Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art NEWSLETTER VOL 3, NO. 1 MAY/JUNE 1996
______FROM THE EDITOR
If this newsletter comes to you late, so late, indeed, that many of Levine (Hampshire College) and Fred Bohrer (Hood College) vol you may already have left for your favorite escapes, it is because unteered to be nominees for the secretarial position. At the end of your editor, no longer enjoying the luxury of a sabbatical year, has the session, members present offered to contribute actively to the not found the time to put this together before now. In a way, the late association’s Newsletter as well as to its other goals, especially the appearance of this newsletter is symptomatic of a larger crisis in organization of regional conferences and symposia. The names the organization and that is to find individuals willing to do the and addresses of the volunteer contributors are on file with the sec work necessary to keep it going. At our get-together during the retary of AHNCA. CAA meeting in Boston (see minutes below) the number of people who wished to volunteer for offices in the organization was modest Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer to say the least. Though several people were willing to make a con AHNCA Secretary tribution, few wanted the responsibility of an office. We are glad to report that two persons volunteered to take on the job of secretary, Sura Levine and Fred Bohrer. One of them will replace Nina Athanassoglou-Kalmyer, who will resign. ______WHITHER AHNCA Since CAA, Pat Mainardi has decided she no longer can manage To Gabriel Weisberg’s views, printed under this rubric in the previ the presidency of the organization as she has become too involved ous newsletter, Mark Roskill, Professor at the University of Massa in the attempts to salvage CUNY from the wreckage attempts of chusetts in Amherst, sent the following reply: the legislators. Gabriel Weisberg, Professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, has shown a willingness to take over Dear Gabe: her job. At the end of this newsletter you will find a tearsheet to register your votes for officers. Please also consider volunteering I was much engaged by your piece in the AHNCA Newsletter and for the two remaining offices, those of treasurer and newsletter edi am sure it will draw further comments. tor. Obviously, you can’t and wouldn’t speak forT.J. CLark in terms of At this point, it is appropriate to thank Patricia Mainardi, AHNCA the path of future studies that he intends himself, but I wonder at founder and first president, for all she has done for the association. the separation implied by the word “visual” in your sentence about In less than two years, she has built a healthy organization of nearly “reading” aspects of culture. Also, does theory have to draw us away five hundred members out of nothing. She has caused nineteenth- from, rather than into a desired and assumed voicing of “philo century art historians to talk to each other—no easy task as anyone sophical and aesthetic concern”—isn’t what is at issue here a re in the field knows—, she has built bridges between historians of flection of the difference between old-style theory, with its inter French, English, German, and American art. and she has been re disciplinary applications, and what you call “theory for theory’s sponsible for a number of first-rate sessions at CAA, comprised sake?” both of junior and senior members of the organization. Thanks go as well to Nina Kallmeyer, past secretary, who has kept I think that in the last decade people in other disciplines have felt the board organized and held it together through numerous memos, free to use the (any) art object for their purposes because the over faxes, and phone calls. She has also organized a fine session for the lap and interplay of theoretical concerns allowed them to think that CAA meeting in New York. anything goes interpretatively. It was not just the putting of the writer at “center stage” that fostered that view, but also a particular way of ______MINUTES arguing that could be reduced to a one-line thesis. The ability to AHNCA BUSINESS MEETING use words in relation to “what one sees’ was not lacking, but one should write here perhaps “claims to see” to explain the shift in argumentation itself. The meeting took place within the parameters of the Annual Meet ing of the College Art Association in Boston in February 1996. I hope these thoughts may assist you in bringing out the “loss of Patricia Mainardi, President, summarized the achievements and focus.” future goals of the association. The greater part of the meeting was devoted to discussion of pos Best wishes, etc. sible replacements of the current AHNCA officers, especially posi tions of Newsletter Editor (Chu) and Secretary (Kallmyer). Nomi nations and self- nominations were solicited. Two members, Sura BOOKS Collection. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. $27.50.
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2 Gotlieb, Marc J. The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996 Nicholson, Brownen, et al. Gauguin and Maori Art. Seattle: Uni (Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture and Society). versity of Washington Press, 1996. $20. Hardcover: $45. Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Vic Gustke, Nancy L. The Special Artist in American Culture: A Biog torian Art. Vermont: Scolar Press, 1996. Hardcover: $49.95. raphy of Frank Hamilton Taylor (1846-1927). P. Lang, 1995. (American University Studies. Series XX, fine arts, 21). $51.95. Ormond, Richard, and Leonee Ormond, et al. Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist. New York: Harry N. Abrams. Hamber, Anthony J. “A Higher Branch of Art:” Photographing the $49.50. Fine Arts in England, 1839-1890. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1996. $95. Polish Masters. New York: The Kosciuszko Foundation, 1996. Hardcover: $40.; Paper: $20. Harding, Anneliese. John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. $60. Powell, Cecilia. Turner in Germany. Seattle: University of Wash ington Press, 1996. $50. Harding, Ellen, ed. Reframing the Pre-Raphaelites: Historical and Theoretical Essays. Vermont: Scolar Press, forthcoming. Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonne. Written in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Harris, C.M., and Daniel Preston. Papers of William Thornton: V. Jayne Warman. New York: Ursus Press, forthcoming 12/96. Spe 1: 1781- 1802. Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1995. $60. cial pre-publication price $350. Regularly $400.
Hassrick, Peter H. The Frederic Remington Studio. Seattle: Uni Reynolds, Graham. The Earlier Paintings and Drawings of John versity of Washington Press, 1995. $17.50. Constable. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. $175.
Hewison, Robert. Ruskin and Oxford. Oxford University Press, Robins, Anna. Walter Sickert’s Drawings. Vermont: Scolar Press, 1995. Hardcover: £35. forthcoming. Hollmann, Eckhard. Paul Gauguin. Prestel, 1996. DM39.80. Siegfried, Susan L. The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modem Life in Napoleonic France. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Houfe, Simon. The Work of Charles Samuel Keene. Vermont: Hardcover: $55.; Paper: $44. Scolar Press, 1995. Hardcover: $76.95. Smith, Alison. The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art. Johnson, Lee. Delacroix Pastels. London: John Murray, 1995. Manchester University Press, 1995. Hardcover: £40; Paper: £14.99. Hardcover: £40. Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cezanne. London: Tate Gallery Publica Kelly, Richard. The Art of George du Maurier. Vermont: Scolar tions, 1995. Paper: £7.95. Press, 1996. Hardcover: $99.95. Staley, Allen, et al. The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illus Kendall, Richard, and Mikael Wivel. Degas Intime. Seattle: Uni tration, Reproductive Engraving, and Photography in England in versity of Washington Press, 1995. $22.50. and around the 1860s. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. $30. Kern, Stephen. The Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels 1840-1900. Reaktion Press, 1995. Hard Stansky, Peter. Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, cover: £19.95. and the Arts and Crafts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. $17.95. Kestner, Joseph A. Masculinities in Victorian Painting. Vermont: Scolar Press, 1995. Hardcover: $69.95. Stein, Susan Alyson, ed. Louisine W. Havemeyer Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector. Introduction by Gary Tinterow. New York: Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. The Artist as Critic: Bi-textuality in Ursus Press, 1995. Hardcover: $35. ‘Fin-de-Siecle’. Vermont: Scolar Press, 1995. Hardcover: $69.95. Stokes, Melvyn, and Stephen Conway, eds. The Market Revolu Lowrey, Carol. Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism, tion in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800- 1885-1920. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. $25. 1880. Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1996. Hardcover: $55.; Paper: $22.50. Machotka, Pavel. Cezanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. $45. Svacha, Rostislav. The Architecture of New Prague: 1895-1945. Translated by Alexandra Buchler. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 1995. Munday, John. E.W. Cooke R.A., F.R.S. Antique Collector's Club. $50. 1995. Hardcover: £29.95. Sweetman, David. Paul Gauguin: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. $35.00. Mylas, Janet. L.N. Cottingham: 1787-1847. Lund Humphries. 1995. Paper: £17.95. Warrell, Ian. Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin’s First Se lection from the Turner Bequest. Seattle: University of Washing Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Tum-of-the-Cen- ton Press, 1996. $35. tury America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. $40. 3 Watkins, Nicholas. Bonnard. Phaidon Press, 1995. Paper: £22. Shirley R. Hodges, “Degas: Thoroughbred Meets Thoroughbred.” Penn State (G. Mauner). Whyte, lain Boyd. Introduction to Hendrik Petrus Berlage: Thoughts on Style, 1886-1909. Translated by Iain Boyd Whyte and Wim de Kristie Holden, “George Clausen and Henry Herbert La Thangue: Wit. Malibu: Getty Trust Publications, 1995. Hardcover: $55.; The Construction of English Rural Imagery, 1880- 1900.” Univer Paper: $24.95. sity of Minnesota (G.P. Weisberg).
Wilcox, Timothy, and Margot Heller, eds. Boudin to Dufy: Im Joel A. Hollander, “Irish Political Prints: Propaganda, and Theory, pressionist and Other Masters from the Musee des Beaux Arts, Le 1880-1900.” University of Minnesota (G.P. Weisberg). Havre. With essays by John House and Franfoise Cohen. Ver mont: Scolar Press, forthcoming. Serena Keshavjee, “Claude Emile Schuffenecker’s Role in the De velopment of French Symbolist Art.” University of Toronto (B.M. AMERICAN AND CANADIAN Welsh-Ovcharov). DISSERTATIONS Carmen Lord, “Paintings and Drawings by Ramon Casas, 1882— 1910.” University of Michigan (J. Isaacson). Robyn Asleson, “Classic into Modem: The Inspiration of Antiq uity in English Painting, 1864-1918.” Yale University (J.D. Prown). Natalia Majluf, “The Creation of the Image of the Indian in 19th- Century Peru: The Paintings of Francisco Laso (1823- 1869).” Christine Bell, “A Family Conflict: Images of the Homefront in University of Texas at Austin (J. Bamitz). American Art during the Civil War.” Northwestern University (Michael Leja and Hollis Clayson). Jill Miller, “Propaganda and Utopianism: The Fin-de-Siecle French Family in Art and Visual Culture.” University of Minnesota (G.P. John Bruce Collins, “Seeking ‘L’Esprit Gaulois’: Renoir’s Bal du Weisberg). Moulin de la Galette and Impressionist Figure Painting in the 1870s.” Steven Platzman, “Cezanne and the Issue of Self-Portraiture in McGill (C.S. Kiefer). Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art.” New York University David Coman, “The Illustration of the Poetry of Lord Byron in (L. Nochlin). English and French Art, 1816-65.” University of Toronto (R.P Welsh). Lora Rempel, “Thomas Gainsborough and the Portrait-in-a- Land scape.” C.U.N.Y. (C. Armstrong). Ersy Contogouris, “Honore Daumier and Modernism: Reconciling Maura Reilly, “Representing the Femme Damnee: The Lesbian High Art and Popular Culture.” McGill (C.S. Kiefer). Image from Gustave Courbet to Romaine Brooks.” New York Uni versity (L. Nochlin and A. Solomon-Godeau). Shelley Cordulack, “Edvard Munch’s Frieze of Life in the Context of 19th-Century Physiology.” University of Pennsylvania (E. Johns and C. Poggi). Terri Renee Sabatos, “Images of Death, Grief, and Mourning in 19th-Century Britain.” Indiana University (S. Bums). Diane Dillon, “The Fair as a Spectacle: American Art and Culture at the 1893 World’s Fair.” Yale University (J.D. Brown). Julia Scalzo, “Street Architecture: 19th-Century Urban Buildings and the British Architectural Press.” University of Toronto (D.S. Richardson). Julie L’Enfant, “Truth in Art: William Michael Rossetti and Nine teenth-Century Realist Criticism.” University of Minnesota (G.P Kimberly J. Smith, “Imperial Encounter: 19th-Century French Weisberg; defended May 1996) Representations of Egypt and Algeria, Three Cases Studies.” Uni Elisabeth Fraser, “Interpreting Delacroix in the 1820s: Readings in versity of Texas at Austin (M. Charlesworth). the Art Criticism and Politics of Restoration France.” Yale Univer Claire Svetlik, “From Princess to Empress: The Construction of sity (R. Herbert). Royal Imagery in the Portraits of Queen Victoria, 1819-1901.” New York University (L. Nochlin). Stacy W. Garfinkel, “Alter Egos: Fraternity, Identity, and Artistic Practice in Early 19th-Century Visual Culture.” (change of topic) Marjorie A. Walter, “Fine Art and the Sweet Science: On Thomas University of California at Berkley (A. Wagner and T.J. Clark). Eakins, His Boxing Paintings, and Tum-of-the-Century Philadel Carol Grant, “Eva Gonzales (1849-1883): An Examination of the phia.” University of California at Berkeley (M.M. Lovell). Artist’s Style and Subject Matter.” Ohio State University (M. Herban). Margaret Werth, “Le Bonheur de vivre: The Idyllic Image in French Art, 1891-1906.” University of California at Berkeley (T.J. Clark) Daniel R. Guernsey, “Virtue and Fortune: French Republicanism and Harvard University (H. Zemer). and Eugfene Delacroix’s Library Murals in the Palais Bourbon and Palais du Luxembourg, 1838-1847.” University at Wisconson at VANGOGHOMANIA Madison (N. Mirzoeff and R. Beetem). Van Gogh Letter Sells for $500,000 Carol J. Guttzeit, “The Darwinian Presence in American Painting, 1859-1900.” Rutgers University (M. Baigell). A letter written by Vincent van Gogh just months before he com mitted suicide, was sold for $500,000 at an auction in Dallas, Texas.
4 The letter was purchased by a collector for his wife as a Valentine’s Netherlands Day gift. The letter is handwritten in French on both sides and dated February 1890. In it, van Gogh expresses his thanks to art The Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired critic Albert Aurier, for his glowing review of the painter’s work. At two 19th- century French paintings: Golgotha by Jean-Leon one point, van Gogh writes: “The emotions that grip me in front of Gerome and nature can cause me to lose consciousness, and then follows a fort Paradise Lost by Alexandre Cabanel. The two religious Salon paint night during which I cannot work.” ings belong to a category that was previously underrepresented in the collection. Have you seen this painting? Spain The Kulturhistorisches Museum in Magdeburg, Germany, is search ing for a painting by van Gogh (1888) depicting the artist on the Last year, Salamanca inaugurated the Museo Art Nouveau-Art road to Tarascon. Deco, located in a tum-of-the-century modernist building. The During the war, the painting was hidden, together with others from Art Nouveau-Art Deco collections are displayed in the structure the museum’s collection, in a salt mine near the town of Stassfurt, known as Casa Lis, located at the southern end of the historical around thirty miles from Magdeburg. After repeated arson attacks, center. Miguel de Lis, an enthusiast of Art Nouveau, commissioned the mine was put under the guardianship of liberated Dutch labor the architect Joaquin Vargas to build the house; construction began ers by the conquering American army. Photographs of the caves in the late 1800s and was completed in 1905. taken after the air raids and attacks show scenes of devastation. Although charred remains of vases and objects have been found, no SYMPOSIA, PAST AND FUTURE evidence of any of the paintings have surfaced. As other works that were hidden with the van Gogh painting have been relocated, there The 21st Annual Conference of the British Association of Art His is hope it has survived as well though its location remains a mys torians took place on April 12-14, 1996, at the University of tery to this day. For the Magdeburg Museum, it is a quest worth Northumbria at Newcastle. The conference theme was “Beauty?”, continuing. both as an art historical issue and as a matter of continued, if not always openly debated, concern to interpreters and practitioners of Nuenen Vicarage the visual arts. Conference conveners were Malcolm Gee and Paul Usherwood. For further details, please contact Sarah Kane, Dept, The Maastricht Fine Art Fair, which was held from March 9-17, of Historical & Critical Studies, Univ. of Northumbria at Newcastle, showcased fine examples of modem art and works from the 19th Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST. Tel: 0191 227 3777; Fax: 0191 Century. Among them, a painting by Vincent van Gogh, Nuenen 227 4572. For those who wish to join the Association of Art Histo Vicarage, which has not been seen on the market for thirty years rians, membership is available to Americans at a cost of 45 pounds. (Borzo Kunsthandel). One receives both the journal Art History and the quarterly news letter. The Association’s next annual conference will take place at MUSEUM NEWS the Courtauld Institute in London in spring 1997. Its theme will be “Frameworks.” To become a member, write to Kate Woodhead, Dog Denmark and Partridge House, Byley. Cheshire CW10 9NJ England; Tel: On June 28, the Ny Carlsberg 01606-835517; Fax: 01606- Glyptotek in Copenhagen will inau 834799. gurate a new wing by Danish archi tect Henning Larseni, designed to On April 11-13, the Nineteenth hold its impressionist collections, Century Studies Association held its which include 35 works by Paul annual convention in Miami Beach. Gauguin and one of the few complete This year’s conference theme was collections of Degas’ bronze sculp the “Designs of Nineteenth-Cen tures. tury Culture in Literature, Art and Architecture, Industry, and Em France pire.” Plenary speakers were Eliza beth Johns of the University of The Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lille, Pennsylvania, who spoke on “New which has been closed for the past World Landscapes” (a comparison five years, will not reopen in June of of 19th C. Australian and American this year as originally planned. The landscape painting), and Shari projected date now is early 1997. The Benstock of the Univ. of Miami, renovation of the museum takes more who spoke on “Edith Wharton and time and cost more money than origi Design.” nally planned. Meanwhile, the nearby museum of Valenciennes, On April 13, Christie’s Education which was closed for renovations at organized a symposium called “Ab the same time as the one in Lille, has solute Faberge.” Speakers included reopened its doors last years. Marina Nudel, the Archduke Geza von Habsburg, Anthony Phillips, and Nicholas Nicholson.
5 “Expanding the Frame of Reference: Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s Art ference papers will be published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: in Context” was the title of symposium held at The Brooklyn Mu An Interdisciplinary Journal. Deadline: October 15, 1996. seum on April 19, 1996. The symposium was organized in con junction with the exhibition “The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured,” the first comprehensive exhibition of works FELLOWSHIPS by the American artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938). For more information, please call (718) 628- 5000, ext. 230. The School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton invites applications for membership during the 1996- “Memory and History: European Identity at the Millennium.” Fifth 97 academic year. Approximately forty visiting members are cho Conference of the International Society for the Study of European sen each year, including both senior and junior scholars, American Ideas, August 19-24, 1996, University for Humanist Studies, and foreign nationals. The Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial Utrecht, The Netherlands. Workshop Chair, Professor Emmet publications are required of all candidates. Applications may be Kennedy of Georgetown University will present a lecture on “From made for one or two terms. Further information and application Fin-de-Si&cle to Fin-du- Millenaire: Hopes & Fears at the end of materials may be obtained from the Administrative Officer, School Centuries, 1800-2000.” of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540. Deadline: November 15, 1996. “Memory and Oblivion” is the theme of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art organized by the Comite Interna The Yale Center for British Art offers several fellowships for the tional d’histoire de Part. The congress will take place in Amsterdam, study of British art, including the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship September 1-7. For information, write to Memory and Oblivion, (one year in New Haven); the Paul Mellon Center Fellowship (one XXIX International Congress of the History of Art, c/o Amsterdam year in London); the Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship (one month RAI-OBA, P.O. Box 77777, 1070 M5 Amsterdam, The Nether in Framington), and the Yale Center for British Art Fellowship (one lands. Tel: 31-20-5491212; Fax: 31-20-6464469; E- mail: month in New Haven). For more information, write to the Yale Center [email protected]. for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, P.O. Box 208280, New Haven, Conn. 06520-8280. Tel: 203- 432-2822. The 22nd Annual Colloquium on Nineteenth-Century French Stud ies will be hosted by the Department of French, University of The Woodrow Wilson Foundation announces the Andrew W. Mellon Toronto, October 24-27. The theme of the colloquium is “Langues Fellowships in Humanistic Studies for students entering Ph. D. pro du XIXe si£cle.” For more information, write to Professor Graham grams in fall 1997. The fellowships, which carry a stipend of $ Falconer, Centre d’Etudes romantiques J. Sable, Kelly Library, St. 13,750 plus tuition and fees, are highly competitive. For more in Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada MSS 1J4. Tel.: 416-978-8155 formation, write to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foun of (afternoons) 416-978-4102. Fax: 416-917- 2027 or 416-971- dation, Mellon Fellowships, CN 5329, Princeton, N.J. 08543-5329, 3136. or E-mail [email protected].
CALL FOR PAPERS The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars awards ap proximately 35 scholarships annually in an international competi The American Culture Association has issued a call for proposals tion to individuals with outstanding project proposals representing (sessions, panels, and papers) for its conference on American ar the entire range of scholarship, with a strong emphasis on the hu chitecture and art in San Antonio, Texas, in March 26-29, 1997. manities and social sciences. The center especially welcomes Proposals are considered for sessions organized around a theme, projects that transcend narrow specialties. Eligibility is limited to special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled for the postdoctoral level and normally it is expected that academic 1 1/2 hour slots, with a suggested maximum of four papers per candidates have demonstrated their scholarship development by session. The number of participants in a panel may vary. Interdisci publication beyond the Ph.D. dissertation. Stipends are based on plinary approaches and proposals are welcome. Submit a one-page the “no gain/no loss” principle but in no case can they exceed $ proposal or abstract and a current resume by September 1, 1996 to 61,000. For further information, write to the Fellowships OFFICE, Joy Sperling, Art Department, Denison University, Granville, OH The Woodrow Wilson Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive S.W., SI MRC 43023. For more information, call 614—587-6704; fax 614-587- 022. Washington, D.C. 20560. Tel: (202) 357-2841; Fax: (202) 357- 6417 or e-mail [email protected]. 4439; E-mail: [email protected]; WWW: http://wwics.si.edu.
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies welcomes proposals The Fulbright Scholar Program offers grants for lecturing and re for its 12th annual conference, to be held at the University of Cali search in more than 136 countries. Faculty in all academic ranks fornia, Berkeley, on April 4-6, 1997. The theme for the confer and at all types of institutions are eligible to apply. For more infor ence is “Death and Life.” Suggested topics include ceremonies and mation and application forms, write or call: USIA Fulbright Senior technologies of birth and death; imperialism and the birth and death Scholar Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, of nations; disease and epidemic; war and mutinies; destruction and 3700 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5M, Box GPOS, Washington, DC creation of peoples; monuments and death masks; the concept of 20008-3009. Tel.: 202-686-7866. Internet: ciesl @ciesnet.cies.org. population; life cycles /aging; vitality and energy; capital punish World Wide Web: http://www.cies.org/. Deadline: August 1. ment; labor, midwifery, male birthing; cemeteries, corpses, and graves; pathos, sentimentality, mourning; spiritualism and the su pernatural; elegies and other writings about the dead; anatomical illustration and picturing the dead. Send 200-page abstracts and, if possible papers (15 pages maximum) to INCS-Berkeley, English Department, 322 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1030. E-mail: [email protected]. Selected con
6 Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. “Degas: Beyond Impression ism.” September 26-January 5, 1997.
EXHIBITIONS Chicago, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. “Friedrich Adler: From Art Nouveau to Art Deco.” Until March 31, 1996. United States and Canada Chicago, Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. “The Peas California: ant.” Exhibition organized by Robert L. Herbert, previously shown at the Mt. Holyoke Museum. Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum. “19th-Century French Draw ings.” May 14-August 25. Includes works by David, Ingres, Massachusetts: Gericault, Delacroix, Degas, Seurat, Manet, and many others. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. “Winslow Homer.” Until May 26. Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum. “19th-Century French Color “Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven.” June 26-September 15. Prints.” Until June 21. “Fliroshige: Japanese Landscape.” Until July 21. “Nature as Muse: 17th—20th Centuries.” Until February Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum. “Prints & Printmakers from 1850.” 2, 1997. Until April 14.
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum. “French & American Paint Salem, Peabody Essex Museum. “Currier & Ives Prints.” May 23- ing: 1850-1900.” Until April 21. “Toulouse-Lautrec: The Baldwin December 1. Collection.” May 11-July 28. Minnesota: Connecticut: Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts. Edouard New Haven, Yale Center for British Art. “The Grosvenor Gallery: Manet’s painting and prints of “The Smoker” (a “Close Look” ex A Palace of Art in Victorian England.” Until April 28. hibition). This exhibition explores Manet’s transformation of a single theme in different media. Until September. “British Landscape New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery. “Prints by Toulouse- Tradition, 1750-1850,” (working title) October 27-January 19, Lautrec.” Until July 30. 1997. “Max Klinger,” (working title) November 8-February 2,1997. “The Dawn of Impressionism: Prints and Drawings by Charles- District of Columbia Frangoise Daubigny,” May 10, 1997-August 10, 1997.
Washington, National Gallery of Art. “The Art of Louis-Leopold New Jersey: Boilly.” Until April 28. “Plein-Air Pictures.” Until September 2. “Thomas Eakins.” June 23-September 29. New Brunswick, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. “Flora and Fauna: The Japanese Influence on the Depiction of Nature in Washington, Hirshom. “Paul Gauguin: The Collection in Context.” Western Art, 1875-1925.” Until May 26. Until July 21. Washington, Freer Gallery. “Thomas Dewing and Dwight Tryon.” New York: Until August 30. Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum. “The Art of Thomas Wilmer Washington, National Museum of American Art. “Drawings by Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured.” Until June 9. Elihu Vedder.” Until June 9. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Picturing Paradise: Florida Colonial Photography of Samoa, 1875-1925.” Until August 4. “Winslow Homer’s Odyssey.” June 20 - Sep[tember 22. “Ameri Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art. “Los Sorollas de Valencia.” can Printmaking 1860-1900.” June 18-September22. “Toulouse- April 24- June 16. “Honore Daumier: Prints and Sculptures from Lautrec.” June 30-September 1. “Corot.” October 22-January 19, the Benjamin Trustman Collection.” September 26-November 24. 1997. “Charles Rennie Mackinstosh, Outside and Inside: Build ings and Interiors.” November 9-February 16, 1997. Miami. Wolfsonian Foundation. “The Arts of Reform & Persua sion, 1885- 1945.” Extended until May 12. The show includes New York, Frick Collection. “Sir John Soane: Collector and Con both late 19th Century American & European ‘decorative arts’ ob noisseur.” April 30-July 7. jects of a wide variety of media. “Dutch Poster Design from 1885— 1945.” May 14—September. New York, Dahesh Museum. “Cupids: Rights of Fancy, Love and Mischief.” Until June 8. “On the Prowl: Hunters and the Hunted.” Georgia: June 25 - October 5.
Atlanta, High Museum of Art. “Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birming New York, Museo del Barrio. “The Catherwood Project,” a recon ham.” Until April 7. “Picturing the South, 1860—1996.” June 15— struction of the 1839 and 1841 expeditions of John Lloyd Stephens September 14. and Frederick Catherwood to Mayan centers in Guatemala, Hon duras and the Yucatan. Until May 5. Illinois: 7 School.” Until May 27. New York, National Academy of Design. “Rodin: Sculpture from the Collection of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor.” Until May 19. Vienna, Belvedere. “Claude Monet.” Until June 16.
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library. “The Art of the Brontes: Draw Vienna, Geymiillerschlossel. “Focus on Biedermeier.” Until April ings and Manuscripts.” Until April 14. 21.
New York, Wildenstein Gallery. “Pierre Bonnard, Master of Color.” Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. “Auguste Rodin.” May 20- Though April 13. August 26.
Ohio: Vienna, Kunstverein. “Art Nouveau from the Hapsburg Dynasty.” Until May 26. Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum. “European Textile Design, 1880- 1930.” Until May 12. Belgium:
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art. “Art in Cleveland 1825— Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts. “Victor Horta (1861-1947).” Fall 1945.” May 19-July 21. 1996. Architectural models, design drawings, photographs, objects and furniture. Pennsylvania: Brussels, Musee d’Art Ancien. A retrospective exhibition of the Philadelphia, Museum of Art. “Cezanne.” May 30 - August 18. works by Leon Spilliaert, 1881-1946. Until December 15.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum. “Views of Cuba; 18th—19th Cen Brussels, Museum Horta. “Paul Dubois (1859-1938): Sculptor.” tury.” May 4-July 18. May 2- June 16.
Tennessee: Ghent, Museum des Arts Decoratifs. “J. Eisenloeffel (1876-1957) Panorama.” June 22-September 15. Memphis, Dixon Galleries & Gardens. “Canadian Impressionism: 1885- 1920.” Until April 14. Denmark:
Texas: Copenhagen, Photographic Centre. ‘The Danish Landscape.” July- August. Forth Worth, Amon Carter Museum. “Lifting the Veil: Robert S. Duncanson and the Emergence of the African-American Artist.” Copenhagen, The Workers’ Museum. “Edvard Munch-The Soul April 21 - June 16. The exhibition, organized by Joseph Ketkar, of Work.” August 5-October 20. originated in the Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis. It will also travel to the Clark Atlanta University Art Gallery (July Copenhagen, National History Museum, Frederiksborg Castle. 19 - September 15). A symposium was held in St. Louis on March “Jens Juel.” August 6-October 20. 16. Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen. “Art Nouveau.” Until May 26.
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard Gallery. “Impressionism, City and Canada: Modem Life.” September 1-November 30.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada. “Canadian Prints & Etch Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst. “Christian Kpbke ” Un ings, 1877-1920.” June-September. “Corot.” June 21-Septem- til May 12. ber 22. France: Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario. “Tissot.” June 19-October 20. Campiegne, Musee du chateau. “Le Comte de Nieuwerkerke.” Australia May-July.
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia. “Arthur Streeton: 1867— Paris, Musee d’Orsay. “Menzel: La Nevrose du vrai.” April 18 - 1943.” Until April 14. “Goya Etchings.” August 30-November July 28. “Impressionism, City and Modem Life,” will examine the 10. influence of the city on artists like Monet and Pissarro. September through November 1996. “Between Theater and History: The Canberra, The National Gallery of Australia. “J.M.W. Turner” Until Halevy Family.” Until May 19. “Offenbach.” Until May 19. June 10. This exhibition will also travel to Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria from June 27-September 10. Paris, Grand Palais. The first major retrospective of Camille Corot in 20 years included 150 works focusing on two themes: the inte Europe gration of the human figure in nature, and Corot’s “memory” pic tures. Until May 27. The exhibition will be shown in New York in Austria: the fall.
Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum. “Van Gogh and the Hague Paris, Biblioteque de l’histoire de la ville de Paris. “Corot.” Until
8 June 16. London, National Gallery. “Constable’s ‘Cornfield.’” Until April Paris, Musee Camavalet. “Russians in Paris: 19th Century.” Until 21. June 30. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery. “Sir John Soane and Death.” Paris, Grand Palais. “Les Ann6es romantiques. Lapeinture franfaise Until May 19. de 1815-1850.” April 16-July 15 (Exhibition shown previously in Nantes). Catalogue with important essays by Jacques Foucart, London, National Portrait Gallery. “David Livingstone and the Georges Brunei. Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Claire Constans, Victorian Encounter with Africa.” Until July 7. Arietta Serullaz, Claude Allemand-Cosneau, Jean Lacambre, Isabella Julia, and Ariel Denis. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. “Ruskin and Oxford.” May21-Sep- tember 15. Paris, Musee de la Vie Romantique. “Ary Scheffer, 1795-1858.” Until July 14. (Exhibition shown previously in Dordrecht, Nether Hungary: lands) Budapest, Iparmuveszeti Museum. “19th-Century Revival Styles.” Paris, Musee Marmottan Fran?aise. “Edouard Baldus.” Until April Until December 30. 15. Netherlands: Paris, Musee des Beaux Arts, “kodin: Meditations.” September 30-January 6, 1997. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh. “The Year and the Day: Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich.” March 29 - Germany: June 23. “A New Art: Photography in the 19th Century,” an exhi bition organized with the Rijksmuseum of 19th-century photographs Berlin, Bauakademie. “Schinkel and Berlin.” Until June 15. of museums, exhibitions, monuments and sculptures. Until April 28. “The Drawings of the Van Gogh Museum, Part I: The Early Diisseldorf, Kunstverein. “Landscape Painting in Diisseldorf.” July Work, 1880-1883.” May 10-September 15; “The Color of Sculp 1-August 30. ture, 1840-1910.” Polychrome sculptures of Klinger, Rodin, Gauguin, Picasso, and others. July 27 - November 17; “Sir Lawrence Hamburg, Kunsthalle. “Egon Schiele.” Until June 16. Alma Tadema.” November 29 - February 3, 1997.
Munich, Haus der Kunst. “Barbizon: School of Nature.” Until Russia: April 21. Moscow, Pushkin Museum. “French Painting: 19th-20th Centu Nuremberg, German National Museum. “Bourgeois Art & Cul ries.” Until July 1. ture.” Until July 28. Spain: Great Britain: Barcelona, La Caixa. “William Blake.” Until June 2. Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery. “Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Collection.” May 25-September 29. Madrid, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya. “Goya in Spanish Collections.” Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Francisco de Goya, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. “Burne-Jones and William the exhibition has assembled 45 works from collections and differ Morris.” May 14-September 1. “Book Illustrations by J. Everett ent museums around the world. Millais.” May 21- September 22. Madrid, The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina. “Balthus.” Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. “David Roberts.” Until April 1. April 12-June 30. Madrid, Prado Museum. “Goya.” Until May 30. Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery. “Whistler.” August 17-October 27. Switzerland:
London, Leighton House. “Relentless Perfection: At Home with Basel, Kunstmuseum. “James Ensor.” Until May 15. Lord Leighton.” Until April 21. Geneva, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire. “The Alps: Drawing by Ro London, British Museum. “Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William mantics.” April 19-October7. Hamilton and his Collection.” The exhibition includes over 200 items from Hamilton’s private collection of antiquities uncovered Geneva, Mus6e Rath. “Rodolph Topffer.” April 25-July 28. during archeological excavations in southern Italy. Until July 14. Lausanne, Mus6e Olympique. “ 1896 Athens.” Until June 16.
London, Royal Academy. “Gustave Caillebotte.” Until June 23. Lugano, Museum Cant. d’Arte. “Odilon Redon.” June 14—Sep tember 30. London, Victoria and Albert Museum. “ 19th-Century Guatemalan Textiles.” Until August 18. “William Morris 1834—1896.” May 9- Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda. “Suzanne Valadon.” Until September 1. “The Leighton Frescoes.” Until September 8. May 27. “Edouard Manet.” June 5-November 11. 9 FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is planning an exhibition of the works of Pierre Bonnard for the summer of 1998.
“Monet and the Mediterranean” will be shown at the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth from June to September 1997.
Another Monet show is planned for 1998-99. “Monet in the Twentieth Century,” an exhibition of the artist’s late works, will be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (September 1998-January 1999) and London’s Royal Academy (January-April 1999). Organizer Paul Hayes Tucker plans a modest show of no more than twenty-five paintings.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is planning an exhibition of the works of Auguste Preault (1810-1879) for fall 1997; also, an exhibition of the prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (winter 1997-98) and a retrospective of the work of Matthijs Maris (February - May 1998
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are much indebted to the following persons for their contributions: Tracy Melillo, graduate student at Seton Hall University, did much research and entered a good part of the newsletter into the computer; Nancy Locke, prepared the list of exhibitions; Hans LUthy contrib uted news about European exhibitions; Elizabeth Childs, Hollis Clayson, Nora Heimann, and Sharon Hirsch provided important news items.
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