{Winter 2017 / 2018} Issue #67 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATTINGHAM Letter from the President One distinctive feature of Attingham is our commit- itorial assistant to assistant editor at a leading university Moving to public and private preservation efforts, ment to raise funds to provide scholarship assistance museum; or, in the museum world, from research assis- scholarship recipients from the 2000s and earlier to help our brightest and best participate in courses. tant to a curatorship or deputy directorship, and from now occupy senior positions. One scholar followed As one might expect, donors to the American Friends assistant or associate curator, to full curator. Supported up a distinguished career as an executive at a civic of Attingham have an interest in how the scholars they curators have mounted an impressive array of innovative preservation organization with a new job as a city support intend to apply what they learn to their current exhibitions with accompanying publications. On the ac- councilman. While these achievements result from and future work. Thus the awardees compile thorough ademic side, after a series of short-term appointments, scholarships provided by a single organization, they reports, often beautifully illustrated and composed another supported scholar garnered a tenured universi- reflect the pattern overall. The Attingham experience with great care. ty position. Many former course participants sponsored has proven itself to be life changing and those who Recently one of our most faithful donors asked the over the years by this single funder have received pres- contribute to scholarship funds should be duly proud AFA for news about the career paths of scholars it has tigious research fellowships from institutions like the of what their gifts have enabled over the years. Every- supported over the years. Our investigation clearly re- Huntington Library, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Lewis one associated with Attingham is deeply grateful to vealed how participation in an Attingham course sup- Walpole Library (Yale), the Kluge Center at the Library these thoughtful donors. Thanks to all. ports the statement made by so many attendees that of Congress, and from the Getty Conservation Institute. the experience is “life-changing.” As one might expect, Several architects and scholars in academe have pro- Sheila ffolliott, FSA professional promotions top the list, e.g. a move from ed- duced significant publications. President, The American Friends of Attingham Letter from England Do you remember an ‘Attingham moment’ from your cento relief with a depiction of erotes in Rome (SP) Attingham year? This year on all four courses there and eruditely expounded on the spot; and Lauren were plenty to inform and surprise. Katherine Paul Northup (Historic Charleston Foundation, SC) had (Newark Museum, NJ) thrilled the Duke of Devon- all the members enthralled when she reported on shire and the group when she identified a Korean her ancestor locked up in one of the ranges at the screen in the private apartments at Chatsworth (SS); Tower of London (LHC). In addition, the contribution Kris Martin (Maritime Museum, UK) while standing in of members to discussions (and there will be more!) front of a Winterhalter portrait of 1846 in the Grand was greatly enjoyed: Bert Watteeuw (Rubenianum, Corridor at Windsor Castle (RCS) enlightened ev- Belgium) on the Rubens tapestries at West Dean eryone when he explained that it was not that little (SS); Allison Goudie (National Gallery, UK) on Queen prince Edward wanted to look like a sailor but that Maria Carolina of Naples (SP) - pictured here, and Liz the ratings upon seeing the prince’s dress, demand- Smith (Purcell Architects UK) on Christchurch, Spit- ed to have a uniform to match (having not had one alfields (LHC), reminding us all of the vital strength of before); Josip Belamaric (Institute of Art History, Cro- the Attingham courses—the quality, diversity of dis- atia) made a personal discovery when he noticed a ciplines, and the international nature of the members Katherine Paul during previously unpublished and yet outstanding quattro- themselves. Photo by Amy Henderson ’17 the Summer School David Blackburn’s comment (Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, PA) in his RCS report stands for all: Perhaps the greatest joy of RCS was my classmates. The work I do and people I meet with- Inside this issue in the scope of my position tend to be limited to my organization, the National Park Service. RCS provid- New Board Members...........................................2 ed the opportunity to expand my network in ways Alumni News....................................................3 I could never accomplish in my work environment. Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions..............3 Additionally, they provide links to international per- spectives in interpretation, education, conservation, Upcoming AFA Programs & Events...............4-5 Recent Events.....................................................5 Allison and curation that both align with and differ with that Goudie, at available to me at work. Relationships, personal and Scholars Reflect on 2017 Courses.......................6 left, during professional, will remain a powerful part of my ex- In Memoriam......................................................7 perience. the Rome and New AFA Website..............................................7 Naples Study Annabel Westman Programme Executive Director, The Attingham Trust {1} {Winter 2017 / 2018} Meet Our New Board Members DIRECTOR Kathryn Calley Galitz ’07, from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia she has returned to AFA! RCS ’17, is a scholar of late Business School. He has served as the auctioneer for She has mostly recently eighteenth- and nine- over 500 charity events and his auctioneering skills been with the Brooklyn His- teenth-century French and have lead to television appearances, including on Law torical Society working in British art. At The Metro- & Order. He is also chairman of the Planning Commit- the museum’s membership politan Museum of Art, Dr. tee for the annual Newport Symposium (organized by and development depart- Galitz has organized inter- the Preservation Society of Newport County); chair- ment. Mary Ellen is a native national exhibitions on art- man of the Committee on Grants & Contributions for North Carolinian and has a ists including Turner and the National Society of Colonial Wars; and serves BA in art history from the Girodet. She was a mem- on the Fabric & Grounds Committee of Grace University of North Carolina ber of the curatorial team Church (NYC) and the House Committee of the Phil- at Chapel Hill and a MS in awarded Best Historical adelphia Club. architectural conservation Show 2008 by the Interna- from the University of Edin- tional Association of Art Critics for Gustave Courbet. burgh. After spending several years in New York work- Prior to joining The Met, she held posts at the Art Insti- SUMMER SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE ing in public relations with arts clients, including the tute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art. Guggenheim Museum and the New York Philharmonic, A frequent lecturer, she has published numerous Barbara Drake Boehm she spent time in Palm Beach, FL as the project coor- works on Neoclassical painting, including “Jacques- ’17, is Paul and Jill dinator for the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Louis David’s Portrait of Comtesse Vilain XIIII and her Ruddock Senior Cu- before and after graduate school. She returned to Daughter,” and “François Gérard: Portraiture, Scandal, rator for The Met New York in 2015. Please feel free to be in touch with and the Art of Power in Napoleonic France” (Metropol- Cloisters. Most re- her [email protected]. itan Museum of Art Bulletin, summer 2013). She is also cently she was the author of the recently published book, The Metro- co-curator of the politan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings (Rizzoli, exhibitions Small 2016). She was a visiting professor of art history at New Wonders: Gothic York University and has taught at Hunter College. She Box wood Minia- 2018 ATTINGHAM APPLICATION holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Wil- tures (2017, in co- DEADLINES liams College. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute operation with the of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is also a AGO Toronto and member of the Alumni Advisory Council. the Rijksmuseum) and Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven (2016). Previous shows orga- The 67th Summer School DIRECTOR nized by Dr. Boehm include The Game of Kings July 12-28, 2018 George McNeely ’16, is (2011–12), Prague: The Crown of Bohemia (2005), and Deadline: January 26, 2018 an architectural histori- Enamels of Limoges (1996). A graduate of Wellesley an, lecturer, editor and College, Dr. Boehm received her Ph.D. from the Insti- French Eighteenth-Century Studies writer. From 2013-2016 he tute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a cor- at The Wallace Collection was the Vice President respondent étranger honoraire of the Société natio- June 25-29, 2018 for International Affairs nale des antiquaires de France. In October 2017 Dr. Deadline: February 12, 2018 at World Monuments Boehm will be a Visiting Expert at the Courtauld and Fund. He is the co-editor a guest lecturer for Saint George’s College, Jerusa- Royal Collection Studies of World Monuments: 50 lem. She is warden of the Episcopal Church of Saint September 2-11, 2018 Irreplaceable Sites to James in Montclair and a trustee of the American