newsletter VolumeS, Number 3 September 1978

nominations for eAA board of directors

The 1978 Nominating Committee has submitted its initial slate of BYRON BURFORD twelve nominees to serve on the CAA Board of Directors from 1979 to University of Iowa 1983. Of these, six will be selected by the Committee as its final slate and fonnally proposed for election at the Annual Members Business BFA and MFA, Univ Iowa. PoSITIONs: prof, Univ Meeting to be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel on February 1, Iowa, 1947-; prof, Univ Minnesota and Univ 1979. To assist the Committee in making its final selection all Massachusetts, summer 1967; also Worcester Art individual members of the Association are invited to cast their votes on Mus, Walker Art Ctr, Nelson! Atkins Gall, Shel­ the preferential ballot. don Art Mus, High Mus Art, California ColI Arts For members' convenience the preferential ballot is in the form of a and Crafts, others. AWARDS: Guggenheim Found prepaid business reply card which is being mailed separately. Please re­ fellow, 1960 and 1961; Ford Found award, 1961, turn it promptly; ballots must be postmarked no later than Oct. 10. 62, 64; Nat! Inst Arts & Letters grant, 1967; Rosenwald fellow; two A brief curriculum vitae for each candidate is given below, followed Yaddo fellowships; Tamarind fellowship; Amer Fed of Arts grant. by a list of present Board members. Please retain this information until EXHIBITIONS: solo Walker Art Ctr, 1958; Babcock Gall, N.Y.C., 1966, you receive your ballot. 1967, 1969, 1975, plus many others; numerous group exhibitions including Venice Biennale, 1968; Biennale de Coltejer, Colombia, PAUL B. ARNOLD 1970; and exhibitions in Milan, London, Antwerp, Hanover, Oberlin College Dusseldorf, Darmstadt and Zurich in 1971, 1972. MEMBERSHIPS: Mid­ America CAA, organized one annual meeting. AB Oberlin Coll. 1940; MA 1941; MFA Univ Minnesota, 1955. POSITIONS: instructor, Oberlin RICHARD G. CARROTT CoIl, 1941-42; instructorto full prof, 1946-; act· University of California, Riverside ing chr. 1967·68; chair, 1970·72 and 1973·76; preceptor, Univ Minnesota, 1951; Director, BA Wesleyan Univ; MA Inst Fine Arts, NYU; Ob.erlin Coll!NDEA East Asian Language and PhD Yale Univ. POSITIONS: Univ California, Area Ctr, 1967-68; visiting prof, Tunghai Uillv, Riverside, since 1961; presently prof and chair; Taiwan, 1973. AWARDS: Ford Found faculty fellowship, 1951-52; instructor, Sweet Briar ColI, 1955-58; visit assoc Great Lakes Colleges Assoc, non-Western studies grant. 1965-66; prof, Univ California, Berkeley (twice). PUBLICA­ Oberlin Coil research status award, 1965-66. EXHIBiTIONS: solo Jersey TIONS: The Egyptian Revival: Its Monuments, City State Coli, 1966; Miami Univ, Oxford, Ohio, 1968; Univ Kansas, Sources and Meaning; Thomas Moran, 1837- Manhattan, 1970; Design Corner Gallery, Cleveland, 1974; 1926 (catalog); articles injournal of Society of Architectural Historz'­ Heidelberg Coli, Tiffin Ohio, 1975; Bay Crafters, Ohio, 1976; ans, Antiques, New Catholt'c Encyr:1opaedt'a. AWARDS: Comite d'hon­ numerous group exhibitions. COLLECTIONS: Seattle Art Mus, Library neur de la Societe AUGUSTA (cultural preservation of the Val of Congress, Dayton Art Inst, Allen Art Mus, Cleveland Mus Art, d'Aosta); Comm of Honour, Exhibit: "Age of Fresco," Metropolitan Wadsworth Atheneum, Baltimore Mus, others. PUBLICATIONS: co­ Mus Art, 1968; Distinguished teaching award, Univ Calif, Riverside, author, The Humanz'ties at Oberl£n, 1957; articles on printmaking 1971. MEMBERSHIPS: Nat! Coordinator, Comm to Resave Italian Art and painting. MEMBERSHIPS: Mid-America CAA, exec bd, 1963·66; (CRIA), 1967-68; Chr, Riverside Cultural Heritage Bd, 1973-74; Soci­ Natl Assoc Schools of Art, bd directors, 1970-76, vice pres, 1972·75, ety of Architectural Historians, Local Comm chr, 1965 and 1977; bd president, 1975-78. CAA ACTIVITIES: Nominating Comm, 1965-66; directors, 1964-66; Nom Corom, 1972; Founders Award Comm, chair, 1965; Comm on MFA Standards, 1975-76; Comm on Placement 1976-78; Ethics Comm, 1976-78. CAAACTIVITIES: chr, general sessions. Standards, 1976-77; co-chair, Comm on Standards for Undergraduate 1972 annual meeting; participant, 1978 annual meeting. Education in the Visual Arts, 1978-; participant numerous studio panels, CAA annual meetings; participant Placement Orientation ses­ ANNE COFFIN HANSON sion, 1978 annual meeting. Yale University

BFA Skidmore ColI, 1943; MA in Creative Arts, Preferential Ballot deadline. The issue goes to press amidst Univ North Carolina, 1951; PhD Bryn Mawr threats of a postal strike that would greatly delay delivery of CoIl, 1962. POSITIONS: prof, Yale Univ, 1970-; third class mail. Please be assured that should the strike occur, dept chr, 1974·78; adj assoc prof, NYU, and vis­ the October 10 deadline stated above and on the preferential iting lecturer, Yale Univ, 1969-70; dir, Internatl ballot will be extended. However, please mail your ballots­ Study Ctr, Mus Modern Art, 1968-69;,asst prof, whenever you get them - as promptly as possible. Bryn Mawr ColI, 1964-68; asst prof, Swarthmore ColI," 1963-64; others. PUBLICATIONS:' jacopo d_ella Quercia's Fonte

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Gaia, 1965; EdouardManet: 1832-1883, 1966; Manet and the Modern DEWEY F. MOSBY ELEANOR TUFTS WILLIAM D. WIXOM Tradition, 1976; articles in The Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Detroit Institute of Arts Southern Methodist University The Cleveland Museum of Art French Nineteenth Century Painting and Lzcerature, many others. AWARDS: ACLS swnmer grant, 1963; NEH fellowship, 1967-68; resi­ BS in pictorial arts, Lamar Univ; MA Univ Cali­ BA Simmons ColI, 1949; MA Harvard Univ, BA Haverford CoIl, 1951; MA Inst Fine Arts, dent, Amer Academy in Rome, 1974; Yale Univ faculty research fornia, Los Angeles, 1969; PhD Harvard Univ, 1957; PhD lust Fine Arts, NYU, 1971. POSITIONS: NYU, 1963. POSITIONS: Cleveland Mus Art, asst award, 1974; MEMBERSHIPS: Council on Museums and Education in 1974. POSITIONS: curator European art, Detroit prof and chr, Southern Methodist Univ, 1974-: curator to curator medieval and renaissance the Visual Arts, 1973-; Screening Comm, Council Intematl Exchange Inst Arts, 1974-; visiting asst prof, Harvard Univ asst prof, Southern Connecticut State CoIl, decorative arts, ] 958-; adjunct assoc prof, Case of Scholars, 1975-; Comitt lnternationale de l'Histoire de L'Art, nat! Summer Sch, 1974: asst prof, SUNY Buffalo, 1966-71; assoc prof, 1971-74; instructor, Univ Western Reserve Univ, 1967-; student fellow, member, 1975-; Art Dealers AssQciation Prize Corom, 1976; Yale 1973-74, asst curator, J. Paul Getty Mus, Bridgeport, 1964-65; asst prof, 1965-66; assoc Metropolitan Mus Art, 1957-58. PUBLICATIONS: director, World University Service, 1960-64; Univ Press Governing Bd, 1977-. :~A ACTIVITIES: Monograph Series 1968-70. PUBLICATIONS: Alexandre-Gabriel Treasures from Medieval France (exhib catalog), Editor, 1968-71; Publication Corom, 1968-; The Art Bulletz'n Comm, Decamps 1803-1860, 1977: Cinco Siglos de obras maestras de la pin­ director, program devel, Council on Internatl Exchange, 1957-60; in­ ]967; Renaissance Bronzes from Oht'o Collections (exhib catalog), 1968-; art history program chr, 1969 annual meeting; bd directors, tura en colecciones norteamencanas cedidas en prestamo a Costa Rica structor' Boston Univ, 1957. PUBLICATIONS: Our H£ddenHeritage: Five 1975; articles in The Art Bulletin, Art Quarterly, Burlington Maga­ 1969-73; exec comm of bd directors, 1971-72: The Art Bulletz'n (exhib catalog), 1978; articles in Master Drawt'ngs, Arts Magazine, Centuries of Women Artists, 1974; articles in The Art Bulletz'n, Art zine, Connoisseur, Gesta, others. EXHIBITIONS: "The Helmarshausen editorial bd, 1971-77: CAA president, 1972-74; Distinguished Minneapolis Inst Arts Bulletz'n, others. EXHIBITIONS: "Degas in the Journal, Art in America, Art News, others. AWARDS: Hartman fellow, Latin Gospels," 1960; "Architecture in Miniature," 1961; "Gothic Art Teaching of Art History Award Comm, 1975, 1976; Millard Meiss Detroit Inst Arts," 1975 (arranged); "French Painting 1774-1830: The HockadaySch, Dallas, 1974; NEHgrant, 1974. MEMBERSHIPS: AAUP, 1360-1440," 1963; Treasures from Medieval France," ]966-67; Publication Fund Comm, 1976-. Age of Revolution," Detroit InstArts, 1975 (arranged); "Master Paint­ vice pres, Southern Connecticut State CoIl chapter, 1972-74: vice pres, "African Tribal Images," 1968; others. AWARDS: Arner Educ Found ings from the Hennitage and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad," Southern Methodist Univ chapter, 1975-76; Women's Caucus for Art, fellowship, 1962; NEA museum professional fellowship, 1973. Detroit InstArts, 1975 (arranged); "Cincosiglos ... ," Museo deJade, natl advisory bd, 1978-; trustee, Dallas Mus Fine Arts, 1975-; Educa­ MEMBERSHIPS: Internatl Ctr Medieval Art, president 1971-74; bd Costa Rica, 1978 (organized); AWARDS: Kress Found grant, 1968-69; tion Comm, 1975-; Comm to Nominate Officers, 1977; academic ad­ member, 1971-; advisory council, Notre Dame Univ Art Gall, 1974-. Grand Prize fellowship, Harvard Univ, 1970-73. MEMBERSHIPS: Muse­ visory panel, World University Service, 1975-; NEH panel for higher CAA ACTIVITIES: participant, ]967 annual meeting. MARILYN ARONBERG LAVIll' um-Univ Relationship Comm, Midwest Art History Society, 1975-: education projects program, 1978. CAA ACTIVITIES: Nominating Princeton University Arts Comm, New Detroit, Inc, 1976-; Detroit General Hospital Arts Comm, 1976; chr, annual meeting sessions, 1974, 1975, 1977. CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS Commission, 1977-; Museum Advisory Panel, NEA, 1977-; others. BA Washington Univ, 1947; MA, 1949; PhD Inst PRESIDENT: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence VICE PRESIDENT: Joshua C. Taylor, National Collection of Fine Arts Fine Arts, NYU, 1973. POSITIONS:-_' visiting lec­ MAY STEVENS turer (prof), Princeton Univ, 1975 and 1977-; SECRETARY; Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University School of Visual Arts JOHN WALSH, JR­ visiting lecturer (prof) Yale Univ, 1977; edit asst, TREASURER: Richard Ravenscroft, Philadelphia National Bank Museum of Fine Arts, Boston COUNSEL: Gilbert S. Edelson, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen Mus Modem Art, 1956; curator, Robbins Print BFA Massachusetts CoIl of Art; master's equiva­ Coli, Arlington, Mass, 1953-55; instructor, lent, "NYC Bd of Education; Academie Julian, BA Yale Univ, 1961; MA Columbia Univ, 1965; TO SERVE UNTIL 1979: Peter C, Bunnell, Princeton University; Ann Washington Univ, 1949. PUBLICATIONS: consult­ Sutherland Harris, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Judith A. Hoffberg, Paris. POSITIONS: Sch Visual Arts, 1963-; Queens PhD 1971. POSITIONS; curator paintings, Boston ant The World of Leonardo da Vinci, 1966; intro and editor, Lives of Call, 1964-75: Parsons Sch Design, 1953-57; vis­ Umbrella Associates; Sheila McNally, University of Minnesota; Philip the Most Eminent Paz'nters, by Giorgio Vasari, 1967: Piero della Mus Fine Arts, 1977-; instructor to full prof, Col­ iting artist at Ball State Univ, 1968; Cornell Univ, umbia Univ, 1969-1977; assoc tofuli curator and Pearlstein, Brooklyn College, C. U. N. Y. : Jules D. Prown, Yale Univer­ Francesca: The Flagellatz'on, 1972; Seventeenth-Century Barben'nt' 1973; Syracuse Univ, 1975: Rhode Island Sch De­ sity. 1975; articles in vice chr, Metropolitan Mus Art, 1968-75: lectur­ Documents and Inventon'es ofArt, The Art Bulletz'n, sign, 1977. EXHIBITIONS: solo Terry Dintenfass Burl£ngton Magazz'ne, The Metropol£tan Mus Art Bullett'n, others. er and research asst, Frick Collection, 1966-68. TO SERVE UNTIL 1980: Garo Z. Antreasian, University of New Mexico; Gall, NYC, 1971; Herbert F.Johnson Mus, 1973: Douglass ColI, Rut­ PUBLICATIONS: ed, entries for Dutch and Flemish AWARDS: Fulbright fellowship, 1951-52; Arner Assoc Univ Women Shirley Blum, S. U.N. Y., Purchase; Lorenz Eitner, Stanford Universi­ gers Univ, 1974; Pelham-von-Stoffler Gall, Houston, 1977; Lerner­ paintings, The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, 1968; The ty: Horst W. Janson, New York University; Irving Lavin, The Institute fellowship, 1961-62; Ingram Merrill Found, 1962-64; SamuelH. Kress Heller Gall, NYC, 1978; numerous group shows including "Internatl Found, 1965-67; Amer Philosophical Society, 1968; ACLS, 1968; Painter's Light (exhib catalog), 1971; Portrait of the Artist (exhib for Advanced Study. Exhib Women's Art," Amsterdam, 1978; "Strong Works," Artemesia catalog), 1972; Dutch Couples: Pat'r Portraits by Rembrandt and His Christian Gauss Seminar in Criticism, 1976; CAA Charles Rufus TO SERVE UNTIL 1981: Benny Andrews, New York City: Beatrice Gall, Chicago, 1977; Brooklyn Mus, 1977; Whitney Mus, 1971. COL­ Contemporaries (guide to exhib), 1973: articles in Apollo, Burlz'ngton Morey Book Award, 1977. CAA ACTIVITIES: chair, art history sessions, LECTIONS: Whitney Mus Amer Art, Brooklyn Mus, Everson Mus, Magazz'ne, Connoisseur, Metropolitan Mus Art Bulletz'n, others. Farwell, University of California, Santa Barbara; Mary Garrard, The 1972, 1977: participant art history sessions, 1968, 1974. American University; EllenJohnson, Oberlin College; Ellen Lanyon, Herbert F. Johnson Mus, Ball State Univ, Queens Mus, others. MEM­ AWARDS: Columbia Univ faculty scholar, 1962-63; president's fellow, BERSHIPS: Women's Caucus for Art, advisory bd: Artists Equity; 1964-65; Woodbridge honorary fellow, 1964-65; Fulbright grad Chicago; Theodore Reff, Columbia University. Heresies Collective, founding member. CAA ACTIVITIES; participant in fellow, 1965-66. MEMBERSHIPS: editorial bd, Metropolitan Mus Jour­ TO SERVE UNTIL ]982: Jean Sutherland Boggs, Philadelphia Museum studio panels at annual meetings, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977. nal, 1970-75; museum panel, NY State Arts Council.1974-77; govern­ of Art; Caecilia Davis-Weyer, Newcomb College, Tulane University; JOHN WALKER McCOUBREY ing bd, Yale Univ Art Gall, 1975-; Trustee Comm on Education, Mus Lila Katzen, The Maryland Institute College of Art; John Rupert University of Pennsylvania MICHELLE STUART Modern Art, 1976-; bd directors, The Museums Collaborative, Martin, Princeton University; Sylvia Stone, Brooklyn College, New York City 1976-77. C.U.N. Y., Kathleen Weil-Garris, New York University. BA Harvard ColI, 1946; Ecole du Louvre, Paris, 1952-53; PhD, Inst Fine Arts, NYU, 1958. POSI­ Chouinard Art Inst, Los Angeles; Escuela de TIONS: prof, Univ Pennsylvania, 1960-; dept chr, Artes Plasticas, Mexico; New Sch for Social untenured individuals? Historians Committee requests that all those 1966-69,1970-71; graduate group chr, 1965-68; Research, NYC. POSITIONS: instructor, Sch committee notices Those who can provide partial answers to who fmd that texts they would like to assign consulting editor, Time-Life Books, 1968-70: Visual Arts. 1975; instructor, Pratt Inst Art & any of these questions on the basis of personal are unavailable through bookstores or pub­ asst prof, Yale Univ, 1954-60; visiting prof at Design, 1975: instructor, Fordham Univ, 1978: experience are requested to reply to Prof. lishers inform us about it. Please include Bryn Mawr Coli, Boston Univ, Univ California, numerous guest artist and guest lecturer. EXHIBI­ TENURE AND RETIREMENT- Lucy Freeman Sandler, Dept. of Fine Arts, author, title, publisher, price if known, title Berkeley, Princeton Univ, Univ Vennont-Shelburne Mus, Swarth­ TIONS: solo Max Hutchinson Gall, NYC, 1974, The Committee on Tenure, Retirement, and College of Arts and Science, New York of course, and course enrollment. Also your more CoIl. PUBLICATIONS: Amer£can Trad£tt'on £n Paintt'ng, 1963; 1975, 1976: Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, 1974, 1976; many Related Pr:oblems of the Profession is in­ University, N.Y.C. 10003. Replies are for name and institution. Replies should be ad­ editor, Amen'can Art: 1760-1960, Sources and Documents in the others including several site works; numerous group exhibitions. terested in collecting information about statistical purposes only and will naturally be dressed to Art Historians Committee, c/o History of Art, 1965; The Highway (exhib catalog), 1965; Robert In­ AWARDS: Macdowell fellowship, 1974; Tamarind Inst grant, 1974; granting of tenure. held in confidence, CAA Office, 16 East 52 Street, N.Y.C. diana (exhib catalog), 1968; Turner and the Poets, 1977: articles in NEA grant for indiv artists, 1974-75 and 1977; N.Y. State CAPS How many art historians and artist-teach­ 10022. II The Art Bullett'n, Encyclopedia of World Art, Yale Univ Art Gall grant, 1974-75: Guggenheim Found fellowship, 1975; PUBLICATIONS: ers were granted tenure in 1977-78 or will be OUT-OF-PRINT TEXTS Bulletin, others. AWARDS: faculty research grant, Univ Pennsylvania, The Fall, 1977_ granted tenure in 1978-79? How many of Several members have called our attention to 1962; Lindbach prize for distinguished teaching, Univ Pennsylvania, those eligible in 1977-78 or 1978-79 were not the problem of the disappearance from the 1964; Fulbright fellow, 1964-65; Guggenheim fellow, 1964-65; Arner granted tenure on grounds of financialinade­ market of significant texts-particularly in­ To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ Philosophical Society, 1970; plus predoctoral fellowships. MEMBER­ quacy, crisis, or exigency? Did such indi­ expensive paperback texts- that fonn an im­ tions and announcements, please be viduals find tenured or untenured teaching SHIPS: Philadelphia Mus Art, Painting and Sculpture Comm, Educa­ portant part of the reading material of inter­ sure to keep us infonned of your cur­ REMINDER: the Preferential Ballot is being mailed separately. positions at other institutions? How many in­ tion Comm, Comm on 20th Century Painting; Pennsylvania Academy mediate and advanced level art history rent address. of Fine Arts, trustee, 1972-74, advisory bd, Exhibition Corom; Council Please retain infonnation on nominees until you receive it. dividuals not granted tenure on financial courses. In an attempt to get a preliminary of Graduate Schools, Visiting Advisory Panel, 1972-74; NEH panelist. grounds were subsequently replaced by new sense of the extent of this problem, the Art

2 CAA newsletter September 1978 3 /grants and awards grants and awards 1979 art history sessions KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS nia, Los Angeles: Religious architecture of lielimo's pulpit for the Cathedral and the Institute were Marisol, Robert Rauschen­ It is always a pleasure to announce grants and the Near East in the Seleucid and Parthian classical tradition in twelfth-century Pisa; Additions to and changes from Call for Parti­ and Clyfford Still. The Academy­ awards. It is a particular pleasure to an­ periods: Roland M. Frye, Univ. Pennsyl­ Joseph W. Ball, San Diego Univ. (Anthro­ ber~ cipation Gune 1978 newsletter}. Institute also presented its OWn annual nounce the recipients of Kress Foundation vania (English): Shakespeare and iconogra­ pology): The formative ceramic situation and each for the sum of $3,000. Reci­ fellowships, not only because the discipline's phy of the visual arts: Mary D. Garrard, The the history of northern Yucatan; Ruth a~ards, pients in the visual arts were William Dole debt to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation is American University: Jacopo Sansovino and Butler, Univ. Massachusetts, Boston: Early Pre-Columbian Art. Daniel Maloney, Herman Maril, Richard incalcuable (we all know that), but also the Florentine High Renaissance; Eleanor S. Rodin sculpture; Joseph C. Carter, Univ. Papers should deal with the art and icono­ McDermott Miller, Sara Roszak, Reuben because-within the context of the Founda­ Greenhill, Univ. Texas: A Book of Hours Texas (Classics): The sculpture of the Temple graphy, with stylistic appraisal andlor inter­ Tam and Ulfert Wilke. tion's many generous contributions to the (Solger MS 4.40 ) in the Stadtbibliothek, of Athena Polias at Priene: Jean M. French, pretation of symbolic material of the high fields of art history and connoisseurship - this Nurnberg; Laila Gross, Fairleigh Dickinson Bard College: Transfonnation of theme and cultures of Pre-Columbian America. Papers relatively undramatic program to stimulate Univ. (English and Comparative Literature): should not deal primarily with archaeology or image in Romanesque portal sculpture: FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS ABROAD the production of young scholars represents Fourteenth-century ivories; Vladimir Gvoz­ Elaine Hedges, Towson State Univ. ethnography. A~erican exchange artists and scholars who an essential commitment to the future danovic, Univ. Michigan, Dearborn: Two (English): Sewing as work, art and metaphor; ,mll be teaching I doing research abroad dur­ without which we cannot hope to preserve the reliefs by Francesco Laurana and Pietro da David M. Kunzle, Univ. California, Los mg the 1978-79 academic year: Louis Cort past. Recipients for 1978-79 are: Milano on the Aragon Arch in Naples; Frank Angeles: A history of the comic strip, Painting and Politics in Late Medieval and Kyoto, Japan: Hereditary caste of earthen: ART HISTORY/ARCHAEOLOGY. Martha G. Hold, Rice Univ. (Anthropology): Museum 1847-1896: Peter Stansky, Stanford Univ. Northern Renaissance Art (this is a slight Ware potters in the Jaganath temple in Puri Anderson, Indiana Univ.; Peter Barnet, study of burial ceramics; Christopher Jones, (History): The influence of William Morris in change from title originally listed), Orissa, ~ndia, F~?-Dec. 1979; Jon C. Yale Univ.; Guy C. Bauman, Princeton Museum, Univ. Pennsylvania: The East Plaza the 1880s; JamesR. Wiseman, Boston Univ.: u: vell, UnlV. Hawau: Korean art history Ewha . Pa~ers that consider all aspects of the rela­ Univ.; Jeffrey Blanchard, Yale Univ.; Susan of Tikal; Fred S. Kleiner, Univ. Virginia: The Fountain of the Lamps and the Gymnasi­ tlOnshIp between politics or government and ",":omen's Univ., Korea, Sept.-Nov.' 1979; L. Bristol, Columbia Univ.; John Cunnally, Early Roman putto and garland reliefs; um at Corinth; Henri Zerner, Harvard the visual arts are requested. The session will Richard W: Franklin, Queens College, Univ. Pennsylvania; Jack Freiberg, New Meredith P. Lillich, Syracuse Univ.: The Univ.: The art of the French Renaissance. C.U.N.Y.; FlUe arts, Seoul National Univ deal with concrete examples that relate to the York Univ.; Mary Pardo, Univ. Pittsburgh; stained glass of Gassicourt; Eunice Lipton, Sept. 1978-June 1979; Barbara Grinelj' foll.owing problems: the ways in which pic­ Donna L. Pierce, Univ. New Mexico; Har­ Hunter College, CUNY: The nature of ACLSADDENDA tOrIal programs can reflect the political N. ~. C.; Painting and printmaking, Kookmi~ riet F. Senie; New York Univ.; William Degas's realism: James W. McKinnon, Thirty-one fellowships were awarded to re­ Sterling A. Callisen, president of Parsons Umv. and Space Architectural Group Seoul as~irations of members of courts; the ways in Steinke, New York Univ.; Kathryn C. SUNY, Buffalo (Music); Musical icon­ cent recipients of the Ph.D. Among the reci­ School of Design from 1959 to 1963, was Aug. 1978-June 1979; Joanna G. Harris' which ~~eciftc pictorial programs may reflect Woodward, Bryn Mawr College. ography in manuscript illuminations, Brus­ pients: Caroline M. Houser, Univ. Texas: awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the politIcal consciousness of an era or a reign' Lone Mountain College: Creative arts ther~ RENEWALS. Pamille M. Berg, Univ. sels and Paris; Harriet Zinnes, Queens Col~ The Agora Horseman; Marie Tanner, Humane Letters at Parsons 82nd annual the ways in which visual forms were employed apy, City of Leicester Polytechnic, U.K., Virginia: Christopher Comer, Princeton lege, CUNY: Ezra Pound and the visual arts. Douglas College, Rutgers Uruv.: Metaphors Commencement exercises held in May. Cur­ as responses to actual political events; and, Sept. 1978~June 197~; Percy North, George Univ.: Kristi Nelson, Univ. North Carolina of political rule in the sixteenth century. . . . rentl~ president of the School Art League of fInally, the use and effect of pictures as politi­ Mason Umv.: Amencan art history, Univ. at Chapel Hill; Carol Pulin, Univ. Texas, Post-doctoral grants in Chinese studies: the CIty of New York, Callisen served as direc­ cal propagand.a. Prospective participants are Lyon 11, Oct. 1978-June 1979; Jan van der Austin. ACLS GRANTS-IN-AID Louisa McDonald Read, Las Vegas, Neva­ tor of the the CAA's Educational Lantern Meu.len, Cleveland State Univ.: Medieval ~r~ed to submit papers on pictorial programs CONSERVATION. Christine Del Re, Univ. TO RECENT PH.D. RECIPIENTS da: Study of classical and modem Chinese, Slide Project from 1971 to 1975. architecture and iconography (the Cathedral III ,.llustrated manuscripts and prints, as well Illinois at Chicago Circle; Carol Sawyer, For the preparation of their doctoral disserta­ and the history and development of Chinese as III other painted media. of Chartres), Univ. Frankfurt, Sept. 1978- Villa Schifanoia-Rosary College, Florence; tions for publication or in special cases for re­ art. March 1979. Denise Thomas, Harvard Univ. search leading to a first substantial publica­ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. George Heard tion. Sixty-five grants were awarded. Among BRITISH STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS In-residence research and study appoint­ Art ofth~ Near East. Walter Denny, Area Hamilton, Kress Professor; Laura Rose, the recipients: Jeffrey C. Anderson, George Resident fellowships at the Yale Center for ments. In the fIeld of art history: Predoctoral C.I.N.O.A. Award of Art HIstory, Bartlett Hall, University of Kress Fellow; Mary Elizabeth A. Smith, Washington Univ.: The manuscripts of the British Art. Recipients for 1978-1979 in­ fe~lows: Douglas Hyland, Univ. Delaware: First prize in an international competition Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. 01003. II Kress Fellow. Kokkinobaphos group: Vincent A. Carretta, clude: Charles Rhyne, Reed College: To Ric~ard Rubenfeld, Ohio State Univ.; Julie sponsored by the Confederation Interna­ INSTITUTIONAL. Celeste Anne Brusati, Univ. Iowa (English): Verbal and visual polit­ write and do research related a catalogue SchImmel, New York Univ.; Beverly Schrei­ tlonale des Negociants en Oeuvre d'Art wa Prentenkabinetl Kunsthistorisch Instituut, ical satire in Georgian England; Karen P. raisonne of Constable's paintings; Louis ber, Harvard Univ.; David Schuyler, Col­ won by Lindgren, S. U.N. Y. at Ston; VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS Leiden; Pamela D. Kingsbury, Courtauld Foster, Univ. New Haven (Archaeology): Hawes, Indiana Univ: To carry out indepen­ umbia Univ.; Michael Shapiro, Harvard CI~i~e B.roo~. This IS the ftrst time an American art Institute; Robert Melzak, Zentralinstitut Aegean faience of the Bronze Age; Jane B. dent research for a possible exhibition Univ. Postdoctoral fellows: Wanda Corn Amherst College ~lstonan ha.s Won this international competi­ Fur Kunstgeschichte, Munich; Adelaide Friedman, Univ. Tulsa: An iconological ex­ devoted to an aspect of Romantic art; Geof­ New York Univ.; Jean Yellin, Univ. Illinois: Miriam Schapiro. Painting and seminar en­ Uon. Dr. Lmdgren was awarded $5,000 for Cothran Winstead, Bibliotheca Hertziana. amination of the half-length devotional por­ frey Ashton, England: To compile a titled "Challenging Assumptions: A Fem­ ~er manuscript, Classical Forms and Bar bar­ RENEWALS. Barbara W. Henrikson, Bibli­ trait diptych in the Netherlands, 1460-1530; catalogue of the Center's theatrical paintings inist Approach to Contemporary Issues in lan Mutations, which will be used to help her otheca Hertziana; Elizabeth Sears, Warburg Constance C. Hungerford, Swarthmore Col­ and drawing; Michael Liversidge, Univ. Art- Making." Fall semester. publish the work. Institute: Nora Wiseman, Bibliotheca lege: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier as a mili­ Bristol: To complete work related to a RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE Hertziana. tary painter; Hetty Joyce, Brooklyn, N.Y.: monographic study of William Marlow; John Fellowships for women artists and scholars at University of Arizona, Tucson AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME. Gail Feigen­ Interior decoration in the later Roman Em­ Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum: To the Institute for Independent Study. Twenty­ ERRATA Jeff Hoare. Painting. 1978-79. baum, Princeton Univ.; Barbara A. Kel­ pire; Richard Koszarski, School Visual Arts: provide a catalogue of the Center's miniatures five fellows were appointed for the 1978-1979 Eleanor Moty. Metalsmith. Spring semester. June 1978 issue: In the announcement of lum, Harvard Univ.; Michael Mezzatesta, The films of Erich von Stroheim; Elizabeth and to do independent research. aca.demic year, among them: Ruth Butler, John Perreault. Criticism. Spring semester. New York Univ.; William Tronzo, Harvard McKinsey, Harvard Univ. (English): Theim­ Uruv. Massachusetts, Boston: Early Rodin ACLS travel grants, both institutional afftlia­ tion and international conference for David Univ. age of Niagara Falls in early 19th-century ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES sculpture; Marilyn R. Pappas, Massa­ University of California, Santa Barbara painting and literature; Robert E. Rent­ Among the new members elected to the chusetts College of Art, Illusionism and col­ L. Simon were incorrectly reported. He Cheryl Bowers. Painting. 1978-79. teaches at S. U. N. Y., College at Cortland ACLS GRANTS-IN-AID scheler, Ohio State Univ. (German): A his­ American Academy of Arts and Sciences last lage; Miriam Ruth Weinstein, Massachu­ EllenJohnson. Art history. Winter quarter. Awarded to 106 scholars from 73 academic tory of German fIlms. May: Philip Guston, New York City: setts College of Art: Adaptation of personal and was awarded the grant to attend a con: Thomas Kren. Art history. 1978-79. ference sponsored by the Centre Penn anent institutions for post-doctoral research in the Dimitri Hadzi, Harvard Univ.; Robert L. documentary techniques to narrative cinema. Agnes Mongan. Art history. Winter quarter humanities and related social sciences. Herbert, Yale Univ.; H.W. Janson, New de Recherches et d'Etudes Romanes du Ludwig Redl. Sculpture. 1978-79. . Among'the recipients: William W. Clark, ACLS FELLOWSHIPS York Univ.; Irving Lavin, Institute for Ad­ Roussillon at the Abbaye de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, France. Richard Ross. ,Printmaking. 1978-79. Queens College, CUNY: The role of the bias­ For periods of six months to one year. vanced Study: Sir John Pope-Hennessy, ARTS AWARDS A. Harvard University, set capital in the development of Gothic ar­ Seventy-eight fellowships were awarded. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert The American Academy and Institute of Arts Bar~ara Kellu~, Clark Art Institute/Williams College was omitted from the list of American Acade­ chitecture in Normandy; Claus-Peter Among the recipients: Svetlana Alpers, Rauschenberg, New York City; Craig Hugh and Letters held its 38th annual awards Albert Boime. SUNY, Binghamton. Robert my in Rome fe~lows. She is the recipient of the Clasen, Univ. California, Los Angeles Univ. California, Berkeley: Seventeenth­ Smyth, Villa I Tatti; Leo Steinberg, Univ. ceremony last May. The Award of Merit Sterling Clark Visiting Professor. Fall tenn. 1978~79 cl~slcal archaeology fellowship for (History): A history of the Augsberg weavers, century northern European art of describing; Pennsylvania: Saul Steinberg, New York Medal for Sculpture was presented to Tony Jaromir Sip. Narodni Galerie, Prague. Rob­ ~ project enutled Roman Portraiture as Polz't­ 1500-1800; Susan B. Downey, Univ. Caljfor- Eloise M. Angiola, Univ. Alabama: Gug- City: Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton Univ. Smith. Among new members elected to the ert Sterlmg Clark Visiting Professor. Spring ~calPropaganda: The Forum ofAugustus. II term. II 4 September 1978 5 ------.1

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Attention All Kress Fellows film, philosophy, and psychology (especially annum; predoctoral stipend $7,000 per an­ If you have not kept the Foundation up-to­ as a means of promoting creativity among num; both plus research allowances. For ad­ be Andre Chastel, "French Renaissance Art Minority Student Fellowships NOTES FROM THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS date with your progress, degrees, jobs, etc., university students in the arts and humani­ ditional information and application forms: and the European Perspective," Eugene F. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation please send a complete curriculum to: Mary ties). Critiques of the Jungian perspective are Office of Fellowships and Grants, SI, Rice, "St. Jerome in France," and Marcel has received a grant of $340,000 from The Lee Anne Miller, President of WCA, has M. Davis, Executive Vice President, Samuel welcome. Send abstracts of 500 words for Washington, D.C. 20560. Application dead­ Tetel, "Montaigne, Castiglione and Tasso." Andrew W, Mellon Foundation to establiSh a been appointed Professor of Art and Chair of H. Kress Foundation, 221 West 57th Street, papers approximately twenty minutes in line: January 15. General sessions are scheduled for papers on program of minority student fellowships for the Department of Art and Art History, New York, N.Y. 10019. This applies to any­ length to: Donald W. Fritz, Dept. of English, any aspect of the Renaissance, with two spe­ graduate work in the humanities. Art history Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich, one who has received any kind of Kress grant 234 Upham Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Humanities Fellowships at Columbia cial sessions reserved for the French Renais­ is among the 15 fields included in the pro­ 48202. As of September 1, 1978, the National from any source, Ohio 45056. Deadline: December 15. The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Hu­ sance and some sessions in the area of Refor­ gram, Ten fellowships will be awarded in Headquarters of the Caucus will be moved to manities, with grants from the Andrew W. mation studies. For additional information April, 1979 for the Fall term; another 10 will that address. Lombard Art Award Humanism Conference Mellon Foundation and the William R. and abstract specifications: Edward J. be awarded in 1980. The Instituto per la Storia dell' Arte Lombar­ An interdisciplinary conference on "The Re­ Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post­ Olszewski, program chairman, CRC, c/o CIC is a consortium of 11 Midwestern uni­ da has announced a competition for the "Bor­ vival of Learning in the Italian Renaissance" doctoral fellows in the humanities for the Dept. of Art, Mather House, Case Western versities-the Big Ten universities and the The Caucus recently received a grant from sa di Studio Dott. Virginia Gatti," a prize of 2 to be held at Duke University, November academic year 1979-1980. New fellows must Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. University of Chicago. Recipients of the fel­ the National Endowment for the Arts to help million Lire, to be awarded for a doctoral 10-12. Program will include nine one-hour have received the Ph.D. between Jan. 1, 1977 Deadline for abstracts: December 1, lowships may use the award at any of the CIC finance publication of its Newsletter. The dissertation dealing with Lombard art. The lectures plus a concert, banquet, and recep­ and July 1, 1979. Stipend $14,000: half for universities, provided they are accepted for new Editor of the Caucus Newsletter is Susan subject may be either art in Lombardy, Lom­ tion, Charles Dempsey, Bryn Mawr College, independent research and half for interde­ admission to graduate study. Each fellowship Rossen, who has been Senior Editor and Coor­ bard artists active outside Lombardy, or for­ will speak on "Gentile Bellini and the Hiero­ partmental teaching, probably with modest Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships will provide full tuition plus a stipend of dinator of Publications at the Detroit Institute eign artists active in Lombardy. Dissertations glyphic Lore of the Renaissance." Other fields additional grants. Applications from: Direc­ Residential program for advanced scholarly $4,000 for each of two academic years. Two of Arts since 1972. Address correspondence to submitted for the Ph.D. during the years covered include comparative literature tor, Room 1509, International Affairs Build­ research; proposals for studies in the creative additional years of financial support will be her at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 1976, 1977, or 1978 are eligible, regardless of (Thomas M. Greene, Yale), music history ing, Columbia University, N.Y,C. 10027, arts as well as art history may be submitted, provided by the doctoral candidate's institu­ Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48202. the nationality of the author or the location of (Warren Kirkendale, Duke), philosophy Application deadline: November 1. Applicants must be on post-doctoral or tion as long as normal progress towards the the university concerned. Submit copy of (Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia), and reli­ equivalent level; residency is nonnally four Ph.D. is made. doctoral diploma and of dissertation (with gionQohn W. O'Malley, S.J., Univ, Detroit), Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowships months to one year, with minimum of four Graduate students and anyone who has or Sylvia Walters, Chair of the Department of illustrations), which will be returned. ISAL, No fee, but early registration is requested and For promising junior faculty who have com­ moriths; stipends '(less sabbatical salary, other will receive a bachelor's degree by September, Art at the UniversityofMissouri-St. Louis, will Piazza Duomo 14, 20122 Milan, Italy. Appli­ reservations for hotel rooms and banquet pleted, at the time of appointment, the Ph,D. funding, etc,) is generally equal to previous 1979 is eligible to apply for the 1979 compe­ serve as the first Director of Fund-Raising for cation deadline: January 15. must 'be made well in advance. For registra­ and at least two years of post-doctoral teach­ year's income. For additional information tition. For additional information: CIC Mi­ the Caucus, Mary Fish, a sculptor who lives in tion: HC, Dept. of Music, Duke University, ing on the college or university level. Tenured and application materials: Woodrow Wilson nority Fellowships Program, Kirkwood Hall Westport, Conn., will serve as Co-ordinator of British Art Center Fellowships Durham, N.C. 27708. professors not eligible. One-year appoint­ International Center for Scholars, Smith­ 111, Indiana University, Bloomington. Ind. Publicity. Joining the Caucus Advisory Board For senior scholars. Preference will be given ments with limited teaching responsibilities, sonian Institution Building, Room 321, 47401; between Sept. 15-Jan.15, toll free are Barbara Zucker, sculptor from New York to those scholars interested in organizing an Conference on Castiglione departmental affiliation, opportunity to Washington, D.C. 20560. Application dead­ call, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EST (800) City, and Judith Stein, art historian from exhibition, writing a scholarly catalogue for To celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary broaden and demonstrate scholarly poten­ line: October 1. 457-4420, Application deadline: January 15. Philadelphia, the Center, or carrying out research related to of the birth of Baldassare Castiglione, the riaL The awards pay $14,000 annually. For particular areas of the collection. Fellows will Casa Italiana of Columbia University is spon­ additional information: Richard M, Hunt, be required to be in residence in New Haven soring a public conference on "Castiglione: Program Director, HMFF, Lamont Library ACLS Yellow Pages Due to an overload of work responsibilities, during the bulk of the grant period and may The Real and the Ideal in Renaissance 202, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, Application The handy dandy booklet (we can't recall MACAA Visual Resources Sessions Nancy Russell has reluctantly found it neces­ also be invited to lecture, teach courses, or Culture," on October 27 and 28. Papers by deadline: November 1. whether it is always yellow) announcing the The Visual Resources Sessions at the 42nd sary to resign as WCA national membership work informally with students at Yale Univer­ scholars in a variety of disciplines will focus "Aids to Individual Scholars" offered through annual meeting of the Mid-American College secretary. The interim membership secretary sity. Grants normally include travel expenses on the tension between the age's formulation Rome Prize Fellowships -the American Council of Learned Societies Art Association (Renaissance Center, Detroit, will be Donna Bachmann, Department of and living allowance. Submit resume, names of ideals and its recognition of complex, The American Academy in Rome announces for the coming academic year is now Oct. 25-28) are open to anyone interested in Art and Art History, University of Missouri, of three references, and outline of research often harsh realities. Speakers include the opening of its 76th annual competition. available. For copies: ACLS, 345 East 46 aspects of photography, slide cataloguing, Kansas City, Mo, 64110. proposal (including time required to com­ Charles Singleton, emeritus, Johns Hopkins Fellowships are available to professional art­ Street, N.Y.C. 10017. arts grantsmanship and photographic ar­ plete) to Director, Yale Center for British Art, Univ.; Thomas Greene, Yale Univ,; James ists and to scholars in the history of art (plus chives. For additional information: Linda Box 2120 Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. Haar, N.Y.U.; Wayne Rebhorn, Univ, other fields). Fellows pursue independent Barry, Slide Curator, 150 Community Arts, 1979 annual meeting: call for papers 06520, Application deadline: November 1. Texas; Eduardo Saccone, Johns Hopkins projects and receive a stipend, allowances, Fellowships for Venetian Research Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. 48208. The 1979 WCA annual meeting will be held Univ.; and Diane Trafton, Rockford Col­ and room and a studio or study at the Aca­ The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of­ III in Washington, D.C" January 3D-February Radcliffe Institute Fellowships for Women lege, For further information: Castiglione demy facilities in Rome, For information and fers grants for research in Venice on any 3. The Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachu­ Full-time appointments to professional wom­ Conference c/o R. W, Hanning, 410 application forms: Rome Prize Fellowships, aspects of the history of Venice or the former setts Avenue, N,W., will serve as head­ en to pursue independent projects as members Hamilton Hall, or David Rosand, 815 AAR, 41 East 65 Street, N.Y.C. 10021. Ap­ Venetian empire. Applicants must be U.S. 1------1 quarters hotel for the Caucus, with events of an interdisciplinary community of scholars Schermerhorn Hall, both Columbia Univer­ plication deadline: November 15. citizens, must have some experience in ad­ scheduled both there and at the Washington and artists, Most appointments are for one sity, N. Y.C. 10027. vanced research, and, if graduate students, CAUCUS FOR MEDITATION AND ART Hilton, Those wishing to participate should year; stipend ca. $12,000. The principle cri­ Victorian Studies Conference must have completed all doctoral require­ submit their proposals to the chairs of the ses­ teria are that the:; year at the Institute will Young Americans: Metal/Enamel The Midwest Victorian Studies Association is ments except for the dissertation. For further The Caucus for Meditation and Art will hold sions listed below by September 30; make a significant difference in the profes­ The American Crafts Council has organized a soliciting papers and discussion group pro­ information: Delmas Foundation, 40 Wall an ad hoc program session on Art and Con­ Questioning the Litany, Part II: Feminist sciousness at the 1979 CAA annual meeting. sionallife of the Fellow and that the project is major competition to give recognition to new posals for its annual spring meeting to be held Street, N.Y.C. 10005. Application deadline: Views of Art History, Christine M, Havelock, "This session will focus on the notion that the likely to make an important contribution to talent working in metal and enamel. Appli­ in St. Louis April 20 and 21. Papers may be on January 15. Box 358, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y . any aspect of Victorian England and the Em­ purpose of art is the evolution of conscious­ her field, Applicants may be at any level of cants must be U,S. residents between the ages 12601. career development but must have received of 18 and 30; the work must have been exe­ pire, provided that they are of interest to a ness through the articulation of higher or re­ their doctorates before June 30,1977. Appli­ cuted within the past two years. Application broadly interdisciplinary audience. For sub­ Symposium on Watercolors and Drawings fined states of awareness. Proposals for talks Environmental Sculpture, Multi-Media Art Environments, Performance and Events, cation forms: Fellowship Program, Institute forms will be available on September 30 from mission specifications: Lawrence Poston, A symposium on American Watercolors and should be based on a psychophysiological def­ Muriel Magenta, Dept. of Art, Arizona State for Independent Study, Radcliffe College, Young Americans, ACC, 44 West 53 Street, Dept. English, University of Illinois at Drawings is scheduled for May under the inition of higher states of consciousness, for 3 James Street, Cambridge, Mass, 02138, Ap­ N.Y.C.10019. Application deadline: Dec. 1. Chicago Circle, Box 4348, Chicago, Ill. sponsorship of several Boston institutions. example, such states as have been scientifical­ University, Tempe, Ariz. 85281. plication deadline: October 16, 60680. Submission deadline: December L Papers based on original research and suit­ ly demonstrated by the Transcendental Med­ Landscape: Observed and Transformed, Smithsonian Institution Fellowships able for a 30-minute presentation are invited. itation and TM-Sidhi programs. , .. Topics Lenore Malen 152 East 49 Street, New York, Jungian Stud,ies Conference To support independent research in associa­ Renaissance Conference Honoraria, travel and lodging for the sym­ may include the mechanics of consciousness N.Y. 10028. A call for papers that examine the nature of tion with the Smithsonian staff and using The annual meeting of the Central Renais­ posium will be paid. Abstracts should be in art, the future of consciousness and art, Folk Art and Neo-Folk Art, Judith Stein, creativity and that present Jungian critical Smithsonian museum collections and other sance Conference will be held in Cleveland, addressed to Archives of American Art, 87 etc." Proposals to Michael Cain, Dept. Art, 2400 Waverly, Philadelphia, Pa. 19146. studies of the arts, architecture, literature, facilities. Post-doctoral stipend $12,000 per Ohio, March 22-24. Featured speakers will Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. 02108 Maharishi International University, Fair­ Norma Broude III Deadline: November 15. field, Iowa 52556. Deadline: October 15. II The American University 6 CAA newsletter September 1978 7 placement: 1911-1918 annual review POSITIONS Iplacement: 1977-1978 annual review With more applicants and fewer positions, APPLICANTS Earned Masters Since we do not view these annual placement reports as a means of dispensing false optimism, it the ratio of applicants to openings obviously went up. This year the overall ratio was 2.1 to Masters Candidates Others All Applicants is perhaps best to get the worst over with quickly: this year there were more applicants (an in­ Artists MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE TOTAL crease of 227, or 11 %) and fewer positions (a decrease of 167, or 14%) than last. The growth 1 (1.5 to 1 last year). For artists, the ratio was 2.2 to 1 (1. 6 to 1 last year) and for art Painting and Drawing 247 168 64 66 17 21 328 255 583 rate in the number of applicants is lower than the growth rate in CAA membership (16 %) over Sculpture 109 40 34 11 16 7 158 57 215 the same period and could be viewed as a positive sign that the field is growing faster than historians 2.3 to 1 (1. 9 to 1 last year). "Others" do relatively well, with a ratio of 1.4 to 1, Printmaking 73 59 23 19 8 96 86 182 unemployment within it. The decrease in the number of positions is neither so pleasantly ex­ which is what pulls up the overall average. Graphic Design 11 5 1 1 12 6 18 plained nor explained away. We have certainly not let down in our efforts to obtain listings; in 3-D Design 3 1 2 5 1 6 fact, almost every week sees additions to the file of institutions we regularly solicit for listings of Some areas of specialization do a lot worse (and in rare cases, a lot better) than others. Ceramics 57 32 11 19 3 4 71 55 126 their openings. If we have fewer listings, it probably means there are fewer jobs out there. Jewelry/Metalwork 3 9 1 6 1 2 5 17 22 To continue on this general note of cheerfulness: despite adoption of the "Standards for Pro­ There are 7 applicants for each opening in PhotogTaphy 42 21 15 5 5 2 62 28 90 fessional Placement" (see CAA newsletter, December 1977, copies available upon request), we painting and drawing. In sculpture, the ratio Video 1 2 2 2 3 4 7 have not been nearly as successful as we would like in obtaining hiring reports from institutions is 5.5 applicants for each opening and in printmaking 3.9 to 1. In 2-D and 3-D design, Filmmaking 11 4 6 1 17 5 22 that list positions with us. There has been a slight improvement: last year we received 281 however, there were 4.6 jobs listed for each Multimedia/Conceptual Art 16 8 1 4 17 13 30 reports for 1208 positions listed (a return of 23 %); this year we received 365 reports for 1041 applicant. For art historians, the worSt ratio Weaving/Textile Design 3 15 9 2 3 26 29 positions listed (a return of 35 %). What is perhaps significant - and depressing-is that with a Woodworking 1 1 2 2 gTeater percentage of institutions reporting, we see an increase in the percentage of openings of applicants to jobs (excluding historians of' film/photogTaphy/prints, for whom there Glassblowing 3 3 3 reported cancelled: last year the proportion was 8.5 %; this year it is 12 % . are no jobs listed) is among Americamsts: 5.4 Commercial Art 5 2 1 7 1 8 to 1; the best ratio is in modem European art, Studio Fundamentals 6 7 2 1 1 1 9 9 18 where there are 1.9 applicants per opening. 591 371 154 140 53 52 798 563 1361

Areas of Specialization. The percentage OVERVIEW: APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS (1977 and 1978) of "unspecified" or "broad" listings is down, both for art historians and for artists. For art­ Earned Doctoral This chart is based on the keysort curriculum vitae forms on file for CAA members for the ists, such listings constitute 30% of all open­ Doctorate Candidates Others All Applicants calendar year 1978 and on the openings included in the Positions Listingsfor the academic year ings, compared with 33% last year. For art Art Historians MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE TOTAL 1977-1978. Repeat listings have been eliminated. historians, the decrease is more considerable: Primitive/Pre-Columbian/Latin American 6 5 2 2 , 2 11 10 18 28 down to 39% from 57% last year. This Ancient/Classical 5 7 4 10 4 8 13 25 38 Applicants Openings Applicants Openings change in job descriptions has meant that Early Christian/ Byzantine 4 4 2 1 1 6 6 12 Artists 1977 1976-77 1978 1977-78 despite that fact that the total number of Medieval 7 21 8 15 5 13 20 49 69 Unspecified or Broad 211 188 listings is down, there has been a slight in­ Renaissance 17 31 9 31 5 21 31 84 115 Painting and Drawing 478 92 583 84 crease in the number of jobs listed for most Baroque 9 7 15 12 5 6 29 24 53 Sculpture 189 40 215 39 areas of specialization. Major exceptions to Modern European 10 14 18 31 7 36 35 81 116 Printmaking 161 41 182 47 this generalization are painting, which is American 13 10 12 27 14 39 39 76 115 Photography 72 47 90 48 down from 92 to 84 positions, and commer­ Contemporary 3 3 1 12 3 16 19 Ceramics 76 50 126 49 cial art, which is up from 2 to 18. Islamic 4 4 4 2-D and 3-D Design 37 121 24 111 In art history, the greatest increase is in the Central and Southeast Asia 1 4 3 2 1 2 5 8 13 Weaving/Textile Design 25 22 29 11 field of modern European art: from 23 posi­ Far East 3 5 5 6 4 5 12 16 28 Video/Film/Multi-Media 55 11 59 16 tions in 1976-77 to 61 positions this year. History of Prints/Drawings 1 2 8 3 8 11 Jewelry/ Metalwork 16 10 22 15 Other above-average increases were in the History of Film 1 1 2 2 Glassblowing 2 2 3 areas of Ancient/Classical: fronl 6 to 17 posi­ History of Photography 2 2 3 5 5 7 12. Woodworking 3 2 1 tions; Early Christian/Byzantine/Medieval: Architectural History 10 6 3 6 6 7 19 19 38 Commercial Art/Illustration 8 2 8 15 from 2 to 14; Renaissance/Baroque: from 26 Afro-American 1 1 2 2 Studio Fundamentals 19 18 to 36 positions; and Architectural History: Art Appreciation/ Survey 1 4 2 4 16 7 21 28 from 7 to 18. Openings in American art, 90 122 85 148 62 196 237 466 703 1141 649 1361 624 which increased from 9 to 32 in last year's Art Historians tally, dropped to 25 this year. Other fields Museum Professionals 13 37 50 Unspecified or Broad 192 119 that show a decrease are Pre-Columbian/ (Since terminal degrees in these fields vary, we have not Art Educators 10 13 23 Pre·Columbian/Primitive 29 10 28 4 Primitive/Latin American: from 10 openings given the breakdown for earned degrees, candidacies, etc.) 7 24 31 Ancient/Classical 47 6 38 17 to 4; and History of Film/Photography/ Art and Slide Librarians 28 15 43 Early Christian/Byzantine/ Medieval 88 2 81 14 Prints: 7 openings last year, but none in Administrators Renaissance/Baroque 192 26 168 36 1977-78. Openings for museum profession· TOTALS 1093 1118 2211 Modern European 113 23 116 61 als, which increased from 63 to 103 last year, American/Contemporary 110 32 134 25 are back down to 65. Near and Far East 44 22 35 15 History of Film/ Photography/Prints 27 7 25 Rank and Salary. As has been the case Architectural History 35 7 38 18 ever since we began keeping these records, listings, 218 instructor, 160 assistant profes· completion. For artists, 440 pOSitIOns Art Appreciation/Survey 30 28 most positions listed with the CAA are either "open" or at the level of instructor or assistant sor, 25 associate professor, and 51 full profes­ specified the M.F.A. degree or its equivalent. 715 327 703 309 professor. With equal consistency, positions sor or chair; Art Historians: 77 open listings, Only a 'very small proportion of the remaining for art historians tend to be listed at higher 48 instructor, 103 assistant professor, 29 aSso­ listings specifically stated that they would ac­ Museum Professionals 36 103 50 65 ranks than for artists. For artists, 35% of the ciate professor, 24 full professor or chair. cept less than the terminal degree; the re­ Art Educators 23 56 23 32 positions listed were at the level of instructor Most listings do not specify salary. mainder simply did not specify. Previous ex­ Art and Slide Librarians 33 14 31 9 and 26% at the level of assistant professor; for perience was a stated requirement for 338 art­ Administrators 36 51 43 art historians, only 16% of the openings listed Qualifications: Terminal degrees or ad­ ist openings and for 210 of the positions for art Miscellaneous 8 2 were at the level of instructor and 33 % were vanced candidacies are required for the vast historians. at the level of assistant professor. Specific majority of positions listed. For art historians, Contz'nued on p. 10, col. 1 TOTALS 1984 1208 2211 1041 breakdowns were as follows: Artists: 154 open 215 positions required the Ph.D. or near

8 CAA newsletter September 1978 9 ,

Iplacement: 1977-1978 annual review shows by artist members

APPLICANTS A listing ofsolo exhibit£ons by artist members son Univ., Harrisonburg, Va. Sept. 11-22. Marion Miller. Brattleboro Museum of Art, of the CAA. Listings should include name Recent paintings, paperworks, and metal­ Vt. May 7-June 3. "Southern Watercolors." Almost the entire increase in job applicants of artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of works. took place among artist members, with the exhibition, and medium. Florence Putterman. Nancy Steck Gallery, pool of applicants among art historians and Peter H. Gordon. Razor Gallery, N.Y.C. New Orleans. Sept.-Oct. Bank of America "others" remaining almost stable. Twenty­ Walter Askin. Ericson Gallery, N.Y.C. Sept. 30-0ct. IS. Paintings. Headquarters, San Francisco, Sept,-Oct. nine percent of all CAA members are job ap­ Sept. 20-0ct.14. Paintings on paper. John Bohlen Gallery, Los Angeles. Nov.-Dec. plicants (i.e., have filed curriculum vitae Salvatore Grippi. Everson Museum, Syra­ Lithographs, watercolors, monotypes. forms with us). Among artist members, the Barbara Aubin. Fairweather Hardin Gal­ cuse, N.Y. April 14-May 21. Drawings. proportion is 37%; among art historians, lery, Chicago. June 13-July S. Mixed media, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, N.Y. Yasue Sakaoka. Arnot Museum, Elmira, 16%. water-colors, postcards. Sept. 12-29. N.Y. May 27-June 8. Recent prints, construc­ tions, and "Tide Series" (plywood). Race. Among artist applicants there were Jeffrey Bain. The Main Gallery, Houston. Marianna Hamilton. Exhibitors Gallery, 6 black males, 1 black female, 11 other mi­ Dec. S-29. Watercolors and works on paper. Charleston, S.C. Oct. 7-Nov. 3. Watercolors; Richard M. Salter. De Paul University nority males and 8 other minority females. The Gallery, Spartanburg, S.C. Oct. 22- Gallery, Chicago. May; Art Mfair Gallery, Among art historian applicants there were 1 printmaking women constitute the same 47% of those seeking positions through the CAA John Balsley. Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chi­ Nov. 14. Works on paper and cloth; Colum­ Rockford, Ill. June 9-July 15; Western Illinois black male and 7 other minority males. as last year, but since the proportion of are relatively recent graduates. Thirty-eight cago. May 13-June 7. Mixed media paintings bia College Music and Art Center S. C. Nov. University Gallery, Macomb. November. women among artist applicants has gone up, percent of artists and 37 % of art historians and sculpture (fetishes). 1-30. Works on paper. Mixed media paintings and drawings. Sex. The proportion of women in the appli­ the discrepancy is less than in the past. earned their terminal degrees within the past cant pool continues to grow, Among artists, Judith A. Beckman. C.M. Gallery, College two years; in both groups, 60% of the degrees William Havlicek. Inland Empire Gallery, Valerie Jesraly Seligsohn. Gross-McCleat women now constitute 41 % of all applicants, Misericordia, Dallas, Pa. July 1-26. Employment Status. Among applicants were earned within the past four years; and Riverside, Calif. Aug. 8-20, Oil and pastel on Gallery, Philadelphia. Sept. 1-30. "Islands," a steady increase from 33% in 1976 and 36% "Borders." wz"th earned terminal degrees, a greater pro­ SO% of artist applicants and 79% of art canvas. Riverside Art Center and Museum. recent work. Franklin Gallery Cornell Univ., in, 1977 . (Other studies show that women now portion of art historians than artists and a historian applicants earned their degrees Sept. 9-0ct. 8. Paintings, drawings, mixed Ithaca, N.Y. Sept. 23-0ct. 8. Paintings, constitute approximately 50% of all M.F.A. greater proportion of males than females are Priscilla Birge. Tim Blackburn Gallery, within the past seven years. media on paper. gouache on paper and drawings. graduates; the CAA pool, however, is made currently employed. (We copied that sen­ N.Y.C. Sept. 12-0ct. 7. Electrostatic art. up of past graduates-when the proportion of tence word-for-word from last year's annual men was considerably higher- as well as of report, and from the report the year before MFA EARNED MALE FEMALE TOTAL Dean Carter. Danville Museum of Fine Arts Cynthia Karasek. Fifth Street Gallery, Dee Shapiro. Moreau Gallery, Three-Saint those earning their degrees now.) Among art that.) Where a significant change has taken 1976-77 193 163 356 and History, Va. April2-May 5. Sculpture. N.Y.C. June 7-30. Paintings and a wall in­ Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind. Sept. historians, women constitute 66% of all place is in the percentages unemployed, 1974-75 123 76 199 stallation. 15-0ct. 11. Paintings and paperworks. applicants. Last year the proportion was which has increased in all categories but most 1971-73 127 58 185 Reginald Case. Everson Museum of Art, 63 %, and the year before 68 % . significantly for female artists and for male 1966-70 82 38 120 Syracuse. Sept. 29-Nov. 5. Recent collages. Barbara Lekberg. Mount Holyoke College Sue Toplinkar and Pat Vecchione. Works For artist applicants the level of prepara­ art historians. For female art historians, the 1961-65 28 17 45 Museum, South Hadley, Mass. Sept. 21-0ct. Gallery, San Jose, Calif. Recent sculpture, "A tion among males and females is relatively drop in full-time employment has been par­ 1951-61 II 7 18 Dorothy Gillespie. Sawhill Gallery, Madi- 31. Sculpture 1945-1978. Matter of Latex and Lawn." II similar: for males 73% had earned masters, tially absorbed by an increase in part-time pre 1950 3 3 21 % were masters candidates, and 6% were employment. Although we are not in the busi­ "other." For females 66% had earned mas­ ness of dispensing false optimism, it should be Iplacement: 1977-1978 annual review ters, 25% were masters candidates, and 9% borne in mind that in view of the present PH.D. EARNED were "other." Among art historians there is a situation a greater proportion of those cur­ 1976-77 31 43 74 viewing 90. The median num ber of interviews ARTISTS, Of 108 usable reports, 29 place­ four placements as lecturer, at salaries rang­ larger proportion of female applicants who rently employed may have taken themselves 1974-75 13 32 45 for "other" positions was 6, with 5 institutions ments were at the rank of instluctor, salary ing from- $13,000 to $16,000. In the "good have neither earned nor are pursuing the ter­ out of the job market and chosen to stay put 1971-73 16 22 38 interviewing more than 25 candidates and range $7,000-$14,750, median $11,500; and news" department: the median salary for minal degree. Among males 38% have rather than to seek a more desirable position. 1966-70 14 19 33 none more than 35. 47 were at the rank of assistant professor, assistant professor went up by $500 and pro~ earned doctorates, 36% are doctoral candi­ 1961-65 5 4 9 salary range $10,000-$17,500, median portionately more positions were filled at that dates, and 26% are "other"; among females Year Degree Earned. As in the past, most 1951-61 8 I 9 Male/Female Ratio. Noteworthy, partic­ $14,000. Both median figures are up $500 rank: only62% last year, 75% this year. "Bad 26% have earned doctorates, 32% are doc­ ularly because it has occurred for the third from last year. Nine associate professorships news" is that despite inflation, median salary toral candidates, and 42% are "pther." year in succession, is the fact that women tend were filled, with salaries ranging from at the instructor level remained the same. For to apply for proportionately fewer positions $14,000 to $22,500 and 3 full professorships art historians there were no discernible dif­ Areas of Specialization. In most areas of than do men. Thus, while women constitute were filled with salaries of $20,000, $22,000, ferences in either rank or salary between men specialization the number of applicants re­ HIRING REPORTS 41 % ofthe artist applicant pool, they account and $25,000 respectively. There were also 20 and women; in fact, the highest salary flects the proportionate increase (or in the for only 33% of the actualapplicatt'ons; while positions filled as lecturers, visiting artists, no reported went to a woman. case of art historians, the stability) of the Again, we bemoan the fact that institutional of 30 applications, with only 3 institutions women constitute 66 % of the art historian ap­ rank, etc., at salaries ranging from $8,000- applicant pool. The most notable exception is returns of the "Report on Positions Listings" receiving more than 100. The median num­ plicant pool, they account for only 50% of the $18,000. At the lower ranks there is no dis­ "I got my job through ... " The CAA, is painting and drawing: up from 478 last year were so poor. We received only 365 hiring re­ ber of applications in the "other" category applications. (It is not possible to establish the cernible difference in median salary for men the answer for IS4 of the 303 placements re­ to 583 at present. In 1976 there were only410 ports for the 1061 positions listed, not all of was 50, with 8 institutions reporting more applicant pool for "other" positions; however, and for women; however, all the positions ported. The primary other source was recom­ applicants in this category-a somewhat which-in many cases unavoidably-provid­ than 100 applications received. women account for 40 % of the applications ranked at associate or full professor were filled mendations by colleagues, which accounted scary increase of 42% over a two-year period. ed all the information we requested. All that in that category.) We have wondered in the by males and, of the ten positions filled at for 39 placements. Past or present employees Ceramacists are also up from 76 to 126. follows must be viewed in the light of this in­ Regardless of the difference in the median past, and wonder still, whether lack of mo­ salaries above $17,000, only one went to a filled 22 positions. Other initial contacts with In art history there are relatively more adequate statistical base. number of applications, the median number bility, lack of confidence, or what, accounts woman. successful candidates came through depart­ Americanists: up from 110 to 134 during a of interviews granted for both artist and art for this discrepancy. mental mailings (20 positions); newspaper period when the total art historian pool re­ Applications and Interviews. As last year, historian openings was 9, with 25 % of the in­ Regardless of the number of applicat£ons, ART HISTORIANS. We received usable data advertisements-chiefly The New York mained stable. Specialists in Early Chris­ the number of applications continues to be stitutions in both categories reporting that women and men were hired in exact propor­ for 92 art historical placements, of which 11 Times and The Chront'cle for Higher Educa­ tian/Byzantine/Medieval are down from 192 staggering. (That's another sentence we they interviewed only 1-3 candidates. Only 7 tion to their representation in the applicant were at the instructor level, salary range tion (11 positions); and other disciplinary to 168. copied word-for-word from the 1977 annual institutions seeking art historians interviewed pool; that is, 41 % of artists hired were women $10.000-$14,000. median $12,500; and 69 associations (6 positions). "Word-of-mouth," Interesting (for want of a better term) report.) For artist openings, the median more than 25 candidates, and the maximum and 66% of art historians hired were women. were at the level of assistant professor, salary the "grapevine," and unsolicited applications gender differentials continue to exist in some number of applications was 100, with 26 insti­ number interviewed was 49; 27 institutions (For "other" openings, 48% of those hired range $9,000-$18,000. median $15.000. provided initial contact for 18 successful ap­ areas of studio specialization. Women con­ tutions reporting more than 200 applications seeking to fill artist openings reported were women.) Four associate professorships were filled at plicants; 2 positions were filled by institutions stitute only 27% of sculpture applicants and and 4 going over the 400 mark. (Last year it interviewing more than 25 candidates; 8 of salaries ranging from $17,500 to $26,500 and going back to their files of previous appli­ only 31 % of photographers, but 90% of was 500, so there's some improvement.) those interviewed between 60 and SO can­ Rank and Salary. Part-time positions are two full professorships were filled at $25,000 cants, and 1 was filled through the Women's applicants in weavingltextile design. In Listings for art historians resulted in a median didates and one institution reported inter- not included. and $31,400 respectively. There were also Building. R.R.W... September 1978 11 10 CAA newsletter ----,

people and programs Ipeople and programs

PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compt"led and edited Coubrey, and William H. Jordy. The de­ department chairman is Eric Van Schaack, tury, was purchased for the college by stu­ The past spring, John Rewald taught at the byEugeniaS. Robbt"ns. Matert'alforinclusion partment has also begun to spend its half of a who joined the faculty in 1977 after several dents, colleagues, and friends. University of Oklahoma as a participant in in the next newsletter should be sent to her at $300,000 grant from the Woods Charitable years of teaching at Goucher. This spring, the Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Pro­ R.F.D. No.2, Peth Road, Randolph, Vt. Fund (shared with the Smart Gallery), on sup· Mary Wilkinson visited the slide collection as Hilton Brown, who has been on the Goucher gram. "Impressionism: The Revolt toward 05060, by October 15. port for dissertation travel grants, the library, one of the first consultants under the Con­ faculty for ten years, most recently serving as Modern Art" was the title of his seminar. the photographic archive, Midway Studios, suIting Services program of the MACAA/VR. chairman of the department of visual arts, IN MEMORIAM and a new museum course to be taught by has been appointed to a new full professorship From Columbia University comes the an­ Katherine Lee Keefe, curator of the Smart On the occasion of the retirement of Smith at the University of Delaware. His new post is nouncement that Howard Hibbard became Harold Rosenberg, art critic for the New Gallery, with the participation of the entire College art professor George Cohen, the in the Winterthur graduate program in the chainnan of the department of art history Yorker and professor at the University of art history faculty. Smith College Museum of Art is honoring him conservation of artistic and historic objects. and archaeology for a three-year term, effec­ Chicago, died this July at the age of 72. Dur­ with a major retrospective. The show, which tive July 1. As CAA members know, Hibbard ing the late 19505 Rosenberg became the includes 134 works executed from 1939 Robert Enggass has resigned as professor in served as editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin leading champion and spokesman for the. The School of Art at the University of Michi­ through 1977, is accompanied by a cataloque art history at the University of Kansas in order from 1974 to 1977. type of painting that had been developing in gan has made three new faculty appointments and will remain on view through Sept. 25. to accept the Fuller E. Callaway Professorship the United States. He was responsible for the for this fall. Joanne Leonard, presently at the University of Georgia. NEW ACTIVITIES most influential and widespread term em­ teaching at Mills, will teach photography and Donald Kuspit, book review editor of the Art The UCLA Art Council has given $250,000 to ployed in connection with American post-war photo history. Hiroko Pijanowski will come Journal and formerly of the University of The new president of the Maryland Institute establish the first endowed chair in the arts at painting. "action painting," and his famous to Ann Arbor from Purdue to teach metal­ North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became chair­ College of Art is Fred Lazarus IV. Lazarus the University. Plans are to bring a distin­ essay on the American Action Painters pro­ smithing and jewelry. Dian Bauer, designer man of the department at SUNY, Stony comes to the Baltimore campus after serving guished visiting professor to one of the art vided the essential critical vocabulary and with the firm of William Kessler Associates, Brook, earlier this month. Mel Pekarsky, with the NEA, under both Nancy Hanks and department's teaching areas, rotating the understanding for the accomplishments of will join the faculty to teach interior design. who had been serving as chairman, continues Livingston Biddle. He waS educated at Clare­ visitors among the disciplines of painting, Jackson Pollock and his generation. Although In addition, Gerome Kamrowski, a member as director of studio art programs. mont Men's College and Harvard Business sculptm:e, graphic arts design, and art Marion Lawrence he never developed much enthusiasm for later of the faculty since 1947, has been appointed School and was formerly president of the history, and thus to bring a variety of out­ generations of artists or theoreticians, his to the Catherine Heller Professorship in the Alyce Kaprow joins the faculty of Williams Washington Council for Equal Business Op­ standing artists and scholars to the university. essays continued to demonstrate a degree of Christian art, on May 19. Born in 1901 in School of Art. College and the. Clark Art Institute. She will portunity. He replaces Theodore E. Klitzke, thoughtfulness and breadth seldom met in art Longport, N.J., Miss Lawrence received her teach photography at the College and super­ vice president for academic affairs and dean The NEH has funded a pilot project at criticism. Rosenberg's criticism was rich, A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1923 and The Michigan faculty was featured in a major vise the photographic facility for both institu­ of the institute since 1968, who had served as SUNY. Plattsburgh, where Judith Van generous, literary, and full of ideas that her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1932. She show at Lever House. New York (visited by tions. acting president since March 1977. Wagner will direct an interdisciplinary pro­ centered on the essential humanism of art. He joined the Barnard College faculty as an in­ many participants at the annual CAA meet­ gram in the fine arts. The first course will be remained a vivid spokesman for the forties structor in 1929 and remained there until her ing), which was then expanded and mounted John Clemmer, professor of drawing and Steven Ostrow director of the Museum of offered during the spring semester of 1979. and fifties, judging subsequent developments retirement in 1967, serving as chairman of the for spring at the Sears Tower Building in painting and Tulane faculty member since Art, Rhode Island School of Design since Entitled "The Avant-Garde: 1890-1925," it is from the vantage point developed during art history department from 1938 to 1967. Chicago. An interesting and informative 1952, has been appointed chairman of the art 1971, has resigned in order to become the new expected to draw participation from the fields those years. His certain convictions, his Her publications were impressive, and so was catalogue accompanied the show. A highlight department of Newcomb College. dean of arts at the University of Southern of art, music, and theatre and to involve prac­ literate and informed point of view, and, for her personality. Long before "role model" of winter work at the School was a special con­ California. titioners and performers as well as historians. those who knew him, his almost overwhelm­ became the cliche that it is at present, Pro­ centrated course on law and the artist given This year Sarah Lawrence College will be By concentrating on\rather limited time peri. ing but gentle physical presence will be sorely fessor Lawrence, teaching at a women's col­ by N. Y.C. attorney Tad Crawford. celebrating its 50th anniversary. As part of New to the faculty at the University of Iowa ods, the individual semester courses should be missed. (DanielJ. Robbins) lege, served as an example of what women the celebration, the college gallery plans to will be Shelley M. Bennett (Ph.D. UCLA), able to explore the interaction among the va­ could accomplish in her chosen discipline. From Duke University comes news of three mount a spring exhibition of alumnae artists who will teach 17th and 18th century art. rious arts as well as the social and political Thomas B. Hess, former editor of Art News, Or, as one of her former students and a lead­ new faculty members. John Spenser. who has to be selected by alumnae curators. Alice' context in which they developed. art critic for New York magazine, and recent­ ing contemporary scholar put it: "she was one directed The Museums Program at the NEA Adams, sculptor, will be artist-in-residence at Nicholas Adams has been appointed chair­ ly appointed chairman of the department of of the last of the grand old ladies of art so ably, has been appointed department the college this fall. Mary Delahoyd, the col­ man of the department of fine arts at Lehigh The Indiana University Art Museum re­ 20th century

12 CAA newsletter September 1978 /people and programs preservation news

In its efforts to encourage the membership to agency within the Department of Health, different materials at Harpers Ferry, W.Va_ located at the University's Urban Center, 22 da, Boggs succeeds Evan Turner. Once Other new directors include Kevin Edward 25425 East 28th Street, New York City, and will again, this leaves Harvard without a senior Consey, now heading the Emily Lowe Gallery take an active role in the preservation of works Education and Welfare (Title II of the Arts, of art, the CAA Committee for the Preserva­ Humanities and Cultural Affairs Act of Octo­ schedule course sessions for evening or noon modernist. In the temporary category, at Hofstra University, and Stephen S. Pro­ tion of Art thought it useful to assemble a ber 8, 1976). It provides financial assistance The Heritage Conservation and Recrea~ hours. The program combines core courses Sydney Freedberg will serve as acting direc­ kopoff, new head of the Institute of Contem­ in business administration (from the MBA tor of the Fogg this year during the sabbatical porary Art, Boston. handlist of Washington agencies with pro­ to ease the burdens borne by museums as a re­ tion Services incorporates the Office of curriculum) with specially developed semi­ of Seymour Slive. Another change in Cam­ grams, funds and services devoted to these sult of their increased use by the public and to Archeology and Historic Preservation, which help them carry out their educational and includes the National Register of Historic nars in such aspects of arts management as bridge is the appointment of Gabriella Jepp­ From farther afield-Paris-comes news of concerns. Using a creative approach to pro­ Places and the studies, surveys and documen­ financial operation, audience development, son, fonner director of the leA in Boston, as the retirement of Jean Adhemar, for forty­ gram guidelines you may find additional conservation roles. Grants are made to muse­ tation of cultural resources of architectural, and the societal role of the arts. acting assistant curator of the Busch-Rei­ five years conservator of the Cabinet des sources to suit your particular preservation ums to maintain, increase or improveservices. (IMS, Room 362H, Hubert H. Humphrey historical, industrial and engineering signi­ singer Museum. Jeppson is replacing Mark Estampes de Paris. Adhemar is succeeded by needs through a careful reading of Cultural ficance under HABS andHAER. Use their re­ NEW FACILITIES Haxthausen during his sabbatical. J-p Sequin, who most recently created the Dlrectory, Gu£de to Federal Funds and Serv­ Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20201. (202) 245-6753) sources for artistic inventories in architectural library at the Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg. ices for Cultural Activities, ed. Linda Coe (Associated Council on the Arts, 770 Seventh settings (such as Watts Towers), or when in­ The University of New Mexico Museum Peter Bermingham, curator of education for The Gazette des Beaux Arts will remain in formation is needed on techniques of preser­ recently completed a new 1,000 square foot the National Collection of Fine Arts since Adhemar's editorial hands, however. Avenue, New York, 1975, and presently be­ The National Endowment for the Hu­ vation. A list of publications disseminated by gallery for photographs. In addition to serv­ 1972, has been named the new head of the ing revised). manities is concerned with the conservation the Technical Preservation Services Division ing as a display area, the gallery will also University of Arizona Museum of Art. He suc­ John M. Wisdom, curator of the Ackland of collections of documents. Through its The National Trust for Historic Preser­ is available upon request through the Com­ house the museum's growing collection of ceeds acting director Kay Jessup. Educated Memorial Art Center and member of the de­ Research Grant program it has given support vation. established by an act of Congress in mittee for the Preservation of Art in the CAA photographic prints. Under the leadership of at the University of Maryland, with a Ph.D_ partment at the University of North Carolina, to institutions in amounts ranging from 1949 as the official private preservation or­ office. (HCRS, Department of the Interior, Van Deren Coke, and with the more recent from Michigan, Bermingham previously has just moved to Houston to be curator of the $1,500 to $75,000 per year. The actual restor­ Washington, D.C.) addition of Beaumont Newhall the photog­ taught at Michigan and at the University of Museum of Fine Arts there. ganization of the United States, encourages ation of documents, manuscripts or drawings raphy and the history of photography have Cincinnati_ public participation in preservation and is considered on a case-by-case bas-is. (NEH, receives and manages sites and donations for Other funds for the restoration of paper come to play increasingly important roles in Van Deren Coke will become curator of Division of Research Grants, Mail Stop 350, preservation programs. It offers a variety of and documents are administered through the the gallery and department at the University. The Mead Art Gallery at Amherst College has photography at the San Francisco Museum of Washington, D.C.) services (administrative, legal, preservation, National Historical Publications and a new-curator in the person of Judith Barter. Modern Art beginning in January. He suc­ reference file of consultants) and gives advice Records Commission of the General Services The University of Arizona this summer an­ Ms Barter, formerly with the St. Louis Art ceeds John Humphrey, who initiated the The National Science Foundation is con­ by telephone or letter. (NTHP, 740-748 Administration. The Records Program gives nounced that a generous donation, given in Museum, succeeds Lewis Shepherd. department and who will continue his in­ cerned with the conservation of systematic Jackson PI., Washington, D.C. 20006. (202) priority to projects designed to salvage or save honor of Joseph Gross by his son, who is head volvement with the Museum. Coke, a trained collections of anthropological material and 638-5200) from imminent destruction records of un­ of the University's department of chemical art historian and a photographer in his own provides financial assistance to ease the bur­ doubted historical value that may be ir­ engineering, will enable it to create a new The University Art Gallery at Florida State right, will maintain a connection with the dens borne by museums as a result of their in­ gallery. Located just inside the main entrance University, Tallahassee, also has a new direc­ University of New Mexico. The National Museum Act is admin­ creased use by the public. Priority is given to retrievably lost if immediate action is not to the art building, the gallery will evolve tor: Albert A. Stewart, who comes from istered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its endangered collections in need of conserva­ taken to preserve them. They have awarded objectives were outlined in 1966, though it grants to publish the papers of such arts from renovation of a former design studio. California State, Stanislaus. He replaces act­ Thom Gentle, who has worked in Canada for tion. NSF has just made a major grant to the was not awarded monies until 1972. The of­ notables as sculptor Daniel Chester French The newly formed Joseph Gross Gallery Com­ ing director Marsha Orr, who will remain on the past ten years, most recently with the University Museum in Philadelphia, which fice studies museum problems and opportun­ and architect Benjamin Latrobe. (NHPRC, mittee' which is supervising·the gallery's COID­ the gallery staff. Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, should encourage those concerned with as­ ities in the United States and abroad and National Archives Building, Washington, pletion, is chaired by photography professor has been appointed director of the Inter­ pects of African, Southeast Asia and related encourages research and professional train­ D.C. 20408. (202) 724-1616) Harold Jones. In Pennsylvania, changes have occurred museum Laboratory in Oberlin, Ohio. He collections. (Program Director for Anthro­ ing. Projects must be of substantial value to elsewhere than at the Philadelphia Museum. succeeds Marigene Butler, who will now be pology, NSF, 1800 G St. NW, Washington, the profession as a whole, Emphasis and The General Services Administration, as MUSEUM STAFF NOTES The new director of the University Museum of heading the conservation laboratory at the D.C. 20550. (202) 632-4208) the University of Pennsylvania is Martin Bid­ Philadelphia Museum of Art. priority are given to proposals dealing with the government's housekeeper, is responsible The new director of the Princeton University dle. He has been joined by Ronald J. Goff, the study of conservation problems and for the maintenance of government buildings research leading to new techniques. (NMA, The recently reactivated Federal Council Art Museum, since July 1st, is Fred S. Licht, formerly with the Baltimore Museum; by throughout the nation. It has spent more for Arts and Industries Building, Room 3465, on the Arts and the Humanities has formed who succeeds Peter Bunnell. Licht, who has Alan M. Cook, as head of publications; and OTHER ASSOCIATIONS restoration than the NEA and the NEH, but Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. a group to address problems concerning a been resident in Florence for the past decade, by Mary Elizabeth King as Keeper ofCollec­ its activities are confined to Federal proper­ 20560. (202) 381-6581) Federal Museums Policy. The group, made ties. Repairs and alterations come out of was formerly director of the Florida State tions. Ms King comes from the museum of New officers of the Association of Art up of representatives from the NEA, NEH, University Study Center there and for several Texas Tech University. Absent from. the Museum Directors for 1978-79 are; presi­ maintenance funds. GSA also disposes of sur­ The National Endowment for the Arts IMS (ex officio), and Smithsonian Institu­ years served as field director for CRIA (Com­ Philadelphia scene will be Moore College of dent, Martin Friedman, Walker Art Center; plus Federal properties and conveys them has been particularly active in conservation tion, intends to develop an agenda of inter­ without charge to state and local governments mittee to Rescue Italian Art) project. A Art Gallery Director Dianne Perry Vander­ first vice president, James Demetrion, Des agency museum issues in response to an graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with lip, who resigned this year to become the first Moines Art Center; second vice president, since it began its museum program in fiscal for use as historic monuments provided that '71. The concern of one third of all museums awareness of duplication among Federal a Ph.D. from the University of Basel, he curator of contemporary art at the Denver Cathleen Gallender, Art Museum of South preservation is guaranteed in perpetuity. included in a survey published by the NEA in museum programs as well as gaps in program taught at Princeton, Williams, and Brown Art Museum. Ms Vanderlip served as the di­ Texas; secretary, Robert T. Buck, Jr., When buildings have been sold, it has often 1973 has led to improving the scope and qual­ funding. (FCAH, National Foundation on been unclear whether works of art have been before going to Florence. Bunnell will remain rector of Moore's active gallery since 1968. Albright-Knox Gallery; and treasurer, ity of conservation programs. To date, nine the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C. part of the sales conditions. In many instances on the Princeton faculty to devote his full William J. Withrow, Art Gallery of Ontario. 20506) energies to teaching and research. regional conservation laboratories have been other institutions have had to be sought to established to provide services individual house these works, as with the Post Office The Corcoran Gallery of Art has announced The American Section of the International museums cannot afford. What began in 1971 Through the National Parks Service and mural by Gropper now at Wayne State Uni­ From the Fogg Museum at Harvard comes the appointment of its new director: Peter C. Association of Art Critics has elected John news of both permanent and temporary Marzio, who comes to the Corcoran from the Perreault president and Margit Rowell and as a $100,000 program had been increased to the newly created Heritage Conservation versity or the Ellis Island murals now in the $1,515,290 by fiscal '75. In fiscal '76, changes. Jean Sutherland Boggs, who joined position of curator of prints in the Smithso­ Rosalind Krauss vice presidents. The an­ and Recreation Services Gan. 15, 1978), the ceremonial courts in New Jersey. (GSA, $2,772,808 was spent on renovation alone Department of Interior administers a number General Services Building, Washington, D.C. the department as full professor only two nian's National Museum of History and Tech­ nounced policy of the new admistration is years ago, has resigned to become director of nology. Educated at the University of Chicago "reestablishing our ties on a firm basis" with (this included climate control, security and of conservation programs. The National 20405) storage for museums). How this aspect of the the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Formerly (Ph.D.), Marziosucceeds Roy Slade, who left the parent organization (see CAA newsletter, Parks Service is now primarily concerned with program will be affected by the recently re­ the conservation of its own properties, but one Other Government Art Properties. HEW the director of the National Gallery of Cana- for Cranbrook Academy last summer. May 1977). E.S.R .• vised Statement of Purpose and Goals of the must not lose sight of the fact that this in­ and the Postal Service do not allocate specific NEA (see A VISa, newsletter of the American cludes more than 100,000 archeological and funds for the conservation and preservation of Association of Museums, July 1978) remains artistic works, as well as half of Washington their properties and any money so used comes DATEBOOK. 1 October deadline annual meeting abstracts ... 10 October deadline preferential ballot ... 1 November deadline Decem­ to be seen. (NEA, 2401 E Street NW, Wash­ D.C. Issues of preservation related to NPS from their maintenance budgets. When ber newsletter ... 1 Novembet deadline ACLS travel grant applications (conferences March -June) .. 4 November deadline submission of ington, D.C. 20506. (202) 634-6369) properties should be directed to appropriate WPA murals in post offices have been restored positions for November 15 listing ... 18 December deadline submission of positions for annual meeting listing ... 31 January - 3 February regional offices and directors. NPS adminis­ it has been by art conservators contracted by 1979 CAA annual meeting, Washington, D.C, (placement begins 30 January) ... 1 March deadline Millard Meiss applications. The Institute of M useuro Services is an ters seven specialized conservation centers for Continued on p. 16, col. 3

15 l4 eAA newsletter September 1978 • subscriptions to positions listings Ipreservation news

Artists and art historians who are seeking In instituting this change, it is the sincere the Postal Service through the GSA Public positions (and who are often unemployed) hope of the Board of Directors that a low-cost Buildings Service's Regional Construction have the greatest need for the CAA Positions subsciption to the CAA Positions Listings may Management Division with advice from the' Listings. However, they frequently cannot make it possible for more people to remain coordinator of conservation of Fine Arts and afford the cost of CAA membership dues, within the field and that eventually they will Historic Preservation in Federal Programs. which, once one is no longer a student, begin be able to become regular members of the In addition, each branch of the military at $30.00. Association. has its own conservation staff of civil servants To get out of this Catch-22 situation the Present members who wish to take advan­ for art properties, and where particular works Board of Directors has decided to make CAA tage of the new subscription option may do so are endangered, the regional director of that Positions Listings available on a non-member beginning with the January issue. An order service should be notified. subscription basis at a cost of $15.00 per year. form for subscriptions to Positions Listings Non-member subscribers will be entitled to will be included with the 1979 annual all CAA placement services, including five membership dues notice. Development Grants. The Housing and Positions Listings Ganuary, March, May, Oc­ Note to Continuing Members: The last Community Development Act of 1974 of the tober, November); full use of CAA placement item on the dues notice is a box on a line read­ Small Business Administration provides block facilities at the annual meeting; and the right ing "I do not wish to receive the Positions List­ grants for community improvement and to file a keysort curriculum vitae form with ings." Over the past two years, approximately .many have been used for preservation, as the eAA office. Non-member subscribers will 10 percent of CAA members have checked have EDA grants from the Department of not receive The Art Bulletin, the ArtJournal, this box. For the umpteenth time, we urge Commerce. (EDA, Department of Com­ or the CAA newsletter and will not be entitled those of you who are not actively seeking posi­ merce, Washington, D.C. 20230) to any other membership privileges. tions to release us from the obligation of send­ Regular Individual Members (i.e., ex­ ing you the Positions Listings. Next year, cluding Student and Retired Members) will mailing costs alone will be more than $1.00 continue to receive the Positions Listings if for each recipient. Obviously, if those who do Recent Tax Reforms. An amendment to they so desire at no additional fee. Student not need the Positions Listings continue to Title I of the National Housing Act pennits members who wish to receive the Positions exercise their right to receive them (doesn't the Federal Housing Administration to auth­ Listings may do so upon payment of an addi­ everyone have enough to read I), we shall orize the insurance of loans for preservation of tional fee of $5.00. (The reason -for this re­ eventually have to raise the prices for residential properties listed in the National quirement is that student memberships are everyone-including those who do. So Register or certified by the Secretary of the already highly subsidized.) please. . . . R.R.W. III Interior to confonn to National Register cri­ teria. This should affect sites with significant interior decoration. In addition, the Tax Re­ classifieds TWO STANFORD MUSEUM SLIDE SETS. fonn Act of 1976 (Section 2124, Public Law 36 slides each of English and French Draw­ 94-455) amends the Federal Income Tax ings. $30/set. For slide list write to Slide Sales, Code with provisions to stimulate preserva­ Dept. of Art, Stanford University, Stanford, tion of historic commercial and income-pro­ The CAA newsletter will accept classift.'eds of Ca. 94305. ducing structures by allowing favorable tax a professional or semi-professional nature treatment for rehabilitation and discourages (sale of It'braries, summer rental or exchange CONTEMPORARY ART INSIDE OUT. the destruction of historic buildings by reduc­ of homes, etc.). The charge is 50~ per word, Artist Raquel Rabinovich conducts lectures ing the incentives both for demolition of his­ mint'rnum charge 110.00, advance payment on contemporary art in her studio and tours toric structures and for new construction on required. Make checks payable to CAA. of SoHo and TriBeCa galleries and alter­ the site of demolished historic buildings. (Of­ native spaces. (212) 925-7539, 81 Leonard fice of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Street, N.Y.C. 10013. Department of the Interior, Washington, RENT-A-MENTOR now offers a unique D.C. 20240) variety of art, architecture, and food tours LITHO STONES, used flat bed and hand around N. Y.C. and Brooklyn. For further in­ presses available. Nonnan Woehrle, 231 fonnation contactJoanBarenholtz, 178 E. 80 Peabody Avenue, Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071. Annabelle Simon Cahn III Street, N.Y.C. 10021. (212) 628-7597. (201) 438-1391. III Public Infonnation Officer

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