Editor's Column THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART MAGAZINE How does one go about the process of capturing the highlights of a 36-year ca• reer for the readers of The Cleveland In• VOL. 21, NO. 3 JUNE, 1988 stitute of Art's LINK magazine? If he is lucky, he does it with some help, and I IN THIS ISSUE would like to thank the following indi• Joseph McCullough: The Institute Years 3 viduals who took the time to remember Friends and Colleagues Remember: Joe McCullough and their particular re• Viktor Schreckengost 8 lationships with him for this issue: • Agnes Gund, daughter of George Francis j. Meyers 10 Gund, long-time president of the Board Graham Grund 10 of Trustees and an ardent supporter of Kenneth Bates 11 the Institute for many years in her own Agnes Gund 12 right; David E. Davis 13 • Sherman E. Lee, former director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and a Sherman E. Eee 14 friend and professional colleague of First Institute Phone-A-Thon reaps rewards 15 McCullough; Around The Institute: • Frank Meyers, chairman of the De• Commencement 1988 18 partments of Drawing and Medical Illus• McCullough Scholarship 19 tration at the Institute and a long-time friend of the McCullough family; Campaign Committee congregates 20 • Viktor Schreckengost, founder of Faculty & Staff Notes 21 the Institute's industrial design depart• Alumni Notes 22 ment and one of the few who can testify Obituaries 26 to having spent significant time around here before joe McCullough came PHOTO CREDITS around; Cover photo, photo of Vik Schreckengost on page 9, and poster photo of Joe • Kenny Bates, master enamelist and McCullough on page 11 by Dennis Buck. Photos on page 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, another long-time associate of McCul• 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, and the inside back cover are by Paul Nickels. Other photos lough who remembers McCullough as have been provided by the artists, and the photo on page 25 was provided by the first his student, later his boss; Cleveland Museum of Art. • Graham Grund, former chairman of the Institute's board and chairman of LINK is published four times a year by the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East the recently-concluded capital cam• Boulevard, University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. paign who has worked closely with Mc• Paul j. Nickels, Editor Cullough for years; Georgianne Wanous, Director of Alumni Relations • David E. Davis, an alumnus and Cheryl Overby '85, Layout Artist noted sculptor, friend and supporter of McCullough. Typesetting and production, Schaefer Printing Co. Long-time liberal arts professor ©Copyright 1988, The Cleveland Institute of Art Franny Taft also provided extensive in• formation about the development of Articles, letters, and captioned black and white photographs are welcomed for the Liberal Arts program under McCul• inclusion in LINK. As much unsolicited material will be published as space and the editor's discretion allow. Deadline for the next issue is August 5, 1988. Send lough, which was good enough to stand material to LINK, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Boulevard, University as a story on its own and will appear in a Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. later issue of LINK! I thank them all for their assistance, The Institute admits students without reference to race, color, creed, handicaps, and joe McCullough for his patience. sex, or national origin. Anyone who knows him is aware of just how much he dislikes talking about ABOUT THE COVER himself! —Paul Nickels THE CLEVCLANe INSTITUTE OP ART- LIBRARY The formal portrait of Joseph McCullough In the Institute's Frances W. and H. Jack Lang Skylight Studio, Factory Building, was shot by Dennis Buck in 1984, and printed by him with extra-special care for this issue of LINK. Editor's Column THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART MAGAZINE How does one go about the process of capturing the highlights of a 36-year ca• reer for the readers of The Cleveland I n- VOL. 21, NO. 3 JUNE, 1988 stitute of Art's LINK magazine? If he is lucky, he does it with some help, and I IN THIS ISSUE would like to thank the following indi• Joseph McCullough: The Institute Years 3 viduals who took the time to remember Friends and Colleagues Remember: Joe McCullough and their particular re• Viktor Schreckengost 8 lationships with him for this issue: • Agnes Gund, daughter of George Francis J. Meyers 10 Gund, long-time president of the Board Graham Crund 10 of Trustees and an ardent supporter of Kenneth Bates 11 the Institute for many years in her own Agnes Gund 12 right; David E. Davis 13 • Sherman E. Lee, former director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and a Sherman E. Lee 14 friend and professional colleague of First Institute Phone-A-Thon reaps rewards 15 McCullough; Around The Institute: • Frank Meyers, chairman of the De• Commencement 1988 18 partments of Drawing and Medical Illus• McCullough Scholarship 19 tration at the Institute and a long-time friend of the McCullough family; Campaign Committee congregates 20 • Viktor Schreckengost, founder of Faculty & Staff Notes 21 the Institute's industrial design depart• Alumni Notes 22 ment and one of the few who can testify Obituaries 26 to having spent significant time around here before Joe McCullough came PHOTO CREDITS around; Cover photo, photo of Vik Schreckengost on page 9, and poster photo of Joe • Kenny Bates, master enamelist and McCullough on page 11 by Dennis Buck. Photos on page 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, another long-time associate of McCul• 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, and the inside back cover are by Paul Nickels. Other photos lough who remembers McCullough as have been provided by the artists, and the photo on page 25 was provided by the first his student, later his boss; Cleveland Museum of Art. • Graham Grund, former chairman of the Institute's board and chairman of LINK is published four times a year by the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East the recently-concluded capital cam• Boulevard, University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. paign who has worked closely with Mc• Paul J. Nickels, Editor Cullough for years; Georgianne Wanous, Director of Alumni Relations • David E. Davis, an alumnus and Cheryl Overby '85, Layout Artist noted sculptor, friend and supporter of McCullough. Typesetting and production, Schaefer Printing Co. Long-time liberal arts professor ©Copyright 1988, The Cleveland Institute of Art Franny Taft also provided extensive in• formation about the development of Articles, letters, and captioned black and white photographs are welcomed for the Liberal Arts program under McCul• inclusion in LINK. As much unsolicited material will be published as space and the editor's discretion allow. Deadline for the next issue is August 5, 1988. Send lough, which was good enough to stand material to LINK, Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Boulevard, University as a story on its own and will appear in a Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. later issue of LINK! I thank them all for their assistance, The Institute admits students without reference to race, color, creed, handicaps, and Joe McCullough for his patience. sex, or national origin. Anyone who knows him is aware of just how much he dislikes talking about ABOUT THE COVER himself! —Paul Nickels THE CLEVKUkNA INSTITUTE OP ART LIBRARY The formal portrait of Joseph McCullough in the Institute's Erances W. and H. Jack Lang Skylight Studio, Factory Building, was shot by Dennis Buck in 1984, and printed by him with extra-special care for this issue of LINK. JOSEPH McCULLOUGH THE INSTITUTE YEARS by Paul Nickels Joe McCullough's office has some• and M.F.A. degrees on a fellowship at thing in common with the best graphic Yale University; a wife and family design—one of its prominent features is needed to be fed, and life in a barely- excellent use of white space. It is a fairly heated cottage on the shores of Lake quiet and peaceful oasis in a very busy Erie was proving difficult. art school; there is a spareness and lack "I was looking for a way to sustain my• of pretention that truly reflects the man self on the combined efforts of teaching who has inhabited it since the comple• and painting," he recalls today, with a tion of the building in 1956. A great plea• sideways glance into the past. "Sch• sure for this writer has always been the meckebier called and asked if I would moments of meeting alone with McCul• come in to be interviewed; he needed lough in this space, moments when his an assistant. I didn't know what he had guard drops and he communicates in mind except that I had won the Page freely. Perhaps he'll recall the last time a traveling scholarship and a medal for particular cactus in the small garden he drawing. But he hired me and put me in maintains in the office bloomed. Maybe an office right next to his; Otto Ege's old a rarely-seen bird has winged its way office, and then he took off to Cape Cod past his window and he'll describe for right away. I'm busy writing reports to you its nesting place in the spire of a lo• him about maintenance, how admis• cal church—he has seen it there. This is sions was proceeding. So I assisted him an eye for detail, and a man in love with for two years, at whatever he wanted the order, precision, discipline, and The young bomber pilot, circa 1943. done." most of all, beauty, that is nature. Schmeckebier also offered him a A significant portion of the resulting On a recent day, McCullough is teaching load; he taught some color, story details his interest in fly fishing.