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Dear Friends and Colleagues: SPRING 

In last year’s newsletter, Bob Mudd Library. The situation is not ideal, but also not as inconvenient as we had feared. With Inside Bagley, then acting chair, wrote the coming of spring, the trek across campus is  that we were in the final design becoming less onerous than in the cold days of phase for the Marquand Library winter. Marquand Library in McCormick is now NEW FACULTY an empty shell, with asbestos removal underway.  expansion and McCormick Hall The precept room opposite the Marquand en- FACULTY NEWS renovation. Fast forwarding to trance has become a construction site office, and work is underway outside room 106 for an eleva-  the end of this academic year, we tor which will provide access to all three floors of EXPANSION AND RENOVATIONS find ourselves in the middle of a the building. The department has contributed a substantial amount of funds from its endowment,  construction site. matched by the University, to get construction CONFERENCES In a campaign which required underway. We are actively engaged in a capital campaign to raise further funds to rebuild the  logistics comparable to the invasion endowment and get the job done. EXCAVATIONS of Normandy, Marquand Librarian In September we were delighted to welcome  Jan Powell oversaw the removal of two new regular faculty members. Alastair Wright, formerly at Richmond University in London, UNDERGRADUATE NEWS the library holdings during winter joined us as an assistant professor specializing in  eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European recess to several locations. Some art; and Jerome Silbergeld, who comes to us GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS categories of rarely-used books from the University of Washington, is the first  were moved into holder of the P. Y. and Kinmay Tang Professorship MARQUAND LIBRARY NEWS permanent off-site in Chinese Art. Jerome is  also the first director of the storage. SLIDES AND PHOTOGRAPHS Tang Center for Chinese The bulk of the collec- and Japanese Art. You will  tion was moved to space in read more about them below. the Engineering Quad INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART We also benefited from known by some as a hire in another depart-  “Marquand in Exile.” It is ment. Professor Leonard actually a very handsome, PUBLICATIONS Barkan, formerly at New light-filled space which York University, joined the  engineering students, as Department of Compara- NEWS FROM ALUMNI well as art history majors, tive Literature and was are finding an attractive ‒ appointed as associated place to study. faculty in Art and Archaeol- ART MUSEUM NEWS Most of the remainder ogy. Winner of the Charles of the collection, including Rufus Morey Prize of the the rare books, is housed in continued on next page College Art Association for his book Unearthing in a book entitled From Drawings to Painting: the Past, he has broad interdisciplinary interests Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres which encompass art, literature, and the classical (Princeton University Press, 2000). A member of tradition, and we look forward to his participa- the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and tion in department initiatives. a corresponding member of the Accademia Although T. Leslie “Bucky” Shear, Hugo nazionale di San Luca and the Accademia dei Meyer, and Esther da Costa Meyer were on full- Lincei in Italy, he was elected in 1995 to the year sabbatical leaves, there were no visiting Academie Française—one of the “Immortals,” faculty members in the department this year. A whose number is always kept at forty—the high- search to replace Peter Bunnell, who retires at est honor that can be given to a citizen of France. the end of the spring term, was held, and I am We were delighted that he found time in a very very pleased to announce that Anne McCauley, busy schedule to give the sixth Haley lecture. presently at the University of Massachusetts, The department also sponsored or cospon- Boston, will be joining us this fall as a full sored a number of conferences organized by both professor. She will offer a full range of courses faculty and graduate students. In October, Anne- in the history of photography. Marie Bouché was co-organizer, with Jeffrey We were also pleased to welcome Lisa Ball Hamburger (Harvard University), of a symposium to the office staff as assistant to the chair and to entitled “The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological the departmental representative. She came to us Argument in the Medieval West.” This was fol- from the Department of Molecular Biology, lowed in November by “Women Artists at the where she worked from 1997 as administrative Millennium,” a conference organized by Carol support to three faculty members. Previous to Armstrong, who also curated the accompanying that, Lisa worked at Temple University, the exhibition “Camera Women” at the art museum. University of South Carolina, and the Woodrow In December, Hal Foster put on a conference Wilson School at Princeton. She has already entitled “The Dada Idea.” In March, “Posing endeared herself to faculty and students alike Models: The Question of Beauty and Its Status with her cheerfulness, quiet efficiency, and will- in the History of Art” was organized by graduate ingness to help. students Michelle Foa, Suzanne Hudson, and Julia The signal occasion of the fall term was the Robinson; and in April, Jenny King represented lecture by Pierre Rosenberg, director emeritus of the department in organizing a graduate student the Musée du Louvre, in the James F. Haley, conference in the School of Architecture entitled Class of 1950, lecture series. The series was “Room.” Danny Curcic´ ˇ put on a workshop on Pierre Rosenberg ´ endowed by William Haley, Class of 1945, in Byzantine domes, with department Ph.D.’s honor and memory of his late brother, James, Christina Maranci *98, Asen Kirin *00, and Ida and provides for a lecture by a distinguished Sinkevic´ *94, and present graduate students Kim scholar every other year. The inaugural lecture Bowes and Ludovico Geymonat participating. was given in 1991 by Professor James Ackerman. The previous issues of this newsletter are He was followed by Kathleen Weil Garris Brandt, now available on the department’s Web site at Marcia Pointon, Thomas Krens, and James Cahill www.princeton.edu/~artarch/newsletter. Please on a more or less every-other-year schedule. continue to stay in contact with us by e-mail at Monsieur Rosenberg’s lecture, entitled [email protected] or by mail: “Georges La Tour: An Exemplary Case of a Newsletter Painter Whose Reputation Was Revived Thanks Department of Art and Archaeology to Art Historians,” was enthusiastically received McCormick Hall by an audience that filled 101 McCormick. Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1018 Author of numerous books and catalogues, he published his Mellon lectures, delivered at the We welcome your interest, your news, and National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1996, your suggestions. Patricia Fortini Brown, chair

 SPRING  New Faculty

Jerome Silbergeld joined the department last Alastair Wright, a specialist in the art of the fall as the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth Chinese Art History and director of the Tang centuries, joined the department this fall as

Center for the Study of Chinese and Japanese assistant professor. A 1987 graduate of Cambridge hn Blazejewski Art. He was previously chair of the Department University, where he received a B.A. in art history, Jo of Art History and director of the School of Art he earned an M.A. at the University of Minnesota at the University of Washington in Seattle. (1989) and a Ph.D. (1997) in art history at Silbergeld received his B.A. (1966) and his M.A. Columbia. At Columbia, where he was a Whiting (1967) from Stanford University, both in his- Fellow, he studied with Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin tory. He did his graduate studies in art history at Buchloh, and Yves-Alain Bois, and wrote a dis- the University of Oregon, where he earned an sertation entitled “Identity Trouble: Matisse and Jerome Silbergeld M.A. (1972), and at Stanford, where he was the Failure of the Subject.” awarded a Ph.D. in 1974. Wright came to the department from the Well known for his publications on Chinese Getty Research Institute, where he was a Getty painting, including the book Chinese Painting Style Scholar and participated in the seminar “Repro- (University of Washington Press, 1982), which ductions and Originals.” Since arriving at has been a standard textbook in the field for Princeton, he has returned to the Getty to lecture twenty years, he has written on meaning, style, on Maximilien Luce’s Une rue de Paris en 1871. technique, politics, and patronage. He has also This April he lectured at Tate Britain on “The contributed entries on a wide range of subjects to Work of Imitation: Turkish Modernism and the encyclopedias and dictionaries, and coauthored ‘Generation of 1890.’” He previously held teach- the entry on Chinese art in the Encyclopaedia ing positions at Alfred University and Richmond Britannica. Spurred by his interest in contempo- University in London, and has been a curatorial rary Chinese society and art, Silbergeld has also assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and become an authority on twentieth-century art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. China. His publications on contemporary Chinese His scholarly interests embrace theories of art include Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Social- modernism; European colonialism, orientalism, ist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng and primitivism; and British art. Matisse has (University of Washington Press, 1993), which been a particular focus of his research and publi- Alastair Wright was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993, as cations, which include an article on Matisse’s well as articles on censorship. illustrations for a collection of poems by John- His most recent book is China into Film: Antoine Nau, published in Henri Matisse, Raoul Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Dufy: Correspondances (Bad Homburg, Galerie Cinema (Reaktion Books, 2000), and he is cur- Michael Blaszczyk, 2001); a study of Matisse’s rently teaching a course on Chinese cinema in Le Bonheur de vivre and the question of national the department. His ongoing involvement with identity, which appeared in The Visual-Narrative the installation of a Chinese garden in Seattle, Matrix: Collisions and Collusions (Southampton the sister-city of Chongqing in Sichuan, led him Institute, 2000); and an article, “Arche-tectures: to his current book project: a study of the Matisse and the End of (Art) History,” in the Sichuan-style garden in all of its manifestations, journal October (spring 1998). He has also pub- including style, function, patronage, and archi- lished on Ford Madox Brown, Bastien-Lepage, tectural engineering. and Whistler. As the first director of the Tang Center for Wright is currently working on a book the Study of Chinese and Japanese Art, Silbergeld entitled Matisse and the Subject of Art History, plans a broad range of activities that will promote which comprises a series of re-readings of the scholarship in the field of Far Eastern art and will cultural politics of Matisse’s work. Based on a benefit Princeton students, faculty, and staff, as close reading of the initial critical reception of well as the general public. Under his direction the key works, the book situates the paintings of Tang Center will sponsor symposia, exhibitions, Matisse and a number of his contemporaries in lectures, films, visiting scholars, and publications. relation to a series of period discourses relating It will also assist Princeton graduate students by to questions of individual, national, and Euro- underwriting research and travel expenses. pean identity.

SPRING   Faculty News

Al Acres has been reappointed as an assistant Anne-Marie Bouché was co-organizer, with professor for another three-year term and was Harvard’s Jeffrey Hamburger, of a conference recently named a Robert Remsen Laidlaw ’04 held at Princeton in October entitled “The University Preceptor for 2002–2005. A senior Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Medieval West.” She gave a paper entitled the Visual Arts will allow him to spend the “Vox Imaginis: Modes of Theological Discourse 2002–2003 academic year in residence at the in the Floreffe Bible Frontispiece” at the confer- National Gallery, where he plans to complete a ence. In March she spoke on “Fabricating History: book entitled Renaissance Invention and Christ’s The Gentle Arts of Deception in a Twelfth- Haunted Infancy. This year he presented a paper century Monastic Scriptorium (Marchiennes, entitled “Porous Subject Matter and Christ’s Northern France)” at the symposium “Verbal, Haunted Infancy” at the Princeton conference Visual, Magical: Cultures of the Book, 1100– “The Mind’s Eye” and delivered an invited 1600” at Columbia University. lecture at Rutgers University. In March he pre- Patricia Fortini Brown was reappointed as sented a paper, “Elsewhere in Netherlandish department chair for an additional three-year Painting,” at the meeting of the Historians of term. As Slade Professor of Fine Arts, she gave a Netherlandish Art in Antwerp. His essay “Small series of eight lectures at Cambridge University Physical History: The Trickling Past of Early in the winter of 2001. Later in the spring she was Netherlandish Painting” is forthcoming in a a resident in the history of art at the American volume entitled Symbols of Time in the History of Academy in Rome and served as a consultant and Art (London, Brepols/Harvey Miller). In col- interviewee for the BBC series Renaissance Secrets: laboration with Anne-Marie Bouché, he devel- “Venice—A Second-hand City?” In October, oped a new seminar this spring on “Realisms Brown was the keynote speaker at a Colgate and Meaning in the Late Middle Ages.” This University symposium, “Venice before San year Acres has been an Old Dominion Fellow, Marco: Recent Studies on the Origins of the part of an interdisciplinary group of Princeton City.” She also lectured at the American Acad- faculty who meet under the auspices of the emy in Rome, the University of East Anglia, the Council of the Humanities to present and discuss University of St. Andrews, the University of their current work. He has also served as one of Sussex, and Columbia University, and completed two regional representatives for the 2003 College a two-year term as president of the Renaissance Art Association conference in New York. Society of America. Carol Armstrong curated an exhibition with Esther da Costa Meyer, on sabbatical for the accompanying catalogue entitled “Camera 2001–2002 academic year, delivered papers at Women” at the Princeton University Art Museum. the J. Paul Getty Museum, Yale University, She also organized a symposium cosponsored by N.Y.U., at the annual meeting of the Association the department and the Program in the Study of of Art Historians of Great Britain, and at a sym- Women and Gender entitled “Women Artists at posium on Arnold Schoenberg and tradition at the Millennium.” Armstrong spoke at the con- Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. ference and gave public lectures during the year at the Pennsylvania State University, Bard Hal Foster, director of graduate studies, contrib- College, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. uted an article entitled “Violation and Veiling in Surrealist Photography” to Surrealism Unbound Robert W. Bagley, currently the department (Tate Gallery and Princeton University Press, representative, edited the catalogue of the exhi- 2001) and published a number of short essays in bition “Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost October, the London Review of Books, the Los Ange- Civilization” (Seattle Art Museum and Princeton les Times Book Review, and the New Left Review. University Press, 2001), which opened at the His book Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes) Seattle Art Museum, is at the Metropolitan is forthcoming from Verso Press this May. Museum in New York through June 16, and will then be shown at the Royal Ontario Museum in Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s recent publica- Toronto from August 2 through November 10. tions include an article in Adriaen de Vries, 1556– In September he lectured at the Kimbell Art 1626 (Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 2000), which Museum, and in February at the Cité de la received the Mitchell Prize for the best exhibition Musique in Paris. catalogue published in 2000. A member of the

 SPRING  advisory committees at the Herder Institute for East Central European Research and of the joint research project (Bildertausch) at the Kunsthis- torisches Museum and the Uffizi in Florence, hn Blazejewski Kaufmann was elected to the board of directors Jo of the Historians of German and Central Euro- pean Art. He gave talks at the annual meetings of the College Art Association in Chicago; the Deutscher Kunsthistorikerverband in Hamburg, Germany; and the New England Renaissance Society at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He also lectured at the Clark Institute; M.I.T.; the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic; the Museum of the City of Bratislava, Slovakia, for the Slovak Association of Art His- torians; the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, where he was keynote speaker at a symposium; and the Speed Museum of Art in Louisville. He has completed the catalogue of German drawings in the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, and Department faculty: (front row) Al Acres, Anne- his forthcoming publications include a volume of Marie Bouché, Carol Armstrong, Patricia Brown, his collected essays, a book on the geography of Hal Foster, Yoskiaki Shimizu; (middle row) art, a general book on the art of the Low Coun- Slobodan Curcic,´ ˇ ´ John Pinto, Thomas Leisten, tries, and a new edition of his annotated bibliog- William Childs, Jerome Silbergeld; (back row) raphy of art in central Europe, 1550–1620. Robert Bagley, Alastair Wright, John Wilmerding, Thomas Leisten, who was promoted to tenure Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. Not pictured: Peter in 2001, continued his excavation in Balis, Syria, Bunnell, Esther DaCosta Meyer, Hugo Meyer, last summer. He is a freshman advisor at Wilson T. Leslie Shear Jr. College and will serve as the department’s direc- tor of graduate studies in 2002–2003. He is also he offered a customized, interactive version of the interim director of the Slides and Photo- his existing alumni course “Walks in Rome” to a graphs section. group of forty alumni from Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Oxford through the University Hugo Meyer, on sabbatical in 2001–2002, Alliance for Lifelong Learning. contributed a number of entries to Roman Sculp- ture in The Art Museum, Princeton University T. Leslie Shear Jr., on sabbatical leave in 2001– (Princeton University Press, 2001). His most 2002, continues as a member of the managing recent book is Prunkkameen und Staatsdenkmäler committee for the American School of Classical römischer Kaiser: Neue Perspektiven zur Kunst der Studies at Athens. frühen Prinzipatszeit (Luxury Cameos and State Yoshiaki Shimizu, published an article entitled Monuments of Roman Emperors: New Perspectives “Japan in American Museums—But Which on Early Imperial Art) (Munich, Biering und Japan?” as part of the “state of art history” series Brinkmann, 2000). in The Art Bulletin (March 2002). His article John Pinto was coauthor, with Elisabeth Kieven, “Shujiro Shimada (1907–1994)’s Journey to of Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-century Rome: Princeton” (in Japanese), published in Art Forum Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the (Kyoto) 23 (2001), is a reminiscence about the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Other late Professor Shimada’s founding of Princeton’s Collections (The Pennsylvania State University graduate program in Japanese art history. Press, 2001) and published an essay, “Architec- Shimizu continues to work on fifteenth-century tural History as a Humanistic Discipline,” in the Japanese ink painting, focusing on the painter October 2001 issue of the Newsletter of the Society Sesshu (1420–1506) and his relation to Chinese of Architectural Historians. Pinto spent most of painting. This May he will travel to Tokyo to his sabbatical year 2001–2002 in Rome, where he study Sesshu’s works at exhibitions in Tokyo and was the Rudolf Wittkower Visiting Professor at Kyoto commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut). the artist’s death. In June and July, he will ad- He lectured at the Swiss Institute, the French minister Princeton’s East Asian Studies Program’s Academy in Rome, the Università di Calabria in intensive Japanese language program in Cosenza, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Last fall, continued on next page

SPRING   Kanazawa. He also serves as chair of the art Emeritus Faculty advisory committee for the Asia Society and as a member of the visiting committee of the Japan David Coffin’s book on the sixteenth-century Society Galleries. Shimizu will co-curate an artist and antiquarian Pirro Ligorio is in press at exhibition of Japanese art and to help organize a the Pennsylvania State University Press, and he is symposium in Sidney, Australia, in the fall of spending much time clearing copyright permis- 2003. The exhibition, loaned by the Japanese sions for the illustrations. He also has several Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, has articles in press, including two on the University’s the theme of the four seasons. landscaping, and his brief article on the gardens of Venice appeared in Source in the fall of 2001. Jerome Silbergeld’s most recent book is China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Sam Hunter’s recent publications include books Chinese Cinema (London, Reaktion Books, 2000). on Robert Rauschenberg (Rizzoli, 1999) and This year he published articles in the Grove Leonard Nelson (Rizzoli, 2001). A monograph Dictionary of Art Online (New York, Macmillan, on Hans Hofman will be published by Rizzoli 2001), Eternal Present: Feng Bin, 1997–2000 later this year. His essays have appeared in the (Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001), catalogues of recent exhibitions of the works of and The Lyrical Brush of C. C. Wang (New York, Leonard Nelson (Wayne Art Gallery, Wayne, Plum Blossoms Gallery, 2001). His article on Pennsylvania), George Mazilu (Marsha Child censorship in Chinese visual arts is forthcoming Contemporary, Princeton), and Isamu Noguchi in Censorship: An International Encyclopedia (Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle). He also curated a (London, Fitzroy Dearborn). He also lectured at show devoted to George Segal’s Nightscapes (Locks Harvard, Oberlin, Notre Dame, Ohio State, the Gallery, Philadelphia) and contributed to the Asia Society, the China Institute, and the Seattle catalogue. This year he lectured at the Hood Art Museum. Among his current projects are Museum at Dartmouth College and at the books on three Chinese films and on the Birmingham Museum of Art. In September, Sichuan-style garden. He continues to serve on Brandeis University awarded him an honorary the editorial board of the Archives of Asian Art. doctor of letters degree. John Wilmerding authored an essay entitled Peter Bunnell to Retire “Thomas Eakins: Portrait of John N. Fort, 1898,” in American Dreams: American Art before 1950 Peter Bunnell, the David Hunter McAlpin from the Williams College Museum of Art (New Professor of Photography and Modern Art and York, 2001) and was awarded the first Eastman professor of art and archaeology, retires at the Johnson Award by the Union League Club of end of this semester after thirty years of teaching New York. A member of numerous advisory at Princeton. Peter’s enthusiasm for his subject boards, Wilmerding lectured in 2001 at the and his ability to connect with students at all Chilton Club, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, levels, from aspiring artists in the Program in Boston; Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi; Visual Arts to fledgling scholars in the depart- Drexel University; Princeton, for the Class of ment’s graduate program, has remained strong 1949; the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; year in and year out. Last fall’s course evaluations the Art Seminar Group, Baltimore; the Union of his introductory undergraduate course—Art League Club, New York; and the Philadelphia 248, “History of Photography”—are typical: “I Museum of Art. He also appeared on WHYY, wish I could have taken the course twice”; Philadelphia, in the film Thomas Eakins: Scenes of “Bunnell’s lectures were the highlight of my day”; Modern Life, which was produced in connection “the best class I have ever taken at Princeton, with the Eakins exhibition at the Philadelphia hands down, and I’m a senior”; and “the class Museum of Art. He has just completed a new quickly became my favorite class and convinced book, for Yale University Press, tentatively titled me to become an art history major.” Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression Peter has published prolifically. An honorary in American Paintings. fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and recipient of the Distinguished Alastair Wright gave up the second year of a two- Alumnus Award from the Rochester Institute of year fellowship at the Getty Research Institute to Technology, he received the George Wittenborn join the department in the fall as an assistant Memorial Award honoring one of the five finest professor. He lectured in 2001 at Tate Britain in art books published during 1989 for Minor London, the Getty Research Institute, the Clark White: The Eye That Shapes (Princeton, The Art Art Institute, and at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Chicago.

 SPRING  Museum, 1989). Peter’s service to the University, he has made us feel we were participating in the in addition to teaching and scholarship, has been making of this history ourselves.” manifold. Since the time of his arrival in 1972, His former student and present col- he has also served as faculty curator of photogra- league, Professor Carol Armstrong, phy and curator of the Minor White archive in tells how Peter’s courses of some the art museum. He was also director of the art twenty years ago helped shape her museum from 1973 to 1978 and acting director own career trajectory: “I remem- from 1998 to 2000. ber his passion for convincing Indeed, Peter has played a major role in his students of the importance shaping the study of the history of photography and interest of photography’s hn Blazejewski as an academic field, and his students hold major special art of seeing, one which I Jo curatorial positions in museums and collections began to share at that time, partly throughout the world. Doug Nickel, now a curator because of Peter.... As his generations at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, of students will all attest, I think, Peter writes that “under Peter we also came to realize has been extraordinarily open to different kinds Peter Bunnell that the history of art is also a history of flesh- of projects, different tastes, and points of view and-blood people, of real-world considerations other than his own.” and human choices. Peter has not only made his We will miss him. students aware of this not-so-fashionable concept, Patricia Fortini Brown

Expansion and Renovations

arquand Library and adjacent areas scanners, and the whole panoply of electronic of McCormick Hall have taken on tools that have become indispensable to scholars. Mthe appearance of construction sites Add to this a generally deteriorating infrastruc- or, more accurately, destruction sites. Canvas- ture, the presence of asbestos, an aging air-han- draped construction fences encircle McCormick, dling system, and the lack of a rare book reading while inside the building temporary barricades area, and the case for renovation and moderate mask the work of heavy demolition and refitting. expansion was overwhelming. What is happening behind these barricades All of Marquand’s needs were carefully is the first significant expansion and upgrading catalogued over a period of several years, and an of Marquand Library since it moved into its architectural evaluation of the most effective current quarters in 1965. In the nearly forty ways to address each need was completed. The years since, the department has expanded the Boston firm Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and scope of its teaching, added faculty members, Abbot (SBRA) did the final master plan and was and increased the number of students in its awarded the contract for the renovation. graduate program. Marquand has also been The expanded edition of Marquand will increasingly used by researchers from other include a glassed-in fourth story as well as added departments on campus and from other institu- stack and study space in an underground wing tions around the world. In sum, the library has that will extend beneath the current entry court. been dealing with a space shortage for years. All in all, the usable space At the same time, publishing in the field of in the library will increase art history has grown exponentially—Marquand significantly—accommo- subscribes to more than 700 journals, and its dation for users will more overloaded shelves held more than a quarter of a than double, shelf space million volumes. The collection has been grow- will increase, and instruc- ing by over 6,000 volumes each year. Just as tion and seminar space significantly, more and more research is being will grow by more than a done in front of computer monitors as the num- third. All of the study ber of Web sites and databases devoted to art spaces will be wired with history grows. To serve the next generation of both electrical and Internet students and scholars, Marquand clearly needed connections, so that users more Internet access, more computers, more can do on-line research using their own laptop continued on next page

SPRING   computers. A new rare carved into the building just off the first-floor book storage and reading hallway; one restroom is being moved; and a room, a consolidated refer- small kitchen and new janitor’s area are being hn Blazejewski ence area, and a state-of- built on the first floor. New faculty offices will be Jo the-art copying and added to the third floor, and the expedition room scanning center will be will also be reconfigured. created, and all of the air- When these phases of the renovation have handling systems, lighting, been completed and Marquand Library has fabrics, and finishes will reopened, probably in the late summer of 2003, be upgraded. The entire the construction zone will shift to the large photo facility will also be brought study room above lecture hall 101. This area, Marquand Library stripped of into compliance with the Americans with which has been used less frequently in recent years its books and shelving, ready Disabilities Act. as more department courses post their images on for construction to begin As librarian Janice Powell reports elsewhere the Web, will be reconfigured to hold two precept in this newsletter, the project began with a move rooms, the department’s publications office, and that might have intimidated Hannibal: the trans- two new offices for the art museum. porting of thousands of elephants (not to mention A significant enhancement to the main folios, quartos, and octavos) across campus to two entrance of McCormick Hall is also being other libraries. Shelving, furniture, and files were planned, and in the last phase of the project moved out; ceiling panels, lighting, and asbestos the landscaping around the building will be were removed; and Marquand is now an empty improved. The University has put the entire shell ready for serious construction to begin. project on a fast track and is moving forward Meanwhile, jackhammers have already even though all the funds have not yet been begun their work in other areas of McCormick. raised. The work on fundraising continues as the A shaft for a long-needed elevator is being construction proceeds.

Architect’s renderings of the Marquand Library expansion showing the new under- ground study and stack areas below the entrance courtyard and the glass-walled fourth story above the current library

 SPRING  Conferences

The Mind’s Eye: Art and Women Artists Theological Argument in at the Millennium the Medieval West November 9–10, 2001 October 12–14, 2001 Thirty years ago, the art historian Linda Nochlin Just a month after the World Trade Center tragedy, wrote her landmark essay “Why Have There scholars from the United States, Canada, several Been No Great Women Artists?” Partly to reex- European countries, and even Australia traveled amine this critical question, the department’s to Princeton to attend a three-day conference Carol Armstrong, Doris Stevens Professor in entitled “The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Women’s Studies and professor of art and archae- Argument in the Medieval West.” Sponsored by ology, organized a two-day conference that fea- the Department of Art and Archeology, and co- tured Nochlin and other women scholars and organized by the department’s Anne-Marie artists. The speakers explored the ways in which Bouché and Professor Jeffrey Hamburger of art institutions, art history, and art criticism have Harvard University, the conference focused on (or have not) changed in the last thirty years as a new interdisciplinary approaches to understand- result of the women’s movement and decades of ing the relationship between art and theology feminist interrogation in the arts. The conference during the Middle Ages. was cosponsored by the department and the It has often been assumed that medieval Program in the Study of Women and Gender. religious art must be in some sense secondary to, The emphasis of the conference was on the or a transcription of, preexisting textual sources. contemporary situation in the arts (i.e., the last More recently, however, scholars have reacted to thirty years), but it also included discussion of this emphasis on the textual by discounting the the arguments for and against identity politics, importance of “elite” theological culture for and between “essentialist” and “constructionist” medieval art and emphasizing instead popular feminism that have taken place in the last decades, piety, oral tradition, and the beliefs of margin- not to mention shifts in art practice alized groups. It has even been suggested that art and media—from the predominance might have been used to resist texts and subvert of painting and sculpture to photog- the dictates of doctrine. Neither of these ap- raphy and video, mixed-media, instal- proaches, however, has interpreted art as a primary, lations, performances, and rather than secondary—or reactive—medium site-specific work. for expressing theological ideas. Nor have they The speakers included installation encouraged scholars to consider the many ad- artist Ann Hamilton; dance, film, and vantages that images might have had in fulfilling video artist Yvonne Rainer; installa- the specific pastoral and intellectual needs of the tion artist Mary Kelly, a professor of major art patrons of the Middle Ages, many of art at the University of California- whom were practicing theologians. Los Angeles who is best known for Believing that some of the most important her piece Post-Partum Document; questions remain unanswered, Bouché and Griselda Pollock, professor of social Hamburger assembled a roster of specialists from and critical histories of art at the a variety of disciplines—including art history, University of Leeds in England; and history, theology, musicology, and literature—to Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson refocus attention on the power and function of Wallace Professor of Modern Art at art as an independent medium for intellectual the Institute of Fine Arts at New York discourse. As the papers presented at the confer- University. Conference organizer ence made clear, instead of using theology to Carol Armstrong spoke on “Between explain art, it is now becoming possible to con- Then and Now: A Ghost in the House of the sider art as a special kind of language for com- ‘Woman Artist.’” An overview of the conference municating theology. and the complete program are posted on the Web Speakers included the department’s Anne- at www.princeton.edu/~prowom/artconf.html. Marie Bouché and Al Acres. The complete pro- The conference coincided with the exhibi- gram can be seen at www.princeton.edu/ tion “Camera Women,” a survey of the work ~artarch/mindseye/schedule.html. of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women continued on next page

SPRING   photographers, at the Princeton Posing Models: The Question University Art Museum. The of Beauty and Its Status in exhibition paralleled the confer- ence by focusing on the medium the History of Art which, arguably, has replaced March 3, 2002 painting as the dominant pictorial Department graduate students Michelle Foa, medium of our time, and which Suzanne Hudson, and Julia Robinson were the has admitted women into its organizers of the department’s second annual ranks somewhat more readily graduate student conference. They began with than painting has. The exhibition, the goal of finding an organizing framework that which evolved out of Armstrong’s could accommodate art and art-historical writings seminar “Women in Photography,” from disparate time periods, geographic locales, subsequently moved to the Frances and artistic media, but also one that addressed a Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. very specific and pertinent topic. By selecting the relationship between beauty and art—in its The Dada Idea historical manifestations as well as its continued relevance to more recent artistic and critical December 7, 2001 practices—they hoped to provide a forum for Professor Hal Foster was the organizer of a De- focused examinations of this larger theme. cember conference focusing on the Dada move- The title of the symposium suggests the ment. The first session was organized around the multiple ways of thinking about beauty in art— theme “Versions of Dada” and featured papers as an operative concept, or in terms of critical or by Brigid Doherty of Johns Hopkins University, philosophical models, or in its countless manifes- Leah Dickerman of the National Gallery of Art, tations, including the beauty of the human body and George Baker of the State University of New or of the model. The richness of the subject was York-Purchase. Hal Foster moderated the discus- borne out by the papers that were delivered at sion that followed. In the afternoon session, the symposium. The keynote speaker was artist titled “Genealogies of Dada,” the speakers were Louise Lawler, who spoke about her work, placing Craig Dworkin of Princeton’s Department of it in a broader context of institutional critique, English; Department of Art and Archaeology collectors, and the concept of beauty. Department graduate student Julia Robinson; and Branden grad student Marta Weiss also presented a paper, Joseph, Cotsen Fellow in the Liberal Arts at along with graduate students from the University Princeton. The conference concluded with a of California-Berkeley, Harvard, the University round-table discussion led by Benjamin Buchloh of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, and the Insti- of Barnard College. tute of Fine Arts of New York University.

Two of the more than 1,600 Excavations coins found in the department’s excavations at Polis Chryso- chous, Cyprus: above, a gold Excavations at Polis behind the dig house, which has been the site of solidus of Justin II (A.D. 565– Chrysochous, Cyprus intensive excavation in earlier seasons, was occu- 578); below, a bronze follis pied successively by a Roman building (probably of Justinian I he 2001 season of the department’s dig a villa) with a paved courtyard and painted Ionic (A.D. 537–38); at Polis Chrysochous, in the far north- columns, a Byzantine basilica, and finally a four- Twest corner of Cyprus, was primarily teenth- to fifteenth-century Lusignan complex. devoted to focused study excavations. William Excavations in the summer of 2000 uncovered a Childs, director of the dig, led a small crew series of burial pits just outside the south wall of that excavated a series of test trenches in- the basilica, as well as numerous fragments of tended to clarify problematic areas that had early Byzantine wall painting. In the summer of been uncovered in previous seasons. 2001, further digging at the east end of the Most of the summer’s digging was done in basilica showed that the building had three apses the area adjacent to the dig house, which that terminated the nave and both side aisles. stands on a ridge overlooking the Chrysochous Several floor levels were found, ranging in date bay of the Mediterranean. The area directly from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

 SPRING  In the northwest corner of this extensive In addition to coins and other finds, the building trench, the discovery of large ashlar and mud- also yielded a collection of Islamic clothing, brick walls had suggested that the fourth-century probably dating to the thirteenth century. The B.C. city defenses may have run along this ridge. clothes include a nearly intact child’s dress and a The ashlars could have belonged to one of the skullcap, and much of the fabric preserves its city gates. To test this hypothesis, the Princeton original colors. team dug a test trench that revealed a long mud- Probably the most tantalizing find from this brick wall running east and west. This discovery structure is an inscription which was apparently provides some support for the idea that this is in set into one of the interior walls. The inscription fact the fourth-century city wall, but the crucial may date to the tenth or the early eleventh cen- area lies directly underneath the house that tury and seems to consist of names of Abbasid serves as the dig’s headquarters. Childs and the officials. Additional work on this inscription, Cyprus Department of Antiquities are now which is not well preserved, may help to cast discussing moving the dig house to other quarters some light on the function of this intriguing and demolishing the old house so the critical structure, which was entered only from outside area beneath it can be excavated. the walls of the town—there was no access from Excavations were also conducted in a field the town itself. at the northeastern edge of the village, where a The Princeton team also continued work on very large ashlar structure came to light in 1999. a group of early Islamic buildings set on a hill The sixth-century B.C. pottery found in the overlooking the site. These structures have been building suggests that this may have been the identified as a mansion or “desert palace” of a “palace” of the Archaic city. Intriguingly, a mag- member of the Umayyad dynasty (ca. eighth netometer survey found that the entire field adjacent to this structure was covered by a rect- angular grid of streets, with the southernmost road leading directly to the “palace.” Additional excavation was done in this ashlar structure in 2001, but revealed only that much of the “palace” levels had been destroyed. The Princeton team will return in the sum- mer of 2002 to excavate elsewhere in the “palace” and at other areas of the site. Excavations at Balis, Syria In June and July of 2001, Thomas Leisten di- rected the sixth season of excavations sponsored by the department at the Islamic site of Balis, in the Euphrates Valley. Leisten’s team once again included archaeologists, technicians, and students from Syria, the U.S., and Germany. The season began with additional digging The newly discovered room of century A.D.). Digging in previous summers in the area of the Byzantine city wall, a site that the Umayyad mansion at Balis, showed that part of this complex was devoted to had been the focus of earlier work by the Prince- Syria, with frescoes imitating ton excavators. The initial plan was merely to some type of agricultural production, and that it marble veneer and columns clear the area of the praetorium, which had been also contained luxurious residential quarters buried by more than twelve feet of debris, and complete with wall paintings, stucco work, and then begin restoration work on the praetorium a marble-paved bath. itself. But in the course of removing the massive This year’s excavation revealed some particu- amount of fill, which was mainly debris dumped larly well-preserved wall paintings with imitation in the area during the medieval period, the marble veneer and engaged columns. Although Princeton team quite unexpectedly uncovered a this type of wall decoration is known at other fairly complete Islamic building nestled into the sites, the room uncovered at Balis is one of the corner of the praetorium and the city wall. This finest and best preserved. These frescoes will structure, whose walls still stand over fifteen feet eventually be moved to the museum in Aleppo, high, had been preserved partly by the collapse where a room will be dedicated to the finds from of one of the towers of the Byzantine city wall. the department’s excavations at Balis.

SPRING   Undergraduate News

Hilary Allard ’02 is writing a senior thesis on the an assistant director for SCORE! Learning Cen- contemporary relationship between the city and ters, tutoring children from ages four to fourteen the art museum, with Professor John Wilmerding and working in marketing, sales, and business as her advisor. She is seeking a post-graduation planning. [[email protected]] job in a variety of museums and architectural Erika Christy De La Parra ’02’s senior thesis firms. This summer she and a friend will back- topic is “The Evolution of Mudejar Architecture pack through Russia, traveling from St. Peters- in the Iberian Peninsula and Its Transfer to the burg to Odessa, then hopping a boat to Istanbul, Americas.” She is working with Professor Thomas a city she studied intensively with Professors DaCosta Kaufmann. Erika is also earning a Leisten and Curcic.´ ˇ [[email protected]] ´ certificate in Latin American Studies. During her Nathan Arrington ’02 is preparing four years on campus she has worked as a student his senior thesis on the iconography health aide at McCosh Infirmary, was a volunteer of the defeated Greek, supervised by teacher of English as a second language, and Professor William Childs. Nathan spent a semester studying in Madrid. She has also has been a columnist for the Daily been involved with several campus Latino organi- Princetonian and is the principal zations, including the Chicano Caucus, Acción, violist in the University orchestra. and Organizatión Latinoamericana. Her future He will be performing and teaching plans include doing humanitarian work for a year the viola in St. Petersburg, Russia, and then entering medical school. this summer, and then plans to look [[email protected]] for a job as a writer or assistant Cindy Drakeman ’02 is an archaeology major editor for a magazine or publisher. who is writing a thesis on images of the goddess He anticipates continuing his studies Venus from the late Republic to the early Empire at the graduate level in the near (roughly 50 B.C. to A.D. 100); Professor William future. Childs is her advisor. Next year she will begin a Caroline Chang ’02 is working two-year master’s program at Oxford’s Institute with Professor William Childs on a of Archaeology. This summer Cindy will be an A metope from the Parthenon, thesis titled “Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Leda: The assistant supervisor of excavation at the Anglo- one of the depictions of Meaning and Context of Variation in Pompeian American project in Pompeii, run by Bradford defeated Greeks analyzed Wall Paintings.” After graduation, she will begin University (in the U.K.). For the past year she in Nathan Arrington ‘02’s medical school. While on campus, Caroline was served as president of the Princeton Tower Club senior thesis president and social chair of Kappa Kappa and the InterClub Council, which oversees all of Gamma, and was a member of Tiger Inn. Princeton’s eating clubs. She will also participate [[email protected]] in a marathon in Alaska this summer to raise money for the Leukemia Society, and asks anyone Alexis Collins ‘02’s senior thesis focuses on the interested in learning more about the program or cutouts that Henri Matisse created at the end of sponsoring her to contact her. his life; her advisor is Professor Alastair Wright. [[email protected]] At Princeton, she was on the varsity volleyball team and was a SHARE peer advisor during her Linley Carson Gober ’02 is writing her senior senior year. This summer she will move back to thesis on the topic “Michelangelo: A Study of Los Angeles, and is planning to move to New His Pietas and Faith,” working with Professor York and enter the catering or event planning Patricia Brown. She also plays on the varsity field. [[email protected]] soccer team and is involved with the Crossroads Christian Fellowship group. She’s currently look- Katherine Collins ’02 is working with Professor ing for teaching jobs in Dallas, Texas. Carol Armstrong on a thesis titled “A Model at [[email protected]] War: The Story of Lee Miller and Her Success in Transcending the Boundaries of Photographic Helene Goldsmith ’02 is working with Professor Documentation and the Expectations of Women John Pinto on a senior thesis titled “Gesamtkunst- in War.” She is a member of the diSiac Dance werk in Art Nouveau Architecture: Gaudí and Company and Pi Beta Phi sorority. After gradua- Horta.” She is also pursuing a certificate in tion Katie will move to Los Angeles to work as French. [[email protected]]

 SPRING  Liz Hallock ’02’s thesis topic is “Artifice and Program, and served as a tour guide at the art Resistance: Beneath the Lines of Decadent Print museum. She is planning on a career in advertis- Maker Aubrey Beardsley,” which she’s writing ing. [[email protected]] under the direction of Carol Armstrong. At Anna Minkowski ’02 is completing a thesis Princeton she has been involved with the Cotsen titled “Frank Stella and the Corporate Collection: Children’s Library, Prince Arts and Photography, Agendas, Aesthetics, and Assimilation” under the the International Relations Council, Charter direction of Alastair Wright. She plans to live in Club, Arts Alive, and was Class of ’02 alumni San Francisco next year. While at Princeton, she relations co-chair, along with lots of tennis, played on the varsity squash team for four years basketball, and yoga. With the help of alumni, (and was captain of the team in 2001–2002), she developed a series of career events for art and and sang in the coed a cappella group Shere archaeology seniors. After graduation she hopes Khan, for which she was also the music director to work in Britain under an exchange program, in 2000–2001. [[email protected] ] and is also applying to the Columbia/Whitney master’s program in modern art and history of Melissa Poulos ’02’s thesis topic is “The Cross- decorative arts program. Her eventual goal is to over between Modern Art and Fashion: A Com- study and practice alternative medicine, possibly parison of the Legacy Behind Malevich’s Black utilizing art therapy. [[email protected]] Square and Chanel’s ‘Little Black Dress.’” Her advisor is Professor Carol Armstrong. After Charlotte Hopkins Kenworthy ’02 is a student graduation, she plans to work in New York City, of Professor Peter Bunnell, and is writing a senior probably for the investment firm Gridley & thesis titled “Sports Photography and the Power Company. On campus she has been involved in of the ‘Moment,’” with a particular emphasis on singing and song-writing, tennis, musical theater, the photographs of Neil Leifer. She is a starter on and art. [[email protected]] the nationally top-ranked lacrosse team. Char- lotte is tentatively planning to live in Australia Claire de Dobay Rifelj ’02 is working on a next year. [[email protected]] thesis titled “Word and Image: Interactions in Picasso’s Collages and Magritte’s Text-Paintings.” Emy Kim ’02, who is in the Program in Visual Her advisor is Yoshiaki Shimizu. This summer Arts, is preparing a thesis exhibition of painted she will be a teaching assistant in art history and self-portraits. She used three different but over- French at Exeter, and in the fall will begin the lapping modes of painting—visual translation, graduate program in art history at Williams representation of memory, and physical and College. At Princeton she was a four- personal marks. She has worked under the su- year member of the coed a cappella pervision of Carol Armstrong, Greg Drasler, Eve group Katzenjammers, not only re- Aschheim, and Brian Jermusyk. Emy worked as hearsing, performing, and touring, assistant to the curator of prints and drawings in but also managing the group. the art museum for several years, and spent the [[email protected]] summer before her senior year as an intern at the Wave Hill Art Gallery in the Bronx. After gradu- Christopher Sanson ’02’s senior ation, she will begin the master’s program in art thesis is “A Conflict of Interests: Illus- history at Williams College in Williamstown, tration and the Metropolitan Museum Massachusetts. [[email protected]] of Art at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” and his advisor is Professor Valeria Francisca Kukla ’02 is working with John Wilmerding. Outside of the Professor Carol Armstrong on a thesis titled classroom, he founded a student “Advertising a Contemporary Art: A Fusion with organization called The Princeton Culture.” She was a four-year member of the Gallery, which is devoted to promot- varsity swimming team, was named to the All- ing student artwork on campus. Their Ivy League team, and is a current school record Portrait study by Josephine major project is a magazine featuring student holder. Valeria intends to work in some aspect of Sittenfeld ’02, part of her artwork, and the premier issue will be out this sales in the near future, and then begin a health- senior thesis project May. [[email protected]] care internship. [[email protected]] Josephine Sittenfeld ’02 is doing a photography Melanie Laird ’02 has been researching and show for her Program in Visual Arts thesis project. writing a senior thesis titled “A Revaluation of Her exhibition, titled “Portraits,” includes two Pastiche: Picasso and the Question of Imitation” distinct bodies of work: portraits of her family under Professor Hal Foster’s direction. She has and portraits of people who work on the Prince- been a member of the a cappella group Wildcats, ton campus. Her advisors are Mary Berridge was a big sister in the Big Brother/Big Sister continued on next page

SPRING   Dissertations and Emmet Gowin from visual arts, and the she plans to live in New York and hopes to con- of Currently department’s Peter Bunnell. Josephine is also in tinue working with and learning about art. She is the Teacher Preparation Program and will return particularly interested in contemporary art and Enrolled Students to Princeton in the fall to do her student teach- artists. [[email protected]] ing in a local eighth-grade social studies class- Ann Waddell ’02 is doing a thesis project in Nadja Aksamija room. At Princeton she was the publisher of the “Villa and Villegiatura in photography that will culminate in two shows in Nassau Weekly, led tours of the art museum, Sixteenth-century Ragusa” the gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The first is titled coached a girl’s basketball team, and took pic- (Patricia Fortini Brown) “College Girls,” the second, “The Jacksonville tures for the Princeton Alumni Weekly. She hopes Dream Project.” Images from both shows will be Nikolas Bakirtzis to continue with photography or magazine available from April 20 through June 5 at “Prodromos Monastery on work. [[email protected]] Mount Menoikion near Serres: www.princeton.edu/~waddell. Her advisors are A Topography of Monastic Life” Liz Streicker ’02 is working with Professor Hal Emmet Gowin, Mary Berridge, Andrew Moore, (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ ´ Foster on a thesis that investigates the themes of and Peter Bunnell. Ann will live in New York religious and gender identification in the artwork City after graduation and is investigating jobs in Mary Engel Frank of the mentally ill, specifically, the Prinzhorn public interest law as well as art galleries and “The Woman of a Certain Age Collection. She expects to work in some area of museums. Her extracurricular activities included in Sixteenth-century Secular Venetian Art” advertising, probably in the creative end. volunteer service, running, photography, and (Patricia Fortini Brown) [[email protected], [email protected]). gallery hopping. [[email protected]] Milette Gaifman Alexis Breier Thoman ’02 is writing a thesis on Betsy Zedek ’02 is doing a thesis titled “Incor- “The Opposite of Mimesis Shirin Neshat, a contemporary Iranian film porating an Islamic Influence: The Importance of in Greek Art: Aniconic and artist. She is investigating the effectiveness of Near Eastern Art in Matisse’s Modernist Vision” Semi-iconic Monuments of the Neshat’s representations of the Middle East and with Professor Thomas Leisten. She is also com- Archaic and Classical Periods” whether they contribute to a broader cultural pleting a certificate in Italian language and cul- (William Childs) dialogue or belong to a program of twentieth-/ ture. After graduation she will enter Harvard Ludovico Geymonat twenty-first-century “orientalism.” Her advisor Law School. [[email protected]] “The Pictorial Program of the is Professor Thomas Leisten. After graduation Parma Baptistery” (Slobodan Curcic)´ ˇ ´ Heather Hole “(Re)Constructing American Graduate Student News Art: Marsden Hartley and the New Mexico Landscape, 1918– 1925” (John Wilmerding) Nadja Aksamija is currently writing her disser- William McManus tation on villa architecture, decoration, and villa “‘When We Made Films Just to life in sixteenth-century Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Make Them’: Warhol Unlimited” This year her work was supported by the Donald (Hal Foster) and Mary Hyde Fellowship in the Humanities, Yumna Masarwa which enabled her to travel widely in England, “Early Islamic Military Architec- Italy, and Croatia. Nadja also presented papers at ture: A Study of the Umayyad the College Art Association and the Renaissance Ribats of Palestine Based on Society of America conferences this spring. Archaeological Remains and [[email protected]] Historical Sources” Nikolas Bakirtzis, who is in his fourth year of (Thomas Leisten) graduate studies, returned to Princeton in Sep- Marta Weiss tember after a full year of field research in the “Photographic Fiction: British Balkans, focusing on the late-thirteenth-century Photography in the 1860s and monastery of St. John Prodromos near Serres, 1870s” (Peter Bunnell) Greece, which is the topic of his dissertation. At the monastery he participated in the ongoing restoration work and had particular responsibility for supervising the restoration of the monastic tower. He is the coauthor of the catalogue of an exhibition on Byzantine fortifications in north- ern Greece that was organized by the Greek The courtyard and church of the monastery of Ministry of Culture in Thessaloniki; the exhibi- St. John Prodromos near Serres, Greece, which tion opened in December 2001. Last fall he gave is the subject of Nikolas Bakirtzis’s dissertation

 SPRING  a paper on the environs of the monastery of also the co-organizer of the symposium “Room,” Prodromos at the twenty-seventh annual Byzan- held in Princeton in May. [[email protected]] tine Studies Conference, at Notre Dame Univer- Marina Mihaljevic´ presented a paper at the sity. He also lectured on monastic towers at the 2001 national convention of the American Asso- University of Pennsylvania. This summer he will ciation for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, return to Serres to continue his field work and to held in November in Washington, D.C. Her participate in the restoration work. In the fall he paper, “The Reinterpretation of Byzantium in will move to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, Serbian Contemporary Art and Architecture,” D.C., where he has been awarded a junior fellow- was part of a panel on Serbian contemporary art ship for 2002–2003. [[email protected]] and architecture organized by Ida Sinkevic´ *94 Blake de Maria is finishing her dissertation, of Lafayette College. [[email protected]] “The Merchant of Venice: A Study in Sixteenth- Mark Mitchell has been working with Professor century Cittadino Patronage.” She is also com- John Wilmerding to guest curate a first-ever pleting an article, “Strangers in a Sumptuous exhibition of the art of American luminist Francis Land: Immigrants and the Arts in Renaissance A. Silva (1835–1886), which opened at the Venice,” which will appear in Renaissance Con- Berry-Hill Galleries in New York in April. He nections (Ashgate, 2003). This summer she will wrote the accompanying exhibition catalogue move to California, where she has accepted a essay and organized an inventory of known teaching position at Santa Clara University. works by the artist that was also included. Mark [[email protected]] also co-chaired a panel that he organized for the Ludovico Geymonat returned to Princeton after American Association of Museums’ annual con- Albrecht Dürer’s engraving two years in Italy and Greece researching his ference in Dallas on “Curating for the Commu- Man of Sorrows by the Column dissertation on the thirteenth-century painted nity: New Initiatives in Curatorial Training and in a manuscript prayerbook, program of the Parma baptistery. He was awarded Professional Development.” [[email protected]] one of the objects selected by a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellow- Todor T. Petev organized “In the Mirror of Todor T. Petev for the exhibi- ship from Princeton. Last summer he attended Christ’s Passion,” an exhibition of fifty-eight tion “In the Mirror of Christ’s the conference, “Orientalism before 1600,” at prints, drawings, and illustrated books on view Passion” at the art museum Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Twentieth International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Paris. In September he gave a paper on Venetian painting at the turn of the thirteenth century at the symposium “Venice and Byzantium,” orga- nized by the Istituto Veneto and the Ecole du Louvre, which will be published in the conference proceedings. He is now completing work on his dissertation. [[email protected]] Gordon Hughes was one of the speakers at this year’s Frick Symposium, held at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His topic was “Coming into Sight: Learning to See Robert Delaunay’s Windows.” [[email protected]] Lori Johnson is a fifth-year graduate student who is writing her dissertation on Camille Corot and the textile industry. She participated in at the art museum until June 9. The exhibition two symposia this spring: the tenth annual explores the ways in which the story of the Passion Crossing the Boundaries Symposium at SUNY- captivated the spiritual vision and inspired the Binghamton, and the twenty-eighth annual imagination of such masters as Dürer, Guercino, Cleveland Symposium at the Cleveland Museum Mantegna, Rembrandt, and Schöngauer during a of Art. At both symposia she spoke on “Corot period when graphic art evolved as a major and the Figure in the Social Environment.” artistic medium. Todor is completing his disserta- [[email protected]] tion on a Middle Dutch prayerbook (Kortrijk, Jennifer King, a first-year student, delivered the S.B. Ms. 26), examining in particular the transi- paper “The Dangerous Allure of Hybridity in tion from hand-produced to printed images in Jorge Pardo’s Project” at the 2002 College Art the Late Middle Ages. [[email protected]] Association meeting in Philadelphia. She was continued on next page

SPRING   Dissertations Julia E. Robinson, a second-year graduate was shown in Tokyo earlier this year. Recently student, is studying modernism with Hal Foster. [[email protected]] She presented a paper titled “The Event Score: A Completed Francesca Toffolo lectured at the Philadelphia Structure in Fluxus” at the conference “The Dada Symposium, held at the Philadelphia Museum of Idea” held at Princeton last December. She is October/November 2001 Art, on the topic “Art and the Conventual Life in currently revising that paper for a special issue of Anthony Barbieri-Low Renaissance Venice: Paolo Veronese’s Mystical the journal Performance Research which will be “The Organization of Imperial Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria.” In March published this fall to mark the fortieth anniver- Workshops during the she gave a paper to the Renaissance and Early sary of the founding of Fluxus. Han Dynasty” Modern Colloquium at Princeton. She is a fifth- [[email protected]] Glenda Middleton Swan year graduate student who spent the last aca- “Meaning in Context: Hans Bjarne Thomsen, a Ph.D. candidate in demic year in Venice doing dissertation research Continuous Narrative in Japanese art and archaeology, was awarded a sponsored by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Roman Painted Panels” Fulbright IIE dissertation grant and is now doing Delmas Foundation. [[email protected]] research in Japan as a visiting scholar at the Helen Deborah Walberg finished her Gladys January 2002 Kyoto National Museum. He presented a num- Krieble Delmas grant in Venice, Italy, last June Margaret Laird ber of papers this year: two at the International and is now writing her dissertation on “The “Evidence in Context: Public Convention of Asia Scholars and the European Marian Miracle Paintings of Alessandro Varotari and Funerary Monuments of Japan Experts Association Convention in Berlin, (il Padovanino, 1588–1649): Popular Piety and the Seviri Augustales at Ostia” another at the annual meeting of the Association Visual Rhetoric in Seventeenth-century Venice.” June 2002 for Asian Studies, as well as two papers at gradu- After completing two research stints this year in Emily Bakemeier ate student conferences at Harvard and Colum- Washington, D.C., she is now living temporarily “The Portraits Historiés of bia. Three of Hans’s articles will be published in east Tennessee, where she is concentrating on Henri IV (1589–1610)” this year, in Impressions (United States Ukiyo-e writing. She will also teach art history this sum- Association), The Elvehjem Museum Bulletin, and Nora Laos mer as an adjunct professor the University of the Journal of the European Japan Experts Associa- “Provençal Baptisteries: Tennessee. She continues to divide her time tion. He also worked as a translation consultant Early Christian Origins and between her home base in Venice and the States, for the exhibition “Masterworks from the Museum Medieval Afterlife” and hopes to defend her thesis in the spring of of Modern Art, New York (1900–1955),” which Mark Mitchell 2003. [[email protected]] “The Artist-makers: Professional Art Training in Mid-nineteenth- century New York City” Kevin Moore Marquand Library News “Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894– 1986): Invention of an Artist” he renovation of Marquand’s space in space in the former engineering library, which Fellowships McCormick Hall became a reality this had earlier moved across Olden Street into the for 2002–2003 Tyear under the direction of librarian newly completed Friend Center for Engineering Janice Powell. In August of 2001, half of the Education. The E-Quad library now houses call Nikolas Bakirtzis collection was moved to refurbished space in the numbers NA through NK, SB, and SAPH (pho- Dumbarton Oaks Junior Mudd Library. All of the rare books, folios, tography). The microform collections are there, Fellowship elephants, books with Richardson and Library as well as the Office of Information Technology of Congress A through M call letters, many Far cluster, which has a PC and a Mac for student Kim Bowes Eastern Seminar titles, and the straight N call use. The library has six public terminals, fourteen Yale Postdoctoral Fellowship numbers that contain most of the journals were Milette Gaifman given new space at Mudd. Two reading rooms Samuel Kress Travel Fellowship are available in the Mudd Library, in addition to Heather Hole a classroom. Materials may be used at Mudd

ohn Blazejewski Georgia O’Keefe Museum Monday through Friday from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 J Research Center Fellowship P.M., or they may be paged to shelves in the Engineering Quad. Also last summer, the reserve Kristoffer Neville collection and uncataloged books were moved to Donald and Mary Hyde Fellow- Firestone. Many of the reserve journal articles ship for Research Abroad in are now being converted to electronic reserves so the Humanities that they are available twenty-four hours a day. Over the winter holiday break, the rest of Marquand Library in its temporary quarters in Marquand’s collection was moved to renovated the Engineering Quad

 SPRING  Internet access points for laptops, and five Dell Michigan. In October, laptops that are lent for use within the library. A Catherine Cooney scanner enables patrons to scan images directly joined us as the new into their papers or, by using Almagest, graduate assistant librarian, and hn Blazejewski students can easily get slides made from scanned Annie Farrell became Jo images. Marquand’s phone number remains the the new reserves assis- same, (609)258-3783, but the fax number is tant in August. The now (609)258-7650. library will soon be The best news is that the design phase for hiring two new bibliog- the new library space is now complete, and the raphers, one for renovated facility will be functional as well as Chinese and the other beautiful. Every seat will have an Internet con- for Japanese art. nection, and more public terminals will be avail- Marquand library able for library clients. The seating space is vastly added significantly to expanded, and the new carrels have built-in file its rare holdings this year, particularly in photo- Marquand Library staff: special cabinets. The expanded library will retain the graphy, modern, Renaissance, and medieval art. collections assistant Steven diversity of study space and add new features, Some items that relate to the study of art history Brown, assistant librarian Catherine Cooney, special including an electronic classroom. There will be were purchased for the Rare Books and Special collections assistant Virginia three state-of-the-art seminar rooms; a climate- Collections Division. Marquand also bought Lacey, librarian Janice Powell, controlled rare book vault and reading area; and many facsimile volumes this year, and added new and reserves assistant Annie up-to-date equipment to scan, copy, and photo- electronic databases: Art Sales Index, an index to Farrell graph materials. The renovated and expanded auction records from Sotheby’s and Christie’s Marquand will reopen late next summer. from 1950 to the present; Design and Applied Several staff moved away this year—Forrest Arts Index, an index to design and craft journals Swan to Fargo, North Dakota; Denise Weinheimer since 1973; and National Palace Museum, a data- to Rome, Italy; and Frank Chance to Ann Arbor, base of articles and images from the museum.

Slides & Photographs

everal significant events occurred in the into digital media. As of mid-March, 105,000 department’s slides and photographs slides have been catalogued into the burgeoning Soperation during the past year. After eleven Access database, which now makes up approxi- years at Princeton, Ben Kessler resigned in mid- mately one third of the overall slide collection. July to become director of the visual resources Thirty-one department courses have now been collection at the University of Chicago. While digitized and uploaded to Almagest, a network the department conducts a national search for database developed and maintained by Princeton’s Ben’s successor, the interim directors have been Educational Technologies Center (ETC), Mary George, former head of the General and a unit of the McGraw Center for Humanities Reference Division in Firestone Teaching and Learning. Almagest Library, who served in that position until March allows faculty members to build 31, 2002, and the department’s Professor Thomas course Web sites where students Leisten. Six regular staff members continue to can view key images for study The thousands of support the image needs of faculty and students: purposes. Some faculty members digitized images Virginia French, assistant to the director/art are also teaching with digital class- now available on the cataloger; Lisa (Troy) Manganello, art cataloger; room projection, thus replacing Almagest database Shari Kenfield, curator of research photographs; slides entirely. Due to copyright re- include those for Pro- Xia Wei, curator of the Far Eastern collection; strictions, only students enrolled in a fessor Jerome Silbergeld’s Marilyn Gazzillo, media specialist/art cataloger; specific course have access to its images. For course “Introduction to Chinese and David Connelly, photographer. Imaging more information about Almagest, see http:// Cinema”; these are scenes from specialist JoAnn Boscarino resigned in September etc.princeton.edu. Farewell My Concubine to pursue another career and to devote more Although the slides and photographs unit time to her artistic work. will not need to relocate during the renovation Over the past year, the slides and photo- of McCormick Hall, staff office space has been graphs collection has continued its expansion continued on next page

SPRING   compressed to permit installation of a new eleva- Web site. She is also embarking on a project to tor and the extension of the second floor of the digitize the negatives from the department’s library. Fortunately, alternate storage space was excavations at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, so that found for the majority of the collections, which they can be distributed to members of the exca- will remain accessible throughout the construc- vation team. These digital files could also be used tion project. The alternative facilities are being to create user guides, sent as e-mail attachments, monitored daily for temperature and relative or accessed by faculty and other researchers. humidity levels. The staff of Slides and Photographs looks Curator of research photographs Shari forward to August 2003, when they hope to Kenfield is currently gathering and organizing welcome the Marquand Library back to its up- information for a new Research Photographs dated quarters in McCormick Hall.

Index of Christian Art

he Index of Christian Art celebrates the making it one of the largest image archives on eighty-fifth anniversary of its foundation the Internet. Among the most recent additions is Tthis year and continues to grow under the entire collection of the Paul van Moorsel the direction of Colum Hourihane. The Index Centre for Christian Art and Culture in the recently began the ambitious project of adding Middle East, based at the University of Leiden. Firestone Library’s collection of some This unique collection includes several thousand two hundred Western manuscripts to its color photographs of Christian art from the Near database archive. While the Index already East which have never before been published. had many of the Firestone manuscripts The addition of these images, along with those in its card files, the coverage was not from a number of other archives, including that comprehensive, and very few Princeton of photographer and Byzantinist Alison Frantz, manuscripts had been catalogued elec- has brought the Index into the role of original tronically. Thanks to a generous grant of publisher, as well as adding significantly to the $450,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon scholarly value of the database. Foundation, all of the illuminations in The archive saw a number of significant the Firestone Library manuscripts will be staff changes this year. Marie Holzmann, one of photographed, digitized, iconographi- the most familiar figures in the Index for well cally analyzed, electronically catalogued, over thirty years, retired this summer. Many will and made available on the Index’s Web remember her kindness and charm as the public site www.princeton.edu/~ica. In addi- face of the archive. Trained under Rosalie Green, tion to this electronic publication, a Marie added significantly to the Index and worked book focusing more on the textual ele- tirelessly, even though she proclaimed that she ments of the manuscripts will also be disliked medieval art—we never believed her! published. New staff have been employed Marie is continuing to work in the Index on a to work on this project, which is due to part-time basis. Three other staff members de- be completed in 2004–2005. parted this year: Gerry Guest, who took up an The Ascension in an English The Firestone project parallels the ongoing assistant professorship at John Carroll University Gothic manuscript of ca. 1300 cataloguing of the illuminations in West- in Cleveland; Rick Wright, who ac- (Princeton University Libraries, ern manuscripts held by the Pierpont cepted an associate professorship at Ms. Garrett 35, fol. 10v), one of Morgan Library, a project which Fordham University; and Janet the two hundred Firestone the Index began two years ago. Strohl, who transferred to the manuscripts that will be added More than 150 manuscripts Princeton Writing Program to the Index of Christian from the Morgan have now and the art museum. In their Art’s database been catalogued, and nearly place, the Index welcomed (photograph copyright © 10,000 digitized Morgan new staff members Janet Princeton University Library) images are currently available Makuchowski, Alison on the Index’s Web site. Beringer, Andrea Campbell, The Index of Christian and Giovanni Freni. Art’s Web site continues to grow The Index also welcomed two and now contains over 70,000 images, visiting scholars this year. Marina Marie Holzmann

 SPRING  Vidas, a Fulbright scholar, comes to us from proved to be a popular means of making the Croatia and has already lectured to the Program material in the archive available to a wider audi- in Medieval Studies. The second scholar, already ence. The eighty-fifth anniversary of the Index a familiar face to Princeton and the Index, is will be marked by the publication of a collection Debra Higgs Strickland, who joins us from of scholarly essays written by current and former Edinburgh and is working on the Bestiare d’amour. members of the Index staff. This collection of The Index’s publication program continued essays, entitled Insights and Interpretations: Studies this year with the release of King David in the in Honor of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art, which is being distributed Index of Christian Art, will be dedicated to by Princeton University Press (pup.princeton. Rosalie B. Green, who was director of the Index edu). This is the second volume in the series for over thirty years and who also celebrates her Index of Christian Art Resources, which has eighty-fifth birthday this year.

Publications

he department’s most recent publication publications that are currently available from is King David in the Index of Christian Princeton University Press, go to pup.princeton. TArt, the second volume in the new series edu/catalogs/series/pdaa.html and click on Index of Christian Art Resources. This series makes each title for more information. selected extracts from the Index’s renowned card The department also contributed substan- files and database available in a compact, printed, tially to two books that were published this year portable form. The subject of the recently pub- by other divisions of the University. In the fall, lished volume, King David—the greatest king of the art museum published Roman Sculpture in Israel and one of the pivotal figures of the Old The Art Museum, Princeton University, a compre- Testament—was a particularly rich source of hensive scholarly catalogue of the museum’s inspiration for artists and their patrons through- holdings of Roman sculpture, including the out the medieval world. The catalogue contains pieces found by the department’s excavations at well over 5,000 entries, ranging from the Dura the Syrian site of Antioch. The catalogue includes Europus paintings to the many illuminated contributions from sixteen scholars who discuss psalters of the later medieval period. Organized more than 160 examples of ancient Roman into more than 240 recognizable episodes from sculpture, one of the finest collections in any David’s richly illustrated life, this book provides American college or university. Over 400 spe- the first comprehensive survey of the vast profu- cially commissioned photographs provide superb sion of David images in both Byzantium and the documentation of the entire collection. West. Among the highlights are fine marble portraits The objects in the catalogue range in date of the emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius, from the third to the fifteenth century, and two rare bronze heads of women from the reigns represent fourteen different media, including of Trajan and Hadrian, and a relief of the god frescoes, ivories, manuscripts, stained glass, Silvanus holding the viscera of a sacrificial animal. sculpture, mosaics, and textiles. Each entry gives The authors include the department’s Professor detailed information on the object’s current Hugo Meyer; Michaela Fuchs, a leading authority location, date, and primary subject. The book is on sculpture of the Roman period; Michael enhanced by more than one hundred photographs Padgett, the museum’s curator of ancient art; of medieval objects illustrating a wide range of Christopher Moss *88, the department’s editor of episodes from David’s life. An index allows publications; department alumni Margaret Laird readers to browse the medieval world geographi- *02, Tina Najbjerg *93, Nassos Papalexandrou cally for images of David still in situ, and the *98, and Robert Weir *98; and graduate students modern world for objects in museums, libraries, Nadja Aksamija, Michael Cro, Blake de Maria, and other collections. The volume also includes Kyriaki Karoglou, and Michael Marton. Noted an extensive bibliography on David in Early experts Michael Gawlikowski, John Pollini, Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval art. and Robert Wenning contributed entries on King David in the Index of Christian Art, like Palmyrene sculpture, portraits, and Huaranite all departmental books, is distributed by Princeton pieces. Publication of the book was supported by University Press. For a list of departmental continued on next page

SPRING   a generous grant from the department’s Publica- photographs are reproduced in album order, tions Committee. offering new insights into how Carroll thought This spring the University library, in about his work and how he wanted it to be seen. conjunction with Princeton University Press, The British historian of photography Roger published Lewis Carroll, Photographer: The Taylor contributed a thorough and sophisticated Princeton University Library Albums. This hand- discussion of Carroll both as a photographer and some volume publishes the world’s finest and as a prominent member of Victorian society. most extensive collection of photographs by Edward Wakeling, the editor of Carroll’s diaries, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), wrote the annotated catalogue, which is illustrated Oxford mathematician, author of Alice’s Adven- with exquisite tritone plates. The department’s tures in Wonderland, and prolific and gifted Peter Bunnell contributed an introduction, Index photographer. Many of these images have never of Christian Art photographer John Blazejewski been reproduced before and are unknown even photographed all of the Carroll prints, and the to committed Carroll enthusiasts. department’s Publications Committee provided The library’s collection includes, in addition financial support. to a trove of loose prints, four rare albums made Both of these books are available from by Carroll himself to showcase his work to Princeton University Press. friends, family, and potential sitters. All of these

News from Alumni

Undergraduate Alumni took any studio art courses at Princeton and can’t draw creatively (though he does work hard on his William C. Agee ’59 teaches at Hunter College renditions of retinal disease), he still feels fortu- and is working and writing on various topics in nate to have begun his career in the photo study American modernism. [[email protected]] rooms of McCormick Hall and Marquand Li- William Ambler ’88 is currently on leave from brary. [[email protected]] the Hispanic Society of America in New York to Anne-Marie Belli ’84 worked in New York complete his dissertation, which he is galleries and museums—including the Whitney, writing for the Institute of Fine Arts, the Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan—for New York University, under the supervi- fifteen years. She has recently begun selling her sion of Jonathan Brown. The working own paintings. Her work includes gridded ab- title is “The Portrait Workshop at the stractions and wet-in-wet floral compositions. Court of Philip III of Spain (1598– She has had four solo exhibitions in the last few 1621).” The Hispanic Society is mount- years and has been part of four group shows in ing a growing number of exhibitions and New York and New Jersey. Twenty-five of her is increasing public awareness of its watercolors are currently on view at the Friend’s collections. Its Web site is www.hispanic Cafe at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. society.org. [[email protected]] She divides her time between New York City and Richard A. Bazarian ’82 has been prac- Sag Harbor. [[email protected]] ticing as a vitreoretinal surgeon at the Kathleen Motes Bennewitz ’82 spent nine years Maine Eye Center in Portland, Maine, in Minneapolis, where she was assistant curator for seven years. He is a subspecialist in at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, a the field of ophthalmology, treating Frank Gehry-designed building at the University macular degeneration, diabetic retinopa- of Minnesota. In June of last year she moved to thy, retinal detachments, severe eye The Netherlands and is living in Wassenaar, injuries, and other conditions. It is a outside The Hague, with her husband Scott ’79 One of Anne-Marie Belli ‘84’s high-tech process that is not only a very and their twin daughters, who are now five years wet-in-wet floral paintings visual specialty, but is practiced to spare the old. While she misses her professional life, she is vision of others. As his patients watch him enjoying her “professional sabbatical” and has sketch their retinal detachment, they often found time to enjoy the museums and to volun- remark that he must be an artist. While he never teer in the arts in Holland. [[email protected]]

 SPRING  Holly Kileff Borham ’97 and her husband have in the skating gala “Coronation on Ice” in Lake Gutmann moved to her hometown of Chapel Hill, North Placid, New York. This event was held in con- Foundation Grant Carolina. Holly teaches U.S. history and govern- junction with the passage of the Olympic torch ment at East Chapel Hill High School and through the Olympic Village in Lake Placid. The Leo and Karen Gutmann hopes to introduce an art history course within Katherine is currently performing with the Ice Foundation of New York has the next few years. [[email protected]] Theatre of New York in several special exhibi- awarded the department a tions at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. She John Brooks ’58 recently retired after a career as grant of $125,000 for the sup- also continues to coach competitive figure skat- associate director at the Sterling and Francine port of graduate students in art ers at the regional and sectional levels, including Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachu- history and archaeology. The a senior level competitor at the Eastern Sectional setts. One of the educational projects he devel- Gutmann Foundation provides Championships in Pittsburgh last November. oped at the Clark Institute was a week-long support for tuition, fees, hous- [[email protected]] seminar for art museum docents, a program that ing, and books for students he is bringing to the art museum at Princeton William A. Camfield ’57 is retiring this year who have demonstrated high this summer, with the help of Susan Taylor, the from Rice University, in part to work on several academic achievement as well museum’s director, and Gillett Griffin. scholarly projects that were neglected while he as financial need, and who are [[email protected]] taught, recruited faculty, raised funds, and engaged in full-time course chaired the Department of Art and Art History. Natasha Bult ’91, after majoring in art history work leading to graduate de- He is also looking forward to spending more and visual arts at Princeton, founded the School grees in art history, archaeol- time with family and friends, traveling, returning of Black and White Photography in London. ogy, and art conservation. to school (as a student), taking cooking lessons, She was recently joined by associate Margaret Grants for individual students and volunteering in various civic causes. Bill Mann, and reports that the school is now ac- will cover three semesters of recalls that he was privileged to have received his credited and growing. The School of Black and support to defray housing initiation into art history at Princeton during the White Photography was recently featured in costs, pay fees such as mem- 1950s. The University at that time had no cre- several magazine articles in the U.K. and is berships in professional orga- ative arts component (except for Bill Seitz’s non- organizing a number of exciting workshops nizations and museums, buy credit night class), the art museum was modest, covering all aspects of photography. books and CDs, subscribe to and critical theory was still a generation away. [[email protected]] journals, and pay tuition not But the quality of the undergraduate education covered by the University. The Margaret Burchenal ’74, curator of education was memorable, marked by an esprit de corps, a grant to the department also at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, was study room that integrated graduate students includes funds to be used for recently selected by the National Art Education and some undergraduate majors, and deeply conference registration fees, Association (NAE A) to receive the 2002 Art committed, engaging teachers, including supplemental language tuition, Educator of the Year Award. The award recog- Bill Seitz, Kurt Weitzmann, George Rowley, and photocopying, which will nizes achievements and service of national sig- David Coffin, Jack Martin, Fred Licht, James be particularly helpful while nificance in the field of museum education. Holderbaum, Robert Rosenblum, and Erwin Marquand Library is being Curator of education at the Gardner since De- Panofsky. [[email protected]] renovated. The department is cember 2000, Burchenal heads the museum’s Amy Kirkpatrick Caputo ’96 and her husband grateful to the Gutmann Foun- school partnership program, tour and museum Franklin Caputo ’96 recently moved to Houston, dation for this support of its teacher programs, and community programs. where she is working in foundation and corpo- graduate program. She has also focused on examining and commu- rate development for the Houston Ballet. She nicating the broader value of multiple-visit spent the previous five years in Chicago, where museum learning, a topic she studied as a guest she worked for Steppenwolf Theatre Company scholar at the Getty Research Institute last sum- and for an ill-fated art and antiques Internet mer. After receiving a master’s degree in art company. [[email protected]] history from Harvard, she worked at the Port- land Museum of Art in Maine as the education Will Cardell ’74 taught art and English at a director and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Marianist mission school in a suburb of Tokyo, where she was the assistant chief of education. Japan, from 1974 to 1980. He returned to the Prior to her work at the Gardner, Peggy was the States as art instructor at Oak Knoll School in head of school programs at the Museum of Fine Summit, New Jersey, and since 1983 has also Arts in Boston. She has also served as director of been head of the Department of Creative Arts at the museum division of the NAEA. Oak Knoll. He completed a master’s degree in [[email protected]] fine arts at Montclair State University in 1988. Will’s department offers courses in dance, vocal Katherine Healy Burrows ’90 performed last music, photography, and fine arts for grades 7 December—alongside skaters such as Linda through 12, and has an extensive extra-curricular Fratianne, Josef Sabovcik, and Caryn Kadavy—

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SPRING   program that includes a calligraphy club, a vocal Maria F. P. Saffiotti Dale ’85 has been curator ensemble, a dance troupe, and lighting and stage of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts at the crews. He teaches classes ranging from seventh- Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of grade general art to advanced placement studio Wisconsin-Madison since December 1999. She art and in recent years has added a com- and her husband, Thomas Dale, associate profes- puter graphics segment. Will’s students are sor of art history at UW-Madison, recently orga- also encouraged to apply their talents to nized a long-term loan of medieval objects from support school and community endeavors. the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the For example, the calligraphers make signs Elvehjem Museum. Maria is also a Ph.D. candi- and address invitations for the Susan G. date at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York Komen Foundation, and the vocal en- University, and is writing a dissertation on the semble performs at nursing homes and illuminated manuscripts produced for the papal hospitals. [[email protected]] court of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534–49). She was the recipient of a Rome Prize Fellowship H. Avery Chenoweth ’50 has completed a in 1995–96 and a Jane and Morgan Whitney book entitled Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Combat from the Revolution through the in 1996–97. [[email protected]] Twentieth Century, which will be pub- lished by Friedman/Fairfax Books this Rowena Houghton Dasch ’97 is currently a September. The 400-page, large-format Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art book features the art of almost 700 Ameri- History at the University of Texas at Austin. In can artists, including C. W. Peale, Winslow December she completed her master’s thesis, “A Homer, Frederic Remington, George Culture Apart: Anglo Artists’ Responses to New Avery Chenoweth ‘50’s portrait Luks, John Singer Sargent, and Reginald Mexico’s Spanish-American Population, 1915– of the late Ernest Gordon, Marsh, who experienced and depicted war at 1941,” and, after a celebratory trip to Sicily former dean of the chapel first hand. Avery himself was a “combat artist”: before Christmas, she entered Texas’s Ph.D. his career as a reservist in the Marine Corps took program in January. She will focus on nineteenth- him through three wars, which he sketched and and early twentieth-century American art, and is later painted. After the Korean War, he earned currently researching dissertation topics. an M.F.A. in painting from the University of [[email protected]] Florida, spent some time painting portraits, then Sara Dennis ’87 has worked in the fashion worked in television and advertising as a Madi- industry since graduation and is currently vice son Avenue art director/producer. In addition to president of product development for men’s and commercials, he directed, produced, and filmed women’s underwear and swimwear at Calvin an award-winning hour-long special for NBC. Klein Inc. She is responsible for the smooth He has painted numerous portraits and other operation of the design department, which in- works that are in corporate, governmental, and volves frequent travels to Europe, Asia, and the private collections in this country and abroad. Middle East to research new ideas as well as to Two of his paintings have appeared as covers of work with the factories that manufacture Calvin PAW. Although supposedly retired, he is com- Klein products. She has been at Calvin Klein for pleting another history book for Barnes and six years. Last year she married Vladimir Vitkin Noble and has several novels and screenplays in (Harvard ’87), an independent film-maker. They the works. He lives with his wife in northern are expecting their first child in June. Virginia. [[email protected]] [[email protected]] Charles “Chick” Cole ’45 has retired from the David A. Diamond ’90 and his wife Laura are Pomfret School in Connecticut, where he taught pleased to announce the birth of their third art history, drawing, and studio art. He has daughter, Aviva Michal, on December 17, 2001. painted in oils for many years and, after doing Aviva joins olders sisters Yael, four, and Shira, some of his best work in recent years, is working two and a half. David is an oncologist in diligently to arrange a show in New York. Al- Orlando, Florida. [[email protected]] though always interested in painting and studio art, he wrote his senior thesis on the evolution of Douglas Dunn ’64 continues to make dances Greek portrait sculpture, and he still believes and to dance in them. His evening-length piece that the assimilation of visual excellence from Aerobia, set to a text by Jim Neu, was presented the past is a crucial part of any artist’s training. at P. S. 122 in New York last November. In March and April of this year Douglas was in Paris work- ing with the Paris Opera Ballet to reconstruct

 SPRING  Pulcinella, a piece that was first commissioned in Henry B. Graham ’60, *75 has news in the Art Museum 1980 as part of an homage to Stravinsky. The graduate alumni section. News premier took place on May 4, 2002, at the Palais Cleve Gray ’40 sends news that his paintings will Garnier. In the fall of 2002 Douglas will begin be shown in two exhibitions this fall—one at the work on Muscle Shoals, a collaboration with Newberger Museum at the State University of composer Steve Lacy, designer Charles Atlas, and New York in Purchase, which will run from Sep- lighting designer Carol Mullins. It will be pre- tember 1 through December 31, and the second sented at Danspace Project in New York in at the Berry-Hill Galleries in Manhattan, opening February 2003. [[email protected]] on September 12. Cleve’s work was recently the J. Robert Elliott ’53 began his career at Walt subject of a well-received book by Nicholas Fox Disney Productions, where he was vice president Weber: Cleve Gray (Abrams, 1998). of Walt Disney Music of Canada and national Alison Green ’90 is currently living in London sales manager for Disneyland Records. He later and working on a Ph.D. at Oxford Brookes Caroline Cassels worked for A&M Records as director of the pre- University, where she’s writing her dissertation recorded tape division. While at A&M he wrote, on the American painter Myron Stout. She also Curator of Education cast, produced, and did the cover artwork for a writes for London-based art magazines like Art and Academic Programs 1977 album entitled “Halloween Horrors” that Monthly and Untitled, and works as an exhibi- Caroline Cassells has joined is still selling today. Also an authority on medals tion organizer at the Barbican Art Gallery. She the staff of the Princeton Uni- and decorations, he authored the book American received her M.A. in art history in 1998 from versity Art Museum as curator Society Medals: An Identification Guide (Santa the University of Texas at Austin. of education and academic Monica, 1998), contributed the article “Decora- [[email protected]] programs. This newly created tions, Medals, and Orders” to the World Book position will help the museum Encyclopedia, and was president of the Orders Holly Gutelius ’99 is the head coach of the realize its potential as a vital and Medals Society of America from 1981 to women’s soccer and lacrosse teams at Wesleyan force in the academic and 1985. In retirement he has served as a research University in Middletown, Connecticut. In May social life of Princeton Univer- associate in history at the Los Angeles County she will marry Geoff Wheeler, who is the head sity by integrating the arts into Museum of Natural History and is active in a coach of the men’s soccer team at Wesleyan. campus life, encouraging the number of societies, including the Sons of the [[email protected]] use of the collection in the American Revolution, the General Society of Jan Wurtzburger Hack ’83 is currently living in University curriculum, and Colonial Wars, the Aztec Club of 1847, and the Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is sole propri- creating public programming. Military Order of Foreign Wars. He and his wife etor of Art and Antique Appraisals, LLC. Jan was Caroline also will be working Delores have three sons and two granddaughters. a specialist in American decorative arts at with museum staff, volunteers, Ronit Friedman ’91 worked at the Peggy Christie’s in New York City, and was head of that and the Princeton community Guggenheim Collection in Venice and then department at Christie’s East from 1986 through to develop innovative educa- taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, 1989. She subsequently married Talbot Hack tion programs in response to through the Princeton in Asia program. She later ’84, moved to Switzerland and back, and had the needs of K–12 teachers and did biomedical research at the University of three children. Now that the youngest Hack has a diverse general audience. Pennsylvania and then attended Columbia started school, Jan has begun her appraisal prac- She holds an M.A. degree University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. tice locally, performing personal property ap- in medieval art, and is currently She is currently completing the third of four praisals for insurance, estate, or property writing a dissertation on “Le years of residency in obstetrics and gynecology at division. [[email protected]] Violon de Delacroix: Musicality Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Jacqui Hall ’94 is a project manager in market- and Modernist Aesthetics.” Her Hospital. She is looking forward to a brief stint ing communications for the architecture and Ph.D. work focused primarily at a medical clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, planning firm the Hillier Group in Princeton, on modern art and aesthetics, this spring. [[email protected]] New Jersey. This August she will marry David giving her a broad art history Donald Goddard ’56 writes reviews of art exhibi- Handelman (Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- background with an emphasis tions in New York, and elsewhere, for neering *89). [[email protected]] on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For the past four www.newyorkartworld.com. Among the shows Cynthia Harris ’94 is currently associate design he has reviewed are “Amazons of the Avant- years, she was staff lecturer in director at More magazine and has just coau- charge of academic affairs at Garde,” “Mark di Suvero,” “Nicole Eisenmann,” thored and designed her first cookbook. Entitled “Thomas Eakins,” “Grace Hartigan,” “Alma the Philadelphia Museum of The Cooking Club Cookbook, it will be published Art, acting as liaison to the Thomas,” “Louis Eilshemius,” “Jessica Bronson,” by Villard/Random House in June 2002. and “Edvard Munch.” [[email protected]] [[email protected]] continued on next page

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SPRING   Art Museum News Margaret Hazlett ’88 is working at Bowdoin tion on Tintoretto at Columbia. continued from page 23 College as the associate dean of student affairs [[email protected]] and dean of first-year students. She stays in Deborah Krohn ’83, *87 has news in the gradu- academic community and touch with art history by sitting in on lectures ate alumni section. creating programs to encour- by the art faculty at Bowdoin as well as by pay- age faculty and students to ing frequent visits to Bowdoin’s art museum. She Rose Kuhn ’99, following two years in the take advantage of the has also created a few Bowdoin art history ma- Internet advertising field in San Francisco, has museum’s rich resources. jors by directing “direction-less” students into moved back to her hometown, Laguna Beach, in These programs included that department during their first year. southern California. She is currently coaching special events, lectures, sym- [[email protected]] volleyball and substitute teaching. This summer posia, targeted tours, and she will begin a master’s program in English at Larisa Justine Heilner ’96 is living in Philadel- gallery guides. In addition, she the University of California-Irvine and complete phia and pursuing a master’s degree in landscape wrote and edited education course work for her teaching credentials. She architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. materials for the permanent hopes to have her own high school classroom by [[email protected]] collection and special exhibi- the fall of 2003. [[email protected]] Frank Hibben ’33 is now “semi-emeritus” at the tions, including audio tour Ann Paschke Landi ’74 has been a contributing University of New Mexico, having retired from scripts for “Alice Neel,” “Mad editor to ARTnews for five years, and in December the anthropology department but still teaching for Modernism,” and “Self- published her first hardcover opus, the four- graduate classes in archaeology through the Taught Artists of the Twentieth volume Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art, which she university’s continuing education division. He Century.” Caroline comes to the edited. She is still reporting and reviewing for recently traveled to Natal, Transvaal, Kruger Park, position with ten years of ARTnews and is working on another book pro- and Alaska to continue his archaeological research. teaching at the college level posal. [[email protected]] and in the museum environ- The University of New Mexico is currently ment. This experience has building the Hibben Center for Archaeological Susan Finney Lefave ’90 earned two masters of helped her to synthesize com- Research, a 35,000-square-foot, three-story struc- education degrees—one in elementary education plex problems and present ture that will house research facilities as well as the and one in special education—at Boston College. them to a range of audiences artifacts that Frank assembled during his many She spent four years teaching special education in from first-time museum visi- years of work in the field. Frank has also estab- Hawaii, where she met her husband, Lt. Stephen tors to graduate art history lished the Hibben Trust, which makes annual Lefave of the United States Coast Guard. When students, and, she says, “in- grants to students who are conducting field they were transferred to New Orleans, she taught volved the profoundly reward- research in archaeology. at Atonement Lutheran School for three years and had son Tyler, who is now two. She and her hus- ing task of helping students Laura Holden Hollengreen ’84 is assistant band are expecting another child in September develop the vocabulary to professor of architectural history and theory in 2002. They live in Falls Church, Virginia, where analyze works of art.” the School of Architecture at the University of Susan is currently a full-time mother while her Arizona. Her husband, Douglas Ulmer ’82, also husband works at the Washington, D.C., head- teaches at Arizona, in the Department of Math- quarters of the U. S. Coast Guard. ematics. As the sole full-time historian on the [[email protected]] architecture faculty, she covers many bases, some of them rather distant from her training as a Mark Lerer ’81 will have a solo exhibition of medievalist in graduate school at the University drawings during the first two weeks of September of California-Berkeley. She has recently taught at New Century Gallery in New York City’s advanced courses on the history, theory, and Chelsea district. He will also be represented in a design of museums; modern and postmodern group show at New Century in July, a group show conceptions of urban public space; and the at the Broome Street Gallery in October, and a impact of World War I on architecture and the group show at Lincoln Center’s Cork Gallery in arts. She remains an active participant in medi- December. A review of Mark’s previous solo show eval studies conferences and in medievalist pro- can be found at www.newyorkartworld. com/ fessional organizations and is at work on a book reviews-nyaw/rev-lerer.html, and more samples tentatively entitled Dawn of a New Age: The of his work from that period are on the Web at Renewal of Old Testament Imagery around 1200. www.newyorkartworld.com/gallery/lerer.html. [[email protected]] Anyone interested in information about attend- ing the upcoming shows can e-mail Mark. Frederic Ilchman ’90 recently joined the Mu- [[email protected]] seum of Fine Arts in Boston as assistant curator of paintings, with responsibility for the MFA’s Mary Levkoff ’75 is the curator of European Italian paintings. He is completing his disserta- sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her study of Auguste Rodin’s

 SPRING  public commissions was published in A Magnifi- Lucy Martin McBride ’95 spent a year in Cam- cent Obsession (London, Merrel, 2001), the bridge, England, after graduating from Princeton, catalogue of the collection of the Iris and B. then attended Harvard Medical School. She Gerald Cantor Foundation. A lengthy article on received her M.D. in 2000, the year that she her twelve years of acquisitions for LACMA married Thad McBride ’95. They now live in the appears in Apollo for February 2002, and the Washington, D.C., area, where Lucy is in her lecture on the tombs of François I and Henri II second year of residency in internal medicine at in Saint-Denis that she delivered in Paris in Johns Hopkins Hospital and her husband is an 1997 will be published in 2002 in papers from attorney. They are the proud parents of Henry the colloquium Henri II et les arts, in the series Powell McBride, who was born on December Rencontres de l’Ecole du Louvre. Mary is also 29, 2001. [[email protected]] contributing eight entries to the Encyclopedia of In 1976, Spencer MacCallum ’54 found three Sculpture, planned for publication in 2002 by polychrome painted pots in a junk shop where Fitzroy Dearborn Press (Chicago). The subjects they had been traded for used clothing. Fascinated range from her special field, French Renaissance Olla by Juan Quezada by their artistic integrity, he went to Mexico to art, to the works of the Paduan sculptor Andrea search for the anonymous artist. In the village of Riccio, the English artist Nicholas Stone, and Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, an hour from the nearest Rodin. She was the coeditor and cotranslator of graded road, he found the artist, Juan Quezada, the English edition of the exhibition catalogue an illiterate mestizo with the experimental mind Luca Giordano, presented at LACMA from of a Renaissance artist and scientist. As a teenager October 2001 through January 2002. She con- gathering wood for a living, Quezada had been tinues to serve on the advisory panel of the Iris inspired by prehistoric painted pottery shards. and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Experimenting alone for sixteen years, he created [[email protected]] a complete ceramic technology. Spencer gave David Maisel ’84 lives with his wife Lynn and Quezada the economic freedom to pursue his art, their seven-year-old daughter, Jessie, in Mill then devoted his full time for the next six years to Valley, California, just over the Golden Gate developing a market in the United States. Spencer Olla by Hector Gallegos Bridge from San Francisco. They continue to wrote articles, arranged for museum exhibitions, renovate and restore their picturesque but not ran a Los Angeles gallery on a shoestring, and, very functional 1912 shingled bungalow. After with Quezada, did demonstration tours across the beginning a master’s degree program in architec- country, including one at Princeton in 1980. ture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Quezada shared his technology, and virtually David has worked in both the fine art and com- every household in the village began producing mercial aspects of photography. His fine art work high-quality art pottery. What had been an eco- is represented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery in nomically depressed village is now one of the Manhattan, where he will have a one-man show more affluent in Mexico. Two years ago, Spencer in the 2002–2003 season. His work is also in the and his wife accompanied Quezada to Mexico permanent collections of a number of museums, City, where President Ernesto Zedillo awarded including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Quezada the Premio Nacional de los Artes, the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For highest honor Mexico can give a living artist. nearly twenty years he has been working on a Spencer’s collection and papers are now at the San project called “Black Maps,” aerial photographs of Diego Museum of Man, which has made itself the landscapes that address the post-industrial, apoca- archival repository for everything relating to the lyptic, and surreal elements of American terrain artists of Mata Ortiz. For more information on that has been transformed by strip mining, clear- Mata Ortiz, Spencer recommends the Web site Maria Loya de Flores of Mata Ortiz holding a pot that she cutting, leaching fields, and other manipulations www.mexicanceramic.com. [[email protected]] built by hand and her husband of the natural world. In the commercial realm, he Lisa Maddox McCurdy ’78 worked in the Ishmael painted has collaborated on projects ranging from photo- curatorial department of the Whitney Museum graphing on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to after her graduation from Princeton. The high- shooting in northernmost Canada for a story on light of that job was accompanying the curator, the environmental impact of Hydro-Quebec for a Barbara Haskell, as she scouted for the 1980 cover story for the New York Times magazine. Whitney Biennial, meeting a number of artists David’s Web site is at www.davidmaisel.com, and seeing their art, some of it in progress. She and he is eager to hear from other alumni of both then earned an A.S. degree in interior design at the department and the visual arts program. [[email protected]] continued on next page

SPRING   Art Museum the Parsons School of Design. While she was at Christa Weil Menegas ’82 lives in London, News Parsons, Lisa orchestrated the build-out of raw where she is studying painting conservation and loft space in Soho, renovated a 2,700-square- applying her skills—along with lots of beeswax, foot pre-War co-op in Carnegie Hill, and started hot irons, homemade varnish, and rabbit-skin the renovation of a four-building 1920s estate glue—to restoring paintings that she purchases, on Long Island’s north shore. In 1998 she be- mostly through eBay. [[email protected] or came an allied member of the American Society [email protected]] Bruce M. White Bruce M. of Interior Designers (A.S.I.D.), and, in the Geoff Meredith ’65 reports that he has just nonprofit sector, represented an artist active in authored two books: Defining Markets, Defining the late ’60s through early ’80’s performance art Moments, published by Wiley in January 2002, scene. She is currently working on a 1,000- and Managing by Defining Moments, also pub- square-foot kitchen and bath renovation, has lished by Wiley and scheduled to be released in two teenage children, and lives with her husband April of this year. His daughter Leigh, a member in Manhattan. [[email protected]] of Princeton’s Class of 2003, is a writer and a Richard B. Mather ’35 taught Chinese language painter, and although she is concentrating in and civilization at the University of Minnesota creative art, she is taking the “Theories of Mod- Anthony van Dyck, The Mock- from 1949 until well past his retirement in ern Art” course in the department this semester. ing of Christ, the Princeton 1984. The topic of his senior thesis at Princeton, [[email protected]] University Art Museum the eighth-century poet-painter Wang Wei, was Annette Nichols ’98 recently left her job at the based on Richard’s assumption that, like his Anthony van Dyck: Ecce Homo Merrin Gallery of Ancient Art, where she had parents, he would someday become a missionary and The Mocking of Christ worked as a gallery assistant for the past three to China. He later graduated from Princeton years. She is now pursuing a master’s degree in A small, focused exhibition of Theological Seminary, studied Chinese at Berke- education at Bank Street College in Manhattan. religious paintings, “Anthony ley, and was appointed a missionary to China by She plans to begin teaching in the fall of 2002. van Dyck: Ecce Homo and The the Presbyterian Church. But a mild case of [[email protected]] Mocking of Christ,” will remain tuberculosis prevented him from taking up the on view at the Princeton Uni- post, and he instead returned to Berkeley, where Jessica Davis Powers ’97 is working toward a versity Art Museum through he completed work on his Ph.D. A revised edi- Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology at the June 9. Richard Verdi, director tion of his Shih-shuo hsin-yü: A New Account of University of Michigan. She recently married of the Barber Institute of Fine Tales of the World will be published this year by Chris Powers ’97. [[email protected]] Arts, University of Birmingham, the University of Michigan Press, and his book England, is the curator of the Gertrude M. Prescott ’77 joined the Royal exhibition, which includes Van The Age of Eternal Brilliance: Three Poets of the Institution of Great Britain in London in 1999 Dyck’s Ecce Homo from the Yung-ming Era (483–493) will be published this as curator of the iconographic collections and Barber Institute and the artist’s year by E. J. Brill in Leiden. arts-science program coordinator. She has written Mocking of Christ from Barksdale Maynard ’88 is an independent room-by-room guides to the visual and historical Princeton’s permanent collec- scholar and writer specializing in the history of furniture collections at the institution, a scien- tion. The two paintings will be American architecture. This fall Yale University tific organization founded in 1799, describing seen together for the first time Press will publish his book Architecture in the their historical and present “hang,” and how they since the exhibition “Anthony United States, 1800–1850, a ground-breaking came into the collection. In January 2001 she van Dyck as a Religious Artist,” study that promises to overturn many long initiated an arts-science program which builds on organized by Professor John accepted notions about the chief themes of early the institute’s tradition of exploring humanities Rupert Martin in 1979. That nineteenth-century American architecture. He is topics in a “scientific” setting. This new initiative ground-breaking exhibition also active as a painter, and his oil paintings have began with Tom Phillip’s preparatory studies for was an overview of the reli- been shown in a number of solo and group his DVD portrait of Professor (now Baronness) gious works of an artist whose Greenfield (a commission for the National Por- major role in the history of shows. [[email protected]] trait Gallery) and will continue by focusing on portraiture had overshadowed Sarah Hermanson Meister ’94 has been pro- works that promote a dialogue between the arts his substantial contributions to moted to associate curator in the Department of and sciences, in conjunction with the redevelop- religious art. In the present Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. She ment of the building by Sir Terry Farrell. exhibition the Princeton and is currently working on a small book and exhibi- Gertrude looks forward to visits from Princeton- Birmingham paintings are tion of the work of Rudy Burckhardt in Queens, ians past and present. The Royal Institution is juxtaposed with a third work, a on the occasion of the museum’s (temporary) located at 21 Albemarle Street in London. magnificent Ecce Homo by the move to Queens in June of this year. [[email protected]] greatest sixteenth-century [[email protected]] Venetian painter, Tiziano continued on next page

 SPRING  Kristen Rainey ’97 is the founder of Five Lakes Rhode Island School of Design. Art Museum News Design (www.fivelakesdesign.com), a business [[email protected]] continued from page 26 that specializes in Web design and creative services. Bailey Russel ’01 is participating in Princeton in She lives in Lake Tahoe, California. Asia this year, teaching English at the National Vecellio, called Titian, which is [[email protected]] Science University of Malaysia in Penang. On lent by the National Gallery of Adrian Randolph ’87 received his Ph.D. in art weekends he makes a ten-hour bus trip to Sing- Ireland, Dublin. Two prepara- history from Harvard in 1995 and began teach- apore to play in ultimate tournaments. He also tory drawings by Van Dyck and ing at Dartmouth that year. Last spring, he was reviews films for Klue, a culture magazine in eight prints after scenes from promoted to the rank of associate professor of Kuala Lumpur. the Passion by Van Dyck and art history at Dartmouth, where he also teaches earlier artists also will be ex- Lisa Saltzman ’88 was awarded tenure this year in the Department of Comparative Literature hibited. Richard Verdi argues in in the Department of History of Art at Bryn and in the Women’s Studies Program. This year the catalogue accompanying Mawr College. She is the author of Amselm will see the publication of his book Engaging the exhibition that Van Dyck Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz (Cambridge Symbols: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in Fif- was decisively influenced by University Press, 1999). Next year she will be a teenth-century Florence (Yale University Press), this or a similar Ecce Homo of fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced and of a collection of essays he coedited with T. Titian when he composed the Study, working on a book project entitled Barton Thurber, Likeness in an Age of Mechanical Barber Institute and Princeton Mnemonic Devices: Structures of Identity, Strategies paintings. The catalogue offers Reproduction: Printed and Medallic Portraits in of Remembrance in Contemporary Art. an examination of Van Dyck’s Early Modern Europe (a special issue of Word & [[email protected]] use of sources and his inter- Image). This spring term he is in Florence lead- pretation of two central scenes ing Dartmouth’s foreign study program. Sean Sawyer ’88 completed his Ph.D. in archi- in the Passion of Christ. tectural history at Columbia University in 1999 [[email protected]] The exhibition was orga- and in January of 2001 became executive direc- Bill Rhoads ’66 is completing the text of an nized by the Barber Institute of tor of the Wyckoff House Museum in Brooklyn, architectural guide to Kingston, New York. He Fine Arts, University of Birming- New York. The Wyckoff House, built around teaches in the Department of Art History at the ham, England. The exhibition at 1652, is the oldest structure in New York and State University of New York at New Paltz. Princeton is supported in part the first to be designated a landmark by the New [[email protected]] by the Friends of the Princeton York City Landmarks Preservation Commission University Art Museum. Two Holly Richardson ’78 worked in public relations upon its creation in 1965. Sean is responsible for auxiliary exhibitions, “In the at the Guggenheim Museum before earning a all aspects of the museum’s operation. He and his Mirror of Christ’s Passion: Ph.D. in art history from Brown University, partner, Michael Susi (Columbia ’85), live in Prints, Drawings, and Illustrated where she wrote a dissertation on the German Manhattan and have a six-year-old son. Books by European Masters” impressionist Max Liebermann. She has worked [[email protected]] and “Reflections of the Passion: primarily on museum exhibitions and catalogues Selected Works from the Lauren Brandt Schloss ’93 married architect for institutions that include the Museum of Fine Princeton University Art Jonathan Schloss last October in New York Arts in Boston, the Rhode Island School of Museum,” have been organized City’s Central Synagogue, which he restored. She Design Museum of Art, and the Kunsthalle in in conjunction with the Van completed a master’s degree in arts administra- Hamburg. Most recently, she published a Dyck exhibition. tion at Columbia University in 2001, and has children’s guide to the Landesgalerie in Hannover, begun work on her Ph.D. in art history at the Germany, where she has lived with her husband, Graduate Center at CUNY. She has also been Markus Streese, for the past fourteen years. They working as an art educator at the Museum of have a ten-year-old daughter, Cosima. Modern Art and at the Nightingale-Bamford [[email protected]] School. [[email protected]] C. David Robinson ’57 finds that his past service Jennifer Scotese ’01 recently began working at on the advisory council of the art museum has George Lange Photography in New York City been an enormous help in his firm’s recent archi- (www.langephoto.com) as the studio production tecture projects: the Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts) manager. [[email protected]] Museum, the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at the Stanford University Art Museum, and the Mark Sheinkman ’85 has had seven one-person Ansel Adams Center for Photography. For more exhibitions in New York City, as well as others in on these projects, see www.cdrobinson.com. England, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Texas, and [[email protected]] with the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe. In the past five years his paintings and drawings have Clare I. Rogan ’90 is in the first year of her new been acquired by a number of museums, includ- position as assistant curator of prints, drawings, ing the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan and photographs at the Museum of Art at the continued on next page

SPRING   Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the deal of time to an examination of the portraits of Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Fogg Art the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in general, Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the and to the authentication of the Weydenhammer North Carolina Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Portrait Fragment, which he has now conclusively Hill, and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan demonstrated is the long-lost portrait from life University. He is currently represented by the that belonged to Bach’s pupil Johann Christian Von Lintel Gallery in New York City. Kittel and which disappeared in 1809. Teri has [[email protected]] set up a Web site documenting his work on the Bach portraits: www.npj.com/thefaceofbach. Diana Claire Silverman ’87 earned her M.A. in [[email protected]] Italian at Columbia University in 2001. Her article on Grazia Deledda, the winner of the Yuri Tsuzuki ’89 exhibited her paintings at the 1926 Nobel Prize for literature, appeared in the Greenville County Museum of Art in South journal Sardegna Mediterranea in April 2002. Carolina in the spring of this year. In the fall of [[email protected]] this year she will have a solo exhibition in New York City, and in April of 2003 she will open her (Elliott) Landry Smith ’99 is currently working first solo exhibition in Nagoya, Japan. For more at the Architecture Research Office (ARO), information, and to view images, visit her Web where he has been for just over a year. He has site www.yuritsuzuki.com. contributed to projects that include the Eyebeam [[email protected]] Museum of Art and Technology Competition and the Queens Museum of Art Competition. David Van Zanten ’65 is professor in the De- His current project is designing a monograph on partment of Art History at Northwestern Univer- ARO that will be published by Princeton Archi- sity. He is on a Guggenheim Fellowship for the tectural Press next winter. He also works several academic year 2001–2002 and has recently pub- days a month in a darkroom printing his photo- lished Sullivan’s City: The Meaning of Ornament graphs. Landry plans to attend architecture for Louis Sullivan (New York, W. W. Norton, graduate school next fall. [[email protected]] 2000). [[email protected]] Joe Rauch Smoke ’87 has been promoted to Mary Weatherford ’84, after fifteen years in director of grants, fellowships, and festival fund- New York City, moved to Los Angeles in 2000. ing for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs She is working at the Santa Monica Museum of Department. In this capacity, he facilitates Art and painting at her home/studio on Mount awards totaling approximately $3 million Washington, just up the hill from the Southwest annually for Los Angeles area nonprofit arts Museum. Her new paintings will be on exhibit at organizations and individual artists. Joe also Echo Park Projects from late April through May. teaches courses in the history of photography at [[email protected]] two local colleges: California State Fullerton Alan H. Weinstein ’61 has had solo exhibitions University and the Art Center College of Design of his paintings in museums and galleries in Pasadena. [[email protected]] throughout the States as well as in Canada and Alex Y. Suh ’93 earned his B.F.A. in graphic Australia, and has participated in juried, invita- design from the Rhode Island School of Design, tional, and group shows nationwide and interna- then studied at Yale, where he received an tionally. He has also taught at the Universities of M.F.A. in graphic design. He has been a practic- Saskatchewan, Guelph, and Texas at San Antonio. ing graphic designer since 1997, doing every- Last year a retrospective of his work was shown at thing from corporate identity and branding to the Gallery Stratford in Canada and at Kirkwood Web sites (including Neil Diamond’s official College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The exhibition Web site). Some of his work can be seen at “Alan Weinstein: Selected Works” is scheduled www.citizensofnowhere.com. He currently lives for the Sioux City Art Center in the fall of 2002. in New York. [[email protected]] Alan maintains studios in Iowa City, Iowa, and in Teeswater, Ontario. He and his wife, author Teri Noel Towe ’70 reports that the rigorous Nina Barragan, have four children. training he received in connoisseurship and [[email protected]] scholarship as an undergraduate major in the department—under the guidance of such men- Carla Williams ’86 has been active as a photog- tors as John Martin, Robert Koch, and David rapher, curator, editor, essayist, and educator. Coffin—has proved to be of particular value in Her photographs have appeared in anthologies the past couple of years. He has devoted a great and publications including The New Yorker and

 SPRING  have been exhibited in a number of group shows. was a lithographer, the dominant draughtsman Department As a writer, she has contributed to journals, of the Drawing Course, and a painter of exquisite Lecture Series anthologies, and exhibition catalogues, including and very rare works. Gerald is guest curator of Picturing the Modern Amazon, which won the the exhibition, which will open in the fall of Fall Term 2001 Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist 2003. [[email protected]] Editing. The Black Female Body: A Photographic October 4, 2001 Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer *80 is professor History, the book she coauthored with Deborah Paul Barolsky of art history and director of graduate studies in Willis, has just been published by Temple Uni- University of Virginia the Department of Art History at the University versity Press. Information about the book can be Michelangelo and the of Delaware. Her most recent book, Cezanne and found on Carla’s Web site (http://carlagirl.net/ Creation of Adam Provence: The Painter in His Culture, will be read/bfb.html) or on the publisher’s site (www. published next year by the University of Chicago November 8, 2001 temple.edu/tempress/titles/1356_reg.html). Press. She also recently authored essays that were Andrew Oliver, Jr. Currently teaching at the College of Santa Fe, published in the Cambridge Companion to Smithsonian Institution, she has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in Delacroix and the second edition of Critical National Gallery of Art Black Performing Arts at Stanford University for Ter ms for Art History, edited by R. Nelson and R. The Changing Fashions of 2002–2003. [[email protected]] Shiff. Her article “Blemished Physiologies: Roman Silver Richard Wright ’87 resurrected his fine art Delacroix, Paganini, and the Cholera Epidemic November 6, 2001 photography career in New York over the past of 1832” appeared in the December 2001 issue James F. Haley ’50 Lecture two years and now lives and works in Old City, of The Art Bulletin. This spring she is teaching a Pierre Rosenberg Philadelphia. He had several one-man shows in freshman seminar on art and nationalism in the Former Director of the 2001 that showcased his skills in conceptual nineteeth and twentieth centuries at Princeton. Musée du Louvre photography and archival digital printing. Catoe She lives in Philadelphia with her five-year-old La Tour me parait un cas & Bambu hosted his first one-man show in New daughter Nadia, who comes from China and exemplaire de la résurrection York during the fall of 2001. Richard had his wants to study Chinese art at Princeton when d’un peintre grâce aux historiens first one-man international show at the Escuela she grows up. [[email protected]] d’art (Georges La Tour: An Latinoamericana de Fotografía at Alpes Univer- Anthony J. Barbieri-Low *01 defended his Exemplary Case of a Painter sity in Santiago, Chile. He was included in dissertation in July of 2001, the same month Whose Reputation Was Revived several group shows during 2001, most notably that his second son, Nicholas Gerald Barbieri- Thanks to Art Historians) the highly acclaimed Ninth Annual Digital Art Low, was born. A month later he was appointed November 13, 2001 Salon at the School of Visual Arts in New York. assistant professor of early Chinese history at the Susan Wood University of Pittsburgh. His article “Roman Oakland University Graduate Alumni Themes in a Group of Eastern Han Lacquer Divis Parentibus: Women and Vessels” appeared in Orientations magazine in Ancestors in Trajanic and Gerald M. Ackerman *64 retired in 1989 and May 2001. [[email protected]] Hadrianic Portraiture has since been quite active as a scholar and writer, publishing five books, several catalogues, and Virginia Bower *77 (M.A.) taught a seminar in November 28, 2001 numerous articles, as well as curating exhibitions, Chinese ceramics at the University of Pennsylva- Maria Panayotidi teaching, and giving lectures around the country nia last fall, then courses in East Asian art and University of Athens and in Europe. His overriding goal has been to Chinese painting and calligraphy at Rutgers this Village Painting and the support a serious interest in figure painting, not spring. She also taught survey courses in Japanese Question of Local “Workshops” just among the viewing and collecting public, and Chinese art at the University of the Arts in during the Byzantine Period but among young painters whose aspiration to Philadelphia this year and lectured at the Phila- Cosponsored with the imitate nature is often discouraged by teachers, delphia Museum of Art, the Rockefeller estate Program in Hellenic Studies critics, and the art establishment in general. Kykuit, and elsewhere. With this purpose in mind, he is now preparing [[email protected]] a new edition of the Bargue-Gérôme Cours de Jonathan Brown *64 was curator of El Greco: dessin (Paris, Goupil & Cie, 1867–71, three Themes and Variations, which was on display at volumes), a drawing course of 180 plates meant the Frick Collection in New York from May 15 to teach elegant and precise figure drawing in the through July 29, 2001. With Sir John Elliott, he nineteenth-century academic style. To celebrate was co-guest curator of The Sale of the Century: the publication of the book, the Dahesh Museum Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, in New York City (http://daheshmuseum.org), 1604–1655 at the Museo Nacional del Prado which is headed by J. David Farmer *81, will in Madrid from March 15 through June 2 of mount an exhibition of the paintings, drawings, this year. and prints of Charles Bargue (1825–83). Bargue

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SPRING   Dorothea “Thea” Burns *72 has been appointed by Cambridge University Press in the summer of Helen H. Glaser Conservator for Special Collec- 2002. [[email protected]] tions in the Harvard College Libraries, where Sabine Eiche *83’s work for CASVA’s architec- she is now the senior paper conservator. In her tural drawings project (IADPC) continues to turn new position she is responsible for the care and up interesting finds, most recently the only known treatment of paper documents and works of art contemporary ground plan for the sixteenth- held in special collections throughout Harvard century Medici villa at Seravezza, near Lucca. It College Library. Her recent publications include was published in volume 44 of the Mitteilungen “Preserving Master Drawings: A Cultural Perspec- des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. Sabine tive,” in The Paper Conservator 25 (2001), and is also interested in avvisi, the handwritten fore- “The Prestige of Pastel: Robert Nanteuil’s Pastel runners of newspapers, and to bring this fascinat- Portraits and Thesis Engravings,” in Dear Print ing but under-used primary source to the Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn (Cam- attention of a wider audience, she wrote a short bridge, Harvard University Art Museums, article on the sixteenth-century English news 2001). [[email protected]] sent to the Medici court in Florence, which Gregory Clark *88 has completed a study of the appeared in the May 2001 issue of BBC History Spitz Hours, produced in Paris around 1420, Magazine. In June 2001 Sabine was elected a which will be published in the series Getty Mu- corresponding member of the nineteenth-century seum Studies on Art. [[email protected]] Accademia Raffaello of Urbino in recognition of her studies on the art and architecture of the Carolyn Thomas Combs *74 (M.A.) lives and former duchy of Urbino. works in Brussels. She is married to Swiss busi- [[email protected]] nessman Nicolas de Bourgknecht and has two children—Cullen, seventeen, and Carolyn, Jesús Escobar *96 has been granted tenure and sixteen. [tel. 32-2-346-6486] promoted to associate professor at Fairfield Uni- versity, where he has taught since 1996. He is Tracy Cooper *90 is acting chair of the Depart- currently putting the finishing touches on his ment of Art History at Temple University. book, The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Ba- [[email protected]] roque Madrid, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Last spring Jesús organized a two-day international conference in New York. “Unparalleled Works: Spanish Art and the Problems of Understanding” brought to- gether scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the U.S. to discuss the state of research in Spanish art history. The event included scholarly sessions as well as social events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Hispanic Society of America. [[email protected]] Ping Foong *98 (M.A.) is staff lecturer in Asian art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. One of Sabine Eiche *83’s Pierre du Prey *73 has happily completed fifteen [[email protected]] sketches of Tuscan farmhouses months as acting chair of the Department of Art Marcy B. Freedman *81 (M.A.) continues to at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. On work primarily as a visual artist but also devotes his current sabbatical he is developing a digital time to curatorial projects, teaching, and lectur- and interactive presentation on the subject of the ing. This year her artwork was included in group classical tradition in architecture, collaborating shows in Manhattan, Poughkeepsie, Sacramento, with the department’s John Pinto, among others. Annapolis, Montclair, White Plains, and else- [[email protected]] where. Her work also appeared in several juried Tracy Ehrlich *87 is currently assistant profes- exhibitions, and one of them was selected by sor of art history at Colgate University, where Lucy Lippard for an honorable mention award. she teaches Renaissance and Baroque painting, This spring Marcy’s work was included in an sculpture, and architecture. Her book Landscape exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture Cornell, along with works by Marcel Duchamp, at Frascati in the Borghese Era will be published Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Keith Haring.

 SPRING  Reproductions of Marcy’s works have recently the Sequence.” This semester he is revising the Department been published in Calyx: A Journal of Art and contemporary art survey and offering a new Lecture Series Literature by Women and on the cover of the undergraduate/graduate history of photography magazine Art Calendar. Last year she curated an class. All of Andrew’s courses are taught with Spring Term exhibition titled “The Size Show: Abstract Art digital images and are available on the Internet on a Sliding Scale” and lectured on appropria- (http://personal.bgsu.edu/~aehersh). His essay February 19, 2002 tion art. The Westchester Arts Council gave on André Malraux’s theory of photography has Alexander Nemerov Marcy its 2001 Arts Award for her work in just been accepted for publication by the journal Yale University community education. In the fall of this year she History of Photography, and he is currently revis- Raphaelle Peale’s “Blackberries”: will resume teaching art history as an adjunct ing his dissertation, “Cinema of Stills: Minor Imagination, Embodiment, professor at Fordham University’s Marymount White’s Theory of Sequential Photography,” for and the Refusal of Selfhood College. [[email protected]] publication as a book. He is also involved with Cosponsored by the art transforming the Princeton exhibition “Recon- museum and the Program Henry B. Graham ’60, *75 taught art history, structing the Mshatta Facade in Jordan: A Digital in American Studies cultural history, and nautical archaeology to View of Rediscovered Nineteenth-century Pho- undergraduate and graduate students for seven- February 28, 2002 tographs” into a book accompanied by a CD- teen years at Washington University in St. Louis, Robert Bagley ROM. This year he presented papers at a CUNY New College in south Florida, and Trinity Uni- Princeton University conference and at the Midwest Art History versity in San Antonio. He worked with George Chinese Archaeology and the Society’s annual conference in Milwaukee. Work- Bass on two shipwreck excavation sites and Discoveries at Sanxingdui: An ing with his colleagues Dr. Rebecca L. Green, subsequently spent six years sailing a cutter- Introduction to the Metropolitan chair of the Art History Division, and Marce rigged, North Sea style, thirty-three-foot sailboat Museum’s “Ancient Sichuan” Dupay, head of the Art Resource Center, Andrew following the routes of Columbus in the Atlantic Exhibition recently received a large grant from BGSU’s and Richard I on the Third Crusade to Israel. March 7, 2002 Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology After two Atlantic crossings and extended cruis- Henry Maguire to create an on-line art history digital slide li- ing in the Mediterranean, he and his family Johns Hopkins University brary for faculty and students at BGSU. settled in northern California near the Byzantine and Byzantinizing: [[email protected]] Mendocino National Forest. Although nearing The Wall Mosaics of the retirement age, he has no thoughts of retiring, Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski *75 published “Van Basilica of Eufrasius at Pore´c and now enjoys teaching sixth-grade students Gogh’s Roulin: Radical Republican and Socratic April 4, 2002 and the gifted and talented program at a rural Type” in Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Thomas Reese middle school. His wife Claudia is a talented Marjorie B. Cohn (Cambridge, Harvard Univer- Tulane University and productive painter and sculptor whose oil sity Art Museums, 2001). He participated in the Power, Devotion, and Negotiation: paintings and ceramics fill their three-story Van Gogh Museum’s symposium on van Gogh Colonial Sacred Space in the house. [[email protected]] and Gauguin in March of this year, giving a Andean Region paper on “Authentic Gauguins: Authenticity and Mimi Hellman *00 is currently visiting assistant Originality in the Pont-Aven Group.” Vojtech April 9, 2002 professor in the Department of Art at Mount reviewed the new Gauguin oeuvre catalogue for Gay Robins Holyoke College, where she is teaching, among The Burlington Magazine (March 2002), for Emory University other things, a survey of interior design from the which he has been regularly reviewing exhibi- Male Bodies and the Construction Renaissance to postmodernism, a seminar on tions on Gauguin, van Gogh, and Mondrian. He of Masculinity in Ancient Egyp- Versailles, and surveys of eighteenth- and nine- is currently on sabbatical writing a book provi- tian Art of the New Kingdom, teenth-century European art. She has received a sionally titled Region and Modernity in France: 1550–1070 B.C. fellowship from the National Endowment for The Representation of Provence in the Visual Arts April 10, 2002 the Humanities for 2002–2003, which will 1830–1890. He teaches in the Department of support the preparation of her book entitled The Rebecca Bedell Art at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Hôtel de Soubise: Art and Ambition in Eighteenth- Wellesley College [[email protected]] century France. Her other current projects include “I Must Know the Geology”: work on eighteenth-century French furniture Deborah Krohn ’83, *87 (M.A.) received her Thomas Moran, Science, and and decorative painting, and on the historiogra- Ph.D. from Harvard and after a short stint as the Western Landscape phy of ornament. [[email protected]] visiting assistant professor at the University of Cosponsored by the art Maryland, moved back to New York to take up a museum and the Program Andrew Hershberger *01 is finishing his first position as associate professor at the Bard Gradu- in American Studies year as assistant professor of contemporary art ate Center for Decorative Arts, Design, and history at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Culture in Manhattan. She teaches Renaissance where he has taught a Western art survey, an decorative arts and material culture, the history undergraduate/graduate survey of contemporary of museums, and other subjects. Her recent art, and a graduate seminar entitled “The Art of continued on next page

SPRING   Department publications include an article in the festschrift Hera at the Argive Heraion (in collaboration Aids Children’s for John Shearman, to be published by Harvard with Christopher Pfaff). Home Society of University Art Museums this spring. Deborah was [[email protected]] also a coeditor of the volume, which includes Barbara Lynn-Davis *98 is teaching a seminar New Jersey work by several of John Shearman’s Princeton on Venetian art, architecture, and gardens at the students. Her articles will also appear in a con- Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Every holiday season depart- ference volume on art markets in early modern Her daughter Ginevra, who just turned three, is ment faculty and staff members Europe and in an anthology on Italian cities and keen on ballet and snakes. buy gifts for and contribute cultural transition in the Renaissance edited by [[email protected]] money to a local charitable Stephen Campbell. She delivered a paper at the organization. This year, at the 2002 College Art Association meeting in Phila- Robert Mattison *85 has completed the manu- suggestion of office staffer delphia, in the session “Cities and Their Saints.” script of his fourth book, Robert Rauschenberg: Betty Harris, faculty and staff She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Peter Ideas and Projects, which will be published this members contributed to the N. Miller, and their daughter Livia, almost two year by Yale University Press. Last spring he was Children’s Home Society of and a half. [[email protected]] given an endowed chair at Lafayette College and New Jersey. The CHS, a non- is now the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art Margaret Laird *02 defended her dissertation, profit organization founded in History. He recently arranged a residency with “Evidence in Context: Public and Funerary 1894, provides a wide range of Frank Stella at Lafayette College, and has orga- Monuments of the Seviri Augustales at Ostia,” services to local children and nized an exhibition of Stella’s Exotic Bird paint- and has accepted a position in the Department their families, including thera- ings and written the accompanying catalogue. of Classics at the University of Chicago, where peutic foster care, adoption [[email protected]] and post-adoption services, she will teach Roman archaeology and material day care, protective services culture. Shane McCausland *00 is editing the proceed- ings of the conference he organized last June, for abused or neglected chil- Elizabeth Langridge-Noti *93 has taught at the “The Admonitions Scroll: Ideals of Etiquette, dren, and counseling for teen- American College of Greece in Athens, a four- Art, and Empire from Early China,” which will agers and young women with year American-accredited school, since 1997. be published by the British Museum Press. This unplanned pregnancies. Their She was the lead curator and one of the con- academic year he is the Percival David Visiting other initiatives include Kids tributors to the exhibition and catalogue Athe- Scholar at the Percival David Foundation of Intervention with Kids in School nian Potters and Painters, held in conjunction Chinese Art and visiting lecturer in the Depart- (KIKS), a school-based youth with a conference at the American School of ment of Art and Archaeology at the School of development and problem Classical Studies in Athens. In 1996 she orga- Oriental and African Studies, University of prevention program. The nized the exhibition A Corinthian Scrapbook: London. [[email protected]] Children’s Home Society faxed 100 Years of American Excavation in Corinth and the department a list of needy wrote the accompanying catalogue. Her article Christopher “Kit” Moss *88 is the director of children that included their on Panathenaic amphorae recently appeared in the publications program of Princeton’s Depart- specific requests and needs. Panathenaika (Mainz, von Zabern, 2001), and ment of Art and Archaeology, with responsibility Faculty and staff members the paper on Hellenistic pottery from southern for all editing and production. The department’s then bought appropriate gifts Euboia that she presented at a recent Volos publications office operates independently from or contributed money. Betty symposium will appear in the publication of the Princeton University Press, which distributes Harris and graduate secretary conference proceedings. She lives with her hus- departmental books. Kit recently edited The Diane Schulte delivered all of band and twin boys in Ancient Corinth, and Byzantine Octateuchs, Kurt Weitzmann’s magnum the contributions to CHS, which invites visiting Princetonians to enjoy the spec- opus (written with coauthor Massimo Bernabò); ˇ distributed them to the needy tacular view of the Gulf of Corinth and coedited, with Nancy Sevcenko,ˇ Medieval Cyprus: families in time for the holidays. Acrocorinth from their balcony. Studies in Art, Architecture, and History in For more information on the [[email protected]] Memory of Doula Mouriki; and contributed to Children’s Home Society of King David in the Index of Christian Art. With Carol Lawton *84 is professor of art history at New Jersey, see their Web site Malcolm Bell III ’63, *71 of the University of Lawrence University and was recently a White- www.chsofnj.org. Virginia, he is coeditor of the series Morgantina head Visiting Professor at the American School Studies. This year Kit published entries on Roman of Classical Studies in Athens. Her book Attic sculpture in Roman Sculpture in The Art Museum, Document Reliefs: Art and Politics in Ancient Princeton University (Princeton, 2001) and gave Athens, based on her Princeton dissertation, was a paper at the conference “Antioch at 70: An published by Oxford University Press in 1995. Excavation and Its Impact,” sponsored by Johns She is currently at work on two more volumes: Hopkins and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He the publication of the votive reliefs from the is a member of the department’s excavation at excavations of the Athenian Agora, and the Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, where he has worked architectural sculpture of the Classical temple of

 SPRING  as a trench master and as the specialist in charge Tina Najbjerg *97 reports that a portion of the of the lamps and coins, which he is preparing for third-century A.D. marble plan of Rome, the publication. [[email protected]] Forma Urbis Romae, is now available on the Web at http://formaurbis.stanford.edu. The site is James Mundy *80 is completing his eleventh part of Stanford University’s Digital Forma Urbis year as director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Romae Project, where Tina is a postdoctoral Center at Vassar College, where he also teaches research fellow. The sample database now posted in the art department. He recently hosted the on the Web site consists of twenty-eight fragments exhibition “Camera Women,” which was orga- of the marble plan, plus information pages. The nized by the art museum at Princeton and guest selected fragments exemplify well-known monu- curator Carol Armstrong. His research interests ments as well as the urban fabric of the city, the center on sixteenth-century Italian drawings, historiography of the plan, recent scholarship, particularly those of Federico Zuccaro, whose and blank fragments (never before published). work he is assembling into a database and an Each entry includes color digital photographs, a eventual catalogue raisonné. 3-D model where available (viewable in 3-D by [[email protected]] PC users), and an archaeological analysis. Addi- Jacqueline Marie Musacchio *95 was appointed tional features will be added over the coming assistant professor of art at Vassar College in the months. Release of the full database of 1,186 fall of 2000 after two years as an assistant profes- fragments is planned for approximately two years sor at Trinity University and one year as a from now. The sample database is a work in Mellon Fellow at the Walters Art Museum. Her progress, and Tina and her team welcome com- book The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renais- ments and feedback. [[email protected]] sance Italy (Yale University Press, 1999), based Jenifer Neils *80, the Ruth Coulter Heede on her Princeton dissertation, was named an Professor of Art History and professor of classics Outstanding Academic Title in the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, recently by Choice. She has recently presented papers at published a book entitled The Parthenon Frieze the Dallas Museum of Art, Hollins University, (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which and the College Art Association and Renaissance includes a CD-ROM, as well as the second Society of America conferences. She also orga- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for the Cleveland nized and chaired a session on domestic art and Museum of Art (2000). This spring she is the ritual space at the International Congress on Margo Taft Tytus Visiting Fellow at the Univer- Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. She was a ple- sity of Cincinnati’s Department of Classics, where nary speaker at the symposium “Attending to she is doing research for an upcoming NEH- Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and sponsored exhibition on childhood in ancient Change,” and the keynote speaker at the Twelfth Greece which will open at the Hood Museum of Annual Graduate Student Symposium at North- Dartmouth College in August 2003 and have its western University. Last September she pre- final venue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in the sented a paper on the domestication of Davidian fall of 2004. [[email protected]] iconography at the Design History Society conference in London, and in October she was a Charles Parkhurst *41 (M.A.) has retired after a panel discussant at the symposium “Virtue and career that included stints as professor and chair Beauty: Leonardo’s Ginevra de’Benci and Re- of the fine arts department and director of the naissance Portraits of Women,” organized Allen Museum at Oberlin College, director of around the exhibition at the National Gallery in the Baltimore Museum of Art, and assistant Washington. Her most recent articles are a study director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Leonardo da Vinci and weasels (in Renaissance of Art in Washington. He also served as president Studies 15 [2001]) and an examination of do- of the College Art Association and of the Ameri- mestic devotional art published in Revaluing can Association of Museums. In retirement he Renaissance Art, edited by Gabriele Neher and has been acting director of the Williams College Rupert Shepherd (Ashgate, 2000). Forthcoming Museum of Art and interim director of the are articles on the Medici sale of 1495, Renais- Smith College Museum of Art. In the spring of sance talismans and amulets, Florentine dowry 2001 he was lecturer in residence at the Massa- goods, and the Fascist revival of Renaissance chusetts College of Liberal Arts, where he gave a birth majolica. [[email protected]] series of lectures on Duccio and Giotto. His article “Giotto and the Theater of His Day” is

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SPRING   currently in press, and he is at work on a sequel late Roman cistern, an ancient roadway, and two dealing mostly with the earliest art of Giotto. He major cemeteries, one of which contained the and his wife Carol Clark, the Kenan Professor of burial of a youth surrounded by nineteen vases Fine Arts and American Studies at Amherst from the period of the Parthenon. In another College, live in Amherst. sector of Athens, he directed the excavation of a cemetery with more than 160 tombs ranging in Véronique Plesch *94 was named chair of the date from the Geometric to the Roman period art department at Colby College last summer. and furnished with sarcophagi, large marble She recently coedited (with Kathleen Ashley), a vases, bronzes, pottery, and other artifacts. One special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early of the more spectacular finds was a group of five Modern Studies (32:1 [2002]) on the topic of tombs of aristocratic warriors from the second “The Cultural Processes of Appropriation,” which half of the eighth century B.C. On Paros, where included a contribution by Rand Jerris *99. Demetrius is the director of excavations, he Among her other recent publications are an coordinated study of the finds from the acropolis essay entitled “Graffiti and Ritualization: San of Koukounaries, which will be published in five Sebastiano at Arborio,” which appears in the volumes. He is also president of the Paros and volume Medieval and Early Modern Rituals: Cyclades Institute of Archaeology, which pro- Formalized Behavior in Europe, China, and Japan motes research on the history and archaeology of (Leiden, Brill, 2002), edited by Joëlle Rollo- the Cyclades. The institute has a library and Koster, and an article on early guidebooks to the other facilities for research, and has published Sacro Monte in Varallo, in Art on Paper (Novem- two books, one on the Frankish castles of the ber–December 2001). Another article will ap- Cyclades, and, more recently, the proceedings of pear in Studies in Iconography 23 (2002). She is the First International Conference on the Archae- currently preparing the manuscript of a book ology of Paros and the Cyclades (Paria Lithos: based on her Princeton dissertation for the Parian Quarries, Marble, and Workshops of Sculp- University of Notre Dame Press and is organiz- ture), which Demetrius coedited. Last year the ing a session for this summer’s congress of the institute sponsored a series of lectures on the International Association of Word and Image culture of the Cyclades, and is now organizing Studies, which will take place in Hamburg. the Second International Conference on the [[email protected]] Archaeology of Paros, which will take place on Orville “Joe” Rothrock *87 retired from teach- Paros in October 2003 and will deal with the age ing at the University of New Mexico in 1997, of Archilochos. The Paros institute is actively giving him time to concentrate on his music and looking for support and books for its library, and poetry, and work on various projects, including a Demetrius invites interested alums to send dona- piece on Rubens and a study of the library of tions or books for the library. [[email protected]] Don Diego de Vargas, governor of New Mexico John M. Schnorrenberg *64 will retire this June from 1592 to 1704. [[email protected]] from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dianne Gwinn Santinga *93 recently ended where he has been professor of art history since her six-year association with Worthington Art, a 1976. He was chair of the Department of Art fine arts gallery specializing in German Expres- and Art History from 1976 to 1990. Prior to that sionist prints and drawings. In June her first he taught at Columbia and then at the University child, son John Gwinn Santinga, was born. She of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John has continues to be affiliated with Loyola University recently written two books about architects and in Chicago, where she has been teaching on a architecture in Birmingham. Remembered Past, part-time basis for several years. This fall she will Discovered Future: The Alabama Architecture of teach a course on medieval art. Warren, Knight & Davis, 1906–1961 appeared in [[email protected]] 1999 in connection with an exhibition of the Demetrius U. Schilardi *77 carried out a wide work of that firm held at the Birmingham Mu- range of archaeological work in Greece this year. seum of Art. Aspiration: Birmingham’s Historic In his position with the Greek Archaeological Houses of Worship was published by the Birming- Service, he supervised a number of excavations ham Historical Society in 2000. [[email protected]] in a vast region to the north of Athens in prepa- Vanessa Bezemer Sellers *92 has published a ration for the construction of public works for book based in part on her Princeton dissertation. the 2004 Olympics. His team unearthed a large Courtly Gardens in Holland 1600–1650: The

 SPRING  House of Orange and the Hortus Batavus was Robert Weir *98 and Mary Grace Weir *96 published by Architectura & Natura in (M.A.) completed their fourth transcontinental Amsterdam, and is now being distributed in the move since 1997 in the summer of 2001, leaving States by the Antique Collectors Club Victoria, B.C., for Waterloo, Ontario. Robert (www.antiquecollectorsclub.com). A book has a two-year contract at the Department of signing and reception was held in the Metropoli- Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo. tan Museum of Art in April. This fall Vanessa Robert’s publication of the art museum’s collec- will teach a course on the history of Baroque tion of grave stelai found in the excavations of garden design in the new Garden History and Antioch appeared this year in Roman Sculpture Landscape Studies Program at the Bard Graduate from the Art Museum, Princeton University Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, (Princeton, 2001). Mary Grace is still mostly a and Culture in New York City. The program’s stay-at-home mom with Elissa (now two) and advisory board includes the department’s John continues working on her dissertation when time Pinto and David Coffin. [[email protected]] allows. Robert and Mary Grace both gave papers at the annual conference of the Classical Associa- Andrew Shanken *99 is assistant professor of tion of Canada in Vancouver in May and plan to art at Oberlin College. In the spring of 2003 he be on their respective excavations in Greece and will teach in Oberlin’s London program. Cyprus this summer. [[email protected]] [[email protected], Anita Siu *89 (M.A.) moved to Foster City, [email protected]] California, in April of 2001, and gave birth to her Justin Wolff *99 has been living in San Diego, son, Udi, four months later. This is her second where he teaches American and European art as year staying at home to take care of Udi. She last a visiting lecturer in the Department of Visual worked for AmeriCares Foundation, an interna- Arts at the University of California, San Diego. tional humanitarian relief organization based in He is also a staff writer for the San Diego Reader. Connecticut. His first book, Richard Caton Woodville: American Ulrike Meyer Stump *96 (M.A.) is continuing Painter, Artful Dodger, will be published by work on her dissertation on the German photog- Princeton University Press in August of this year. rapher Karl Blossfeldt while teaching the history Justin has accepted a position teaching in the of photography at the Hochschule für Expository Writing Program at Harvard Univer- Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich (HGKZ). sity and will move back east in July. [[email protected]] [[email protected]] Harry Titus *84 has been working on a photo- Jie Xu *93 (M.A.), Foster Foundation Curator grammetric study of the Auxerre cathedral vaults of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum, has in association with the Progeo surveying firm in assembled the most ambitious show in the Avallon. His study, which is funded by a grant museum’s history, Treasures from a Lost Civiliza- from the Kress Foundation, will include contour tion: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan. The drawings of every vault and various 3-D presen- exhibition is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tations that he plans to add to his Web site in New York through June 16, and then moves (www.wfu.edu/~titus). The results of his 1998 to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, where radar and electrostatic survey of the cathedral it will be on display from August 2 through nave recently appeared in Gesta, and the twelve November 10. The show includes 175 objects of maps that were made can be seen on his Web bronze, jade, and clay dating from the thirteenth site at Wake Forest University. Last year Harry’s century B.C. to the third century A.D. and is team planned to open a small excavation in the accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue nave to investigate the area where the Ro- edited by the department’s Robert Bagley. manesque cathedral’s facade seems to have been located, but they failed to get final agreement from all parties concerned. They expect to try again this year, and will be at the site during the last week of May and the first two weeks of June. [[email protected]]

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