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Annual Report 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2014 In reading through this DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE report, please note at the left of each page, the individuals and companies who have made possible a successful year at the Harn Museum of Art. This year the Harn took on the most ambitious exhibition in the museum’s history, Kongo across the Waters, an international loan show organized in partnership with the Royal Museum for Acquisition Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. After opening at the Harn in fall 2013 the exhibition traveled Endowments Kathleen M. Axline to three other museums, drawing record crowds at the Harn and each of the subsequent Acquisition Endowment venues—the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, the Princeton University Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. In keeping with the Harn’s commitment to support Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson the University of Florida’s goal of internationalization, other exhibitions this year expanded Acquisition Fund the exploration of global cultures. Life is a Highway: Prints from Japan’s Tokaido Road, a highly innovative and engaging exhibition, drew on the Harn’s collection of Japanese prints, Melvin and Lorna Rubin Fund which includes three complete sets of wood cuts illustrating landscapes and the adventures of travelers along one of Japan’s legendary highways. Highlighting treasures from the Harn’s David A. Cofrin Acquisition Endowment Indian art collection, the exhibition String of Pearls: Traditional Painting also included some key loans of Indian jewelry from Winter Haven collectors William and Norma Roth and spotlighted Phil and Barbara two gorgeous gem-studded pieces of historic Indian jewelry donated to the museum by long- Emmer Art Acquisition Endowment time patron and friend Vam York, whose husband Dr. E. T. York acquired the jewelry in the 1950s in India. The international nature of the Harn’s contemporary art collection was the impetus Ruth P. Phillips for the collection-based exhibition Cosmopolitan: Envisioning Global Communities which Endowment highlighted multiple ways of fostering community through art by Gladys Harn Harris Art linking radically different expressions of contemporary art and Acquisition Endowment culture from Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States. Finally, S.F.I. Endowment for the exhibition The Mark of Water: Florida’s Springs and the Harn Museum Swamps, with thirty-eight large color photographs by artist Fogler Family Endowment Karen Glaser, introduced visitors to some of our state’s beautiful rivers, swamps and springs while also revealing David A. Cofrin Fund the fragility of Florida’s imperiled waters. While focused on for Asian Art the Florida environment, the show explored environmental issues with national and international import. Program Endowments Eloise R. Chandler Program Endowment Each of these remarkable exhibitions was accompanied by an array of programming with offerings for people Michael A. Singer Fund of all ages and interests. Among these visitors were S.F.I. Endowment students in more than 75 University of Florida classes whose professors sought object-based learning Sidney Knight Endowment experiences that would enhance course curricula Criser Internship Fund across many disciplines. By year’s end, the diverse exhibitions and programs had attracted Harn Program Endowment more than 110,000 people, the largest number of Wells Fargo Museum visitors in the Harn’s history. While visiting the Technology Endowment museum, these patrons were also able to view Londono Family many additions to the Harn’s permanent Endowment collections, with more than 475 works of art Dixie Neilson Museum added through donation and purchase. All of Studies Registration these wonderful objects are listed in this report and Internship selected works, chosen by the museum’s curators, Dr. Madelyn M. Lockhart are illustrated to offer a glimpse into the exciting Endowment for Focus ways the Harn’s collection is growing. The depth Exhibitions at the Harn Museum of Art and breadth of the collection make it possible for our curators to develop stimulating and engaging 150th Anniversary Cultural exhibitions and for our educators to develop Plaza Endowment learning opportunities that engage and enlighten Myra L. Engelhardt and our diverse audiences. We are deeply grateful to Lawrence E. Malvern the many donors whose generosity makes all the Endowment good work of the Harn possible. Thank you from all Margaret J. Early of us at the Harn! Program Endowment Laura and Kenneth Berns Docent Program Endowment Rebecca M. Nagy Yombe peoples, Mayombe, Lower Congo, DRC, Harn Museum of Art, Director Anthropomorphic power figure, nkisi nkondi, 19th century, 2 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. John Early Publications Endowment ANNUALREPORT Dixie and Peter Neilson Conservation Laboratory Covering July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014 Endowment Harold Walton & Margaret Harn Goforth Endowment Cofrin Curator of Asian Art Endowment Julia C. & Budd H. Featuring: Bishop Endowment TABLE OF CONTENTS Harn Curator of KONGO Photography Endowment across the William E. and Katherine Highlighted Acquisitions 4 A. Elmore Endowment for WATERS Asia Art Conservation Exhibitions & Programs 7 Additional Programs 12 Mary M. James Inspiration Fund for the Harn Museum UF Collaborations 14 of Art UF Classes 15 Rick and Aase Thompson Fund Financials 16 Acquisitions 18 John V. and Patricia M. Carlson Program People at the Harn 42 Endowment Harn National Woyo peoples, Council Banana, Lower Congo, Ken and Laura Berns DRC, Dance scepter, Gainesville, Florida Thafu Maluangu, late 19th century, Royal Irma and Norman Braman Museum for Central Miami, Florida Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Mary Ann P. Cofrin Amherst, Massachusetts Patricia Dorosz Weston, Florida Russ and Deirdre Fogler Gainesville, Florida Bill and Hazel Hough St. Petersburg, Florida Bob and Nancy Magoon Annual Report, cover images: Aspen, Colorado Row 1: Woyo peoples, Banana, Lower Congo, DRC, Ndunga mask, Early 20th Mel and Lorna Rubin century, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Gainesville, Florida Row 2: Kongo peoples, Lower Congo, DRC, Staff finial, 17th-18th century Steve and Carol Shey Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Alachua, Florida Ron Shore Row 3: (1) Woyo peoples, Banana, Lower Congo, DRC, Anthropomorphic power Antioch, California figure, nkisi Mandombe, early 20th century, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2) Radcliffe Bailey, Returnal, 2008, Museum Purchase, funds Rick and Aase Thompson provided by the Ruth P. Phillips Endowment, with additional funds provided by the Gainesville, Florida Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund, Harn Museum of Art John and Pat Carlson Row 4: (1) Yombe peoples, Mayombe, Lower Congo, DRC, Mask of the nganga Gainesville, Florida Diphomba, late 19th century, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Christina Bonarrigo (2) American, Memory jar, 20th century, High Museum of Art (3) Solongo peoples, UF Student Body President Banana, Lower Congo, DRC, Ivory pendant, early 20th century, Royal Museum for Gainesville, Florida Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium T.J. Villamil Row 5: (1) Mboma peoples, Matadi, Lower Congo, DRC, Sword of honor Past UF Student Body c. 16th-17th century, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2) Alethia President Foreman, Elephant Ear Basket, 2012, Harn Museum of Art, Museum Purchase, Gainesville, Florida funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Acquisition Endowment (3) Radcliffe Bailey, Ashton Charles Down by the River, 1997, Blanton Museum of Art (4) Voania Muba, Woyo, d. 1928, Past UF Student Body Lower Congo, DRC, Pot with human figures, early 20th century, Royal Museum for President Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Tampa, Florida 3 HIGHLIGHTED ACQUISITIONS Emeriti Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Gainesville, Florida Corporate Matching Gifts Radcliffe Bailey Adobe Systems, Inc. American, b. 1968 Returnal Bank of America 2008 Foundation Mixed media 5 ft. 4 1/2 in. x 8 ft. x 5 1/2 in. Merck (163.8 x 243.8 x 14 cm) Museum Purchase, funds Northwestern Mutual provided by the Ruth P. Foundation, Inc. Phillips Endowment, with Verizon Foundation additional funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Gift and Grants Fund, 2012.44 $100,000 and above Eugene F. Finkin and Radcliffe Bailey’s Linda Witham-Finkin work Returnal is part Jane M. Totten and of a series of works Arnold Wasserman comprised of multi- $50,000 - $99,999 media assemblages of Susan W. Shafer photographs, paintings and objects contained in box-like frames as “medicine cabinets”. The UF Student Government medicine cabinets are Bailey’s attempt to reconcile history, personal memory and collective memory as an act of healing. In Returnal, models of sailing ships, photographs of Central $10,000 - $49,999 William E. and African sculpted figures, and replicated flags of the Black Star Line remind us of the history of Katherine A. Elmore Africans and their descendants crossing the Atlantic. As a mark of Bailey’s quest of personal history, Bailey transcribes a series of letters taken from one of his DNA sequences identifying Margery R. and Robert H. McKay his African heritage. The central photograph of an unidentified man is an homage to his and all African American ancestors and recalls the Kongo belief in the continued presence and power Overseas Korean Cultural of ancestors. Returnal marked the end of a chapter in Bailey’s quest for identity, and was the Heritage Foundation last of his medicine cabinets. Thomas A. Simon and Naomi B. Ware $5,000 - $9,999 Oda Kazuma The Carol L. Horvitz Trust Japanese, 1882 - 1956 Musashino Movie House E. Rhodes and Leona B. 1930 Carpenter Foundation Lithograph, ink on paper 7 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (19.1 x 29.5 cm) Gainesville Community Museum purchase, funds provided Foundation, Inc. by the David A. Cofrin Fund for Madelyn M. Lockhart Asian Art, 2013.3 Hallie Q. and Oda Kazuma was known Ted McFetridge primarily as a lithographer Quinn Family Charitable and a member of the Foundation, Inc. creative prints movement in The Robert Lehman early 20th-century Japan.
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