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strokes Hallie university Ar Ford Vol. 12, No. 2 July–Dec., 2010 t From the Director August 23 Family Activity Day Is Art Worth a Life? Earth, Wind, Fire, Air Critical Messages: Contemporary The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) section of the Allied Armies Robert Edsel, director of the Monuments 1 Mexican Folk Art: Selections from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art staff Northwest Artists on the Environment was established in 1943 to assist in the protection and restitution of cultural Arreguin-Lytle Collection closes Noon–4 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Men Foundation in Dallas, Texas and an Study Gallery Henderson-Rubio Gallery property in Europe during World War II. As the Allies battled across Europe award-winning author and producer, will From Aug. 28–Nov. 7, 2010, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art 7 Michel Hersen: Oregon Landscapes opens 26 Lecture will present Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists and liberated Nazi-held territories in 1944 and 1945, a handful of MFAA deliver a multi-media lecture on the work Study Gallery Women’s Work: Images of Labor by (Monuments) officers were assigned to various army divisions to advise the on the Environment. Co-organized with the Western Gallery at of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives 27 Lecture Late 19th Century Painters Rusiñol, Barrau, commanders on the protection of cultural property. Many had been directors, (MFAA) section of the Allied Armies and Messengers in the Northwest and Rodriguez, and their Context in Western Washington University in Bellingham, the exhibition curators, artists and art historians before enlisting in the military. Sarah Clark Langager Modernizing Spain explores how 26 contemporary artists respond to a host of its officers during and after World War II on Carmen Lord, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Hudson Hall Director, Western Gallery, Western environmental issues confronting the Pacific Northwest: Without handbooks, resources or supervision, these Monuments officers had to Washington University Art History, Willamette University in the Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts 7:30 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall growth management; waste management; land and sea; mass rely on their intelligence, academic training and resourcefulness to accomplish 5 p.m., Paulus Lecture Hall, College of Law Center. The MFAA (Monuments) officers November production and consumption; transportation; preservation their tasks. As the Allies prepared to take Florence, Italy, for example, pilots used aerial photographs Receptions were a group of men and women from 13 of wilderness and wetlands; biodiversity; climate change; provided by the MFAA to avoid dropping bombs on important cultural sites. Similarly, as the Allies Michel Hersen: Oregon Landscapes nations who joined the military during World 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Study Gallery 7 Critical Messages: Contemporary and energy. fought through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, numerous monuments and priceless works of Northwest Artists on the Environment War II and helped rescue Europe’s artistic Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest art were protected or saved because of the Monuments officers. Artists on the Environment closes The exhibition features work in a variety of media, including American GIs with looted art treasures, and cultural patrimony from the hands of Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany, 1945 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson- painting, sculpture, works on paper, video and installation. the Nazis. Once Germany surrendered in the spring of 1945, the Allies began to discover countless art treasures hidden Rubio Gallery 9 Tour Included in the exhibition are works by artists from throughout away in castles and salt mines in Germany and . While the Allies sought to return these stolen art 28 Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Christian Art: Sacred Figures and Narratives Edsel’s lecture, Is Art Worth a Life? Hitler, War, and , traces the Nazi looting of Jane d’Entrement the region, including Oregon artists Rick Bartow, Michael treasures to their rightful owners, the Russian army viewed them as the “spoils of war,” and it became Artists on the Environment opens Europe’s art treasures in the late 1930s and 1940s and the work of the Monuments officers to recover the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery 12:30 p.m., Mark and Janeth Sponenburgh Brophy, Jana Demartini, Robert Dozono, Roll Hardy, Adam a race between the Allies and Russians to find and secure the stolen works. By 1951, when the MFAA Gallery looted art treasures during and after World War II. Many of these Monuments officers would go on to be Michael Brophy, Sorensen and James B. Thompson. In addition to the works on section was decommissioned, the Monuments officers had discovered and repatriated five million artworks. September become important cultural leaders in post World War II America, including James Rorimer, director of the 16 Tour Tree Curtain, 2004 display, the exhibition is accompanied by text panels, chat panels, 7–Nov. 2 On the Edge: Pacific Northwest ‘Scapes artist statements and an 80-page, full-color exhibition catalogue Many of these Monuments officers would go on to become cultural leaders in post World War II America, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet; and Kenneth Lindsay, June Scott Brothers Tuesday Gallery Talks with essays by Sarah Clark Langager, director of the Western including James Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and S. Lane Faison, Jr., director professor of art history at SUNY, Binghamton, among others. 12:30 p.m., Carl Hall Gallery Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Gallery, and Bill Dietrich, assistant professor of environmental of the Williams College Museum of Art, among others. One of these Monuments officers was a young Artists on the Environment 18 Film Robert Edsel is a former Texas oilman who has devoted the past 10 years of his life to gaining recognition studies at Western Washington University. sculptor and art historian from Michigan named Mark Sponenburgh, who would go on to enjoy Staff and docents Dante’s Inferno (2007) for the Monuments officers and the important work they did during World War II to save Europe’s artistic 12:30 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Color, 88 minutes a successful career as an art educator in Oregon and who would give his art collection to Willamette and cultural patrimony. He is the author of two books, Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men; was 7 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall As a special feature, two lectures and a family activity workshop University in 1990, setting the stage for the creation of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 1998. 14 An Evening for Educators the co-producer of The Rape of Europa, the Emmy awarding-winning PBS documentary; was publisher of Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest 19 Lecture/Discussion have been planned. On Friday, Aug. 27 at 5 p.m. in the Paulus Artists on the Environment Dante’s Inferno Lecture Hall in the College of Law, Sarah Clark Langager will As we approach the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, and as we welcome author Robert Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, by Nancy H. Yeide; and was the recipient Elizabeth Garrison Sandow Birk, Artist give an illustrated lecture on the artists in the exhibition, and Edsel to campus this fall to share the story of the Monuments officers and the “greatest treasure hunt of the President’s Call to Service Award in 2008. The Cameron Paulin Curator of Education Peter Hawkins, Professor, Yale University on Thursday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the same location, Bill in history” with our various audiences, I think it is important to take a moment to pause, reflect and 4–5:30 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery 5 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Financial support for Edsel’s lecture has been provided by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the College of Law Dietrich will discuss environmental issues that confront the give thanks to these remarkable men and women for their work in helping to save Europe’s artistic and 16 Lecture Receptions Speakers Series, the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Office, the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Pacific Northwest. Finally, on Saturday, Oct. 23 from noon–4 cultural patrimony. Environment 4.0: The Next 40 Years Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno and the Hogue-Sponenburgh Lectureship Fund of the Department of Art History at Willamette University. Bill Dietrich 6–8 p.m., Lobby, Study Gallery and p.m. in the lobby of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, education Thank you, as always, for your commitment and support! I look forward to seeing you at Robert Edsel’s Additional support has been provided by the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Print Study Center curator Elizabeth Garrison will lead a family activity workshop Arts Commission. Admission to the lecture is complimentary, and Edsel will be available to sign copies of Western Washington University Francis Celentano: Form and Color lecture on October 12. 7:30 p.m., Paulus Lecture Hall, 6–8 p.m., Lobby and Melvin Henderson- for children and their parents on the four elements: earth, his books after the lecture. College of Law Rubio Gallery wind, fire and air. Admission to the lectures and workshop John Olbrantz is complimentary. 28 Film 20 Francis Celentano: Form and Color opens Rick Bartow, Salmon Chant, 1995 The Maribeth Collins Director The Rape of Europa (2007) Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery Color, 117 minutes 25–26 Thanksgiving Holiday 7 p.m., Roger Hull Lecture Hall Closed October 28 Third Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts

Biennial closes Third Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts 2 Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Gallery Inside This Issue Collection Update Biennial opens Michel Hersen: Oregon Landscapes Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Gallery 30–Jan. 11 Tuesday Gallery Talks Michel Hersen is a Portland photographer who

Since the last issue of Brushstrokes, the Hallie Ford Recent donations include a drawing and two paintings 3 Hallie Ford Museum of Art Anniversary Francis Celentano: Form and Color creates stunning photographs of the flora, fauna and • Is Art Worth a Life? Free admission Museum of Art has acquired a number of significant by Leonard Ruder from his daughter, Rhea Ruder Staff and docents landscape of the western United States. A self-taught works through purchase and donation. Recent Sleeman; Mel Ramos’ AC Annie from Kae Eyre; 10 Michel Hersen: Oregon Landscapes closes 12:30 p.m., Melvin Henderson-Rubio • Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment Study Gallery Gallery photographer, Hersen is a professor and dean of the purchases include a necklace by Seattle jewelry a Mary Ann Johns’ self-portrait from Bonnie and School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University artist Nancy Worden; a painting by Willamette Roger Hull; two Dean Larson ’80 etchings from 12 Lecture December • Docent Update Is Art Worth a Life? Hitler, War, and the and an avid collector of 19th century American art. University professor James B. Thompson; two Karin and Bill Wright; a Eunice Parsons collage Monuments Men 23 Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno closes • Francis Celentano: Form and Color ceramic sculptures by Willamette University professor from the artist and Cary Doucette; and a number Robert Edsel Study Gallery and Print Study Center A small exhibition of his photographs will open on Aug. 7:30 p.m., Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Heidi Preuss Grew; works by Oregon artists Nancy of pieces of regional art from Bill Rhoades, including 24–Jan. 2 7 and continue through Oct. 10, 2010, in the Study Performing Arts Center • Calendar of Events Lindburg and William Owen; and a portrait of works by Gordon Gilkey, James Lee Hansen, Manuel Winter Break Gallery. The exhibition will feature 18 photographs of Willamette University professor Roger Hull by Izquierdo, Fred Littman, Michele Russo and Nelson 16 Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno opens Closed scenes around Oregon, including the Japanese Garden, Study Gallery and Print Study Center George Johanson on the occasion of Roger’s retirement. Sandgren, among others. Michel Hersen, Steens Mountain from the Willamette Valley, eastern Oregon, Crater Lake and Malheur Wildlife Refuge, 2009 the Oregon Coast.