The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017
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μ˙ μ˙ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston annual report 2016–2017 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of Fine The Museum ON THE COVER: ANISH KAPOOR, Indian, born 1954, active London ANNUAL REPORT Cloud Column, 1998–2006 Stainless steel 351 x 130 x 80 in. (891.5 x 330.2 x 203.2 cm) Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund 2017.246 Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Column is an outstanding sculpture of exceptional beauty. Standing over two stories tall, it gracefully invites the contemplation of not only the object itself but also the 2016–2017 position of the viewer in relation to the world. The highly polished stainless-steel surface reflects every nuance of light, and captures the surroundings as well. At the same time, the play between the convex and concave surfaces establishes a dual reality, as the elongated core of the sculpture presents the world upside down, bringing the heavens to earth. ALG MFAH BY THE NUMBERS July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017 Attendance • 990,065 visits to the Museum, the Lillie and Hugh Roy Tuition $4.77 Cullen Sculpture Garden, Bayou Bend Collection and Revenue 7% Other $2.0 $7.2 Gardens, Rienzi, and the Glassell School of Art 3% 11% Membership THE MUSEUM OF Revenue • 114,500 visitors and students reached through learning $3.2 THE MUSEUM OF 5% FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, and interpretation programs on-site and off-site FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, FY 2017 • 62,964 youth visitors ages 18 and under received free Operating Operating Revenues Endowment WARMLY THANKS or discounted access to the MFAH Fund-raising (million) Spending WARMLY THANKS $15.8 $34.1 23% 51% THE MORE THAN • 44,615 schoolchildren and their chaperones received THE MORE THAN free tours of the MFAH 1,000 DOCENTS, 1,000 DOCENTS, • 6,332 Houstonians were served through community VOLUNTEERS, AND engagement programs off-site Total Revenues: $67 million VOLUNTEERS, AND MEMBERS OF THE • 122 community partners citywide collaborated with MEMBERS OF THE the MFAH Exhibitions, Curatorial, MUSEUM’S GUILD FOR and Collections $13.6 Auxiliary 22% MUSEUM’S GUILD FOR Activities $3.3 • 2,871,252 visits recorded at mfah.org 5% THEIR EXTRAORDINARY THEIR EXTRAORDINARY • 268,650 visits recorded at the online collections module Fund-raising $5.1 8% DEDICATION DEDICATION • 258,766 people followed the MFAH on Facebook, FY 2017 Education, AND COMMITMENT. Instagram, and Twitter Operating Expenses Libraries, AND COMMITMENT. (million) and Visitor Engagment $12.5 • 212,432 online visitors accessed the Documents 20% of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art Website, icaadocs.mfah.org Management Buildings and Grounds and General $12.8 and Security $14.5 21% • 82,004 visitors attended Degas: A New Vision 24% Total Expenses: $61.8 • 29,405 member households supported the MFAH • 1,000 volunteers and docents served the MFAH • 657 permanent and temporary staff were employed by the MFAH CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2016–JUNE 30, 2017 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 4 Board of Trustees 5 Committee Chairmen 6 Report of the Director 16 Accessions Illustrated works on the cover and on pages 17–61 African Art, 62 Art of the Americas, 62 Art of the Islamic Worlds, 62 Asian Art, 62 The Bayou Bend Collection, 62 Decorative Arts, 63 European Art, 64 Latin American Art, 65 Modern and Contemporary Art, 65 Photography, 66 Prints and Drawings, 71 The Rienzi Collection, 74 75 Exhibitions Major Loan and Permanent-Collection Exhibitions, 75 Additional Displays from the Permanent Collection and Gallery Rotations, 90 98 Departmental Highlights 100 Learning and Interpretation 102 Membership and Guest Services 103 International Center for the Arts of the Americas 104 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation 105 The Glassell School of Art 106 Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 107 Rienzi 108 The Brown Foundation Fellows Program The Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France 109 Development 122 Report of the Chief Financial Officer 127 Staff BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS LIFE TRUSTEES Mrs. Sandra Godfrey Mrs. Cyvia G. Wolff Ms. Carroll R. Goodman Mrs. Nina O’Leary Zilkha Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Isaac Arnold, Jr. Mr. Martyn E. Goossen Chairman Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mrs. Windi Grimes HONORARY TRUSTEES Mrs. Clare Attwell Glassell Ms. Cecily E. Horton AND TRUSTEES EMERITI Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. William J. Hill Vice-Chairman and Secretary Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Mr. Ronald E. Huebsch Mrs. Carol C. Ballard Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Mrs. Mary F. Johnston Mr. Raphael Bernstein Treasurer Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Ms. Tanya Brillembourg Mrs. Cornelia C. Long Mrs. Elise Elkins Joseph Mrs. Gisele Chulack Mrs. Cornelia C. Long Mrs. Sara S. Morgan Mr. Lenoir M. Josey II Mrs. Joyce Z. Greenberg Chairman Emeritus Mrs. Nancy Brown Negley Mr. George B. Kelly Mr. Adolpho Leirner Ms. Anne Schlumberger Ms. Carla Knobloch Mr. Thomas V. McMahan Ms. Alice C. Simkins Mr. Andrius Kontrimas Mr. Robert C. McNair Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Mrs. Colleen Kotts Mrs. Nancy Peterkin Mr. Richard W. Wortham III Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian Mrs. Isla Reckling Mrs. Lynn S. Wyatt Mr. Douglas L. Lawing Mrs. Louisa Stude Sarofim Mrs. Rolanette Lawrence Ms. Barbara Slifka ELECTED TRUSTEES Mr. Michael C. Linn Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw Mr. James Edward Maloney EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Mrs. Gail F. Adler Mr. William N. Mathis Mrs. Sushila Agrawal Mrs. Lisa M. Mears Mrs. Karol Barnhart Ms. Gerry Aitken Mrs. Nidhika O. Mehta MFAH Volunteer Guild Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Ms. Nancy Powell Moore Mr. Brad Bucher Ms. Joan Morgenstern Mr. Dwight A. Boykins Mr. Charles Butt Mrs. Laurie Morian Houston City Council Mr. Frank N. Carroll Mrs. Bobbie Nau Ms. Ellen Cohen Ms. Bettie Cartwright Ms. Franci Neely Houston City Council Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney Mrs. Pamela F. Ott Dr. Anne S. Chao Mrs. Cynthia Petrello Mrs. Kackie Dunwoody Mr. Peter R. Coneway Mrs. Susanne Pritchard River Oaks Garden Club Mr. Michael G. Cousins Mrs. Tina Pyne Mrs. Mary Cullen Mrs. Macey Hodges Reasoner Mrs. Kay English Bayou Bend Docent Organization Mrs. Rosanette S. Cullen Ms. Beth Robertson Mrs. Rania Daniel Mr. Manolo Sánchez Ms. Kate Kraycirik Mrs. Linnet F. Deily Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofim The Junior League of Houston Ms. Sara Paschall Dodd Mrs. Eliza Stedman Mr. Holbrook F. Dorn Mrs. Aliyya Kombargi Stude Ms. Debbie McNulty Mr. Rodney J. Eichler Mrs. Judy Spence Tate City of Houston Mrs. Zeina N. Fares Mrs. Phoebe Tudor Mr. Gregory E. Fourticq, Jr. Mrs. Cindy Wallace Mr. Barron F. Wallace The Garden Club of Houston Mrs. Barbara Gamson Mr. James D. Weaver Mrs. Lela Gibbs Mrs. Barbara Webber Mr. Tom Glanville Mrs. Margaret Alkek Williams Mr. Alfred C. Glassell, III Dr. Frazier Wilson 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MUSEUM BAYOU BEND COLLECTION AND GARDENS Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. Richard W. Wortham III Executive Committee Collections Committee Latin American Art Mrs. Martha Erwin Subcommittee Bayou Bend Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mr. Frank N. Carroll Audit Committee Africa, Oceania, and Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson the Americas Subcommittee and Mr. Jesse H. Jones II Bayou Bend Collection Mr. Richard W. Wortham III (Co-Chairs) Subcommittee Buildings and Grounds Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Modern and Contemporary Committee American Painting and Art Subcommittee THE GLASSELL SCHOOL Sculpture Subcommittee OF ART Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mr. James Edward Maloney Compensation Committee Mrs. Nancy O’Connor Photography Subcommittee Mr. Brad Bucher Abendshein Executive Committee Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofim Antiquities Subcommittee Ms. Franci Neely and Development Committee Mr. Michael S. Zilkha Mrs. Jereann H. Chaney Mrs. Sima Ladjevardian (Co-Chairs) Core Residency Program Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. and Ms. Franci Neely Mrs. Lynn Wyatt Subcommittee Endowment Committee (Co-Chairs) (Founding Chair) Art of the Islamic Worlds Film Subcommittee RIENZI Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Subcommittee Finance Committee Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Rosslyn F. Crawford Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Prints and Drawings Rienzi Committee Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Chair) Subcommittee Long-Range Planning Mrs. Nidhika O. Mehta Mrs. Cyvia G. Wolff Committee (Co-Chair) Mr. E. J. Hudson, Jr. Rienzi Collections Asian Art Subcommittee and Ms. Alice C. Simkins Subcommittee Mr. Richard D. Kinder (Co-Chairs) Nominating Committee Ms. Cecily E. Horton Conservation Committee Mrs. Cheryl H. Moore Decorative Arts Subcommittee Rienzi Garden Subcommittee Mrs. Anne S. Duncan Mrs. Judy E. Margolis Exhibitions Committee European Art Subcommittee Mrs. Macey Hodges Reasoner Learning and Interpretation Committee Ms. Terry Ann Brown Library Committee 5 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR Museum. Featuring unprecedented loans from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, among the some two hundred works lent by dozens of lenders, the selection, made by Henri Loyrette and myself, emphasized the continuity of Degas’s experimentation, treating a group of themes in every medium available to the artist, from paint and pastel to printmaking, sculpture, and photography. Degas: A New Vision was awarded the prestigious Global Fine Arts Award for best monographic exhibition of the year, and was praised by the Los Angeles Times art critic, Christopher Knight, as “fascinating.” An even higher number of visitors, nearly 147,000 over It is difficult to characterize a year in the life of a the course of almost six months, was captivated by the museum in a single phrase, but if fiscal year 2015–2016 work of contemporary artist Ron Mueck. Thirteen of his could be called the year of extraordinary acquisitions, sculptures of everyday people, startlingly lifelike and then 2016–2017 was the year of extraordinary atten- deliberately skewed in scale from the miniscule to the dance. At a time when museums around the world gargantuan, revealed the deeply philosophical essence were witnessing declining admission, we experienced of Mueck’s vision, which charts the mysteries of human growth.