PARRISH ART MUSEUM REPORT 2017 2 REPORT 2017 PARRISH ART MUSEUM 3 METRICS LETTER TO OUR FRIENDS On November 11, 2017 the Parrish celebrated five years in Water Mill, and we continue to be the “new Parrish” on many 68,221 fronts—growing, changing, and renewing ourselves each year with unique public programs, new exhibitions, and world-class TOTAL ATTENDANCE additions to the permanent collection. We reached a record of some 69,000 visitors in 2017, many of them experiencing the Museum for the first time. Membership grew and our strategic collaborations with surrounding cultural 4,295 institutions, schools, and social service organizations resulted in MUSEUM MEMBERS long-term partnerships that enhance the Museum’s role in the community, the region, the nation, and the world. 2017 saw the Parrish engage in many new initiatives that will be lodestones for the next five years of our programming. 16 These are metrics of our success in our fifth anniversary year: EXHIBITIONS • The inauguration of the Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, through the generosity of Agnes Gund, presents additional opportunities for transformational experiences 143 created through engagement with art and artists. NEW ACQUISITIONS • The establishment of The James and Charlotte Park Brooks Fund through a partnership with the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation provides the Museum with a treasure Photo: Tiagne Davis trove of artworks by these two stellar figures of Abstract 106 Expressionism to study, interpret, and exhibit to the public. PERMANENT COLLECTION WORKS ON VIEW • A major award from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation allows us to undertake a newly designed and content rich website that connects with the collection database and our award-winning digital artist archive 85 East End Stories. Funds awarded through the New York State Council for the CONCERTS, TALKS, FILMS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS • Arts REDC allowed us to study our community impact, marketing messages, and public awareness in order to ensure that our story is told in a compelling way and reaches new 27,131 audiences. Our ongoing engagement with colleagues has contributed greatly SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS to our accomplishments. The Parrish co-founded the Hamptons Arts Network (HAN), a consortium of 19 cultural institutions from Westhampton to Amagansett working together to create a unified arts community. The goal is to promote collaboration, 437 partnerships, and shared programming among members, and to forward the narrative of the East End as a cultural mecca. MOBILE APP USERS This is a small sampling of the Parrish’s work during our milestone Cover: year. We’re proud of these accomplishments and gratefully Charlotte Park acknowledge our sister institutions, the many artists with whom (American, 1918–2010) we work, the members of the Board of Trustees who provide wise Initiation, ca. 1955 765 counsel, the generosity of our supporters, and the dedication Oil on canvas, 48½ x 36 inches REGIONAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL and expertise of our staff. Parrish Art Museum Gift of the James and EDITORIAL PLACEMENTS Charlotte Brooks Foundation Terrie Sultan Frederic M. Seegal Photo: Gary Mamay Continues on p31 Director Chair, Board of Trustees 4 REPORT 2017 PARRISH ART MUSEUM 5 LEFT: THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Alan Shields (American, 1944–2005) Dance Bag, 1985 Acrylic, canvas, glass beads, thread on aluminum tubing, and mirror, 40 x 48 inches Estate of the artist Photo: Gary Mamay PARRISH PERSPECTIVES: NEW WORKS IN CONTEXT MARCH 12 –APRIL 23, 2017 Parrish Perspectives: New Works in Context revealed the depth and breadth of the Museum’s more than 300 new acquisitions since the 2012 opening of the building in Water Mill. With 70 works by artists new to the collection and established collection artists, on view at the Parrish for the first time, New Works in Context reflected the curatorial THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: 2017 STUDENT EXHIBITION decision-making involved in building a collection. EXHIBITIONS FIVE AND FORWARD JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 26, 2017 NOVEMBER 10, 2017– OCTOBER 31, 2018 The annual Student Exhibition, a 60-year tradition JOHN GRAHAM: In 2017, the Parrish celebrated The annual reinstallation of the Parrish permanent at the Parrish, featured the work of more than 1,000 MAVERICK MODERNIST collection recognized the fifth anniversary with young artists from 33 schools in the region who MAY 7– JULY 30, 2017 its fifth anniversary in Water Mill exhibitions that provided a closer look at artists demonstrate creativity, enthusiasm, and technical with the sixth annual installation whose work represents major trends, themes, and skill in a range of media. That work plus art created by John Graham: Maverick Modernist was a concepts in American art history, and underscores 350 participants in the Museum’s Artist-in-Residency comprehensive survey exploring how the artist of the permanent collection the ongoing artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End. program with Bastienne Schmidt was on view. became an influential figure in the development of that pays tribute to the The eleven-gallery installation of nearly 100 works a distinctly American approach to art-making in the included thematic exhibitions, and galleries dedicated The 2017 Student Exhibition and accompanying first half of the 20th century. Featuring approximately artistic legacy of the East End, to James Brooks (1906–1992), William Merritt Chase programs are supported in part by property 65 paintings and a selection of important works five temporary exhibitions, and (1849–1916), and Alan Shields (1944–2005). In a new taxpayers from the Southampton School District and on paper, the exhibition was accompanied by a initiative, artist Rashid Johnson was invited to act Tuckahoe Common School District. The Parrish Art fully illustrated, 150-page catalogue with interpretive a Parrish Road Show project. as guest curator, selecting works for a single gallery. Museum’s educational programming is supported, in essays by the curators. part, by Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller, Institute of The Permanent Collection: Five and Forward was Museum and Library Services, May and Samuel Rudin John Graham: Maverick Modernist was made possible, made possible, in part, by the generous support of Family Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, in part, by the generous support of the Henry Maren Otto, Barbara Slifka, The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Long Island Community Foundation, The John J. Luce Foundation and the Century Arts Foundation. Robert Lehman Foundation, Vivian Haime Barg, Tim McDonnell Margaret T. O’Brien Foundation, H. Peter Additional support was provided by The Liliane and and Susan Davis, Garrett and Mary Moran, Charlotte Haveles, Jr., Patricia and David Rung, The William Norman Peck Fund for Exhibitions, The Mr. and Mrs. Moss and Barry Friedberg, Jane and David Walentas, Talbott Hillman Foundation, Bobbie Braun/The Raymond J. Horowitz Fund for Publications, and ABOVE: JOHN GRAHAM Pingree and Donald H. Louchheim, William Talbott Neuwirth Foundation, and Town of Southampton. Barbara Slifka. The Parrish Art Museum wishes to John D. (Ivan Dombrowski) Graham Hillman Foundation, Denise LeFrak, Suzanne and Additional support for the Artist Residency program also acknowledge Ariel and Alaleh Ostad Charitable (American, born Ukraine, 1886–1961) Bob Cochran, and Thomas and Clelia Zacharias. was provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation Annuity Trust, Henry & Elaine Kaufman Foundation, Stallion, ca. 1951 Additional support for the Artists Residency project and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation. Robert and Arlene Kogod, Myron Kunin Collection, Ball point pen, colored pencil, and was provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation The Museum’s exhibitions and programs are made Boris Lurie Art Foundation, Steve Martin and crayon on tracing paper, 15 x 25 inches Parrish Art Museum and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation. possible, in part, by the New York State Council on Anne Stringfield, Herman Goldman Foundation, Littlejohn Collection. 1961.3.216 the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Allison Stabile, and Jeremy Patricia Stone. Photo: Gary Mamay Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. WSHU was the exclusive radio sponsor. 6 REPORT 2017 PARRISH ART MUSEUM 7 FROM LENS TO EYE TO HAND: ABOVE: FROM LENS TO EYE TO HAND Platform: Clifford Ross: Light | Waves was made TOP: PARRISH ROAD SHOW: AUTO BODY PHOTOREALISM 1969 TO TODAY Installation view of From Lens to Eye to Hand: possible, in part, by the generous support of Auto Body artist collective Red Right Return (2017) AUGUST 6, 2017– JANUARY 21, 2018 Photorealism 1969 to Today Bloomberg Philanthropies, David and Cynthia Photo: Lindsay Morris Wassong, Lynne Tarnopol, Sant Ambroeus, Fiona and Site-specific artwork installed at the Parrish Art Eric Rudin, Joseph M. Cohen, Andrea Crane, May and Museum as part of Parrish Road Show, 2017 From Lens to Eye to Hand presented a survey of an ABOVE, RIGHT: PLATFORM: CLIFFORD ROSS Photo: Jenny Gorman important contemporary art movement spearheaded Clifford Ross (American, born 1952) Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, RYAN LEE Gallery, by artists who employed a groundbreaking creative Installation view of Light | Waves Sonnabend Gallery, Fern and Lenard Tessler, and ABOVE, LEFT: JOHN GRAHAM process to embark upon a new way of seeing and Photo: Bob Cuk Jane Wesman and Donald Savelson. Book cover John Graham: Maverick Modernist Parrish Art Museum, 2017 depicting the world. The exhibition, accompanied WSHU was the exclusive radio sponsor. by a fully illustrated hard-cover book, featured ABOVE, RIGHT: FROM LENS TO EYE TO HAND 73 paintings and works on paper by 35 artists—from Book cover From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism early practitioners to second and third generation PLATFORM PARRISH ROAD SHOW: 1969 to Today Parrish Art Museum, 2017 Photorealists—demonstrating that the movement CLIFFORD ROSS: LIGHT | WAVES AUTO BODY remains undiluted and relevant today. JULY 16 – OCTOBER 15, 2017 AUGUST 1 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2017 PUBLICATIONS From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Platform invites a single artist to consider the entire Bellport-based artist collective Auto Body created Today was made possible, in part, by the generous JOHN GRAHAM: Museum as a site for new works.