Facet – Summer 2011 by Georgia Museum of Art

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Exhibitions: The Art of Hatch Show Print

Volunteer Spotlight: Student Docents

Publication Spotlight: One Hundred American Paintings

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Summer 2011

Department of Publications

From the Director

Hillary Brown and Mary Koon Publications Interns Mary Bowden Green Katherine Jones Kaitlin Springmier Design The Adsmith

Georgia Museum of Art University of Georgia 90 Carlton Street Athens, GA 30602-6719 www.georgiamuseum.org Admission: Free ($3 suggested donation)

O pening Phase II of the

Eiland (right) with chief curator

HOURS

and curator of American art

Galleries: Open to classes and school

Paul Manoguerra (left) and

groups by appointment only, Monday and

artist DeWain Valentine (center).

Tuesday. Open to the public Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 12–5 p.m.;

Georgia Museum of Art was thrilling, a

Thursday, 12–9 p.m.; Sunday, 1–5 p.m.

grand occasion capping years of planning. For

Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden:

helping to make it special, I need to express my gratitude

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,

to a special group of our supporters, our Friends. They truly are

10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m.;

our public face—now a shiny, new one, thanks to our expansion. This

Sunday, 1–5 p.m. Closed on Mondays.

museum has outstanding patronage, evident both in the building and in

Museum Shop: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–4:45 p.m.;

our programs. We are, in some respects, Janus-like, with one gaze inward

Thursday, 10 a.m.–8:45 p.m.; Sunday,

to the university and the other outward to our communities of service. As an

1–4:45 p.m. Closed on Mondays.

academic unit of the state’s flagship university and as a cultural cornerstone of

Ike & Jane at the Georgia Museum of Art:

the region in which we are located, we are strongly committed to our town and

Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

to our gown: we take our dual mission very seriously.

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To acknowledge our Friends; their president, Karen Benson; and the board,

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for their help in realizing our founder’s vision, for service to Athens, the university and the region, and for unqualified commitment to our

Mission Statement

mission, is a privilege and an honor.

The Georgia Museum of Art shares the mission of the University of Georgia

William Underwood Eiland, Director

to support and to promote teaching, research and service. Specifically, as a repository and educational instrument of the visual arts, the museum exists to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret significant works of art.

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BOARD OF ADVISORS Georgia Museum of Art

Mr. B. Heyward Allen Jr. Dr. Amalia K. Amaki Mrs. Frances Aronson-Healey Turner I. Ball, M.D. Ms. Karen L. Benson Mr. Fred D. Bentley Sr. Mr. Richard E. Berkowitz Mrs. Devereux C. Burch Mr. Robert E. Burton Mrs. Debbie C. Callaway Mr. Randolph W. Camp Shannon I. Candler, past chair Mrs. Faye S. Chambers Mr. Harvey J. Coleman Mrs. Martha T. Dinos Mrs. Annie Laurie Dodd Ms. Sally Dorsey Professor Marvin Eisenberg Ms. Carlyn F. Fisher Mr. James B. Fleece Mr. Edgar J. Forio Jr. Mr. Harry L. Gilham Jr. Mr. John M. Greene Mrs. Helen C. Griffith

Mrs. M. Smith Griffith Mrs. Marion E. Jarrell Professor John D. Kehoe Mrs. George-Ann Knox Mrs. Shell H. Knox Mr. David W. Matheny Ms. Catherine A. May Mrs. Helen P. McConnell Mr. Mark G. McConnell Mrs. Marilyn M. McMullan Mrs. Marilyn D. McNeely Mrs. Berkeley S. Minor Mr. C.L. Morehead Jr. Ms. Jane C. Mullins Mr. Carl W. Mullis III, chair Mr. Donald G. Myers Mrs. Betty R. Myrtle John Nickerson, M.D. Mrs. Deborah L. O’Kain Mrs. Janet W. Patterson Ms. Kathy B. Prescott Dr. William F. Prokasy IV Mr. Rowland A. Radford Jr. Ms. Margaret A. Rolando Mr. Alan F. Rothschild Jr. Mrs. Dorothy A. Roush Mrs. Sarah P. Sams

Mr. D. Jack Sawyer Jr. Mrs. Helen H. Scheidt Mr. Henry C. Schwob Mrs. Ann C. Scoggins Ms. Cathy Selig-Kuranoff Mr. S. Stephen Selig III Mrs. Margaret R. Spalding Mrs. Dudley R. Stevens Mrs. Carolyn W. Tanner Mrs. Judith M. Taylor Dr. Brenda Taggart Thompson Mrs. Barbara Auxier Turner Mr. C. Noel Wadsworth Ms. Kathleen E. Walker Mr. G. Vincent West Dr. Carol V. Winthrop Ex-officio Mrs. Linda C. Chesnut Dr. William Underwood Eiland Mr. Tom Landrum Professor Jere W. Morehead Dr. Libby V. Morris Karen W. Prasse, M.D. Ms. Georgia Strange

Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation, the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the Georgia Council for the Arts through the

appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals, foundations and corporations provide additional support through their gifts to the University of Georgia Foundation. The Georgia Museum of Art is ADA compliant; the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium is equipped for the hearing-impaired.

Contents FEATURES

Exhibitions

Publication Spotlight

New Acquisitions

Event Photos

Exhibitions

Letter from the Director of Development

Volunteer Spotlight

Publication Spotlight

Collections

Calendar of Events

Museum Notes/Gifts

Event Photos

On the cover: Johnny Cash—Triple Johnny, Hatch Show Print. On the back cover: Detail, It’s Better/Pure Coffee, Hatch Show Print.

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Images courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Exhibitions

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Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

Sponsors: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the

Thompson Dinos Galleries

Galleries: Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha

of European Art, Georgia Museum of Art

art, and Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator

Curators: Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American

Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, Feb. 2–4, 2012.

Arts, which will be on display during GMOA’s biennial Henry D.

center, the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative

view. The exhibition will be followed by an introduction to the fourth

Heber Holbrook (the founder and first director of GMOA) will be on

including letters and photos relating to Pierre Daura and Alfred

Center. Paintings, prints and drawings, as well as archival materials

(devoted to the study of prints and drawings) and the Pierre Daura

the Study of American Art, the Jacob Burns Foundation Center

introduction to three of the four: the C.L. Morehead Jr. Center for

promote hands-on research. This small exhibition serves as an

containing archives that supplement the museum’s collection and

tion of its Study Centers in the Humanities, four named units

One of the key elements in GMOA’s expansion was the construc-

Introduction to the Centers August 15–November 20

“godfather” of the Georgia Museum of Art.

from the state of Georgia and is considered the

He was the most recognized artist of his generation

in 1937.

University of Georgia’s art department beginning

advocate and artist—rebuilt and revitalized the

AMAR DODD—teacher, arts administrator, year celebrates Dodd’s career and juxtaposes his drawings with many of his related watercolors and paintings. Ranging from the late 1920s, when he was at the Art Students League in New York, to the 1990s, the exhibition also includes the first large-scale display of images from Dodd’s sketchbooks. Curator: Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art, Georgia Museum of Art Galleries: Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries Sponsors: Helen C. Griffith, Clementi L-B Holder, C.L. Morehead Jr., Dorothy Alexander Roush, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

rebuilt and revitalized the University of Georgia’s art department beginning in 1937. He was the most recognized artist of his generation from the state of Georgia and is considered the “godfather” of the Georgia Museum of Art. Reared in LaGrange, Dodd was an impassioned exponent of the local scene movement, and his works of the 1930s and 1940s featured southern landscapes, history, people and industry. He also served as an “ambassador of culture” for the U.S. State Department, as two-term president of the College Art Association and as a participant in the NASA Art Program. Believing that drawing was the “mother of the arts,” Dodd utilized the practice even as he moved from realism in the 1930s to Cubism and Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and 1950s and later into a mature style. Featuring 100

Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

Sponsors: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the

Galleries: Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery I

Georgia Museum of Art

Curators: Hillary Brown, editor, and Todd Rivers, chief preparator,

tion will examine interactions among type, art and text.

one person is certainly a combination of will and magic. The exhibi-

the tendency of ink to stain, but the production of a finished book by

often been dubbed “the black art,” for a number of reasons, including

strate interesting instances of adaptation to the form. Printing has

personality in the modern world, and these selected books demon-

proprietors, stand as anachronistic and forceful statements of

Robertson, Atlanta, Ga.). These presses, run primarily by solo

Nightowl (Dwight Agner, Athens, Ga.) and Tinhorn Press (Chuck

Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas), the Press of the

books printed by LaNana Creek Press (Charles D. Jones, Stephen F.

This focused exhibition presents works by private presses, including

Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books August 27–November 6

images, this special exhibition during the museum’s reopening

Lamar Dodd—teacher, arts administrator, advocate and artist—

Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings July 2–August 28

Image courtesy Smithsonian Institution

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Exhibitions

and representation of contemporary female artists through the lenses of the Whitney Biennial exhibition from 1989 to 2008.

Valley, Flagpole, YellowBook USA, the W. Newton Morris Charitable

Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

Details will be announced on our website.

Live Music, Beer & Dancing.

The Friends’ Highfalutin’ Hootenanny!

of Friday, October 14

SAVE the EVENING

and the art world, and my dissertation investigated the effects of gender on the market value

through the Fort Trustee Fund, Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee

Caroline Maddox, Director of Development

and learning more about the Georgia Museum of Art and its loyal friends.

that will contribute to the health and vitality of our museum. I look forward to meeting you all

building, there is much to share and be proud of as we press forward with fundraising efforts

I am so excited to be a part of the museum team. With the opening of our newly renovated

the dance department before taking this position at GMOA.

School of Art, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, department of theatre and film studies and

officer for the Fine and Performing Arts Division of Franklin College, serving the Lamar Dodd

Despite my love of New York, my heart led me back to Georgia. I became a development

an international institution cultivates, solicits and stewards its major donors.

as coordinator of major gifts and the capital campaign, in which I experienced first-hand how

Guggenheim in corporate development. At the end of the internship, I was offered a position

York. I received a scholarship from Sotheby’s that provided a summer internship at the

My background in development began at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New

University of Manchester. This program gave me a broad understanding of the art market

then moved to New York to study art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, accredited by the

I graduated from the University of Georgia with degrees in art history and studio art,

major donors for the state and university art museum.

arts, I feel very fortunate to be able to serve in this position, cultivating and stewarding

museum. It is a privilege and an honor to be a part of this dynamic institution, and I am forever grateful for this opportunity. As a Georgia native and patron of the

DEAR FRIENDS, It is with great pleasure that I write to you for the first time. As many of you may know, I am the new director of development here at the

Director of Development

A LETTER FROM Caroline Maddox

Sponsors: Janet and Alex Patterson, Dudley Stevens, Alan F. Rothschild Jr.

Presley Family and Lamar Dodd Galleries

Galleries: Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B.

In-House Curator: Todd Rivers, chief preparator, Georgia Museum of Art

Smithsonian Institution.

by America’s Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of The Wallace Foundation and the

Service (SITES) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported

The exhibition, created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition

stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.

posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and

shops—Nashville, Tenn.’s, Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American

history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing

This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music

American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print August 27–November 6

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by Anthony Goicolea. Patsy Dudley Pate Balcony and Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery

Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries On view through July 29

On view through April 2012

On view through August 7

36 x 32 inches Collection of the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia (Page 7)

Ink and graphite on paper 9 7/8 x 14 3/8 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Dr. Roy Ward of Watkinsville

2003.319 (Page 5 left. A detail of this image appears on page 3 of this newsletter.)

GMOA

Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura

Georgia Museum of Art, University of

20 1/16 x 16 15/16 inches

Oil on canvas

Daura, White Shirt, 1950–53

(Catalan-American, 1896–1976)

Pierre Daura

(Page 4)

1983.2

Oil on canvas

Study for View of Athens, ca. 1939

Museum of Art

GMOA

Rock Hill Textile Plant, 1990

(American, 1909–1996)

(American, 1914–1998)

Lamar Dodd

and the Friends of the Georgia

Works of Art

On view through August 7

Family Galleries

Holbrook and Charles B. Presley

Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber

Boone and George-Ann Knox I,

Edmund Lewandowski

Airport, Atlanta

The Art of Disegno: Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art

T-Gates, Hartsfield-Jackson

Lamar Dodd Gallery

All Creatures Great and Small

American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection of the Georgia Museum of Art

On view through November 30

A photo mural and video installation

“snowscape”

Stone and Steel: Small Works by Beverly Pepper

Don’t Miss

W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation

Sponsors: Katie and Ian Walker, the

and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries

Galleries: Virginia and Alfred Kennedy

art, Georgia Museum of Art

chief curator and curator of American

In-House Curator: Paul Manoguerra,

as an artist and educator.

examines the artist’s career and impact

of the Georgia Museum of Art, and

paintings from the permanent collection

examples of his work, including two

graphic exhibition features almost 50

varied styles and media. This mono-

includes a wide array of subjects in

aspects of Lewandowski’s oeuvre, which

Precisionism and Beyond” surveys all

Institute of Arts, “Edmund Lewandowski:

subject matter. Organized by the Flint

industrial, urban and architectural

and art educator known for his images of

(1914–1998) was an influential painter

Midwestern artist Edmund Lewandowski

Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond September 10–December 4

Volunteer Spotlight: Student Docent Corps

Student docent Elizabeth Perry (right) poses with friends during Student Night.

As an academic unit of the University of Georgia, GMOA provides many opportunities for students to participate in conversation on the fine arts. Sheena Varghese discusses Edwin B. Smith’s portrait of Robert Ransome Billups in the museum’s permanent collection galleries.

Since its reopening this spring, the museum has trained and employed student docents for the first time in its history.

IF YOU ATTENDED the Georgia Museum of Art’s inaugural student

This approach instructs the docent to invite all visitors, young, old,

night, “Reopening Remixed,” in early February, or its second, “Keepin’

educated or novice, into the conversation about the work of art. Visitors

It Surreal,” in late April, you would have witnessed the building, typically

are encouraged to share with the group what they see. In this way, they

a serene environment filled with quiet contemplation, brimming with

inject their own experience into understanding the meaning of the work.

noise from bands performing live, students wandering through the

By encouraging a dialogue, docents do not dictate “how to look” or

museum’s halls and student-led tours featuring highlights from the

“what to look for” but focus on the possibilities of individual experience

permanent collection, like Elizabeth Jane Gardner’s “La Confidence.”

to cultivate a burgeoning interest in the objects visitors see.

As an academic unit of the University of Georgia, GMOA provides many

SINCE THE MUSEUM HAS REOPENED to the public, the

opportunities for students to participate in conversation on the fine arts.

docents have been busy giving tours to audiences including school groups

Since its reopening this spring, the museum has trained and employed

and university classes. Sheena Varghese, a UGA senior in art history, is

student docents for the first time in its history. While internships have

part of the fledgling class of docents. Before she became a docent, she

allowed UGA undergraduate and graduate students the chance to work

had worked as an education intern with DiCindio. Varghese also recently

behind the scenes at the museum, only the student docent program

was assistant curator for an exhibition at ATHICA, Athens Institute for

encourages a dialogue among students, educators and museum visitors.

Contemporary Art, entitled “Taking Part,” which featured different mediums of participatory art. She decided to become a docent because she wanted

CARISSA DICINDIO, curator of education, initiated the student docent

to learn more about GMOA’s collection. Varghese says she enjoys the

program this past fall before the museum reopened to the public. Her

opportunity to share what she has learned with others. She has learned

goal was to create a program that would teach new visitors the nuances

more about how museums work and plans to use the fundamentals of

of the museum’s collection while engaging UGA’s student body. The

the dialogic teaching method in her future endeavors as a member of Teach

inaugural student docent corps includes 18 students, both undergraduate

For America. She would suggest the docent program to anyone who has

and graduate, who, in addition to 35 community docents, will give

time to make the commitment.

museum tours. The training process teaches them good communication and interpretive skills while introducing them to the museum’s collection

Docent-led tours by both student and community docents are scheduled

and the significance of specific works. The docents met twice a month

every Wednesday at 2 p.m. and one Sunday each month. The dates for

in the fall and then a few times in the early spring to prepare for the

the tours can be found on page 12 of this newsletter or on the museum’s

museum’s reopening. The training introduced the docents to a method

website. The student docent program is open to undergraduate and

of gallery teaching that focuses on a dialogic approach to talking about art.

graduate students of all majors. If you are interested in becoming a docent with the Georgia Museum of Art and have a year to devote to the process, please apply! Applications will be taken in August and can be found at

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www.georgiamuseum.org.

Kaitlin Springmier, Publications Intern

Publication Spotlight An excerpt from “One Hundred American Paintings” by Paul Manoguerra Elaine de Kooning (American, 1918–1989) Bacchus #81, 1983 Acrylic on canvas 65 x 45 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Marjorie and Edmund Luyckx, in honor of Lamar Dodd GMOA

1988.9

(A detail of this image appears on page 3 of this newsletter.)

Art News in 1948 and wrote articles about some of the major figures in the art world, including painters Joseph Albers, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko. Working at the center of New York City’s cultural life, she became friends with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, who were a couple. She was an active member of the Eighth-Street Club, a site for artists to meet, drink and socialize whose regulars included Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Kline, Lee Krasner, Milton Resnick, Larry Rivers and Rothko. Although de Kooning used the Abstract Expressionist form, with its energetic strokes of intense color, her entire life, she also executed numerous portraits. Her most famous series of these, painted on commission from the White House, depicts President John F. Kennedy. She traveled to West Palm Beach, Fla., to make painted sketches of the president and spent much of 1963 working on the portrait for the Truman Library. Following his assassination in rtist, art writer and critic,

Lamar Dodd Visiting Professor of Art at

a year and devoted her time to teaching

presidential portraitist,

the University of Georgia in Athens. Born

and sculpture. Over the course of her

educator and wife of painter

Elaine Marie Catherine Fried in Brooklyn,

career, she taught at the University of

Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning

New York, she studied at the Leonardo

New Mexico, Albuquerque; the University

lived and worked within the so-called

da Vinci Art School and the American

of California, Davis; Carnegie Mellon

New York School (known for its effort to

Artists School in New York City. She met

University; Yale University Graduate

assimilate into visual representation,

Willem de Kooning in 1937 and they

School; and the Parsons School of Design,

often using abstraction, relatively new

were married at City Hall, New York, in

among others. Her paintings are in the

knowledge and understanding about

December 1943. Married for more than

collections of major museums, including

human nature from psychology and

forty-five years, they spent most of their

the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,

anthropology), and the Abstract Expres-

time apart, although Elaine championed

the Metropolitan Museum of Art

sionism movement in the late 1940s and

and promoted Willem’s work in the 1940s.

and the National Portrait Gallery,

1950s. Years later, she served as the first

She worked as an editorial associate for

Washington, D.C.1

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November 1963, she stopped painting for

This study for deKooning’s “Bacchus” series is on view in the Lamar Dodd Gallery as part of the exhibition “American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection” through August 7. “Bacchus #81” is on permanent display in the Byrnece Purcell Knox Swanson Gallery. “One Hundred American Paintings” is for sale in the Museum Shop, located in the museum lobby and online.

Elaine de Kooning Untitled study for Bacchus series, 1977 Watercolor on paper 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lambert GMOA

De Kooning painted the first of her

Over the next six years, de Kooning

and the silens, satyrs and nymphs sur-

immense canvases in the “Bacchus”

created about 50 sketches and more than

rounding him. In rich, bold brushstrokes,

series in her studio on the University of

60 paintings in the series. She writes, “I

she provides the feel of the jovial, “trium-

Georgia campus during her tenure as the

always do my best painting when I’m . . .

phant” Silenus’ beard. Most recent art

initial Dodd Visiting Professor. All are

totally obsessed with an image. When

historical literature on the “Bacchus”

based on a 19th-century sculpture—“one

every work seems to initiate a new work,

series argues that de Kooning was

of those wonderful exuberant statues you

and when I can think of nothing else but

metaphorically responding to her role in

see wherever you go”—she saw in the

the possibilities of more and more images

the male-dominated New York art world

Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris in the

in a series.”3 “Bacchus #81” was painted in

and the Abstract Expressionist movement.

summer of 1976. She spent several days

her East Hampton studio based upon her

Rose Slivka writes, for example, “The

at the site, making sketches of the

on-site watercolor sketches. De Kooning

artist is in a dilemma from which she

sculpture by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838–

utilizes brash blocks and lyrical swipes of

struggles to extricate herself; at the same

1902), which features Silenus, the teacher

blue, green and yellow to communicate the

time she finds herself getting in deeper

and faithful companion of Bacchus in

confusion and motion of the drunken,

in a labyrinth of meanings in which the

ancient mythology, as the central figure.

toppling Silenus, his stumbling donkey,

paintings become a track of the journey.”4

1 Jane K. Bledsoe, Elaine de Kooning, exh. cat. (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 1992); Lee Hall, Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage (New York: HarperCollins, 1993); April Kingsley, The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992); Elaine de Kooning, The Spirit of Abstract Expressionism: Selected Writings (New York: George Braziller, 1994); Michael Leja, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993); and John GMOA facet | Summer 2011

Taylor, “An Interview with Elaine de Kooning in Athens,” Contemporary Art/Southeast 1, no. 1 (April–May 1977): 16–22.

2 Bledsoe, 39. 3 Elaine de Kooning quoted in Hall, 299. 4 Rose Slivka, “Elaine de Kooning: The Bacchus Paintings,” Arts Magazine 57 (October 1982): 66–70, reprinted in a brochure for Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1994. Other examples include Jill Rachelle Chancey, “Elaine de Kooning: Negotiating the Masculinity of Abstract Expressionism,” Ph.D. diss., The University of Kansas, 2006; Mary Lee Sullivan, “Questions of Gender and Subjectivity in Elaine de Kooning’s Bacchus Paintings,” in Frances van Keuren, ed. Archaeologicia Transatlantica 16 (Providence, RI: Brown University, 1997); and Lisa Beth Strahl, “Gender construction and manifestation in the art of Elaine de Kooning,” Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 2009.

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Collections: NEW ACQUISITIONS The Ray-Brewster Family Bedspread and Bolster, ca. 1923 Alternate panels of crochet and linen make up the

Top and bottom right: A flower-in-guilloche pattern

Charles Ray Brewster of Macon, and his wife,

bedspread, which is embroidered with a flower-in-guil-

embellishes the bedspread’s linen panels.

Mrs. Ruth Brewster, provided for its care in

loche pattern and edged in handmade fringe. Similarly,

(A detail of this image appears on page 3 of this newsletter.)

recent years. Their son, Bob Brewster of Athens, brought

the bolster comprises lengths of linen and two panels of

the piece to the museum’s attention. The Brewster family

crochet and features the initials CRB, for “Clarice Ray

Bottom left: This detail of the bolster shows the

is donating this superb example of needlework to GMOA

Brewster,” in art deco style on its face. Both ends of the

art-deco styling of Clarice Brewster’s monogram.

in honor of the original recipient, Clarice Ray Brewster

bolster are open for the insertion of pillows.

(née Clarice Ethel Ray). Brewster and her husband, Fred Hubert Brewster,

Remarkably, a ball of string and a partially tatted or crocheted panel, two crochet panels and two small

received the bedspread and bolster as a wedding gift in

panels of linen showing in-stage creation survive. These

1923 from its maker, Moselle Weldon Adams, wife of Dr.

remains of manufacture present a rare and interesting

Charles Adams, who performed their wedding ceremony.

context for research and education.

Inset: A remnant of hand-made fringe for edging and in-process crochet work.

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his pristine pair of textiles descended to Mr.

Calendar : Summer 2011

Special Events After Hours at GMOA Opening Reception for “Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings” Friday, August 19, 5–8 p.m.

July Sun

The Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the Lamar Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Dodd School of Art invite you to a reception celebrating the work of Georgia’s most renowned artist of the 20th century and the namesake of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. For more information, call 706.542.0437.

UGA Student Day at GMOA Thursday, September 15, 1–8 p.m. The Georgia Museum of Art invites university students for a special day of programs and tours. Learn about the many ways you can be involved at the museum.

At 2 p.m. come to the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium for a discussion on museum jobs by a panel of GMOA staff. Student docent-led tours, gallery talks and behind-

the-scenes tours will take place throughout the day. Students will receive a 15% discount in the Museum Shop. Sponsored by the GMOA Student Association.

Evening for Educators Thursday, September 22, 4:15–6 p.m. Educators for grades K–12 are invited to join colleagues

August Sun

Mon

for a wine and cheese reception. This is an excellent time to preview exhibitions with curators and docents Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

and to sign up for guided tours and new teaching packets. Please respond by Sept. 15 to 706.542.GMOA

(4662) or gmoaedu@uga.edu.

Tours Tour At Two: Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection Wednesday, July 6, 2 p.m. Join Dale Couch, curator of decorative arts, for an introductory tour of GMOA’s collection of decorative arts.

Tour At Two: The Life and Works of Pierre Daura Wednesday, July 13, 2 p.m. Join Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art,

September Sun

Mon

Tue

for a discussion of the life and works of Pierre Daura. Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Spotlight Tour: Highlights from the Permanent Collection Sunday, July 17, August 14 and September 11, 3 p.m. Join docents for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

Tour at Two: Highlights from the Permanent Collection Wednesday, July 20, July 27, August 10, August 17, August 31, September 7, September 14 and September 21, 2 p.m.

Join docents for a tour of the most significant works

from the permanent collection.

Tour at Two: “Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings” Wednesday, August 24, 2 p.m. Join Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art, for a tour of this exhibition that includes the first large-scale display of images from Dodd’s

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sketchbooks.

Schedule a Visit to the Georgia Museum of Art To schedule a class visit or student assignment at the Georgia Museum of Art, please call us at 706.542.GMOA (4662) at least two weeks prior to the visit. Scheduling in advance enables us to prepare for your visit whether it is a docent-led tour, a self-guided visit led by an instructor or students who will be coming on their own to complete an assignment.

Tour at Two: “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” Wednesday, September 28, 2 p.m. Join Todd Rivers, chief preparator, for a tour of this traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services.

Lectures & Gallery Talks Gallery Talk: “The Art of Disegno” Tuesday, July 12, 5:30 p.m.

Films

HIGHLIGHTS

professor, University of Notre Dame, for a discussion of

Film Series: Artist’s Biographies “Pierre Daura” Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium

The Georgia History Trunk connects selected

Italian prints and drawings from the museum’s collection.

A documentary film by Agnes de Sacy. Pierre Daura

works in the collection of the Georgia Museum

(1896–1976) divided his life between Catalonia,

of Art with Georgia history. It contains lesson

Join guest curator Dr. Robert Randolf Coleman, associate

Artful Conversation Wednesday, August 3, 2 p.m.

France and the United States. His art—at times abstract,

Join Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, for a

joys and sorrows of a life of active engagement in historic

discussion of Gregory Gillespie’s “Wheel of Life”

events of his century. Introduced by Lynn Boland,

(1992) from the museum’s permanent collection.

Pierre Daura Curator of European Art (28 minutes, NR).

Family Days

more often figurative—reflects and is enriched by the

Georgia History Trunk

plans for grades K–12, objects and media, and can be borrowed by educators in Georgia. Please call 705.542.GMOA (4662) for more information.

Film Series: Artist Biographies “Mr. Dial Has Something to Say” Thursday, July 21, 7 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium Thornton Dial (b. 1928) is a self-taught artist who only

The Kress Collection Saturday, July 16, 10 a.m.–noon Visit the Samuel H. Kress Gallery to learn about GMOA’s Kress Collection and the Kress Project. Then head to the first-floor classroom to make Renaissance-inspired picture frames for your own masterpiece!

Abstract Adventures Saturday, August 13, 10 a.m.–noon What is abstract art? Visit GMOA’s permanent collection to see some of the museum’s abstract paintings, then head to the first-floor classroom to make an abstract work of your own.

began seriously making art after his retirement, constructing figurative sculptures, then branched out to painting and mixed-media assemblages. It wasn't very long before he was discovered by the art world and showing his “things” at galleries and museums, including the New Museum in New York and the Whitney Biennial. His art functions like folk tales, combining African and American traditions to tell stories that are at once personal, political and spiritual. Introduced by Carissa DiCindio, curator of education (60 minutes, NR).

Film Series: Artist Biographies “Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet” Thursday, July 28, 7 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium Using more than 60 of Marsden Hartley’s paintings and

Educators

drawings, as well as many photographs from collections

Visit our Louis T. Griffith Teacher Resource Center or

around the world, director Michael Maglaras traces Hartley’s life and work from its earliest beginnings in Lewiston, Maine, through his travels in Europe and the United States and ends with his secluded and lonely

our website for teaching packets, lesson plans and supplemental information for your students.

life in a remote Maine fishing village. Special guest Maglaras will speak about the film. Introduced by Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art (65 minutes, NR).

Art Adventures: Summer in the City This summer, the Georgia Museum of Art invites

Check our website for information about the Latin American Film Festival, which begins in September.

day camps, daycare centers and community centers for a special tour and art project related to this year’s theme, “Summer in the City.” Call 706.542. GMOA (4662) to schedule your visit. Sponsored by Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher.

Master of the Loeser Madonna (Sienese, active ca. 1340)

Check our website for the most

St. Clare, ca. 1340. Tempera on panel. Georgia Museum

recent information on events:

of Art, University of Georgia; Samuel H. Kress Study Collection, GMOA 1961.1890

www.georgiamuseum.org

Workshops & Classes

Family Day programs are sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota, YellowBook USA and the Friends

Drawing in the Galleries Thursday, July 14, July 28, August 11, August 25 and September 8, 5–8 p.m.

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943), Fruit Still Life,

Visitors are invited to sketch in the galleries during

Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American

these hours. No instruction provided. Pencils only.

Art, gift of Alfred H. Holbrook, GMOA 1945.46

ca. 1911–12. Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches.

Faculty is invited to bring a lunch as GMOA curators as a teaching tool.

Films are generously sponsored by the UGA Parents & Families Association

www.georgiamuseum.org

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva

UGA Faculty Lunch and Learn Thursday, July 21, noon First-floor education space demonstrate how to utilize the permanent collection

of the Georgia Museum of Art and are free and open to the public. •• All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Museum Notes NEW EMPLOYEES

NEW DOCENTS

The Staff at the Georgia Museum of Art would like to welcome new employees Melissa Rackley, curatorial assistant, and Caroline Maddox, director of development. Rackley has a BFA in painting and drawing from Parsons School of Design and an MAEd in art education from UGA. She has studied abroad in Cortona and at the American University in Paris, taught fifth-grade language arts and social studies at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Athens and taught art at the Lyndon House Arts Center. Maddox graduated from UGA with degrees in studio art and art history and then moved to New York Graduates of the docent class of 2011 (l to r): Kitty Donnan, Susan Glover, Mary Louise Stark, Peg Heckathorn, Betty Myrtle, Patty Whitehead, Laura Nehf, Agnieszka Nickelson, Karen Montcrief and Melody Croft. Not pictured: Nancy Clark and Patty Cloar Millstead.

to study art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She was coordinator of major gifts and the capital campaign for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Read more about Maddox on page 6 of this newsletter.)

Docents of GMOA held their annual meeting and luncheon on Monday, May 9, at the Georgia Club. This event recognizes docents for their generosity, hard work and accomplishments. Docents participate in a rigorous program that requires studying the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions in preparation for giving personalized

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tours to visitors of all ages. The next docent program begins in September. For applications and deadlines, visit www.georgiamuseum.org.

AWARDS Curator of education Carissa DiCindio won the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Southeastern Museum Educator of the Year award.

Graham James Yaggy

NAEA is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for

Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, and her

visual arts educators. GMOA intern Theresa Rodewald, who graduated

husband, Patrick Yaggy, welcomed Graham James

in May from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, won this year’s Louis T. Griffith

Yaggy on March 3, 2011. Baby Graham weighed 5 lbs.,

Student of the Year Award. Rodewald was president of the museum’s

11 oz., and was 19 inches long. Congratulations,

student association and spearheaded the first GMOA student night, which

Carissa and Patrick!

drew more than 2,000 visitors. Former intern and 2009 Louis T. Griffith Student of the Year Sarah Quinn was selected as UGA’s amazing student of the week beginning Monday, April 25. Quinn graduated in May from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Work-study student Wassim Mentouri, a 2011 UGA graduate in accounting, received the Deloitte Outstanding Community Theresa Rodewald receives the Louis T.

Service Award, which includes a $1,000 scholarship, on April 21 at the

Griffith Student of the Year Award

Classic Center. We are proud of our award-winning staff and interns!

ETC. GMOA was proud to co-host the 2011 Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies Annual conference May 1–3 in conjunction with the ACC Leisure Services Arts Division. Public relations coordinator Jenny Williams co-presented the “Turning Your Website into a Cash Register” session,

FRIENDS NEWS

and director Bill Eiland and board of advisors chair Carl

At their annual meeting on May 17, the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art thanked Karen Benson for

Create an Effective Board.”

Mullis presented a roundtable lunch discussion “How to

her year of service as Friends president and welcomed new president Karen Prasse and president-elect Michele Turner. Loyal Friend David Matheny received the 2011 “Smitty,” the M. Smith Griffith Volunteer of the Year Award. The museum staff and community deeply appreciate the support we receive from this amazing group of volunteers. Thank you!

Gifts

NOW OPEN! Ike & Jane at the Georgia Museum of Art!

The Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between February 5 and April 8, 2011: ALFRED HEBER HOLBROOK SOCIETY

Mr. Thomas Edward Kurtz

Mrs. M. Smith Griffith

Mr. and Mrs. David Matheny

Mr. and Mrs. Wyckliffe A. Knox Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. O’Kain

Mr. C.L. Morehead Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Schoen Mr. and Mrs. Billy S. Smith

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BENEFACTOR

Mr. and Mrs. B. Heyward Allen Jr.

The Georgia Museum of Art received the following

Mr. and Mrs. Ian Walker

gifts between February 16 and May 19, 2011:

PATRON

In memory of Milner S. Ball by his family

Mr. D. Jack Sawyer Jr. and Dr. William E. Torres

In memory of Lamar Dodd by Robert L. Steed

Mr. Howard Scott and Ms. Karen Benson

In honor of Paula Arscott by an anonymous donor In honor of Annelies Mondi by Marge Massey

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

In honor of Peg Wood by Mr. and Mrs. Ray P. Bush Jr.

Ms. Lucinda Samford Cannon

In honor of the staff of the Georgia Museum of Art

Dr. and Mrs. Mark Ellison Mr. and Mrs. John M. Greene

by Bonnie Ramsey

The popular Normaltown café and bakery is now serving fresh-made coffee, sandwiches and baked goods in the new museum lobby. Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Have breakfast, lunch or a snack, enjoy a spectacular view of the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden and support the museum. (Ike & Jane generously donates 10 percent of profits from its GMOA location to the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art!)

Event Photos

Student Night Students channel Salvador Dalí at Student Night: Keepin’ It Surreal.

JOIN Membership

JOIN THE NEW GMOA! Family Day Members of UGA’s Community Music School Suzuki violin program perform at Family Day: Make It Shine.

Not a member? Join the museum during one of the

most exciting moments in its history! Join on our website, www.georgiamuseum.org, or call 706.542.0437.

Friends Annual Meeting Outgoing Friends president Karen Benson and museum director Bill Eiland.

Parking for the Georgia Museum of Art is available in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) parking deck, which is located at the rear of lot E11 off River Road (see map). the PAC deck is free on Saturdays and Sundays and after 5:30 p.m. on weeknights with a valid UGA ID or permit, unless there is a special event. Free parking (that is, parking

Friends Annual Meeting

without a permit) is available in surface lot E11 on Saturdays and Sundays and after 4 p.m. on weekdays.

David Matheny poses with the Smitty Award, created by Jack Kehoe. Note: River Road will be under construction May 16–August 12. For more event photos see www.flickr.com/gmoa

Please call 706.542.GMOA (4662) when planning your visit this summer.

www.georgiamuseum.org

There is no free visitor parking on campus during regular business hours. Parking in

non-profit org. u.s. postage paid athens, ga

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

permit no. 49

90 Carlton Street Athens, Georgia 30602-6719 www.georgiamuseum.org address service requested

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