newsletter Volume 3, Number 4 December ]978

nominating committee report announcements

The 1978 Nominating Committee has made its final report and those proposed for election to Travel Grants to Bologna Congress the Board of Directors in 1979 (to serve until 1983) are: Paul Arnold, Oberlin College; Anne A limited number of travel grants will be Coffin Hanson, Yale University; Marilyn Lavin, Princeton University; Eleanor Tufts, available through the American Council of Southern Methodist University; John Walsh, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and William Learned Societies for those invited to deliver Wixom, Cleveland Museum of Art. papers or present reports at the International Postal Delays Chair; Jarislov Folda, University of North Congress of the History of Art to be held in Bologna, Sept. 10-23, 1979. Appl£cation The Nominating Committee's final report Carolina, Chapel Hill; Martha Kingsbury, University of Washington, Seattle; Sherman forms for these grants must be requested from was postponed from the original October 10 E. Lee, Cleveland Museum of Art; and the ACLS (Travel Grants Program, ACLS, deadline until November 3 because of postal George Sadek, Cooper Union. 345 East 46 Street N.Y_C. 10017). We don't delays of which many of you are all too well have any at the CAA office-honest! Com­ aware, At final count we had received 1650 Nominating Procedure pleted applications must be received by the ballots, a return from 21 % of the CAA mem­ Any individual member of the CAA may sub­ ACLS by March 1, 1979. In requesting appli­ bership. mit to the Nominating Committee sugges­ cation forms, please state the sponsor of the 1979 Nominating Committee tions for candidates for the Board of Direc­ Congress (Comite international d'histoire de tors. Letters should be addressed to the chair­ l'art); the nature of your contribution In accordance with the By-laws, a slate of man of the Nominating Committee, copy to (30-minute Report or 15-minute Paper with candidates for the Nominating Committee the CAA Executive Secretary, and should title); and the year in which you earned your is proposed by the Board of Directors and contain, minimally, the name of the proposed doctorate. Applications for ACLS travel elected by the membership at the annual candidate and his/her institutional affilia­ grants can be reviewed for recommendation members business meeting (Thursday, Feb_ tion and area of specialization. Supporting by the Art Historians Committee of the CAA 1, at noon)_ Twenty or more members enti­ letters, up to one page in length, will be only after they have been accepted by the tled to vote may place candidates in nomina­ xeroxed at the CAA office and circulated to ACLS as meeting aU technical qualifications. tion for the Nominating Committee by filing all members of the Nominating Committee. a petition with the Secretary at least thirty To allow adequate time for the Nominating Survey of Ph.D. Programs days before the annual meeting. Other Committee to consider its choices and to The third (1978) edition of the CAA Survey of nominations for the Nominating Committee contact those candidates it selects before Ph.D. Programs in Art History is finally off may be made from the floor at the annual everybody disperses for the summer, all sug­ the presses. The 6S-page survey contains de­ meeting. The slate proposed by the Board of gestions and letters of recommendation must tailed information on faculty and student Directors for the 1979 Nominating Commit­ be received by March 31, 1979. Only sugges­ body, admission requirements, financial aid, tee is: Thomas W. Leavitt, Herbert F. tions or letters of recommendationfrom CAA curriculum, resources, and major changes Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, members will be circulated and considered ... anticipated for 44 American institutions offering the terminal degree in art history. In addition, new this year, is a listing of basic information for 33 non-doctoral departments that offer the master's degree in art history. 1980 annual meeting Copies of the survey may be obtained from CAA, 16 East 52 Street, N.Y.C. 10022. The We know, we know ... the 1979 annual price is $3.00; prepayment required. New meeting hasn't even been held yet, but that York State residents please add applicable doesn't mean that it is too early to start mak­ sales tax. Checks, drawn upon a U.S. bank, ing plans and thinking of session proposals for should be made payable to the College Art 19S0. The 19S0 annual meeting will be held Association. in New Orleans, January 30 to February 2. Registry of Roving Researchers Chairman for Art History Sessions will be Scholars doing research in the United States Caecilia Davis-Weyer, Associate Professor of Caecilia Lin Emery frequently [rod themselves in need of infor­ Art History at Newcomb College, Tulane Davis-Weyer mation, documents etc. that can be obtained University (60 Newcomb Place, New Orleans, La. 7011S). A member of the CAA Board of chairman of the Ninth National/Interna­ only in a library or museum in Florence, Lon­ don, or where-have-you. Graduate students Directors and a former member of The Art tional Sculpture Conference held in New (and other scholars) doing research in Bulletin Editorial Board, Davis-Weyer is the Orleans in 1976 and was a panelist on the author of Early Med£eval Art: Sources and WCA session on "Women and Large-Scale Florence, London, or where-have-you fre­ quently find themselves in need of funds and Documents and a specialist in early Italian Sculpture)" at the 1977 CAA annual meeting. both willing and able to search out a date, Medieval painting. Those wishing to propose topics for sessions have a document copied, etc. Voila-the Chairman for Studio Sessions will be Lin at the 1980 annual meeting should write CAA Registry of Roving Researchers. For a Emery (7520 Dominican Street, New Or­ directly to the appropriate chairman by $3.00 annual fee, those temporarily or per- leans, La. 70118). Emery, a sculptor, was March 31, 1979. III Continued on p. 2, col. 1 I announcements lannouncements manently residing abroad and willing to Realist Video Panel Library of Congress Trainee Program Masquerades, Media, and Social Values artists have included Robert Motherwell, Black Mountain Artists undertake research assignments are invited to In October 1977 an NEA-sponsored panel on The Prints an Photographs Division of the Papers are invited for a panel on the above Janet Fish, and John Button. The fellowship Black Mountain College is planning both a register with the CAA. Request forms-do new realist art was conducted at Virginia Library of Congress has established a trainee topic to be held at the 1979 meeting of the year runs from October I to May 1. AddI­ catalogue and a projected national exhibit of not send money in advance-from the CAA Polytechnic Institute and State University, program for a limited number of qualified American Sociological Association. The tional infonnation: Director, FAWC, Box working artists who attended the school. office. Scholars in need of research assistance Participants were Janet Fish. Richard Estes, college students who wish to gain knowledge panel seeks to explore the role of masquerades 565, Provincetown, Mass. 02657. Application Please contact either Etta Deikman, 15 Muir are invited to state their needs: locale, special Duane Hanson, Clement Greenberg, and about organizing and controlling collections as a mode of communication - as traditional deadline: February I. Ave., Mill Valley, Calif. 94941 or Bill research skills, languages, etc. to the CAA Donald Kuspit. The session is recorded on two of graphic materials. These traineeships carry media reinforcement for African social McNeill, 24 Bernice Street, San Frandsco, office. Where possible, we shall provide a one-hour videotapes and is available to in­ no financial remuneration, but students re­ values. Send abstracts to Jean Borgatti, Calif,94103. simple, non-computerized, non-interfering dividuals and institutions at cost plus a small ceive experience with a rich collection of African Studies Center, Boston University, 10 ART$MARKET mating service. It will be up to both parties to handling fee. Send two 3/4" videotapes (1 works under staff supervision. For additional Lenox Street, Brookline, Mass. 02146, or to Funded through the CETA Programs Divi­ negotiate whatever terms they find accept­ hour each) plus $5.00 or send $55.00 to: Ray infonnation: Dale Haworth, Prints and Pho­ Perkins Foss, Art Dept., Dartmouth College, sion of the City of Los Angeles and by the able and to cope with the vagaries of various Kass, Dept. of Art, VPI & SU, Blacksburg, tographs Div., LC, Washington, D.C. 20540. Hanover, N.H. 03755. Deadline: March l. California Confederation of the Arts Art Bulletin Back Issues postal systems. Va. 24061. ~RT$MARKET is a new monthly publica~ Elisabeth B. MacDougall writes that she has a tIOn that offers free advertising space to artists long, although not complete, run of The Art Mellon Fellowships at Emory seeking positions and to employers with arts­ Bulletin going back to the 1940s which she Two one-year and one two-year appoint­ related openings. For additional infonna­ would like to donate, preferably to "some Publications on Visual Resources ments are available for non-tenured scholars Fellowships for Research on Women tion, and to get on their free distribution list: worthy impoverished college," She will be Three publications have come out during the American Cultures Fellowships capable of initiating thoughtful and attrac­ The Wellesley College Center for Research on A$M, 650 S, Spring Street, Los Angeles, moving in January and would like to complete past year that are significant to the field The Institute of American Cultures UCLA tive approaches to teaching and broadening Women invites research or curriculUIIl de­ Calif. 90014. the donation before then.lfinterested, worthy, of Fine Arts Visual Resource Curatorship. in conjunction with the Afro- A~erican' and enriching their own scholarly productivi­ velopment proposals for participation in a and impoverished, contact her at 2900 P Street These are: Management of Visual Resource Asian American, Chicano, and American In: ty and potential. While opportunities may be Faculty Development Program designed to N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007. Collections, ed. by Nancy Schuller, Univer­ dian Studies Centers, has available a limited open in traditional areas in the humanities, incorporate the results of scholarship on American Antiquarian Society Fellowships sity of Texas at Austin ($5.00); Guide for number of graduate and postgraduate fellow­ preference will be given to those interested women into regular academic offerings. Two categories of fellowships are available to Photograph Collections, ed by Susan Tam­ ships for the 1979-80 academic year. The in fields that bridge traditional disciplines. Fellowships are for one semester; junior sti­ enable scholars to use the research facilities of ulonis, Wake· Forest University ($2.50); and fellowships will be awarded to individuals on Art history is one of the fields in which there pend (usually assistant professors) $7,500; the Society. NEH fellowships, up to $1,666 Guide to Eqwftment for Slide Maintenance notes from the a competitive basis in support of their work in is particular interest this year. Stipend: senior stipend (associate or full professors) monthly, provide for six to twelve months and Viewing, ed. by Gillian Scott, Carleton ethnic studies. For further infonnation: lAC, $13,000. Send vitae, at least two letters of rec­ $11,000. Applicants may be male or female residence at the Society and are not available University, Ottawa ($7.00). These guides are women's caucus clo Chancellor's Office, 3130 Murphy Hall, ommendation, and 4- to 5·page description but must hold a position in the professorial to degree candidates. Fred Harris Daniels published under the auspices of the Mid­ UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, Galif. of current research and two courses you would ranks in a New England college or university fellowships provide for up to $1,800 for one to America College Ait Association and the 90024. Application deadlines: for graduate like to teach during tenure as Mellon fellow and must teach on the undergraduate leveL three months and are open to those working The Women's Caucus for Art was an active· University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. fellowships, Feb. 15; for postdoctoral and to: Jerome Beaty, Chr., MF Committee, For additional information: Janice R. on doctoral dissertations. for application participant in two regional conferences held Prepaid otders may be sent to Zelda Richard­ visiting scholar support, Dec. 15. Dept. of English, Emory University, Atlanta, Mokros, Faculty Development Program, forms: John B. Hench, Research and Publi­ in October. For the 42nd annual meeting of son, Slide Library, Art Department, Univer­ Ga. 30322. Application deadline: Jan. l. WCCRW, Wellesley, Mass, 02181. Applica­ cation Officer, AAS, 185 Salisbury Street, the Mid-America CAA held in Detroit Oc­ sity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. tiondeadline:Jan.15. Worcester, Mass. 01609. Application dead­ tober 25-28, the Caucus organized three ses­ 87131. Please make check payable to: Univer­ line: February 1. sions. Marcia Tucker, Director of the New sity of New Mexico. Early American Industries Grants Museum, New York City, chaired a panel on American Painting and Science in the Three small (up to $750 each) grants-in-aid "Women's Perspectives in Performance Art," held in conjunction with an exhibition of Nineteenth Century are available through the Early American In­ Out-of-Print Texts Institute for Research in History NCAF Benedict Nicolson Fund video and performance art at The Detroit In­ The Symposium on American Art, sponsored dustries Association to assist individuals or Reminder: Several members have called our Like the New Haven Center for Independent The Directors of The Burlington Magadne stitute of Arts, in which some of the panelists annually by the Department of Art History of institutions engaged in research or publica­ attention to the problem of the disappearance Study mentioned in an earlier issue, the Insti­ invite all those who would like to record their participated. Judith Kirshner, Curator, the University of Delaware and the National tion projects relating to the study of early from the market of significant texts-par­ tute for Research in History, located in New appreciation of Benedict Nicolson's long Museum of Contemporary An, Chicago, Collection of Fine Arts, will be held next on American industries in homes, shops, fanns ticularly inexpensive paperback texts-that York City, is a community of scholars en­ editorship of that journal to contribute to a organized a panel entitled "Materials, Fonns, April 20, 1979 at the University and will focus or on the sea. Grants are non-renewable and form an important part of the reading mate­ gaged in independent research. The distinc­ special fund (administered by the National Politics: Issues for the '80s," during which on the above topic. Papers will include such may be used to supplement existing financial rial of intermediate and advanced level art tive feature of IRH is that it is organized into Art-Collections Fund) which will be devoted four women artists working in the mid-West subjects as "Charles Willson Peale: Natural assistance. For application forms: Charles F. history courses. In an attempt to get a pre­ research groups, in at least one of which each to purchasing a picture in Nicolson's taste and discussed their work. Painter Joan Snyder History and Art," "The Influence of Von Hummel, Chr, Grants-in-Aid Committee liminary sense of the extent of this problem, member must participate. Each research presented to a British national institution in was the featured speaker in the third session, Humboldt on American Painting," and The Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del: the Art Historians Committee requests that group sets its own goals and establishes its own his memory. Contributions should be sent to talking about the development and changes "Thomas Eakins and Science." For additional 19735. Application deadline: March 15. all those who find that texts they would like to procedures: some function as study groups, NCAF Benedict Nicolson Fund, 26 Blooms­ in her work in the past few years, as well as her infonnation: Richard Jett, Dept. Art History, assign are unavailable through bookstores or some are engaged in joint research projects, bury Way, London WC1. convictions about the practical education of 318 Old College, University of Delaware, publishers inform us about it. Please include some meet to hear papers presented. The In­ A final list of contributors will be published the young artist. Newark, DeL 19711. Conferences on Humanities Programs author, title, publisher, price if known, title stitute also facilitates access to libraries and in the May 1979 issue of The Burlington The Southeastern Chapter of the Women's The American Association of State Colleges of course, and course enrollment, Also your archives, organizes special conferences, and Magadne. Caucus participated for the first time at the and Universities has received a grant from name and institution. Replies should be ad­ publishes a newsletter. Institute membership Southeastern College Art Association Con­ NEH to help colleges and universities make dressed to Art Historians Committee, clo at present is nearly 200; total membership is ference held at Little Rock, Arkansas Oc­ humanities programs more significant, par­ CAAOffice, 16 East 52 Street, N.Y.C. 10022. limited .to 300. Applications for admission Academy on Baroque Music and Art Symposium on African Art ticularly for career-oriented students. The must be sponsored by two members and must tober 26-28. The chapter sponsored several The second in a series of interdisciplinary Scheduled in conjunction with a show of grant will support three regional conferences, be approved by the Board of Directors. For papers and a panel discussion, "Women in Academies on Baroque Music and Art, spon­ African art from the collection of C.M. with approximately 20 institutions (each rep­ additional infonnation: IRl-I, 55 West 44 St., Art in the Southeast, the Challenge and the sored by the Aston Magna Foundation for Stanley,- a symposium on African art will be resented by a three-person team) partic­ N. Y.C. 10036. Frustration," chaired by Elsa Honig Fine. Music and the NEH, will be held June 17-July held April 27-29 at the University of Iowa, ipating in each. All expenses are covered by Susan F. Rossen II 7 in Great Barrington, Mass. The theme of Iowa City. Speakers include Paula Ben-Amos the grant, Preference will be given to institu­ Provincetown Artists Fellowships Editor, WCA Newsletter the 1979 Academy is "Music, Art Theatre, of Temple, Eberhard Fischer of the Rietberg tions that have defined clearly their conceTIlS The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown National Humanities Center Fellowships and Dance in the Age of Louis XV." The Museum in Zurich, Henry Drewel of Cleve­ in humanities education, have committed Mass., is offering fellowships, studio/livin~ The newly established National Humanities faculty will include both artist-faculty of land State, Susan Vogel of the Museum of themselves to find solutions, and have not accommodations, and modest stipends to ten Center (see CAA newsletter, Sept. 1977) ex­ Aston Magna and a distinguished grou,p of Primitive Art, and Christopher Roy of Iowa. received major NEH grants. Conferences will visual artists for the 1979-80 season (its pects to admit 35 Fellows for the academic cultural historians, among them John Rupert Co-chairmen are Wallace Tomasini of the be held in Savannah on January 12; in St. eleventh). The Work Center is not a school year 1979-80. For application forms and bro. To insure receipt of all CAA publica­ Martin, who will deal with the visual arts, in­ University of Iowa and Roy Sieber of the Uni­ Louis on March 12, and in Boston on April but it has a resident and visiting staff of chure describing various fellowship programs: tions and announcements, please be cluding stage design. For details: Raymond versity of Indiana. For further infonnation: 30. For application forms: Dr. Hawley, established artists and writers who are avail­ NHC, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle sure to keep us informed of your cur­ Erickson, Dir., AM Academy, 345 East 81 Wallace Tomasini, School Art & Art History, AASCU, Suite 700, 1 Dupont Circle, able for consultation and criticism and it Park, N.C. 27709. Application deadline: rent address. Street, N,Y,C. 10028. (212) 472-1122. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Wa,hington, D.C. 20036. (202) 293-7070. maintains an active art gallery. Recent guest January 10.

2 CAA newsletter December 1978 3 grants and awards visiting artists shows by artist members

Council joint committee for internation~l MILLARD MEISS FUND GRANTS and scholars A listing of solo exh£b£tions by artist members The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ research: PREPOCTORAL: Mary Jo ArnoldI, Peter H. Gordon. Razor Gallery. N.Y.C. Jon Palmer. Zara Gallery, San Francisco. of the CAA. Listt'ngs should include name of Sept. 3~-Oct. 18. Paintings. mittee met on October 26 and announced the Indiana Univ., for research in Mali on Sept. 23-0ct. 19. Kansas City Art Institute. Members and member ins#tu#ons are urged artist, gallery or museum, dty, dates of following awards: Bambara-Bozo puppetry in the Segou regi?n; Oct. 12-Nov. 6. University of California, to let us know about visiting lecturesht'ps, exhibit£on, and medium. Lilian Armstrong, for The Master of the Sarah Catherine Brett-Smith, Yale UillV., Salvatore Grippi. Handwerker Gallery, Itha­ Davis. Jan. 11-Feb. 16. Indiana University­ artist-in-residencies, etc. lasting one week or Putti and His Workshop: Venetian Minia­ for research in Mali on Bogolanfini mud-dyed John G. Balsley. Delta Gallery, Houston. ca College. Sept. 15-29. Drawings. Purdue University, Fort Wayne. March longer. Notification should include name .of turists of the Quattrocento, Harvey Miller cloth; Steven D. Owyoung, Univ. Michigan, Sept. 16-0ct. 12. Construction and mixed 19-ApriI13. All sculpture in latex and mixed visiting artist or scholar, his or her regular m­ Jo Hanson. Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Publishers. for research in Taiwan on the painting collec­ media. Whitewater Center for the Arts, Uni­ media. stitutional affiliation, area of specialt'zationl Craig Hugh Smyth, for A Corpus of tions and catalogues of Chinese collectors of versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Oct. 22- Angeles. Sept.-Oct. "Beyond Realism," research, name of host institution, and dates mixed media sculpture, Florentine Painting. Fourteenth Century, the Ming dynasty; Terry Allen, Har.vard Nov. 10. Sculpture. Norma Haas Rosen. Wallnuts Gallery, Phil­ Concluding Material, by Richard Offner Univ., for research in Iran and Afgharustan ofvisit. Since the primary purpose of, t~is ~ol­ umn is to encourage spt'n-offs, past VlSltatzons adelphia. Aug. II-Sept. 15. Mixed media (deceased) with Klara Steinweg (deceased) on the social, cultural, and historical aspects Ruth Bavetta. Gallery Two, California State Brynn Jensen. Focus Gallery, University of will not be reported. In the listing below, sculpture. and edited by Hayden Maginnis, preface by of 15th-century Herat; Nancy Stieber, Mas­ College, San Bernardino. Oct. 4-Nov. 3. Oregon Museum of Art. Jan. 7-Feb. 11. Re­ sachusetts Inst. of Technology, for research (F-H) means Fulbright-Hays Scholar. cent graphics. Craig Hugh Smyth, J. J. Augustin, Inc. Paintings and drawings. Barbara Rosenthal. Brazilian-American Stephen Murray, for La cathedrale. de in the Netherlands on the social determinants Cultural Center, N.Y.C. Jan. 15-30. Fourth of architectural form in working-class housing Betty Brown. Studio. At California State Dean Carter. Downtown Library Gallery, MaryAnn Johns. Chrysalis Gallery, Western Troyes:Jin du moyen age, 1300-1550, SOCIete Street Photo Gallery, N. Y.C. March. "Clues," in Amsterdam, 1909-1922, POST-DOCTORAL: University. Northridge. Winter term. Washington University, Bellingham. Oct. franl,;aise d'archeologie. Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Va. Nov. 19-Dec. autobiographically resonant photographs. Jean M. Borgatti, Boston Univ:, for research 29. Sculpture. 1-20. "Images on Clay." Maria Crouzat. University of Paris. British MITCHELL PRIZE in Nigeria on the effects of SOCIal cha~ge o~ Ursula von Rydingsvard. Freidus Gallery, painting and literature. At Depa.rtment of John R. Liikala. 47 Bond Street Gallery, The 1978 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art Okpella masking traditions and ae~thetI~ attI­ Dean Dablow. Sioux City Arts Center, Iowa. N.Y.C. Nov. 7-Dec. 2. Wood sculpture. N. Y.C. Personal myth in color xerox journal, has been awarded to Martin Budin and tudes; Patrick McNaughton, Umv. WIscon­ English, University of South Flonda. Sept. Jan. 9-Feb. 13. Photographs. sin, Milwaukee, for research in Mali on 1978-Feb. 1979. (F-H) clay, and intermedia performance. Evelyn Joll for their two-volume catalog, Diane Shaffer. Grand Rapids Art Museum. The Pat'ntings of J.M. W. Turner (Yale daliluw-the traditional knowledge compo­ Leila Daw. Denison University Art Gallery, Robert E. Mauro. Grace Gallery, New York Feb. 25-April 1. Sculptural installation and University Press, 1977). Budin, Keeper of the nent in Bamana sculpture and technology; Jennifer Dickson. Printmaking. At School Granville, Ohio. Oct. 8-Nov.12. An install a­ drawings. City Community College, Brooklyn. Oct. Historic British Collection at The Tate Joanna Williams, Univ. California, Berke­ of Art, University of Ohio. Feb. 10-17. tion designed for the specific space. 10-22. 3-dimensional screenprints. Gallery, and Joll, a managing director of ley, for research in England on Orissan ~anu­ Athena Tacha. Wright State University Art Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., the London script illustration: Ju-hsi Chou, Anzona Olja Ivanjicki. Freelance painter and sculp­ Vincent Falsetta. Hansen Galleries, N.Y.C. Dan McCormack. Grey Gallery, Antioch Gallery, Dayton. Oct. 22-29. Daily changing gallery that has dealt with Turners for more State Univ., for the study of Japanese. tor, Belgrade. Artist-in-residence and lectur­ October. Drawings. College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Nov. 27-Dec. installation pieces. Zabriskie Gallery, N. Y. C. than 125 years, received the $10,000 award at er in modern Yugoslav art. At Rhode Island 15. "Familial Images," photography. Feb. 6-March 3. Akron Art Institute. May. a ceremony in London's Royal Academy. FOR LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY School of Design. Oct. 1978-Jan. 1979. (F-H) The Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y. V., was the Oriole Farb. Mead Art Gallery, Amherst Mary H. Nash. 2nd Street Gallery, Char­ first recipient of the annual chairman's award College. Dec. 6-Jan. 24. "Valley Portraits," Murray Zimilies. Sindin Galleries, N. Y.C. ANDREW W. MELLON PRIZE Betsy Putz. Studio. At California State lottesville, Va. Oct. I5-Nov. 10. Paintings Sept. 23-0ct. 13. Three series of paintings. given by the New York Landmarks Conserv­ Paintings, prints, pastels. and drawings. The second annual Andrew W. Mellon Prize ancy for "excellence in the redesign of a land­ University, Northridge. Winter term. III of $50,000 will be awarded jointly to Willem mark building." The subject, of course, was de Kooning and Eduardo Chillida. As a the renovation-completed last year-of the Camilo Semenzato. University of Padua. professional publications concommitant of the award, their works will Duke mansion, in which the Institute has Venetian sculpture in American private col­ be presented in two concurrent exhibitions at been housed since 1958. Architect Richard lections and American architecture. At the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art from Foster, who planned and supervised the proj­ University of California, Berkeley. Sept. American Art Directory 1978. This reference Livingston Biddle: "Its main purpose is to October 1979 through early January 1980. leges and universities. Grants, fellowships, ect, not only restored the house interior to its 1978-Dec. 1979. (F-H) volume is somewhat off-the-beaten-track for help board members and managers of cultur­ and awards are listed by their originating original grandeur and sparkle (somewhat the column, since we generally restrict al institutions find sound information and sources, which include NEA, NEH, Office of ACLS-SSRCAWARDS diminished by twenty years of hard use by ourselves to comparatively inexpensive and ideas related to their needs." 195 entries (they Shlomo Simonsohn. Tel Aviv University. Education, etc. Federal Resources Advisory The following awards in the field of art history students) but also enlarged the fine arts not-for-profit publications. At $42.50 per haven't numbered pages and we refuse to Jewish art and civilization. At Yale University. Service, Association of American Colleges, were announced by the American Council of library sufficiently to allow for its projected copy, the 1978 Directory is not something count); index. Publishing Center for Cultural July 1978-June 1979. (F-H) 1818 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Learned Societies-Social Science Research growth over the next twenty years. II everyone will want to rush off and buy, but Resources, 152 West 42 Street, N.Y.C. 10036. the expansion and improvement over the $3.00. 20009. $5.00 AAC members; $7.50 non­ members. Srihadi Sudarsono. Bandung Institute of previous (1974) edition is so extensive as to be Directoryfor the Arts. Guide to 145 organi­ Technology. Modern American art. At Ohio worthy of special note. Simple statistics (the zations offering free or low-cost services, pro­ Money Business: Grants and Awardsfor Cre­ State University. Sept. 1978-May 1979. (F-H) present volume numbers 703 pages, com­ pared with 457 last time) don't begin to tell grams, and funds for nonprofit arts organiza­ ative Artists. The first edition of a directory the story because some ingenious designer has tions, artists, and local sponsors. Funded in of some 300 organizations around the country Gheorghe-Mircea Toea. University of Cluj­ found a way to include more information in part by NYS Council on the Arts and NEA. that offer grants and awards to indiv£dual Napoca. Romanian art and civilization. At less space with no noticeable increase in 108 pp.; index. Center for Arts Information, professional artists. Eligibility requirements, UCLA. Sept. 1978-June 1979. (F-H) eyestrain. So far as we could see, nothing has 152 West 42 Street, N.Y.C. 10036. $6.00 amount of award, application process and been cut from the previous edition and paperback, $10.00 hardbound. deadline dates are included. Special sections among the valuable new features are a section cover artists' retreats as well as NEA and state Hanah Wilke. Sculpture. At School of Art, Fear of Filz'ng: A Beginner's Handbook on arts agencies programs. 109 pp.; index. Pub­ University of Ohio. Jan.12-20. II on Corporate Art Holdings, a section on Open Exhibitions, the expansion of Art Recordkeep£ng and Federal Taxes for lished by The Artists Foundation of Boston. School Listings to include entire faculty (in­ Dancers, Other Performers, Wn'ters and Available through American Council for the stead of just chairpersons), and a 112-page Visual Artists. We've mentioned this one Arts, 507 Seventh Ave., N. Y.C. 10018. $7.00 One of the library study Personnel Index. We even like the bright new before, but the new third edition is expanded, single copy; bulk discounts available. rooms at the Institute of Artist"'m,embers' who.:' sublIiitted ,slld,es' revised, and keyed to the 1977 federal tax for'the --lQ78 :CAA: placeme~,t"-Jile,, and,­ yellow binding! R.R. Bowker Co., 1180 Fine Arts. Before renova­ forms. 55 pp. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Museum Ethics. The report of the American who: now ,'want' them, x:eturned should Avenue of the Americas, N.Y.C. 10036. tion, this and the other 36 West 44 Street, Suite 1110, N.Y.C. 10036. Association of Museums' Committee on study rooms were com­ send' a ,stamped, (28~) self:address~d $3.00 prepaid. Ethics, endorsed by unanimous vote of the pletely filled with book envelope'tp CAA,'-'-16 EiUt,52 ,~:treet. Arts Management: An Annotated B£bliogra­ membership at the last AAM annual meet­ cases, obscuring doors, N- Y. C,": '10022;' ,-:P:l~¥e :spedfy area, ','?~ phy. Compiled by Linda Coe and Stephen A Gut'de to Federal Funding in the Arts and ing. AAM, 1055 Thomas Jefferson Street, mirrors, and the relief sp~da1it~tion: Benedict for the NEA's Cultural Resources Humant'ties. By Myra FickJen. Concise de­ work on the walls. Development Project. From the preface by N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 $1.50 AAM scriptions of 58 programs of interest to col- members: $2.00non-members. .. 4 CAA newsletter December 1978 5 people and programs /people and programs

Slightly west, at the University of Connec­ PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compiled and edited teacher at Tyler for 18 years. A native of Il­ Joining the faculty of the Hartford Art School Installation of ceramics and sculpture facili­ Philosophical Society. Robert Herbert, who by Eugenia S. Robbins. Matenalfort'nclust'on linois, who earned bachelors and masters for the year are Robert Cumming, photog­ ties and a photographic laboratory have been was also elected a fellow of the American ticut, newcomers to the Storrs campus are in the next newsletter should be sent to her at degrees from the University of Wisconsin, raphy; Jack Goldstein, filmmaking; and completed at the University of Texas, San Academy, has returned to New Haven after William Majors in printmaking and Rudy R.F.D. No.2, Peth Road, Randolph, Vt. Pease was the unanimous choice of the search Bruce Carl Ostwald, ceramics. All three Antonio. Visiting artist faculty for the current his spring series of lectures as Slade Professor Serra in sculpture. Serra will join the faculty 05060, by January 15. committee. He has been chairman of the have had broad teaching experience. year include: Michael Heffel, sculptor; Neil at Oxford. Judith Colton received the James beginning with the spring term. Amy department of painting, drawing, and sculp­ Maurer and James Newberry, photogra­ L. Clifford Prize of the American Society for Vandersall has been a visiting professor in art ture for seven years and has been acting dean phers; and Kazuya Sakai, painter. Steve Eighteenth-Century Studies for her "Merlin's history this fall. Beginning this January, Jean Luc Bordeaux Reynolds, ceramist, was appointed associate Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as IN MEMORIAM of the school since last summer. of California State University, Northridge, professor with tenure, and Charles Field, Political Propaganda." Anne Coffin Hanson will be in Paris for a year to serve as a visiting Bernard Derr (Ph.D. Minnesota) has joined painter, was appointed professor. has been designated the John Whitney Pro­ Five new appointments have been made at curator (charge de mission) at the Louvre. the faculty of Ohio State University, Marion fessor of the History of Art. Better known for Bowling Green State University, School of Bordeaux is the first West Coast scholar to be Campus, as an assistant professor. Charlotte The University of North Carolina, Chapel her research on Manet and Quercia, Pro­ Art. Dawn Glanz (Ph.D. North Carolina) selected under the cultural exchange pro­ Douglas (Ph.D. Texas-Austin) is currently a Hill, announced two new faculty appoint­ fessor Hanson displayed another side of her will teach American and late Medieval art. gram agreed upon a few years ago by the visiting lecturer in Russian art at the Colum­ ments: Richard Shiff, to teach 20th-century interests in the July/August issue of Vogue Pat­ Marilyn F. Griewank (M.F.A. Indiana) will Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. bus campus of Ohio State. The new depart­ art history, and Steven Mansback to teach tern Magazine, where she was featured as teach jewelery. Robert W. Hurlstone ment chair is Howard G. Grane, who 19th-century art history. The two new faculty both model and subject of an article on pro­ (M.F.A. Southern Illinois) will handle glass replaces Franklin Ludder. The College of Arts and Sciences at N. Y. U. come from the University of Chicago and fessional women who sew. techniques. Dvora L. Kreuger (M.A. Ohio sends news that Moshe Barasch, of Hebrew Cornell respectively. Visiting faculty at the State) will teach art therapy. Gary L. Schu­ University, Jerusalem, is visiting professor at From Amherst comes news that Robert mer (M.F.A. Ohio Univ. will be a visiting Chapel Hill Campus for the year are Jerri­ N.Y. U. this year. His book Ltght and Color in lynn Dodds and Keith Crown. Macks has joined the faculty as assistant pro­ instructor in art fundamentals and drawing. the Italian Renaissance Theory ofArt has just fessor to teach introductory sculpture and been published by the N. Y. U. Press. John Pollini (Ph.D. Berkeley) is currently basic drawing. Harry Bober is a visiting pro­ Lynda Mcintyre has been appointed assist­ a Mellon Post-doctoral fellow in Classics and fessor this tenn, teaching "Themes in Early ant professor and director of the art educa­ William Berry, formerly of the University of will be teaching Classical art at Case Western Medieval Art," and Sonya Sofield will be tion program at the UniversityofVermont. In Texas, Austin, and Boston University, has Reserve University as a visiting faculty visiting during the spring term to teach addition, several visiting faculty have joined joined the department of the University of member this year. Walter Gibson has been Romanesque and Gothic art. the Burlington department: Timothy Crow­ Missouri-Columbia as professor and head of named Mellon Professor of the History of Art. ley, Robert Fisher, and Stephan McKeown the graphic design program. His book Draw­ He is absent from Case this year on ACLS and Elizabeth Langhorne (Ph.D. Pennsylvania) for the fall term; and Maureen Donadio for ing the Human Form was published by Van Guggenheim grants. has joined the faculty at the University of the year. The acting chairman is Francis R. Nostrand Reinhold in 1977. During the Virginia to teach Modern art. Among this John Shapley, one of our gifted teachers and Hewitt. winter term, Virginia Roeder is in Columbia New faculty at the University of Maryland this year's visiting faculty at Virginia are Marjorie respected scholars, died in September at the to teach drawing and painting. year are Sam Gilliam (M.F.A. Louisville) for Balge, American art, Steve Orso, Baroque age of 88. Born on a farm in Missouri, he From the University of Kansas comes news painting, Howard Lerner for drawing, and art, and John Dobbins, Roman art. Mal­ studied first in a one-room school taught by that Robert Enggass, currently on leave, will From Notre Dame comes news of the appoint­ William Richardson for drawing and colm Bell is acting chairman this year in his older sister and went on to receive his A.B. be leaving permanently in January to become ment of George Tisten to teach industrial design. John Gossage, lecturer in photog­ Keith Moxey's absence. Paul Banolsky's at the University of Missouri in 1912, his M.A. the Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Art at the design. Adjunct professor during both fall raphy in the department, has just published a Infinite Jest, Wit and Humor in Italian Ren­ from Princeton in 1913, and his doctorate University of Georgia. Current chairman at and spring terms are Marjorie Schreiber book co-authored with Walter Hopps: Gar­ aissance Art was recently published by the from the University of Vienna in 1914. Pro­ Kansas, Chu-tsing Li, has been named Jud­ Kinsey, for 19th- and 20th-century art histo­ dens, Castelli/Hollow Press, 1978. Timed to University of Missouri Press. fessor Shapley's career in the teaching of art ith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of ry, and -Nancy Lensen-Tomasson, for the open during the CAA Washington meetings, history and archaeology spanned some fifty­ Art History. Marilyn Stokstad's Santiago practice and history of photography. Depart­ the exhibition Women Artists in Washington The University ofIowa in Iowa City has added five years and fifteen institutions. His former de Compostela has been published by the ment chairman for the year is the Rev. James Collections will be at the University Art new areas to the art history curriculum: students have corne to fill some of the most University of Oklahoma Press. Flanigan, C.S.C. Gallery. Organized by Josephine Withers, African, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic. distinguished posts in American scholarship. the show and its catalogue are supported by Christopher Roy (Ph.D. candidate Indiana) the NEA. has joined the Iowa faculty to teach these As a student at Missouri, Shapley assisted The Johns Hopkins department of the history Elizabeth Schwartzbaum has returned to courses. his professor, John Pickard, in establishing of art has welcomed Paul Staiti as an instruc­ Oberlin to teach Medieval art and architec­ Two new appointments have been made to the College Art Association. In 1918 he tor this year. Staiti is teaching courses in the ture after two years of research in Rome. Ann the Yale faculty. Charles McClendon (Ph.D. Model andManet. Anne Hanson in Vogue. became secretary and treasurer of CAA and history of 19th- and 20th-century art. Epstein is on leave from the Ohio campus this Sweet Briar College tells of two additions to later-from 1923 to 1938-served as its presi­ I.F.A.) has been appointed assistant pmfessor year, during which she is a visiting research its art history department: Diane Moran dent. He was also of critical importance to to teach Medieval architecture. Marr retta Franklin Sayre (Ph.D. Yale) has joined the fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. Athena Tacha (Ph.D. candidate Virginia) came to Sweet The Art Bulletin, serving first as managing Lovell (of Yale) is acting instructor of The art department at Virginia Polytechnic department at Oakland University to teach has been awarded a G.S.A. commission for a Briar over a year ago to teach 19th-and 20th­ editor, then as editor, from 1921 through American painting and decorative arts. Institute and State University has two new Oriental an. Oakland's department chair is landscape sculpture in front of the Federal century art. Last February, Susan Bandes 1939. When finances proved inadequate for Walter B. Cahn is the department chair­ faculty members: Gary Steve Bickley, John B. Cameron. The department has five Office Building in Norfolk, Virginia. (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr) joined the faculty to publication costs, Shapley was known to have person. His book Sculpture in the Isabella teaching 3culpture, drawing, design, and art full-time and one part-time historians, and teach Northern, Baroque, and Ancient art. contributed part of his salary to keep The Art Stewart Gardner Museum (co-authored with appreciation, and Terrie Pike-Brooklyn, one full-time studio artist. Bulletin viable. A director and collaborator From Southern Methodist University comes C. Vermeule and R. Van N. Hadley) was teaching art appreciation, art history, and art Carol Ockman has joined the faculty at in the Carnegie Corporation's set of study news that Alessandra Comini's fifth book, published in Boston last year. James Marros' for elementary school teachers. Both appoint­ Williams College to teach Modern art. Milo materials in art and archaeology and for The new head of art history at SUNY/Buffalo The Fantastic Art of Vienna, has JUSt been The James A. de Rothschild Collection at ments are for the 1978-79 academic year. Beach, also on the Williams faculty, has just many years president of the Byzantine In­ is Alan Birnholz. Carol Zemel has just published by Knopf. Each spring for the past Waddesdon Manor: Illuminated Manu­ published The Grand Mogul: ImperialPaint­ stitute and associate director of the Iranian joined the department as assistant professor four years, S.M.U. has held a symposium. SCTlptS (co-authored with L. MJ. Delaisse and Wellesley College recently announced the ing in India, 1600-1660. Institute, he was also the author of many and Jack Quinan recently received a promo­ This year, the April topic will be "The Role John de Wit) was published by the National appointment of Kenneth Bendiner (Ph.D articles, books, and encyclopedia contri­ tion with tenure. Charles Carman is on sab­ of the Art in a Liberal Education." Trust, 1977. Andrew Wilton's British Columbia) to its art history faculty. Bendiner butions. batical in Italy this year. Watereolours, 1750-1850, was published by is a specialist in Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite John Link, a painter (M.F.A. Oklahoma), A new appointment at the department of art Phaidon in 1977. Sumner McKnight art. In addition, Marie J. Adams, of Har­ has been named chairperson of the art A new member of the department of art his­ history of the University of Wisconsin, Mad­ Crosby, who retired in June this year, re­ vard's Peabody Museum, will be visiting at department at Western Michigan University. TEACHING tory at Boston University is Patricia Hills. ison, is Gail L. Geiger (Ph.D. Stanford). ceived the Ordre des Arts and Lettres from Wellesley to teach a course on the arts of black Link replaces Charles Meyer who, after Hills continues to maintain her position as Geiger, whose previous teaching was at the French Government and was also elected Africa this spring. Kenworth Moffett's book eleven years as department chair, has re­ The new dean of Temple University's Tyler adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum, al­ Pomona and Trinity College, Rome, will be a fellow of the American Academy of Arts Kenneth Noland was published last year by turned to the full-time teaching of art history. Continued on 8, col. 1 School of Art is David Pease, painter and though she has resigned from York College. handling Italian Renaissance and Baroque. and Sciences and a member of the American Abrams. p. CAA newsletter 7 6 December 1978 •

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Cranbrook Academy has appointed two new Robert H. Westin has been appointed chair­ Gallery also inaugurated an annual lecture MUSEUM STAFF NOTES The Gallery of the University of Minnesota Jane Livingston, chief curator at the Cor· department heads and an administrative man of the department of art at the University series, the Charlotte Whitney Allen Lectures. has a new team at the top. Lyndel King, act­ coran Gallery of Art since 1975, has been dean, George Mason has been named as act­ of Florida. He succeeds Eugene E. Grissom This year's speakers were John R. Spencer, ing director since September 1975: .was named associate director with responsibility ing head of ceramics, replacing his fanner who served as chairman for the last seventeen Creighton Gilbert, Marilyn Lavin and Leo named director. Robert van der Wege Jomed for exhibitions, acquisitions, and overall art teacher Richard DeVore, who had led the years and who will now return to full-time Steinberg, all of whom addressed some aspect the gallery as assistant director this Sep­ policy. Livingston, who is chairing the st,:dio department since 1966. Daniel Libeskind is teaching. Westin (Ph.D. Penn State), whose of Florentine artists of the Renaissance. tember. He was formerly with the University sessions for the 1979 CAA annual meetmg, the new head of the architecture department, area of specialization is Italian Renaissance of Hawaii-Hila. was previously curator of modern art at the replacing Gerald Exline. Barbara Price, and Baroque art, comes to Florida from Ari­ Los Angeles County Museum for almost ten the new dean, comes to Cranbrook from the zona State University, where he had served as A systematic program of exchange in the arts years. At both LACMA and the Corcoran, The new director of the University of Miami's Corcoran School of Art, where she was a assistant chairman of the art department and between the People's Republic of China and she has been responsible for initiating exhibi· faculty member. Lowe Art Museum is Ira Licht, who recently assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts. the United States has been established at Co­ tions and producing catalogs on many of the was with the NEA. Before that, Licht had lumbia University's School of the Arts. Ac. most innovative painters and photographers been curator of the Museum of Contem­ cording to Columbia spokesmen, The Center of the period. Donald Kuspit, whose appointment chair­ porary Art in Chicago and on the faculty of NEW ACTIVITIES for United States-People's Republic of man of the department of art SUNY/Stony China Arts Exchange will serve as the central the University of Rochester. He replaces John Brook was announced in OUT last issue, is in­ agency in the U.S. for the exchange of Suzanne Delehanty Photo: Myles Aronowitz Baratte, who resigned last May. In honor of James Watrous, on the occasion deed that. We neglected to note, however, materials, initially in the fields of music, the that his appointment is a joint one in the of his promotion to Professor Emeritus, the performing arts, and the visual arts. Eventu. In December, Suzanne Delehanty became The National Academy of Design has ap­ philosophy and art departments. Claire University of Wisconsin is inaugurating a ally an exchange of teachers, scholars, and director of the Neuberger Museum at pointe<;l John H. Dobkin as director, a job Lindgren, in the Stony Brook art depart­ series of special graduate seminars. The first, performers is planned. Columbia's counter­ SUNY IPurchase. She had led the Institute of that carries responsibility for the School of ment, has been awarded a $5000 publication March 5-16, win bring Charles Parkhurst, part in China will be the Central Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia since Fine Arts as well as the Fifth Avenue gallery grant from the Confederation Internationale of the National Gallery of Art, to present a Music in Peking. 1971, during which time the ICA mounted and the Academy's collections. Dobkin comes des Negociants en Oeuvre d'Art for her man­ seminar in the history of color theory. The important shows of contemporary work rang­ to the Academy from the Cooper-Hewitt uscript Classiscal Forms and Barbarian series has been made possible by a grant from ing from group shows such as "Video Art" to Museum, where he was assistant director for Mutations. The Kress Foundation and gifts from former The University of Kansas' newly endowed solo exhibitions of artists as diverse as Segal, students and friends. administration for seven years. visiting lecture program, the Franklin D. Morris and Martin. Delehanty succeeds act­ Murphy Lectures. will by inaugurated in ing director Irving Sandler. The University of Maryland has announced April by Pierre Rosenberg. The Louvre Peter Bermingham, curator of education for a special spring seminar for American studies curator, who will be in residence in Lawrence the National Collection of Fine Arts at the and art history students to be conducted by for ten days at the beginning of April, will Yale is the scene of both comings and goings. Smithsonian since 1972, has left Washington John Wilmerding, curator of American art deliver two major lectures, one on Chardin Patricia E. Kane, who had been assistant to become director of the Museum of Art at at the National Gallery. Although dealing and the other on Poussin. He will also conduct and associate curator at the Yale Art Gallery the University of Arizona, Tucson. He suc· with 19th·century American art in general, intensive seminars with graduate students in since 1968, has been appointed curator of ceeds Kay Jessup, who has been acting direc­ Wihnerding will focus closely on luminist the art history department. The lectureship, American decorative arts, filling the post held tor since the resignation of William Steadman landscapes and late 19th-century still life. which is co-sponsored by the Spencer Muse­ by the late Charles Montgomery. Educated in June of 1977. Jane Livingston Photo: Max Hirshfcld um, the art history department of the Univer. at Chatham College and the University of SUNY IPlattsburgh is beginning its second sity, and the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum Delaware, Kane is currently a doctoral can­ didate at Yale. Leaving Yale for St. Louis is Raul A. Lopez has just left his post as year of a "Contemporary Visual Artists" in Kansas City, will be documented each year The Bowdoin College Musuem of Art an· James Burke, who assumed his new P?st of associate curator for New World Collections series. A Dennis Oppenheim installation by publication of the public addresses. nounced the appointment of Philip N. assistant director for art at the St. LOUIS Art at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History to and exhibitions (and appearances) by Philip Grime (AB art history and AM American Pearlstein and Alice N eel highlight the Museum on November 1. Burke, a Harvard become director of the Department of Muse· cultural history, Univ. Vermont) as coor­ artists' contribution to the series. Lectures Another new lecture series, in honor of the Ph.D., had been curator of graphics at the urns for the City of Riverside. Among other dinator of the Wider Availability of Museum late Charles F. Montgomery, is being held at Yale Gallery. Before that he had served both duties, Lopez will be responsible for the will be given by Bill Viola, Lucy Lippard, Collections program. Formerly assistant coor­ Amy Taubin, and Alessandra Comini. The the Winterthur Museum this academic year. as curator and acting director at Oberlin's Riverside Municipal Museum, a general mu­ dinator of the Vermont Landscape Project at The four-part program, which began in Allen Memorial. seum that has an outstanding collection of program is co-directed by Judith K. Van the University of Vermont and assistant to the Wagner and Richard Salzman. October, focuses on 18th·century American baskets of the Southwest, and Heritage decorative arts. Jonathan L. Fairbanks and House, currently being restored as amusernn. director of the University'S George Bishop There have been several staff changes at the Lane Artists Series, Grime succeeds James M. "American Architecture in Context," a collo­ Morrison H. Heckscher have already de­ Lopez, who had been on the UCLA staff since Donald Kuspit, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook Stanford University Museum. Carol M. livered their addresses. Still to come: Wendy 1967, has an M.A. in primitive art history Brown, III, who resigned to accept a position quium taught at Carleton College last Osborne has been named assistant director as director of the Society of Four Arts at Pahn winter, was jointly led by a social historian A. Cooper on March 8 and Brock W. Jobe on from that institution. April 12. and curator of paintings. The curator of Beach, Fla. A new professor in the art history section of and an art historian. Supported by the NEH, Oriental art is Patrick J. Maveety, and Kate the University of Tennessee's art department Clifford Clark and Lauren Soth examined Garrett is the new registrar. George Eastman House has announced the is Amy Neff (Ph.D. Pennsylvania). Ten­ several specific episodes in American archi­ Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, long a bastion appointment of Janet E. Buerger as acting RoseLee Goldberg has been named curator nessee's department of crafts, formerly in the tectural history, asking what social factors of scholarly research and connoisseurship, curator of 19th-century photography. at the Kitchen Center for Video, Music and and what aesthetic impulses lay behind the The new director of the Fine Arts Gallery at Buerger (Ph.D. Columbia), who is presently College of Horne Economics, has been moved has recently enlarged its public programs Bowling Green State University is faculty Dance in New York City. A graduate of the to the art department. creation and acceptance of architectural with two new activities, one of which will lead executive assistant to the director and who Courtauld and fonner director of the Royal styles. A copy of the syllabus may be obtained member Ralph Warren. The first shows first came to the International Museum of to a new kind of Fogg exhibition. A "Lunch­ under his direction are "Four from Kent," in College of Art Gallery in London, Goldberg is from Lauren Soth, Carleton College, North­ eon and Lecture" innovation, begun with a Photography as an intern three years ago, the author of the first history of performance Larry Edwards, former chairman of the art field, Minn. 55057. November, "A Survey of Intaglio Prints" in series of four talks by Agnes Mongan on replaces Robert Sobieszek while he is on art, Performance: Live Art 1900 to the Pres· department at Pennsylvania State University, january, and a "Clay and Fiber Invitational" Degas and continued with a series on the art leave. Eastman House internships have been ent (Abrams and Thames & Hudson), will be assumed the duties of art department chair­ in February. The University of Rochester's Memorial of the garden, features lunch in the Fogg's going on for some years, but this y~ar is the published in 1979. man at Memphis State University this fall. Art Gallery has just published the first issue exquisite Naumburg Room. Catering to a dif­ first time that two interns are commg from Also new to the department are Larry of Porticus, a new journal devoted to reports ferent set, "The Fogg Workshop" provides Edward R. Quick, formerly of the Santa abroad. Nissam Perez, from the Israel McPherson, former instructor at Columbia of research on the museum's permanent col­ Saturday morning sessions for fifteen third Barbara Museum, has become registrar of the Museum in Jerusalem, and Osamu Saka­ The new position of assistant to the director of College and the Chicago Art Institute, who lection. Planned for annual publication, the and fourth graders. At the conclusion of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. He has guchi, from Nihon University in Tokyo, have the Williams College Museum has been filled assumes direction of the new program in attractive little bulletin is assisted by a grant course, the children will organize and hang a been joined by Mitchell Douglas Kahan joined Keith Davis of the University of New by John W. Coffey II. The new a~sistant photography, and James Harrington, for­ from Dr. and Mrs. James S. Watson, Jr. mini-exhibition of the prints, drawings, pho. (doctoral candidate CUNY), wh~ comes from Mexico, Cecile Horowitz of Indiana Univer­ director at the University of New MeXICO Art merly of the University of Georgia, who Susan E. Schilling, former research curator tographs, and sculptures made as a result of a Smithsonian Research fellowshIp to take up sity, and Dan Meinwald of the Visual Studies Museum is Elizabeth Anne McCauley (doc­ becomes director of interior design. at the Gallery, is the Porticus editor. The their discussions in the Fogg galleries. the post of curator. Workshop, Rochester. toralcandidateYale). E.S.R. l1li 8 eAA newsletter December 1978 9 letters preservation committee printmakers contracts

CANDIDATES' RESPONSIBILITIES UPDATING EARLIER NOTICES ENDANGERED WORKS Addition to Guidelines for the Professional Practice of Studio Art. Section IV: Print­ a. Distributton Expenses. All costs of makers Contracts distribution, including selling, advertising To the Editor: Shirley Blum has received a letter from the Committee for Simon Rodia's Tower in and promotional expenses are normally paid One point I might make as a result of this ex­ Allegheny County Department of Aviation Watts. The group which gave the Tower to Unant'mously adopted by CAA Board of Directors, October 28, 1978. entirely by the publisher or the distributor. ercise (listing a position with the CAA) is that assuring her that the Calder mobile in Pitts­ the city of Los Angeles through a conveyance b. Artist's Income. The artist's income one of the candidates who applied and whom burgh will be properly restored once revitali­ contract in October, 1975, continues to be These guidelines are designed to assist artist­ will advance the cost of production and pro· from the sale of an edition may come either (i) I interviewed decided when the position was zation of the main lobby of the airport tenni· gravely concerned with the accelerated dete­ printmakers in the negotiation of agreements vide for the repayment of those costs from the from an outright purchase of the edition by actually offered that she didn't want it after nal has been completed. rioration of the site. It is asking the city of for the publication and distribution of print sale of the edition. Travelling expenses of the the publisher or another distributor for a set alL This, after having written me a follow-up L.A. to cancel the present work contract editions. They are designed to acquaint the artist and shipping costs of plates are re­ price or (ii) from a percentage of the sales of letter saying that she was very interested in the A recent communication from the Office Jecause of irresponsible and destructive artist with the basic business considerations garded as production costs. the edition, which the artist consigns to the position. A second applicant is currently try­ of General Services of the State of New York repair methods and wants a qualified archi­ and legal concepts underlying such agree­ b. Edt'tion Size. The edition size should publisher or a distributor for sale. The agree­ ing to make up her mind. For all the sins of in­ concerning the security and preservation of tect and contractor to be hired immediately ments, but they are no substitute for compe­ be agreed upon between the publisher and ment should make clear whether the artist is stitutions that falsely list positions that they the Empire State Plaza Art Collection (Al­ to begin proper restoration at once. It is tent legal advice. the artist prior to printing and should be in­ selling or consigning the edition and who has have in reality already filled, this seems to be bany Mall) suggests that the collection has strongly urging the city to allocate the corporated in their contract. title to it. an equally unfair practice on the other side of been undergoing cleaning and conservation Tower's share of the half million dollars of 1. Persons Involved.in the Publication and c. Artist's Proofs. The contract should c. Consignment. When an artist con· the line. Neither of the two individuals I men­ treatment by students from the Cooperstown HUD funds awarded to the area to supple­ Distributt'on of a Print Edt'tion. There are provide for the number of artist's proofs and signs an edition for sale, the edition remains four functions, apart from that of the artist, tioned above has taken a position elsewhere. Graduate Program in the Conservation of ment the money promised by the State. If you how they are to be signed and numbered and the property of the artist, and the consign­ involved in the publication and distribution Perhaps next year applicants might be re­ Historic and Artistic Works. Not a moment want to help, send .$2.00 (membership) or whether the publisher is to acquire any artist's ment agreement should so state. The publish­ minded that they should present themselves too soonl Though guard rails have been more to P.O. Box 1461, Los Angeles, Calif. of a print edition: those of the publisher, the proofs for sale. Artist's proofs should not nor· er, or distributor, acts as the artist's selling printer, the distributor and the dealer. The only if, in good faith, they plan to accept the placed around many of the canvases in the 90028. mally exceed 12% of the total edition. agent, with sales made at prices set by the art­ post should it be available (Assuming, of Mall itself, it is still possible to tie one's publisher is responsible for publishing the d. Publisher's Proofs. The contract ist, in consultation with the publisher or print, i. e., making the arrangements for the course, that they have nothing else lined up.) sneaker against the Kenneth Noland, as one Refregier in San Francisco. The twenty should also provide for a specified number of distributor. The agreement should provide artist to work with a given printer. The I'm not being cranky, I only am thinking of imprint suggests. As of early June, the list of seven murals devoted to the history of Califor­ publisher's proofs for use as documentation for the rate of commission to be paid to the printer prints the artist's image. The dis· how much time has been wasted. works in serious need of attention exceeded nia painted by Anton Refregier on the walls of and for promotion and exhibition purposes. publisher or distributor and for periodic tributor markets the print to dealers, who, in Name Withheld twenty and, in addition to the examples men· the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Fran· The publisher normally agrees not to market accounting and payment to the artist of all turn, sell to the public. Frequently, one per­ tioned in the CAA newsletter (Vol. 3, No.2, cisco are again endangered (they were' the these proofs, but there is a question about the amounts due, at least twice each year. The son will perfonn several functions. An artist To the Editor: June, 1978) and New York Magazine (Nov. subject of a celebrated case during the Mc­ practical enforceability of such a provision. publisher may recover the direct cost of pro­ may also be a publisher, as may a printer. The For the second time in the last five years a pro­ 28,1977), a canvas by Paul Jenkins (Phenom­ Carthy era). The Postal Service wants to sell Publisher's proofs can be stamped on the duction from the income due to the artist publisher is also likely to be the distributor of spective job candidate was hired for a position ena: Mistral Veil, 1970) has a major hole the building, thereby jeopardizing the fate of reverse side in large letters to identify them as from the sale of the edition. For example, an the edition. Many dealers are also publishers. in my department and six weeks later-after punched into it. In the main it is the sculpture these works. A group headed by Emy Lou such. agreement between an artist and a publisher all further recruiting ceased - accepted that has suffered most severely (the examples e. Trial Proofs. The contract should Packard has requested landmark status for 2. Initiation of a Print Project. A project may provide for the publisher to receive all another position elsewhere. The dilemma provide that all trial proofs, to the extent that are too numerous to list here), some of it is due the building, which would then make the site for a print edition is frequently initiated the proceeds of sale up to the amount of the and inconvenience this cost us has been they are not destroyed, should be in the prop­ to exposure to the elements, but some of it due eligible to be declared surplus property and through discussions between an artist and a direct cost of production, with the publisher monumentaL We have since been unable to erty of the artist and should be delivered to to vandalism. Viewing conditions will have used in some other public capacity. Although publisher, generally concerning the nature of and the artist to share the remaining income, fill the position and must recruit again for it the artist at or before the date of publication to change. For example, Tony Smith (The this newsletter will have reached you after a the image and the medium. The publisher usually equally. In such a case the agreement next year. May I suggest that candidates of the edition. Snake is Out, 1962) continues to be postered, critical public hearing to be held on Novem­ may arrange for the artist to work with a should provide for the artist to receive and should be advised not only of how best to find f. Cancellation Proofs. The contract graffitoed and incised, while George Segal's ber 22, your interest and support for land­ printer. Before the artist begins work, how­ verify proof of those production costs. Alter· a position, but also of what their obligations should provide for the delivery to the artist of work (The Billboard, 1966) continues to be mark status should be expressed to the Land­ ever, there should be a written understanding natively, the artist and publisher may elect to are to recruiters and colleges who are making a cancellation proof or other proof that the knocked by the chairs of attendants seated di­ marks Advisory Board, 100 Larkin St., San covering the cost of the work done by the consider the artist's creative work to consti­ their best effort to behave ethically. plate or stone has been destroyed or otherwise rectly below it. In addition, the Clyfford Still Francisco, Calif. 94102. printer up to the production of the bon-a· tute the artist's share of production costs. The Sylvia Solochek Walters rendered unusable for further printing. (1964) is exposed daily to direct sun, affecting tirer. Generally these costs are initially paid artist and publisher may then divide owner­ University of Missouri-St. Louis Annabelle Simon Cahn II g. Prtnter's Proof. The contract should the paint surface. by the publisher. The agreement should also ship of the edition with each assuming 50 Public Infonnation Officer provide, in accordance with custom, for one deal with the possible cancellation of the proj­ percent, or they may share equally in the pro­ printer's proof to become the property of the NEW PRESERVATION ACTIVITIES ect and how the printer's costs are to be paid if ceeds of the sale. Any arrangement between printer pulling the edition. the project does not mature into an edition. artist and publisher or distributor should be h. Preservation and Retention of LISTING OF MFA PROGRAMS Michael Richman, the editor of the Dan· For example, the agreement may provide an in writing. Plates. Unless practically unfeasible, it is iel Chester French papers, has sent a list of artist with the right to cancel a project for any Written by Phihp Pearlstetn, 1977 recommended that all plates be preserved in A non-evaluative directory of MFA examples of public sculpture in Washington reason, subject to being responsible for all or a their cancelled states for art historical pur­ programs offered by more than 100 in­ in need of repair. The list includes works by DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS substantial part of the costs if the artist exer­ poses. The contract should specify whether stitutions. Includes infonnation on ad· French and Borglum and will be published in IN ART HISTORY cises that right. such plates are to be the property of the artist mission requirements and criteria, a future column. Anyone interested in work­ AND CRITICISM' or the publisher. areas of concentration, degree re­ ing with Richman can reach him at the Na­ 3. The Bon-a-Tirer. The bon-a-tirer is a 1. The Publisher and Documentation. quirements, fellowships, assistant­ tional Trust for Historic Preservation, print which, when so marked and signed by ADVANCE REGISTRATION Male Female Total The contract should provide for documenta­ ships, tuition, application deadlines, 740-748 Jackson Place, Washington, D.C. 1972 41 40 81 the artist, constitutes the artist's approved $AVIN<>s etc. copy of the print and the standard which is tion in an appropriate manner of the title, 20006. 1973 61 54 115 RCgU,lar members c,an save"$5.00 _ thereafter to be followed in the printing of the date, size of paper and image, size of the edi­ 1974 70 55 125 tion, the process and type of material, num­ Student members can,saVe .$10.0Q . Single copies: .$1.00 each Public Art Preservation Committee. We 1975 65 76 141 edition. Institutional bulk orders ber and type of proofs and other material biregisterhig iri advance forthe 1979 have received several communications from 1976 62 83 145 f facts. The documentation should accompany ,anhual ~~eeting. D,c,adlirie for advance 5-19 copies, 75 each this new group. It has set as its primary pur· 4. PubNcation of the Edition. At or about 1977 69 83 152 all sales of the work by the publisher and registrations: postmark Jatiua-r;y 12'; 20 or more copies, 50~ each pose the preservation of public art and will the time the bon·a-tirer is signed, the artist should enter into a written agreement dealing should be kept on permanent file by the :[',Jote': payrtlents 'can be processed only concentrate initially on works in the New *Compiled from the Summary Reports with the publication and distribution of the publisher and the artist. ifsubinitted',with,the registration card Postage and handling included in York City area. It wants to serve as a clearing of Doctorate Recipients from United States edition. The following matters pertaining to that is bound in the centerfold of the price. Prepayment required. Send house for infonnation nation-wide and hopes Universities for the years indicated. (Nation­ publication should be covered in the agree­ 5. Distribution. The artist's agreement Preliminary Program. orders to CAA, 16 East 52 Street, eventually to share information through a al Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. N. Y.C. 10022 newsletter. For a copy of their proposal, write ment. with the publisher will also normally cover Marlene Park, Acting Chairperson, PAPC, a. Cost of Production. The cost of pro­ distribution of the edition since the publisher John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 444 West duct ion may be paid by the publisher, by the is also usually a distributor. The- provisions on 56 Street, N.Y.C. 10019. artist, or jointly. Frequently, the publisher distribution should include the following: December 1978 II 10 CAA newsletter classifieds

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G44newsletter ©1978 College Art Association of America 16 East 52 Street, New York 10022 Editor: Rose R. Weil

December 1978