THE MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ADMINISTRATION CURATORIAL COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS MANAGEMENT INTERIM DIRECTOR CURATOR OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART David Brashear Danielle Moretti-Langholtz HEAD OF COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS Melissa Parris CURATOR OF DIGITAL INITIATIVES ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR Adriano Marinazzo Cindy Lucas ASSOCIATE REGISTRAR Laura Fogarty ASSISTANT CURATOR & COORDINATOR ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE COORDINATOR Lauren Greene Amber Pfenning FACILITIES & EXHIBITIONS MANAGER Kevin Gilliam DIRECTOR OF SECURITY FRONT Larry Wright MUSEUM EDUCATION & OUTREACH COVER IS SECURITY OFFICER DIRECTOR OF ENGAGEMENT & Glenyss Nock DISTINGUISHED ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 9” X 9” Steve Prince SEE CROP HOUSEKEEPING MARKS Patricia Smith IN BLEED ZONE FRONT COVER: BOTTOM RIGHT: APRIL 5 – MAY 31, 2019 MUSEUM HOURS GUSTAVE LOISEAU DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Saturday – Monday | Closed French, 1865 – 1935 English, 1828 – 1882 La Neige, Pontoise, detail, 1914 Mnemosyne, c. 1878 – 1881 Tuesday – Friday | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Oil on canvas Graphite on paper Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Gift of Sheila (W&M ’78) and SPECIAL ADDITIONAL HOURS Museum of Art Endowment Terry Meyers (Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus) Saturday, May 4 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM 2018.002 2018.014 Sunday, May 5 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM THIS PAGE: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON Saturday, May 11 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM Apollo, 2004 in Fred Eversley, 50 Years an Artist: English, 1815 – 1879 Sunday, May 12 | 12:00 - 4:00 PM Light & Space & Energy exhibition A Study of the Cenci, 1870 Albumen print (adhered to a laid and chain paper support) Monday, May 13 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM BACK COVER: Gift of Joseph C. French, Jr. LOUIS VALTAT 2017.120 MEMBERS ONLY EXHIBITION HOURS French, 1869 – 1952 Thursday | 5:00 – 7:00 PM Landscape (Paysage), detail, c. 1898 CAROLE A. FEUERMAN Oil on canvas American, b. 1945 Closed on most national holidays Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Right: Miniature Diver, 2013 Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment Bronze and gold leaf with marble base ADMISSION 2018.004 Left: Miniature Diver maquette, 2013 Free to Members, W&M Students, Faculty, and Staff, Plaster with marble base and Children under 12 NEXT PAGE: © Carole Feuerman Admission: $5 LEFT COLUMN: Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Photos by Andrew Uhrig (W&M ‘20) Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment For more information, including changes to hours, please 2013.043, 2013.044 visit our website, muscarelle.org, or call 757.221.2700. Dear Friends of the Muscarelle, LETTER As we enter the new year, there is, as always, the hope that spring is We accomplished much during our recent closure and are now ready FROM THE just around the corner. And, as is often the case with spring, change is to reopen and present a vibrant sequence of exhibitions until we in the air. close again for the commencement of the construction of our much INTERIM anticipated new museum. As we evolve over the coming months, DIRECTOR Aaron De Groft, our esteemed Director, decided in late 2018 to step we are redoubling our efforts to provide informative and engaging away from Museum activities. His leadership over the past thirteen programming for our members and the community at large. Please years brought unprecedented opportunities to the Muscarelle consult this newsletter for important upcoming events and continue community, and the Museum advanced in ways that were almost to check our website regularly for a complete list of our lectures, films, unimaginable. We held major exhibitions that covered Italian legends, workshops, trips, and educational opportunities. And be sure to join WINTER/SPRING such as Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the us for our reopening on April 5. Master in 2010, Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane - Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti in 2013, Leonardo Da Vinci and I am honored to serve as the Interim Director during this time of the Idea of Beauty in 2015, and Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: transition. In addition to my business experience, I have a long Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities history of involvement in the non-profit world and have served in 19 in 2017. All of these exhibitions received broad critical acclaim and leadership roles in a variety of organizations focused on the arts and several traveled to other venues following their time in Williamsburg, education. My roots at the Muscarelle run deep: I was a member of the FOND FAREWELL TO including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In addition to these Board of Trustees at the Museum from 1999 through the end of 2018, AARON DE GROFT major exhibitions, Dr. De Groft provided an ongoing menu of and served as Board Chair from 2004 to 2008. I have been broadly exhibitions that showcased art both from our collection and beyond, engaged in many initiatives at the Museum and worked closely with always encouraging the visitor to consider something from a different Aaron De Groft on both the fundraising and planning for our new MUSCARELLE angle. Both community and student programs were staples of his facility. In addition to my work, I have a deep appreciation for art and, ON THE MOVE tenure, and the Museum is today a highly regarded cultural institution in particular, architecture. I studied architectural history at Columbia that serves both the College and the region. We wish Dr. De Groft the University from 2009 through 2017 and have conducted a number of best in his next adventure. major research projects. And many of you have attended our Selected WELCOME TO Topics in Architecture lecture series at the Muscarelle, a program that STEVE PRINCE John Spike, our long-serving Chief Curator and Assistant Director, I founded in 2011. announced his retirement in early January. Dr. Spike had a remarkable impact on the Museum during his tenure, helping to define our Although the Museum is stronger than it has ever been, your support 100 YEARS major exhibitions and provide them with distinguished scholarship. is critical during this time of transition. We urge you to continue to OF WOMEN With the eye of a connoisseur, he guided the Muscarelle in acquiring engage with the Muscarelle and take advantage of everything that we important additions to the collection, including works by Luca Forte, offer. And we hope you will continue to support us financially in any VIRTUAL Dirck Van Baburen, and an early Peter Paul Rubens. We also wish Dr. way that you can. Spike the best as he charts his path forward. MUSCARELLE I know many of you in the Museum community, and I look forward In addition to staff changes, the Museum is in the process of a to meeting many more of you. I hope all of you will seek me out physical transformation. We closed our doors at the beginning of the and share with me your suggestions for an even better Muscarelle summer to prepare for our eventual move and the construction of a Museum of Art. new facility. Much work has been done to define a next-generation museum that will serve our College and community for generations to come. As we work through refining the ultimate form and flow of our forthcoming building, we are looking to a facility that will enable a David M. Brashear, W&M HON ’07 broad array of exhibitions, programming, and education. Interim Director Muscarelle Museum of Art BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chair Robert S. Roberson, W&M ’73 MBA Greetings to all, LETTER Vice-Chair First, I am honored to write to you as the new Chairman of the Since the New Year, David hasn’t missed a beat. By education, Ray C. Stoner, Esq., W&M ’71 JD FROM THE Muscarelle Museum’s Board of Trustees. Through all the years of its experience, interest and his own artistic talent, David is uniquely existence, our Museum has demonstrated its resilience, perseverance qualified. He has a long history of volunteerism with the Museum, Secretary CHAIRMAN and ultimate excellence and it is poised to continue in that tradition– including former service on its Board of Directors and its successor all due to its committed friends, donors, volunteers, and staff. The Board of Trustees, which has allowed him to acquire a deep Sharon Muscarelle Muscarelle is dedicated to the purpose that is at its core–education. understanding of its operations and staff. I am confident that David will steer our beloved institution deftly as he continues to build on his So, with that goal as its primary focus, the Muscarelle will continue Treasurer predecessors’ vision. to strive to be an important junction between the world of visual arts Polly S. Bartlett, W&M ’62, ’89 MAED and its community. For the Museum, “community” is defined not As already mentioned, in addition to our staff changes, we are only as students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the College, but also focused on the physical transformation of the Museum. Accordingly, Betsy C. Anderson, W&M ’70 those in the city, region and beyond who consider art and culture to we continue to work diligently to define the next generation of our Mari Ann Banks be vital components of civilization and a well-lived life. To that end, facility, one that will enable us to expand both our exhibition and the Muscarelle will continue to extend a welcome to all and invites support spaces along with suitable general programming areas. We P. Gray Bowditch, W&M ’09 JD participation in its programming and other events. are certain that our new building, designed by the world-renowned TJ Cardwell architects Pelli Clarke Pelli will provide an exciting space for the David Crank, W&M ’82 As most of you are undoubtedly aware, our Museum has entered a Museum’s activities and continue to elevate its brand.