERS, AND • 103 community partners citywide collaborated with MEMBERS OF THE the MFAH Exhibitions, Curatorial, and Collections $14.9 Auxiliary 23% MUSEUM’S GUILD FOR Activities $3.2 • 1,625,865 visits recorded at mfah.org 5% THEIR EXTRAORDINARY • 361,687 visits recorded at the online collections module Fund-raising $6.0 9% DEDICATION • 298,236 people followed the MFAH on Facebook, FY 2018 Education, Instagram, and Twitter Operating Expenses Libraries, AND COMMITMENT. (millions) and Visitor Engagment $12.5 • 70,851 online visitors accessed the Documents 20% of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art Website, icaadocs.mfah.org Management and General $13.0 Buildings and Grounds 20% • and Security $14.5 89,497 visits to The Glamour and Romance of 23% THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, Oscar de la Renta Total Expenses: $61.8 million WARMLY THANKS THE MORE THAN 1,000 DOCENTS, • 31,920 member households supported the MFAH VOLUNTEERS, AND MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM’S • 1,000 volunteers and docents served the MFAH GUILD FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY • 662 permanent and temporary staff were employed DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT. by the MFAH CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2017–JUNE 30, 2018 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 4 Board of Trustees 5 Committee Chairmen 6 Report of the Director 20 Accessions Illustrated works on the cover and on pages 21–73 American Art, 74 Art of the Americas, 74 Art of the Islamic Worlds, 74 Asian Art, 74 The Bayou Bend Collection, 75 Decorative Arts, 76 European Art, 78 Latin American Art, 78 Modern and Contemporary Art, 78 Photography, 79 Prints and Drawings, 84 The Rienzi Collection, 87 88 Exhibitions Major Loan and Permanent-Collection Exhibitions, 88 Additional Displays from the Permanent Collection and Gallery Rotations, 100 108 Departmental Highlights 110 Learning and Interpretation 112 Membership and Guest Services 113 International Center for the Arts of the Americas 114 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation 115 The Glassell School of Art 116 Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 117 Rienzi 118 The Brown Foundation Fellows Program The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France 119 Development 132 Report of the Chief Financial Officer 137 Staff BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS LIFE TRUSTEES Mr. Samuel F. Gorman HONORARY TRUSTEES Mrs. Windi Grimes AND TRUSTEES EMERITI Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Isaac Arnold, Jr. Mr. William J. Hill Chairman Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Ms. Cecily E. Horton Mrs. Carol C. Ballard Mrs. Clare Attwell Glassell Mr. Ronald E. Huebsch Mr. Raphael Bernstein Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mrs. Mary F. Johnston Ms. Tanya Brillembourg Vice-Chairman and Secretary Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Mrs. Gisele Chulack Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Mrs. Elise Elkins Joseph Mrs. Joyce Z. Greenberg Treasurer Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Lenoir M. Josey II Mr. Adolpho Leirner Mrs. Cornelia C. Long Mr. Evan Katz Mr. Thomas V. McMahan Mrs. Cornelia C. Long Mrs. Sara S. Morgan Mr. George B. Kelly Mr. Robert C. McNair Chairman Emeritus Mrs. Nancy Brown Negley Mrs. Colleen Kotts Mrs. Nancy Peterkin Ms. Anne Schlumberger Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian Mrs. Isla Reckling Ms. Alice C. Simkins Mr. Douglas L. Lawing Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofim Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Mrs. Rolanette Lawrence Ms. Barbara Slifka Mr. Richard W. Wortham III Mr. Michael C. Linn Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw Mrs. Lynn Wyatt Mr. James Edward Maloney Mrs. Judy Erlich Margolis EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES ELECTED TRUSTEES Mrs. Kirby Cohn McCool Mr. Mike Adams Mrs. Laurie Morian MFAH Volunteer Guild, President Mrs. Sushila Agrawal Mrs. Bobbie Nau Mrs. Karol Barnhart Ms. Franci Neely Mrs. Adele Bentsen Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Pamela F. Ott The Garden Club of Houston, Mrs. Ann Bookout Mrs. Cynthia Petrello President Mr. Brad Bucher Ms. Mary Lawrence Porter Mr. Dwight A. Boykins Mr. Charles Butt Mrs. Susanne Pritchard Mr. Frank N. Carroll Houston City Council, Mrs. Tina Pyne Representative, District D Ms. Bettie Cartwright Mrs. Macey Hodges Reasoner Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. Ms. Ellen Cohen Mr. Peter R. Coneway Ms. Beth Robertson Houston City Council, Mr. Michael G. Cousins Mr. Manolo Sánchez Representative, District C Mrs. Rosanette S. Cullen Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Mrs. Linnet F. Deily Mrs. Patsy Holmes Mrs. Eliza Erwin Stedman Bayou Bend Docent Organization, Ms. Sara Paschall Dodd Mrs. Aliyya Kombargi Stude General Chairman Mr. Holbrook F. Dorn Mrs. Judy Spence Tate Mr. Rodney J. Eichler Ms. Ann G. Trammell Ms. Kate Kraycirik Mrs. Zeina N. Fares Dr. Sarah A. Trotty The Junior League of Houston, Representative Mrs. Cherie Flores Mrs. Phoebe Tudor Mr. Gregory E. Fourticq, Jr. Mr. Barron F. Wallace Ms. Debbie McNulty Mrs. Barbara G. Gamson Mr. James D. Weaver City of Houston, Director of Ms. Sonia Garza-Monarchi Mrs. Barbara Webber Cultural Affairs Mr. Thomas S. Glanville Mrs. Margaret Alkek Williams Mr. Alfred C. Glassell, III Mrs. Nina O’Leary Zilkha Mrs. Lisa M. Mears Ms. Carroll R. Goodman River Oaks Garden Club, President Mr. Martyn E. Goossen Mr. Gary Tinterow Director, MFAH 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MUSEUM BAYOU BEND COLLECTION AND GARDENS Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. Richard W. Wortham III Executive Committee Collections Committee Latin American Art Mrs. Martha Erwin Subcommittee Bayou Bend Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mr. Frank N. Carroll Audit Committee Africa, Oceania, and Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Bobbie Nau the Americas Subcommittee and Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Bayou Bend Collection Mr. Richard W. Wortham III (Co-Chairs) Subcommittee Buildings and Grounds Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Modern and Contemporary Committee American Painting and Art Subcommittee THE GLASSELL SCHOOL Sculpture Subcommittee OF ART Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. James Edward Maloney Compensation Committee Mrs. Nancy O’Connor Photography Subcommittee Mr. Brad Bucher Abendshein Executive Committee Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofim Antiquities Subcommittee Ms. Franci Neely and Development Committee Mr. Michael S. Zilkha Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian (Co-Chairs) Core Residency Program Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. and Ms. Franci Neely Mrs. Lynn Wyatt Subcommittee Endowment Committee (Co-Chairs) (Founding Chair) Art of the Islamic Worlds Film Subcommittee RIENZI Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Subcommittee Finance Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Rosslyn F. Crawford Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Prints and Drawings Rienzi Committee Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Chair) Subcommittee Long-Range Planning Mrs. Nidhika O. Mehta Mrs. Cyvia G. Wolff Committee (Co-Chair) Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Rienzi Collection Asian Art Subcommittee and Ms. Alice C. Simkins Subcommittee Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Co-Chairs) Nominating Committee Ms. Cecily E. Horton Conservation Committee Mrs. Cheryl H. Moore Decorative Arts Subcommittee Rienzi Gardens Subcommittee Mrs. Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Mrs. Judy Erlich Margolis Exhibitions Committee European Art Subcommittee Mrs. Macey Hodges Reasoner Learning and Interpretation Committee Ms. Terry Ann Brown Library Committee 5 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR of Art and The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza. These handsome facilities, designed by Steven Holl Architects and landscaped by Deborah Nevins & Associates, were hailed by critics as instant landmarks and immediately adopted by neighbors and visitors, fulfilling the goal of making the campus a destination in itself. Punctuated by the installation of Eduardo Chillida’s massive granite Song of Strength and Anish Kapoor’s gleaming steel Cloud Column, the construction of the new school, plaza, roof gar- den, amphitheater, and parking garage was an engineering and logistical wonder that is all the more extraordinary for not interrupting the activities of the Museum. Planning has been overseen by Chief Operating Officer Willard Holmes under the supervision of Richard D. Kinder, The year that concluded on June 30, 2018, constituted Chairman of the Long-Range Planning Committee. another remarkable success in the history of the Museum. At over one million, attendance at all of our Once again, the exhibition program drove attendance, and facilities exceeded the record total of the previous year; Deborah Roldán, assistant director for exhibitions, is to be our staff conceived and mounted varied and stunning congratulated for her expert guidance. The Glamour and exhibitions—most notably Peacock in the Desert, Romance of Oscar de la Renta, conceived by guest curator Michelangelo and the Vatican, HOME, and Big Bambú; André Leon Talley and Cindi Strauss, Morgan Curator of we added extraordinary works of art to our permanent Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, received nearly 90,000 collections; contributions from the community rose visitors over an extended run, many of whom wore designs from the previous year; our net assets rose yet again by Mr. de la Renta to the Museum, proof of his popularity to a record level, $1.7 billion (excluding the value of our in Houston. We are very grateful to Alex Bolen and his collections); and we posted a healthy operating surplus, team at Oscar de la Renta for their assistance in mounting to be saved, as in previous years, for future needs.
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