Volume 5, Number 1 April 1980

eM awards 1980 annual meeting report: New Orleans

Awards for excellence in art hi!)torical Like the city in which it was held, the 1980 an­ scholarship and criticism and in the teaching nual meeting in New Orleans assumed a scale of fine arts and art history were presented at and a grace that seemed to belong to a bygone the Convocation ceremonies of the 68th An­ era. Part of the reason was sheer numbers. nual Meeting of the College Art Association, or lack of them. Mid-Western and Western held at the Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, on meetings arc always smaller than those we Friday evening, February 1, 1980. hold in the East. After being surrounded by The Association's newest award (estab­ 4,500 bodies in Washington last year and lished in 1977), for Distinguished Teaching of 6,000 in New York City the ycar before, a Art History, was presented to Phoebe B. mere 3,500 of one's fellow species seems prac· Stanton of Johns Hopkins University. The tically intime. The hotel architecture helped, Distinguished Teaching of Art Award went to too. The oval arms surrounding the Hyatt Mauricio Lasansky of the University of Iowa. atrium led off into separate, discrete spaces. The Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinc­ Practically all activities - placement, ex­ tion in art and architectural criticism was hibits, sessions-were easily accessible on one presented to Peter Schjeldahl. The Arthur flOaT, yet without the usual sense of crowding. Kingsley Porter Prize for the best article by a The meeting seemed smaller than it was. but scholar in early career appearing during 1978 a real effect of that semblance was to make us in The Art Bulletin was awarded jointly to all feel less a part of an anonymous mass, Franklin K.B. Toker, Carnegie-Mellon mOTe individual and human. University, for "Florence Cathedral; The The sense of individuality one felt inside Alessandra Comini accepting congratulations Design Stage" and to Ulrich Hiesinger, Phil­ the hotel was transposed, outside its walls, to a for her Convocation Address. Photo: Minerva Navarrete adelphia, for "The Paintings of Vincenzo Continued on p. 2, col. 1 Camuccini,1771-1844." The citations read as follows: annual meeting changes Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Nearly four years ago the CAA Board of least four years in advance. Four years ago we Today, Phoebe B. Stanton, we honor you Directors decided to modify and faT the first informally polled placement interviewers, as a distinguished teacher of art history. Your time codify certain practices with respect to and at that time we learned that a February concern for visual literacy , your creativity in the annual meeting program and adopted date would be more cQnvenient for placement the classroom, and your unfailing dedication Version #1 of the Annual Meeting Program purposes because most departmental budgets to training the untutored eye provide an in­ Guidelines (April 24, 1976). Some of the prac­ have not been finally approved by the end of vigorating example of the committed teach­ tices worked, others didn't; the CAA has January. Another argument in favor of the er. Nine years ago TheJohnsHopkins Univer­ grown larger and more diverse; and in some mid/late February date was that the tradi­ sity recognized your contributions, asking you cases factors totally beyond our control, such tional January date is near the beginning of to be the first recipient of the William Kenan, as galloping inflation, mandated certain the semester for many institutions, making it Jr. Professorship, a university cha'ir awarded changes. There have been enough changes in difficult for people to take time off from for excellence in teaching, regardless of field. the interim to warrant a printing of the re­ classes. For these reasons, we proceeded to Now it is our turn to confer recognition and to vised Guidelines (page 9). On the theory that schedule the 1981 annual meeting (San Fran" marvel at your tireless energy and your pas­ not everyone will read them in their entirety, cisco) for February 25-28. The 1982 (New sion for the work of art. Your introductory herewith a summary of and rationale for the York City) and 1983 (Philadelphia) annual survey courses at Johns Hopkins, drawing major changes: meetings are also already scheduled for late students from every field in the sciences and February. humanities, are legendary. Though you have Dates of Meeting. This isn't even in the Perhaps we should not be surprised, but taught these courses on Western art, modern Guidelines, but we would like to comment on the announcement of the change in dates art, and modern architecture for nearly a the reaction to the announcement in the last resulted in a flurry of protest AND a quarter of a century, they never become issue of the newsletter and at the Annual flurry of praise. Since "flurry" in this instance routine. Because you insist on the work of art Members Business Meeting that future an­ is defined as five to ten people on either side of as a real life experience, not as a slide on the nual meetings will be scheduled in mid/late the issue, we have sent a questionnaire to all screen, your students regularly find them­ February instead of the traditional mid/late 1980 placement interviewers to obtain a more selves at your side, in public and private January. As everybody probably knows, the up-to-date and more representative reflection I buildings, and in museums. In looking at uniform academic intersession upon which of their views. The date of the 1984 annual architecture they come to know first hand that tradition was based no longer prevails. meeting, and presumably all subsequent your special insights into nineteenth-century As some people probably know, CAA annual meetings, will be determined on the basis of Continued on p. 4, col. 1 meetings must be scheduled with hotels at Continued on p. 10, col. 1 11980 annual meeting report 11980 annual meeting report president's statement sense of community. New Orleans is small; its vention is Catalyst for Avalanche of Art Activ­ of outdoor sculpture, and an extremely hand­ Placement high spots and low spots are centralized and ities" read one newspaper headline (Times­ some giveaway publication, Artsites, that was As usual, figures at this stage are impression­ I am fortunate in taking over the presidency well known. As a result, wherever one went P7:cayune, January 27), and "Sprucing Up for an invaluable guide to these events. istic (actual counts come in the June issue). of our increasingly active organization from one encountered colleagues and friends. For the College Art Association" another (La­ Just as the flurry of art activity looked to the Our guess is that approximately 900 job-seek­ such able hands. In the past few years the three nights and a considerable part of Satur­ gniappe, January 26). The local art commu­ present rather than the past, so did the Con­ ers used the placement service (1240 in Wash­ Association has spoken out clearly on issues day afternoon the French Quarter seemed nity viewed the CAA conference as an oppor­ vocation Address by Alessandra Comini. En­ ington last year; 1643 in New York the year important to the profes~ion, including such like Club CAA. Conversations-perhaps even tunity to call national attention to New titled Art History, Revisionism, and Some before). The number of jobs was about the areas as research, teaching, and conservation job interviews- begun at the Hyatt were con­ Orleans as a major center for the arts. Months Holy Cows, it took a pungent view of past and same as previously-in the vicinity of 500 for and has undertaken a continuous reexamina­ tinued in chance encounters at Gumbo of planning and generous support from the recent art historical orientations and called the combined January listing and the supple­ tion of our professional standards. Incredibly ;House, Cafe du Monde, or Preservation Hall. Downtown Development Corporation re­ for feminism without chauvinism as a legiti­ mentary lists distributed at the annual meet­ enough at this moment of fiscal uncertainty, The content may not have altered, but the sulted in a host of outdoor exhibits, special mate and necessary critical tool for ushering ing. The whole placement operation went the Association is financially solvent. I sup­ context had much to recommend it. gallery shows, perfonnances, workshops· for in a new era in understanding the complexity, particularly smoothly; again, we suspect that pose that every incoming president must find The CAA presence was palpable not only in artists, a symposium onJapanese art, free jazz diversity, and universality of art. reduced numbers and architecturally in­ something to view with alann, and I must ad­ our easy access to local attractions and to each concerts, art displays in store windows, a duced traffic patterns deserve most of the mit that there is one aspect of our recent ac­ other but also in our effect on ~h(' city. "Con- video installation at the Hyatt, free bus tours Program credit. tivity that worries me a bit. In recent years Art history sessions, chaired by Caecilia The Monday evening Placement Orienta­ there has been an increasing tendency within Davis-Weyer of Tulane University, focussed tion Session-initiated in 1978, dropped last the society to split up into ever more special­ on the traditional core areas of Western art year because we thought it was all old stuff, ized groups based on many kinds of criteria. history, but with some extremely interesting and revived in response to popular demand This is inevitable and doubtless healthy in an innovations: two sessions that looked at the this year-was a great success. The session association that has expanded to our present art of the region in which we were meeting was organized by Donald Krueger of Clark size. But there is always the danger that se<;­ (Art of the South "and Colonial Art of Latin University and Beverly Zisla Welber of St. tarian interests might overwhelm the very America); two highly specialized sessions on Anselm's College, who shared their experi­ premise on which our association is based. We women (Women as Patrons and Critics and ences and perceptions with honesty, insight, are brought together by a commitment to the Women Artists and SoC£al Change: 1850 to and humor. arts and represent that commitment to society Present); two non-periodic sessions (Scientific Elections at large. Diverse as our particular activities Approaches to Art History andArt and Litur­ The annual members business meeting was may be, our sense of community through art CAA President Joshua C. Taylor gy) that elicited papers of a wide geographical held on Thursday. January 31. We won't pre­ is a value we must cherish. So I should like to and historical range; our first session ever on tend that it played to a packed house. (There pledge a year devoted to those values that be­ social pressures that hedge-in our world. preservation; and a session relating film/ were, however, nearly 1,000 proxies re­ long to the arts, that they not be forgotten in Joshua C. Taylor III video to 'modernist strategies in other medi­ turned.) The membership elected the pro­ the midst of the administrative, political, and National Collection of Fine Arts ums. Even within the traditional period ses­ posed slates of candidates for Officers, Direc­ sions, there was a specificity of focus (Roman­ tors, and 1980 Nominating Committee and esque Monumental Art: Some Unanswered approved the proposed by-laws changes (see Questions; Art and Science in the Renais­ December newsletter). Newly elected Presi­ sance; Myth and Mystz'cism in Modem Art, dent Joshua C. Taylor reviewed past accom­ etc.) that resulted in an unusual degree of plishments and future directions in a brief coherence and intensity. statement reprinted at right. The studio program, chaired by sculptor Miscellany museum scholarship award Lin Emery, was extremely ambitious. Seven Since it's what everyone was talking about, we sessions focussed on the basic mediums, in­ can't leave the New Orleans annual meeting The College Art Association has established a the most exemplary contribution to knowl­ cluding crafts; two sessions examined region­ without one word about food. That word is prize for the best museum catalogue of the edge. Catalogues of public and private collec­ alism (one, specifically Southern regional­ "superb." We did not appreciate the fact that year, naming it for Alfred H. Barr, Jr., tions, as well as exhibition catalogues, are ism); four sessions viewed the artist as a pro­ the Hyatt seems to believe that a bathroom fonner director of the Museum of Modern Art eligible. Candidates must be citizens or per­ fessional: student, teacher, and survivor; two scale is a necessary element of guest room fur" in New York. The new award is meant to manent residents of the United States, Cana­ sessions examined exhibitions; and one ex­ nishings. The lost-and-found- contains the recognize the significant place catalogues da, or Mexico. tremely interesting and innovative session usual potpourri: two hats, one eyeglass case, have come to occupy in American scholarship The example set by Alfred Barr's cata­ brought the disciplines of physics, linguistics, one bracelet, one earring. One earring? and to reward the great distinction they can logues for the Museum of Modern Art is still and biology to bear on the study of patterns R.R.W. iii! making itself felt. They elevated the genre to and fonns in nature. achieve. In the 1970s the Association created two a new height in America, not only by giving a Local events, coordinated by Jessie Poesch new prizes to honor outstanding teaching; sensitive appreciation of the works of art ex­ of Tulane University, brought us a reception sustaining members these were added to its existing awards for hibited but also by requiring a scholarly rigor at the New Orleans Museum of Art (complete scholarship, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize that had rarely been applied to museum pub­ with an unscheduled demonstration of jitter­ for an article in The Art Bulletin by a begin­ lications. Such catalogues as Cubism and bugging) on Wednesday night; numerous Sustaining membership is a voluntary cate­ ning scholar and the Charles Rufus Morey Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Sur­ openings and receptions at galleries' and gory for those who wish to support the CAA Book Award, and to the FrankJewett Mather realism (1936), and Matisse: His Life and His museums in the French Quarter on Thursday beyond their regular income-based dues. The Award for criticism. As museum catalogues Public (1951) were profoundly original in night (with special thanks to the gallery that dues for Individual Sustaining Members are have not nonnally been considered for the their time and have remained standard works thought of providing hot popcorn on that $100 annually. We are pleased and proud to Morey Award, a special prize has now been in our own. Their author seemed the best ex­ cold evening); and a multi-level, multi-media announce that we have nine Individual Sus­ created for this large category of publication. emplar of the scholarship this prize seeks to exhibition cum concert cum party at the Con­ taining Members for 1980: Emma W. Alex­ The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for recognize. temporary Arts Center on Friday night. On ander, Ann Arbor, Mich.; J- Carter Brown, Museum Scholarship will be given annually John Walsh, Jr. III Saturday the Preservation Resources Center Washington, D.C.; SOl Alfred Davidson, by the Association on the reco:mmendation of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston took over with a tour of highlights of New Or­ Bear Creek, Pa.; William Heidrich, Peoria, a selection committee to the author or authors CAA Board of Directors leans architecture that was offered both in the Ill.; Ann Kelso, Miami, Fla.; J. William of a museum catalogue published during the morning and in the afternoon and was enthu­ ,Middendorf, Washington, D.C.; Barbara penultimate year that is judged to have made Louiriana Artists-Major Works. Reception for CAA at Contemporary Arts Center. siastically taken by more than 200 conference Millhouse, New York City; Cynthia Polsky, Photo: Minerva Navarrete participants. New York City; andJ _W. Worthington, Cin­ cinnati, Ohio, !II

2 CAA newsletter April 1980 3 ICAAawards grants and awards art bulletin editor architecture. In your published work on the how ugly he finds the late Cezanne, how FIRST CASVA SCHOLARS ACLS TRAVEL GRANTS Gothic Revival you have led us all to see beau­ Munch grips him, or how, despite hard­ ty where once we assumed there was little to boiled common sense, Rothko's paintings The National Gallery of Art's Center for All three applicants recommended by the Art be found. really do feel transcendental. His willingness, Advanced Study in the Visual Arts has an­ Historians Committee of the CAA have been Your dedication is enormous. Though your to value, above all, the personal dimension in nounced its first group of visiting and resident awarded ACLS travel grants to attend inter­ class enrollments are always high, you never his dialogue with art is a tonic relief after the scholars. Visiting scholars, who will spend national conferences this coming summer. fail to respond to each student's special needs impersonal chill of most writing that stresses part of the year at the Center, are Peter W. Recipients are Hellmut Hager, Pennsylvania and qualities. To your graduate students you theory or history; and his stunning power to Guenther and Marcel Georges Roethlisber­ State University, and Henry Millon, Center give time not just to their learning but to ~he communicate endless subtleties of seeing and ger. Resident scholars for the full academic for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, to at­ quality of their thinking and writing. You also feeling in the plainest, most colloquial Eng­ year 1980-81 are Keith P.F. Moxey, Dora P. tend a conference on Bernini in Rome and extend service to your community where you lish should give more pretentious writers Crouch, Sandra L. Hindman, and Rosalind Daniel D. Reiff, State University College, are a sought-after lecturer and tour leader. pause. In presenting him with the Frank E. Krauss. Brief descriptions of their projects Fredonia, to attend a conference on Viollet Ie Your local architectural tours, your lectures Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, we follow: Duc in Paris. to civic groups, your work for the city of Balti­ honor the foursquare honesty that wanns more's Design Advisory Panel, and your voice both his response to art and his prose. Peter W. Guenther, University of Hou­ on the Governor's Commission on Historic Committee: Alfred Frankenstein, Chair; ston, is continuing his study of German Ex­ NEA CRITICS FELLOWSHIPS Preservation of Maryland have been another Linda Nochlin; Robert Rosenblum pressionism, concentrating on two distinct kind of teaching, nudging citizens towards a waves within that movement-the first from The National Endowment for the Arts has more sophisticated appreciation and preser­ Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize 1906 until the outbreak of World War I, the awarded thirty-three fellowships for art critics vation of their architectural riches. To Franklin K.B. Toker for second beginning circa 1916-17 and ending for 1980. Grants of$5,000 each were awarded Thank you, Phoebe Stanton, for your ex­ "Florence Cathedral: The Design Stage" with the New Objectivity exhibition in Mann­ to Carol Adney, Barbara Cavaliere, Marcia traordinary generosity and sharing. By com­ Franklin Toker's article, "Florence Cathe- heim in 1926-27. Corbino, Jeffrey Deitch, Jonathan Fine­ municating your love and understanding of dral: The Design Stage," reviews the early Marcel Georges Roethlisberger, Univer­ berg, Candida Finkel, Lucy Fischer, art and its history you have taught others to building history of one of the rnajar Gothic sity of Geneva, is studying the heritage of Gerard Haggerty, Ruth Iskin, Ellen see what they might otherwise never have monuments of Europe, and, on the basis of Claude Lorrain's oeuvre in nineteenth-cen­ Johnson, Cindy Lyle, Paul Master-Karnik, Creighton E. Gilbert known was there. This is one of the greatest new evidence culled from excavations carried tury American landscape painting. His study John Perrault, Arlene Raven, Shelley gifts an art historian has to offer, but few do it Mauricio Lasansky out between 1965 and 1974, in part under the will be incorporated into a book examining Rice, Ruby Rich, Roberta Smith, William as well or as willingly as you. author's supervision, reconsiders the role of Claudian influence on all schools of art from Wilson. Grants of $1 ,000 each went to John Committee: Wallace Tomasini, Chair; Arnolfo di Cambio in its first design. Toker contemporaries onwards. Beardsley, Martha Chahroudi, Charles Creighton E. Gilbert, currently Jacob Gould Ruth Butler; Wanda Corn Distinguished Teaching of Art Award presents a problem of great complexity so Desmarais, David Dillon, William Hege­ Shunnan Professor of the History of Art at Mauricio Lasansky came to the United clearly that even non-specialists can follow his Keith P. F. Moxey, University of Virginia, man, Matthew Kangas, Kim Levin, Ben Cornell University, has been named Editor-in States in 1943. He has been teaching at the arguments. The article makes a significant is completing a study of the function of peas­ Lifson, Silverthorne, A.L. Stubbs, Paul Chief of The Art Bulletin. A past Book ant imagery in northern European paintings University of Iowa since 1945 and since 1967 contribution to our understanding of a key Sutinen. Review Editor (1967-72) for that publication, has been the Virgil Hancher Distinguished monument in the history of architecture. It and prints in the late middle ages, analyzing he succeeds Kathleen Weil-Garris of New Professor of Art at that university. His knowl­ will surely provoke controversy as well as fun- i the creation and popularization of some of York University. the earliest traditions of secular subject mat­ edge of intaglio printing and his ability to damental revisions of all previous hypotheses CINOAAWARD change and grow have made him an inspira­ concerning Arnolfo's contribution to the de­ ter. He will emphasize the CtIltural meaning A native of Durham, N.C., Gilbert earned tion to printmakers'for more than forty years. sign. of peasant subject matter for the age in which his B.A. and Ph.D. at New York University. it was produced. The 1979 award of the international art and He began his teaching career at Emory Uni­ There is no doubt in our minds that he antique dealer's association (a $5,000 publi­ should receive this distinguished award. He To Ulrich Hiesinger for "The Paintings Dora P. Crouch, Rensselaer Polytechnic versity and has held posts at the University of cation subvention) was presented to Bert­ has been a force as a gifted teacher who of Vincenzo Camuccini, 1771-1844" Institute, is studying the water system of the Louisville, Indiana University, Brandeis rand Jaeger of the University of Basel for his University, and Queens College, C.U.N.Y., shaped three generations of students with his In this thorough and meticulously re­ Greek colony at Morgantina, Sicily. The sys­ Essai de classification et datal ion des scara­ tem dates from the first and second centuries where he was also department chainnan from methods and philosophy. There are more searched reconstruction of the oeuvre of Vin­ bees Menkheperre (Thutmosis 1111490- 1436 B.C. Her work will be used to develop an ur­ 1969 to 1972. He was visiting professor at the than 100 former students of his presently cenzo Camuccini, Ulrich Hiesinger rescues a B.C.), a contribution to a field of Egyptology teaching, in the United States and Canada. major nineteenth-century Italian history ban history based on this aspect of the func­ University of Leiden in 1974-75 and Robert that has been virtually unexplored until now. Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at Williams Some are well known, such as John Paul painter from undeserved oblivion. For the tioning of the city. The award was established in 1977. Previous first time, the author p,l.-esents a comprehen­ College in 1976. Jones, James Steg, Lee Chesney, Malcolm Sandra L. Hindman, Johns Hopkins Uni­ recipients were Penelope Eames of Great Bri­ Myers, Marvin Lowe, Moishe Smith, and sive chronological survey of the artist's career versity, is completing a monograph on the tain and Claire Lindgren of the United States. based on heretofore unpublished material. Gilbert's awards include a Fulbright senior David Driesbach, to name only a few. political content of the Epistre Othea, an il­ He was also one of the major influences in He also illuminates thereby an unstudied lectureship at the University of Rome, lustrated historical text written circa 1400 by the American print renaissance that began aspect of the artistic milieu in Rome in the 1951-52; the CAA's Mather Award for art Christine de Pizano After writing a first edi­ ARLIS PUBLISHING AWARDS after World War II. He has received many time of Canova. In sum, Hiesinger has helped criticism in 1964; a Samuel H. Kress fellow­ tion dedicated to Louis d'Orleans, a Duke of awards, prestigious grants, has shown his to advance significantly the examination of ship to I Tatti, 1967-68; and a Netherlands France, she wrote three other editions. Dr. At its eighth annual conference held just work in twenty-nine different countries and the still unassessed development of Italian Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, Hindman's monograph will set the Epistre before the CAA annual meeting in New Or­ 1972-73. He has written extensively, primari­ Phoebe B. Stanton Photo; Peter Choo has had 126 one-man exhibitions. Neoclassical painting and its contribution to Othea in the literature of the period, ex­ leans, the Art Libraries Society of North It is therefore with the greatest pleasure the European Neoclassical movement. ly though by no means entirely on the Italian amine its history as a manuscript, and America presented awards to the University Acceptance Statement: Distinguished and conviction that we have recommended Committee: Ann Sutherland Harris, Renaissance. Among his works are Seven­ reconstruct the cycles of illumination of the of California Press for the overall excellence Teaching of Art History Award him for the Distinguished Teaching of Art Chair; Vincent Bruno; Margaret Frazer; Bar­ teenth-Century Paintings from the Low original versions. of The Plan of St. Gall by Walter Horn and Award. bara Stafford .. Countries, 1966; Michelangelo, 1967; Change Ernest Born; the Indiana University Press I thank the College Art Associat£on and its Committee: Rudy Pozzatti, Chair; Richard Rosalind E. Krauss, Hunter College, is in Piero della Francesca, 1968: and History of and the National Gallery of Art for the Renaissance Art, 1972. He edited the Italian Committee for this award. But I am most Black; Nathan Oliviera; Clare Romano; Wil­ analyzing the critical and theoretical function Nominations are invited for the Distin­ thoughtful and original blending of fonn and Art 1400-1500 volume of the "Sources and grateful that, in its annual recognition of liam Walmsley of photography within the fonnation and de­ content in Prints and Related Drawings by teaching as part of the professional life of the guished Teaching of Art History Award and velopment of Surrealism. She is also examin­ Documents Series" (1979) and translated the the Carracci Family: A Catalogue Raisonne art historian, it directs attention to the role of for the Distinguished Teaching of Art ing the special nature of nineteenth-century Complete Poems and Selected Letters of by Diane DeGrazia Bohlin; and the New Michelangelo (1963), now in its third edition teachers in the disclpline, to their share in the Frank Jewett Mather Award Award. Suggestions and supporting materi­ photographic documentation of geological York Graphic Society for Imogen Cunning­ introduction of students of various ages and In the venerable tradition of the poet who als may be sent to the CAA office; they will ! and geographical surveys in the American (1979). III ham: A Portrait by Judy Dater, a fellow pho­ degrees of learning to the pleasures and in­ also writes art criticism, Peter Schjeldahl is be forwarded to the 1980 award committee West as well as the Fann Services Administra· tographer's compelling treatment of an ap­ tricacies of the history of art. passionate about art and doesn't mind if it chairmen when they are appointed. tion's documentary projects and Walker pealing subject. .. Phoebe IJ. Stanton shows, whether he is telling the truth about Evans' later work. 5 4 CAA newsletter April 1980 conferences and symposia

The European Realist Tradition in the International Conference on Funerary Art Goodson Symposium on American Art mid·America CAA announcements Nineteenth Century An international symposium on funerary art The third annual Goodson Symposium will be A three-day symposium to be held at The will take place in Mexico City, October 6--8, held at the Whitney Museum of American Cleveland Museum of Art, November 15-17. sponsored by the International Committee Art on Monday, April21. The day-long sym­ The Department of Art at Arizona State Uni­ Renais.wnce Quarterly Welcomes Villa I Tatti Fellowships Participants and (tentative) topics are: Albert for the History of Art (C.I.H.A.) and hosted posium will be divided into two parts: the' versity, Tempe! Phoenix hosted the forty­ Art Historical Contributions Boime, U.C.L.A., Academic Realism and Upward of seven stipendiary fellowships for by the Mexican National Committee. Those morning session will be general; the afternoon third annual meeting of the,association. The the Salon; Petra T.D. Chu, Seton Hall Univ., independent study on any aspect of the ital­ interested in attending and! or presenting session will focus on "The Influence of Science 500 delegates participated in a four-day pro- The Renaissance Society of America has an­ The Dutch Masters and French Realism, or papers should write directly to the President and Industry on Art since the Civil War." Five nounced that because Renaissance Quarterly ian Renaissance. Fellows are normally post­ gram,of widely varied activities .'. doctoral and in the earlier stages of their Drawing in the Realism Tradition; Frant;oise of the Mexican National Committee, Beatriz papers will be presented at each session. The The program included three seSSIOns mart is now printed by photo offset, thus substan­ careers, must be free to devote full time to Forster-Hahn, Univ. California at Riverside, de La Fuente, Instituto de Investigaciones selection committee is comprised of Milton criticism and theory; fourteen studio sessions, tially lowering the costs of illustrations, it has study, and are expected to reside in Florence Aspects of German Nineteenth-Century Esteticas, Torre de Humanidades 6. Piso, Ci­ W. Brown, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.; many of which were devoted to printmaking; become possible to accept illustrated articles for the academic year. Each Fellow receives a Realism; Robert L. Herbert, Yale Univ., udad Universitaria, Mexico 20, DF, Mexico. John A. Douwenhoven, emeritus, Barnard and eight art historical sessions; among them without making their authors pay illustration study and use of the Bibliotecca Berenson and Courbet and Millet; H.W. Janson, N.Y.U., College; and Carol Herselle Krinsky, of Amen'can Art, The Architecture of Frank costs. The editors welcome articles by art Fototeca. I Tatti also offers a limited number Realt'sm in Sculpture: Limits and Limi­ Blake Symposium N.Y.U. For further information: Linda Gor­ Lloyd Wnght, Modern Art, and three ses­ historians that meet the conditions laid down of non-stipendiary fellowships for scholars tations; Genevieve Lacambre, Musee du At Skidmore College May 9 and at Union Col­ don or Ruth Kavesh, WMAA,· 945 Madison sions devoted to the history and criticism of for all articles, namely: RQ favors studies that working on Renaissance subjects with support Louvre, Toward a Clearer Definition of lege May 10. The artist's diversity of interests Ave .. N.V.C. 10021. (212) 570·3633. photography. Efforts to break new ground do not fall wholly within the scope of other from other sources. Qualifications and privi­ Naturalism in French Nineteenth-Century is reflected in the diversity of speakers: mostly were reflected in two sessions: New Directions scholarly journals and that clearly relate at Painting; Linda Nochlin, Vassar CoIl., leges same as above. For application: submit literary critics and historians but also our very The South as an Influence on Photography tn Art History Curr£cula (descriptions of cur­ least two areas of Renaissance culture. Manu­ curriculum vitae and project description and Realism and Naturalism Redefined; Theo­ own Robert Rosenblum. The symposium is in A call for papers for a book-catalog to accom­ rent programs of study linking museum stud­ scripts should be sent to Elizabeth Story dore Reff, Columbia Univ., Degas and the have three confidential letters of recommen­ conjunction with an exhibition of materials pany an exhibition entitled Southern Eye, ies with traditional art history) and Copynght Donno, Editor, RQ, 1161 Amsterdam Av­ Theme of The Laundress; Gabriel P. Weis­ dation sent to: The Director, Villa I Tatti, from the collections of the two colleges and se­ Southern Mind: A Photographic Inquiry, to and the Visual Artist. Ten sessions were orga­ enue, N.Y.C. 10027. berg, Cleveland Mus., The Petits Maitres as Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy; lected works from outside the region (opening be held in Memphis in April 1981. The exhi­ nized to examine problems and new develop­ Masters of Realism; and Theodore Zeldin, duplicate copies of all materials should be at Skidmore April 20, moving to Union May bition will include sections on "Social Docu­ ments in visual resources and special panels Oxford Univ., Social Themes in Realism. All sent to Prof. Walter Kaiser, 401 Boylston 12, closing May 30). Inquiries to BS, Skid­ mentary Photography 1900 -1959," "Con­ examined problems of exhibition design and of the above in conjunction with a major ex­ Apelles: Georgia Arts Journal Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. more CoIl., Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 12866. temporary Photographers of the South," planning. In addition to the formal program hibition curated by Gabriel P. Weisberg, The 02138. Application deadline: November 1. "Nineteenth-Century Landscapes," "Com­ there were three banquets. A new journal publishe.d by the Department Realt'.st Tradition: French Paz'nting and Dumbarton Oaks .Symposium mercial and Industrial Photography, Nine­ An award for distinction was presented to of Art of the University of Georgia that covers Drawing, 1830-1900, which will subsequent­ The topic of the 1980 symposium, scheduled teenth and Early Twentieth Century." and the Department of Art and faculty of the material of general interest to art oriented ly travel to Brooklyn, St. Louis, and the Kel­ for Friday, May 9-Sunday, May 11, is "Easl of "Scrap Book Collections." For further infor­ University of Iowa. Wallace Tomasini, chair readers. More specifically: "This would in­ vingrove Museum in Glasgow. Two related Architectural History Studies Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Forma­ mation: Murray Riss, Memphis Academy of of the department, accepted the award on be­ clude almost anything in late nineteenth- or exhibitions, The Watercolors and Drawings tive Period." The symposium is under the Arts, Overton Park, Memphis, Tenn. 38112. half of his peers and predecessors in a short, early twentieth-century art, although the The Education Committee of the Society of of Leon Bonvin and American Realism and direction of Professors Nina Garsoian, Deadline for submission: August 1. amusing speech. Anyone interested in copies subject need not be limited to these areas. Architectural Historians has issued its report the Industn'al Age, will also be on view at Thomas Mathews, and Robert Thomson and of the program or abstracts should contact nor are we in any way restricted to articles on" Architectural History Education in Grad­ CMA during the symposium. For further in­ will include papers on literature. art. and Eighteenth-Century Studies A.L. Gully, Dept. of Art, ASU, Tempe, AZ that are somehow connected to Southeastern uate Art History Programs," based upon in­ formation: Dept. Art History and Education, religion. For information on registration: The East-Central American Society for Eight­ 85282. states." Inquiries or manuscripts to Paul Ed­ formation obtained from seventeen depart­ CMA, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio Alice-Mary Talbot. DO, 1703 32nd Street, eenth-Century Studies will hold its eleventh The current president of MACAA is Leon­ mouston, Editor, Apelles, UGDA, Athens, ments offering the Ph.D. degree in art history 44106. (216) 421·7340. N.W .. Washington, D.C. 20007. annual convention in Winston-Salem, Octo­ ard Lehrer, Arizona State University. Ga. 30602. with architectural history as a possible field of ber 16·-18. The interdisciplinary theme of the Anthony Gully III specialization. Copies may be obtained from conference is "Ethnic Settlements in Colonial Arizona State University Boston and the Avant-Garde Virginia Art Historians SAH, 1700 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. America: Their Origins and Cultural Contri­ A symposium to be held in the L~cture Hall of The third annual.symposium of Virginia art 19103. butions." Papers not related to this theme Woman's Art Journal the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, April 18 and historians will meet on Friday, April 18, at may also be submitted in recognized ASECS 19. Participants and subjects are: Garnett Longwood College. Papers include Concur­ A new semi-annual journal devoted to women disciplines (we assume art history is one). In­ {conferences and symposia McCoy, Archives of American Art, Effects of rent Techniques and Styles in Attic Vase in the visual arts, first issue scheduled for Scholarly Journal on quiries and proposals to Peter Petschauer, the Armory Show on Boston; Sinclair Hitch­ Palnting c. 530-480 B. C. by Jerrie Pike­ spring 1980. Described by founder and editor Visual Image Research Head, Watauga College, Appalachian State Academy on Baroque Music and Art ings, Boston Public Library, Artistic Innova­ Brooklyn of V.P.I. & S.U.; An Art Historical Elsa Honig Fine ali a scholarly journal that is University, Boone, N.C. 28608. Deadline for Extensive coverage of all areas of visual docu­ tions between the World Wars; Edith Tonelli, Interpretation of a Twelfth-Century Roman The third in a series of interdisciplinary also a "good read," it has a national editorial submissions: July 15. mentation is the focus of a new journal, Vis­ Univ. Maryland Art Gallery, Experimenta­ by James Phillips of V.C. U.; Mr. Jefferson's Academies on Baroque Music and Art, spon­ board that includes most of the grand "mis­ ual Resources/An International Journal of tion under the WPA in Boston; Elizabeth Favor£te Hotel In Paris by Gerard Maurice sored by the Aston Magna Foundation for tresses" of the women's art movement. British Studies Conference Documentation, scheduled to begin publica­ Sussman, Boston Inst. of Contemporary Art, Doyon of Washington and Lee; and Beyond Music and the NEH, will be held June 15-July Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome. For A call for papers for the an~ual meeting of the tion in May. Des~gned to meet the needs of Development of Institutions for Contempo­ LI·lurgy: The Rothko Chapel by Robert F. 5 in Great Barrington, Mass. The theme of guidelines for contributors, subscriptions, or Rocky Mountain Conference on British Stud­ professionals and scholars engaged in work­ rary Art; Bernard Chaet, Yale Univ., On Be­ Porter of V.P.I. & S.U. Papers will be fol­ the 1980 Academy is Confluences and Con­ other information: WAf, 7008 Sherwood ies, October 10 and 11 at Fort Lewis College. tradictions in German Culture, 1725-1775. ing with visual material, articles will cover the zng an Artist ~'n Boston in the 1940s and 1950s; lowed by an informal discussion of projects Drive, Knoxville, Tenn. 37919. Inquiries and papers to Stanley Palmer, creation, maintenance, development, preser­ James Plaut, arts consultant, Recollections of and concerns of Virginia art historians. In· The fac~lty will include both artist-faculty of Dept. History, University of Texas at Arling­ vation, bibliographic control, and dissemina­ the Institute ofModern Art, Boston (renamed quiries to Elisabeth L. Flynn. LC. Farmville, Aston Magna and a distinguished group of ton, Tex. 76019. Deadline: July 1. tion of visual collections and archives. The Institute of Contemporary Art); Earl Flans­ Va. 23901. cultural historians, among them Christian F. International Exchange of Scholars international Board of Editors includes art burgh, architect, Boston as a Center of Re· Otto of Cornell U~iversity, who will deal with New Perspectives on New Deal Art historians and museum curators. Subjects to cent Innovation tn Architecture; David Hur­ architecture and the visual arts. For details: More than 500 openings are expected to be History in Architectural Education A symposium to be held on April 19 in con· be covered in the first year of publication walt, authority on photography, Boston's Aston Magna Academy, 65 West 83 Street, offered in more than 100 countries in the A symposium to be held May 30 and 31 III junction with the exhibition New Deal Art: 1981-82 Fulbright international exchange include color reproduction of illuminated Role tn Recent Innovation tn Photography; N.V.C. 10024. (212) 595-1651. Cincin·nati. Its purpose is to augment the NewJersey at the Robeson Gallery of Rutgers manuscripts, an archive devoted to research 'Carl Belz, Brandeis Univ., Innovation in Re­ awards program. A detailed announcement literature on architectural historiography, University. Papers, which will range beyond Paper: Its History & Preservation should be available in late March from IREX, in pictorial symbolism, reproduction tech­ cent Paintzng and Sculpture in Boston; and with particular emphasis on its relationship to the Garden State, include The New Deal Mu· niques developed for the Rossetti murals in Martin Green, Tufts Univ., Literary Prob­ A presentation by Robert Hauser, funded by Suite 300, 11 Dupont Circle, Washington, the needs and interests of architectural stu­ rals: A National Variety by Francis V. O'Con' an NEA/Visual Arts grant and scheduled for D.C. 20036. Interested scholars may then re· the Oxford Union, defining access points for lems ofBoston. There will also be a dinner on dents. Participants include Stanford Ander­ nor and The W PA.from the Artist's Point of six New England art and craft institutions quest additional information and application computerized indexing of visual materials, the night of the 18th at the New England son, Peter Collins, Walter Creese, Joseph View by Adolph Konrad. A $5.00 fee covers during April, May, arid Jun~. Participating forms. IREX has also announced a special . the publication and indexing of Christie's Pic­ Center of the Archives of Americari Art. For Rykwert, Robert A.M. Stern, and Dora registration and brunch. Make payable to institutions are the Society of Connecticut Indo-American Research Fellowship Pro­ torial Archive, the use of video technology for further information: Emily Nathan, Archives Wiebenson. For further information: John E. Rutgers the State University and send to Craftsmen, Brockton Art Center, United gram, twelve long-term (six to ten months) visual reproduction, and an evaluation of of American Art, 41 East 65 St., N.Y.C. Hancock, ColI. Design, Architecture, and Judith K. Brodsky, Art Dept., RU, Newark, Maine Craftsmen, League of New Hampshire and nine short-term (two to three months) fiche projector-s currently on the market. In­ 10021. (212) 245-5917. Art, Univ. Cincinnati, Ohio 45221. N.]. 07102. Craftsmen, University of Rhode Island Arts awards. For information and application quiries regarding manuscript submissions Council, and Bennington College. For fur­ forms write Indo-American Fellowship Pro­ and subscription information to Patricia 6 CAA newsletter ther information: Busyhaus,.Box 422, North gram, same address as above. (202) 833-4978. Walsh, Managing Editor, VR, P.O. Box 327, Andover, Mass. 01845. III Application deadline: July 1. Redding Ridge, Ct. 06876. (203) 938-9548.111 women's caucus shows by annual meeting program guidelines: (revised) artist members The National Women's Caucus for Art Con­ as Painters and Critics and Women Artists Annual Meeting Program Guidelines were first adopted by the CAA Board of Directors on April the CAA constituency. (These interests are to ference was held in conjunction with the CAA and Social Change: 1850 to the Present, 24, 1976 andfirst became effective Jor the 1978 annual meeting. Three years and many revisions some degree reflected in attendance reports annual meeting in New Orleans from January which complemented two sessions of the· A listing ofsolo exhibitions by artist members later, it now seems appropn·ate to reprint the guidelines, incorporating all oj the intervening from previous annual meetings, areas of spe­ 29 to February 2. The planners, including Marxist Caucus and the WCA's panels on of the CAA. Listings should include name of changes. For rationale behind major changes, see article page 1. cialization indicated on c.v. forms and statis­ WCA President Lee Anne Miller, considered Protest and Politics in the Feminist Art Move­ artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of ex­ tical surveys, etc.) Program Chairmen may, if many possibilities for supporting the eco­ ment ofthe '70s and Southern Exposure: Con­ hibition, and medium. Since this service is A. Cycles. We currently meet on a four-year Dayl (Thursday) .. 2:00 P.M.-4:30 P.M. they wish, consult with relevant affiliated nomic boycott in a non-ERA-ratified state cerns of Southern Women. Alessandra Com­ available only to CAA members and since we cycle, as follows: New York City, East Coast, 8:30 P.M.-ll:OO P.M. societies or special interest groups concerning and finally adopted the conference theme ini's Convocation address, Revisionism, Art can't possibly check all the exhibition notices Mid-West, West Coast. Day 2 (Friday) ...... 9:30 A.M.-noon specific program areas. Such consultation "Art, Politics, Equal Rights." They made the History, and Some Holy Cows, gave encour­ we receive, please include copy of current 2:00 P.M.-4:30 P.M. does not, however, delegate to these organiza­ entire conference structure reflect both com­ aging evidence of some basic changes of atti­ membership card. B. Sessions Evening Convocation tions either veto power or formal advisory mitment to the ERA and the idea of interac­ tude over the past ten years. In a forthright 1. PROGRAM SESSIONS. These may be either Day 3 (Saturday) .... 9:30 A.M.-noon function. tion and cooperation. The interaction among plea for a spirit of revisionism, Comini re­ John Balsley. Frumkin & Struve Gallery, sessions at which papers are read or panels. 2:00 P.M.-4:30 P.M. 7. The Program Chairmen select all indi­ women from other parts of the country and minded us that as historians of art we should Chicago. December 14-January 18. New Gal­ viduals to chair sessions. No one may chair They represent the attempt on the part of the Sessions of affiliated societies and special in­ those from the local community, generated approach teaching and research with sensitiv­ lery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Janu­ Art History and Studio Program Chairmen terest groups shall be scheduled in the "noon" more than one session in a single year or chair by the "alternative housing" plan to support ity to the many diverse facets of creativity. ary 4-February 9. Sculpture. sessions in two successive years. and of the Association to develop a coherent, time slot (12:15 P.M.-1:45 P.M.) on Friday the boycott, was one of the most memorable The cuhnination of the conference was the cohesive intellectual structure that both and Saturday or in the "late afternoon" time 8. Tentative programs should be submit­ aspects of the entire conference. It took place Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Achieve­ Ruth Bavetta. Second Floor Gallery, Uni­ ted to the Board at its Spring meeting prior to covers all significant bases and gives some slot (5:00 P.M.-7:30 P.M.) on Thursday and ment in the Visual Arts, which honored Anni versityof Arizona, February 19-March 9. "Le on many levels: the River Meeting: Lives of sense of current developments in the disci­ Friday. the annual meeting. The Program Chairmen Women in the Delta, a dinner-performance Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Caroline Durieux, Carceri d'Invenzione," colored pencil draw­ pline. Sessions are announced in the Call for need not be present at that meeting. The ten­ coordinated ,by Suzanne Lacy; the days of Ida Kohlmeyer and Lee Krasner. It was both ings. Papers (sent out approximately 8 months in C. Program Chairmen tative program will be announced to the workshops and dialogues on professionalism, a celebration and a personal, emotional event 1. There are three program chairmen: membership in the first subsequent news­ Dean Carter. Reynolds Homestead, Critz, advance of the meeting); titles of papers are politics and personal ethics, law and feminist for the participants. letter. Va. February 2-29. Wood and bronze sculp­ published in the preliminary program; and, Art History Sessions (including muse­ education; the openings of special exhibi­ um sessions) 9. Once programs have been accepted by tures and watercolors. for art history sessions, . abstracts are pub­ tions; the Jazz Procession; and the Alanis 000 000 000 lished. Studio Sessions (including criticism the Board and announced to the member­ Ceremony. The keynote speaker, MildredJef­ Elizabeth K. Clark. Wilson Gallery, Le­ 2. BOARD-SPONSORED SESSIONS. These gen­ sessions) ship, no sessions may be added. Should an in­ frey of the National Women's Political Cau­ New Officers. Lee Anne Miller has com­ high University, Bethlehem, Pa. February erally deal with topics of current concern to Social Events (tours, receptions, etc.) dividual session chairman subsequently wish cus, called the WCA's conference a harbinger pleted her two-year term as National WCA 29-March 28. Drawings. the Association: moral rights, print stand­ 2. Program Chairmen are appointed by to resign or to cancel his session, the Program of the feminist movement of the '80s and President. The new President i;;; DeRenne ards, M.F.A. standards, etc. They may be re­ the President of the CAA. (During the Presi­ Chairman may either reassign that topic to praised the constructive fusion of artistic ·and Coerr, Museums Registrar for the Fine Arts Louis Finkelstein. Ingber Gallery, N. Y.C. quested by any committee chairman (or, for dent's second term, the appointment is made another chairman or drop the session alto­ political energies. Museums of San Francisco. Ruth Weisberg is January 12-30. Paintings. that matter, by any member) , but must be ap­ in consultation with the Vice- President.) The gether. The support and sympathy for the WCA's the new Vice-President and Lynn Grant is proved by the full Board. Financial support, Board Chairs of the Art Historians Commit­ 10. The Art History Program Chairman is goals on the part of the CAA Board and Chapters Liaison. The address for all WCA Elaine Galen. Zriny-Hayes Gallery, Chi­ if given, is charged to the appropriate com­ tee and of the Artists Committee will serve as responsible for recommending a coordinator members was evident in the "CAA for ERA" business is now: 731 44th Avenue, San Fran­ cago. March 7-ApriI6. Recent paintings and mittee budget and not to annual meeting advisors to the Art History and Studio Pro­ for student projectionists and ushers. buttons displayed on many lapels and in the cisco, Calif. 94121. (415) 221-5125. drawings. travel. gram Chairmen respectively. The chairmen II. The Program Chairman for Studio good attendance at two art history sessioI1s Alison Hilton II 3. SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS. are announced by the Fall meeting of the and the Program Chairman for Art History devoted to the role of women in art, Women Wayne State University Lila Katzen. University of North Carolina, a. All sessions are limited to 2}2 hours. Board ca. 15 months prior to the next receive a complimentary hotel room during Chapel Hill. September 20-November 30. There are no scheduled overruns. scheduled meeting (i. e., chairmen for the the annual meeting. They also receive reim­ Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. Decem­ b. During the entire meeting period 1982 annual meeting must be announced by bursement for telephone, postage, and other ber 9-January 16. Norton Art Gallery, West there must be no more than 36 program ses­ the Fall Board meeting in 1980). This infor­ out-of-pocket expenses. Palm Beach. January 24-March 7. Metropol­ sions, 22 for art history and 14 for studio. The mation is made known to the membership in itan Museum & Art Centers, Coral Gables. sessions in art history may be either general, the first subsequent newsletter. D. Individual Session Chairmen March 29-April 30. Major sculpture. that is, devoted to topics within broad periods 3. Insofar as possible, all Program Chair­ 1. To encourage the participation of sen­ or areas such as Ancient or Oriental art, or men shall be local to the area in which the ior scholars, chairmen are encouraged to in­ Judy Loeb. Art Gallery, University of Ten­ special, that is, sessions much smaller in scope meeting will be held. vite at least one but no more than two papers nessee at Chattanooga. Paintings. centered on a specific theme. One or two of 4. Program Chairmen should consult for their sessions. The rest of the "slots" must Daniel E. Mader. Library Gallery, Ray­ the general art history sessions must be open with each other concerning conflict and bal­ be filled by those who have responded to the mond Walters Campus, UniversityofCincin­ to any topic. The purpose of such sessions is to ance of programs. Call for Papers. nati. April 13-30. Mixed media drawings. provide time for papers on topics not included 5. Insofar as possible, Program Chair· 2. If chairmen receive good papers which in the meeting and for a consideration of men should take into consideration the ap­ they are unable to use, they are encouraged to Florence Putterman. Mickelson Gallery, those papers that chairmen of individual ses­ pointment of session chairmen who are acces­ pass them on to the chairman of an appropri­ Washington, D.C: February 3-24. John Bo­ sions are unable to include but believe partic­ sible to the area in which the meeting will be ate session well before the preliminary pro­ len Gallery, Santa Moruca. March 30-April ularly worthy. held. Part ofthe rationale for this is that while gram deadline. (Usually around October 15.) 28. Prints and monotypes. c. Sessions of affiliated societies and the CAA is a national organization, it is legiti­ 3. No one may participate in more than mate to focus attention upon the strengths one session. (This includes both panel and Yasue Sakaoka. Fine Arts Library, Ohio special interest groups may not be scheduled during the regular CAA time slots unless one and achievements of specific areas in our per­ paper sessions.)· If duplication occurs (and University, Athens. January. "Recent Experi­ of the Program Chairmen specifically releases igrinations around the country. A second this usually can't be ascertained until the pre­ ments with Paper." a time slot. reason relates to the limitations on funds liminary progFam is in), one of the chairmen Miriam Schapiro. Lerner-Heller, N. Y.C. d. Program Chairmen will do their available for travel to the annual meeting (see must find a substitute. February 2-28. Paintings! collages. Barbara best to avoid scheduling related areas simul­ Section F). 4. Session chairmen are encouraged not Gladstone Gallery,. N. Y.C. February 2- taneously. 6. By adhering to the principle of plan­ to accept a paper by anyone who has given a March 1. "The Heartiest Series!New Works e. When a session requires the viewing ning by individual Program Chairmen rather paper in the previous year or to accept as on Paper." of film or video which, because of time or fa­ than planning-by-committee, the Board reas­ panelists anyone who has been a panelist dur­ cilities is not possible in the session itself, such serts its support of the intelligence, integrity, ing the previous year. Lynne C. Sher. Bowery Gallery, N.Y.C. viewing shall be scheduled outside the regular and even idiosyncracy of the individuals cho­ 5. Although the time limit of 2!J.1 hours January 25-February 13. "Recent Paintings." time slots and possibly outside the hotel itself. sen to fulfill those positions. With that bias per session is firm, there is no limit (on either WCA Jazz Procession. Left to right: Mildred Jeffrey, immediate past chair, National Women's (No funds can be provided for such viewings.) firmly understood, it is suggested that Pro· end) as to how long a paper may be. Chair­ Political Caucus; Lee Anne Miller, WCA president; Helen Milliken, national co~chair, ERAmerica; Barbara Zucker. Robert Miller, N.Y.C. f. CAA Program Sessions shat! be gram Chairmen make some attempt to ascer­ men are encouraged to consider papers Jackie Skiles, New York City; and Nancy Cusick, Washington, D.C_ February. Sculpture. II scheduled in the following time slots: tain and to respond to the current interests of Continued on p. 10, col. 1

8 CAA newsletter April 1980 9 lannual meeting changes preservation news information

the results of that questionnaire. Placement will still start one day before tion B. 3.e.}. Members with long memories Annual Meeting Session regard this development with positive inter­ The Corcoran Gallery of Art is auempting to program sessions, on Wednesday. Inter­ may recognize in this radical innovation some For the first time at an annual meeting of the est, but it may be a mixed blessing since the locate paintings by Charles Peale Polk Shortening of Meeting. Galloping infla­ viewers and candidates will still have one ex­ resemblance to the General Sessions of a College Art Association, there was a session monuments could be potentially open to de­ (1767-1822) to include in a major exhibition tion is the reason for this one. In recent years, tra night (or two extra nights, if they want to decade or so ago. devoted to the conservation/preservation of veloper speculation. of his work to be held during the summer of CAA program sessions have started on be on hand at 9:00 A.M. when placement works of art. General papers dealt with the 1981. Of particular interest is information Wednesday evening and ended Saturday at opens) of hotel bills, but that will be added to conservation of paper (Marjorie B. Cohn, Preservation of Cemetery Art about any of the following portraits: Col. noon, which means that anyone wanting to a base of two, rather than a base of three. Elimination of Informal Sessions. When Fogg Art Museum) and the conservation of Edward Bryant has provided the following list Gf'rard Briscoe, Anne Sprigg (Mrs. Charles) attend the full range of sessions had a All the above means that we have had to informal sessions were invented-or at any outdoor bronze sculpture (Phoebe Dent Weil, of some sources of information on this topic. Carroll, Richard Cromwell I and II, Eliza­ minimum of three night's hotel bills, Even in eliminate the previously scheduled "free" rate named (but isn't that perhaps the same Center for Archaeometry, Washington John P. Danglade, Executive Vice Presi· beth Walters (Mrs. Richard) Cromwell, the slightly more distant' past, when sessions time between the Thursday morning session, thing?) -'-- at the 1976 annual meeting, they Univ.), while several specific cases were also dent, American Cemetery Association, 250 Charles Lievin De Pauw, Judge Allen Bowie started at 9:30 on Thursday morning, people ending at noon, and the Thursday evening consisted of very small groups of people who presented: nineteenth-century American East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. Duckett, Anna Elizabeth Heyser, Mrs. had to arrive the night before if they wanted session, beginning at 8:30 P.M., a time- ac­ wanted to get together to discuss very spe­ cemetery sculpture (Edward Bryant, Colgate Stephen L Morgan, Executive Vice Presi­ William Hughes and daughter Anna M. to be there from the beginning. cording to the official mythology - when cialized topics in a very unstructured manner. Univ. and Mary Louise Christovich, Save Our dent, National Association oj Cemeteries, Hughes, Mr. ann Mrs. Samuel Johnston, Hotel room rates, in case anyone hasn't people went to museums and galleries. Many There was no announced agenda; there were Cemeteries, Inc.), the Simon Rodia Towers in 1911 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 409, Ar· David Kerr I, Peter Lauck, Eleanor Crpmwell noticed, have been going up at a rate of nearly people will probably still go to museums and no papers; there were no abstracts because Watts, Los Angeles (Seymour Rosen, Com­ lington, Va. 22209. (Mrs. Thomas) Lee, Col. Coward, Frances 15 percent per year. (For those who may have galleries or do whatever else it is they want to there was nothing to abstract from. Although mittee for Simon Rodia's Towers), and James R. Mulvaney, Executive Secretary, Taylor Madison (Mrs. Henry) Rose, any forgotten how quickly compounded in­ do on Thursday afternoon and at other times projectors and screens were provided, in most several murals in Harlem Hospital (Greta National Catholic Cemeteries ConJerence, member of the James McCannon family, crements mount: a room that cost $50.00 in when CAA program sessions are scheduled. cases people got so enthusiastic and excited Berman, Metropolitan Museum of Art). 710 North River Road, Des Plains, Ill. 60016. Capt. Charles Nixon, Mrs. William Pitt and 1980 would cost $87.50 by 1984.) But now they can feel guilty about it. that slides were simply passed around from There are also particularly active local Hannah William Pitt, Bevan Dandridge Ergo: we have decided to "squeeze" the hot hand to hot hand. In short, informal ses­ It was agreed that conservators must use cemetery associations in the states of Ver­ Pitts, Elizabeth Livingston (Mrs. Joseph) traditional six time-slots into three days, in­ sions were so terrific that we thought we the constraints of art historical knowledge to mont, Maine, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Rawlins, Joseph Rawlins, Mr. and Mrs. Her­ stead of four, in such a manner as to make it Open Sessi6ns. Since the number of CAA should institu,tionalize them. avoid the dangers of restoring something to a Louisiana; names and addresses available man Henry Schroeder, Jane Elting Taylor, possible in most cases for people to attend the program sessions is intentionally limited (to With the perfect vision that comes with condition that may not have been intended. upon request from the CAA office. Mrs. Edward Toard, Samuel Vaughn, and full range of sessions for only two night's hotel control galloping schizophrenia), one impor­ hindsight, we can now see the flaws in that Deciding where in the history of a work the A significant related organization is the Elizabeth Livingston Rawlins (Mrs. William) bills. Sessions will start on Thursdays at 2:00 tant area or another is left out each year. To logic. No sooner did we institutionalize infor­ conservator should begin and end is as impor­ Association Jor Gravestone Studies (c/o Van Wyck. Please direct all correspondence P.M., and there will be two time-slots each on some extent the gap is filled by the program mal sessions than they became indistin­ tant as how the work is restored. Pigments Gaynell S. Levine, Anthropology Dept., to Linda C. Simmons, Associate Curator of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. (See Guide­ sessions of affiliated societies and in some guishable from formal sessions: advance an­ transformed by light may alter our apprecia­ S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790). The Collections, CGA, 17th St. & New York Ave. lines, Section B. 3.f.). Meetings of affiliated cases special interest groups; howev'er, it is the nouncement, prepared papers, abstracts, the tion of the artist's original intention. The in­ Association is interested in documenting by N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. societies and special interest groups and intention of the CAA program to be open to whole shebang. Informal sessions have disap­ herent qualities achieved by the graceful ag-' photographs and computer early gravestones alumni reunions will be held during the tradi· original and important research in all art peared from the revised Guidelines, as they ing of a piece of paper with the passage of as a material culture data base and wishes to tional "noon" time· slot and in a newly created historical areas. To make sure that nothing is had, in fact, disappeared from reality. We time may be destroyed with restoration. One extend their documentation to a national Information is sought on the activities of and "late afternoon" time-slot, from 5:00 P.M. to omitted simply because it does not fit in, two hope and trust that small groups of people in­ must recognize and comprehend the effects of scale. It distdbutes basic preservation infor­ paintings by Abel Nichols (1815-60), who 7:30 P.M. Eating dinner may involve even of the art history sessions shall be open to terested in specialized topics will still manage time and separate "natural" from "unnat­ mation (e.g., how to make photographic rec­ worked in Charleston (1836-37), Savannah more ingenuity-and indigestion-than in papers that are not appropriate for any of the to meet and talk and pass around ural" causes; those that are unavoidable from ords, rubbings of gravestones) and is publish­ (1838-39), Cincinnati (1839), New York, the past. specified program topics (see Guidelines, Sec- slides. R_R.W. II those that are avoidable. While corrosion in ing a forthcoming booklet The Care ofCeme­ Canada, New England, and Italy (1842-43 bronze is the natural result of exposing den­ teries by Lance R. Mayer, conservator for the and 1850-·59). Contact Miles Chappell, Dept. dritic structures to wate'r, unnatural deterio­ Cincinnati Art Museum. One of its members, Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, Wil­ Irevised guidelines ration may be caused by inappropriate restor­ Dan Farber (11 Moreland St., Worcester, liamsburg, Va. 23185. ation. Repair and repatination should be Mass. 01609) has a large photographic collec­ undertaken only after thorough historical! tion of early gravestones and has had fac­ considerably shorter and even considerably 6. It is not uncommon for chairmen to re­ stances. To anyone. This includes fees for simile reproductions made to replace several longer than the traditional 20 minutes. The quest to see final papers several weeks in ad­ rental of films, videotapes, etc. archival/aesthetic study. Conservators must work with art historians to devise appropriate high-quality early gravestones in Boston only requirement is to stay within the fixed vance of the annual meeting; speakers should Information about the lives and works of the I. Affiliated Societies/Special Interest solutions since the history and practice of which have been deposited with the Museum limit of the total session. be prepared to comply with that request. of Fine Arts. With the New England Historic American painters Cordray (William) Sim­ Groups patination relates to larger issues centered 6. No travel funds may be committed 7. All panelists and speakers receive com­ mons and his wife, Lue Osborn, is sought in 1. The CAA will provide each affiliated around changing views of the interaction be­ Genealogical Society, AGS has established a without clearance from the appropriate Pro­ plimentary registration. preparation for an honors paper, calalogue, society with facilities for one meeting during tween form and color. Conservation should photographic and field note archive. It also gram Chairman. 8. Limited travel funds are available for and exhibition. Contact Pamela E. Mayo, Art time slots not reserved for CAA program ses­ be reversible; any materials used should be publishes a journal and a newsletter. 7. Requests for special equipment (see J) , unaffiliated participants and for participants Dept., Longwood College, Farmville, Va. sions. If possible, the CAA will provide addi­ removable without damage to the object. must be cleared in advance with the CAA who are unable to obtain any institutional Energy Hearings 23901. tional time slots to affiliated societies re­ office. support. Travel funds may be committed only The Department of Energy scheduled hear­ questing more than one meeting. by the Art History and Studio Program Chair· Repeatedly throughout the session discus­ ings on energy performance standards for E. Speakers and Panelists 2. Complimentary registration does not men (see F.). sion returned to the preservation of works in new buildings on March 24-26. As the regula­ 1. No one may participate in more than apply to affiliated societies or special inlerest 9. Request for special equipment (see J.) the public domain, be they murals, bronze tions have currently been proposed, vast one session (see D. 3). groups. Neither do travel funds. For a study of the life and works of Chester must be cleared in advance with the CAA sculpture, or cemetery art. The concern of segments of the artistic and historic patri­ 2. Participation in sessions in two succes­ 3. Audio·visual equipment is provided Harding, information is sought on the loca­ office. Edward Bryant that we document nine­ mony of this country may be endangered by sive years, while not prohibited, is discour­ only if the session can be scheduled in a room tions of his portraits in private collections and teenth-century cemetery sculpture as a major an inflexible ratio between energy use and aged (see D. 4). F. Travel Funds where such equipment is already set up and any memoirs or reflections by his sitters, espe­ resource for the taste, sentiment, and values square footage of floor space. The Depart­ 3. Abstracts may be submitted to more 1. Total amount and division (i.e., be­ will involve no extra cost to the CAA. Projec­ cially those in Boston. Contact Leah Lipton, of the period was reiterated by Mary Louise ment of Energy has not given careful con­ than one specific topic session provided that tween studio and art history) is set by Execu" tionists are not provided. Art Dept., Framingham State College, 100 Christovich of Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., sideration to the energy budget level as it per­ the respective chairmen are informed of the tive Committee; distribution is at the total 4. Ad hoc groups and individuals will be State St., Framingham, Mass. 01701. who argued that cemeteries should be for the tains to museums and other cultural institu­ multiple submission. discretion of the Program Chairmen. accommodated whenever possible, at the dis­ living and maintained as public parks. Both tions, many of which have special needs that 4. Abstracts may be submitted for the 2. Applies to CAA sessions only. cretion of the Executive Secretary. speakers underscored the unstated: that" do not conform to the proposed guidelines. open sessions only if they are not appropriate 3. Covers intercity travel only. If travel is 5. Space for social events (reunions, re­ greater public awareness and ultimately more The case for these legitimately "special" inter­ to any of the specific topic sessions; the same by car, covers gas only. ceptions, etc.) will be assigned on a first­ dollars are needed for preservation of this ests was presented by the National Conserva­ For a Winterthur book on the sketchbooks of abstract may not be submitted to a specific 4. No one may receive annual meeting come, first-served basis. fast-disappearing aspect of our artistic and tion Advisory Council in testimony that, at John Lewis Krimmel(1786-1821), informa­ topic session and to the open sessions (see travel funds in two consecutive years. cultural heritage. the request of the Council, has been formally tion about the location of his paintings is Equipment. The usual equipment for ses­ B. 3. b). J. endorsed by the College Art Association. sought. Contact Anneliese E. Harding, 5. No abstract may be submitted for a G. Complimentary Registration. All ses· sions is two projectors, tWO screens, an electric On this matter, Missouri has recently Goethe Institute Boston, German Cultural paper that has previously been published or sion chairmen and all participants receive pointer, and up to two microphones. Re" passed legislation making it possible for a Annabelle Simon Cahn II Center for New England, 170 Beacon St.. that has previously been presented at another complimentary registration. quests for any other equipment must be family to sell its burial site. Preservationists Public Information Officer Boston, Mass. 02116. II scholarly conference. H. Honoraria. No. Under no circum- cleared in advance with theCAA office. II April 1980 11 10 CAA newsletter .. -----~ people and programs Ipeople and programs

volunteer organization that has raised more Moving from Medieval to our own time, new group of more than 100 artists that maintains the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compiled by Minerva topics from the Baroque to contemporary than $1.5 million in support of UCLA art an active exhibition and education program the Graduate School of Architecture and Navarrete and Rose R. Weil. Materialforin­ printmaking; among his books are The Bi­ archive programs have been established at the projects during the past twenty-five years through a summer gallery, traveling shows to Planning will be encouraged. According to elusion in this section should be sent to Col­ biena Family (1945), Giovanni Battista Corcoran Gallery of Art and at the Cincinnati through its biennial Thieves Market sales. Art Museum, both partially funded by the Maine university campuses, and contribu­ the director of the program, Stephen Bene­ lege Art Association, 16 East 52 Street, Piranesi (1952), Prints & People (1971), and Hockney, now forty-two, had his first New n National Historical Publications and Records tions to island schools for art supplies. dict: "The curriculum will place special em­ N. Y. C. 10022. Deadl£ne for next issue: May Goya Drawings (1974). He was born in Glou­ York show in 1964 and was given a retrospec­ Commission and both with the laudable pur­ phasis on the major issues of public policy 15. cester, Mass., the nephew of sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and of Archer M. Hunt­ tive of his prints and drawings at the Yale pose of organizing records management so as that, more and more, are facing arts leaders ington, founder of the Hispanic Society of Center for British Art in 1978. to assure preservation of and access to ir­ Several regular and even more vlsItmg ap­ as the arts expand and as the mix of public IN MEMORIAM and private funding becomes more complex. America, of which Mayor was president at the replaceable documents. The Corcoran Ar­ pointments have been announced by Arizona chives will be headed by Katherine Maras State University: Claudia Brown (MA Univ. We also believe that the most imag£native and Gerd Muehsam, associate professor and art time of his death. He came to prints indirect­ Kovacs (MA Univ. Pennsylvania). The Cin­ Kansas), visiting lecturer in East Asian decor­ effective stewards of the arts are those with a bibliographer at Queens College, died in De­ ly. A graduate of Princeton with honors in In October 1978 the J. Paul Getty Museum cinnati Archive, which under the rubric of ative arts; W.P. Eberhard Eggers of Han­ deep understanding of the artistic process as cember at the age of sixty-six. Born in Berlin, modern languages, he taught art history at established a program of Guest Scholars and the Cincinnati Museum Association includes over, Germany, visiting professor of painting; well as a full command of the necessary mana­ she earned her doctorate in musicology and Vassar for a year, then spent a year at Oxford Conservators under which distinguished pro­ both the Museum and the Art Academy of David Hurn, recipient of an United King­ gerial skills (italics ours). During the second art history at the University of Vienna in 1937 as a Rhodes Scholar, taught acting at the fessionals are invited to take part in various Cincinnati, is headed by Carole Schwartz. A dom-United States Bicentennial Fellowship, half of the program, students will spend a pe­ and her library science degree from Case American Laboratory Theatre, worked on activities of the Museum. For 1979-80, the special post of assistant archivist for one year riod of internship with one or more New York Hound and Horn, a literary magazine of the program has seven participants: Mauro Na~ visiting professor, photography; William Western Reserve in 1942. The author of City organizations and will be required to 'twenties, and "completely by accident ... tale, in residence October throughJune, is re­ has just been created. John Steinle has been Jenkins, formerly curator of twentieth­ numerous articles and several books, most re­ complete a master's thesis or special project, stumbled into the print department of the searching four recently acquired Italian appointed to fill it. century photography at the George Eastman cently Guide to Basic Information Sources in normally related to the internship. For fur­ Metropolitan Museum" in 1932 when he was paintings for the museum's catalogue of House, assistant professor of photography the Visual Arts, Professor Muehsam had been ther information: Office of the Dean, School about to be married and unable to obtain a paintings. In addition, he acts as a consultant and photo criticism; John Kacere of New on the Queens faculty since 1967. of the Arts, 615 Dodge, CU, N.Y.C. 10027. university post. He once reported that he had to the Paintings Department and Photo Ar­ York University, visiting professor of paint­ ing; David Locke, currently a Guggenheim The Department of Art History and Archae­ also accidentally stumbled into art, when, at chives for possible acquisitions. Joyce Ples­ Fellow from London and Nigeria, visiting ology at Columbia has named a travelling fel­ the age of eleven or twelve, he became inter­ ters, principal scientific officer for the conser­ At Temple U ni versity, fine arts administra­ professor of ceramics; Marilyn Poppelmeyer lowship in honor of Milton Lewine (Sept. ested in woodworking and began going to mu­ vation department of the National Gallery in tion is offered as a special concentration for (MFA SUNY, Buffalo), assistant professor, 1979 newsletter). Contributions are tax-de­ seums to look at frames. After a while, he London, was at; the Museum in November, M.A. students in art history. In addition to Italian Baroque painting; Wendy Schonfeld ductible and should be made out to Columbia said, he began to look at what was inside the when she developed an exhibition on the courses in the regular M.A. program, candi­ (MA Columbia), visiting lecturer in graphic University, Lewine Fellowship. Address to de­ frames. He never stopped. technique and materials of Venetian paint­ dates study marketing, management, and ac­ design; and Joseph Young (MA UCLA), for­ partment at Schermerhorn Hall, N.Y.C. ing. During her stay she lectured on Venetian counting at the graduate level in the School of mer curator of drawings and prints at the Los Business Administration. This new course of 10027. TEACHING AND RESEARCH paintings from Bellini to Tintoretto, in addi­ tion to conducting a seminar for Getty con­ Angeles County Museum, assistant professor study culminates in an internship in one of A. Hyatt Mayor, curator emeritus of prints at Noted British painter and printmaker David servators and guests from the area. Sir Fran­ of art criticism. Philadelphia's cultural institutions. The first the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died in Hockney joined the UCLA faculty this spring cis Watson, former director of London's student in the program graduates this spring February at the age of seventy-eight. Known as the first UCLA Art Council Professor of Wallace Collection and the Surveyor of the after working for a semester with the Neigh­ borhood Film Project. for his wide-ranging erudition, his wit, and Art. Hockney's appointment fllis one of the Queen's Works of Art, and a leading authori­ NEW PROGRAMS what his friend Lincoln Kirstein once de­ first chairs in the nation to provide support ty on eighteenth-century French decorative for a teaching position in the studio arts. It arts, arrived in January and will be in resi­ scribed as his "cautious, knowing, loving The School of Fine Arts at the University of The Department of Art of the University of will be rotated each year among the disci­ dence through June, Three guest scholars are eye," he did much during his twenty-year ten­ Southern California has announced the es­ Arizona has announced the establishment of plines of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, assigned to the Antiquities Dep~rtment. C. ure as curator to build the Met's print collec­ tablishment of a Museum Studies Program a Ph.D. Program in Art History. The new design, and art history. The UCLA Art Coun­ Martin Robertson arrived in January and tion into one of top international rank. He as an option within the masters degree in art degree program will be administered jointly cil, which contributed the endowment, is a will stay through May. Formerly with the uni­ wrote prodigiously and well on a variety of history. The program combines art history by the departments of art and history, with versities of Oxford and London, he is present­ curriculum with a variety of museum experi­ the concentration of courses and advising be­ ly a professor at Cambridge University. His ences, including specialized courses and a ing offered by the Department of Art and the publications include Greek Painttng, History thesis-exhibition catalogue. More than thirty degree being offered through the Department of Greek Art and The Parthenon Frt"eze. Calvin G. Rand, American Academy in Rome staff and trustees from nine museums in the of History . The areas of concentration offered Marta Ohly-Durnn, who was in charge of the Photo: Robert C. Ragsdale Los Angeles area will complement the USC are American art, Mexican Colonial art, pho­ excavations at Aegina in Greece, and Gesche art history faculty as visiting lecturers. A full­ tographic history, and Pre-Columbian art. Olbrich, a reader at the Deutsches Archaolo­ time internship in a major museum will serve For detailed information: Robert M. Quinn, gisches Institut in Rome, are both in resi­ The new president of the American Academy as the third year of the new program, which Coordinator of Art History, Dept. Art, UA, denceJanuary through April. Albert Blank­ in Rome is Calvin G. Rand, founder and will begin in fall 1980. Ten graduate fellow­ Tucson, Az. 85721. (602) 626-1251. ert, who specializes in Dutch paintings, will since 1971 president of the Niagara Institute, ships (including tuition for the required 40 arrive in May to assist the Paintings Depart­ an educational center for humanistic studies and public affairs in Canada. Rand, who units of academic work and a $7,000 stipend ment. He is a professor at the University of We don't usually report on individual previously lectured in the humanities and for the third year internship) are being of­ Utrecht whose recent works include Dutch courses, but we'd like to mention one: a philosophy at S.U.N. Y., Buffalo and for three fered for the 1980-81 academic year. Director 17th Century ItaUanate Landscape and course on Occupation Safety and Health in years served as acting and associate director of of the program is Stephen E. Ostrow, dean of Johannes Vermeer van Delft. the Arts and Crafts being given for two cultural affairs at that University Center, did the School of Fine Arts. For additional infor­ quarter hours credit at the University of Illi­ his undergraduate work in history at Prince­ mation: Stephany Knight, Dir. Special Proj­ nois Chicago Circle Campus. The course is ton and earned a masters degree in philoso­ ects, Watt Hall 103, USC, University Park, Lucy Der Manuelian (Ph.D. candidate, Los Angeles, Calif. 90007. (213) 741-2788. taught by Gail Coningsby Barazani, author phy from Columbia. He is a member of the Boston Univ.) has been appointed archivist of of the CAA manual, Safe Practices In the Arts New York State Council on the Arts, a trustee the Armenian Architectural Archives Proj­ & Crafts: A Studio Guide. It is designed to of the Albright-Knox Gallery, and a director ect. The objective of the project is to assemble A new master of fine arts degree program in assist independent artists to manage their of the Shaw Festival Theatre. He succeeds a complete photographic collection on Arme­ Arts Administration will begin at the School work procedures safely and to help teachers Bill N. Lacy, who resigned from the of the Arts of Columbia University in Sep­ and administrators develop safe programs nian and related architecture of the Medieval Academy in October to become president of period and to establish the collection at tember 1980. Students in the two-year, and choose materials and processes appropri­ Cooper Union. A. Hyatt Mayor with universities around the world. Completion is 6O-credit program will take a core curriculum ate for students. Lectures on the health ef­ John J. McKendry. expected by 1983. The project is supported by of courses in the School of the Arts, the gradu­ fects of materials and processes in the arts, Photo: Courtesy The individual contributions and by a $75,000 Letterio Calapai has been elected president ate Schools of Business and Journalism, and methods of prevention and control of hazard- Hispanic Society of grant from The Samuel H. Kress Foundation. the Law School. Related elective courses in America of the Deer Isle Artists Association. DIAA is a Continued on p. 14, col. 1

CAA newsletter April 1980 12 Ipeople and programs CAA FINANCIAL REPORT-DECEMBER 31,1979 Ipeople and programs

Jan van der Marek, director of the Dart­ 1978 1979 ous materials, and the problem of labeling perience as director of the St. Louis Art Muse­ The first major visual arts museum in Tampa, mouth College Museum and Galleries for the REVENUES and liability will be augmented by tOUTS of art um and previous background as associate Florida opened its doors last September. Its past five years, has left snowy New Hampshire Membershlp Dues programs at several levels. director of the Albright-Knox Gallery and as director is Shirley Reiff Howard, formerly to become director of the Dade County Individual $192,792 $205,550 When the CAA applied to the National En­ a curator of contemporary art and assistant to director of the Hackley Art Museum in Mus­ -=:enter for the Fine Arts in Miami. Richard Institutional 90,015 89,258 dowment for the Arts for a grant to publish the director at the Met. A graduate of Wil­ kegon, Michigan. Genevieve Linnehan is L. Stucker, assistant director of administra­ Total Dues $282,807 $294.808 the safe practices manual, then-president liams College, he holds a masters degree from curator. tion at the College's Hopkins Center, has been George Sadek wrote: "Health and safety the Institute of Fine Arts. named acting director. Other Income standards must become an integral part of the News of several new curatorial appointments Positions Listings Subscriptions $ 15,617 $ 27.252 educational process for studio artists." It is The Los Angeles County Museum will also has come our way. Donald C. Peirce has been At the Berkeley University Art Museum Institutional Placement Insertions -0- 3,030 named curator of decorative arts at the High with great pleasure that we welcome what we have a new director, the third since the Lynda Myles has been named curatOl: offilm Art Bulletin Subventions 36,189 37.239 Museum in Atlanta. He comes from Brook­ hope is just the beginning of this develop­ Museum opened in 1965. Earl A_ Powell, III for the Pacific Film Archive. Director of the Interest and Dividends 25,290 27,908 lyn, where he has served as associate curator ment. (Note: Nearly 5,000 copies of the will take over this spring, succeeding Ken­ Edinburgh International Film Festival since Book Service (net) 3,427 ( 1,158) in the department of decorative arts. Mary L. Studio Guide have been sold to date. For in­ neth Donahue, who retired in January 1979. 1973, Myles will assume her new post in Sep­ Back Issues & Miscellaneous Publications Sales 11,319 14.429 fonnation on individual and bulk orders, Powell was most recently executive curator at Harlan has assumed the newly created posi­ tember. In addition to her work at the Edin­ MFA Programs Listing 871 1.207 writ,e the National Gallery in Washington, where tion of curator of exhibitions for the Colum­ CAA.) burgh Festival, she is the administrator-pro­ 1978 Ph.D. Survey -0- 1,305 bus Museum of Art. She was previously in the he was curator-in-charge and coordinator of grammer of the Edinburgh Film Theater and Studio Guide ,0- 9,962 Museum's education department. Holliday The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation such major loan exhibitions as The Treasures has taught film at the University of Edin­ MFA Survey -0- 658 T. Day has been appointed curator of Ameri­ has taken over the art collection of the late of Tutankhamun, The Splendor of Dresden, burgh and at the National Film School. She Slide Buyer's Guide 1,276 663 can art at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha. Peggy Guggenheim and the palace in Venice and Art in the Pacific Islands. From 1974 to has also been a scriptwriter and freelance Annual Meeting (net) 40,110 48,643 in which it is housed. This completes a trans­ Formerly a Chicago-based freelance writer, 1976 he was curator of the James Michener broadcaster and is the author of The Movie Educational Slide Rolls 3,446 1,333 she contributed regularly to such periodicals fer that was legally completed in 1974, but Collection and assistant professor of art his­ Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Computer List Sales 1,166 630 not actually consummated until last year tory at the UniversityofTexas at Austin. Pow­ as Art in America and The New Art exami­ Hollywood (1979), $138,711 $173,101 after the death of Mrs. Guggenheim on De­ ell (Ph.D. Harvard) has published extensively ner. She also served as guest curator for exhi­ Total Other Income cember 23. The world-famous collection of in the field of American art and in 1979 was bitions in Chicago and was formerly a staff as­ Forrest McGill has been named.· assistant Total Revenues $421,518 $467.909 modern art, comprised of about 260 works, awarded the King Olav Medal for his work on sistant in the education department at The director of the University of Texas Art Muse­ will remain in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni the Edvard Munch exhibition. Art Institute. Celeste M. Adams comes to the um at Austin. He will assume his new duties in where, around Easter, it will again, as in years Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as curator of June. McGill joined the UT art department EXPENDITURES past, become available for public viewing. Not everyone wants to be boss. The Walters art history and education. Adams was with last fall as lecturer in Southeast Asian art and Art Gallery has announced the resignation of the Cleveland Museum from 1971 to 1976, will continue to teach in the department from A dministrative Costs 96,747 Richard H. Randall as director and simul­ first as lecturer and program coordinator, time to time. He will also continue as a Salaries $ 83.620 $ 15,673 MUSEUM STAFF NOTES taneously his appointment as curatorofmedi­ then as assistant curator for art history and member of the Center for Asian Studies facul­ Payroll Taxes and Fringe Benefits 13,006 19,573 19.855 eval art. Randall came to the Walters in 1964 education. More recently she has w0fked as a ty. He served as coordinator of public pro­ Rent and Cleaning Services as assistant director, following curatorial freelance writer and editor. The Sheldon grams in 1977-78 for the University of Office Expenses/ Printing/ Postage/ 17,944 positions at the Met and the Boston Museum Swope Gallery in Terre Haute has named Michigan Art Museum and is a past recipient Stationery / Mailing Services 19,194 2.597 of Fine Arts. He became director in 1966 and Linda Selzer curator / registrar. Selzer served I of a Fulbright grant for research in Thailand Telephone 2.471 2,900 3.300 will remain in that position until a successor is her museum internship at the Henry Ford ' and a Luce Foundation grant for an art sur­ Accounting Fees 1.788 1,728 appointed. When that occurs, he will devote Museum in Dearborn, where she later worked vey in the Philippines. Office of the President 1,235 full time to an exhibition of the Gallery's ivory as research assistant. Insurance 806 828 collections scheduled for 1983. Philadelphia art critic and writer Anne Fab­ Administrative Travel and Expenses 1,108 bri Butera has been named curator of Total Administrative Costs $144.466 $159,907 Robert 1. Koenig, fonnerly associate direc­ The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Widener University's Alfred o. DeshongMu­ tor, has been named director of The Mont­ Art in Winston-Salem has announced several seum in Chester. She was previously director Other Costs clair Art Museum in New Jersey. The first new changes. Mackey Bane, who has been cura­ of exhibitions for the Newman Galleries in Honorarium, Monographs Series Editor $ -0- $ 1.000 director in twenty-seven years, Koenig came tor of exhibitions since January 1977, has re­ Philadelphia and before that taught Renais­ Art Bulletin 161.970 144,550 to Montclair in 1976, after serving as assistant signed to return to painting full time. Vicki sance and Baroque art history at Drexel Art Journal (net) 38,476 41.515 director of the Morris Museum of Arts and Kopf, formerly assistant curator, has been University. Newsletter (net) 11,599 11.818 Sciences and exhibitions designer for the named acting curator. Kopfs assemblage Board Travel/Meeting Expenses 5,480 6.376 Newark Museum. constructions have been exhibited widely, The Worcester Art Museum reports that be­ Committee Expenses 1.527 934 most recently at the Collector's Gallery of the cause of the continued expansion of its publi­ Dues 1.006 1.080 North Carolina Museum of Art this past fall. 2.227 2,261 The San Diego Museum of Art has named cations program, it has created il separate Awards Lee Hansley takes over the assistant curator· 28,635 33,726 Steven L. Brezzo director after an eight­ publications department. Part of that expan­ Placement Service ship. He has served twice as president of the 825 -0- month "try-out" as acting director. Before sion is promotional (posters, seasonal calen­ MFA Survey Halifax County Arts Council, in addition to 4,019 560 that he was assistant director for three years. dars, and brochures), but part is in exhibition Studio Guide Production chairing the permanent collections commit­ 1978 Ph.D. Survey Production 2,184 -0- Prior to moving to San Diego, Brezzo (MA catalogues and a new annualJoumal. Gaye tee and supervising the traveling exhibition L. Brown (MA Williams), formerly director Placement Handbook 985 ,0- Un~v. Connecticut) was chief curator at the program of the Roanoke Rapids Civic Center. International Congress Travel Grants -0- 9,006 James N. Wood, Art Institute of Chicago La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. of public relations, now heads the publica­ tions department. Federal Taxes ,0- 2,360 M,N.lR,R.W. ill Miscellaneous 812 1,426 In Chicago, the long search is over; James N. Two promotions have been announced by the In Washington, Birute Vileisis (Ph.D. Total Other Costs $259,745 $256,612 Wood will become the new director of the Art Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo. Steven A. Princeton) has been appointed assistant to the Institute in the spring. The appointment in­ Nash, with the Gallery since 1973 and for­ director at the National Collection of Fine 1,249 1,410 volves some changes in organizational struc­ merly chief curator, has been named assistant Arts. To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ Depreciation ture in accordance with a "separate but director. He recently completed the collec­ tions and announcements, please be Total Expenditures $405,460 $417,929 equal" formula under which both Wood and tion catalogue, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Constance L. Bowen has joined the Indiana sure to keep us informed of your cur­ the Institute's president, E. Laurence Chal­ University Art Museum as curator of nine­ Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to rent address. Excess 0/ Revenues over Expenditures $ 16,058 S .f9.9RO mers, Jr_, each report directly to the board of 1942. Douglas G. Schultz, who joined the teenth- and twentieth-century art. Wolf W_ trustees. To this rather delicate and much­ staff in 1972 as curatorial intern, is taking Rudolph has resigned his curatorship to ac­ debated position Wood brings five years of ex- over the chief curatorship. cept a research gran( in Germany.

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Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc., tive Director Dorothy M. Weber, "seems to be the organization that monitors the collection a reasonable solution so that the artists' repro­ The CAA newsletter will accept classijieds of offees for rights to reproduce the works ofliv­ duction rights are protected and an author of a professional or semi-professional nature iog American artists, has agreed to waive a scholarly text will not be unduly burdened (sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange those fees for the purposes of scholarly arti­ by costs. In other words, V.A.G.A. intends to of homes, etc.). The charge IS 50' per word, cles, provided that the author is not being have its price list serve only as a guide. We minimum charge $10.00, advance paymen:, paid for the articles. S.P.A.D.E.M., which have no desire to deter any legitimate scholar­ required. Make checks payable to CAA. \ performs a similar function for contemporary ly use solely because of financial reasons, Art Education in USSR, HELSINKI, ARC­ European artists, will follow the same policy. The above agreement, we might add, was TIC CIRCLE. April 10 days. Fifth consecu­ On the other hand, if an author has been negotiated by H, W. Janson, who, as previous­ tive study trip. Contact: Citizen Exchange allowed a budget for reproduction rights, ly reported (Sept. 1979 newsletter), is repre· Corps, 145 Hanover Streel, Boston, MA Y.A.C.A.'s charges will be based on the ratio senting the CAA in efforts to establish reason­ 02108. (617) 742·0105. between works reproduced that have been able fees for reproduction rights in American created by its members and all the repro­ and foreign museums. A call for documented TRA VELING EXHIBITIONS for rent. Au­ duced works. For example, if an author is al­ details from scholars who have been charged dubon prints, Hispanic New Mexican Folk lowed $100 for reproduction rights and is uti­ excessive fees for reproduction rights was ex­ Art, Native American prints and posters, lizing 50 illustrations, half of which are by tremely helpful in working out the agreement Eskimo carvings and prints, old master member artists, V.A.G.A, would take one­ with V.A.G.A. Anyone with additional prints, Daumier lithographs, Remington half of the $100. If all of the works used are by material along these lines is requested to write wood engravings. Review slides available, member artists, V.A.G.A, will also work to Professor Janson at Dept. of Fine Arts, Humphrey Traveling Exhibitions, 2125 Calle within the budgetary constraints placed upon N.Y.U., Main Building, Washington Square, Tecolote, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. the author. N.Y.C.l0003 III Hand Hollow Foundation seeks information This arrangement, says V.A.G.A. Execu- on USED ETCHING AND LITHO PRESSES in order to make printing facilities available to artisls in region. Reply: George Rickey, R.D. 2, East Chatham, N.Y. 12060. (518) RESOLUTION: SAVING DONATELLO'S]UDITH 794·7193. Interested in collecting photography? Sub­ The resolution below was jointly sponsored by and will soon be irreversible, The College Art scribe to PRINT LETTER, International Shirley Blum, H, W,janson, and Irving Lavin Association of America, therefore, in reo Newsletter for Fine Art Photography. News, and was proposed at the meeting of the CAA sponse to urgent pleas from Professoressa addresses, interviews, portfolios, internation­ Board of Directors in New OrleansonJanuary Paola Barocchi and other European scholars, al exhibition calendar, print prices. English 30,1980. It was adopted unanimously, joins in advocating the removal of the group Text. $24.00 for 6 issues, Air Mail. Write to: "Donatello'sJudith and Holofernes, a mas­ to a suitable location indoors and its thorough Box 250, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland, and terpiece of Renaissance sculpture, has deteri­ cleaning and conservation." include your check, orated badly in its present location in front of Copies of the resolution were sent to the the Palazzo Vecchio, where it is exposed to the Mayor of Florence, Onorevole Elio Gabuggi­ corrosive droppings of pigeons and the acid­ ani; Luciano Berti, Director, Soprintendenza DATEBOOK. 20 April deadline submission laden smog that has plagued Florence in per i Beni Artistici e Storici delle Provincie di ·of positions for May listing.. I July modern times. During the past decade, the Firenze e Pistoja; and the Consiglio Nazionale deadline ACLS travel grant applications (con­ damage to the group has become alarming per i Beni Culturali, II ferences November-February),

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