GRADUATE ( NEWSLETTER Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art offered in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute, Box 8, Williamstown, Mass. 01267 Issued once a year for the Alumni, Students and Friends of the Program Number 4 Fall, 1979 ( From left to right: Whitney S. Stoddard, former Chairman of the Art Department, Dorothy Reinke, assistant to the Director of the Graduate Program, and Franklin W. Robinson, former Director of the Graduate Program, at a reception for a student show at the Chapin Library. The past year has been exciting and productive for the Graduate Program and our students. However, friends and graduates will be deeply concerned to learn of the passing of two remarkable people deeply in­ volved in our program. Laurie Crichton, a second-year student, died tragically in a car accident; she had come to us from Tufts University and three years at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She was Curatorial Fellow in the Williams College Museum, in the field of textiles, and she prepared an exhibition of American books from the turn of the century at the Chapin Library, with a handsome and important scholarly cata­ logue. Her professional competence and dedication were allied to a serenity and sense of humor that made her a joy to know. Charles Cunningham, after a long and extremely distinguished career in the museum profession, came to Williamstown to be Chief Curator of the Clark Institute; he organized the museum studies course for our Program and taught it throughout his career here. It was he who set the very high standards ( for the study of museums, their history and practice, that gave focus to the students' involvement in museum work. He had a vision of art as a civilizing and humanizing force that inspired all of us here in Williamstown. These are two losses that diminish us all. After four years as Director of the Program, Franklin Robinson is leaving Williams to be Director of the CLASS OF 1975 museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. Frank's vitality and vision are familiar to all who have known Anna Cohn, Dir., B'nai Brith Museum, Washington, D.C.; Linda Creigh Nyvall, 3444 Fairlawn Dr., him and worked with him. The student exhibition program which developed so successfully under his leadership Minnetonka, Hopkins, Mn. 55343; Jay Fisher, Asst. Curator of Prints & Drawings, Baltimore Museum of and, above all, the care and concern he felt for the professional future of our students are amply demonstra­ Art, 207 W. Lanvale, Baltimore, Md., 21217; Amy Golahny, doctoral candidate at Columbia, 884 West End ted in these Newsletters. He will be missed as teacher, adviser and friend. Ave., Apt. 53, New York, 10025; Peter Hero, Exec. Dir., Oregon Arts Commission, 1305 John St., Salem, Oregon 97302; Irena Hochman, Dir., Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York; Johanna Karelis, Asst. Editor, RILA, Williamstown; Cynthia Quay Tashjian, Public Services Office of the Harv!lrd Law Library, 777 Mt. Student Exhibitions, Publications, Teaching and Museum Work Auburn St., Apt.5, Watertown, Mass. 02172; Jeffrey Thompson, doctoral candidate at Yale. Graduate students of the Class of 1979 prepared the cataloges of six exhibitions this year; at the Clark, Laura Giles, Lily Milroy, and Wendy Owens prepared the important catalogue of the show, Master Drawings from the Held collection, which will be presented at a total of six museums in the coming year, and Wendy CLASS OF 1976 wrote another catalogue, Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast from New England Collections. _We have Jeanne Berggreen Plekon, doctoral candidate at Columbia, will be living in Europe for the year; Gaye L. already mentioned Laurie Crichton's Book Decoration in America, 1890-1910 at the Chapin Library. At the Brown, Dir., Public Relations, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, Mass.; Gary Burger, Dir., The College Museum, Hiram Butler, Steve Eisenman, Laura Giles, and Frank Kelly, with three undergraduates, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass., will be living on Oblong Road, Williamstown; Lois Fichner Rathus, wrote a fully illustrated catalogue of modern American drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen doctoral candidate at M.I.T., Westgate, Apt. 302, Cambridge, Mass. 02139; Melanie Gifford, intern in D. Paine, Documents, Drawings and Collages, which will also travel to the Toledo, Ringling and Fogg Conservation, Walters Art Gallery, 109 W. Monument St., #2A, Baltimore, Md., 21201; Judith McCandless Museums. Cheryl Brutvan wrote an introduction to a show of paintings by Alice Neel, and Steve Eisenman Rooney, Assoc. Curator, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 24116 Yorktown #465, Houston, Texas organized a festival of electronic music and contributed to a catalogue, The Prints of Arakawa. This year 77056; Michael Shapiro, doctoral candidate at Harvard, Kress Fellow at the National Gallery, 1979-80, 1620 students in three seminars wrote the catalogues of travelling exhibitions that will appear in 1980, on the 33rd St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007; Philip Verre, Curatorial Coordinator, Guggenheim Museum. prints of Richard Anuszkiewicz, the prints of Helen Frankenthaler, and American paintings from the collec­ tion of Lawrence H. Bloedel. Other shows by graduate students next year will present watercolors by John Baeder, drawings by Milton Avery, the image of Hercules in print, and German Incunabula. Sheryl Reiss and CLASS OF 1977 Steve Eisenman gave lectures on Mary Cassatt and Degas at a day-long seminar at the Isabella Stewart Beth Carver Wees, Asst. Curator, Clark Art Institute; Eileen Casey, studying law at University of Conn., 835 Gardner Museum; Jen,nifer Wade and Mary Spivy worked for a term at the Metropolitan Museum and Mellon Grassy Hill Rd., Orange, Conn. 06477; Debi Coy Ahearn, 16 West 74th St., New York, 10023; Henry Center at Yale, respectively; and Meg Kaufman, Hiram Butler and Frank Kelly had curatorial postitions at Duffy, doctoral candidate at Rutgers, 75 Prospect St., Demarest, N.J. 07627; Michael Klein, Dir., Max the Clark. Wendy Owens was Registrar of the College Museum, in addition to her curatorial work at the Protetch Gallery, doctoral candidate, C.U.N.Y., 250 West 104th St., New York, 10025; Robert Mattison, Clark, and Sheryl Reiss taught conference sections in Art 102. Sheryl and Frank were named Kress Fellows for ( ( doctoral candidate, Princeton, Old Bedford Rd., Greenwich, Conn. 06830; Susan Peters, Project Dir., Inter­ the Class of 1979. national Museum of Photography, 45 Rutgers St., Rochester, 14607; John Stamper, consultant for National Trust properties in Indiana, 306 N. Victoria, Mishawaka, Ind. 46544; Judith Weiss, Asst. Cur. of Prints and Drawings, St. Louis Museum, 6300 Rosebury Ave., Apt. 25, St. Louis, Mo. 63105; Fronia Wissman, doctoral Curriculum candidate at Yale, 551 Orange St., Apt. 2, New Haven, Conn. 06511 Clark Professors this past year were Albert Boime in nineteenth-century French painting, and Jaromir Sip, in eighteenth-century art. Next year, Dr. Sip will return in the Spring, to teach Northern Baroque painting, and Ellen Smart will be Clark Professor, teaching Oriental art, in the Fall. Other seminars will be taught by CLASS OF 1978 Gene Baro (twentieth-century art), David Brooke (museum studies), Rafael Fernandez (history of prints), Leonard Amico, Asst. to the Director, Krannert Museum, 207 Country Fair Apts. #36, Champaign, Illinois George Heard Hamilton (nineteenth-century French painting), Julius Held (connoisseurship), Thomas Krens 61820; Lucinda Barnes, Whitley Terrace Steps, Los Angeles, Ca. 90068; Jane Boyle, Cur. Asst., Print (the graphic work of Robert Morris), E. J. Johnson (twentieth-century architecture), Michael Rinehart Room, Museum of Fine Arts, 49 Brimmer St., Boston, Mass. 02108; John Coffey, Acting Dir., Williams (Venetian painting), and Whitney Stoddard (Romanesque art). The January trip this last year was to Rome College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Carole Cunningham, Registrar, Univ. of Michigan Art Gallery, 1048 and Florence, under the leadership of Michael Rinehart. Island Drive Ct., #103, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105; Stephen Edidin, doctoral candidate, C.U.N.Y., 161 There were nineteen visiting lecturers who spoke on subjects ranging from ancient Roman architecture to West 86th St., Apt. 7D, New York 10024;Adrian Hoch, doctoral candidate, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 4201 the art of India, from Masaccio to Courbet, as well as several artists who came to speak on their own work. Pine St., Apt. 4, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104; Brian Lukacher, doctoral candidate, Univ. of Delaware. S. Lane Faison, Jr., served as Acting Director while Frank Robinson was on leave in the second semester. For the academic year, 1979-80, George Hamilton will be Acting Director of the Program for the Fall term, CLASS OF 1979 and Michael Rinehart will be Acting Director in the Spring term. Dorothy Reinke has been appointed Hiram Butler, Print Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stephen Eisenman, doctoral candidate at Assistant to the Director. Princeton; Laura Giles, doctoral candidate at Harvard; Margaret Kaufman, 271 Hicks St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Frank Kelly, doctoral candidate at Univ. of Delaware; Chistopher London, 132 West 88th St., #3, New York, 10024; Elizabeth Milroy, doctoral candidate at Univ. of Pennsylvania; Gwendolyn Owens, Asst. Cur., NEWS OF ALUMNAE/ALUMNI WE HAVE HEARD FROM RECENTLY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Univ. Sheryl Reiss, doctoral candidate at Princeton; Mary Spivy, 6 Log Cabin Dr., St. Louis, Mo. 63124; Jennifer Wade is working at the Metropolian Museum of Art, 344 E. CLASS OF 1974 76, Apt. 12, New York 10021. Judith Adams, dealer in art books, 31 Oppidans Rd., London NW3, 3AG, England; Elizabeth Cogswell, Co- ( ( ordinator, Philadelphia Area Cultural Consortium, 315 W. Maple, Morrisville, Pa., 19067; Francesca Eastman, We would like to start a file of alumnae/alumni publications after Williams. If you have extra copies of doctoral candidate at Stanford, 11 Wanders Dr., Hingham, Mass. 02043; John Haletsky, 57 E.