BENNINGTON COLLEGE ART AUCTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1978 GREENWICH COUNTRY CLUB, GREENWICH, CONN. FAIRFIELD COUNTY ART AUCTION FOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Sale conducted by Sotheby Parke Bernet

John Edelmann, Auctioneer Bennington artists are among the most distinguished artists in America today. Consider just a few who taught and worked at the col- lege ... , , , , , . is an alumna. This Sunday afternoon, November 5, 1978 collection is primarily work of the Bennington Faculty, past and pre- sent. Most are represented by major dealers and are in the world's important museums and collections. A number of the Greenwich Country Club, Doubling Road and are being shown for the first time, including Kenneth Greenwich, Connecticut Noland's "Modest Georges Enesco," all three pieces and Pat Adams' "Nel Mezzo." Exhibition 2:30-4:00 P.M. Sale 4:00-5:30 P.M. Clearly there is a vitality and intelligence that permeates the deceptively simple, bucolic Vermont setting and this appears to at- ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE tract artists to the faculty who are passionately engaged in their own work and who recognize the need for an artistic dialogue. Pat MRS. HARTLEY CHAZEN, CHAIRMAN Adams, a member of the faculty for 12 years, has said, "As we looked Ms. Gillian Angle to our working reality as basis for our way of teaching ... we had Mrs. Walter Bareiss ourselves learned to attend to our own best sense, and that in listen- Mrs. Torrey Bosee ing to our lessons, our work moved ... continued to advance. It has Mrs. George Constantikes happened to all of us." Mrs. R. Theodore Herz Mrs. Janet Fraser Jones , painter and art historian, wrote at the dedica- Mrs. Norman Katz tion of the college's new Visual and Performing Arts building sev- Mrs. Basil Leather, Jr. eral years ago, "In the early years, the 30's and 40's, there were Mrs. Emil Mosbacher, Jr. diverse but discriminating one man shows, including Joseph Albers, Mrs. Frank Pinkerton Juan Gris and Delacroix." During Paul Feeley's time as department Mrs. Nathaniel H. Usdan chairman, many of the "New York School" of painters taught at the col- Mrs. Frank Vos lege, as well as noted critics and historians, Laurence Alloway, Eugene Goossen, and .

The present faculty does not belong to a single school of ex- Advance bids may be sent before pression. Philip Wofford's style is unique as is that of the sale to Mrs. Torrey Bosee Carol Haerer and Thelma Appel. Although Brower Hatcher studied at Little Cove Lane St. Martin's under Anthony Caro, as did Isaac Witkin earlier, each Old Greenwich, CT 06870 has an approach very much his own. Richard Haas' and litho- (203)637-9975 graphs are so distinguished, he was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects this year. This breadth of experience Please write lot number, the date, and approach adds dimension to the artistic dialogue among colleagues item description and amount of bid and students. subject to conditions of sale listed at the end of catalogue

Photography Credits: c 0 v e..fL THREE FRIENDS Joseph Schulman Nos. 6, 7, 23, 39, 43, 45, 65, 72 by Elizabeth Galt Nos. 10, 14, 52, 58, 60, 90 7950 Andrea Woodner, David Scribner, Matthew Longo, Droll Kolbert Gallery, Paul Fe.e.le.u, Clyde Gould , Ann Holmes, Clarissa Leather 10. BROWER HATCHER 1. LINDA KROB THE QUIET DISCLOSURE CEREMONIAL Aluminum 1978 28 x 60 x 30 inches Metallic glazes, oil paint, gold leaf in numerous layers

2. NEIL RAPPAPORT 11. ROBERT CRONIN MUSHROOM I ETHIOPIA Brass plated sculpture 1978 5~ Photograph in collection of Boston Museum of Fine Art 14 x 11 inches 8 x 8 x inches

3. PAMELA MORGAN 12. JOHN NEWMAN POSTCARDS FROM THE BORDER I. VICIOUS CYCLE 1975 18 x 18 inches Hand colored etching 1978 10/10 28~ x 22 inches

4. SOPHIA HEALY 13. ANDREA WooDNER UNTITLED VALENTINE Acrylic on canvas 1977 Steel 8 x 8 x 10 inches

5. BARBARA ROTHENBERG 14. CAROL HAERER AUTUMN DESCENDING HELi OS Collage 1978 signed and dated, in pencil 14 x 11 inches Drawing powdered pigments , metallic pencils on fiberglass paper 1977 62 x 42 inches

6. RICHARD HAAS 15 I I SAA c ITKIN O.K. HARRIS w GIOTTO'S CLOUD Etching signed, titled and dated 1971 Artist's Proof 3/10 22~ x 18 i nches Stainless steel inscribed and dated 1978 24 x 30 inches

PAUL FEELEY 7. VINCENT LONGO UNTITLED DRAWING 16. Pastel and charcoal female nude 18~ x 15~ inches AKALA (A) Silkscreen 1/18 signed and dated 1978 28~ x 23~ inches

8. THELMA APPEL CARPENTER HILL 17. NANCY PRINCE Acrylic on canvas 1978 26~ x 23~ inches BEAR MOUNTAIN} MAINE Encaustic on canvas 1978 14 x 25 inches 9. PETER STROUD BROKEN INTERLOCK WITH LIGHT BLUE 18. ANDREA WooDNER Acrylic on canvas 1978 48 x 48 inches SNAIL FOOT Steel 14 x 8 x 5 i 'nches 28. KENNETH NOLAND 37. ' JOHN NEWMAN MODEST GEORGES ENESCO VICIOUS CYCLE Acrylic on canvas 20 x 30 inches signed, titled and dated on reverse Silk screen 1975 18 x 12 inches (donation of the artist) 38. RICHARD HAAS 29. SIDNEY TILLIM ''IEW OF CHICAGO THOSE WHO PASS Color lithograph with graphite stencils edition of 150 14~ x 4Bt Oil on canvas 1967 39 x 44 inches inches before framing signed and dated 1978 (donation of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss)

30. ANN HOLMES AUTUMN RHYTHM 39. JULES OLITSKI Handmade papers, colored, on canvas 60 x 50 inches SEATED NUDE FROM THE BACK Pencil on white paper 1967 20t x 16~ inches Shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1974 Exhibition: ''Jules Olitski: Life Drawings" 31. ANDREA WooDNER RIBBON 40. JOHN NEWMAN Painted steel 36 x 84 x 24 inches VICIOUS CYCLES Wall relief, painted wood 1975 63 x 68 x 6 inches 32. ELISABETH MERRISS PORTRAIT 41. PAUL FEELEY Pastel, to order UNTITLED DRAWING Charcoal and pastel life drawing signed and dated 1950 18~ x 15~ inches 33. CANDACE OLESEN TREE I. 42. ANN HOLMES Welded steel 1978 35 x 27 x 20 inches GIRL ON BICYCLE Welded steel 1975 44 x 30 x 16 inches 34. Lucy FELLER NECKLACE 43. PAT ADAMS Fresh water pearl lariat 1978 (donation of the artist) NEL MEZZO Methacrylate, mica, pen and eggshell on paper signed, titled and dated 35. PAMELA MORGAN 1978 on reverse POSTCARDS FROM THE BORDER II. 44. RICHARD HAAS Aquatint and monoprint 1978 1/7 26~ x 30~ inches ROOKERY COURTYARD Etching titled and signed 45/50 2312 x 22J.i inches 36. ANN HOLMES UNTITLED 45. JANE FORD Welded steel 1978 12 x 10 x 3 inches UNTITLED Stoneware vase signed 1978

46. NANCY PRINCE PASTURE PINE Encaustic on canvas 1978 20 x 20 inches

47. BARBARA ROTHENBERG PIECES OF A STILL LIFE Mixed media painting 1970 signed and dated in pencil 20!§ x 24 inches

48. ANDREA WooDNER UNTITLED Figure study in unglazed stoneware 14 x 2 x 4 inches

49. SARAH JACKSON SCYTHER Acrylic on canvas 1978 96 x 72 inches

50. VINCENT LONGO AKALA (c) Silkscreen 2/18 signed and dated 1978 28!§ x 23!§ inches [59]

51. STEFAN HIRSCH THE LONELY DONKEY Lithograph edition of 50 1932 signed in pencil. In collection of Museum of 16 x 21 inches

52. MARGARET SWAN NESTLING TIER Steel 1977 24 x 90 x 68 j_'nche$ [40]

53. BROWER HATCHER THE OBSERVATION OF IO Aluminum 1978 60 x 72 x 56 inches

54. VINCENT LONGO E-19 Acrylic on canvas signed and dated 1973 96 x 96 inches

[72] 60. BROWER HATCHER UNTITLED Stainless steel 1975 24 x 10 x 18 inches

61. ANTHONY CARO UNTITLED Steel

62. RICHARD HAAS OLD CUSTOM HOUSE Color lithograph signed, titled and dated 1975 Artist's Proof 8/10 30 x 24~ inches

63. BARBARA ROTHENBERG RED RISING Collage signed and dated 1977 14 x 11 inches

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55. ISAAC WITKIN LUDLOW Textured stainless steel Inscribed and dated 1978 46 x 55 x 19 inches

56. THELMA APPEL OCTOBER FIELD Acrylic on canvas 1978 30~ x 65 inches

57. PHILIP WOFFORD CONCH Acrylic on canvas 58 x 32 inches

58. WILLARD BOEPPLE TURKEYS CAN'T DANCE I I Steel rusted and oiled 1976 45 x 64 x 92 inches I t ------'WL~~l~~~....lt -"J _ _...... ___,_ , 59. CAROL HAERER UNTITLED Powdered pigments, metallic pencils, acrylic on canvas 67 x 68 inches [6] [58] [27]

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[90] [45] (60] 64. LI z CASPAR I 74, OPEN BOWL NAP I ER,.S LADDER Stoneware with brown and blue glazes 1978 8 x ·5 x 12 inches Drawing, crayon 1978 30 x 40 inches

65. PAUL FEELEY 75 .. NANCY PRINCE MUSIC APPRECIATION MAINE_, 6 A.M, Drawing, charcoal and pastel signed and dated 1950 18~ x 15~ inches . Encaustic on canvas 1978 18 x 14 inches

66. JOHN NEWMAN 76, SUSAN CRILE VICIOUS CYCLE FIELDS OF MARS Drawing 1975 26 x 26 inches Pastel and charcoal drawing 1978 38 x 50 inch.es

67. FRANK AKERS 77. LYMAN KIPP UNTITLED YELLOW HAMMER Drawing Painted steel 1973 12 x 12 x 26 inches

78. PETER STROUD 68. ELISABETH MERRISS YELLOW AND GREY OVERLAY JUNGLE BEAST Acrylic on canvas 1978 60 x 60 inches Woodcut 1969 19 x 32 inches 79. THELMA APPEL 69. PAMELA MORGAN WOODFORD II POSTCARDS FROM THE BORDER III. Acrylic on canvas 1978 30 x 60 inches Aquatint 2/10 1978 15 x 45 inches 80. NICHOLAS PEARSON 70. DOROTHEA BOOTH UNTITLED UNTITLED Aluminum 1978 Mixed media wall plaque 1978 28~ x 23~ inches 81. NANCY PRINCE 71. VINCENT LONGO CONNECTICUT GARDEN AKALA (B) Encaustic on canvas 1978 8 x 10 inches Silkscreen 4/18 signed and dated 1978 28~ x 23~ inches 82. CANDACE OLESEN 72. BARBARA ROTHENBERG TREE II. FOR ANN RYAN Welded steel 1978 18 x 9 x 7 inches' · Collage 1977 signed and dated in pencil 16 x 20 inches 83. STANLEY Ros EN 73. CANDACE OLESEN Stoneware vase 1978 11~ x 9 x 2 inches WINTER TREE Etching 1978 30 x 24 inches 84. THOMAS BROCKWAY CALDER AND FISH Mobile, stained wood 1978

85. JAN COOK THREE SILO FOCUS Acrylic on canvas 1978

86. LIZ CASPARI Covered stoneware dish in the style of Chinese bronzeware 1978 8 x 6 x 7 inches

87. SIDNEY TILLIM COMPASSION OF HOSEA Lithograph Artist's Proof 1976 11 x 8~ inches

88. MARGARET SWAN MAELSTROM Acrylic on canvas 1977 54 x 84 inches [54]

89. CAM NEWELL RUINS Clay sculpture 1978

90. NICHOLAS PEARSON UNTITLED Aluminum 1978 30 x 76 x 61 inches

91. SIMON MOSELSIO UNTITLED Clay head signed (anonymous donor)

92. GEORGE HOLT UNTITLED Silk screen 1978

93. FERRIS COOK CELLO Acrylic on canvas 1978 24 x 40 inches

[ 7] [83] 94. JANINA FINSTHWAIT MILK WEED PODS Acrylic on canvas 1978 40 x 40 inches

95. NEIL RAPPAPORT MUSHROOM II. Photograph in collection of Boston Museum of Fine Art .14 x 11 inches

96. ELIZABETH GALT UNTITLED Color photograph 1978

[57] 97. GEORGE HOLT THE HARVEST Linoleum block print signed,1933

98. JAN COOK UNTITLED Handmade paper 1978

99. LIZ CASPARI Covered jar 1978 6 x 5 x 4 inches

100. CAROLEE RussACK NECKLACE (donation of the artist) [56]

101. LINDA KROB GRACE Enamel on wood 1962 5~ x 8~ inches

102. JANE FORD RED IRIS Stoneware vase f;igued 1978

103. NEIL RAPPAPORT MUSHROOM III. Photograph in collection of Boston Museum of Fine Art 14 x 11 inches

[13] [7] 104. CYNTHIA SMITH NORWAY Watercolor and pen 1975 20 x 24 inches

105. LIZ CASPARI FOOTED BOWL Stoneware in the style of Chinese bronze 1978 15 x 13 x 8 inches

Silent Auction

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Sl Carol Strick

Lotus Flower Necklace [43] Handmade faience necklace, an exact copy of ancient Egyptian design made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Donation of the artist)

S2 Carol Strick

Faience and Brushed Gold Rope Necklace

Copied from ancient Egypt, duplicated for the Metropolitan Museur.. of A.i.:t. (Donation of the artist)

S3 Carol Strick

Duck Necklace

Handmade faience jewelry, an exact replica of ancient Egyptian [105] design made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Donation of the artist)

S4 Carol Strick

Heart Necklace

Handmade faience and brushed gold necklace, a duplicate of one in the British Museum made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Donation of the artist)

[65] BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES benches and power tools and there were barren stretches through his early teaching career. However his grandsons' birthdays recently returned him to his workbench. An exhibit of toys and four fish mobiles at the Park-McCullough PAT ADAMS B.A.,University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, 1949· Mansion in North Bennington, Vermont gave him local renown.. America House in New York once sold one of the mobiles. With this encouragement he fashions Museum Art School. Fulbright France 1956-57 s 1 t d ' shows: Zabriskie Gallery biennially 1~54-78 'wheat C• lle ec e one-woman a new mobile every two or three years. Needless to say, no one in the environs M 'ddl b • on o ege, 1959 · C~t el9ur54Y College, 196~; Williams College, 1972; Korman Gallery, Ne~ York of Bennington College could avoid some type of creation, however simple, and l. y, • Retrospective· Universit f v Mr. Brockway often mentions his debt to the college bandsaw. He joined the of Modern Art s • Yo ermont, 1977. Group shows: Museum Bennington College faculty to teach history in 1933 and retired in 1965. For Arts Trave111' Tanager Gallery, American Foundation of the ;ab~e.G~llery, many years he was Dean of Studies and is now the official college historian. "American Wom:':i A;~~b~ti~n~ 1962, University of Texas; Hirschl-Adler Galleries; Uni 't f is s, amburg, Germany; Indiana University Art Museum· End:~=~tyf~r ~~:a~;t C~lle~t~ons:. W~itney and Hirshhorn Museums. Natio~al ANTHONY CARO Born in London, educated at Charterhouse School and Cambridge Be . . s war in Painting, 1968 and 1976. Art Forum and {degree in engineering, 1942). Studied sculpture at Regent Street Polytechnic nnington Review Cover and Feature story 1978 v· 't' c · · and at Royal Academy Schools. Part-time assistant to . Taught 1971 1977 V' • · ' • isi ing ritic at Yale, t B, . • isiting lecturer, , Queens College Teaching at St. Martin's School of Art 1953-66; Bennington College 1963, 1965. Resumed a ennington College, 1964 to present. • teaching at St. Martin's, 1968. Awarded Commander of the British Empire, 1969. Selected one-man exhibitions: Galleria del Naviglio, Milan; Gimpel Fils, FRANK R. AKERS B.F.A., Painting-Graphics; M.F.A., Printmaking 1965· Art In- London; Whitechapel Art Gallery, Andre Emmerich almost annually since 1964; sti:u:e of Ch~cago~ University of Chicago. Graduate studies ~n pho~ography. Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Kasmin Ltd., David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto; Exhibits: University of Hartford, Art Institute of Chicago, Adele Rosenberg Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich; Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan; Museum of Modern Gallery, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, , Rockford College. Art. Group exhibitions include: "New Sculptors and Painter Sculptors," Awarded Ford ~rant. Assistant curator Art Institute of Chicago. Chairman Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1955; Tate Gallery, Kasmin Ltd., Uni- grad~ate studies, art and printmaking, Hartford Art School, 1971-74. versity of , "," Carnegie Institute, 1967 and 1968; Bennington College 1975 to present • . "Noland, Louis and Caro," Metropolitan Museum of Art; "British Sculpture out of the Sixties," I.C.A., London; The Phillips Collection, Washington; Museum THELMA APPEL Studied at St. Martin's School, London; teaching diploma Hornsy of Fine Arts, Houston. College of Art, London. Taught at Bennington College, Southern Vermont College ~arsons School of Design. Awards: Vermont Council on the Arts award in paint-' LIZ CASPARI (New Canaan) Studied at Kirkland College and Silvermine Guild, ing, Yaddo Fellowship. One-woman shows: Bennington College, Kornblee Gallery, B.A. from Bennington College. Shows: Greene Gallery, Guilford and Bethel N.Y.C.~ Park-McCullough House; Keene State University. Selected group shows· Gallery, Conn., and Hera Gallery in Rhode Island. Taught ceramics at Silver- B~rkshire Museum Invitational1 Raymond Duncan Gallery, ; Kornblee Galle;y, mine. Fischback Gallery, Colgate University and Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Collect~ons: ~elanese Corp., American Telephone & Telegraph, Chase CORA COHEN B.A., M.A., Bennington College. Artist in-residence, University of Ba~k, Ziff-Davis Publishing, Federal Reserve, Boston and New York Port Auth- Pennsylvania. Taught drawing at Bennington, 1970-72. One-person exhibitions: ority. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, State University at Oneonta, Soho Center for Visual Artists. In May 1979, Max Hutchinson Gallery. Group exhibitions: WILI:ARD B~EPPLE University of California at Berkeley, Rhode Island School of Deitcher/OtReilly Gallery, Aldrich Museum. Design, City College of New York, B.F.A. Teaching Assistant in sculpture at Bennington 1970-1974. Taught at Boston Museum School. One-man shows: Noah JAN COOK (Greenwich) Studied with Chen Ta-Cheng, Taipei, Taiwan; B.A., Bennington Goldowsky and Acquavella Galleries. College. Studied at Yale and Bennington Summer Schools. Group shows include: South West Vermont Community Arts, Bennington; Ethan Allen Community College; DOROTHEA BOOTH {Westport) B.A., Bennington College. Studied at Silvermine and Fairleigh Dickinson University/ Performing Arts Center, Saratoga; Park-McCullough recently with Pat Lambert. Awarded Scholarship to Cummington School of Art, House. Teaching: The Art Barn, Greenwich; Bennington College, Ethan Allen and 1955. Group show at Kipnis Gallery, Westport 1955. Southern Vermont College.

THOMAS BROCKWAY, descendant of Wolston Brockway who settled in Lyme, conn. in FERRIS COOK (Greenwich) Studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1660, was born in Clinton, N.Y. in 1898. He grew up in Greeley, Colo. and B. • A. , Bennington College, 197 2. Group shows: Lincoln Center, Lever House, Butte, Montana where he first showed an interest and modest skill in woodworking. Soho Center for the Arts, Ward-Nasse Gallery and Woman Art, . Although most of his early objects, inspired by the approach of a birthday or Christmas, were utilitarian, the towel holder and a toothbrush rack he designed SUSAN CRILE B.A.,Bennington College, 1965. Taught at Fairleigh Dickinson were much admired. University, Fordham University, and currently, Sarah Lawrence College and The School of Visual Arts in New York. One-woman shows: In arts and crafts, Reed College and Oxford were poorly equipped with work- Kornblee Gallery, Fischbach Gallery, Brooke Alexander Gallery, The Phillips Collection, Droll/Kolbert Gallery. Selected Group Exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Kent State University, Cor- include: French & Co., Max Hutchinson Gallery, . Work _coran Gallery, Princeton University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Selected in collections of ; Detroit Art Institute; Yale Uni- collections: Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The versity, Whitney Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Boston; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Phillips Collection and Edward Pilsbury collection, New Haven. Awards: Museum of Modern Art and various private collections. 1978 Award from American Resident grant at Yaddo, 1970, 71, 74-75. Ingram-Merrill Foundation grant Institute of Architects. and McDowell colony residence, 1972. CAROL HAERER University of Nebraska, B.F.A.; Chicago Art Institute; University ROBERT CRONIN B.F.A.,Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A. of California at Berkeley, M.A. Taught at N.Y.U. and painting workshops, (Woodrow Wilson Fellowship). Taught at St. John's University, Minnesota; Bennington College. One-woman shows include Galerie Prismes, Paris; Berkeley State University; Bennington College, 1966-68; Brown University, Gallery, California and Max Hutchinson Gallery, N.Y. Group shows include 1968-71; School of Worcester Art Museum, 1971 to present. One-man shows: Fischback Gallery, Susan Caldwell Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Cornell Bennington College1 Sculpture, I.C.A., Boston; Sculpture in Copley Square, University, Aldrich Museum, University of Kansas, University of Nebraska, Boston; Sculpture, Worcester Museum of Art; Zabriskie Gallery, New York. Group Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, , Rolfe Ricke Gallery, shows: I.C.A., "Works on Paper," Boston; Obelisk Gallery, Boston. Cologne, Germany; University of Wisconsin, A.I.R. Gallery_, New York. Awards: Fulbright Scholarship, Wooley Fellowship and MacDowell Fellowship. Selected PAUL FEELEY Studied at Menlo College, California; Art Students League and Beaux Collections: Whitney Museum, Oakland Art Museum. Art Institute of Design. Taught at and Bennington College, 1939-66. Among many one-man shows: , Gal- lery, Kasmin Gallery, London. Guggenheim Museum Memorial Retrospective, 1968 BROWER HATCHER Vanderbilt University; B.I.D., Graduate studies, ; and Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1976. Group shows include Pennsylvania Gallery of St. Martin's School of Art, London. One-man shows: SUNY Graduate Center and Fine Arts~ Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; Andre Emmerich Gallery, N.Y.; Kasmin Ltd., London; Museum of Modern Art, England. County Museum, Guggenheim, MOMA, Whitney, Stedelijk Museum, Amster- Group shows include: Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan; "City Sculpture," Cambridge1 dam and Kunsthaile, Bern, Switzerland. "Monumenta,'' Newport; The Hayward Museum, London; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute. Collections: Arts Council of Great Britain LUCY FELLER (Westport) B.A.~Bennington College, studied jewelry making at Art and Chase National Bank. Grants and awards: Dollard Grant, four years; Students League and with Tom Gentile, welding with Marjorie Walzer in Westport. National Endowment of the Arts, Sainsbury Sculpture Award, England; Ford Work featured in Horchow collection and other major catalogues and department Foundation. Teaching: Pratt Institute, St. Martin's School, 1967-1969r stores. Designer and chief executive of L.F. Designs and L.F. Designs Sports. Bennington College, 1972 to present.

JANINA FINSTHWAIT (Stamford) Studied at Bennington College, Art Students SOPHIA HEALY B.A., ; B.F.A., Yale University; M.F.A., Benning- League, Art Center School in Los Angeles, in Paris and at Silvermine. Exhib- ton College. One-woman shows: Bennington, New England College and Swa.rthmore. ited at Darien Library, Stamford Museum and Rowayton Arts Center. Currently Represented in Yale Art School Print Collection. Teaching, Bennington College, teaching at Resources Unlimited, Darien. 1968 to present.

JANE FORD B.F.A.,Tulane University; M.F.A., SUNY College of Ceramics at Alfred STEFAN HIRSCH Studied at University of Zurich, Switzerland. Taught at Benning- University. Recent exhibitions: Seibu Exhibition, Tokyo, 1976; 32nd Annual ton College 1934-40; Art Students League and Bard College 1942 to 1961. Se- Scripps Invitational, Claremont, Cal.; Fiber, Clay, Metal Exhibition at lected shows: Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Inter- Bronx Museum; Park-McCullough House; Ceramics Invitational, American Ceramic national Salons of America, Le Corbusier Museum, American Federation of the Society, Chicago, 1974; University of West Virginia; Everson Museum, Syracuse Arts. One-man show at Phillips Gallery, Washington 1977. Travelling Exhibi- University. Taught at Alfred University, University of Bridgeport, Bennington tions, Whitney Museum. Murals: U.S. Court House, Aiken, S.C.; U.S. Post Office, College, 1972 to present and Pratt Institute 1977. Booneville, Miss., 1930's. Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., Dartmouth College, Newark Art Museum, Whitney Museum ELIZABETH GALT (Westport) Studied at Silvermine Guild, B.A. Bennington College and others. Awards: Fulbright Fellowship; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1975. Photographic commissions from Smithsonian Institute and British Museum. Bard College. Founded photo studio and gallery "Zone VII" in North Bennington 1975. Solo Exhibitions: Bennington College, Park-McCullough House. Group show: Bennington ANN HOLMES (Westport) Attended Bennington College; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; College. M.A., New York University. Studied at Yale University with Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Albers, Art Institute of Chicago. Currently in Fine Arts Doctorate RICHARD HAAS B.S., University of Wisconsin; M.F.A., University of Minnesota. Program at N.Y.U. One-woman shows: Silvermine, Rowayton Arts Center, Ross Taught at University of Minnesota, Michigan State, Walker Art Center and Tallalay Gallery, New Haven; Rafelson Gallery, Chicago; New Britain Museum 1978. Bennington College, 1968 to present. One-man shows: University of Minnesota, Selected group shows: Aldrich Museum, Hartford Atheneum, New Haven Paint HCE Gallery, Norton Museum, Palm Beach, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Art In- stitute, Hundred Acres Gallery and Brooke Alexander Gallery, N.Y. Group shows and Clay. Taught art and worked as photographer in Japan 1967-73. ELISABETH MERRISS (Fairfield) Attended Bennington College. Studied at Chicago Bauhaus . Art Students League, Bellas Artes in the Dominican Republic and G~ORGE HOLT B.Sc. in architecture, M.I.T. Taught at Boston Center for Adult Silvermine Guild. Award: Gold Medal for professional graphics, national Education, Harvard Summer School; assistant to Edward W. Forbes at Harvard Arts Club Gallery, N.Y.C. Exhibited at Silvermine and in numerous New England university 1938-41; Byzantine Institute of America, Istanbul; and Benning- shows, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. " ton College, 1941-68. Co-founder with other artists of "The Atelier1 Montreal, Co-founder and staff member of the Painters' Workshop, Boston. PAMELA MORGAN (Redding) B.A., Bennington College. Graduate studies at Boston Museum of Fine Art. Currently exhibiting at Bethel Gallery, Conn.,• Experi- SARAH JACKSON (Westport) A recent graduate of Bennington College. M.F.A. at mental Etching Studio and Impressions Gallery, Boston. University of Indiana. Currently at painting workshop, Cummington Community, Mass. Studied at Art Students League. Teaching Assistant at University of SIMON MOSELSIO Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin. Was awarded Indiana. Group shows: Silvermine Guild, Harkness House Gallery. numerous prizes for mural composition and portraiture. Taught at Bennington College, 1933-60. In permanent collections of Worcester Museum, Whitney LYMAN KIPP Studied at Pratt Institute, Cranbrook Academy. Taught at Benning- Museum, IBM and Weyhe Gallery, Museum, Library of Congress among . ton College, 1960-63; Pratt Institute; Dartmouth College, Visiting Artist, others. Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, Worcester Museum of Art, Archi- 1966; 1963 to present; Lehman College 1968-75. Awarded tectural League of N.Y., MOMA travelipg exhibit, N.Y. World's Fair. Won Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965; Fulbright grant, 1965; City University Research "Diplome de Medaille d'Or" at Exposition Internationale, Paris. Director of Award 1970, '75. One-man shows: Betty Parsons Gallery, biennially 1954-68; Yaddo Corporation and Fellow of the Sculpture Society. Obelisk Gallery, Boston,· Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago. Group shows: Balti- more Museum; Detroit Museum of Art; Whitney Museum; Galerie Claude Bernard, CAM NEWELL B .A,. , New York University at New Paltz, M.A. Bennington College, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie International, ; Sao teaching assistant Bennington Co 11 ege 1976- 78 . Solo exh•ibiti·on: • Usdan Paolo Biennale, 1963; "Sculpture of the '60s,"Los Angeles County Museum, Gallery, Bennington. Museum of Modern Art, "Monumenta," Newport, R.I., 1974; Aldrich Museum, "Monu~ mental Sculpture: Houston 1975." Selected collections: Whitney Museum, JOHN AVERY NEWMAN Oberlin College, B.A.; Yale University, M.F.A., 1975. One- University of Kentucky, University of Michigan, M.I.T., City of New York. man exhibitions: Bennington College, 1977, "Installations" - CUNY graduate Selected collections: Whitney Museum, University of Kentucky, University of Center, N.Y.C.; M.I.T. 1976, 1977; Childrens' Museum, Boston, Yale Art and Michigan, M.I.T., City of New York. Architecture Gallery. Selected group shows: Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston; Hayden Gallery, Cambridge; Worcester Art Museum, Whitney Museum. Teaching: LINDA KROB (Darien) Studied at Bennington College 1953-55, the Art Students Queens College, 1975-76,M.I.T.; Massachusetts College of Art, Bennington League and of Social Research. Painted murals in Cafe Bizarre, College, 1977; Visiting Lecturer Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Emerson Greenwich Village and a 60 foot mural in a Bennington College Music Room. College, Cornell University, Museum of Fine Art School, Boston. Awards: Exhibitions: N.Y. Architectural League, Rowayton Arts Center, The Print Club, National Endowment for the Arts, 1977, New York State Council on the Arts 1975 Silvermine Guild, Vincellette Studio and the Darien Library. Awards for and 1977; Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies M.I.T.; Fellow, Whitney sculpture, lithographs and woodcuts, Darien 1963-65. Two-person show: Museum Independent Study Program. Rive Gauche Gallery, Darien. KENNETH NOLAND Studied at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and with RUSSELL M. KROB State University, B. Arch. and B. Arch. E. '23; Columbia ossip Zadkine in Paris. Taught at Institute of Contemporary Art, Catholic University B.S. in Arch., M.S. of Sc. in Arch., McKim Fellowship. Taught at University, Bennington College, 1966. Selected one-man exhibitions: Galerie Columbia University, Pennsylvania State College and Bennington College, 1937-42. Creuze, Paris; Tibor de Nagy Gallery; French and Company; Bennington Co1,lege; Watercolor exhibit at Brooklyn Museum, 1934. Worked as chief designer and Emmerich Gallery almost every year since 1961; Kasmin Ltd., London; David architect, former partner in Sharon, Krob, Murray, Architects, New York. Mirvish Gallery, Toronto; Waddington Galleries, London; Watson/de Nagy & Company; Leo Castelli Gallery; A Retrospective, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; VINCENT LONGO Cooper Union School of Art; Brooklyn Museum Art School. Taught Hirshhorn Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. _ Selected group exhibitions at Brooklyn College and Bennington College 1957-67, presently at Hunter include: "Emerging Talent," Kootz Gallery, New York, 1954; "Young American College. One-man shows include Regional Arts, N.Y. and Korman and Zabriskie Painters," Museum of Modern Art, "Abstract Expressionists and Imagists," Galleries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Bard and Wheaton Colleges, University of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum, biennially; Tate Gallery; Museum Vermont, Thibaut Gallery. Group exhibitions include Print Retrospectives: of Modern Art; Fogg Art Museum; ", Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland," Corcoran Gallery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Susan Caldwell Gallery, National Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Stella, Noland, Caro," "Annual Exhibition," Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum. Collections: Museum of Modern Whitney Museum, 1972, 1973; "Eighteen Contemporary Masters," Embassy, Ottawa, 1977. Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery, and Whitney Museums. Awards: Fulbright Scholarship in painting, 1951-52 and Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1973. CANDACE OLESEN (Westport) B.A., Bennington College. Studied at Rochester In- stitute of Technology, Nazareth College, University of Bridgeport and Silver- Bell Gallery, Westport. Group shows: Women Artists '78, City University of New York, Graduate Center; New England Annual, Silvermine Guild; and other shows mine Guild. Currently studying for M.F.A. at . Several throughout New England. Taught at New York City public schools, City College one-man shows in painting and print-making, , 1960's. Group sculp- and Museum of Modern Art. Currently on faculty of Housatonic Community Col- ture exhibit at Silvermine, 1978. Collections: and Union lege in Bridgeport. College, New Jersey. JULES OLITSKI B.S. M.A., New York University, National Academy of Design, CAROLEE RUSSACK (Greenwich) Attended Bennington College. Designer and chief Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Taught at c.w. Post College 1956-63; executive officer of Carolee Designs. Bennington College, 1963-67. Selected one-man shows: Iolas Art Gallery, French and Company, 1959, 1960; Poindexter Gallery, 1961-65; Galleria CYNTHIA SMITH [Stiboldt (West Simsbury)] B.A., Bennington College. Studied Santacroce, Andre Emmerich, Knoedler Contemporary Art, David Mirvish Gallery, at , Hartford. Selected shows: New Britain Museum of Toronto; Kasmin, Ltd., London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Society of Women Painters, Con- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Waddington Gallery, Corcoran Gallery "Life necticut Watercolor Society. Drawings," Hirshhorn Museum. Retrospectives: Whitney, Albright-Knox Gal- lery, Buffalo. Numberous group shows including Biennale at Venice, Fogg CAROL STRICK Attended Bennington College; B.F.A., Brooklyn College. Created Museum, Boston; Whitney, Washington Gallery of Modern Art; "Monumenta," faience objects, primarily jewelry for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ex- Newport 1974; M. Knoedler & Co. "Eighteen Contemporary Masters," United States hibition: "Original Faience Jewelry Reflecting Egyptian Styles,'( The Metro- Embassy, Ottawa 1977. politan Museum, 1977. Visiting lecturer: The Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Archeology of Staten Island. NICHOLAS PEARSON Attended Bennington College. Studied with Brower Hatcher Isaak Witkin, Roger Williams. Exhibitions include: Mohawk-Hudson Regional PETER STROUD Attended London University, Teacher training college and several Exhibition, 1976 and 1977. Highest award for sculpture, 28th Annual New art schools 1947-51. Taught at Maidstone College of Art, Bennington College, England Exhibition, 1977; Park-McCullough House "Fifteen Sculptors Around 1963-68; School of Graduate Studies, Hunter College, 1965-66; Princeton Uni- Bennington." Teaching associate, Bennington College, 1976 to present. versity, Rutgers University, 1966-present. Selected one-man shows: Insti- tute of Contemporary Art, London; New Gallery, Bennington College, Marlborough- LARRY POONS Studied at New England Conservatory of Music, Boston; Boston Gerson Gallery; Max Hutchinson Gallery. Group Exhibitions include: Museum School of Fine Arts 1959. One-man shows: Leo Castelli, Knoedler Con- Guggenheim International Award Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, 1964; ('The Re- temporary Art, Kasmin Gallery, London and others. Selected group shows: Museum sponsive Eye," Museum of Modern Art, New York; "European Painters Today," of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Metropolitan Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Smithsonian Institute, "Color and Structure," Museum of Art, Baltimore Art Center, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Carnegie In- Sydney and Auckland Museums, Australia. stitute, Sidney Janis Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Art, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto. Taught at Bennington College 1968-69_ MARGARET SWAN B.F.A., painting, Syracuse University; M.A. painting, graduate fellowship, Bennington College. Drawing instructor at Bennington and Southern NANCY PRINCE (Danbury)B.A., Bennington College. M.F.A., Yale University. Vermont College. Studio assistant for Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler and Studied and taught at Silvermine Guild. Director, with husband, sculptor Larry Poons. Exhibitions: Silvermine Guild, Bennington and Middlebury Col- Roger Prince, at Wooster Art School, Danbury, Conn. lege, Syracuse University, New York University, Steel Sculpture at Park- McCullough House. Awards: 28th New England Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, NEIL RAPPAPORT B.A., Williams College. One-man shows include Fleming Museum Fellowship in S.tudio Arts, Syracuse University; Rosewell G. Hill Prize, Syracuse. University of Vermont, Williams College Art Museum and Bennington College. Group shows: "Vermont Landscapes 1776-1976," University of Vermont and "Artists SIDNEY TILLIM B.F.A., Syracuse University. Contributing editor, Arts Maga- at Bennington," 1976. Publications: Vermont Life, Winter, 1972. Grants: zine, 1959-65, Art Forum, 1965-69. Charles A. Dana Professor of Painting, Vermont Council on the Arts and N.Y. State Council on the Arts. Teaching at Colgate University. Also taught at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Bennington, 1970-present. Collections: Boston Museum of Fine Arts. School of Visual Arts, Bennington College, 1965 to present. One-man shows: Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; Noah Goldowsky, Tibor de Nagy and Robert STANLEY ROSEN B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A., Alfred University. Schoelkopf Galleries. Group shows: Whitney Museum, Chicago Art Institute. Taught at Greenwich House Pottery, Bennington College 1960 to the present. Collections: Hirshhorn Museum, University of Texas (Michener Collecti·onl , Exhibitions: Nonagon Gallery, Scripps College, J. Blumenfeld Gallery, U.S. University of North Carolina, Colgate and others. Awards: National Endowment Information Agency Travelling Show. (Latin America), Alfred University and for the Arts, painting, 1974; Ingram-Merrill Foundation award in painting, 1976. Greenwich House Pottery. ISAAC WITKIN Studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London 1957-60. Assistant BARBARA ROTHENBERG (Westport) Studied at Bennington College; B.A. University of to Henry Moore, 1961-64. Taught at Maidstone College of Art, Kent; St. Martin's Michigan; M.F.A. Columbia Teachers College. Solo exhibits at Silvermine and School, 1963-65; Bennington College, 1965 to present. One-man shows: Rowan CONDITIONS OF SALE

Gallery, London 1963; Robert Elkon Gallery, N.Y.; Waddington Gallery, London, 1966, 1968; Marlborough Gallery, 1975, 1976, 1977. Retrospective: University The property listed in this catalogue will be offered and sold at.the Gre enwic h Country of Vermont, 1971. Selected group shows: Paris Biennale, 1965, "Open Air club on b e half of the Fairfield County Alumni Association of Bennington Colle g e (the "Alumni Association") as owner of the property on the following terms and conditions. Sculpture," Holland; Larry Aldrich Museum, "British Sculptors of the '60's," 1. All property is sold "as is" and the Alumni Association makes no war-7'antie s or re- London, 1970. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Newport Monuments, 1975. Artists representations of any kind or nature with respect to the property, and in ~o event.shall International Sculpture Symposium, 1971, 1974. Collections: Fine Arts Museum i~ be responsible for the correctness of description, genuineness, authorship, attri- of Sydney, Hirshhorn Museum, Tate Gallery, Storm King Art Center, N.Y., bution, provenance or condition of the property and no statement in the catalogue or Worcester Museum, Gulbenkian Foundation and many others. made at the sale or elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty or representation or an assumption of liability. PHILIP WOFFORD B.A.,University of Arkansas; graduate studies, University of 2. The Alumni Association reserves the right to withdraw any property at any time be- California. Instructor, New York University 1964-68. One-man shows: Green, fore actual sale. Alla~ Stone, Bykert, Noah Goldowsky, David Whitney and Andre Emmerich Gal- 3. Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer at the time of sale, all bids are per "Lot" as numbered in the printed catalogue. leries, Corcoran Bi-Annuals of American Painting 1973 and 1975. Collections: 4. The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum. Awards: C.A.P.S. Fellowship, New York event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer shall have absolute discretion State, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1974-75. Visiting either to determine the successful bidder (in which event his determination shall be critic Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute. final) or to re-offer and resell the article in dispute if any dispute arises Published poet. Teaching at Bennington College from 1969 to present. after the sale. The sale record shall be conclusive as to who was the purchaser, the amount of the hihgest bid, and in all other respects. ANDREA WOODNER (Westport) B.A., Bennington College. Studied at Brooklyn 5. If the auctioneer, in his sole and final discretion, decides that any original bid Museum Art School. Studied with Isaac Witkin, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, is not commensurate with value of the article offered, he may reject the same and Tim Schott and Anthony Caro in London. Taught at Norwich College of Arts, withdraw the article from sale. Or, if the auctioneer, having acknowledged an original bid, decides that any advance thereafter is not of sufficient amount, he may reject the England, and Bennington. Exhibited at Park-McCullough House, The Chelsea advance. Gallery, London. Nominated for Paris Biennale, 1974; Sculpture Award at 6. Title will pass to the highest bidder on the fall of the hammer, the risk and re- the New England Competition, at Silvermine, 1977. sponsibility for the property thereafter to be the purchaser's. The name and address of the purchaser of each article or lot shall be given to the Alumni Association re- presentative, as well as a signature, immediately following sale of said lot and pay- ment of the whole purch2se price or sufficient part thereof, shall be made immediately by the purchaser and the property removed from the Alumni Association premises at the purchaser's risk and expense. If the foregoing conditions or any other applic&ble conditions herein are not complied with, in addition to other remedies available to the Alumni Association by law, including without limitation the right to hold the purchaser liable for the bid price, the Alumni Association at its option may either {a) cancel the sale r e taining as liquidated damages all payme nts made by the purchaser, or (b) rese ll the same without notice to the purchaser and for the account and risk of the p urchaser, eithe r publicly or private ly, and in such eve nt the purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency plus all costs, inc luding warehousing, and the expenses of both sales. 7. Payment shall be made in U.S. funds by cash or, at the discretion of the Alumni Association, by check, payable to Bennington Colle ge Alumni Association. In the case of major purch ases b y p e rsons unknown to the Association arrangeme nts should b e made beforehand or purchase may be collected after the purchaser's check cle ars. No State sales tax is applicable. 8. Unless announced as a sale without reserves, each lot is offered subject to reserve, (the confidential minimum below which the article may not be sold) . The Alumni Associ- ation reserves the right to bid personally or b y agent to impleme nt the reserve . In case of bids transmitte d by radio or t e l e phone , prior to the sale , a written confirm- ation of same is r e quire d by the auctionee r. The Alumni Association is not r e sponsible for e rrors or omissions arising out of or r e sulting from mechanical difficultie s or failure s. 9 . SEALED BID SALE. The date and the hour must appe ar on the slip so that the lot is given t o t he f i rst of duplicate bids.

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