Number 34 Fall 2007 NE W SLETTER MAHS Conference 2008, Chicago, Illinois, April 2-5, 2008 The Midwest Art History Society’s 35th annual meeting will be The MAHS business lunch will take place on Friday. On Friday held April 2-5, 2008 in Chicago. Hosted by Loyola University, evening the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia Columbia College and the Art Institute of Chicago, the con- College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan, www.mcop.org will be the ference takes place with the partnership of DePaul University, location of a MAHS reception. Saturday morning, April 5, The Lake Forest College, and the School of the Art Institute Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue, www. Chicago. Further assistance has been provided by the Museum of mcachicago.org, will host an early opening, continental breakfast, Contemporary Art and the Terra Foundation for the Arts. The and curator’s tour of the current exhibitions – “Alexander Calder conference hotel will be the Club Quarters, conveniently located in Focus” and selections of the museum’s permanent collection. in Chicago’s Loop at W. Adams Street. The conference’s morning sessions will also be held at the MCA. The conference sessions and programs Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 North Michigan Avenue have been selected with an eye to (just two blocks west of the MCA) www. showcasing areas of specialization luc.edu/LUMA, will be the site of a closely associated with Chicago and luncheon on Saturday. The conference’s its educational and cultural insti- afternoon sessions will be held at LUMA tutions. Additional emphases on on Saturday where “Gilded Glory: American and Renaissance art have European Treasures from the Martin been designed to coordinate with D’Arcy Collection” will be on view. the Terra Foundation of the Arts’ In addition to the scholarly sessions that sponsored American Art American will develop from the Call for Papers, City initiative and the Renaissance two additional sessions will be presented: Society of America (which is meeting Recent Acquisitions of Renaissance Art April 3-5, 2008 at The Renaissance in Midwest Collections chaired by Judith Chicago Hotel). A complete list of Mann of the Saint Louis Museum of sessions for the MAHS conference Art, and a round table on recent con- appears in the Call for Papers on the Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2004, versation projects undertaken by the inside pages of this publication. Millennium Park, Chicago Art Institute of Chicago chaired by On Thursday and Friday a full range Martha Tedeschi. of scholarly sessions will take place The Recent Acquisitions panel, a at the conference hotel. A welcome tea will be held Thursday staple of the Midwest Art History Society’s program, will focus afternoon at the hotel. Thursday evening conference attendees this year on Renaissance objects, including painting, sculpture, are encouraged to attend one of two talks at the Art Institute of and decorative arts, both North and South, presented by curators Chicago, S. Michigan Avenue: At 6:00 pm. in Fullerton from throughout the Midwest. The conservation session, titled Hall Tom Hines will be speaking on Hollywood design of the “Partnerships in Conservation: Case Studies at the Art Institute 920s. At the same time in Morton Hall Judith Barter, Field- of Chicago,” will involve curators, conservators, and conservation McCormick Chair of American Art at the museum, will lecture scientists from the Art Institute discussing technical analysis and on the Edward Hopper exhibition, on view nearby. Entrance restoration of works from the Art Institute’s collection, ranging to the Art Institute (and admission at the lectures) is free from from ancient Egyptian sculpture to a turn-of-the-century cabinet 5:00 to 8:00 pm. on Thursday evenings, however the Hopper and designed by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, as well as watercol- another American exhibition – “Watercolors by Winslow Homer: ors by Homer. Emphasis will be placed on the collaborative pool- The Color of Light” – will be ticketed. Advance tickets for these ing of curators’ and conservators’ expertise, and application of new exhibitions may be ordered at www.artic.edu/aic. tools and methodologies in conservation, which have yielded continued on page 2 MAHS News and Announcements Charles D. Cuttler, co-founder of The University of Michigan Museum of Guinea has, since 995, been housed MAHS, suffered a health crisis earlier this Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, continues with at the provincial headquarters of the year. As of the writing of this newsletter, the restoration of Alumni Memorial Hall. Crosier Fathers and Brothers in Shoreview, his condition has stabilized. We all wish Through 2008 it is operating a temporary Minnesota. him well. exhibition space located immediately adja- Keith Joseph Adkins is the 2007 The Art Institute of Chicago announces cent to the University’s central campus. For Duncanson Artist-In-Residence at the the acquisition of Virgin and Child with more information, visit www.umma.umich. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint edu. It continues to build its permanent A playwright and screenwriter, Adkins Cecilia, and Angels by the Florentine paint- collection, recently celebrating the gift of earned his bachelor of arts in communica- er Piero di Cosimo. a Urhobo maternity figure from the Niger tions from Wright State University and his Delta region of West Africa. The Contemporary Art Museum Saint master of fine arts from the University of Louis announces that it has successfully The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has Iowa’s Iowa Playwrights Workshop. raised $5 million for its endowment and received a major gift of photographs from Truman State University, Kirksville, once again balanced its $2 million operat- Frederick B. Scheel. Comprising more than Missouri, has undergone academic reor- ing budget, thereby meeting the final con- six hundred prints, the collection include ganization, and from July , 2007 the ditions of a major challenge set by Emily examples by Anselm Adams, Berenice Department of Art is a department within Rauh Pulitzer. Pulitzer, in turn, has agreed Abbott, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. the newly-formed College of Arts and to forgive the Contemporary’s remaining The University of St. Thomas is the new Sciences. indebtedness, subject to confirmation by home for the American Museum of Asmat The Wichita Art Museum has recently independent auditors. Art. This collection of tribal art from New acquired sixteen photogravures in the pictorialist style. The group of objects includes works by Alfred Stieglitz, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Edward Steichen. MAHS Conference 2008, continued from page 1 surprising discoveries and new informa- and Naturalism in Renaissance Art (for Upcoming Conferences, tion. Panelists will include: Martha further information on the latter three Tedeschi, Curator of Prints & Drawings, sessions, see Call for Papers). Those Symposia, & Workshops Dept. of Prints & Drawings, panel chair; registered for the RSA conference will be The University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Kristi Dahm, Assistant Conservator of welcome to attend MAHS Renaissance Chazen Museum will present the sympo- Prints and Drawings; Gloria Groom, panels, and a reciprocal arrangement will sium “Competition and Collaboration in David and Mary Winton Green Curator, allow MAHS registrants to show their Edo Print Culture: A New Perspective” on Dept. of Medieval through Modern conference badges to attend art history Saturday, November 3, 2007. This sym- European Painting and Sculpture, sessions at the RSA. Please note, this posium is held in conjunction with the and Karen Manchester, The Elizabeth collegial exchange does not extend to exhibition Competition and Collaboration: McIlvaine Curator of Ancient Art, Dept. sessions with other than Renaissance art Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School. of Asian and Ancient Art. history topics, or to receptions or other MACAA CONFERENCE 2008 special events for either organization. The Renaissance Society of America The 2008 MidAmerica College Art (RSA) is meeting in Chicago over the Registration forms and travel and lodg- Association (MACAA) Conference will same days as the MAHS conference. In ing information are available in the back be held at the Herron School of Art and order to take advantage of this synchron- pages of this newsletter and online at the Design | IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana, icity special attention has been given MAHS website. Proposals for papers are October 5-8,2008. Herron School of to arranging MAHS sessions related due by December 15, 2007 to the ses- Art and Design is conveniently located to that period and subject, including sion chairs. The call for papers is includ- in downtown Indianapolis across from Judith Mann’s session on Renaissance Art ed in this newsletter and is also available Military Park, and in walking distance objects, a special session to honor Charles online. To receive the early bird rate for from the Indiana State Museum and the Cuttler, co-founder of MAHS, chaired conference registration, please register by Eiteljorg Museum. More than 00 visual by Burton Dunbar of the University of February 15, 2008. art venues and nearly 60 public art works Missouri – Kansas City, a session on and points of interest are within the city’s women artists and patrons in early mod- six cultural districts. For updates on the ern Europe chaired by Marilyn Dunn of conference, please visit the MACAA web- Loyola University, and Ann Roberts (Lake site at www.macaart.org/ or contact the Forest College)’s session on Narration Conference Chair, Vance Farrow at vfar- [email protected]. 2 M IDWE S T A RT H I S T O R Y S OCIE T Y M IDWE S T A RT H I S T O R Y Outstanding Exhibition S OCIE T Y Has a New Identity Catalogue Award Our new logo was introduced at the Indianapolis meeting and Winner of the Midwest Art History Society Award for now appears on our website at MAHSonline.org and the masthead Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of our Newsletter.
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