ANNUAL REPORT 2004 THE CLEVELANDMUSEUMOFART ANNUALREPORT2004 Annual Report 2004 2 4 Board of Trustees 5 Trustee Committees 6 Director 10 Chairman 12 President 15 Collections 37 Exhibitions 46 Community Support 84 Education, Public Programs, and Outreach 100 Staff 105 Financial Report 106 Treasurer Attributed to The Cleveland of art themselves Praxiteles (Greek, Museum of Art may also be protected around 400–330 BC). 11150 East Boulevard by copyright in the Apollo Sauroktonos Cleveland, Ohio United States of (Lizard-Slayer), 44106-1797 America or abroad probably 350–275 BC, Copyright © 2005 and may not be re- possibly 275 BC–AD 300; The Cleveland produced in any form bronze, copper and Museum of Art or medium without stone inlay; h. 150 cm; permission from the All rights reserved. Severance and Greta copyright holders. Millikin Purchase Fund No part of this For publication 2004.30. publication may be information, see reproduced or trans- p. 120. mitted in any form or Cover: Visitors enjoy by any means, elec- the works on view in tronic or mechanical, Dukes & Angels. including photocopy- Back: Detail of Apollo ing, recording, or any Sauroktonos (Lizard- information storage Slayer). or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The works 3 Board of Trustees Officers Standing Trustees Trustees Emeriti Honorary Trustees James T. Bartlett, Virginia N. Barbato Peter B. Lewis Mrs. Noah L. Butkin President James T. Bartlett Michael Sherwin Mrs. Ellen Wade Michael J. Horvitz, James S. Berkman Chinn Chairman Life Trustees Charles P. Bolton Mrs. John B. Ellen Stirn Mavec, Elisabeth H. Dempsey Sarah S. Cutler Vice President Alexander Joseph M. Erdelac Robert W. Gillespie William R. Quentin Alexander Mrs. John Flower Robertson, Vice George Gund III Leigh Carter President Mrs. Robert I. Michael J. Horvitz James H. Dempsey Jr. Gale Jr. Katharine Lee Reid, Anne Hollis Ireland Mrs. Edward A. Director, CEO, and Robert D. Gries Adrienne Lash Jones Kilroy Jr. Secretary Agnes Gund Susan Kaesgen Jon A. Lindseth Janet Ashe, Treasurer Mrs. John Hildt Robert M. Kaye Morton L. Mandel Ward Kelley Nancy F. Keithley Mrs. Alfred M. Dr. Sherman E. Lee Rankin R. Steven Kestner Milton Maltz Donna S. Reid Alex Machaskee Eleanor Bonnie William P. Madar Edwin M. Roth McCoy Ellen Stirn Mavec Frances P. Taft John C. Morley S. Sterling Paul J. Vignos, M.D. Mary Schiller Myers McMillan III Alton W. Mrs. R. Henry Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Whitehouse Norweb Jr. Stephen E. Myers Dr. Norman W. Barbara S. Robinson Zaworski Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Dr. Larry J. B. James A. Ratner Robinson+ William R. Viktor Robertson Schreckengost Elliott L. Schlang Laura Siegal Eugene Stevens Evan Hopkins Turner Richard T. Watson Bart Wolstein+ Ex Officio Iris Wolstein Janet W. Coquillette, Womens Council Candace M. Jones, Young Friends Katharine Lee Reid, Director Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luba people. Staff of Office, late 1700s to early 1800s; wood; h. 170 cm; John L. Severance Fund 2004.85. + deceased 4 Trustee Committees Standing Executive Advisory Bert Laurelle G. Holt Fine Arts Garden Ad Hoc Committees James T. Bartlett, Committees Bracy Lewis Ruth Eppig, Committees Chairman Chairman Collections Accessions Franklin Martin Campaign Cabinet Adrienne Lash Jones Advisory Rev. Marvin Elisabeth H. Elliott L. Schlang, Alexander Ellen Stirn Mavec, Chairman William P. Madar Elliott L. Schlang, McMickle Chairman Ellen Stirn Mavec Chairman A. Grace Lee Mims Terri Hamilton Virginia N. Barbato Brown Sarah S. Cutler Charles P. Bolton Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Elisabeth H. Steven A. Minter Robert W. Gillespie Alexander Perrin Carpenter George Gund III William R. Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Michael J. Horvitz Robertson Quentin Alexander Mrs. Ellen Wade Robert M. Kaye Greg Reese Chinn Anne Hollis Ireland Elliott L. Schlang Katherine Bolton Nancy F. Keithley Dr. Lawrence Jennifer Coleman Alex Machaskee Michael J. Horvitz, Mrs. Noah L. Butkin Simpson Ellen Stirn Mavec Fluker William P. Madar ex officio Mrs. Joseph Ceruti Andrew Venable Stephen E. Myers Mrs. Allen Ford Alfred M. Rankin Jr. Katharine Lee Reid, Helen Forbes Fields James T. Bartlett, Alfred M. Rankin Jr. ex officio Mrs. Morley Donna S. Reid Mrs. John Hildt ex officio Hitchcock Eugene Stevens Katharine Lee Reid, James T. Bartlett, Finance Marguerite B. Brian Holley ex officio James T. Bartlett, Humphrey ex officio ex officio William P. Madar, John G. Michalko II Katharine Lee Reid, Chairman Robert H. Jackson Katharine Lee Reid, Education Donald Morrison ex officio ex officio Virginia N. Barbato Mrs. Edward A. Adrienne Lash Jones, Natalie Saiklay Robert M. Kaye Kilroy Jr. Chairman Cleveland Museum Clara D. Sherwin of Art Building Committee on Nancy F. Keithley Tamar Maltz Virginia N. Barbato Trustees Mrs. Charles Weller Oversight R. Steven Kestner Mary Schiller Myers James S. Berkman William R. Dr. Norman W. Michael J. Horvitz, William R. Mrs. Alfred M. Jeannette Grasselli Zaworski Chairman Robertson, Rankin Chairman Robertson Brown James T. Bartlett, James T. Bartlett Edwin M. Roth Robert W. Gillespie James T. Bartlett, Leigh Carter ex officio Alfred M. Rankin Jr. ex officio Mark Schwartz Anne Hollis Ireland Sr. Maureen Doyle Katharine Lee Reid, James A. Ratner Katharine Lee Reid, Frances P. Taft ex officio Ellen Stirn Mavec Carol S. Franklin Donna S. Reid ex officio Paul J. Vignos, M.D. Richard T. Watson Debra Guren Information Katharine Lee Reid, Investment Dr. Norman W. Bert Laurelle G. Holt Technology ex officio James T. Bartlett, Zaworski ex officio Alfred M. Rankin Susan W. MacDonald Bruce V. Mavec, James T. Bartlett, Legislative Affairs Michael J. Horvitz, Jr., Chairman S. Sterling Chairman ex officio Jon A. Lindseth, ex officio Robert W. Gillespie McMillan III Sylvia Bon Katharine Lee Reid, Chairman Michael J. Horvitz Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Dr. Delos M. Compensation ex officio Charles P. Bolton Anne Hollis Ireland Frances P. Taft Cosgrove III James T. Bartlett, William P. Madar S. Sterling African American Susan H. Turban Jennie S. Hwang Chairman Community Task Ellen Stirn Mavec McMillan III Paul J. Vignos, M.D. Anne Hollis Ireland William P. Madar Force Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. James A. Ratner Sally H. Wertheim Trevor Jones Michael J. Horvitz, Adrienne Lash Jones, Donna S. Reid ex officio William R. Chairman James T. Bartlett, Joseph P. Keithley Robertson Elliott L. Schlang Montrie Rucker ex officio Richard T. Watson James T. Bartlett, Elliott L. Schlang Adams Katharine Lee Reid, James T. Bartlett, ex officio Richard T. Watson June S. Antoine ex officio ex officio Katharine Lee Reid, James T. Bartlett, Katharine Lee Reid, Emma Benning ex officio ex officio ex officio Albert Bright Katharine Lee Reid, ex officio Margot James Copeland James Crosby Helen Forbes Fields Giesele Greene, M.D. 5 From the Director This was a year distinguished by the kind of opportunity for the collection that rarely happens in a director’s career. After a lengthy process of curato- rial research, legal advice, and analysis by our conservators, last summer the museum acquired a Classical bronze known from an account by the Roman author Pliny the Elder as the Apollo Sauroktonos, or Apollo the Lizard-Slayer. With the positive vote of our trustees the piece was ac- quired and installed immediately in the interior garden court. It is our belief that this bronze closely reflects the qualities of a towering figure in the history of art, the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles, one of the most ac- claimed Greek artists of the Classical period. In the mid fourth century BC he perfected a naturalism that, compared to the more idealized sculptures of the fifth century BC, made his representations of gods, goddesses, and mythological characters seem less distant and grand, and more intimate and human in scale. In addition to ancient representations on coins and gemstones, there are later Roman copies of this Lizard-Slayer composition in marble. If the Cleveland Apollo is actually Greek and close to the production of Praxiteles, it would be the only surviving life-size bronze closely related to the sculptor. For the present we are proud to have this extraordinary work that is the subject of research by a number of scholars Scale models at the offices of Collins Gordon Bostwick, a local partner firm in the expansion and renovation project, allow curators to work out gallery instal- lations in the future renovated and new galleries. 6 In the weeks after Apollo Sauroktonos was acquired thanks to the knowledgeable eye of Michael Bennett, curator of Greek and Roman art, Bennett spent hours each day in the interior garden court speaking with visitors about the sculpture. of ancient art, and we look forward to hearing their opinions. Aside from its extraordinary art-historical implications and remarkable presence, the sculpture is simply gorgeous! The museum also helped shape a singularly important and lovely exhibition, Dukes & Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy, 1364–1419, a fruitful collaboration between our museum and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France. The long interest and singular strength of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s holdings in this area is both a hallmark and a focus of special study at the museum. The dukes of Burgundy, who flourished from the 1360s into the third decade of the 15th century, commanded vast financial resources, achieved through strategic marriages and alliances, and their collective reigns chronicle the rise and fall of one of the most sophis- ticated courts of Europe. They attracted the greatest artists of their time, who created works of the highest aesthetic refinement—tapestries, illumi- nated manuscripts, panel paintings, gold and silver objects and jewels, ivories, and, of course, sculpture. The exhibition, which was seen only in Dijon and Cleveland, brought many such works together for the first time since the era of their creation. Our own curator of medieval art, Stephen Fliegel, inspired initially by the desire to reunite Cleveland’s four tomb mourner sculptures with their counterparts in Dijon, worked for half a decade with his French colleagues and others to bring this idea to fruition.