newsletter Volume 4, Number 3 September 1979 nominations for CAA board of directors

The 1979 Nominating Committee has submitted its initial slate of 1973. MEMBERSHIPS: Medieval Academy of Amer; Internatl Ctr twelve nominees to serve on the CAA Board of Directors from 1980 to Medieval Art, board of advisors, 1971-80. CAA ACTIVITIES: participant 1984. Of these, six will be selected by the Committee as its final slate art history session, 1971 annual meeting; chr, session on International and formally proposed for election at the Annual Members Business Gothic Style, 1978 annual meeting. Meeting to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Orleans, on January 31, 1980. To assist the Committee in making its final selection ALESSANDRA COMINI all individual members of the Association are invited to cast their votes Southern Methodist University on the preferential ballot. For members' convenience the preferential ballot is in the form of a BA Barnard CoIl, 1956; MA Univ California, prepaid business reply card which is being mailed separately. Please Berkeley, 1964; PhD Columbia Univ, 1969. POSI­ return it promptly; ballots must be postmarked no later than Oct. 10. TIONS: instructor to asst prof, Columbia Univ, A brief curriculum vitae for each candidate is given below, followed 1968-74; visit asst prof, Yale Univ, 1973; assoc to by a list of present Board members. Please retain this information until full prof. Southern Methodist Univ, 1974-. you receive your ballot. PUBLICATIONS: SeMele t'n Prison, 1973; Egon ScMele's Portratts, 1974; Gustav Kit"mt, 1975; WALTER ASKIN Egon Scht'ele, 1976; The Fantastze Art of Vienna, 1978; scheduled: California State University, L>sAngeles The Changing Image of Beethoven, 1770-1970; A Study in Myth­ Making; A Century of Forezgn Artt'sts in Rome:1780-1880; Alfred MA Univ California, Berkeley, 1952; additional Kubin; catalogs on Gustav Klz'mt/Egon ScMele, 1965; Lila Pell study Ruskin Sch, Oxford Univ. POSITIONS: Katzen, 1977; The Birth of German Expresszont'sm, 1978; numerous Legion of Honor Mus, 1953-54; California State articles in Alber#na Studien, Arts Magazine, others. AWARDS: presi­ Univ, Los Angeles, 1956-; Pasadena Art Mus, dent's fellow, Columbia Univ, 1964-65; Amer Assoc Univ Women 1959-63; Univ New Mexico, 1972; California travel fellowship, 1966-67; Columbia Univ travel grants, 1971, 1973, State Univ, Long Beach, 1974-75, EXHIBITIONS: NEH travel grant, 1976; CAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, solo De Young Mus, 1954; Pasadena Art Mus, """",IIIII"!l 1976. MEMBERSHIPS: Amer Soc Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 1960; Santa Barbara Mus Art, 1967; LaJolla Mus Art, 1967; Hellenic 1963-1972; Women's Caucus for Art, hoard directors, 1976-; Texas Arner Union, Athens and Thessalonika, 1973; Ericson Gallery, NYC, Inst Letters, 1979. CAA ACTIVITIES: participant in art history sessions, 1978; others; numerous group exhibitions including Drawings USA, annual meetings 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1979; chr art history Mus Modem Art, 1956; Prt'nts by Seven, Whitney Mus, 1979; British sessions "Artists as Authors," 1973; "General Sessions on Modem Art," Internatl Print Biennale, 1972, 1975, 1976, COLLECTIONS: Nat! Trust, 2 panels, 1975; "Homosexuality and Art; Classical to Modem Times." England, Norton Simon Mus, San Francisco Mus Art, Tate Gallery, 1977; Morey award selection committee, 1976-79, chr 1978-79; guest Univ Iowa, Univ New M&'ico, Arizona State Univ, others. AWARDS: editor, Art journal, Winter 1979/80. artist-in-residence Tamarind Inst, 1972; Athens Sch Fine Arts, 1973; Continued on p. 2, col. 1 outstanding professor, California State Univ, Los Angeles, 1973; visiting artist Cranbrook Acad, 1978; Arizona State Univ, 1979, MEMBERSHIPS: boards of directors of Pasadena Art Mus, 1963-68; Los Angeles Inst Contemporary Art, 1977-80 Los Angeles Printmaking CONGRESSMAN RICHMOND COMMENDS Soc, 1963, 1975-77; Artists for Economic Action, 1973-75; pres, CAA STUDIO GUIDE Coordin

• Inominations for CAA board of directors Inominations for CAA board of directors

WANDA CORN tional Center Medieval Art, board of directors, 1970-; Midwest Art Mills College History Soc, board of directors, 1979-; others. CAA ACTIVITIES: chr, 1979. MEMBERSHIPS: Assoc Art Mus Directors; Upper Midwest Region GABRIEL P. WEISBERG art history sessions, 1969, 1978; participant, art history sessions, 1963, Conservation Ctr, board of trustees; Iowa Arts Council, visual arts The Cleveland Museum of Art and Case panel; Western Assoc Art Museums, regional representative. BA New York Univ, 1963; MA Inst Fine Arts, 1971, 1975; nominating committee, 1973-74; chr, 1974; The Art Western Reserve University NYU, 1965; PhD lust Fine Arts, NYU, 1974. Bulletin, editorial board, 1975-. POSITIONS: instructor, New York Univ, 1965-66; BA New York Univ, 1963; MA and PhD Johns lecturer, Univ California, Berkeley, 1970; lec­ DAVID PEASE Hopkins Univ, both 1967. POSITIONS: jr instruc­ ELEANOR S. GREENHILL turer to assoc prof, Mills College, 1970-; visiting Tyler School of Art, Temple University tor, Johns Hopkins Univ, 1963-65; asst prof, University of Texas, Austin asst prof, Univ California, Berkeley, 1976; also Queens College, C.U.N.Y., 1967; asstprof, Univ several visiting curatorships. PUBLICATIONS: Univ Wisconsin, BS 1954; MS 1955, MFA 1958. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1967-69; visit asst BA Texas Technological CoIl; MA Columbia Prt"mitt've to Picasso: St. Paul Collects, catalog, 1968; The Color of POSITIONS: instructor, Michigan State Univ, prof, New York Univ, 1968; assocprof, UnivCin­ Univ, 1945; PhD Univ Munich, 1959. POSITIONS: Mood, Amen'can Tonalism, 1880-1910, catalog, 1972; The Art of 1958-60; visiting instructor, Univ Virginia, cinnati, 1969-73; curator, Cleveland Mus Art, 1973 -; adjunct prof, instructor, Skidmore ColI, 1944-45; asst prof, Andrew Wyeth, 1973; articles in American Art Review, others. Charlottesville, 1960; instructor to dean, Tyler Case Western Reserve Univ, 1973-. PUBLICATIONS: The Etching Univ Chicago, 1960-67; assoc to full prof, Univ AWARDS: Ford fellowship in museum training, 1966-70; Graves award SchArt, 1960-; visiting faculty, Yale Univ Sum­ Renaissance in France; 1850-1880, catalog, 1971, Soct"al Concern and Texas, 1967 -. PUBLICATIONS: Gothic and Ren­ for outstanding teacher in the humanities, 1974-75; Smithsonian mer Sch, 1971, 1972. EXHIBITIONS: solo Univ the Worker: French Pnntsfrom 1830-1910, catalog, 1974; co-author, postdoctoral fellow, Natl CoIl Fine Arts, 1978-79; Woodrow Wilson aissance Illumz"nated Manuscripts from Texas Virginia, Charlottesville, 1954; Univ Wisconsin, Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art 1854-1910, catalog Collections, catalog, 1971; contributions fellow, 1979-80. MEMBERSHIPS: Women's Caucus for Art, 1972-; ad­ Stevens Point, 1959; Art Alliance, 1961, 1970; Tyler Sch 1975; Tradt"tz"ons and Revisions: Themes from the History of visory comm, Archives Amer Art, San Francisco, 1973-; chr, in The Year 1200, 1970; Festschrift Bernhard Bischoff, 1971; Dic­ Art (Ten Year Retrospective), 1968; Yale Univ (Norfolk), 1970, 1971; Sculpture, catalog, 1975; Images of Women: Pnntmakers tn France 1973-78; advisory council, Dunlap Soc, 1978-. CAA ACTIVITIES: tionary of Art, 1974; Eleanor of Aquitat"ne, Patron and Politician, Univ Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1972; Baylor Univ, 1972; Terry Dinten­ 1830-1930, catalog, 1977; Chardtn and the Still-Life Tradt"tt"on tn board of directors, 1970-73; editor, Registry of Visiting Scholars and 1976; articles in The Art Bulletin, ZeitschnJt fur Kunstgeschz"chte. fassGallery, N.Y.C., 1969, 1971, 1976; Acad Fine Arts, France, catalog, 1979; Francois Bomnn: His LtJe and Work, 1979; AWARDS: Amer Assoc Univ Women, 1964-65; Univ Texas research Artists, 1971-74; chr, West Coast graduate educ comm, ~971-73; 1977; others; approximately 250 group exhibitions including others; articles and book reviews in The Art Bullettn, ArtJournal, Art grant, 1972; ACLS, 1978, MEMBERSHIPS: Medieval Acad Amer; nominating comm, 1974-76; chr, 1976; distinguished teaching of art Philadelphia Mus Art; Whitney Mus Amer Art, San Franci.sco Mus Quarterly, Art News, Apollo, others. AWARDS: Univ New Mexico Societe fran~aise d'arch~ologie; board of directors, Intematl Center history award selection comm, 1979; participant art history sessions, Art, Pennsylvania Acad Fine Arts; Baltimore Mus Art; Mmnesota research grant, 1967-69; Amer Philosophical Soc grant, 1972, 1974; Medieval Art. annual meetings 1972, 1978. Mus Art; Corcoran Gallery Art; Smithsonian Inst; Detroit Inst Arts; Fulbright fellow, 1974; NEA professional fellow, 1977; member In­ Milwaukee Art Ctr. COLLECTIONS: Whitney Mus Amer Art; Phil­ stitute for Advanced Study, 1979. CAA ACIlvmES: participant annual DAVID C. DRISKELL LEE ANNE MILLER adelphia Mus Art; Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts; others. AW~: meeting sessions 1970, 1974; chr, "Japonisme," 1973; "Realism and University of Maryland Wayne State University Guggenheim fellow, 1965-66; Lindback Found award for dIS­ Naturalism in Europe," 1978; member, Preservation of Art Comm, tinguished teaching, 1968; Outstanding American Educators award, AB Howard Univ, 1955; MFA Catholic Univ BS Utah State Univ, 1960; MFA Cranbrook Acad 1971; Tiffany Found grant, 1975-76; numerous exhibition and pur­ REMINDER; The Preferential Ballot is being mailed separately. Amer, 1962; additional study Rijksbureau voor Art, 1961; further study at Pratt Graphic Art chase awards. MEMBERSHIPS: Amer Assoc Univ Professors, Please retain information on nominees until you receive it. Kunsthistorisches Documentatie, Den Haag, Center and Art Students League, 1961-62; Slade 1964. POSITIONS: assoc prof and dept chr, Tal­ Sch Art, 1963. POSITIONS: Cleveland Inst Art, ladega Coll, 1955-62; assoc prof, Howard Univ, EVAN H. TURNER CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1964-66; East Texas State Univ, 1966-68; Univ Ackland Art Museum and University of 1962-66; acting chr and dir Univ art gall, Missouri- City, 1968-78; dept chr NorthCarolina PRESIDENT: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence 1963-64, 1966; prof and dept chr, Fisk 1976-1978; prof and dept chr, Wayne State VICE PRESIDENT: Joshua C. Taylor, National Collection of Fine Arts Univ, 1966-76; adjunct prof, Vanderbilt Univ, 1976-77; prof, Univ Univ, 1979-. EXHIBITIONS: solo Utah State Univ, 1963; Univ Missouri­ Harvard Univ, AB 1949; MA 1950; PhD 1954. SECRETARY: Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University Maryland, 1977 -; numerous visiting artist, visiting prof, guest Kansas City, 1971, 1977; Kansas State Univ, 1976; others; numerous POsrnONS: lecturer and research asst, Frick ColI, TREASURER: Richard Ravenscroft, Philadelphia National Bank curatorships. PUBLICATIONS: The African and Afro-American Series, invitational exhibitions including Cranbrook Academy Art, 1962; 1953-56; curator and asst dir, Wadsworth COUNSEL: Gilbert S. Edelson, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen monographs and catalogs; Two Centuries of Black American Art, American Embassy, London, 1963; Cleveland Inst Art, 1964, 1965, Atheneum, 1955-59; dir, Montreal Mus Fine 1976; numerous catalogs for Fisk Univ Art Gall and others. EXHIBI­ 1966, AWARDS: Fulbright fellow, 1962-63; Univ Missouri-Kansas City Arts, 1959-64; dir, Philadephia Mus Art, TO SERVE UNTIL 1980: Garo Z. Antreasian, University of New Mexico; TIONS: Baltimore Mus; Fisk Univ; Corcoran Art Gallery; High Mus; faculty research grants, four, 1969-78; numerous competitive and Shirley Blum, S. U. N. Y " Purchase; Lorenz Eitner, Stanford Universi­ Howard Univ Art Gallery; Kansas City Art Inst; Oakland Art Mus; 1964-77; adjunct prof, Univ Pennsylvania, purchase awards. MEMBERSHIPS: Women's Caucus for Art, natl ad­ 1970-78; dir, Ackland Art Mus, 1978-; adjunct prof, Univ North ty; Horst W.Janson, New York University; Irving Lavin, The Institute Studio Mus Harlem; Tougaloo ColI; Whitney Mus; numerous others. visory board, 1976-78; president, 1978-80; boards of directors Carolina, 1978-. PROFESSIONAL ACTlVITIES: Amer Assoc Musewns, for Advanced Study. AWARDS: Danforth Found study grant, 1961-62; summer study Institute and Helt"con Qournal of the Arts, mid-America vice pres and member exec comm and council, 1966-72; legislati~e fellowship, Netherlands Inst History Art, 1964; doctor fine TO SERVE UNTIL 1981: Benny Andrews, ; Beatrice region); Mid-America College Art Assoc, secretary, 1975-76; studio comm, 1979-; Association Art Mus Directors, trustee 1974-77, preSI­ arts, Tougaloo CoIl; doctor humane letters, Daniel Payne CoIl; sessions program coordinator, 1975; New Art Examiner, editor for Farwell, University of Californi

2 CAA newsletter September 1979 art journal appointments eM briefs annual meeting addenda The 1980 Preliminary Program-contain­ Award Committees Beginning with the Winter issue, new editors SPECIAL EVENTS FOR ARTISTS Multiples '80 ing necessary forms and complete infonna­ will take over responsibilities for the book Distinguished Teacht'ng of Art: Rudy Poz­ Local artists' groups in New Orleans are From January 26 to February 2, the contem­ tion on annual meeting registration, hotel reviews and museums news sections of the Art zatti, Univ. Indiana, Chair; Richard Black, room rates, group flights, etc. -will be Drake Univ.; Nathan Oliviera, Stanford working hard. organizing several special porary Arts Center will host a national juried Journal. Jennifer Licht will replace Donald events and exhibits to be held during the eAA multiples exhibition, workshops, and panel mailed at the end of November. Kuspit as Book Review Editor and Charles C. Univ.; Clare Romano, Pratt Institute; William Walmsley, Florida State Univ. Annual Meeting. discussions. If you wish to receive entry forms Eldredge, as Museums Editor. will take over for the exhibition and additional informa­ Dt'stz'ngut'shed Teaching of Art History: Meat Market Ball the College Museum News and Other Muse­ tion' please write: Multiples '80, Contem­ Wallace Tomasini, Univ. Iowa, Chair; Ruth Artists are invited to participate in a slide The Museum as Innovator: Adventurous um News sections formerly handled by porary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street, New Butler, Univ. Massachusetts, Boston; Wan­ presentation event to be housed at the Con­ Exhibitions. Co-chairs are Diane Vanderlip, Eugenia Robbins and Henry Hope, respec­ Orleans, La. 70130. Deadline for receipt of da'Corn, Mills College. All other award com­ temporary Art Center in New Orleans. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colo. 80204 tively. entries: October 15. mittees are appointed for two-year terms and event will provide an opportunity for max­ and David Katsive, , Jennifer Licht was on the staff of the were appointed last year. imwn exposure to the local community and to Exhibition Spaces/Ephemeral Projects Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11238. Museum of Modem Art from the time she those attending the CAA conference, since a A volunteer group has identified approx­ Meeting the Crisis: Self-Help for Artists. came to New York from London in 1962 until Committee on Affiliated Societies Meat Market Ball (if you don't know why we imately twelve outdoor and eight indoor Chair is Anne Focke, 1525 Tenth Avenue, 1976, serving as Associate Curator of Painting In accordance with the Guidelines (March are naming it that we're not going to tell you), spaces suitable for penn anent and! or ephem­ Seattle, Wash. 98134. and Sculpture from 1968 to 1976. Especially 1979 newsletter), Joshua C. Taylor, as CAA featuring New Orleans food and music, will eral exhibits of art works during the CAA concerned with contemporary art, she di­ Vice President, is chair of this Committee and be held at the Center on Friday evening. meeting in New Orleans. Projects must be fin­ WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART: CALL rected several group exhibitions of interna­ Rose Weil, as Executive Secretary, is a mem­ February 1. ancially self-sufficient and will be reviewed FOR PAPERS tional scope including Spaces, Eight Contem­ ber. The other two members appointed for The slides of 960 artists (acceptance is on a for feasibility. At least two graduate students porary Artists, and a survey for museums in 1979 are Ann Sutherland Harris, Metro­ first-come, first~seTVed basis) will be pro­ per project can be furnished. Some of the ;li The History of Women's Protest in the Australia and New Zealand, Some Recent politan Museum of Art, and Philip Pearl­ grammed. Each artist should submit a name spaces have variable wind and weather condi­ Jennifer Licht slide and three slides of art work. The 35mm tions; high wind velocity should be con­ Visual Arts. This panel will examine the art­ Amen'can Art, and she organized many in­ photo: Stanley Blaugrund stein, Brooklyn College. plastic mount (Weiss mounts preferred) will sidered. Accompanying visual material ists whose political concerns and stance have dividual exhibitions of the work of avant­ The Committee has reviewed the first feature a horizontal fonnat. Masking of the should be suitable for publicity. Anyone or been strongly reflected in their work and will garde artists such as Robert Irwin, Mel Visiting Museum Scholar at the National Col­ group of applications and has accepted as af­ slide is permitted. Each slide must be marked any group interested in exhibiting send pro­ survey the history of women's protest in the Bochner, Richard Long, and Carl Andre as lection of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., filiated societies the following organizations: with the artist's name and a dot indicating the posal to: CAA Proposals, P.O. Box 30571, visual arts from the 'sixties and seventies'. well as important earlier figures such as Rod­ where his research focused upon affinities American Committee for South Asian Art, top front of slide. A directory will be available New Orleans, La. 70190. Deadline: October chenko and Schwitters. She was also responsi­ between American painting and European American Society for Hispanic Art His­ The Woman Artist in the South. The papers giving information about the artists and Ioca­ 15. ble for acquiring contemporary works for the Symbolist aesthetics in the late nineteenth torical Studies, Caucus for Marxism and to be presented will explore the cultural, edu­ permanent collection of the Museum. Cur­ and early twentieth centuries. He has just Art, and Women's Caucus for Art. don of the artist's slides in the program. cational, social and religious climate of the rently a doctoral candidate in art history at completed the catalogue for The Introspec­ With the slides, include a form giving your 1980 CAA PROGRAM SESSIONS South and its effect upon the developing per­ Columbia University, Licht received a Gug­ tives: American Imaginatt'on and Symbolist name, address, and institutional affiliation. The following information is provided as cor­ H.W. Janson is representing the CAA in ef­ ception of "self' of the Southern woman and genheim fellowship in 1971 to do research on Paintt'ng, an exhibition that will open at New Send slides to: Department of Fine Arts, Uni­ rection or addition to that included in the forts to establish reasonable fees for reproduc­ upon the substance of her work as an artist. Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau and earned her York University's Grey Art Gallery this fall versity of New Orleans, Lakefront, New Call for Participation in the June newsletter: tion rights, first in American museums and master's degree from Columbia in 1977. and travel to the Spencer Museum next Orleans, La. 70122. Mark the front of the then, it is hoped, internationally. He requests ~orks on Paper and Paper Works. Papers for either panel should be sent to winter. He has written numerous scholarly ar­ envelope "CAA 1980." Slides will not be that scholars who have been charged excessive Howardina Pindell, Chair. New affiliation: Dean Barbara Price, Program Coordinator, Charles C. Eldredge has been director of ticles in the field of modem and American art returned but will become part of the Contem­ fees for reproduction rights send him \ Dept. of Art, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook. New Cranbrook Academy of Art, 500 Lone Pine the Spencer Musewn of Art since 1971, and is and his book on the New Mexico painter porary Art Center's Resource Library. Dead­ documented details; Dept. of Fine \ mailing address: 322 Seventh Avenue, Road, P.O. Box 801, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Associate Professor in the Kress Foundation Ward Lockwood was published in 1974. He HWJ, line for receipt of slides: November 1. Arts, N.Y.U., Main Building, Washington N.Y.C.10001. 48013. Deadline: November 1 III Department of Art History at the University received his doctorate in art history from the Square, N.Y.C. 10003. of Kansas; prior to that he was on the staff of University of Minnesota in 1971 and his B.A. the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Eldredge from Amherst in American Studies in 1966. recently held a Smithsonian Fellowship as III Committee Concerning Reproductions of Works of Art committee on the status of women This COIlllllittee is charged with determining whether it is desirable for the CAA to adopt a statement supplemental to the AAMD In order to keep the CAA membership in­ found that she had successfully established a them from remammg imprisoned in the Guz'del£nes fOT Reproductions of Works of formed of significant events and develop­ pnma fade case of sex discrimination_ thought patterns of the permanent faculty." Art, which was endorsed by the CAA Board of ments concerning discrimination against The panel determined that the search pro­ The panel saw other indications in Brown's Directors on January 31 (see March 1979 women, the Committee on the Status of cedures of the Art Department were unsatis­ hiring patterns that contradicted its assertion newsletter). Chair of the Committee is Women will report from time to time on factory, since they did not uncover the fact of commitment to a vigorous affirmative ac­ Eleanor Tufts, Southern Methodist Universi­ pending or resolved sex discrimination suits. that the candidate hired presented inad­ tion program. Acknowledging that the re­ ty. Other members are Lorenz Eitner, Stan­ Any infonnation that can be released on suits equate credentials, including a teaching medial effects of affirmative action could not ford University, and Garo Antreasian, involving members of art professions, such as record that did not meet the stated criteria. quickly penetrate the Department, whose University of New Mexico. Any member who the one described below, will be welcomed by On the other hand, the panel rejected tenured studio faculty is exclusively male, the wishes to submit opinions or helpful informa­ the Committee. Fishman's contention that the Art Depart­ panel nonetheless observed that newly hired tion is invited to do so. Address to Eleanor ment had prolonged the discriminatory ef­ faculty in the period between 1973 and 1978 Tufts, Div. of Fine Arts, SMU, Dallas, Tex. Brown University Suit. , fects of the search into the second semester, included one woman and three men in the 75275. an artist who was denied a position as Visiting when the disqualification of the first can­ tenure-track category, but a much higher Professor of Painting at Brown University in didate led the Department to hire another proportion of women in visiting professor­ The Registry of Roving Researchers shows the fall of 1977, has won a favorable decision male, whose credentials the panel found to be ships, a category that provides the most signs of aborting lest additional scholars/ in a class action suit against the University on more comparable to Fishman's. The panel re­ insecure and most temporary form of employ­ students living abroad indicate that they are the basis of sex discrimination. A court­ jected as unsatisfactory the Art Department's ment. Charles Eldredge and willing to do on-site research for home-bound mandated hearing panel composed of three criterion of "differentness" from the work of Two conclusions reached by the hearing Friends. (Friends courte­ colleagues. We don't, for example, have a tenured faculty members (one female, with present and recent faculty, noting that facul­ panel may find broader application. First, sy Duane Hanson). researcher in Rome yet, although several re­ another woman participating as alternate) tymembers who attempted to explain this cri­ the panel supported a position concerning quests are pending. Write to CAA office for ruled on November 23, 1978 that the creden­ terion never once suggested that the presence sex discrimination, now maintained in the researcher registration fonns or if you need a tials of Louise Fishman were more impressive of a highly qualified and successful woman courts, that it is not necessary for the claimant fact or a photograph from abroad. than those of several finalists for the position, artist might meet their goal of amplifying the to show conscious intent on the University's Contt"nued on p. 16, col. 2 including the white male who was hired and experience of students and "helping prevent Contmued on p. 6, col. 1 4 CAA newsletter September 1979 5 announcements

Reception for Kress Fellows lannouncements information Yale Center Fellowships The success of the first reception for Kress Humanities Fellowships at Columbia ~~ Yale Center for British Art is offering a Foundation Fellows, held in conjunction with The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Fellowships for Venetian Research For research on depictions of industrial pro­ hnllted number of fellowships for scholars Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships the 1979 CAA annu~l meeting in Washing­ Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of­ Almost as varied as the collection itself, cesses by nineteenth-century American engaged in advanced research related to its ton, has converted this happy occasion into an Mellon Foundation and the William R C:0!lection. Grants include travel expenses and fers grants for research in Venice on any fellowships offered by the Metropolitan painters. information on works and related instant tradition. There will be a follow-up Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of POSt~ hvmg allowance and are normally for periods aspects of the history of Venice or the former Museum of Art cover all aspects and periods documentary evidence is sought. Contact in New Orleans, and many thereafter-we doctoral fellows in the humanities for the Venetian empire. Applicants must be U.S. Raymond L. Wilson, 1231 Kedith St,. Bel­ of two to fourteen weeks. For detailed infor­ of art history and are available to practicing hope. For invitations, and to keep the Foun­ academic year 1980-1981. New fellows must mation: Director,YCBA, Box 2120 Yale Sta­ citizens, must have some experience in ad­ artists and museum professionals as well as to mont, Calif. 94002. dation abreast of your current address and ac­ have received the Ph.D. betweenJan. 1, 1978 vanced research, and, if graduate students, art historical scholars and graduate students. tion, New Haven, Conn. 06520. Application and July 1,1980. Stipend $14,500: half for in­ tiviti,es, pl~ase write: Miss Mary M. Davis, Ex­ deadline: November 1. must have completed all doctoral require­ The key to most of the fellowships - quite For a dissertation, information about the ecutIve Vice President, Samuel H. Kress dependent r~search and half for interdepart­ ments except for the dissertation. Grants naturally - is that use of the collection be American career of John Singer Sargent: Foundation, 221 West 57 Street N.Y.C ~ental teachmg, probably with modest addi­ from $500 to $10,000. Some subsequent pub­ significantly involved. The list of available critical response, memoirs or written descrip­ 10019. ,. Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks tIonal grants. Application from: Director, lication subventions will be available. For fur­ fellowships is too long to summarize here, but tions of sittings, photographs of exhibition in­ Dumbarton Oaks offers predoctoral and post­ Room I ~09, ~ntemational Affairs Building, ther information: GKDF, 40 Wall Street, copies may be obtained from: Secretary of the stallations and of portraits in domestic NEH Seminar on 16th-Century Italian Art doctor~l fellowships through its Centers for ColumbIa Umversity, New York City 10027 N.Y.C. 10005. Application deadline: Grants Committee, MMA, Fifth Avenue and settings. Send to Trevor J. Fairbrother. T~is seminar, conducted by Creighton Byzanune Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies Deadline: November 1. . January 15. 82 Street, N.Y.C. 10028. Application dead­ American and New England Studies Pro­ GIlbert at Cornell University, is offered for an~ Studies in the History of Landscape Ar: line for fellowships beginning in fall 1980 is gram, Boston University, 226 Bay State the academic year 1980-1981 under the NEH chitecture. Summer fellowships will also be Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowships Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships January 11. Road, Boston, Mass. 02215. Category C Fellowship Program. Teachers in awarded for the first time in 1980, for periods For promising junior faculty who have com­ Residential program for advanced scholarly colleges, including two-year colleges (but not of four to ten weeks betweenJune 15 and Sep­ pleted, at the time of appointment, the Ph.D. research; proposals for studies in the creative Grants for Holography Information and examples of crystal glazes, including institutions that offer doctoral pro­ tember 1. For further information' Asst ~nd at least two years of post-doctoral teach­ arts as well as art history may be submitted. Several grants for holography are available to techniques, how-to· do-it procedures and grams) are eligible. Six to twelve fellows will Direc~or, DO, 170~ 32nd Street, N.W.: mg on the college or university level. Tenured Applicants must be on post-doctoral or painters, photographers, filmmakers, etc. historic and contemporary potteries and pot­ ~e .s~l~cted; they will have no major respon­ Washington, D.C. 20007. Application dead­ professo~ n?t .eligible. One-year appoint­ equivalent level; residency is normally four through an artist-in· residence program at the ters is sought by John W. Conrad, Art Dept., Sibilities other than their own research and line: November 15. ments WIth limited teaChing responsibilities, months to one year, with minimum of four Cabin Creek Center of Work and Environ­ Mesa College, Mesa College Drive, San active participation in the seminar. Stipends departmental affiliation, opportunity to months; stipends (less sabbatical salary, other mental Studies in New York City. The objec­ Diego, Calif. 92122. range from $16,000 to $20,000, plus travel develop scholarly research, broaden and funding, etc.) is generally equal to previous tives of the grant program are to increase Na~ional Humanities Center Fellowships costs for fellows and their immediate families. demonstrate scholarly potential. The awards year's income. For additional information awareness of this new medium within the ar­ Information on lesser known publications is ThIS newest of the humanities think tanks The seminar will probably focus on Michel­ pay $16,000 annually. For additional infor­ and application materials: Woodrow Wilson tistic community and to upgrade the aesthetic sought for a complete bibliography of Henry interdi~ciplinary in emphasis, will admi~ an~elo and Tit~an, but specific topics will re­ mation: Richard M. Hunt. Program Direc­ International Center for Scholars, Smith­ quality of work being produced in the Moore. Where possible, a copy of the actual approXlmately 40 Fellows for the academic m~m ?pen unttl fellows are selected. For ap­ HMFF, Lamont Library 202, Cam­ sonian Institution Building. Room 321, medium. For further information: Hart publication would be appreciated; all items year 1980-81. Both young and established to~, phcatlons: Category C Fellowships, NEH, 806 bndge. Mass. 02138. Application deadline: Washington, D.C. 20560. Application dead­ Perry, Project Director, CCCWES. 58 East 11 will be returned. Send to Alexander Davis, 4~ 15thStreet~ N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. schol~rs are invited to apply. For application November 1. line: October 1. St. N.Y .C. 10003. Deadline: October 1. II South Hill Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts Deadline: November 13. matenal and detailed information: NHC, HPI IJB, England. P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, Publication Award N.C. 27709. Deadline: January 10. For a photo archive of the work of Ivan Iwomen An. award of $2,500.00 will be made by the Mestrovic, compiled with the assistance of Philadelphia Art Alliance Press for the best the sculptor's daughter, information on the Rome Academy Fellowships manuscript in the general area of the visual locations of the sculptures and drawings or pan, as long as she can demonstrate "that a Of. t':"'"o types: (1) one-year fellowships in arts. The prize is unrestricted and is open to documentary material is sought. Contact given end was brought about as clearly as if it pam~mg> sculpture. and art history; direct an~ author, American or foreign, but manu­ Dean A. Porter, Director, Snite Museum of had been conscious, and if there is no other application by candidates; (2) two-year fel­ scnpts must be in English. They must repre­ adequately convincing explanation for the lowships in the history of art (Kress Triang­ Art, O'Shaughnessy Hall. Notre Dame, Ind. sent the results of original research and must 46556. cumulative effects of the process." And ulation Fellowships) supported by $3,500 be documented in accordance with normally secondly, the panel reaffirmed that the mere from The Samuel H. Kress Foundation accepted scholarly standards. The Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum at Duis­ inclusion of women among finalists does not m~tched by the universities of the winning-ap­ The P.ress will publish the award· winning of itself prove that women were seriously con­ plIcants and by in-kind support from the burg is preparing a catalogue raisonne of the manuscnpt and may also select other entries drawings of Hans Uhlmann. Owners are re­ si~ered, any more than the fact they were not Ac~demy; application from department for publication. For full details and entry quested to contact the Museum, Diisseldorfer hired proves they were not considered in good c~alrmen. All fellowships carry monthly forms: Secretary, PAA, P.O. Box 421, Cran­ faith. Strasse 51, D 4100 Duisburg 1, West Ger­ stIpends, travel and working supplies bury, N.J. 08512. Deadline for submissions: 000 all.owa.nces. For further information and ap­ June 30. many. The job-hunting and hiring season is upon phcatIon forms: American Academy in us once more, and the Committee would like Rome, 41 East 65th Street, N.Y.C. 10021. For the preparation of a catalogue of works by to issue a timely reminder to candidates and Deadline: November 15. NEH Translations Program Christof Drexel, owners of paintings are re­ to hiring institutions. In 1975, the CAA Provide~ support of annotated, scholarly quested to supply appropriate data. Buch-& translauons that contribute to an under­ Kunstantiquariat Gerhard GOtze, Balsamin­ Board passed a resolution affirming that con­ Fellowship for Research on Comic Art siderations in filling positions in art fields standing of the history and intellectual enstrasse 4, 8000 Munchen 45, West Ger­ The Swann Foundation has announced the should be entirely of a professional nature. achievements of other cultures and serve as many. creation of a new doctoral fellowship for Board advised job ap­ tools for further disciplinary or comparative A~cordingly, ~he research and writing of a dissertation in the research. A critical introduction and explan­ Biographical information on artists whose plIcants not to lDdude personal information field of caricature and cartoon. To be eligi. such as marital or parental status on curricula atory annotation which will locate the work work was purchased from the annual ble, one must be a candidate for the Ph.D. in vitae, and advised potential employers not to within historical and intellectual Contexts Potsdam College Prints Exhibitions is reo a U.S. or Canadian university and have com­ req~es~ such information. This policy reo required. Projects may be individual or quested for an illustrated catalogue. Contact pleted all requirements except the disserta­ mams m effect. Candidates who believe that cooperative; any language is eligible but the Roland Gibson, Art Dept., State University tion: The research may be on any aspect of the eliciting of irrelevant personal informa­ Endowment has a particular interest in appli­ College at Potsdam, N.Y. 13673. comIC art, without limit of place or time. The tion has had a prejudicial effect upon his or catio~ dealing with non-Western cultures. fellowship carries a stipend of $6,500 with up her employment prospects are advised to Apphcants n~ed not. be .affiliated to be eligi­ to $1,000 additional for travel expenses. Ap­ For an inventory of all paintings of the Dutch report such incidents to the CAA. ble. For detaIled guIdelines and application "School of the Hague" (1870-1900). owners plication forms from: SF, c/o Goldschmidt materials: TP, Mail Stop 350, Division of Mary D. Garrard II Fredericks, Levinson & Oshatz, 655 please send information and if possible a Madiso~ Research Programs, NEH. 860 15th Street, H] think you know everybody." Chair, Committee on the Status of Women Avenue. N. Y.C. 10021. photograph to Jr. J. Poort c.i., Hague School N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. Foundation, Parkweg 2, 2585lJ The Hague, 6 Drawing by Chas. Addams; © 1979 Holland. II CAA newsletter The New Yorker Magazine. Inc. September 1979 7 conferences and symposia people and programs

Katheryn Linduffhas a Mellon fellowship to Perspectives on American Art, 1890-1940 Surrealism Festival in Cleveland Art of the 1970. Material for inclusion in PEOPLE AND PRO­ study Chinese anthropology at Harvard and a A symposium in honor of Milton Brown, to be A seven-week festival entitled "The Per­ A symposium supported by a grant from the GRAMS should be sent to College Art Associ­ Fulbright-Hays fellowship to visit Shang held at the CUNY Graduate Center, October sistence of Surrealism" will be held in SUNY Committee on University Faculty Pro­ ation, 16 East 52 Street, N. Y. C. 10022. Dynasty sites along the Yellow River and 26 and 27. Criticism, museum practice, and Cleveland, October 3-November 15. Involv­ grams/Conversations in the Disciplines, to be Deadlinefor next issue: October 31. Anne Weis will be at the American Academy popular arts as well as more traditional art ing just about every cultural institution in held at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Rome to study the hanging Marsyas statue. historical topics will be covered. Among the town (the Museum of Art, Case Western on March 28 and 29. Paper proposals should IN MEMORIAM The department will hold a Renaissance sym­ speakers: John I,H, Bauer, John A. Kouwen­ Reserve, the Dali Museum, the Institute of be submitted in the form of a one-page posium on December 4 in commemoration of hoven, , Rosalind Krauss and Art, the Orchestra, the Institute of Music, abstract to Richard Martin, Suite B634, FIT. Milton J. Lewine, a scholar of the art, archi­ Henry Clay Frick; Everett Fahy, John Pope­ Robert Rosenblum. Admission free, reserva­ Mather Gallery, New Gallery, etc.), the 227 West 27 Street, N. Y.C. 10001. Deadline: tecture, and culture of the Italian Renais­ Hennessy, and John Shearman will present tions required. Call (212) 790-4451 or write festival will cover all aspects of surreal­ November 30. sance, died in July at the age of fifty. Lewine papers. American Art Symposium, CUNY IGC, 33 ism - aesthetic, intellectual, political- from received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. West 42 Street, N. Y.C. 10036. Dada to the present day and will feature a lec­ degrees from Columbia University. He began ture series, a film series, a series of perlonn­ PhotoHistory IV teaching at Columbia in 1955 and became a Medieval-Renaissance Studies ances and happenings, and NEH-funded A two-day symposium to be held at the Inter­ full professor of art history and archaeology John Link, chair of the department at The second such conference to be held at New "mini courses" conducted for the general national Museum of Photography at George in 1969. Witty, erudite, and selfless in his Western Michigan University from 1977 to College of the University of South Florida, public by graduate students in the area. The Eastman House, October 13 and 14. Cospon­ devotion to the work of his colleagues and 1979, resigned recently to accept the chair­ Sarasota, February 29-March 1. Papers on CMA will mount a major exhibition, "The sored by the Museum and the Photographic students, he generously shared those same manship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. urban studies, the Mediterranean, and pag­ Spirit of Surrealism," curc1ted by Edward Historical Society of America, the symposium qualities with readers and writers of The Art Jack Carney, head of photography, has been eantry and ceremonies particularly welcome. Henning, chief curator of modern art; the combines scholarship with trade mart and is Bulletin during the three years (1975-1977) appointed acting chainnan. Recent promo­ Send one-page abstracts to Lee D. Snyder, New Gallery will show photographs from Man directed not only at those interested in the he served as Book Review Editor. He also tions include Robert Johnston and Louis NC/USF, 5700 North Tamiami Trail, Ray to the present; and a documentary ex­ history of photography but also at "apparatus shared, with those who knew him during his Rizzolo, both named full professor, and Sarasota, Fla. 33580. Deadline: December 1. hibition curated by graduate students will be fanciers" and "image collectors." Registra­ last difficult year, an indomitable spirit that Elizabeth Dull, promoted to the rank of shown at the Mather Gallery. One major ob­ tion is $23.00, from PHSA, P.O. Box 9563, reaffirmed the life-sustaining power of strong associate professor. The new sculpture and The Colonial Revival in America jective of the festival is the production of a Rochester, N.Y. 14604. A gala candlelight intellectual and personal commitments. ceramic facility is nearing completion, allow­ Conference planned by the Winterthur 90-minute fIlm on the Surrealist movement. dinner is $17.00 extra. ing for programmatic improvements in other Museum for November 1981. The chairman For additional information: SF, Offtce of Ernst Kitzinger areas in the relinquished space. More good would like to hear from people interested in Public Infonnation, Case Western Reserve, Conference on Methodology TEACHING news: the photography program recently presenting papers on any aspect of the history University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 or An international symposium to examine received a $10,000 anonymous gift for equip­ Ernst Kitzinger retired from the Arthur or interpretation of this cultural phenom­ call Teresa Moir (216) 368-4440. critically current methodologies in the history ment purchases. From Princeton comes the announcement Kingsley Porter University Professorship at enon. Contact Kenneth Ames, WM, Winter­ of art will be held at McMaster University, that John K.G. Shearman joined the depart­ Harvard University at the end of the aca­ thur, Del. 19735. September 1980. There will be six major ses­ ment of art and archaeology as full professor demic year 1978-79. A symposium was held sions: "Connoisseurship." "Art History and effective this September. A scholar of Italian in his honor at the Fogg Museum in March, at Conferences on Viollet-le-Duc Symposium on Renaissance Venice the Social Science" (including psychology), Robert H. Gray will be leaving SUNY Pur­ Renaissance art, Shearman received his B.A. which former and recent students read The centenary of the death of Eugene Em­ An interdisciplinary symposium on Renais­ "Art History and the Problem of Style" (in­ chase in January to become dean of UCLA's and Ph.D. from the University of London and papers. These, and additional papers written manuel Viollet-Ie-Duc (1814-1879) is being sance Venice, sponsored by the Hofstra cluding topics such as historicism, formalism, College of Fine Arts. Gray has been dean of joined the faculty there in 1958. Prior to his by his students, were gathered in a volume marked by several conferences: University Center for Cultural & Inter­ eclecticism), "Iconography and Iconology: the Division of Visual Arts at Purchase since move to Princeton he was full professor at the which was presented to him. His students also In this country, the University of Mich­ cultural Studies, will be held March 13-15. Past and Future Directions," "Marxism and 1976. Before that he was chair of the art University of London and deputy director of organized an exhibition at the Fogg Museum igan has scheduled a one-day symposium on The conference will focus on intercultural the Social History of Art," and "Art History department at Pennsylvania State University the Courtauld Institute. which included loans from the Boston Muse­ November 10, coordinate with an exhibition influences; conference proceedings will be and Philosophy." Send abstracts for 30-min­ and dean at Silvermine College of Art. He um of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of of Viollet-Ie-Duc's publications and related published; papers are limited to 20 minutes. ute papers to H.B.J. Maginnis, Dept. Art and succeeds Charles Speroni. who has been A not-quite Princeton alumnus (he has his Art, the Textile Museum of the District of materials that will be on view October For additional infonnation: Natalie Datlof & ArtHistory,MU, 1280 Main St. West,Hamil­ head of UCLA's College of Fine Ans for M.A. degree and is a doctoral candidate), Columbia and Dumbarton Oaks. Entitled 15-December 1 in the Rare Book Room of the Alexej Ugrinsky, UCCIS, Hofstra University, ton, Ontario L8S 4M2, Canada. Deadline: twelve years and has been a faculty member John David Farmer, is the new executive Byzant£ne Art £n the Making, it was keyed to Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. For fur­ Hempstead, N.Y. 11550. Deadline for November 30. there since 1935. director of the Fulbright-Hayes Commission specific themes which have played a role in his ther information: Kenneth Breisch or Pear­ papers: January 1. for Educational Exchange between the U.S., writings. During the coming years Kitzinger son Marvin, Dept. History of Art, UM, Ann Conferences Past Belgium and Luxembourg. Himself a "grad­ plans to spend much of his time in Europe Arbor, Mich. 48109. The fIrst Texas Conferences of Art His­ uate" of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship (in with a base in Oxford. Somewhat less defmite is a five-day interna­ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has Conference on Musical Iconography torians, sponsored by Rice University, the 1966), Fanner has been curator at the Busch­ tional conference to be held at the Grand announced an ambitious program of visiting To be held at the CUNY Graduate Center in University of Houston at Clear Lake City and Reisinger and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Palais, Paris. Originally scheduled for the Johns Hopkins reports that department chair professorships. During the fall semester P. April. The eighth such conference, its pur­ the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, met at the fall of 1979, it has now been moved to the end Herbert Kessler will spend 1979-80 on leave Adam Sitney, author of Vis£onaryF£lm: The pose is to encourage research using evidence Houston Museum March 30-April 1. More The title of Maude I. Kerns Distinguished of March or April, to coincide with a major at Dumbarton Oaks; his sabbatical is sup­ A mert'can Avant-garde, will teach two found in the visual arts as primary source than 130 persons attended. The program was Professor of Oriental Art has been conferred retrospective exhibition. Thirty-two scholars ported by an ACLS grant and a Dumbanon courses, in film theory and history; art material in the study of music history. Send the usual potpourri of scholarly papers plus upon Ellen Johnston Laing by the University will participate. With Gallic evenhanded­ Oaks fellowship. Michael Fried will serve as historian Charles Stuckey will be guest proposals for papers to Research Center for panels focussed on art, research resources, of Oregon. As pennanent holder of the Kerns ness, they have been equally divided: sixteen acting chainnan. The department has also curator for the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition MI, CUNY/GC, 33 West. 42 Street, N.Y.C. and graduate programs in Texas. At present Chair, she win offer graduate courses in from France and sixteen from the rest of the appointed Nancy J. Troy(Ph.D. Yale) assist­ scheduled to open in October and will teach 10036. Deadline: January 15. no fonnal, on-going organization is planned, Chinese art and will be involved in the muse­ world. Daniel D. Reiff, State University Col­ ant professor of modern art. The 1979 Katz­ three classes; and sculptor/author Jack although the success of the first conference um's activities relating to Far Eastern an. lege, Fredonia, will be the sole American par­ enellenbogen Lecture was delivered in April Burnham (most recently Great Western Salt has prompted other institutions in the state to by Robert Herbert, also a Yale import, on Works: &says on the Meant'ng of Post-For­ ticipant. Donald R. Anderson has succeeded Dario offer to host a similar conference next year. the topic of Degas's Dancers. malist Art and Komar-Melamt'd: Twa Soviet A. Covi as chair of the department at the Byzantine Studies Conference Landscape Views, the report of a sym­ Dissident Artists) will teach two classes. Other University of Louisville and director of the Victorian Studies Conference The 5th Annual Byzantine Studies Con­ posium held at Montclair State College on fall visitors are in painting Allen R. Hite Art Institute. Anderson John W. Williams is new chair of the depart­ A call for papers and panel proposals on the ference will be held October 26-28 at Dum­ April 29, 1978, is now available. Participants and drawing and Eileen Berger in photog­ (M.F.A. Ohio Univ.) originally came to ment of fine arts at the University of Pitts­ theme of Victorian popular culture, for the barton Oaks. Several sessions will be devoted were Lawrence Alloway, Rackstraw Downes, raphy. The spring semester will bring Diane Louisville as curator of the photographic ar­ burgh. Deborah Gardner joins the faculty Midwest VS Asssociation conference to be to art, including "Arts before Iconoclasm," Jane Freilicher, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Pekar­ Townsend to the painting and drawing chives in 1967 and began teaching photog­ as assistant professor of American art and held at Indiana University, Bloomington, "The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collec­ sky, and Jim Rosen. The report is edited by department, Eileen Cowin and Ellen Land· raphy in 1970. The department also reports architecture and Frank Anderson Trapp, March 28 and 29, 1980. For details on submis­ tion," "Middle and Late Byzantine An," and Alloway. 23 pp., 9 ills., $1.25. Make checks Weber to the photography department, and that during the past year it inaugurated a new chair of the department at Amherst, will be sion: Lawrence Poston, Dept. English, Univ. "Byzantium and the West." For registration payable to The College Development Fund John Ihle in printmaking. Illinois at Chicago Circle, Box 4348, Chicago, infonnation: Gary Vikan, DO, 1703 32nd St., and send to Dept. Fine Arts, MST, Upper gallery with a two - part exhibition of selected Visiting Mellon Professor for 1979-80. Two Ill. 60680. Submission deadline: December 1. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20007. Montclair, N.]. 07043 III works from the University Collection. faculty members will be temporarily on leave: Continued on p. 10, col. 1

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Another distinguished visitor. West German excellence in the arts. The 12-foot Noguchi a minimum of 18 graduate and 12 undergrad­ Donovan, a graduate of SUNY Oswego, Chancellor Helmutt Schmidt, was at the Uni­ sculpture will become part of the Meadows uate credit hours in art history and aesthetics. MUSEUM STAFF NOTES Rex K. Moser has been named executive versity of South Carolina this past June. In his Collection and will be integrated into the The certificate requires 30 hours beyond the comes to Rochester from the Lowe Art GaUery in Syracuse. director of museum education at the Art honor, a special exhibition of paintings and school's sculpture garden. Winners of the M.F.A. degree. For further information: Ad­ Institute of Chicago, replacing Barbara drawings by West Berlin artist Robert Bon­ Algur H. Meadows Award will receive a cash missions, SAIC, Columbus Drive at Jackson Wriston who resigned last year. Moser held a sak was organized by art historian Charles R. prize of $24,000 and a maquette of the Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 60603. ~avid Scott Berreth, formerly assistant similar position at the Los Angeles County Mack and presented in the art gallery at the Noguchi sculpture. dlTector at Elvehjem, has been named the Museum since 1976 and is co-founder of the University's new McKissick Museum. A de­ Not a new actIvuy, but an extension: the first director ~f the new Miami University Art Museum Educators of Southern California. scriptive catalog is available. reading rooms of the Winterthur Library I Museum, whIch opened to the public last NEW ACTIVITIES previously open only Mondays through September. Berreth (M.A. Syracuse) previ­ The Winterthur Museum reports several title Fridays, will now be open the first Saturday of ously served as curator of the print collection changes: Charles F. HUmmel, formerly SUNY Plattsburgh will host its third "Con­ Goddard College has instituted a new pro­ each month, March through December, be­ at Syracuse and Curator of exhibitons at the curato~, has been named deputy director of temporary Visiting Artists Series" during the gram leading to the M.F.A. and named Pa­ ginning August 4. Hours: 8:30 A.M.-noon Bowdoin College Museum. collections; Scott T.W. Swank, formerly 1979-80 academic year. Artists who will both tricia Mainardi its first director. The two­ and 1:00-4:00 P.M. It may not be much, he~d of the education division, is now speak and exhibit their work are Les Levine, year program, accredited by the New but in the welter of announcements of shorter deSignated de~uty director of interpretation; Cork Marcheschi. Grace Hartigan, Miriam Linda Cathcart has left the Albright-Knox England Association of Schools and Colleges, hours everywhere, it sounds a welcome note. Nancy E. Richards, formerly associate Schapiro and Julius Tobias. Other speakers GaHery to become director of the Contempo­ includes two summer semesters in residency curator, succeeds Hummel as curator; and include Hans Haacke, Linda Nochlin, Paul rary Art Museum in Houston. While in and two September through June indepen­ John A. H. Sweeny, formerly coodinator of Aschenback and Robert Pincus-Witten. The San Francisco Art Institute has received Buffalo, Cathcart (M.A. Hunter) organized dent study programs. Mainardi, who shows research, becomes assistant to the director. Directors of the series are Judith K. Van a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, notable contemporary exhibitions, among her paintings at the Ingber Gallery in New Wagner and Richard Salzman. Edward on a 1:3 match to $450,000 already raised, them shows on Richard Diebenkorn, Alfred York City and is also a widely published critic, Jensen, and Richard Artschwager. Another promotion: Antonette Dennision Brohe is gallery director. that will go into two rapidly growing pro­ was formerly director of the Goddard Sum­ grams: the internal funding of student (M.A. Univ. Maryland) has been named as­ mer Arts Community, a 12-week summer scholarships and financing lectures and Othe~ new di~ectors: Richard N. Murray, sistant director of the Henry Morrison Flagler program. Other faculty for the M.F.A. pro­ Museum in Palm Beach. Constance Phillips, formerly chair of the residencies by distinguished visiting artists. appomted director of the Birmingham gram include Anne Tabachnick, Bill Hoch­ foundation department, has been appointed M~seum of Art as of September, was formerly dean of academic affairs at the Kendall hausen, Bernard Greenwald and Anne assistant to the director of the National Col­ Sally ~wope became instructor in gallery The Cleveland Museum of Art has received a School of Design. She succeeds Robert Kof­ Richer. lection of~ine Arts; Kathy Kelsey Foley, who ~ducatlon at the Honolulu Academy of Arts $5,000 grant from the Japan Foundation to fler, who resigned to accept a position at became dIrector of the Mary and Leigh Block in May. Swope (M.A. Case Western Reserve) strengthen its Library resources on Japanese was formerly at the Smithsonian. Herman Miller, Inc. Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Art Gallery at Northwestern in May, was art. The Library currently holds 4,000 Va. has inaugurated a new undergraduate formerly curator at the Dayton Art Institute: interdisciplinary major in Historic Preser­ volumes on Japanese art and subscribes to William S. Lieberman will become chair­ Henry Flood Robert, Jr., new director of the ~ e all know that news distorts history because approximately 25 periodicals in that field. man of the Metropolitan's department of Another new design appointment is Patrick vation. For further information: Barbara Joslyn Art Museum, comes from the Mont­ It focusses on change. "Museum Staff Notes " Whitney, named chair of the design division Meyer, ChI., Dept., MWC, Fredericksburg, ~Oth-century ~rt in November, filling a posi­ in particular, tends to read like a rapidly tIon vacant smce the death of Thomas B gomery Museum of Fine Arts, where he was at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Va. 22401. director for five years. reVlSed address directory. In fact museum Whitney (M.F.A. Cranbrook) was formerly Hess in July of last year. Currently director of professionals tend to stay put for considerable NEW FACILITIES the department of drawings at the Museum of executive director of the Design Foundation The Valuation Sciences (Art Appraisal) periods, and they spend more time on Modern Art, where he has been except for a Philippe Verdier, professor emeritus of the in Chicago and on the faculty of the Illinois Program at Hofstra University had its first A new College of Design was dedicated at research than on resumes. To counteract our brief break for graduate study under Paul history of art at the University of Montreal, Institute of Technology. three graduates (two M.A.s, one B.A.) in Iowa State University, Ames, on May 5. The own journalistic distOrtions, therefore, we Sachs at Harvard since 1943, Lieberman has has been named consultative curator for early June. Hofstra became the first institution of new facility brings together the departments happily report .three recent. publications by higher learning to offer degree work with organized many major loan exhibitions of Western art at the Cleveland Museum The staff at the National CoUection of Fine Arts: of art and design, architecture, and land­ painting and sculpture-among them 'Jack­ At Penn State, Harlan E. Hoffa, an art specialization in valuation sciences in 1976. appointment is through the end of 1979. The Ftne Arts t'n A men'ca, by director Joshua scape architecture and adds a new depart­ son Pollock" (1967); "Four Americans in educator, has been named acting director of Since then, six other institutions have in­ C. Taylor; The Natural Man Observed: A ment of community and urban planning. The Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and the University's new School of Visual Arts. troduced similar programs: Skidmore College Another short-term appointment: John Study of Catith s Ind£an Gallery, by William new dean of the College is Michael Brooks. Her Family" (1970); and "Modern Masters: The SV A is a consolidation of the art educa­ (New York); Loretto Heights College (Col­ Spike has been named guest curator at the T~ue.ttner, curator of 18th and 19th century Manet t.o Matisse" (1975-and has organized tion program and the department of art. orado); the University of Minnesota; Linden­ Princ~ton Art Museum for the purpose of palOtmg and sculpture; and a revision and ex­ There has been a similar linkage of music wood College (Missouri); the University of the Corpus Christi State University recently some OInety graphics arts exhibitions and selecting and cataloguing "Italian Baroque pansion by Ade1yn Breeskin, consultant for about seventy exhibitions for MOMA's education and the department of music. Redlands (California); and Southwest Texas opened a new Center for the Arts that houses Painting from New York Private Collec­ 20th century painting, of her Mary Cassatt .. A domestic and international loan programs. State University. exhibition and performance space as well as tions," an exhibition scheduled for May and Catalogue Ra£Ssont of the Graphic Work studios and darkrooms. The initial exhibition June, 1980. originally published in 1948. ' Museums Collaborative Inc. and the Colum­ at the Center's Ruth and Sylvan Weil (no rela­ Three campuses report interesting perma­ Eric S. McCready, an art historian whose bia University Graduate School of Business tion, honest!) Gallery was "The American In Canada, Pierre Theberge has been nent or temporary sculpture installations. scholarly interests focus on architectural his­ ASSOCIATIONS Northern Virginia Community College in­ have joined to present a Cultural Institu­ Image: 1875-1978," a show gathered entirely named chief curator at the Montreal Museum t~ry and the decorative arts, has been named vited five artists from the Washington tions Management Program that includes from Texas museums and collectors. of Fine Arts. Theberge was formerly curator ~the_ University of Texas Art New officers for the Association of Art Area-Jim Sanborn, Janos Enyedi, George lectures, seminars, and a two- to three-month of contemporary Canadian art at the Na­ l!'fuseum at Austin. McCready (Ph.D~ Museum Directors are James Demetrion Des Wheelock, Nade Haley and Paul Daniel­ practicum. For additional information: tional Gallery, which he joined in 1966, and is ~elaware) is the former director of the Elveh­ Moines Art Center, president; Harr~ S. to create large iron and steel works for its Renee Friedman, Dir., Continuing Profes­ The Shwayder Art Building at the University ~o-founder and co-president of the Associa­ J~ Museum of Art and has been associated Parker III, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts first "Outdoor Sculpture 1979" exhibition. which sional Education Program, MC, 15 Gramercy of Denver, opened in January and dedicated tion for the Documentation of Neglected Wlt~ th~ mUSeums at Bowling Green State vice president; Hsio-Yen ShU, Nat~onal can be seen on the Annandale Campus Park South. N.Y.C. 10003. on May 15, brings together for the first time in Aspects of Canadian Culture as well as co­ Umversity and the University of Delaware. Gan~ry of Canada, second vice president; through October 6. The Amherst campus of 30 years the art studios, classrooms and offices editor of the Association's review. DaVid S. Brooke, Sterling and Francine The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has of the University's School of Art. The three­ the University of Massachusetts has per­ Clark Art Institute, secretary; and Bruce H. introduced a program leading to a Profes­ story, 42,000-square foot structure also con­ The Neuberger Museum has a new assistant manently installed Chat'n Link Maze, an envi· The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Evans, Dayton Art Museum, treasurer. director, Laurence Ian Shopmaker, who ronmental sculpture by Richard Fleischner sional Certificate for Advanced Graduate tains an extensive gallery, complete with out­ Rochester has made two additions to its (M.F.A. RISD), which assumes the fonn of a Study in Art History and Aesthetics. De­ door display deck, designed to house major comes to Purchase from the "real" world of curatorial department: Donald Rosenthal A new Association of International traditional garden maze but utilizes chain signed to prepare artists for alternate or con­ exhibits. The landscaping features a sculp­ the Zabriski~ Gallery in N.Y.C. Shopmaker named curator of collections, and Mark: Photography Art Dealers. was formed in New link fencing as its primary material. The current employment and for teaching art ture titled "Dolmen Repair," a configuration was a fellow m the Whitney's museum studies Donovan, named exhibitions supervisor. ,I York in January; its purpose to promote com­ history as well as studio art, the program is of pink granite rocks held together by cable program and interned at the Walker Art Meadows School of Art (Southern Methodist Ro~enthal (Ph. D. Columbia) was formerly munication, education, ethics, and all those open to M.F.A. graduates or students cur­ tension designed by John Young, a new facul­ Center. He was also registrar at the University Univ.) has commissioned Isamu Noguchi to aSSistant curator of pre-20th century Euro­ good things. President pro-tern is Daniel of Kansas Art Museum While a candidate for a create a sculpture symbolizing its award for rently working on an M.F .A. degree who have ty member. pean painting at the Philadelphia Museum. master's degree in art history. Wolf of the Daniel Wolf Gallery in N. Y. C. R.R.W. III 10 CAA newsletter September 1979 II -----~-----.....,

placement: 1918-19 annual review {placement: 1978-1979 annual review

The single most outstanding fact to be noted in comparing this year's placement statistics with APPLICANTS those of last year is a fairly considerable drop in activity, not only in the number of open­ CURRICULUM 'vITAE FORMS •.... Earned Masters Masters Candidates ings - which most of us, being pessimists at heart, probably suspected - but also in the number of Not' included in the accompanying sta­ Others All Applicants applicants seeking jobs through the CAA. MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE TOTAL tistics are, 146 p~sitioriS'(77 artistS; 35 art Artists The total number of openings is down by 60, or 6%. The drop is worse if one looks at the two historians, 3:4 other) :received by, the ,', Painting and Drawing 230 163 42 45 13 14 major categories we serve: artist openings are down by 104, or 17%, and openings for art CAA ,office, in between' 'publication' .of 285 222 507 Sculpture 91 20 25 23 5 3 historians are down by 45, or 15%. Openings in the "other" category (museum professionals, art Positions: Listings, in respOnSe'to which 121 46 167 Printmaking 68 51 23 21 educators, etc.) have gone up by 86, an increase of 80% over last year, which accounts for the 'we sent out 2;789 curriculum', vitae 3 91 75 166 relatively low overall drop. Photography 46 20 14 5 3 63 25 88 fonns. . . .. • ...... < 2-D and 3-D Design There are 312 fewer applicants this year than last-a drop ofI4%. Further, the total number 17 8 2 2 2 20 12 32 of applicants-1899-is the lowest we have been dealing with since we began keeping detailed Ceramics 41 35 11 9 1 52 45 97 Jewelry/Metalwork statistics in 1975~76. Compared with last year, artist applicants have dropped by 156, or 11 %; 3 10 2 6 1 5 17 22 Areas of Specialization. Successful place­ art historian applicants have dropped by 142, or 20%. Video/Filmmaking 6 6 4 10 7 17 ment involves matching a specific applicant Multimedia/Conceptual Art 11 8 3 4 14 13 27 to a specific opening, and there the statistics Weaving/Textile Design 3 26 3 11 1 6 38 44 POSITIONS are grimmer. As usual, painting and drawing Woodworking/ Glassblowing 6 617 lead the list of horrors, with 7.3 applicants for Commercial Art 4 415 The overall ratio of applicants to openings is somewhat better than last year-l.9 to 1 (2.1 to 1 each position (7 to 1 last year). The sculptor's Studio Fundamentals 12 12 2 12 14 26 last year). Among artists there are 2.B applicants for each opening (2.2 last year) and among art lot has improved slightly: 4.8 applicants per historians there are 2.1 applicants for each opening (2.B last year). opening, compared with 5,5 last year. Print­ 538 360 124 129 27 27 689 516 1205 makers are somewhat worse off than they were last year: 4.9 applicants per opening, compared with 3.9 in 1977-78. Designers Earned Doctoral OVERVIEW: APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS (1978 and 1979) continue to be in demand, though the de­ Doctorate Candidates Others All Applicants mand has dropped off slightly: this year there MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE TOTAL This chart is based on the keysort currz'culum vitae forms onJile with the CAA Jor the calander are B.6 openings listed per each design appli­ Art Historians year 1979 and on the openings included in the Positions Listings for the academic year cant; last year the ratio was 4.6 to 1. Primitive/Pre-Columbian/Latin American 4 6 2 9 5 7 20 27 1978-1979. Repeat listings have been elt'minated. The grimmest category among art his­ Ancient / Classical 6 6 7 10 2 5 15 21 36 torians is Medievalists, with 9 applicants for Early Christian/Byzantine 4 2 7 7 Applicants Openings Applicants Openings each position (last year it was 5.8). There are Medieval 6 14 9 15 2 10 17 39 56 1978 1977-78 1979 1978-79 4.7 specialists in Renaissance and Baroque Renaissance 16 23 9 29 2 8 27 60 87 Artists art for each opening in that field (up from B. 3 Baroque 14 11 9 12 23 24 47 Unspecified or Broad 18 188 26 160 last year) and 4.3 applicants for each opening Modern European 7 13 14 27 4 18 25 58 83 Painting and Drawing 583 84 507 69 in American art (a slight improvement from American 11 9 11 17 4 27 26 53 79 Sculpture 215 39 167 35 last year's 5.4). The most radical improve· Contemporary 2 2 3 4 11 6 16 22 Printmaking 182 47 166 34 ment is in Pre-Columbian and Primitive art, Islamic 1 1 1 2 2 4 Photography 90 48 88 40 where a jump from 4 to 14 openings has Central and Southeast Asia 3 2 3 5 6 8 14 Ceramics 126 49 97 38 reduced the ratio of applicants to positions Far East 2 3 6 5 3 4 11 12 23 2-D and B-D Design 24 111 32 115 from last year's 7:1 to 2:1 this year. History of Prints/Drawings 1 1 2 5 2 8 10 Weaving/Textile Design 29 11 44 12 As usual, many of the listings are either History of Film/ Photography 3 6 2 4 5 10 15 Video/Film/Multimedia 59 16 44 13 unspecified or require generalists: 31 % of Decorative Arts 2 2 2 4 6 Jewelry/Metalwork 22 15 22 3 artist openings and 40 % of the openings for Architectural History 7 4 3 2 4 3 14 9 23 Glassblowing 3 6 art historians are in that category. Both Art Appreciation/Survey 5 2 3 11 8 14 22 Woodworking 2 1 1 figures are within one percentage point of Commercial Art/Illustration 8 15 5 what they were last year. 87 108 75 141 34 116 196 365 561 1361 624 1205 520 Rank. In the department of dejil vu, most positions listed with the CAA are either Museum Professionals 9 26 35 Art Historians "open" or at the level of instructor or assistant Art Educators (Since terminal degrees in these fields vary, we have not given 16 17 33 Unspecified or Broad 28 119 22 106 professor. With equal consistency, positions Art and Slide Librarians the breakdown for earned degree, candidacies, etc,) 7 23 30 Pre-Columbian/ Primitive 28 4 27 14 for art historians tend to be listed at higher Administrators 18 17 35 Ancient / Classical 38 17 36 9 ranks than positions for artists. For artists, Early Christian/ Byzantine/Medieval 81 14 63 7 TOTALS 32% of the positions were listed at the level of 935 964 1899 Renaissance/Baroque 168 36 134 41 instructor and 23 % at the level of assistant Modem European 116 61 83 37 professor; for art historians, 15% of the open­ American/ Contemporary 134 25 104 24 very close to receiving one (i. e., all-but-disser­ whether or not a position is tenure track. For CAA placement mill . . . or it may be that ings were listed at the level of instructor and Near and Far East 35 15 41 14 tation for art historians)- forget it.Just about openers, then: 154 of the artist positions (30% more people are getting discouraged and 44% at the level of assistant professor. History of Film/Photography/Prints 25 25 every teaching position requires the terminal of those listed) and 90 of the positions for art simply dropping out - or never entering-the Specific breakdowns are as follows: Artists: Architectural History 38 18 23 12 degree. Previous teaching experience was a historians (34% of those listed) were tenure job market in the field. 195 open listings, 166 instructor, 120 assistant Decorative Arts 6 stated requirement for 251 of the 520 artist track. professor, 8 associate professor, 31 full pro­ openings and for IBI 'of the 264 openings for 703 309 561 264 fessor or chair, Art Historians: 79 open art historians. It is not always clear (in fact, it APPLICANTS Race. Among artists there was a total of 46 listings, 40 instructor, 116 assistant professor, generally isn't clear) whether graduate black and other minority applicants; among Museum Professionals 50 65 35 82 8 associate professor, 31 full professor or teaching assistantships meet this qualifica­ The decrease in the applicant pool noted art historians the total was 13. Both figures Art Educators 23 32 33 39 chair. Since most listings do not specify tion. earlier is difficult to interpret in light of the are nearly double what they were last year (24 Art and Slide Librarians 31 9 30 18 salary, we gave up trying to make meaningful fact that most studies show increased and 8, respectively). The breakdown is as Administrators 43 35 32 comments about money years ago. Tenure Track. We don't have compara­ enrollments in graduate programs in studio follows: among artist applicants there were 7 Miscellaneous 2 23 tive figures because this is the first year we art and art history. It may be that more peo­ black males, 5 black females, 200therminori· Qualifications: For teaching positions, if have requested that institutions indicate ple are getting jobs without going through the Continued on p. 14, col. 1 TOTALS 2211 1041 1899 981 you do not have a terminal degree or are not September 1979 12 CAA newsletter Iplacement: 1978-1979 annual review preservation news

ty males, and 14 other minority females Center for Archeometry have been requested by the cities of Chicago, Samuel F. Dupont Memorial, 1902-21, Among art historian applicants there were 1 We tend to take public outdoor sculpture for Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Boston, marble; Daniel Chester French, sculptor and black male, 6 other minority males, and 6 EMPLOYMENT STATUS granted. But, in fact, many works across the and New York (Central Park). Henry Bacon, architect. Surface badly other minority females. Among art histor­ MALE FEMALE country are in sore need of repair. Even works In addition, the Center has been awarded stained by rusty water. of Corten B steel have been affected (see Ale ians, 6 of the minority applicants were Orien monies by the National Museum Act to work Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, 1902-22, ARTISTS 1978 1979 1978 1979 talists. Among artists, 17 of the minority ap Preprints, 7th Annual Meeting, 1979). There on stone consolidation in outdoor sculpture bronze and marble; Henry Merwin Shrady, Employed Full-Time 52% 55% plicants were in painting and drawing. 9 in 37% 40% are an inadequate number of professionally together with Norman Weiss of Columbia sculptor and Edward P. Casey, architect. Employed Part-Time 22% 25% printmaking, 6 in sculpture, and 5 in pho­ 30% 34% trained conservators to grapple with all the University and an NEA grant to work on out­ Bronze surfaces pitted and covered with en­ Unemployed 26% 20% 33% 25% tography. The rest, in both categories, were problems, and the restoration of many door bronzes. It is also concerned with prob­ crustations; marble is stained. spread out singly all over the place. monuments has by default been given to some lems of thermoluminescence and does general ART HISTORIANS Alexander Hamtlton, 1909-23, bronze and Employed Full-Time 75% 81% 54% 53% individuals. less than fully trained to restore restoration when there is time. For further in­ Sex. Fifty-one percent of all applicants are such materials. formation: CA, P.O. Box 1105, Washington marble; James Earle Fraser, sculptor and Employed Part-Time 6% 8% 22% 19% Henry Bacon, architect. Recently "cleaned" women. Among artists, the proportion is 43 % Unemployed 20% 11% 25% 28% Among the professional non-profit institu­ Univ., St. Louis, Mo, 63130. (41 % last year), a continuation of the steady tions of conservators whose central Concern is with a thick coating of brown paint. increase we have come to expect because outdoor sculpture is the Center for Archeo­ Abraham Lincoln, 1873-76, bronze and Public Sculpture in Washington. D.C. women now constitute 50% of the enrollment metry. Based in St. Louis (Phoebe Weil, granite; Thomas Ball, sculptor and pedestal for both males and females. The discrepancy, Listed below is a selection of public sculpture in M.F.A. programs. Among art historians, Dir.), the Center has restored Carl Milles's designer. Surface was "cleaned" with coating however, is the same as it was last year - 7 % in our nation's capital in need of serious atten­ women constitute 65% of all applicants, a DEGREE YEAR fountain Meeting of the Waters, Thomas of paint. greater unemployment for women. Among tion. As earlier reported, many of these fall fairly steady level that has fluctuated between MFA EARMED MALE FEMALE TOTAL Hart Benton by Harriet Hosmer, and the per­ art historians there has been a significant under the jurisdiction of the National Parks John A. Logan Memorial, 1889-1901, 63% and 67% over the past four years. 1977-78 191 171 362 sonification of St, Louis. Presently the Center drop in the percentage of male applicants Service and General Services Administration, bronze; Franklin Simmons, sculptor and Levels of preparation are somewhat higher 1974-76 131 124 255 holds NEA and CDA grants to maintain who are unemployed, from 20% last year to and any demonstration of interest in the pres­ pedestal designer. Sections of bronze have for both sexes this year than last year, perhaps 1971-73 106 49 165 public sculpture in St. Louis on a regular 11 % 1978-79, and an increase in the number ervation of these works should be addressed separated, surface badly pitted. a reflection of the fact that as competition 1966-70 59 30 89 basis, an important precedent. of unemployed female applicants, from 25% 1961-65 26 6 32 to them. Philip Sheridan, 1889-1907, bronze and gets tougher those less well qualified drop out. in 1977-78 to 28% this year. Other commissions include such New York Among artist applicants, 96% of males and 1960 or pre 13 13 26 statues as Alexander Hamtlton at the Hamil­ John Barry Memorial, 1907-14, bronze granite; Gutzon Borglum, sculptor and and marble; John]. Boyle, sculptor and Ed­ Henry Winslow, architect. Surface of bronze 95% of females either had earned terminal Year Degree Earned. As has consistently PH.D. EARNED ton Grange and George Washt'ngton in front ward P. Casey, architect. Bronze is badly badly pitted. degrees or were M.F.A. candidates. Last year been the case, most of those seeking positions 1977-78 26 31 57 of the Federal building; works by George pitted, corrosion stains on marble and 6% of males and 9% of females were neither through the CAA are relatively recent gradu­ 1974-76 23 32 55 Gray Barnard (The Hewer) and Janet Scud­ George H. Thomas, 1872-79, bronze and pedestal badly chipped, degree candidates nor holders of the terminal ates' Forty percent of artists and 34% of art 1971-73 14 15 29 der (The Pt'ghting Boys), both in Cairo, Ill.; granite; John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor degree. Among art historians, the proportion historian applicants earned their terminal 1966-70 9 9 18 the Confederate Memorial in Winchester, Butt-Millet Memorial, 1912-14, marble; and John Smithmeyer, architect. Bronze is of male candidates who neither have nor are degrees within the past two years; 68% of art­ 1961-65 6 I 7 Va.; and several zinc statues at Gettysburg. Daniel Chester French, sculptor and Thomas badly pitted and corroded. pursuing the doctorate has dropped from ist applicants and 66% of art historian ap­ 1960 or pre 3 1 4 Surveys of public sculpture by the Center Hastings, architect. Surface badly marred. Continued on p. 16, col. 1 26% last year to 18% for 1978-79. Female plicants earned their terminal degrees within non-doctorates and non-candidates have the past five years. R.R.W.• dropped from 42% in 1977-78 to 33% this year. CAA monograph on architecture

Areas of Specialization. Most fields reflect shows by artist members NETHERLANDISH SCROLLED GABLES of THE SIX­ that were largely autochthonous in the relatively proportionately the overall drop in TEENTH AND EARLY SEVENTEETH CENTURIES by Netherlands, until Academic discipline froze the applicant pool. For artists (overall drop A listing ofsolo exhibitions by artist members Lee Anne Miller. Art Center, Bountiful, Henry-Russell :Hitchcock-the thirty-fourth out the Mannerist detailing which had just 11 %), the decrease is slightly higher in three of the CAA, Listings should include name of Utah. August 4-September L Paintings, volume in the CAA Series of Monographs on reached its peak of virtuosity in Denmark and dimensions: sculptors down by 22% and artist, gallery or museum, ctty, dates of prints and drawings. the Fine Arts-has just been published by Danzig, ceramicists down by 23 %. The only signifi­ exhibztion, and medium. Since this service is N,Y.U. Press. Although autochthonous in the Nether­ cant increase is in the textile arts: applicants available only to CAA members and since we Lloyd Nick, Fayetteville Museum of Art, lands, scrolled gables became by the later up by 52% from last year. The 20% decrease can't possibly check all the exhibition notices N.C. October. Landscape paintings. Appropriately, "gevel" is the Dutch word for 16th century a popular feature of facade­ in art historian applicants is fairly evenly dis­ we receive, please include a copy ofyour cur­ Jon Palmer, San Francisco Museum of facade. Well down into the 17th century, design throughout northern Europe. On the tributed in the core areas of Western art rent membership card. Modern Art. October-November. Sculp­ houses, both in the northern and the southern one hand, Netherlanders-some from what is history. The only numerical increase is Netherlands, presented their tall-gabled now Nederland and others from Antwerp in Marjorie Apter-McKevitt. Central Hall ture, among Orientalists. Applicants in Primitive fronts to the street and broader buildings modem Belgium-were much employed all Gallery, Port Washington, N.Y. September Thaddeus Piersa. Soho Center for Visual and Ancient art and in the history of film and were dominated either by a central cross­ the way from the coastal cities along the 5-30, Recent Long Island landscape oil Arts, N,Y,C, October ll-November 3. photography remained stable. gable or by several big gabled dormers, The Baltic to England, perhaps as far as London, paintings and charcoal drawings. Paintings. Finally, to check out gender identification: sort of gable that had been inherited from the where such features were known as "Dutch sculpture is still a man's field (74% of ap­ Charlotte and Jack Girard. South Caroli­ Florence Putterman. Stuhr Museum, Middle Ages was relatively simple, as else­ gables"; on the other, the engraved designs of plicants) and textile arts are dominated by na Museum of Art, Columbia. October. Grand Island, Neb. September 24-0ctober where in northern Europe, but, characteristi­ Cornelis Floris and Jan Vredeman de Fries Rietdijsche Poort, Dordrecht, in an 18th~ women (86% of applicants). The one signifi­ Paintings and drawings. cally, it was stepped along the edges. By the coming from Antwerp were even more influ­ 28. Monotypes, etchings, lithographs. century watercolor. cant change is that 45% of photography ap­ second quarter of the 16th century a new ential internationally. Oriole Farb. Freedman Gallery of Art, Janice Koenig Ross. Georgia Tech Stu­ Photo: Rijksdienst v/d Monumentenzo. plicants are women; during the past few years design for gables came into increasing use The whole geographical belt, extending Albright College, Reading, Pa, September dent Center Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. July 16- women were significantly underrepresented although stepped gables were still common. northward to Denmark and eastward to Dan­ most part, a parallel rather than a derivative in that pool. 12-0ctober 15. Oil paintings, prints, draw­ August 3, Paintings and drawings. development. But the story of the Nether­ ings. The new sort of gable-design, which ap­ zig, had built chiefly with brick ever since the Anne Sharp. On view in windows across peared first in the southern Netherlands and high Middle Ages. Moreover, it was for the landish scrolled gable is crucial for the coun­ Employment Status. In the "no change" Jane Haskell. Pittsburgh Plan for Art. from 30 Waterside, N.Y.C. Summer. "Win­ then somewhat later in the north, is more pro­ most part Protestant in religion. The Nether­ tries to the west, to the north, and to the east department: among applicants unth earned June 2-24, Light sculpture, dows at Waterside," collage and paintings. perly to be considered Northern Mannerist landish scrolled gable is a feature that was of Germany. H.-R.H. terminal degrees, a greater proportion of art than Renaissance, Though the scrolls, hence­ very widely exploited in northern Europe and Publication of this monograph has been Anne Marie Karlsen. Lincoln Gallery, Barbara Tiso, Connecticut College historians than artists and a greater propor­ forth ubiquitous on the edges of gables, have, intimately associated with the proliferation of aided by a grant from The Samuel H. Kress Northern State College, Aberdeen, S.D. Oc­ Gallery, New London. July 16-August 2. tion of males than females are currently ultimately, Italian sources, the elaboration of northern Mannerist ornament in architec­ Foundation. Copies may be ordered from tober 12-November 9, Drawings. Pottery and paintings. employed. Things are looking somewhat N.Y.U. Press, Washington Square, N.Y.C. Stuart White, Key Gallery, N.Y.C. Sep­ the surfaces of Netherlandish gables with ture. rosier (a very pale rose!) for artists, where 10003. Price: $22.50; for CAA members: Judy Loeb. Gallery 310. York. Pa. June tember 15-0ctober 13. Screens and col­ strapwork that is connected to the scrolls on Scrolled gables are not unknown in Ger­ unemployment figures have dropped by 6% 22-July 1. "Flora," paintings in gouache. lages, • the edges produced architectural features man lands where they had what is, for the $16.87.

September 1979 14 CAA newsletter 15 .Ipreservation news ICAA briefs classifieds Meeting of Conservation Institute (Incomplete) Slide Sets Available The CAA newsletter urill accept classifieds of The eAA was represented at the annual Several years ago the CAA produced 2500 a professional or semi-professional nature meeting of the American Institute for Conser­ black-and-white slides deemed to cover most (sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange vation of Historic and Artistic Works, a nOD­ effectively the full range of art history from of homes, etc.). The charge is 50~ per word, profit professional group of conservators, prehistoric to present times, including non­ minimum charge 110.00, advance payment which was held in Toronto May 29-June 2. Western developments. To keep cost low, the required. Make checks payable to CAA. On the agenda of the business meeting was slides were produced in the form of 35 mm a revision of the Code of Ethics and Practices film rolls, which can then be cut and Keep in touch with California, Texas, the (first fonnulated at their annual meeting in mounted. Labelling material accompanies Northwest and Southwest. Subscribe to ART­ Ottawa in 1967, three years after the now­ each roll. The rolls, of 250 frames each, were WEEK (now in Art Index). 44 issues a year famous Murry Pease report published in priced at $18.75. only $14, individual subscriptions; $16 to Studies in Conservation, vol. 9, no. 3, Aug., We no longer have any complete sets left institutions. ARTWEEK, 1305 Franklin, 1964', pp. 116-121), The original fonnat has but we do have a limited number of nearly Oakland, CA 94612. been retained, except that the more general complete sets: six sets with nine of the original Code of Ethnics is now followed by a section ten rolls and four sets with eight of the original devoted to Standards of Practice. The Code ten rolls. Both sets are missing the roll on PRINTMAKING COUNCIL OF NEW considers obligations to historic and artistic Roman, Early Christian and Byzantine art; JERSEY. Workshops for etching, lithogra­ works, responsiblities to the owner or custo­ the second set is also missing the roll on An­ phy, papermaking. Year Round. Write for dian, relations with colleagues, trainees and cient art. The 9-roll set is now priced at $13s; membership information. Box 426, Somer­ the profession, as well as obligations to the the 8-roH set at $120. For order form and ville, N.J. 08876. public. The Standards of Practice include detailed description write CAA. general considerations and procedures for RESPONSIBLE COUPLE who reside in engaging in and reporting examination and CAA Policy Statements France are looking for a Manhattan apart­ treatment of historic and artistic works by Reprints of statements and standards ment for the month of November. Please call professional conservators in institutions and adopted by the CAA Board of Directors can (212) 369-5I42 in evenings. III regional centers and contractual procedures be obtained from the CAA office. To receive applying to the examination and treatment of any of the following, send stamped, self­ historic and artistic works by private and pro­ addressed envelope. fessional conservators. An updated list of cer­ Resolution Concerning the Sale and Ex­ . .' tified paper conservators was issued by the change of Works ofArt by Museums, adopted ' .. -, ARTHllAI.;:raGUIDE Board of Examiners for the Certification of NO\rember 3, 1973. Paper Conservators. For copies of these A Code of Ethics for Art Historians and This .72-page book,called "Safe Prac­ tices ,in ,the, Arts, & Crafts::A 'StudIO documents, as well as information about Guidelinesfor the Professional Practice ofArt associate membership: Martha Morales, History, adopted November 3, 1973; Addi­ ,," Guide,J,~~ points: :otit pptential dangers: , Exec. Seq., AIC, 1522 K Street NW, Suite tions, adopted November 1, 1975. in art ,processes, "listed 'alphabetic,ally, :,' 804, Washington, D,C, 20005. A Statement on Standards for Sculptural --' 'frc:nn,: ceraIIlics to ~O()dworkin?', "~l1d: , lists:ways,ofIIli~izing:the haz,aids." ',', Reproduction and Prevent~'ve Measures To Combat Unethical Casting in Bronze, Grants to Photographic Collections adopted April 27, 1974. Single Copies: $3,.00 plus 75'each for Among the grants recently awarded by the Guidelines for Part- Time Employment, postage and' ~andling. National Historical Publications and Records adopted February 1, 1976. Cartons 'of:lO'COpies;: Commission to institutions throughout the A Code ofEthics for Artists and Guidelines .', Pr~~~ckagetl U.S. for the preservation of photographic col­ for the Professional Practice of Studio Art, $29.00 plus $3.50 peT carton. Jar lections were Northern Arizona University, adopted February 2, 1977; Additions (Gut'de­ postage and handling. . .•. Flagstaff, for the Emory Kolb photo and lines for Printmaker's Contracts), adopted manuscript collection of thousands of nitrate October 28, 1978. Prepayment t'equired~.Serid o'rders to' . and glass plate negatives; California Histori­ Standards for the M. F. A. Degree, adopted CAA, 16 East 52 Street,N.Y;C: ... ' cal Society, San Francisco, for the "San Fran­ April 16, 1977. 10022., N.-Y. State: residents.: ad,d, cisco Streets" photo collection; and Newark applicable sales tax. ' Standards for Professional Placement, - -:- .'. '.' ...... Public Library. adopted October 22, 1977. Annabelle Simon Cahn II Standards for the B.F.A. Degree, adopted Public Information Officer January3l,1979. III

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