s Barnard College and Columbia Univer­ Steen, The Drawing Lesson, and The J. Paul sity. Two years later Walsh returned to Getty Museum and Its Collections: A John Walsh full-time museum work as curator of Museum for the New Century. paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Walsh is a trustee of the Claremont to Speak in Boston, where he remained, serving for a Graduate University, a member of the \ time as visiting professor of fine arts at Governing Board of the Yale University Harvard University, until his move to the Art Gallery, the Smithsonian Council, the Los Angeles Getty in 1983. American Antiquarian Society, the At the Getty Museum, Walsh has ,Century Association, and the American overseen the enlargement and strength­ Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also ening of the staff, the dramatic growth of served as president of the Association of ohn Walsh, director of the J. Paul the collections, the conception and Art Museum Directors from 1989 to 1990. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, will construction of a new and much larger Buses will depart immediately after give the keynote address for the museum, and the plarming for renova­ the convocation ceremony for a gala J tions to the former Getty Museum in reception at the new Getty Center. nvocation of CAA's eighty-seventh Malibu. In 1998 he took on the post of Tickets are available with conference annual conference in Los Angeles, vice-president of the J. Paul Getty Trust preregistration. Wednesday, February 10, 1999. The in addition to his role as director of the convocation, which commences at 5:30 Getty Museum. p.m. in room 408 of the Los Angeles Walsh is the author of many articles Convention Center, is the annual and catalogues in his field of specializa­ s gathering of CAA members for public tion, Dutch paintings of the seventeenth recognition of their peers who have century, and of two recent books, Jan November 1998 made outstanding contributions in the fields of art and art history over the past College Art Association year. NewCAA 275 Seventh Avenue John Walsh has been the director of New York, New York 10001 the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1983. After graduating from Yale University in Monograph 1961, he completed M.A. and PhD. Board of Directors degrees from Columbia University. He John R. Clarke, President spent a year at the University of Leiden Michl ltami, Vice-President in the Netherlands as a Fulbright AA, in association with the Ellen T. Baird, Secretary graduate fellow, served as a lecturer and University of Washington John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer research assistant at the Frick Collection Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel C Press, will publish a new book Susan Ball, Executive Director in New York, and then became an in its distinguished Monographs on the associate for higher education at the Fine Arts series. Beholding the Sacred Catherine Asher Patricia Leighten Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Joe Lewis Holly Block teaching part time at Columbia. Between Sanctuary (College Art Association Marilyn R. Brown Arturo Lindsay 1970 and 1975, Walsh worked as an Monograph on the Fine Arts, Volume Whitney Davis Richard Martin associate curator and later a curator in Joe Deal Yong Soon Min LVI. Design by Russell Hassell. $55.00), the Department of European Paintings at Vishakha Desai John Hallmark Neff by Sharon E. J. Gerstel, will be available Bailey Doogan Beatrice Rehl the Metropolitan and continued to teach in time for the annual conference in Los Shifra M. Goldman Bruce Robertson idergraduate and graduate courses. He Angeles. Nancy Friese Norie Sato men resigned from the Metropolitan to John Walsh Joanna Frueh Jeffrey Chipps Smith become professor of art history at PHOTO: JiM MCHUGH CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Linda C. Hults Alan Wallach Christine Kondoleon Cahiers archeologiques. long and productive career in the visual Lewis was selected by Essence magazine Contents . Since 1944, CANs Monographs on arts as an art historian, artist, scholar for a "Legends in Our Time" tribute. She the Fine Arts series has provided the and teacher, curator and administrator, has held Fulbright and Ford Foundation Volume 23, Number 6 opportunity for CAA members to collector, publisher, and activist. Lewis fellowships, and, most recently, she was November 1998 publish scholarly books in all areas of joins a distinguished group of recipients appointed distinguished scholar at the the history of art. A listing of available of this award, including Linda Nochlin Getty Center for the History of Arts and books in the series, along with ordering (1997), Loulse Bourgeois (1996), and Humanities. John Walsh to Speak in Los Angeles instructions, appears on the inside back Agnes Gund (1995). In 1952, Lewis became the first New CAA Monograph 1 cover of every issue of the Art Bulletin The Committee on Women in the African American to obtain a Ph.D. in and on the CAA website at www.college Arts Award adds another tribute to the art and art history. She also became a art.org/coa/publications/monographs.html. many Lewis has received, including pioneer in curating exhibitions that 3 Annual Conference Update Submissions of manuscripts on all honorary degrees from Hampton show the interconnections of art made periods of the history of art should be University, University of Cincinnati, by peoples of the Caribbean, South sent to: Debra Pincus, Editor, Mono­ Dillard University, Bennett College, and America, Africa, and of African descent 5 CAANews graph Series, Dept. of Sculpture, Chapman College. Her accomplish­ in the United States. She has worked National Gallery of Art, Washington, ments have been widely recognized tirelessly to ensure that recognition is DC 20565; d-pincus®nga.gov. Manu­ with many awards, including the given to artists of the Africana Diaspora, 8 Placement Review, 1997-98 scripts should fall between 35,000 and UNICEF Award for the Visual Arts, the and she has been a moving force in 75,000 words, require no more than 100 Charles White Lifetime Achievement opening the field of art history to the Advocacy illustrations, and be crafted according to Award, Brandywine Workshop Lifetime contributions of artists of color, demon­ 9 CAA Honors Fifty-Year Members the Art Bulletin style guide, found at Achievement Award, the National strating the impact they have had on the Sharon E. J. Gerstel, author of the upcoming CAA monograph, Beholding the Sacred www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AB/ Conference of Artist Achievement development of American art history Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary ABShjleGuide.html. Award, the Vesta Award from the and our tmderstanding of its intersec­ 10 From the Executive Director Women's Building (Los Angeles), the tion with global art production. Lewis has taught at numerous campuses Gerstel's work evokes a wide range diversity of possible choices. Decorative Women's Caucus for Art Honor Award across the country, engendering a legacy of written and painted sources in order selections reflect the pietistic require­ for Outstanding Achievement in the for each successive generation of CAA in the News to analyze the decoration of the Byzan­ ments of individual communities or the Visual Arts, and the Scripps College 11 American artists and scholars. tine sanctuary from the perspective of artistic and regional traditions followed Faculty Recognition Award. In 1990, the contemporary viewer, from monk to by specific painters. Indeed, variations 13 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members liturgical celebrant, from bishop to lay among sanctuary programs demonstrate worshipper. In a new presentation of the that Byzantine painters combined scenes Annual sanctuary program, the author reveals and figures to create new combinations People in the News to the modern reader what was and is appropriate to particular congregations. 15 manifest only to the clergy. In addition to meeting the needs of 'Conference In medieval Byzantium the artistic individual celebrants and congregations, program that developed behind the the powerful representation of vener­ Grants, Awards, & Honors 17 sanctuary screen delivered a particular able authors and orators and the careful Update message to priests, whose actions and depiction of key components of Church words were reflected in the painted dogma may have offered a response to 18 Conferences & Symposia decoration. Filled with saints who several conditions within the Byzantine gesture across the altar and read from empire. Considering its intended sacred texts, the church need not be audience, the decoration of the sanctu­ Committee on Women 20 Opportunities inhabited by the living in order to ary provides information for the in the Arts to Honor function. Momentarily joined by the development of the Byzantine rite, but Samella Lewis Information Wanted priest, the painted celebrants paused to the study of the painted program also The CAA Committee on Women in the Institutional News include him in their prayers and actions. responds to developments beyond the 24 Arts will honor Samella Lewis with its Lay people were permitted to view liturgy. The formation of a complex Fourth Annual ReCOgnition Award. The Datebook certain parts of the painted program and program for the church sanctuary award will be presented at a celebratory Discount Subscriptions the eucharistic celebration, but as the reflected internal theological debate and breakfast on Friday, February 12, 7:30- 27 Classified Ads sanctuary was increasingly obscured by was essential in a period when the 9:00 a.m., in the Regal Biltmore Hotel curtains and icons, a new program empire was confronted by religious eAA News is published 6 times a year by the Gold Room during CANs eighty­ developed in order to present an traditions that challenged accepted College Art Association, 275 7th Ave., New York, seventh Annual Conference in Los alternative devotional focus for personal notions of what was Orthodox.