Spring & Summer 2019

1 wish you warm greetings from the Snite Even better has been encountering so of guided experiences and conversations. Museum of Art here at the University many students in the galleries. Whether How fortunate are they? How fortunate I of Notre Dame. Since joining the they are university sophomores or second am I? Museum staff after the holidays, I have graders, it is impossible not to celebrate Also in January the University selected had the privilege of meeting only some their presence and hope their experiences the renowned American architect Robert of you in person, so please allow me nourish them in ways they likely cannot A.M. Stern and his firm, RAMSA, to design this opportunity to introduce myself to yet fathom. the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at everyone. My name is Joseph Antenucci As a child, my great Aunt Mary often took Notre Dame. We are in the midst of the Becherer and I am deeply honored to be me to museums, historic houses, and programming phase for the new museum, your new museum director. But please do churches. No lectures, just looking and and thus busy analyzing and projecting call me Joe. conversation. The days always ended future art collection, exhibition, education, In early January my wife, Lisa, and I moved with a visit to an ice cream parlor. At age and event space requirements. We are to the Notre Dame campus from Grand nine, I had no idea how truly fortunate I also investigating and discussing what it Rapids, Michigan. Becoming acquainted was, but I sensed doors to new ideas and means to be an academic art museum in with the Snite Museum staff, its collec- future paths were opening through these the twenty-first century by visiting peer tions, and the community has been a casual encounters with cultural materials, institutions such as Harvard and Yale. I warm and wonderful way to start 2019. I both secular and nonsecular. As it stands, look forward to sharing with you the vision feel fortunate to be engaged with so many I still love ice cream, but love experiences for the new museum as it unfolds, but, talented and interesting people, and to be with works of art even more. Years later rest assured, we are thinking carefully surrounded by such marvelous collections she championed my study of art history as we plan for the vibrancy of the future and exhibitions. There is so much to learn; in college and, then, after graduation, my structure and its offerings. You and the the days just do not seem long enough. teaching and museum work. students deserve nothing less. As an art historian, I am an object person I think of Aunt Mary regularly here at our Thank you for welcoming me. May our and deeply enjoy every opportunity to be museum and on walks through campus paths cross soon. with and among works of art. Whether it and the sculpture park. Often, she comes — Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Ph.D. is a Renaissance painting, an African mask to mind because of a particular object Snite Museum of Art or a George Rickey sculpture, my cultural or site, but more frequently she is very Director and Curator of Sculpture appetite is overflowing and stimulated by present in the wonder of seeing young the examples of so many different cultures people and university students engaged FRONT COVER: Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1863), Autre Temps: 1830, 1904, (detail of image on page 13) and time periods as I become familiar with art and ideas in our galleries. One ABOVE: Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955), Tale Teller VI, 2014 stainless steel and stone, 91 O µ 47 K µ 55 inches. Purchase funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ballard Jr., 2015.009 with the Museum’s art collection of over believes doors are opening for them as 27,000 objects. they did for me through the same types 2 3 JUNE – AUGUST 2019

All Aboard ! Chicago Architecture River Cruise and Tour of the Conservation Center TUESDAY, JUNE 4 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Friends of the Snite Museum day trip to Chicago for a docent-led river cruise by 50 architecturally important downtown Chicago buildings, and a tour of the largest and most comprehensive private art conservation laboratory in the country. Snite Salon Series Artful Yoga For more trip details see page 37. THURSDAYS: JUNE 13, THURSDAYS: JUNE 13, JULY 11, AND AUGUST 8 AUGUST 22, AND OCTOBER 10 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Join us outside for Artful Yoga with instructor Steve Krojniewski. Each month we will Join fellow art lovers in the galleries focus our practice around a different work of art on view and create a meditative for an in-depth discussion of a great frame of mind relevant to experiencing both the artwork and practicing yoga. work of art. Guided by the group’s Bring a mat or borrow one of ours. We will move inside when the weather is not observations and insights, Snite ideal. Co-sponsored by RecSports. Salons encourage close looking and thoughtful conversation with a different work each session. Thursdays @ the Snite The Snite Museum of Art is open every Thursday until 7:30 p.m. Summer Jazz Series Be part of the conversation at the with convenient, free parking available in the Bulla Road Lot off of Snite Museum. THURSDAYS: JUNE 20, JULY 18, Twyckenham Drive. On those evenings a free shuttle runs continuously AND AUGUST 1 between the lot, the Hesburgh Library, and the Museum until 7:45 p.m. 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. “Looking at the Stars”: Parking (with no shuttle) is also available in the Stadium and Joyce lots Spend four summer evenings with us Irish Art at the south of the Football Stadium and the Purcell Pavilion (south end of the grooving to jazz in the Mary Loretto & University of Notre Dame Joyce Center). Terrence J. Dillon Courtyard. Stephen and PUBLIC EXHIBITION RECEPTION All events are free unless noted and open to all. Mary Merriman of Merrimans’ Playhouse FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 For more information about upcoming events visit our website, will again bring artists from around the 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. sniteartmuseum.nd.edu country to the Museum for a summer The general public and campus jazz series that you won’t want to miss. community are invited to celebrate Join our email list to receive information about future events, programs, Enjoy a cash bar, freshly popped popcorn, and view this special exhibition. and exhibitions. and featured works of art for every Complementary light refreshments concert. Bring your own blanket or lawn provided by the Friends of the chair. Picnicking is encouraged. Check Snite Museum. our website for details on the different groups performing each month.

4 5 EXHIBITIONS The Work of Our Hands “Looking at the Stars”: On view through Saturday, June 1, 2019 Irish Art at the Historic liturgical vestments from the University’s holdings are featured in a multi-venue, focus exhibition organized University of Notre Dame in conjunction with Forum 2018–2019: Catholic Artistic August 17 – December 14, 2019 Heritage: Bringing Forth Treasures New and Old. Highlights With the recent gift of modern paintings from the Donald and of the collection are strategically displayed around campus Marilyn Keough Family, the University of Notre Dame has laid to introduce visitors to these rarely seen textiles. A cope a solid foundation on which to build a rich collection of Irish art and stole embroidered with elegant fleur-de-lis motifs and that will inspire and teach students and scholars the world over. embellished with gold metallic fringe dating to about 1900 Combined with earlier acquisitions of James Barry (1741–1806) are mounted in the Snite Museum. The Hesburgh Library prints, a large cache of Alen MacWeeney (b. 1939) photographs, Rare Books and Special Collections display a miter once and substantial holdings in Hesburgh Library’s Special belonging to Archbishop Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Collections, these remarkable Irish objects will be celebrated Fe and the inspiration for Willa Cather’s novel, Death Comes with pride this fall through a special exhibition. It will include for the Archbishop (1927) along with other related printed selections from these University of Notre Dame Collections, works. Visitors are encouraged to continue their artistic plus an extraordinary loan of several modern and contemporary progress to the Basilica Museum where two vestments masterpieces from the renowned collections of Pat and John among the many ecclesiastical items kept there are featured. O’Brien of Chicago. The works selected for this project offer a glimpse into the This exhibition, including works by Jack B. Yeats, Roderic technical skill, innovative design, and iconographic wealth of O’Conor, and Mary Swanzy, to name a few, will introduce our an art form distinctive to the Catholic religion. audiences to the intractable wit, tenacity, and infinite invention of the Irish spirit. Oscar Wilde’s observation penned for Lady Windemere’s Fan in 1892 can be applied to Irish artists within the broader art community: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Mary Swanzy (1882–1978), Young Claudius, 1942 This Fall 2019 special art exhibition at the Snite Museum of Art oil on canvas, 20 µ 24 inches. Gift of the Donald and Marilyn Keough Foundation, 2019.001.002 is made possible with support from the Kathleen and Richard Champlin Endowment, and organized in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

FLEUR-DE-LIS COPE Probably French, late 19th/early 20th century cream silk, satin weave, gilt metallic yarn appliqué, polychrome silk Alen MacWeeney (Irish, b. 1939), Goulding’s Clock, embroidery, handmade sequins and fringe, and gilt metallic braid. from the series Village House, County Kerry, 2015 Louis Le Brocquy (Irish, 1916–2012), Sick Tinker’s Child, 1946 Courtesy of the Congregation of Holy Cross. digital pigment print, 16 ½ µ 16 inches, Gift of Douglas Wetmore, ’79, 2017.045.004 oil on gesso-primed hardboard, 30 µ 41 inches. On loan from the O’Brien Collection

6 7 RECENT ACQUISITIONS Sculpture

In honor of former Snite Museum of For the past fifteen years, I have been Since its inauguration in the nineteenth Art Director, Charles R. Loving, who working on a series of sculptures entitled century, the campus art museum has retired in 2018, artist Austin I. Collins The Temple Series. The continuity of the collected examples of the work of the (American, b. 1954), has generously Series is the product, largely, of a trip I various visual artists who taught studio gifted his tall, colorful, metal sculpture, made to Haiti some years ago. While in art for the academy, starting with Luigi Fern Temple IV, 2012, that graces the Haiti I encountered numerous works of art, Gregori (Italian, 1819 – 1896). This is the center of the north rim of the Charles B. which expressed the deep spiritual, cultural, first accession into the Snite Museum’s Hayes Family Sculpture Park. and political struggles Haitians have collection of a work by Rev. Austin Collins, This is the fourth in a series of five undergone over the course of the twentieth C.S.C., who has taught sculpture at Notre Fern Temple sculptures completed by century. Dame since 1985. Rev. Austin I. Collins, C.S.C., a UND But these works also revealed how art can art faculty member. All are made of transcend the everyday, can lift one above metal, painted a bright solid color, with the rawness of brutality and social strife, a vertical structure at their core that and can offer a space governed by calmness guides the viewer’s eye skyward, and that can, in turn, allow for the kind of projecting sections of leaf forms on their reflection that leads to social awareness sides and top. and social change. The work was selected for inclusion in In other words, what became clear in the the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Haitian works I observed was how sculpture Park by Chuck Loving because its can lift one out of the immediacy of his or form references nature, and the her context not as pure escapism, but for artist’s intention is to inspire spiritual spiritual, social, and political effect. One reflection. Thus it fits the Sculpture is lifted out and offered the contemplative Park’s overarching exhibition theme of room to see and imagine how things could Reclaiming Our Nature in two ways. be different. My hope in The Temple Series is to capture this same process of produced reflection, which can invoke in the viewer a sense of sacred space, of retreating, of reflection, and of the need to take active charge of his or her destiny. — Rev. Austin I. Collins, C.S.C.

Austin I. Collins (American, b. 1954), Fern Temple IV, 2012 steel, 27 µ 6 µ 6 feet. Gift of the artist in honor of Charles R. Loving, former Snite Museum of Art Director, 2018.064

8 9 RECENT ACQUISITIONS European Art

A significant addition to the Snite Museum’s collection, Adam Buck’s (Irish, 1759–1833), watercolor The Expiation of Orestes (1813), will be on view in the upcoming exhibition “Looking at the Stars”: Irish Art at the University of Notre Dame. Buck was born in Dublin and trained as a miniaturist before moving to London where he cultivated a wealthy clientele for his portraits made in the fashionable neoclassical style. This watercolor is one of his few mythological subjects, and it tells the story of Orestes who went mad from guilt after he murdered his mother and her lover in revenge for the death of his father, Agamemnon. Orestes was saved by Athena to whom he built an altar in gratitude. The subject was taken directly from an ancient Greek vase pictured in a group portrait of Adam Buck and his family (Yale Center for British Art). Adam Buck (Irish, 1759–1833), The Expiation of Orestes, 1813 graphite and watercolor heightened with gouache on board, 9 V µ 9 O inches. The purchase of Edward Burch’s (British, The John D. Reilly Endowment for Excellence, 2018.072.002 1730–1814), small Écorché, or flayed figure, cast in about 1767, augments the Snite Museum’s holdings of works illustrating the academic process. It was common practice for artists to attend dissections and draw from corpses in order to learn how to render the body convincingly. This petite sculpture is a reduced version of a life-size plaster cast made by the British anatomist William Hunter from the body of a dead criminal in 1750, which he used to teach his anatomy lessons. The plaster Félix Hilaire Buhot (French, 1847–1898), Paris Tiara [La Tiare], 1888 etching, drypoint, aquatint and spitbite on wove paper, 25 W µ 18 inches (sheet). cast being somewhat fragile and unwieldy The Fritz and Mildred Kaeser Endowment for Liturgical Art, 2018.073 to transport, Hunter commissioned the Danish artist, Michael Spang, to make a small wax model after his plaster cast. The wax model was then cast in bronze by Hunter’s friend Edward Burch. In this With special interest in liturgical French goldsmith and designer Émile French Revolution, with the Third Republic case, the sculpture was cast in lead which vestments a part of the University’s Froment-Meurice for Pope Leo XIII’s (1871–1914). The tiara is flanked by Notre allows for finer detail, and then given a Forum 2018–19: Catholic Artistic jubilee in 1887. Buhot had produced other Dame Cathedral in Paris on the left and bronze patina (surface treatment). The Heritage: Bringing Forth Treasures New prints documenting this designer’s work Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome on the right models were popular among students, and Old, the acquisition of Félix Buhot’s before, but they were conventionally and surrounded by a hazy atmosphere easily carried from place to place, and (French, 1847–1898), print Paris Tiara rendered. More than a record of a design, punctuated by cherubs, including one found widely in studios across Europe. (1888) was serendipitous. This late work Buhot’s print alludes to Pope Leo’s at the bottom bearing the visage of the by one of the major proponents of the attempts through a series of encyclicals artist’s son. Technically, Buhot combines etching revival in France in the nineteenth published in the 1880s to reconcile various etching processes, including pure Edward Burch (British, 1730–1814), Écorché, after Michael Spang, cast ca. 1767 lead with bronze patination, 9 X inches. century is notable for several reasons. French Catholics, who were wary of etching, drypoint, aquatint, and spitbite, The Bernard Norling and Mary T. Norling Endowment for 18th- and 19th-Century Sculpture, 2018.072.001 The print shows the tiara made by the republican forms of government since the into a poetic whole.

10 11 Jacques Villon’s (French, 1875–1963), print with vivid hand coloring is entitled Autre Temps, 1830, and was made in 1904. This enigmatic look into the childhood of a bygone era underscores a sense of nostalgia. Inspired by Japanese prints and their combination of flat colors juxtaposed with patterns, the artist positions a young girl with a hoop on a flat, green lawn with a horizon line placed high on the picture plane. Behind her, well-attired men and women on horseback and in carriages dash about a sunny park. The girl’s hoop may hint at the circular nature of time as 1830 was the year of the July Revolution when the Bourbon monarchy was overturned in favor of a constitutional monarchy led by the “Citizen King” Louis-Philippe. The first decade of the twentieth century is often called the Belle Epoque, but it was marred by gross disparities of wealth, discontent, and an anarchist movement that wrought much violence. Villon made this print when he was living in Montmartre, a neighborhood characterized by decadence, and was working under the influence of Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He later developed a strong cubist style, and in 1913 he participated in the Armory Show in New York where European abstraction was introduced to an American market.

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), Dead Christ Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1963), with Angels, 1866–67 Autre Temps: 1830, 1904 etching and aquatint on laid paper, 17 ½ µ 14 ¼ inches. drypoint, aquatint, and watercolor on wove paper, The May Walters Trust Bequest Fund, 2018.069 25 X µ 19 X inches (sheet). The May Walters Trust Bequest Fund, 2018.058

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), is figure. Critics derided both his paintings her models from her circle of family and often identified as the “painter of modern and his prints for being “flat like playing friends. In the Opera Box is a portrait of life” described by Charles Baudelaire in cards.” Several years later, he made this her sister Lydia and is a variation of some his famous essay on art published in 1863. print after the painting Dead Christ, but it of her paintings of the same subject. As In that essay, Baudelaire wrote a defini- was never published during his lifetime. a woman artist, Cassatt observed her tion for a thoroughly new and modern After Manet’s death, the plate was given subject without eroticism or objectifica- form of Beauty, one that was rooted to a Parisian publisher who pulled a few tion. She used aquatint here to convey a simultaneously in the ephemeral and the impressions from it. The plate is now more “painterly” technique that flattens eternal. For Baudelaire, Beauty was to be in the collection of the Art Institute of out the figure. The mirror behind Lydia found in the here-and-now, not in faraway Chicago. pushes the viewer’s attention to the places or times long ago, in ancient myths, Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926), foreground and presumably reflects or mystical religious stories. Manet is another canonical modern artist of the space in front of the picture plane, normally depicted everyday subjects the late nineteenth century, and In the implicating those of us looking at the in his paintings and prints, but on two Opera Box (No. 3) is one of her most scene. This is a print about the observed, occasions he selected traditional religious recognized works. It is an example of her the observer, and the act of observation. stories. Dead Christ with Angels is one of printmaking skills at the height of her It was intended for publication in the them. He exhibited the painting (now at career after she had met Edgar Degas and journal Le Jour et la nuit [Day and Night], the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New other Impressionists and had embraced a never completed project proposed by York) at the Salon of 1864 where critics Degas. Although Cassatt’s print didn’t Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926), their avant-garde approach to art. Her In the Opera Box (No. 3), 1879–80 immediately panned it for its vulgarity figures are casually posed, natural in their make it into a journal, it was nevertheless soft ground etching and aquatint on laid paper, and the cadaver-like quality of the central demeanor and action. Cassatt chose published in an edition of fifty. 8 ¼ µ 7 W inches. The Humana Foundation Endowment for American Art, 2018.059

12 13 RECENT ACQUISITIONS Photographs

The leading American art educator of his Dow also operated the Ipswich Summer In fall 1895, Dow joined the faculty of day, who taught at both the Pratt Institute School of Art, which became popular the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and in and the Art Students League, Arthur with art teachers on vacation. Dow 1899 published his codified design and Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922), taught the alternative media in which he teaching methods in Composition: A first formally studied art in Paris. After worked, including relief printmaking and Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the returning to Boston to teach art, Dow photography. Use of Students and Teachers. Its success was influenced by Japanese art under Dow used a camera to collect studies helped establish Dow as a prominent art the tutelage of Ernest F. Fenollosa, the for his landscape paintings and he used educator. In 1903 he became director The Snite Museum of Art is pleased thirty,” his father wrote in his journal. “To During the Depression, Weston was a great curator of Asian art at the Boston cyanotype, one of the first commercially of the Department of Fine Arts at the to be the recipient of an important gift have someone close to me, working so photographer for the Works Progress Museum of Arts. Together they developed available processes enabling hobbyists to Teachers College of Columbia University. of fifty original photographs from the excellently, with an assured future, is Administration, and a supervisor of the aesthetic principles that combined print their own photographs on prepared He introduced photography to the Brett Weston Archive, and the Christian a happiness hardly expected.” Edward photographic section in the Federal Arts influences from the European Arts and paper in the sunshine. A recent purchase curriculum, and hired Clarence H. White Keesee Collection. Brett Weston Weston chose a group of his son’s Project. In Santa Barbara, during World Crafts movement with Asian design. is a cyanotype of a line of clam shacks to organize and teach the program. (American, 1911–1993), was the second photographs for the landmark Film und War II, he was a photographer for the in Ipswich, Massachusetts, located son of Edward Weston, the pioneering Foto exhibition at Stuttgart in 1929, and Douglas and North American Aircraft across from the old house used for Dow’s photographer who led a creative shift the seventeen-year-old had his images corporations then served in the Army as summer school. Most of his photographs, in photography from the soft poetic published in European magazines. In a photographer at El Paso, Texas, in 1945. however, represent distinctive Cape Ann Pictorialist style to a sharp, incisive the early 1930s, when father and son This gave him the opportunity to explore landscapes. manner that represented bold forms and were partners in studios in San Francisco the White Sands National Monument in surface textures. and Carmel, both made some of their Northern New Mexico. The series of white Brett Weston displayed a natural apti- most remarkable photographs at Point gypsum sand dunes that he began there tude in his first photographs. “He is Lobos; close-ups of natural objects and extended into a project supported by the doing better at fourteen than I did at views of the windswept Pacific coastline. Guggenheim Foundation.

Brett Weston (American, 1911–1993) Kelp, Feather, Rock, Carmel Beach, California, 1956, Arthur Wesley Dow, (American, 1857–1922), Clam Shacks, about 1895, gelatin silver print. Gift of the Christian Keesee Collection, Brett Weston Archive, 2018.074.019 cyanotype 12.3 µ 17.5 cm (image), 12.6 µ 17.7 cm (sheet). The Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography, 2018.057

14 15 With an engineering degree from the University of Nebraska, Alexander Hesler (American, born in Canada, 1823–1895), Harold Edgerton (American 1903-1990), worked for the state operated daguerreotype studios in Galena and Springfield, electrical company. He had the idea of diagnosing malfunction- Illinois, during the 1850s. His best-known works of that time ing generators in operation by flashing a light in time with the are portraits of two leading state politicians; senators Stephen cycling machine, making it appear still to the human eye. This Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Hesler also photographed idea became his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute staged tableaux, meant to reflect the style and subjects of fine of Technology (MIT), where he developed the stroboscopic American painting of the day. This invented image entitled flash. After joining the MIT faculty, Edgerton used his strobe Driving a Bargain, is conceived to illustrate an instance of a flash to create photographs of fleeting events, like a bullet European-American elder passing along his business acumen emerging from a gun, or the wings of a hummingbird in flight. to a young protégé. The African-American boy has learned that During World War II, he was a consultant to the Army Air Force, he can pick up lost horseshoes in the road and sell them to the developing illumination for aerial photographs of nocturnal blacksmith for a profit. This salted-paper print after Hesler’s troop movements. After the war, the Atomic Energy Commis- daguerreotype was published in The Photographic Journal in sion challenged Edgerton to create visual documents of nuclear 1854, the first American periodical to include photographic tests, explosions far too brief for conventional cameras. He images. It was an expensive journal, filled with technical and his lab developed the Rapatronic camera, an instrument material intended for professionals. The print was made by John actuated by an explosion’s concussion. Below is one of the early Adams Whipple (American, 1822-1891), a pioneer of daguerre- photographs of a nuclear charge set atop a tower seven miles otype in Boston. He invented and patented a method of creating away, taken by the Rapatronic a camera capable of exposures as unique images on glass, using a variant of the Daguerreotype brief as one-billionth of a second. process, called crystallotype.

Prentice H. Polk (American, 1898–1984), The family migrated to Chicago in 1922, recorded the activities of the Tuskegee was a pioneering documentarian of where Polk worked with the commercial Airmen, African-American pilots who African-American life in the twentieth photographer Fred Jensen. He married trained on campus and then formed the century. He was born and raised in and began a family, and took them back heroic 99th and 100th Pursuit Squadrons. Besemer, Alabama, where his father to Alabama where he opened a private He found a new appreciation for his roots worked as a coal miner, and his mother portrait studio. He joined the faculty of while studying and working in Alabama. was a dressmaker. When Polk’s the Tuskegee Institute, and became the He trekked the countryside, making thirteenth birthday brought the end of institution’s official photographer. Polk portraits and genre photographs of black compulsory education for black pupils, made many portraits of his colleagues, sharecroppers, farmers, and laborers she enrolled him in the new Tuggle including Booker T. Washington, and who lived in the surrounding Macon Institute in Birmingham. In 1916 he George Washington Carver. A ubiquitous County, Alabama. Through the generosity was a night student at the Tuskegee campus figure, he documented proms of the Edward M. Abrams and Family Harold Edgerton (American 1903–1990), Hydrogen Bomb Test, Normal and Industrial Institute (now and graduations, weddings and funerals, Endowment the Snite Museum was able 1946–1952 Tuskegee University), where he studied and produced hundreds of yearbook to purchase this first example of Polk’s gelatin silver print, 45.8 µ 36.3 cm (image), 50.7 µ 40.7 cm (sheet). John Adams Whipple (American, 1822–1891), after Alexander Hesler photography with Cornelius M. Battey. photographs. During World War II, Polk work for the permanent collection. The Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography, 2018.067 (American, born in Canada, 1823–1895), Driving a Bargain, 1854 salt print from crystallotype negative, 20.7 µ 15.6 cm (image), 22.8 µ 16.9 cm (sheet). The Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography, 2018.062.001

Prentice Herman Polk (American, 1898–1984), A Sharecropper, 1920s gelatin silver print, 24.4 µ 19.3 cm (image), 25.2 µ 20.2 cm (sheet). The Edward M. Abrams and Family Endowment, 2018.068

16 17 RECENT ACQUISITIONS MUSEUM NEWS PhotoFutures VI: Collecting Art for Notre Dame Welcome New Museum Staff Members The topic for the Fall 2018 PhotoFutures VI seminar was nuclear power and its affects. HANNA BERTOLDI Collections Database Coordinator The fall 2018 seminar students recommended the purchase of Japanese artist Ishiuchi Miyako’s photo- Hanna Bertoldi joined the museum staff Hanna is excited about her new role graph Hiroshima #69. The image is of an artifact from in a new position, Collections Database because of her previous experience in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; a blouse Coordinator, funded by members of both database administration and for the worn by a young woman killed in the August 6, 1945, the Snite Museum Advisory Council and chance to work with other Snite Museum the College of Arts and Letters Advisory staff members on the Mellon Foundation bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Council. Hanna comes to Notre Dame grant. She sees the Mellon project as an The teaching role of the Snite Museum was an from the Boston Athenæum where opportunity to contribute to her field by important selection criterion to the students. They she worked in the finance department. bringing museum and library collections concluded Hiroshima #69 adds educational value as a Previously, she held positions at the together. As an archaeologist, Hanna work of contemporary art by a female artist, it expands Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the was also attracted to the Snite Museum’s the number of photographs of nuclear war in the Naval History and Heritage Command, collections and looks forward to learning Museum’s collection and it can inspire Notre Dame Detachment Boston. more about them. students to think about the tragic events of World War Originally from Hartford, CT, Hanna has a Her last adventure took Hanna to Iceland from the perspective of Japanese civilians. The image B.A. in Classics from Franklin & Marshall where she enjoyed experiencing a lava challenges viewers to consider the consequences of College and an M.A. in Archaeology from cave for the first time. If she had to pair a the use of nuclear technology across the globe. University College London. She special- favorite beverage with her favorite artist, ized in central Italian Iron Age funerary Hanna would sip a northern Italian red The students’ recommendation letter ended by stating rituals and spent summers working on an wine while contemplating Vincent van they felt the acquisition of the photograph would help Etruscan site in Tuscany. Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night (1888). fulfill this aspect of the University’s mission: “The University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation for the great achievements of human beings but also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice, and oppression that burden the lives of so ABIGAIL SHELTON many. The aim is to create a sense of human Outreach Specialist / Andrew F. Mellon Foundation Grant solidarity and concern for the common good Abigail Shelton joined the Snite Museum SUNY Binghamton. She graduated with that will bear fruit as learning becomes service staff in mid-June as outreach/campus a B.A. in History from Biola University. to justice.” engagement specialist for the Mellon Previously, Abby worked between the PhotoFutures 2018 included: Grant Digitization Project, a new three- library and museum at the American Caroline Cox ’20; Harriet Fink ’19; Rachel Mills ’20; year position funded by the grant. Her Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Monica Montgomery ’19; Abby Patrick ’22; passion for libraries and museums She was also the caretaker at Woodford Scott Somers ’20; and Dion Thompson-Davoli ’20 attracted her to the position because Mansion in Philadelphia and has PhotoFutures is a collaborative collecting group that studies and then the project hinges on bringing together worked in the archaeology department recommends a contemporary photograph acquisition to the Snite The photograph was purchased with funds provided by collections from the Snite Museum at Mount Vernon. an endowment established by Snite Museum Advisory Museum of Art. This annual fall seminar is designed for students and Hesburgh Libraries in a new, online In April, she traveled to the Black Forest of any major. They meet for six sessions in the Museum with the Council members Susan M. and Justin E. Driscoll. platform. She is excited to make cultural in Germany while visiting with her sister. Curator of Education, Academic Programs Bridget Hoyt and Curator of heritage objects accessible across campus Her favorite memory was stumbling and around the world. Photographs, David Acton. The co-curricular program combines issues upon the Musée Unterlinden on the way related to museum collecting, contemporary photography, and social- Abby grew up in Buffalo, NY, and received to Colmar, France. If given the chance, ly-engaged artistic practice. Students critique photographs and evaluate an M.S. in Library and Information Science her ideal afternoon would be drinking artists’ portfolios, and they consult with select faculty whose expertise from Drexel University. She earned an Belgian-style tripel, Weyerbacher’s M.A. in History with a concentration in Merry Monks, while admiring Andrew provides different lenses through which to consider the photographs. early American women’s history from Wyeth’s Snow Hill (1989). Ultimately, the students develop their own collecting criteria and select a photograph for acquisition that adds value to the museum’s perma- nent collection and supports the mission of the University.

Ishiuchi Miyako (Japanese, b. 1947), Hiroshima #69, 2007 digital pigment print, 42 ½ µ 29 V inches. Susan M. and Justin E. Driscoll Endowment for Photography. 2018.075 © Ishiuchi Miyako

18 19 MUSEUM NEWS Revisions: Contemporary Native Art 2019 MFA Candidates Wins 2019 NAI Award Thesis Exhibition April 5 – May 18, 2019

This annual exhibition was comprised of the culminating thesis projects created by the students graduating in 2019 with an MFA degree from the University of Notre Dame Department of Art, Art History & Design. The Snite Museum congratulates Jen Dwyer, Ceramics; Hannah K. Freeman, Painting; Steven Lemke, Sculpture; Melonie Mulkey, Photography; Shreejan Shrestha, Industrial Design; and Heather Tucker, Visual Communication Design. The photographs of Melonie Mulkey were awarded the 2019 Museum Director’s $1,000 award funded by the Walter R. Beardsley Endowment for Contemporary Art.

The Native American Initiatives at Notre “The University of Notre Dame was the tribe’s cultural richness and diversity. Dame awarded the Snite Museum founded on the homeland of the Rapp-Morseau’s basket is a new commis- the 2019 NAI Award for Excellence in Pokagon Band of Potawatomi,” said sion for the Snite Museum and marks the The work of Shreejan Shrestha, Industrial Design Supporting the Native American Commu- Frances Jacobus-Parker, visiting curator first contemporary object by a Pokagon nity at Notre Dame for the February 8 – at the Snite Museum and the exhibi- Band artist to enter the collection. May 18 Revisions: Contemporary Native Art tion’s organizer. “Given that history and Artists represented in the Snite Museum’s exhibition and its related programs. The continued relationship, it is especially permanent collection include Rick Bartow award was voted on by Native American exciting that we could showcase the (Mad River Band Wiyot), Edgar Heap of students, staff, and faculty at Notre Dame. vibrancy of contemporary Native art Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Jaune This exhibition focused on strategies here. Our hope is that the exhibition and Quick-to-See Smith (Salish and Kootenai), of revision, reuse, and appropriation in related programming can be a platform Kay Walkingstick (Cherokee), and contemporary Native art from the 1990s for continued discussion and exchange.” Melanie Yazzie (Diné/Navajo). to the present. The participating artists— Artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi The exhibition was anchored by the large- who hail from diverse backgrounds, tribes, Choctaw and Cherokee) transforms scale installation Peelatchiwaaxpáash/ and generations—share an interest in the pow wow regalia materials into striking, Medicine Crow (Raven) and the 1880 Crow circulation and reconfiguration of forms sculptural compositions. Elisa Harkins Peace Delegation by Wendy Red Star over time, across space, and between (Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek)) inves- (Apsáalooke (Crow)). It draws on archival cultures. Some address the appropriation tigates her relation to Native identity documentation of a journey made by of Native culture by settler society, while via performance and video. Writer and Crow leaders to Washington, D.C., and others repurpose found objects, images, artist Paul Seesequasis (Willow Cree) incorporates an exquisite nineteenth-cen- and texts from tribal history, family employs social media to share archival tury Crow war shirt from the museum’s archives, and popular culture. In media photographs and crowdsource indigenous collection. ranging from print to textile to video, their history. works reflect on and reshape issues of Revisions: Contemporary Native Art was Works by artists from the Pokagon Band organized by Frances Jacobus-Parker, inheritance, colonization, authenticity, of Potawatomi, including beadwork by and the politics of representation. visiting curator, with the assistance of David Martin, a commissioned black ash Larissa Nez (Diné/Navajo), Class of 2019. basket by Christine Rapp-Morseau, and a collage by Jason Wesaw, demonstrated

20 21 MUSEUM NEWS In Memoriam: Graduating Snite Museum Rev. James F. Flanigan, C.S.C.

Student Employees Rev. James F. Flanigan, C.S.C., died at the age of 83 on Thursday, March 7, 2019. He had served the Snite Museum of Art for many years as its curator of its Ivan Meštrovi´c Collection and initiated and coordinated for many years the Friends of the Snite annual High School Art Day. Fr. Flanigan spent most of his life as associate professor of Art at the University of Notre Dame. He was born on April 30, 1935, in Chicago, IL, to Donald and Marie (Riordan) Flanigan, and entered Holy Cross Seminary after graduating from St. Gabriel’s Joan Becker, graduating visitor services associate Parish School. He was received into the Congregation of Holy Meet one of the twenty-seven student employees who Cross in 1953, professed Final Vows in 1957, then graduated supported the Snite Museum art exhibitions and programs with from the University of Notre Dame in 1958 with a bachelor’s their time and skills as gallery teachers, visitors services associ- degree in Philosophy. He was ordained to the priesthood in the ates, art preparator assistants, social media assistants, research Congregation of Holy Cross on June 6, 1962. assistants, office assistants, and graphic designers, during the After ordination in 1962, Fr. Flanigan accomplished his pastoral 2018-19 academic year: apprenticeship at Notre Dame, then studied art at George Members of the Student Programming Committee welcome Joan Becker, Program of Liberal Studies Washington University and the Corcoran School of Art (both in students to their first event, Sample the Snite, in August. Class of 2019 Washington, D.C.), and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1965. Afterward, he taught and served in student resident THESIS TOPIC: Congratulations to the following students who worked at halls at Notre Dame for many years. Other positions on campus Bookmaking and Arthurian Literature the Snite Museum and graduated in May. Thank you for the included faculty member and chair of the Department of Art, contributions you have made to the Museum. POSITION AT THE SNITE MUSEUM: Art History, & Design, superior of Old College, assistant provin- Visitor Services Associate Joan Becker, Visitor Services Associate cial of the Indiana Province and member of the formation staff Adithi Chowdhury, Social Media Assistant What is one thing you have learned about Snite Museum visitors? of Moreau Seminary. In the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003, Harriet Fink, Preparator Assistant Visitors often come to the museum hoping to see the work of he was at the University of Notre Dame’s London Program. In Theresa Gallagher, Gallery Teacher a specific artist, and I’m always surprised by the wide range of May 2009 he retired from teaching art and curating the Snite Bailey Kendall, Student Programming Committee favorites whom the visitors mention—from George Rickey to Museum’s Meštrovi´c Collection. Nora McGreevy, Gallery Teacher Natalia Goncharova to Ivan Meštrovi´c. Fr. Flanigan’s sculptures have been exhibited in museums and Patrick McMillian, Student Programming Committee What is your favorite work or show (past or present)? art shows, included a life-size Madonna of Jerusalem for the Cesar Moreno, Visitor Services Associate I have been especially excited to tell visitors about our Revisions: Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem; a 12-foot bronze crucifix at St. Larissa Nez, Research Assistant Contemporary Native Art exhibition, especially since it brings Thomas Apostle Church, Elkhart, In; and Stations of the Cross Gianna Van Heel, Gallery Teacher together the work of local artists and contemporary artists from for the Sorin Hall Chapel, Notre Dame. He also was commis- around the country. For first-time visitors to Notre Dame, it also sioned for the statues of Mary Seat of Wisdom on Malloy Hall, presents a great opportunity to learn more about the history of and Saint Andre Bessette on the Eck Vistors Center (seen right). the Michiana region. He is survived by his sister, Anna Marie Franko; and brothers, What is one thing you have learned from this position? Tom Flanigan and Don Flanigan. Though I have been interested in historical art for a long time, We shall miss his institutional memories of Ivan Meštrovi´c, this position has allowed me to learn so much about the world former museum director Fr. Anthony Lauck, C.S.C., and other of contemporary art, and all the different aspects of the current notable visual artists associated with the campus whom art market. I’m sure this information will be useful as I pursue Flanigan knew as a Notre Dame art student, artist, faculty my own creative endeavors in the future. member, or museum curator. Anything else you want to share about your time at the Snite Museum? I have been visiting the Snite Museum since I was a child growing up in South Bend, and it’s very rewarding to work “behind the scenes” after years of enjoying the Snite!

Student curatorial research assistant Meg Burns inventories photographs to prepare for an upcoming exhibition. 22 23 MUSEUM NEWS Andrew F. Mellon Architectural Firm Selected Snite Museum Art Out and About Foundation Grant for the New Art Museum Progress Report

The Hesburgh Libraries and Snite Museum of Art project team members have made significant progress towards a unified, searchable, web portal for objects in their collections during the sixteen months since the three-year, $455,000 grant award from the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation was announced in December 2017. They have focused their efforts on team development and building an Alpha prototype of the web platform they named MARBLE Unknown artist, Promotional photo for Percy (Museums, Archives, Rare Books, and Waters Tattoo Studio of a Tattooed Woman Sitting Library Exploration) to use in testing on a Love Seat, Percy Waters Tattoo Studio, Detroit, environments. Ultimately the final Michigan, ca. 1920s, gelatin silver print from glass version of the platform software will be Charles M. Russell (American, 1864–1926), The Romance Makers, negative, 7 µ 5 inches. Gift of Jeffrey T. Crisman, After a rigorous national search, the Since January, Snite Museum staff 1918, oil on canvas, 23 K µ 35 K inches. Gift of Mr. C. R. Smith, 1962.020 2009.034.001. open source and made available to other University selected the renowned members have worked closely with the university art museums and libraries. American architectural firm, Robert A. M. RAMSA and LCR team members on The C.M. Russell Museum has borrowed Concurrent to the exhibition in Great The Snite Museum lent six of its photo- Both grant-funded positions are filled, a Stern Architects (RAMSA), to design the the programming phase for the new art the large oil on canvas, The Romance Falls, Montana, the C.M. Russell graphs of tattooed bodies to the South Bend project manager assigned, and several new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at museum, which requires analyzing and Makers, 1918, by Charles M. Russell Museum has agreed to collaborate with Museum of Art for their July 21 through project sub-teams are established. Hired Notre Dame with the art museum planning projecting future art collection, exhibition, (American, 1864–1926) for their June 7 the Calgary Stampede in its centen- October 7, 2018, exhibition, Beyond Ink: in April 2018 by the Hesburgh Libraries, and visioning assistance of Lord Cultural education, event, and operational space through September 30, 2019, exhibition nial celebration of the 1919 Victory Recent Artwork by South Bend and Regional software engineer Jonathan Miller has Resources, Inc. requirements. They are also investigating Return to Calgary: Charles M. Russell and Stampede by producing a companion Tattoo Artists. The exhibition included an worked on the website’s front-facing A leading classical design firm with and discussing what it means to be an the 1919 Victory Stampede. exhibition in giclée (digital reproductions educational section that explored the history components including creating mockups international recognition and expertise, academic art museum in the twenty- first century. In February, three RAMSA Located in Great Falls, Montana, the in full-color) of all twenty-four Charles of tattoos and the tattooing process to and building the functional prototype. RAMSA designed the Stayer Center for architects, two LCR consultants, Snite C.M. Russell Museum is reassembling M. Russell paintings shown in 1919. The which the Snite Museum lent two of its early In June 2018 Abigail Shelton joined the Executive Education at Notre Dame and Museum Director Joe Becherer, and three twenty-one of the twenty-four paintings exhibition will be housed in the Western twentieth-century photographs of images Museum staff as the Outreach Specialist numerous other academic facilities and Snite Museum staff members visited art and all eight bronzes by Russell included Oasis at Stampede Park throughout the taken to promote the Percy Waters Tattoo funded by the grant. She has gathered museums in the country. As founder museums on the campuses of three peer in a one-person art exhibition Russell was run of the event; July 5 through 14, 2019. Studio in Detroit, Michigan. desired requirements for the digital and senior partner, Robert A.M. Stern is institutions (Harvard, Yale, and the Rhode invited to install during the Calgary 1919 collections portal by interviewing various credited with bringing classicism into the Island School of Design) and viewed Victory Stampede, billed as the world’s campus stakeholders such as library public realm and reinvigorating it for future Harvard and Yale campus buildings championship frontier contest and victory and museum staff, teaching faculty, and generations. Today, RAMSA maintains designed by RAMSA. celebration to mark the end of the Great students. Their top requests are search an attention to detail and commitment to War. The result was national and interna- and browse functions and filters, image design quality, which has earned interna- tional exposure of Russell’s artwork and manipulation, and the ability to group tional recognition and awards. and share collections objects. Shelton sale of nine of the thirty-two works in the Lord Cultural Resources, Inc., (LCR) has has also directed the design of web exhibition. completed over 2,200 cultural projects mockups and prototypes for the Alpha in fifty-six countries on six continents. A The Snite Museum is one of fourteen phase, which she will test with users a few of the American art museums of public and private collections assisting starting in May 2019. the C.M. Russell Museum in replicating note with whom they have worked are this landmark exhibition of Russell’s the Art Institute of Chicago; the Blanton work that will add fresh scholarship and Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; the Broad perspectives on many of his masterworks Art Museum at Michigan State University; through an illustrated exhibition catalog. the Denver Art Museum; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Princeton University Unknown artist, Promotional photo for Percy Waters Tattoo Studio of a Tattoo Artist at work, Art Museum; and the Seattle Art Museum. Percy Waters Tattoo Studio, Detroit, Michigan, ca. 1920s gelatin silver print from glass negative, 5 µ 7 inches. Gift of Jeffrey T. Crisman, 2009.034.003 24 25 Ms. Sue Lowe Andrew Wendelborn Jeanne Mattei Curt Lynn Mrs. Jean Wenke Ms. Mary Ann Matthews-Derda Mr. & Mrs. James L. Lyphout Kathy & Gary White William J. McCall in 2018 Ms. Patricia G. MacDonald Dr. & Mrs. Craig F. Williams Ms. Catherine McCormick Karen J. Macellari Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wuslich Emily McKnight Angela Magrames Mrs. Maria Younes Ms. Tamara McNally LUIGI GREGORI SUPPORTING Dr. & Mrs. Paul Manoguerra John L. Young, C.S.C. Ms. Mary Ann Moran Mr. Arthur J. Decio Mr. & Mrs. Roger Aiello Mary Anne Cilella Ms. Gale McCarty Ms. Barbara Obenchain Mr. Richard Atkinson Ms. Margaret Claeys Matt & Ursula McClain ASSOCIATE Ms. Rebecca Parker IVAN MEŠTROVIC´ Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Bernhard Ms. Gina Claudeanos Sarah & J.T. McDonald C.J. Beutien Mrs. Adele Paskin Mr. & Mrs. James S. Cownie Mr. & Mrs. Todd Bruce Suzanne Cole Mr. & Mrs. William K. McGowan Jr. Ms. Mary Jane Buzolich Anne Pendl Mr. & Mrs. Michael McLoughlin Dr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Casey Sarah Craig Mr. & Mrs. William L. McVey Mr. & Mrs. Leo Despres Ms. Sherry Pinter Dru W. Cash Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Crossen Dr. & Mrs. Anthony N. Michel Mrs. Sharon G. Donlon Ms. Norma Jean Rhoades EMILE JACQUES Holly Curley & Jim Host Annabelle and James Curran Douglas & Karen Mick Mr. Mauro Fonacier Mrs. Denise B. Roemer Pat & Bob Kill Ann & Fred Dean Mr. & Mrs. William W. Cushwa Ms. Brenda Moran Mr. Sam Mirkin Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Rose Mr. & Mrs. William W. Dunn Ms. Carolyn D’Andrea Juliane Morris Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Morris Lois Rumely GEORGE RICKEY Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Germano Sharyl Dawes Dr. & Mrs. Asokendu Mozumder Theresa Nucciarone Mrs. Mary J. Rummel Mr. Robert P. Doyle Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hrabrick Mr. & Mrs. David Deahl Mr. & Mrs. Peter Mullen Ms. Jan Rattenbury Susan Shields Kitty Rose & Ed Everett Bridget & David James Mary & Dale Deditch Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Murphy Ms. Geraldine Ritchhart Mrs. Joyce Skillern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kettler Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Dennen Walter & Elaine Nicgorski Mrs. Denise B. Roemer Jane Smith Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Paulius Mr. & Mrs. James G. Lauck Nicole Doctor Myriam Nicodemus Ms. Gail Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. Don Sporleder Mr. & Mrs. John Phair Dr. & Mrs. Stephen T. McTigue Mr. & Mrs. Robin Douglass Megan & Patrick F. O’Neill John J. Shields Ms. Constance S. Stamper John & Karen O’Brien Mrs. Jan Durand Mary B. O’Toole Mary E. Toll & William Heimann Mr. & Mrs. Ted Stanley DONOR Ms. Ramona Payne & Mr. Anthony Fitts Joanne Fahey Mr. & Mrs. Grant Osborn Mrs. Rosalind Tucker Bill Stockton Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Anella Carol & Jack Regan Susie & Jim Farrington June Pabst Helen & James Voth Sally Stockton Ms. Janette Burkhart-Miller Rica Simmons Spivack Ms. Josephine Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. William R. Racine Ms. Marilyn Wood Prof. William Strieder Mr. & Mrs. Buell Duncan, III Michael Spretnjak Dr. & Mrs. Fred Ferlic Rita & Dick Reinbold Ms. Elizabeth Zapf Mary Watt-Strieder Steve Spretnjak & Gwen Spretnjak Mr. & Mrs. Shawn Freehling Mrs. Joyce M. Hank Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Reineke Mr. Robert H. Waechter Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Stout Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. Frieden Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lee Mr. & Mrs. William J. Reinke SENIOR/STUDENT Margaret Whitmer Mrs. Carole Walton Ms. Mitsuko Furuhashi Mrs. Charlotte Mittler Michael Riemke Ms. Pamela Alderton Mr. Robert Williams Mr. & Mrs. Paul Weaver Beth Garascia Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ruppe Ms. Martha E. Black Mrs. Eugene Weiss Ms. Cynthia Wendzonka Julie Graham PATRON Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sabato Anita Brown Mr. Paul Wendzonka Mr. & Mrs. John D. Guarnaschelli Pamela J. Austin Honorable Nicholas J. Schiralli Ms. Peg Coffey LITTLE FRIENDS Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hardig Kathy Beeler & Brian Regan Ruth M. Schmitz Mrs. Tom Cohen Claudeanos Family FRIEND Jackie Hardman Mr. & Mrs. James F. Cooke Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Schreck Ms. Elizabeth Cotter Sophia Dalton Family Ms. Mary Mahank Barnes Charles S. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Philip Faccenda Jr. Ms. Joan L. Schweiger Mrs. Rosemary Crowell Gabriella E. Flatt-Nanney Family Nancy Barrett Prof. & Mrs. Eugene Henry Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fishburne Robert P. Sedlack, Sr. Mrs. Mary Derwent Lacey Frye Family Rosemary Bell & Prof. Tom Kosel Mrs. Joan Hofman Joyce & Roger Foley Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Sopko Janet Egyhazi Andrea and Abigail Harstein Family Barton Bennett Gordon & Phyllis Hostetler Mr. & Mrs. Charles Loving Michael Spretnjak Kent Emery Frances Melancon Family George E. Bernard, MD Mr. & Mrs. David James Susan Ohmer & Donald Crafton Stephen Spretnjak Lucy Emery Pavnica Family Dr. & Mrs. Ikaros Bigi Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Kahn Mrs. Linda Rakow Mr. Paul Stevenson Ms. Irene M. Engel Eleanor and Vivian Swoboda Family Blakemore Family Ms. Kelli Kalisik Ms. Celeste Ringuette Mr. & Mrs. George C. Stump Ms. Winifred Caponigri Farquhar Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bock Juli Kalisik Dr. Cheryl Snay & Mr. Patrick Weber Mr. Michael Szymanski Kathleen Flynn Fox CORPORATE Mrs. Elizabeth Borger Dr. Peter Kesling Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Taylor Frederick Greiner 1st Source Mr. & Mrs. Brian Brady Bill & Jan Killilea Tom Thomas Linda Hanson Ben Roseland Studio & Gallery Christine Burke Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Kintner Mr. & Mrs. Richard Trafas Ms. Sally L. Hendricks Croatian Sons Lodge No. 170 Mr. William Burns & Ms. Leslie Cavill-Burns Chris Kintzele Elizabeth Trantowski Ms. Joan Jaworski Keough Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John E. Butkovich Maureen L. Kleiderer Jack & Ann Turnock F. Patrick Kelly Lake City Bank Mr. & Mrs. John T. Bycraft Tom & Sharon Kroll Mr. & Mrs. John Ulrich Mrs. Gloria Kim Leighton-Oare Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Cahir Mr. & Mrs. Brian J. Lake Mr. & Mrs. James C. Vanderkam Mrs. Mary J. Knoll Navarre Hospitality Mr. & Mrs. John Calcutt Elizabeth Lankford Mary Kay & John Welle Phyllis R. Kubale Nibco, Inc Nick Carroll Mrs. Ray B. Larson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Welsh Ms. Phoebe Jo Lykowski Palmer Funeral Homes Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Cavanaugh Joan C. & Donald L. Leone ‘57 Ms. Kathleen Welsh Veronica M. Malone PNC Bank Joan Cecrle Teresa Logemann David Wemhoff Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marshall

26 27 Four of the six Keough children, and two of the many grandchildren, were able to attend this year’s event. Shayla and Chip Rumely, Eileen and Chris Millard with Mary Alice Millard, Kate Lynch with Daniel Patrick Keough, Jinny and Michael Keough, Megan and Patrick Keough.

37th Annual Friends of the Snite Christmas Benefit Dinner – Reverend John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the 17th President of the University of Remarks from the Keough Family were given by Michael Keough (Co-Chair of Sláinte! Notre Dame, attended this year’s Christmas Benefit Dinner. the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies) and his sister Eileen Keough Held on December 6, 2018, at the Palais Royale in downtown South Bend Millard (Snite Museum of Art Advisory Council member).

The Snite Museum of Art honors with gratitude the Donald and Marilyn were generous benefactors to legacy of the Keough Family, including the late Donald Notre Dame, making significant contributions for a and Marilyn Keough and their children Kathleen Keough variety of educational and residential initiatives, most Soto, Shayla Keough Rumely, Michael, Patrick, and Clarke recently funding the Donald R. Keough School of Global Keough, and Eileen Keough Millard. This year, the family Affairs. Donald received an honorary degree from Notre gifted nineteen modern and contemporary paintings by Dame in 1985 and the University’s highest honor, the Irish artists to the Snite Museum, which, in combination Laetare Medal, in 1993. Marilyn received an honorary with other holdings, has laid the foundation for a compel- degree in 1998. Five of their children are Notre Dame ling collection of Irish art spanning three centuries. graduates and several serve on either the University’s Board of Trustees or advisory councils, including the Snite Museum of Art Advisory Council.

28 29 FRIENDS OF THE SNITE MUSEUM OF ART 2018 CHRISTMAS BENEFIT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHRISTMAS BENEFIT FOUNDERS TABLE SPONSOR PATRON Patricia and Arthur J. Decio Louise and Steve Anella Richard Atkinson Kelli Kalisik and Rob Cole JoAnn and Joe Blazek LEADERSHIP Maureen and Patrick Dore Dru Cash Arthur J. Decio Judith and David Eckrich Ann and Fred Dean PREMIER Lake City Bank Robert Doyle Keough Foundation Charlotte Mittler Susan and Justin Driscoll Eileen and Chris Millard Betsy and K. R. Palmer Cindy and Bill Dunn Nibco, Inc. Barb and John Phair Angie and Phil Faccenda Shayla and Chip Rumely Betty Gallagher and John Snider Joyce and Roger Foley Steve Spretnjak Mary and Jim Hesburgh CONTRIBUTOR Holly Curley and Jim Host 1st Source DONOR Virginia and Timothy Hupfer Carmi and Chris Murphy Ben Roseland Studio and Gallery Judith Kinney Navarre Hospitality Group Tracy and Buell Duncan Margreta and James Larson Susie and Jim Farrington Mary Gerry and Thomas Lee Leighton-Oare Foundation Beverly O’Grady Joanne Mack and Jim McKenna Meagan and Flynn O’Neill 2018 CHRISTMAS BENEFIT CHAIR 2018 CHRISTMAS BENEFIT COMMITTEE Karen and Doug Mick Linda Rakow Michael Riemke Dru Cash Michael Szymanski and the Hospitality Committee Barb and Jim O’Connell Celeste Ringuette Ann Dean Shirley and Stephen Roseland Louise Anella Juliane Morris Cindy Dunn Suzanne Cole Mary Lou Mullen Barb Henry Tracy Duncan Celeste Ringuette Kelli Kalisik Angie Faccenda Mary Kay Welle Cheryl Ulrich Susie Farrington

The ND Glee Club performed some Christmas highlights then added a soulful Irish tune, The Parting Glass, along with a special birthday serenade Sláinte (Irish toast for “health”) was the theme of the evening for this John Affleck-Graves (right) welcomed the new to Steve Spretnjak, turning 91, followed by the alma mater. Irish Christmas Celebration. Decor of rich velvet table runners, and Museum Director Joseph Becherer and his wife, Lisa. natural greens as centerpieces, created a warm, festive atmosphere. This annual gala is the primary source of funding for the art education programs that serve thousands of school children and adults each year.

Pictured to the right is the Steve Spretnjak Family. Standing behind the patriarch (l-r) are Stephen, Greg, Mary, Michael, Gwen Spretnjak, and Joe, Gail and Paul Hickner.

30 31 FRIENDS OF THE SNITE MUSEUM OF ART Upcoming Art and Architecture Tour Friends of the Snite are going to Chicago on Tuesday, June 4. First stop is The Conservation Center, where we will go behind the scenes at the largest and most comprehensive private art conservation laboratory in the United States. After lunch we will tour the Chicago Architecture Center and cruise on the First Lady. The CAC River Cruise has been named “top tour in Chicago and one of the top ten tours in the U.S.” according to TripAdvisor. Call the office (574) 631-5516 for more information or visit sniteartmuseum.nd.edu. Join the Friends for advanced notice and price discounts on one of their upcoming trips. Helen with Father Ted Hesburgh MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Steve and Helen Spretnjak – RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME.

Being in the right place at the right time Steve’s first engineering job was to of discovery, comprehension, critical seems to be the best way to describe how design window frames for vehicles in thinking and creativity. The family feels members Helen and Steve Spretnjak’s Elkhart, which was not far from South the Snite Museum is not only a critical lives came together long ago and continue Bend Central High School where Helen resource for the Notre Dame community, to positively impact the world today. was teaching. Geographically close but also for the surrounding colleges, Steve’s parents came to the U.S. from once again, this reunion resulted in their schools, and communities. Croatia and Slovenia. His father worked marriage, from which five children graced in the steel mills on the south side of their lives. Helen and Steve made art and Chicago. As a child, Steve had an interest music a regular part of their family life. in art and learned figurative drawing. With a passionate interest in arts, Helen lived in South Bend, Indiana, spend- and a calling toward philanthropy and ing her early childhood in the company service, Helen and Steve very naturally of her Hungarian grandparents and responded to the opportunity to join the extended family. She developed interests newly founded Friends of the Snite orga- in the arts of language, music, and dance. nization in the 1970s. Helen’s father was one of many family Over many years, Helen and Steve members who graduated from Notre enjoyed the annual Friends Christmas Dame and her parents visited campus Benefit. After Helen passed away, the with her, pointing out details in art and benefit became a family event for Steve design found throughout. and his children to celebrate their love As an in-demand chemical engineer, of the arts, Helen’s memory, and Steve’s Helen’s father often moved his family. December birthday. Helen first met Steve in their shared The Spretnjak family recognizes the Snite Chicago kindergarten class. Years later Museum of Art is an integral part of a they met again, also in Chicago, at St. well-balanced Catholic educational expe- Francis High School. rience at Notre Dame. The fine arts have an unmatched impact upon students by stimulating their minds to higher levels Steve proudly wears his Notre Dame plaid bowtie and cummerbund each year to the December Benefit.

32 33 FRIENDS FORUM: BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT “Art. It’s one of the ways I understand what’s going on in the world” Administrative Computing, Aerospace, Financial Aid, and ART? I recently had the pleasure to sit down with Friends of the Snite Museum Board Member Theresa Nucciarone, who Board Member Michael Riemke has lived in Indiana his entire is currently serving her third year on the board. From the life. Due to his years of working in computer technology South Bend area, Theresa attended Saint Mary’s College for General Electric’s Aerospace Division, and degrees in and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. After Computer Technology from Purdue University and Business graduation, Theresa purposefully explored the field of Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, the art education in various capacities including teaching University of Notre Dame offered Michael a position as elementary school programs and facilitating public a Systems Analyst in their Administrative Computing programs at the Snite Museum of Art. Department. Theresa is now pursuing her Master of Education in the Over time Michael transitioned from computer technology International Higher Education Program, works in the to management in the Student Accounts and Cashier Offices. Undergraduate Admissions Office at Notre Dame, and Since 2009, he has been associate director in the Office of volunteers with La Casa de Amistad, and with the local Financial Aid. When asked about the role that art plays in her life, Theresa chapter of Girls on the Run. thoughtfully replied, “When I have conversations with people Michael became involved with the Friends after co-worker As a young professional who lives in the community, about politics and where we are in society and in the world today, Kelli Kalisik approached him about being on the board. Theresa particularly enjoys the Snite Museum’s Summer art is conveying more truth than what I might see in a newspaper She knew Michael appreciates support for art education Music Series. “You’re outdoors, listening to great bands, article because it’s a symbol of someone’s reality. That person for all ages. sitting in the courtyard. A lot of people will bring picnics made it to depict their own reality. It’s probably a good guess and there are drinks and popcorn. People of all ages that someone else is sharing that same reality. It’s one of the attend. You’re sitting among these amazing sculptures, ways I understand what’s going on in the world.” watching them moving in the wind. You can always take a We are grateful for Theresa’s service on the board and the break inside the Museum to see the artwork that they’ve experience, expertise, and perspective she offers to help the paired with the message or theme or concepts the Snite Museum flourish in our area and beyond. musicians perform. It gets you thinking about different types of art and how they relate with one another.” Respectfully submitted, — Juliane K. Morris, Friends Board Member “Also, our Family Nights are some of the best nights and events and programs that we have for the community… The ambiance is wonderful and there are so many different people who come. Everyone is welcome. Highly recommended because they’re so much fun.”

Michael chaired the 2018 Christmas Benefit Committee. When asked what he enjoys most about the Snite Museum and its Standing next to Nathaniel Hone’s oil painting Cattle at mission, Michael replied: Moldowney, 1890s, Michael shared, One of the great things that happens here at the Snite Museum of Art This is a painting donated by the family that we are honoring is community engagement, and especially the engagement that the this year at the benefit, the Keough Family, and the Donald Museum does to educate the children of the community. Many school and Marilyn Keough Foundation. They’ve been very groups come through the Museum every academic year for various generous to the Snite Museum and have donated several tours and learn how to appreciate art and also how to incorporate it paintings by Irish artists. It’s been wonderful to have them as into your life. It’s a thrill to see some of the young children and how benefactors and we’re so looking forward to honoring them their minds just explode with imagination when they’re here at the at our benefit this year. Snite. To see that expansion, and hopefully to instill a love of art at a very young age in these children is fabulous. It’s one of the best things the Museum does for the community. Respectfully submitted, — Juliane K. Morris, Friends Board Member

34 35 Contributions to the Friends Endowment Fund The Snite Museum of Art and its Friends membership organization are most grateful for endowment dona- tions made in memory of, or in honor of, special individuals. The endowment earnings support art education outreach programs. Acknowledgments are sent to the honorees or to the family of those memorialized.

Tributes and memorials received July 1, 2018 through December 20, 2018

IN MEMORY OF We will miss our FRIENDS who recently passed.

Edward Bernard Louis Behre by George Bernard Charter member since 1979 Jean (Genevieve) Kocab JoAnn Cook by Betty Gallagher and John Snider treasured volunteer and member since 1981 Ann Richiski Bettie Dippo by Frank and Fes Smurlo member since 1984 and docent emeritus Jean Sharp J. Moore McDonough by The Wednesday Club Art Benefactor Jean Sharp Charter member since 1979

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883), Dead Christ with Angels, 1866-67, (details of image on page 12). 36 37 MUSEUM STAFF ACTIVE DOCENTS SNITE MUSEUM OF ART FRIENDS OF THE SNITE MUSEUM INFORMATION GALLERIES OPEN ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Snite Museum of Art Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. David Acton, Ph.D. Mary Allen Thursday open until 7:30 p.m. curator of photographs Don L. Arenz Susan M. Driscoll, chair Kelli Kalisik, president University of Notre Dame Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Ph.D. Lisa Barnett de Froberville Dr. Ann Uhry Abrams Louise Anella (574) 631-5466 Closed Sunday, Monday, and major holidays director and curator of sculpture Teresa Carroll William C. Ballard Jr. Pam Austin sniteartmuseum.nd.edu Brigid M. Boyle Kari Black facebook.com/sniteartmuseum FREE ADMISSION Hanna Bertoldi Jenny Chmiel collections database coordinator Mary Corbett Mrs. Joyce M. Hank Todd Bruce twitter.com/snitemuseum Linda DeCelles Charles S. Hayes Dru Cash Gina Costa* Ninette Deliyannides Richard H. Hunt Angie Chamblee marketing and public relations program manager LOCATION + MAP Angie Faccenda Virginia M. Hupfer Anne Crossen Rachel Heisler Jackie Hardman Margreta Gibbs Larson Ann Dean SNITE MUSEUM OF ART assistant curator of education, academic programs Aislin Keith Dr. R. Stephen Lehman Robin Douglass Bridget O’Brien Hoyt Christine Kelley Rebecca Nanovic Lin Tracy Duncan curator of education, academic programs Carol Kraabel William K. McGowan Jr. Cindy Dunn Virginia Lehner Michael T. McLoughlin Angela M. Faccenda, past president Joyce Center and Ann M. Knoll Purcell Pavilion associate director Sibylle Livingston Eileen Keough Millard Joanne D. Fahey Morris Inn Susan Farrington Sue Lowe Charlotte G. Mittler Sarah Martin Barbara Henry Football Phoebe Lykowski Carly Murphy Stadium curator of education, public programs Jan Lazzara Kay Marshall Carmen C. Murphy Victoria C. Perdomo Juliane Morris Catherine A. McCormick James S. O’Connell Sr. PARKING: Stadium PARKING: Joyce registrar Mary Lou Mullen Nancy Morgan Beverly T. O’Grady Legends Restaurant

Theresa Nucciarone STREET EDDY Mary C. Rattenbury Mary Lou Mullen Jeannie D. O’Neill HOLY CROSS DRIVE coordinator, Friends of the Snite Museum Grant Osborn Mark Neff Dr. Morna E. O’Neill Michael Riemke AVENUE DAME NOTRE Visitor PARKING: Compton Laura K. Rieff Mary K. O’Shaughnessy Pay Lot Barbara Obenchain Michael Szymanski administrative assistant Christopher Scholz Pam Perlewitz Cheryl Ulrich DeBartolo Performing Frank E. Smurlo Jr. Arts Center Compton Family Michael Rippy Nancy Racine Ice Arena Mary Kay Welle Charles B. Hayes digital and special projects program manager Shirley Roseland John L. Snider Andy Wendelborn Family Sculpture Park Ramiro Rodriguez* Pamela Schrader David A. Trujillo Kathy White ANGELA BLVD EDISON ROAD Gail Schroeder Janet M. Unruh Eddy Street Commons exhibition coordinator former presidents: Suzanne Cole, Rod Spear Alexandra Schaufele Barbara L. Phair, Celeste Ringuette, Carole Walton assistant curator of education, public programs and Paul W. Stevenson Bob Williams 2018–19 STUDENT PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Abigail Shelton Marilyn Wood outreach specialist, Mellon Foundation Grant Meg Burns ’21, Programming Coordinator ENDOWED FUNDS Cheryl K. Snay, Ph.D. Rachel Mills ’20, Programming Coordinator Edward M. Abrams and Family Endowment for the Snite Museum Lake Family Endowment for the Snite Museum Library curator of European art NOTRE DAME Natalie Casal ’21 Orry Marciano ’21 Marilynn and James W. Alsdorf Endowment for Ancient, Margreta Gibbs and James Larson Family Endowment for Excellence GALLERY TEACHERS Kyle Thorne Medieval, & Early Renaissance Art Katherine Coogan ’21 Patrick Millican ’19 Rev. Anthony J. Lauck, C.S.C., Sculpture Endowment assistant preparator Elyse Boldt ’21 Bailey Kendall ’19 Carson Myers ’21 Ashbaugh Endowment for Educational Outreach Virginia A. Marten Endowment for Decorative Arts Elizabeth Zapf Theresa Gallagher ’19 Brian Koehler ’19 Abigail Patrick ’22 Walter R. Beardsley Endowment for Contemporary Art senior financial analyst Caila Lindsey ’20 Sam Kuster ’19 Meenu Selvan ’22 J. Moore McDonough Endowment for Art of the Americas Nora McGreevy ’19 Kathleen and Richard Champlin Endowment for *museum staff member for twenty years or more Caila Lindsey ’20 Scott Somers ’20 Everett McNear Memorial Fund Patrick McMonagle’21 Drew Lischke ’20 Laurie Zhang ’21 Traveling Exhibitions Charlotte Mittler Endowment for Art Education Programs for Madelyn Steurer ’20 Catherine R. and Austin I. Collins Sr. Family Endowment for HOUSEKEEPING Marie Latham ’22 Notre Dame Students Cameron Sumner ’21 Excellence for Public Art Deborah Osborn Bernard Norling and Mary T. Norling Endowment for 18th– Gianna Van Heel ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Terrence J. Dillon Endowment and 19th–Century Sculpture Isabel Weber ’20 2019–19 STUDENT INTERNS Susan M. and Justin E. Driscoll Endowment for Photography SECURITY AND ASSISTANTS John D. Reilly Endowment for Excellence Lynne Atkins ’21 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Duncan Endowment for American Art Capt. Daniel Kavanaugh Charles Harper Rev. George Ross Endowment for Art Conservation Joan Becker ’19 Margaretta Higgins Endowment security coordinator lead security monitor John C. Rudolf Endowment for the Snite Museum Adithi Chowdhury MBA ’19 Humana Foundation Endowment for American Art Katerina Araman, Myshelle Babcoke, Elmer Bailey, Kathy Barone, Leander Brown, Rita Yuliya Federovych MFA ’21 Frank and Joan Smurlo American Southwest Art Endowment Burks, John Chapleau, Jan Durand, Mark Ellam, Sue Fleck, Bruce Hess, Rosemary Hess, Holly Guggenbiller ’20 Fritz and Mildred Kaeser Endowment for Liturgical Art for Excellence Laccine Kabel, Mark Mauer, Robbin Myers, Ray Patnaude, Frederick Slaski, Thomas Mary Elsa Henrichs ’20 Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography Snite Museum General Endowment Stafford, Gerald Strabley, Ralph Takach, Gary Trost, Jeff Walker, and Sarah Woolley Amorette Hernandez ’21 Pat and Robert Kill Family Endowment for Excellence in John Surovek Endowment Cesar Moreno ’19 Latin American Art Anthony Tassone Memorial Art Fund Molly Queal ’21 Lake Family Endowment for the Arts of the Americas, William L. and Erma M. Travis Endowment for the Decorative Arts Lauren Stephenson ’21 Africa and Oceania Alice Tully Endowment for the Fine and Performing Arts Lake Family Endowment for Student Internships

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