Volume 10, Number 1 Spring 1985 conferences and symposia eM awards
Contemporary Monotypes Modern Monumental Sculpture Awards for excellence in scholarship, crit A symposium to be held at Bard College on A symposium to be held at Columbia Univer icism, and the teaching of art and art history Wednesday, 8 May, at 4:30 P. M. in conjunc sity's Rosenthal Auditorium (501 Schermer were presented at the Convocation ceremo tion with an exhibition of the same title at the horn Hall) on Friday, 26 ApriL Speakers in nies of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Col Edith C. Blum Art Institute. Panelists will in· the morning session will be: Albert Elsen, lege Art Association, held on Friday evening, clude curator Robert F. Johnson, Achenbach Stanford, Rodin's "Thinker" and the Dilem .. February 15, 1985 at The Biltmore Hotel in Foundation of Graphic Art, and artists Na· ma of Public Sculpture; William Tucker, Los Angeles, than Oliveira and Michael Mazu. Matt Phil sculptor, On Private and Public Sculpture; The Distinguished Teaching of Art History lips, chair of the Bard art department, will Rosalind Krauss, Hunter and CUNY Grad Award was presented to Father Harrie Van moderate. For additional information: Tina uate Center, Brancusi's Mischief; and Rich derstappen, professor of Far Eastern art at Iraca Green, BC, Annandale-on-Hudson, ard Brilliant, Columbia, The Public Monu the University of Chicago. The Distinguished NY 12504. (914) 758-6822. ment: Fixing Space. In the afternoon: John Teaching of Art Award went to Leon Golub, Beardsely, art historian, Whither Modem professor of art at the Mason Gross School of Current Studies on Cluny Monumental Sculpture?; Kirk Varnedoe, Papers contributing new insights on the role the Arts, Rutgers University. of Cluny in Romanesque art are invited for Inst. Fine Arts, N.Y.U., Scales oj Achieve The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award was this special ICMA session at the 21st Interna ment: A Balanced View of Henry Moore; presented to Lorenz E.A. Eitner, Stanford University, for Gericault: His Life and Work. tional Congress on Medieval Studies, Kala Edward Fry, Univ, Pittsburgh, The Private ness of David Smt'th's Public Art; and Arthur A Special Citation was awarded to Esther mazoo, May 8-11, 1986. Appropriate sub C. Danto, Columbia (Dept. Philosophy), In Pasztory, Columbia University, for Aztec Art. jects might be: works of art only recently iden Search ofa Criterion for Public Art. Admis· In a CAA "first," a book award was pre tified as originating at or near Cluny; tech sion is free, Morning session begins at 10:00; sented to a graduate student. Patricia Con nical studies; relations between Cluny and its afternoon session at 2: 30. don, currently completing her doctoral dis affiliates; the development of Romanesque sertation for Brown University, received the iconography; and re-evaluation of the artistic Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award for In Pursuit of centrality and influence of Cluny. All medi Southeast College Art Conference Perfectt'on: The Art of j.-A.-D. Ingres, the ums may be considered; interdisciplinary To be held in New Orleans, 24-· 26 October. A catalogue of an exhibition she organized at studies are particularly encouraged. Send broad-ranging conference like our own, the the J. B. Speed Art Museum. one-page abstract to Ilene H. Forsyth, Dept. SECAC meeting will have art history sessions Robert Hughes received the Frank Jewett History of Art, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, covering ancient to the present day (with spe Mather Award for distinction in art criticism MI 48109. Deadline: 15 June. cial session on Southern architecture, Pre-Co for the second time. That's not a CAA first, lumbian and Latin American art, historiog but his acceptance speech in mock heroic The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence raphy, and photography); studio sessions on couplets (see p. 5) is, as is the fact that it was on Literature and the Arts graphic design programs, photographic por declaimed to a spell-bound and vastly amused The theme of the 19th annual conference of traiture, sculpture, foundation programs, audience by a film and T, V. star-Steve Mar the Center of Medieval and Early Renaissance and art department administration; sessions tin. (Who says the CAA is not in tune with Studies, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, October by their affIliated societies (which tend to be popular culture!) 18-19. Invited speakers will include Jaroslav regional divisions of our affiliated societies). Finally, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize Pelikan, Robert Calkins, Madeline Caviness, National participation in the conference is in· and Nigel Morgan. In addition, short (20-30 for 1984, for the best article in The Art Bul vited. For titles and chairs of sessions: Carolyn letin by a scholar at the beginning of his or her minute) papers are invited; abstracts con Kolb, Dept. Fine Arts, Univ. New Orleans, scholarly career, was awarded to Hayden B. sidered, but completed papers will be given LA 70148. (504) 286-6493. Deadline for Maginnis, McMaster University, for preference. Send to Bernard S. Levy, paper proposals (which should be sent to ses J. "Pietro Lorenzetti: A Chronology." CEMERS, S,U.N.Y., Binghamton, NY sion chairs): I June, 13901. (607) 798-2730. Deadline: 20 May . The citations read as follows:
. The Private Landscape: The Development To Members of the College Art The Distinguished Teaching of Art History Association: of the American Garden Award A symposium to be held 27 April at the Par 1 aIIl ,sorry to have to,announce ,the res Father Harrie Vanderstappen, professor of ignation of Rose Weil as Executive Sec rish Art Museum in conjunction with the ex· Far Eastern art at the University of Chicago, is retary of, the College Art Association. hibition Fauns and Fountains. Speakers will a specialist in Chinese art who also teaches be: Michael Van Valkenburgh, Harvard, which will take effect on ,28 'FebruarJr Japanese art at every level, Over a quarter of a Evolution of the Garden Form since 1925: 1986. ,Rose, has given us twelve years,of century he has trained, and inspired, genera Directions in Landscape Expression; Michele faithful ,and devoted service,' durinK tions of students, many of whom occupy key Bogart, exhibition curator, Fauns and Foun· which time the Association :has pro,s teaching and museum positions across the en· tains; Deborah Nevins, The Tum of the Cen peTed and become increasingly' respon tire country in both the Chinese and Japanese tury Amen'can Garden, Howard Adams, 'sive to the needs of the membership. I fields. Dumbarton Oaks, The Ornamented Repub have enjoy~d'workingwith her and feel Father Vanderstappen's students, past and lic; and Rosamond Bernier, A rt and the fortunate that J can continue to dO'S9 ' present, write of him with such accord that a througho,ut my presidency. Garden. Fee (includes box lunch); $35; clear image emerges, of a warm, friendly, students and senior citizens: $25. PAM, 25 compassionate teacher, a teacher with a gen John Rupert Martit~ Job's Lane, Southampton, NY 11968. President uinely exceptional generosity of time and Contt"nued on p. 8, col. 1 Continued on p. 4, col. 1 write! write! write! annual meeting comments special memberships
The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 1986 As everyone remotely connected with the dis After attending this year's CAA meeting in SUSTAINING MEMBERS New York City; Dan F. Howard, Lincoln, proposes sharp cuts in educational and cul cipline who has not been off on an archaeo Los Angeles, I am convinced more than ever Sustaining membership is a voluntary cate Neb.; John and Susan Huntington, Worth tural programs of vital concern to artists and logical dig in Mghanistan surely knows by that non-Western fields must be permanently gory for those who wish to contribute to the ington, Ohio; Nancy Huntsinger, Ventura, art historians. At the CAA Ann.ual Members now: the 1985 art history sessions were the represented at future meetings. Their inclu CAA in excess of their income-based dues. In Calif.; Isabelle Hyman, New York City; Business Meeting, February 14, it was voted grandest, the most expanisve, the most inno sion this year made for an exciting event, and dividual Sustaining Membership is $100 an Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, New York to send the following telegrams, on behalf of vative, and the most exciting in CAA history. future sessions devoted to Indian, Islamic, nually. This year we sent a special letter to all City; Madlyn Kahr, Dallas; Richard the Association, to the chairs of the appro And clearly Harvey Stahl, who organized African, Pre-Columbian, Chinese, andJapa members in our highest income-based cate Krautheimer, Rome, Italy; Nancy S. Lam priate House and Senate subcommittees: them, deserves the gratitude of the entire pro nese art, as well as Paleolithic, can only ad gory ($60), inviting them to "move up" to Sus bert, New Haven; Barbara G. Lane, New fession for the intelligence, imagination, and vance the study of art history. taining Membership. The response has been York City; Colles B. Larkin, White Bear Re cuts in NEA, NEH, IMS. The College just plain hard work he brought to this im Thomas W. Lentz, Jr. truly gratifying; we're proud to list below our Lake, Minn.; John Lottes, Minneapolis; Art Association of America, representing pressive achievement. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 98 ... count 'em, 98 ... Sustaining Members Bates Lowry, Washington, D.C.; John R. more than 8,000 professionals in the teach This vastly original meeting required sus for 1985; Martin, Princeton; Evan M. Maurer, Ann ing, study, and creation of works of art, is dis pending, at least temporarily, guidelines for Arbor; James and Anne Morganstern, Co mayed at the budgetary cuts imposed by the the conduct of annual meetings that had ini JamesS. Ackerman, Cambridge Mass.; Em lumbus, Ohio; Dewey F. Mosby, Hamilton, Office of Management and Budget on the FY tially been adopted by the CAA Board of ma W. Alexander, Ann Arbor; Paul B. Ar N.Y.; Weston J. Naef, Santa Monica; Roy 86 budget appropriations for the National This is the first year I have been to a session Directors in 1976 in order to assure that equal nold, Oberlin; Pamela Askew, Millbrook, R. Neuberger, New York City; Victoria Endowment for the Arts, the National En morning, afternoon, and sometimes evening, access and fair treatment would be main N. Y.; Richard Barnhart, New Haven; Rob Newhouse, New York City; William O'Reil dowment for the Humanities, and the Insti and found most of them to be stimulating and tained and that annual meeting schizophren ert L. Benson, Los Angeles; Robert T. Berg ly, New York City; Ruth R. Philbrick, tute of Museum Services. These cuts would enriching experiences. This may have been ia would be held to an acceptable level. That man, Baltimore; Suzanne Bloom, Houston; Washington, D.C.; Cynthia Polsky, New devastate the educational and cultural insti an unusual year because of the number of the overwhelming success of the 1985 art his Jean S. Boggs. Ottawa; Albert Boime, Los York City; John Pope-Hennessy, New York tutions of our nation and the work of individ non-Western sessions and this was the ftrst tory sessions mandates some significant modi Angeles; Julie M. Boyer, Lincoln, Mass.; City; Jules D. Prown, Orange, Conn.; Vir uals in the creation and study of art. We urge time that a large group of us could come to fication in those guidelines seems certain; but Jonathan M. Brown, Princeton; George R. ginia Rembert, Northport, Ala.; Roslyn that the Appropriations Committee restore gether and exchange ideas. Each session I that a greatly expanded meeting with differ Bunker, Houston; Susan H. Bush, Cam Rensch-Erbes, Terre Haute, Ind.; Joseph the funding of these agencies to their appro went to was well attended (my own session was ent "categories" of sessions created some new bridge Mass.; Austin M. Cahill, Cranbury, Rishel and Anne D'Harnoncourt Rishel, priate levels for the continuing health of the much larger than the capacity of the room problems (an excellently organized "Open N.J.; Constantine Christofides, Seattle; Philadelphia; David Rosand, New York City; cultural life of the nation. We stand ready to allowed) and yet the audience was not the Session," for example, that had no more than Ralph F. Colin, New York City; William B. John Rosenfield, Cambridge, Mass.; Lucy assist in supporting this effort. same from one session to the other. I should 25 attendees) seems equally clear. also like to add that I went to more Western Conlon, New York City; Kevin E. Consey, and Irving Sandler, New York City; Robert Re cuts in student loans . .The College Art At its fall meeting (5 October), the CAA art sessions than I usually do and found them Newport Beach, Calif.; Robert Dance, New G. and Fran~oise F. Scheiner, New York Association opposes President Reagan's pro Board of Directors will consider whether to to be more interesting. This is the first CAA York City; Sol Alfred Davidson, Wayne, Pa.; City; Stephen K. Scher, Clifton, N.J.; posed restrictions and cuts in the financial aid adopt revised-or, for that matter, any-an meeting at which I felt that there was a fruit Barbara K. Dees, Purchase, N.Y.; Samuel Kathleen L. Scott, East Lansing, Mich.; many of our students now receive through nual meeting guidelines. To that end, com ful interchange of ideas between scholars in Edgerton, Jr., Williamstown, Mass.; Anne Hsio-Yen Shih, Hong Kong; Ralph E. ments on the 1985 art history sessions-or on Ehrenkranz, New York City; Robert Eng Shikes, New York City; Seymour Slive, Cam eAA Life Member Julius S. Held guaranteed student loans. These cuts would Western and non-Western art. I think Harvey Photo; Alessandra Comini. gass, Athens, Ga.; Everett Fahy, New York bridge, Mass.; Pat Sloane, Brooklyn; Craig have a disastrous effect on higher education any other aspect of annual meetings - are Stahl should be commended on the fine and would be most acutely felt in fields such warmly welcome. We hope that the com organization of this meeting. City; Beatrice Farwell, Santa Barbara; Alan H. Smyth, Florence, Italy; Allen Staley, ... AND OUR "YOUNGEST" ments below are but the beginning of an ac New York City; Mary Swift, Washington, as art, where students cannot expect future Esther Pasztory M. Fern, Chevy Chase, Md.; Kurt W. For LIFE MEMBER financial reward-or even security. tive and productive dialogue: Columbia University ster and Fran~oise Forster-Hahn, Santa D.C.; Silvia Tennenbaum, New York City; We're particularly proud, too, to welcome Monica; Ilene H. Forsyth, Ann Arbor; Fel Members who share these conceTIlS are Chair, New Approaches £n the Study of Peter A. Tomory, Bundoora, Australia; A. our newest Life Member, Julius S. Held, ton L. Gibbons, Hopewell, N.J.; Mary W. urged to write individually; addressed to: Style and Aesthet£cs in Mesoamerican Art Richard Turner, New York City; Evan seen above at the Los Angeles annual meet Gibbons, New York City; Bruce Glaser, Turner, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; John ing. Professor emeritus of art history at Bar Senator James A. McClure, Chair Fairfield, Conn.; Mildred L. Glimcher, Walsh, Jr., Santa Monica; RobertR. Wark, nard College and Columbia University since Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on In a motion passed unanimously at our art New York City; Edward Goodstein, Menlo San Marino; J. W. Warrington, Cincinnati; 1970, honorary director of the CAA since Interior-U.S. Senate historians meeting on 22 February 1985, we Park, Calif,; Mary Ann Graeve-Frantz, Ron and Renate Wiedenhoeft, Littleton, 1975, recipient of the Art Dealers Associ Washington, D.C. 20510 resolved to express our appreciation of the As I think over this year's meeting, I come to Princeton; Nancy Graves, New York City; Colo.; Mark Weil, St. Louis; Kathleen ation's award for lifelong distinction in art Rep. Sidney R. Yates, Chair way the recent CAA annual meeting accom my usual, prejudiced conclusion: the best Eleanor S. Greenhill, Austin; Norman B. Weil-Garris Brandt, New York City; Anne history in 1980, Professor Held took out his House Appropriations Subcommittee on modated the non-Western fields and was panels, whether or not symposia, were those Gulemarian, Watchung, N.J.; Martha L. Marie Wiemer-Sumner, New York City; Life Membership in the CAA this past Sep Interior-U.S. House of Representatives organized to maximize open discussion and which created some internal vibrations Hadzi, South Hadley, Mass.; Evelyn B. Lester Wunderman, New York City; Henri tember; on April 15 he will celebrate his eigh Washington, D.C. 20515 public engagement. We feel the talks were among the speakers and their issues, and this Harrison, New York City; Jules Heller, Zerner and Catherine Wilkinson Zerner, tieth birthday. (Life Membership in the CAA generally more exciting and innovative than always meant those which had a vigorous Scottsdale, Ariz.; Edward B. Henning, Cambridge, Mass.; Jerrold Ziff, Cham is $1000, payable, if desired, in four annual The Business Meeting also expressed its at previous meetings, and very much hope discussion or question period afterwards. No Cleveland; Joel and Judith Herschman, paign. Ill. installments.) II agreement in principle with two resolutions that next year's meeting will build on these matter how good separate papers are, they adopted by the Women's Caucus for Art: one accomplishments. We extend our congratu" remain isolated contributions which might as lannual meeting comments opposing cuts in the student loan program; lations and gratitude to Harvey Stahl, chair of well be read, as listened to, if they do notgen the other opposing a Treasury Department the art history sessions .... erate some real back-and-forth movement. ber of panels, as Harvey engineered this time, In the nineteen years of my membership in on Paleolithic art and on Peru where audi proposal to eliminate tax deductions for char In my capacity as president of the Arts Even the most tightly focused workshops often including" open sessions" and sharply: focused the Association, I have never attended ses ence interaction with the panelists provided itable contributions totalling less than 10 per Council of the African Studies Association failed, it seems to me, because we were still ones, but not distinguished as "workshops," sions so lively and stimulating. There was a the liveliest exchanges. I am an artist, not an cent of an individual's income. (This, it is and on behalf of the membership, I wish ftrst listening to specialists' reports. The umbrella or by any other designation. I would increase sense of critical self-reflection on the part of art historian. But when Paleolithic and Peru feared, would drastically reduce contribu to express my appreciation to the Board for offered by the panels' title is too broad, even the number of panels, if possible, which ad the discipline that has hardly ever appeared vian Prehistorians address themselves to the tions to educational and cultural institutions.) extending affiliated organization status to us. in these cases, and those sheltered under it dress issues of methodology, especially those before. The embrace with the sister disci issue of what kind of information can be con The above are not, of course, the only ... I can also add ACASA's strong endorse don't necessarily speak to one another. that deal with disciplines other than art his plines of archaeology, anthropology, history, veyed by style alone in the absence of much pending issues that affect the vital interests of ment of the structure and content of the Los You might guess from the above that in my tory. I would make the number of panels in literature and music helped to define the legi else they speak to us all. artists and art historians. Those with pen or Angeles annual meeting, and hopes for their view the workshop experiment did not seem to anyone sub-field (modem, baroque, medi timate domain of art history while presenting Henry F. Klein personal computer handy and with an ade continuation, to that of the UCLA art histo be entirely successfuL The sharper focus did eval, etc.) roughly equal to the numbers of a much needed integrated view of artistic and Los Angeles Valley College quate supply of stamps may also wish to ad rians .... We are also encouraged by the ref not seem to produce very often the kind of real professionals engaged in them. (There re intellectural history as a whole. Organization dress themselves to proposed cuts in library erences to the "global" scope of art historical give-and-take that makes listen£ng into a mains a tendency to give equal time to each around tighter topics addressed by diverse budgets, the threatened elimination of pref scholarship included in the "CAA statement valuable experience:-On the other hand, the field, regardless of its population). methodologies provided not simply a plural erential postal rates for non-profit, educa re NEH reauthorization" published in the increase in the total number of panels was a Robert L. Herbert istic array but rather an opportunity to see It seems to be the consensus that this was the tional institutions, the nomination of a new latest CAA Newsletter. welcome change. Yale University what methodology or methodologies work best CAA meeting that anyone can remember chair for the National Endowment for the Arnold Rubin I would therefore like to see a larger num- Chair, Symposium: The Interpretatt'on best. . The focus on issues of major importance Humanities, etc. II U.C.L.A of A bstract£on . . . it was the smaller workshops like those Continued on p. 12, col. 3
CAA newsletter Spring 1985 3 ICAA awards ICAA awards
thought. His teaching focuses intensely on the area of art history. Because the members of tion and catalogue possible, and she has con The Frank Jewett Mather Award object, though continuously relating the for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Com tributed an informative essay on portraiture. Art criticism today is a field overrun with mal analysis to the art theory, literature, and mittee feel such a book was published in 1983, Marjorie Cohn, who directed Patricia Con ideological fashions that come and go on the social, political and cultural conditions of we should like to make a Special Citation to don's attention to the question of Ingres' about the same schedule as the leaves on my time and place. Teaching by example, Father Esther Pasztory for Aztec Art, Harry N. replicas, has written an introduction that is maple tree, and with ideologues who make Vanderstappen engages his students in the Abrams, 1983. A beautifully honed and tem original and lively, free of art historical jargon careers out of frantically raking them up. It is ongoing analytical process, prodding with pered survey that will serve as a guide and and that makes creative scholarly use of ob indeed a pleasure to find among the cacoph questions and warnings about the many pit measure to future Meso-American scholar servation derived from her experiences as an any of voices a gifted writer who understands falls that lie along the paths of connoisseur ship. artist and a paper conservator. new theory but has stood apart from critical ship and interpretation, a procedure de It is especially gratifying to single out for its schools; he has shown that intelligence and a scribed as "a process shared rather than con achievements an exhibition catalogue that sharp eye count for more. He measures new ferred." grew directly out of the free sharing of knowl art against the highest standards of art history In part because of the breadth of these edge between teacher and pupil. In Pursuit of and his work demonstrates that writing on fields and the difficulty of providing formal Perfection is a testimonial not only to the ideal contemporary art can have an intellectual courses at the many levels appropriate to the of the teaching museum but also to the con depth that transcends the parade of the new. stages of his students' progress, Father Van tinuing vitality of the tradition of connois He stands out for his honesty, his impervious derstappen engages most of his many students seurship. ness to the partisan and financial pressures of in hours-long one-on-one conferences that Committee: Clifford Ackley, chair; Tom the art world, and his remarkable talent for consume his time to a truly unusual degree. Freudenheim; Robert Hobbs communicating his insights into the issues of His office door is closed only when he is in contemporary art as successfully to intellec class or in conference with a student. His stu The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize tuals in the field as to the readers of Time dents come away from his training with an Beginning with a skeleton of the four signed Magazine. For these qualities in general, and intense gratitude for the example he has set, and dated works attested for Pietro Lorenzet in particular for the sequence of recent con his love and understanding of the works, the ti, Hayden Maginnis leads us, through de tributions to the New York Review of Books critical methods he teaches and his high tailed observations of style and technique, which-in the view of the Mather Award standards. first to an understanding of the individual Committee- have been the most intelligent For his generosity, for the enthusiasm characteristics and the interrelations of those and widely discussed contribution to the field which he both displays and inspires, for pro four works and then, from that stable base, to in the last year and a half, we have taken the viding a model of excellence which inspires Leon Golub, Distinguished Teaching of Art a thoughtful chronology of artistic develop unprecedented decision of making this award his students to work harder, more critically, Award Photo: Joyce Ravid Lorenz Eitner, Charles Rufus Morey Award ment, established through the careful inte for a second time to Robert Hughes. and more fruitfully, the College Art Associa gration of other authentic pieces by Pietro. Committee: Jane Livingston, chair; Robert been not only acknowledged by critics but ac tion is pleased to present its ninth annual The Distinguished Teaching of Art Award With an emphasis on the early achievements, Berlind; Jonathan Fineberg award for Distinguished Teaching of Art His This has been a phenomenal year for Leon claimed by his own community of artists. The he clarifies questions of authorship for the tory to Father Harrie Vanderstappen. Golub, a year of recognition and honor long effort to break through a wall of indifference Passion Cycle in the Lower Church of S. Fran overdue a painter whose strong willed com is both cause and effect of Golub's toughness. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Committee: Howard McP _ Davis, chair; cesco in Assisi and suggests a date in the sec FOR THE 1984-85 Elizabeth Johns; Alfred Moir mitment has governed his performance in the It has given him the tools to write a modern ond decade of the fourteenth century, thus classroom as surely as it has his efforts in the fable: that of a single artist who believed so FRANK JEWETT MATHER AWARD arguing an early period for Pietro as a recog (Declaz'med, in absentia, by Steve Martin) studio. strongly in the validity of his point of views nized artist in charge of a sizable shop. Mind Ever since his student days at the School of that he has passed on to others, not only an Patricia Condon. Allred H. Barr, Jr. Award ful throughout of methodology, he demon Bound to his duties on Sixth Avenue, the Art Institute of Chicago he has shown a appreciation of that work, but a singular in strates broad and significant conclusions that Nostalgic for the Old, shock'd by the New, gift for leadership, and for nearly as long a stance of struggle and creative survival in our The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. build through the observation of seemingly The cri#ckJUNIUS, belaurelled twice, time he has held to a belief in the political time. Museum Scholarship Award minor details. Clearly participating in a disci Capers before you in his realm of Ice, Committee: Ellen Lanyon, chair; Robert relevance of art as a whole, of his own in par In a period when great energy has often been plinary tradition, practiced by connoisseurs Fang'd l£ke the Wolf, malignant as the Rat, ticular. The intensity of his activism has been Arneson; Nancy Graves devoted to the reevaluation of nineteenth whose formal studies are wed to historical Yet now become a perfect Pussy-Cat. a persistent example to his students, and no century artistic figures of questionable aes analysis, Hayden Maginnis displays for his May those wise judges Hve eternal days, less to professional colleagues who have The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award thetic merit, it is a pleasure to encounter this readers a discursive and persuasive chronol Who condescended to bestow these Bays! known him well enough to fall under his spell. In essential ways, Lorenz E. A. Eitner's catalogue, which throws a new and positive ogy of the formal developments of Pietro Lor May the nine Muses, in harmonick tone, In a time when the cause of educating artists Gericault: His Life and Work, magnifies the light on a great artist's use of replicas and enzetti's work in the context of the art of other Salute ajudgment so much Hke his ownl has been covered over with doubt, when fun scope of the traditional art historical mono repetitioJ?s. It is also refreshing that in the early Renaissance masters. o noble Scholars, who approve his views, damentals are less certain than quick fame is graph. The detailed account of Gericault's pursuit of its theme- the artist's creative pro Committee: Kathleen Shelton, chair; Wil Accept the grovelling thanks of ROBERT attractive, Golub's integrity has set him apart brief career includes a sharp and penetrating cess-the catalogue rises above the conven liamI. Homer; Charles Parkhurst HUGHES. from the herd and, in the view of many who probe into political and social forces of the tional hierarchies of media and scale, dis have studied with him, well above it. time. Biographical information describing cussing works on paper equally with painting. In a sense deeper than a purely political the artist's complex personality serves as the Patricia Condon's catalogue is truly con SEARCH FOR CAA EXECUTIVE SECRETARY one, however, he has always and centrally means to explore his ambitions, achieve ceived, as she states in her opening notes, to The Association is seeking an Executive Secretary to replace Rose Wei!, who proclaimed the freedom to communicate as ments, and disappointments. To exacting serve as a resource for scholars. The visual has submitted her resignation effective February 28, 1986. Her replacement an individual. Whether by the persuasiveness discussions of style and iconography, Eitner design is appropriately elegant but, more im will serve from January 1, 1986 to February, 28, 1986 as Executive Secretary of his speech or the power of his images, he brings the insights of a sensitive connoisseur; portant, the carefully considered relationship Designate, and then will assume the office of Executive Secretary on March 1, has managed to make himself heard and seen, he enriches historical and methodology with of text and image conveys and extends the 1986. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and expe~ienc~. if not always followed. This steady affirma critical evaluations of elegant precision. exhibition's thesis with exemplary clarity. An A fo:hn.al search will be instituted and a Search' Committee IS bemg ap tion of conviction has contributed to the leg Graceful prose, lucid organization, and in appendix devoted to a recounting of the sto pointed. A detailed job description will appear in the CAA's May 30, 1985 end of his effectiveness as a mentor, just as it genious book design further enhance this mas ries of the historical subjects is useful to the Positions Listing as well as in other suitable publications. In the interim,letters has lately awakened a wider audience to his terpiece of scientific and creative scholarship. general reader, while a computerized index of inquiry or nomination are welcome and may be addressed to: art. Committee: Marilyn Lavin, chair; Jaroslav on Ingres' historical works will aid future Executive Secretary Search Committee Mter three decades of lukewarm accep Folda; Irene Winter research by scholars. c/o College Art Association tance, when not outright rejection by the Agnes Mongan's devotion to the study and 149 Madison Avenue commercial art establishment, his exhibition Special Citation connoisseurship of Ingres' drawings originally New York,NY 10016 . Father Harrie Vanderstappen. in 1982. in New York created a sensation. Its At this stage of our discipline it is rare to be inspired Patricia Condon's interest in the art Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award reverberations continue to be felt as he has able to single out an initial publication in an ist. Miss Mongan's backing made the exhibi-
4 CAA newsletter Spring 1985 5 J grants and awards information announcements
GETTY POSTDOCTORALS FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIPS WINTERTHUR FELLOWSHIPS For a catalogue raisonne of the English Victo Fulbright Awards Fellowships for Seminar on The first-round recipients of these fellowships The following American artists and art histo The Office of Advanced Studies at the Win rian portraitist John Hanson Walker (1844- For 1986-87 there are ca. 300 grants in re The Transmission of Culture have been announced. For those who have rians received 1984-85 Fulbright awards to .terthur Museum has announced the recip 1933), information is sought on the where search and 700 grants in university lecturing In the two academic years 1986-88, the Sem forgotten the rules of the game. (CAA news teach or conduct advanced research abroad: ients of its 1984-85 NEH research fellowships: abouts of any portraits he painted during his for periods ranging from three months to a inar of the Davis Center for Historical Studies letter, Winter 1984): ten selected institutions Keith A. Achepohl, Univ. Iowa, lecturing in Michele H. Bogart, S. U.N. y" Stony Brook: many sojourns to the United States from 1886 full academic year, with openings in more at Princeton University will consider the con got to choose one fellow each to come and graphic arts: Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Tur A Social History of Turn-of-the-Century onwards. There must be lots, for his great than 100 countries and, in a few cases, theop tent, transmission, and transformation of cul work at their shop; ten additional fellows were key; Marie Jeanne Adams, Peabody Muse C£vic Sculpture t'n New York; Eugene W. granddaughter writes: "It has always been a portunity for multi· country research. Basic tural texts (including works of art), both elit chosen in open competition, their fellowships um, research in ethnographic art: Ministry of Metcalf, Jr., School of Interdisciplinary family tradition that it was through his work eligibility requirements are U,S. citizenship; ist and popular. Among topics to be exam transportable to wherever they wish. In both Scientific Research, Ivory Coast; Jonathan Studies, Miami Univ.: A Social History of in the U.S.A. that John Hanson Walker was the Ph.D, or comparable professional qualifi ined are the causes of the movement of genres cases, the award is designed to give promising W. Best, Wesleyan, research in Asian art Amer£can Folk Art Collectt'ng; Gerald L. able to keep his family of ten children in con cations; university or college teaching experi across social groups; the means by which cul younger scholars one year free for writing and history: Japan; Miguel A. Bretos, Miami, Pocius, Memorial Univ., Newfoundland: siderable comfort." Lady Morse, 102ADray ence; and, for selected countries, proficiency tural artifacts first acquire and then lose au research; stipend is $25,000, of which $4,000 research in history of architecture: Mexico; The Impact ofFactory Des£gns on Local New ton Gardens, London,S.W.lO, 9RJ, England. in the language. Application deadlines range thority; the ways in which specific interpre goes to the institution. Sarah C. Brett-Smith, Princeton Univ. Art foundland Furniture. from June 15, 1985 (for Australasia, India, tations gain or lose acceptance with different Museum, research on Bamana sculpture and For a revised edition of Hans Maria Wingler's Latin America and the Caribbean) to Feb publics; the rise and fall of castes of profes Open Competition Awards: Nina Maria shifts in male gender identity: Institute des Oskar Kokoschka: The Work of the Painter ruary 1,1986. For more information and ap sional interpreters; and the sociology of intel Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Univ. Delaware, Science Humaines, Bamako, Mali; .christy (1956), photographs or transparencies are re plications: Council for International Ex lectual producers. Imago Belli: Art and Militarism in France Cunningham, lecturing in art conservation INDIVIDUAL AWARDS quested from any owners of oil paintings who change of Scholars, I I Dupont Circle N. W., A limited number of research fellowships, under Louis X VIII; Paul Bahn, indepen and restoration: National Institute of Cul have not yet been contacted by Johann Vink Washington, DC 20036-1257, (202) for one or two semesters, are available. Appli dent scholar, A New Study of Old Stone Age tural Patrimony, Quito, Ecuador; Fay A. Linda D. Henderson, University of Texas, ler, Gigergasse 12, A-I080 Wien, Austria. 939-5401. cants must have completed their dissertations Art: Ruth Bohan; Univ. Missouri-St. Louis, Frick, San Diego State Univ., research in art Austin, has been named first recipient of the and must have a full-time paid position to Walt Whitman's Impact on the Amer£can history: Dept. of Antiquities, Damascus, Dallas Museum of Art's $1,000 VasariAward, For a monograph on the Unger family, infor which they can return. Fellows are expected Avant-Garde, 1900-1925; Michael W. Coth Syria; Mojmir S. Frinta, SUNY at Albany, which recognizes a significant example of art mation on wood engravings by the two Berlin to reside in Princeton for the period of the ren, Swarthmore College, Stained Glass Wt'n research in Byzantine and !talo-Byzantine historical scholarship published by a Texan artists Johann GeorgUnger(I715-88) andJo Awards for Minority Museum Professionals award. Inquiries and application requests to: dows of the Cathedral of Beauvais, 1245- panel painting: Univ. of Belgrade; Maribeth during the last two years. Henderson was hann Friedrich (Gottlieb) Unger (I 773-1804) The Office of Museum Programs offers small Secretary, DC, 129 Dickinson Hall, PU, 1576; KateC. Duncan, Univ. Washington, A Graybill, Univ. California-Berkeley, re cited for her The Fourth Dimension and Non and manuscripts (autographs) by Johartn grants ($500 maximum) to assist minority Princeton, NJ 08544. Deadline for 1986-87: Comparat£ve Study of Northern and South search in portraiture and pictures of poets: EucUdean Geometry t'n Modern Art, 1983, Friedrich Unger and Friedericke Helene museum professionals to attend two-week 1 December 1985. ern Anthapaskan Art and Culture; Eric Hos Japan; David Smith Greenwood, Kendall Princeton University Press. Unger, born von Rothenburg (I 771-1813), is training workshops that are held at the Smith Scholars who are not applying for fellow tetter, Indiana Univ., The Bronze Vessels and School of Design, artist-in-residence in sculp sought by Frithjof Luhmann, Lessingstr. lA, sonian Institution throughout the year. ships but who would like to offer a paper to Other Domestic Implements from Spt'na; ture, ceramics, contemporary trends in d-7500 Karlsruhe 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany. Workshops are on such topics as museum Seminar should write to the Director, Law Patricia Leighten, Univ. Delaware, Art and American art: Univ. of the Arts, Belgrade; Carol Crown, Memphis State University, re management, registration methods, conser For collection research and a related article, rence Stone. Social Reform in France, 1900-1914; Deb Andree M. Hayum, Fordham Univ., re ceived a $5,000 Superior Performance in Uni vation awareness, exhibition techniques, information is sought on the location of works orah Del Gais Muller, independent scholar, search in Renaissance art: France and Ger versity Research (SPUR) award for her proj public relations, and collections manage by, and the life of, Connecticut-New York The Relat£onsht'p between Art and Literary many; Martha Leigh Hyams, San Francisco ect A Divine Tour ofAncient Egypt, partially ment. Award recipients will be selected on the folk painter Jonathan Budington (1779- Theory in the Sung Dynasty, 960-1279; Rhys State Univ, , research in art: Denmark, funded by the Tennessee Committee for the basis of present position and responsibilities, Association Villard de Honnecourt (USA) 1823). Contact Paula Freedman, Yale Uni Townsend, Clark Univ., Athenian Architec Greece, Italy, and Spain; Jean L. Keith, other museum experience, reasons for appli A new multidisciplinary society devoted to the Humanities. James Ramsey also received a versity Art Gallery, Box 2006 Yale Station, tural Activity z'n the Fourth Century B. C.; Univ. Connecticut, lecturing in ancient art cation, and career goals. Forfurtherinforma history of medieval technology, science and SPUR award of $5,000 for his project A rte New Haven, CT 06520. Deborah Weiner, University College Lon and archaeology: Zagazig Univ., Egypt; M, Vivo! Living Trad£t£ons t'n Mexican Folk Art. tion and application forms: Mary Lynn Perry, art is now being organized. The association, don, Victorian London: Architectural Form Joan Lintault, Southern Illinois Univ., re For a monograph and catalogue raisonne of Training Program Coordinator, OMP, Arts sister organization to the French Society and Sodal Policy. search in art of Kusadizome: Japan; John Samuel P. Howes, information is sought on and Industries Building, Room 2235, SI, founded by Jean Gimpel in 1983, plans a Avery Newman, Queens College, CUNY, Video artist Laura Kipnis has been awarded life and works, including past and present Washington, DC 20560, (202) 357-3101. Ap quarterly newsletter and an annual interdis Institutional Awards (awarding institu artist-in-residence in sculpture and issues of a three-year postdoctoral fellowship by the location of works, correspondence and per plication deadline for workshops June 1985 ciplinary conference. An organizational tion indicated in parentheses after project): contemporary art: Univ. of the Arts, Bel University of Michigan Society of Fellows. She sonal mementos. Contact Paul D'Ambrosio, through May 1986: 30 April. meeting will be held during the 20th Interna Laurinda S. Dixon, Syracuse Univ., Image grade; Anthony C. Parker, Mt. Hood Com writes: "I originally saw the announcement of New York State Historical Association, P.O, tional Congress of Medieval Studies at Kala of the Melancholic in Art and Medict'ne munity College, research in glasspainting on this fellowship in the CAA newsletter, you'll Box 800, Cooperstown, NY 18826. mazoo in May 1985. For additional informa (Univ. California, Berkeley); Stephen Md· 3-D crystal objects: Cuza Univ. and Enescu be pleased to know," We arel • tion: Charles Stegeman, 2 College Circle, ville, Syracuse Univ., The Artworld (Bryn Conservatory, Iasi, Romania; Eugene M. Pi For a biography and catalogue of the works of Asian Cultural Council Grants Haverford, PA 19041. (215) 642-8287, Mawr); Ann C. Gunter, Univ. Minnesota, janowski, Univ. Michigan, lecturing and Louis John Rhead (1858-1926), popular Most ACC grants go to bring Asian artists and The Marble Sculptures from Labraunda t'n research in metal design techniques: Vienna American (naturalized) poster artist and il scholars to the.se shores; a few, however, work Turkey (Columbia); Nancy W. Leinwand, Institute of Applied Arts; Christopher D. lustrator, information is sought regarding the in reverse (e.g., the ACC Kress Foundation independent scholar, Art and Iconography of Roy, Univ. Iowa, research in art of the Mossi locations of works of art, portraits, letters and Fellowship for an American doctoral candi Doctors for Artists Central Anatolia in the First Half of the Sec and their neighbors: Univ. Ouagadougou, other unique materials, Lynn Scholz, 5410 date in Asian art history to conduct disserta ond Millennium (Harvard); Giovanna Per N. d~.I.·.N.~.iroNSI~ttED" A non-profit doctor referral service in New Burkina Faso; Henry L. Schoebel, Wash . .. 'I'Oll.. .' •.' Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20015, tion research). Inquiries welcome: ACC, 280 ini, independent scholar, C. Malvasia as an ington, D.C., research in painting: M.S. York City that gives a 20% discount to artists. CAATEACItINGAWARDS Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. 10016. Awards Histon:ographer of Art and Art Criticism in Univ. Baroda, India; Elise L. Smith, North In connection with a forthcoming catalogue made semiannually; application deadlines 15 Fourteen different specialties are offered, and a referral operator can be reached at (212) England: 1710-1790 Uohns Hopkins); Ann Carolina Wesleyan College, research in raisonne of the oils, watercolors and drawings February and 1 August. Jensen Adams, Harvard, Thomas de Keyser Dutch and Flemish art: Royal Museum of r
6 CAA newsletter Spring 1985 7 J {conferences and symposia preservation news people and programs
Material for inclusion in People and Pro Frederick S. Osborne, Jr., has been named Ellen C. Schwartz received an NEH Fellow Whitney Symposium on American Art MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES: A CASE Although the Museums of New Mexico are grams should be sent to College Art Associa director of the schools of the Pennsylvania ship for College Teachers for the year 1984- FOR PRESERVATION now beginning to concentrate on their collec To be held at the Museum on Monday, 29 tion, 149 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. 10016. Academy of Fine Arts. Osborne (M.F.A., 85 for her project, "The Impact of the-Cru tions, they have not yet turned their attention April. Thespeakers, all ofwhorn are graduate Deadlz'ne for next issue: 15 May. Yale), a sculptor, was previously director of sades on the Art of Medieval Serbia." She has The examination and preservation of muse to significant related resources; their library students, will be: Cecile Whiting, Stanford, the office of continuing studies at the Phila also been elected a permanent Research Asso um collections is continuing in all parts of the holdings and archives, which are also in dire Stuart Davis's A llt'ance of Modern Art, Tech IN MEMORIAM delphia College of Art; before that he taught ciate of the Center for Russian and East Euro nology, and Jazz; John P. Digesare, Rutgers, country in response to the initiative of the need of preservation. Museum libraries are an American Association of Museums to cata at the University of Pennsylvania for eleven pean Studies at the University of Michigan. Surrogate Self-Images onJohns's Work; Mi important research tool, both for the curators logue and document important resources and Rensselaer W. Lee, Marquand Professor years. He is also co-founder and director of chael Zakian, Rutgers, Clyfford Still and of the collection and for the general public, Carlos G. Dorrien, assistant professor of art to make them available to scholars and the Emeritus of Art and Archaeology at Prince the Vermont Studio School. Popular American Art; Donna Gustafson, including visiting scholars. If the library was at Wellesley College, has won a national com general public. Part of this initiative has seen ton University since 1966, died in December Rutgers, Food and Art: Vanitas in Pop Art; formed at the same time as the collection - as petition to ere.ct a sculpture environment on the growing concern, on the part of some at the age of 86. The author of Ut Pictura Three Rhode Island School of Design fine arts and Kristin Olive, Emory, David Salle's De was the case in Santa Fe-then its holdings the grounds of the Massachusetts Archives museum officials, for the full interpretation Poesis: The Humanis#c Theory of Paintt'ng; faculty are recipients of Mellon Grant Awards constructive Strategy. The selection panel may contain important primary documents, and Records Center on Columbia Point in of existing collections that have been housed Poetry into Painting: Tasso and Art; and as part of a creative leave program. Terry Sam Hunter, Princeton; E. Ann Kaplan, field notes, diaries, and letters that are of key Boston. He will receive a $100,000 commis in inaccessible sections of the museum, and numerous other works on Renaissance and Gentille, textile design, was granted $1500 to Rutgers (Dept. English and Film); Steven Pol importance in interpreting the collection and sion for the work. the interest in preserving key works that might Baroque painting and on art theory, he was travel to Europe to study the production, cari, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook; and Rosalind the history of the region. Such a library is actively involved in a great many scholarly marketing, and design methods of the major have deteriorated in remote storage areas. worth just as much care and attention as the At Emory University, Clark Poling, associate Krauss, Hunter-will all participate in com organizations, among them the Renaissance textile mills producing fabrics for American Nowhere has this initiative been better fo museum's artifacts (and archives on specific professor of art history, has been appointed mentary and discussion. Society of Amf!rica, the American Academy manufacturers. Randa Newland, printmak cused than in two anthropological collec objects) are about to receive. It could become director of the University's new Museum of tions: one in New Mexico, the other in Okla in Rome, and, of course, the CAA, which he ing, received $1000 to travel to Texas to study a primary area for significant federal and Art and Archaeology, which will be housed in homa. served as secretary (1939-42); editor-in-chief eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paint a building designed by Henry Hornbostel in local support if the case were made that docu of The Art Bulletin (1942-44), and president ings on tin, painted wood religious sculptures Foundations Programs: In both these states, extensive artifact col 1916-17 and renovated by Michael Graves ments and books are integral to the research (1944-46). The possessor of an earned docto in Spanish missions, and works in plaster and A Comparative Study lections, developed when prime quality pieces in 1982-85. For his first special exhibition, and collection mission of the institution. rate in English as well as in art history, he was paper mache by contemporary Mexican Proposals are invited for this F. A. T. E. -spon could easily be obtained, have languished in A good example of an institution awaken Poling will show the architectural drawings, poor reserves that were difficult to utilize. constitutionally incapable of writing an un American folk artists. Jacqueline Rice, cer photographs, and models by Hornbostel and sored session at the MACAA Annual Meeting ing to the integrated needs for preserving its amics, was granted $1500 to study the folk The Museums of New Mexico, located in graceful sentence - or of harboring an ungra Graves. Future exhibitions include two cu in Indianapolis, October 23-25. This session library holdings while working on proper pottery of Italy, principally on the Amalfi Santa Fe, as part of a very intelligent initiative cious or unkind thought. rated by members of the Emory faculty: Bon will compare several distinct types of pro preservation and interpretation of its collec Coast and the region around Florence. grams, for example: a comprehensive univer to bring their anthropological and American tions is the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of Another loss recently suffered at Princeton na Wescoat will co-curate an exhibition of Indian collections into the limelight, are antiquities from collections in the Southeast sity with a professional art school, an archi American History and Art in Tulsa, Okla was the death in January of Christine K. University of Pittsburgh professor Franklin beginning to develop extensive plans for a and John Howett one on the connoisseurship tecture or design school with a fine arts-ori homa. Known primarily as a repository for Ivusic, fine arts editor of Princeton Univer Toker has been awarded an NEH Fellowship new museum that will interpret their exten of Diirer's woodcuts. Guest lecturers in the ented program, an urban environment with a Western art (essentially paintings by Reming sity Press for the past seven years. During her for Independent Study and Research for the sive collections of ceramics, textiles, kachina Spring include Michael Graves, sponsored rural setting, etc. Send 250-word proposal to ton and Russell of the Old West), the Gil tenure, she was instrumental in expanding academic year 1985-86. He will take a leave of dolls, and masks by carefully preserving the Ying Kit Chan, Allen R. Hite Art Inst., crease is actually much more than that. It is a the Press's list beyond its traditional focus to absence in order to complete work on Cathe by the Museum, and Edith Porada, Colum best examples and presenting them in a con Louisville, KY 40292. Deadline: 15 May. superb collection of works by many American include publications in modern art, architec dral and C£ty £n Medieval Florence: The bia University, by the department. The de text that explains their significance, utility, partment also reports with great pride on two artists that touch on the history of the West ture, and the history of photography. Before Archeologz'cal History of a Thousand Years and cultural importance. former students: Ronnie Baer, an under ern states and the frontier, and its holdings in coming to Princeton, Ivusic was art book (393-1375), scheduled for publication in graduate major and currently a graduate stu clude examples by Thomas Eakins, Winslow editor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1987. Toker joined the Pittsburgh faculty in English Decorative Arts: 1840-1890 Homer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran dent at the Institute of Fine Arts, received the Helen Clay Frick, founder and sole sup 1980. He received the 1978 Porter Prize for an A symposium to be held at the Cleveland and George Catlin. These paintings have Art Dealers Association's Award; and Eliza porter of the Frick Art Reference Library, article on the Cathedral of Florence. Museum of Art on Saturday 11 May. Morning {conferences and symposia been displayed thematically, along with arti beth Johns, an Emory Ph.D. and currently died in November at the age of96. She served teaching in the American studies program at speakers David Curry, Denver Art Museum, facts of the region, including textiles and as director of the Library from its opening in the University of Maryland, received the Mit and Martin Eidelberg, Rutgers University, The Persistence of Memory: ceramics, so that a rounded picture of the his 1924 until her retirement in 1983. With 'cur will discuss the development of the Arts and tory of a time and place was presented. The chell Award for her book on Thomas Eakins. Architecture and Its History rent holdings of close to 150,000 books, more Gilcrease is now contemplating an expansion Crafts movement and High Victorian style. In Papers are invited for this conference, organ than 400,000 photographs, and 50,000 sales Cheryl K. Dudek has joined the faculty of program, so that its works can be more force the afternoon, Lionel Lambourne, V &A, will ized by the local chapter of SAH, to be held in catalogues, the Library is known as one of the Denison University in Granville, Ohio, as as speak on William Morris and pre-Raphaelite Philadelphia on 9 November. Papers are lim fully displayed and interpreted for the public, finest - as well as one of the most delightful sistant professor. Before coming to Denison, furniture; Duncan Simpson, Greater London and more objects can be brought out of stor ited to 30 minutes and may treat of architec art reference collections in the world. Almost Dudek (M.F.A., Columbia) taught at the Council, on C.F.A. Voysey; and Peter Rose, age so that the public will have access to them. ture of any period and its relations to the past. equally well known is the requirement-im University of Hartford, C. W. Post College, author and connoisseur, on the Martin Broth At the same time, the Gilcrease is anticipating Among possible approaches: historicism, styl posed by Miss Frick-that women must wear and the University of Virginia. ers. Fee: $25, includes lunch; students free additional library space, so that its archival istic transition, the evolution of personal skirts and men jackets and ties in order to gain (no lunch), but must make reservations. Res materials with their strong focus on regional styles. One-page abstracts to David B. Brown admittance to the Library. MUSEUMS ervations or payments to: CMA, Dept. Later lee, Dept. History of Art, Univ. Pennsylvania, history can be properly housed and preserved, Western Art, Cleveland, OH 44106. G-29 Meyerson HallICJ, Philadelphia, PA thereby providing the additional documenta Effective 2 January, William Olander joined ACADEME 19104. Deadline: 15 May. tion that is essential for the interpretation of the staff of The New Museum of Contem the works in its possession. porary Art as a curator. Olander, who earned Early New England Furniture Both these cases demonstrate clearly that in Artists Joan V. Brown and George McNeil will share the Milton Avery Distinguished his doctorate at the Institute of Fine Arts, Meeting the Needs of the Non-Traditional A symposium to be held Saturday, 4 May, at some regions of the country museums are tak Professorship at Bard College during the returned to New York from Oberlin, where he Artist in the 21st Century the Museum of Our National Heritage in ing quite seriously the initiative to interpret spring semester. Brown is regularly professor was acting director since 1983 and curator of The topic of the F. A.T. E.-sponsored panel at Lexington, Mass. Detailed symposium bro and preserve their collections. There is new of fine arts at the University of California, modem art since 1979 at the Allen Art Muse the Southeastern College Art Conference, chure from the Society for the Preservation of recognition of the importance of utilizing. Berkeley, where she has taught since 1974. um. Among the exhibitions he organized are New Orleans, 24-26 October. Papers are in New England Antiquities, 141 Cambridge artifacts and library archives and of the McNeil was artist-in-residence at the Tama New Drawings: After Photography (toured by vited that address the issue of how art founda Street, Boston, MA 02114, (617) 227-3956. potential of museum libraries to help muse Independent Curators, Inc., 1984), Art and rind Institute last year and in 1971, 75 and 76. tion education should respond to the new art ums to fulfill their mission as educational Sodal Change, U.S.A. (1983), and New forms, new mediums, and new aesthetic and Art since 1945 institutions. By combining the accessibility Vot"ces4: Women and the Med£a, New V£deo. Luis A. Jimenez, Jr., known for his large philosophical orientations that command the Papers are invited for the 5th annual sympo of their collections - both artifacts and ar Other appointments announced at the New interest of present and future students. Send sium on contemporary art to be held 18 Octo chives-with the preservation initiative in the scale, politically conscious sculpture, gener ally fabricated of fiberglass, has joined the Museum: Lynn Gumpert, curator since one- or two-page abstract to Stephen Sum ber at the Fashion Institute of Technology in federal arena, museums will be able to shape 1980, has been promoted to senior curator; faculty at the University of Arizona. He is the mer, Art Dept., State University College of New York City. Send abstracts of 250-500 their future with clarity and intelligence. recipient of an NEA Mid-Career Achieve Brian Wallis has been named adjunct Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, NY 13676. words to Richard Martin, FIT, 227 West 27 Gabriel P. Weisberg, Chair II Franklin Toker, University of Pittsburgh curator. mentAward. Phoco:jane Freund Continued on p. 10, col. 1 Deadline: IJune. Street, NYC 10001. Deadline: 31 May. .. Committee for the Preservation of Art Spring 1985 8 CAA newsletter 9 Ipeople and programs Ipeople and programs solo shows by artist members
and is well known for the many major inter several major exhibitions and has published A l£SUng of exhZ"b£tt'ons by art'ists who are Martha Lesser. Gallery Nineteen Ninety national exhibitions she has organized there. extensively in the area of nineteenth- and members of the CAA. Those send£ng i'nfor Seven, Hong Kong, December 7, 1984-Jan Charlotta Kotik. formerly curator of prints early twentieth-century art. His Mat£Sse as a matt'on for l£SUng should include name ofart uary, 1985. Works on paper. (The thing we and drawings, has been named curator of Draughtsman (1971) was the first exhibition £St, gallery or museum, dty, dates of exhz"bt" liked best about this announcement is that it contemporary art. Before coming to Brook and catalogue devoted to Matisse's drawings. tz"on, and med£um. came with a hand-written note saying "Hope lyn in 1983, Kotik was curator at the Albright He also prepared the catalogue entries for to see you there." Honest!) Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo for fourteen French Printmakz"ng: From Regency to Em Ruth Bavetta. El Camino College Art Gal years. Victoria Ebin joined the staff as asso pz"re: 1715-1814, an exhibition currently on lery, Torrance, Calif., February 4-22. Draw Ellen K. Levy. National Academy of Sci ciate curator of Mrican, Oceanic and New view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. And ings. Exploratorium Gallery, California State ences, Washington, D.C;, March-May. World Art. She has a doctorate in social an Howard N. Fox has been appointed curator University, Los Angeles, February 7-March "Point of View," paintings, including 200" thropology from Cambridge University and is of contemporary art, effective 1 July. Since 7. Drawings. diameter special painting of Academy's 1975, Fox has been associate curator of exhi rotunda. working on a thesis at the University of Paris. Robert Bertind. Gallery One, Toronto, bitions at the Hirshhorn; among his exhibi And Gerard McCarthy has joined the staff as February 14-March 2. Recent paintings. assistant curator in the department of paint tions and catalogues there were Content: A Muriel Magenta. Oranges/Sardines Gal ings and sculpture. Educated at Goldsmith's Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984 (1984); Agnes Hahn Brodie. Art Bam Gallery, lery, Los Angeles, February 15-March 9. "In College, London University, McCarthy was a Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Washington, D.C., October 31-November Defense of a Hairdo," sculpture / video instal Helena Rubinstein Fellow in the Whitney Sculptors (1981-82); and Thrections (1979). 25, 1984. Wood and fiber. Emerson Gallery, lation. Museum's independent study program. McLean, Va., November 27-December 22. James McGarrell. Meadows Gallery, The new director of the museum of the Penn 1984. Works on paper and wood construc Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, January The Whitney Museum recently announced sylvania Academy of Fine Arts is Linda tions. 18-February 24. Paintings. the appointment of its first curatorial fellow, Bantel (M.A., N.Y. U.), who first came to Caren Canier. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Marilyn Satin Kushner. Kushner (M.A. the Academy in 1980 after serving as research N.Y.C .. March 2-27. Recent paintings. Barbara Mueller. Ward-Nasse Gallery, Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is a doctoral associate at the Metropolitan. Among the N.Y.C., December 1984-January 1985. candidate at Northwestern; most recently she major exhibitions she has curated at the Aca Robert Cronin. Clark Gallery, Lincoln, "Dreams of the Interior," drawings and col was an instructor in art history at Montclair demyare Wz"llz"am Rush, American Sculptor Mass., March 5-30. Recent sculpture. laged drawings. State College and Bloomfield College in New and A Growz"ng Amerz"can Treasure: Recent Joyce Cutler-Shaw. The Hall of Birds, San Karen Norwood. Wyoming State Muse Alan Shestak, The Minneapolis Jersey and an NEA gallery lecturer at The Sol Acqu£S£tz"ons and Hz"ghlz"ghts of the Perma Diego Museum of Natural History, December omon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. um, Cheyenne, March 4-29. Color photo Institute of Arts nent Collectt"on. 15, I 984-January 27,1985. "Wingtrace/The montage prints. Ruth Ann Appelhof, Birmingham Museum Sign of Its Track." Alan Shestack, director of Yale University Sara H. Gregg, who was a Hilla von Rebay of Art Art Gallery since 1971, has been named direc fellow at The Guggenheim Museum and a Rita Dibert. Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, Philip Pearlstein. Hirschi & Adler Mod tor of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A Salisbury intern at the Everson Museum in At the Birmingham Museum of Art, Ruth Calif., January 5-February 29. Photographs ern, N.Y.C., February 9-March 9. Recent paintings. specialist in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Syracuse, has been appointed museum edu· Ann Appelhof has been named curator of and space installations. Northern European graphics, Shes tack cator at the Munson-Williams Proctor Insti painting, sculpture, and graphic arts. She Sally Elliott. Center for the Arts and Howardena Pindell. Museum of Art, Bir (M.A. Harvard) was curator of graphics at come to the museum from the Lowe Art tute in Utica, N. Y. Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, June 13-July mingham, Ala., January 20-March 17. the N adonal Gallery of Art from 1965 to 1968 Gallery, Syracuse University, and, prior to 21. "Installation." "Japan Series." Heath Gallery, Atlanta. Ga., before coming to Yale in 1968 as curator of that, from the Whitney Museum. Appelhof Elsewhere in N.Y. State, Susanne K. Frantz February 5-March 2. "India Series." prints and drawings. He has been president of has been named associate curator of twen (M. Phil. and Ph.D. cand., Syracuse), whose Elaine Galen. Soho 20, N.Y.C., Decem the Association of Art Museum Directors, tieth-century glass at The Corning Museum. field of concentration is contemporary art, re ber 29, 1984-January 23, 1985. Paintings. Florence Putterman. Segal Gallery, 1983-84, and has served the CAA in various Previously Frantz (M.A., Univ. Arizona) was places Ted Weeks, who resigned from the Judith Godwin. Lockwood-Mathews N. Y. C., December 1984-January 1985. New capacities, among them as a member of the curator of exhibitions at The Tucson Muse museum last September. Mansion Museum, Norwalk, Conn., March paintings. Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg Board of Directors, 1973-77. um of Art for four years; prior to that she was 17-ApriI7. Works on paper. Elsewhere in the South: Anne Ivey Lockhart College, Allentown, Penn., January IO-Feb an exhibitions designer and graphic artist for ruary 25. "In Search of Origins." Canyon Gal At Minneapolis, Shestack will be replacing the Arizona Historical Society. has been named director of the University Gallery at Memphis State. She leaves theposi lery, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., November-De Samuel Sachs II, who announced some time cember 1984. New paintings. ago (CAA newsletter, Fall 1984) that he Hollister Sturges has been appointed chief tion of curator of Western art at the Univer planned to leave this June after twelve years as curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Roger D. Clis Roberta Schofield. Capricorn Galleries, director. Follow·up on that news is that he has He replaces senior curator Anthony Janson, by has been appointed as deputy director and lona. He has taught art history and museology Bethesda, Md., January 18-February 6. accepted the post of director of the Detroit who left the IMA to become curator of collec chief curator of The Chrysler Museum in at the University of Barcelona and has partici Paintings and drawings. Norfolk, Va. For the past fourteen years he Institute of the Arts. tions at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, pated in several archaeological expeditions in Fritz SchoIder. ACA Galleries, N.Y.C., Fla. Sturges (M.A., Berkeley) was previously had been chief curator of the Crocker Art northern Africa. Museum in Sacramento, Calif., where he December I984-January 1985. Recent works. Henry Adams recently joined the Nelson-At curator of European art at the Joslyn Art Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Ariz., Museum in Omaha, where he organized the organized numerous exhibitions of Old kins Museum of Art in Kansas City as Samuel The American Federation of Arts has an March 1985. New work. Sosland Curator of American Art. For the exhibition and was author of the catalogue Master prints and drawings and of contempo nounced the election of several new trustees. previous two-and· one-half years, Adams Jules Breton and the French Rural Trad£tz"on. rary art; among the latter The Chz"cago Con Alvin Sher. Sculpture Center, N.Y.C., Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art, among them: Tom L. Freudenheim, direc (Ph.D., Yale) served as curator at the Carne nectz"on, Recent West Coast Abstract Pa£nt February 5-26. Sculpture. Dartmouth College t"ngs and Sculpture, and solo exhibitions of tor of the Worcester Art Museum, and Rich gie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has Photo: Stuart Bratesman the work of Wayne Thiebaud and Robert ard E. Oldenburg, director of the Museum Priscilla Bender Shore. Orlando Gallery, announced three new curatorial appoint of Modern Art. Shennan Oaks, Calif., April 5- 26. Paintings. Several new appointments and promotions ments: In November, Thomas Woodward Another new director is Jacquelynn Baas. Arneson. have been announced at the Brooklyn Muse· Lentz. Jr., an Islamic art and architecture named to that position at the Hood Museum Sylvia Sleigh. G.W. Einstein, N. Y. C.,Jan urn. Linda S. Ferber, curator of American scholar, was appointed assistant curator of of Art, Dartmouth College. Baas (Ph.D. MISCELLANEOUS Sculptor Richard Andrews has been named uary 5-February 2. "Invitation to a Voyage: paintings and sculpture since 1982, has been West Asian and Egyptian art (after 622 Michigan) was assistant director of the Uni director of the Visual Arts Program of the The Hudson River at Fishkill," multi-panel appointed chief curator. Ferber (Ph.D., Co A.D.). Previously Lentz (M.A., Berkeley; versity of Michigan Museum of Art until Luis Monreal has been appointed director of National Endowment for the Arts. He had painting. lumbia) is also adjunct professor at Colum· Ph.D. cand., Harvard) had been curator of 1982, when she joined the Hood Museum as the Getty Conservation Institute, one of the been coordinator of Art in Public Places for Steven W. Teczar. Art Gallery, School of bia. Sarah Faunce, formerly curator of Asian Art at the R.I.S.D. Museum. Victor I. chief curator. She has been acting director of seven operating progra,ms of The J. Paul the Seattle Arts Commission since 1980, and Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech Univ., painting and sculpture, has been named Carlson. curator of prints and drawings at the Hood since former director Richard Getty Trust. Monreal has been Secretary is also known to CAA members as chair of Ruston, January 6-25. Drawings. chairman of the newly expanded (and newly The Baltimore Museum since 1963, has been Teitz left to become director of the Denver General of the International Council of the session Beyond Sz"te Specific, or, a True named) department of painting and sculp appointed senior curator of prints and draw Art Museum. The Hood is moving into a new Museums (ICOM) since 1974; before that he Amen"can Art Form.1 at the Los Angeles Barbara Zucker. Pam Adler Gallery, ture. Faunce has been at Brooklyn since 1969, ings, effective 15 April. Carlson has organized building, which will open 28 September. was director of the Mares Museum in Barce- annual meeting. III N. Y.C., February- March 2. Sculpture. III CAA newsletter Spring 1985 10 Il classifieds {annual meeting comments
The CAA newsletter will accept classif£eds of SUMMER ART PROGRAM: Study art in to the discipline, on interdisciplinary ex a professional OT semi-professional nature Italy, June -July '85 at Villa Maria Center for change and debate, on discussion as opposed (sale oj l£braries, summer rental or exchange the Arts, Perugia. Sculpture, watercolor, to mere reportage of individual research find of homes, etc.). The charge q 50~ per word, drawing. Contact Vincent Ricci, Director ings, all helped to restore confidence that art minimum charge IlO.DO, advance payment CFA, 791 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02118. history is still a lively and intellectually re required. Make checks payable to CAA. (617) 536-6423. spectable discipline. There was a real spirit of excitement at this CAA session that I have never witnessed at previous sessions; I wish I EXHIBITION SPACE for rent in Soho, . SUMMER STUDY IN CRETE, GREECE. had a dollar for each person who commented N.Y.C. 1,000 sq. ft. 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When I an Kadish at 201-656-8113. nounced at the beginning of the session that this was the first time there had ever been a WORKSHOPS & SYMPOSIUM "Aspects of CAA session on Andean art, the audience Realism," this SUMMER on the French Riv burst into applause! ... iera. Students and faculty will live and work ALTERNATIVE WORK SPACE is available My colleagues enjoyed as well, however, the at the Chateau de La Napoule (near Cannes). at The Art Studio, Inc., a non-profit coopera opportunity to attend sessions in the so-called Intensive studio for figure and landscape. tive organization, 1076 Neches, Beaumont, western arts, and those of a truly interfield, as Workshop July 3-August 7, Symposium July Texas 77701. Facility includes exhibition gal well as interdisciplinary, nature. Because 19-21. Participants: Sigmund Abeles, Milet lery, equipment for ceramics and sculpture, F these tended to be focused on issues rather Andrejevic, William Bailey, Jack Beal, personal studios at 60 /sq. ft. 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G44 newsletter ©1985 College Art Association of America 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016 Editor: Rose R. Weil Associate Editor: Minerva Navarrete
Spring 1985