SUMMER 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMER 2010
EDITOR
Hillary Brown
ASSISTANT EDITOR Mary Koon
PUBLICATIONS INTERNS Margaret George Yamanucci Molin
DESIGN
Kudzu Graphics Georgia Museum of Art University of Georgia 90 Carlton Street Athens, GA 30602 706.542.GMOA • FAX: 706.542.1051 Exhibition Line: 706.542.3254 www.uga.edu/gamuseum
BOARD OF ADVISORS Mr. B. Heyward Allen Jr. Dr. Amalia K. Amaki Mrs. Frances Aronson-Healey Turner I. Ball, M.D. 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 Mrs. 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 Mrs. Marilyn 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 Dr. John Nickerson Mrs. Deborah L. O’Kain 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. Dudley R. Stevens Mrs. Carolyn W. Tanner Mrs. Barbara Auxier Turner Mr. C. Noel Wadsworth Ms. Kathleen E. Walker Mr. G. Vincent West
Ex-officio Ms. Karen L. Benson Mrs. Linda C. Chesnut Dr. William U. Eiland Mr. Tom Landrum Professor Jere W. Morehead Ms. Georgia Strange
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From the Director
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Exhibitions
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Event Photos
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Calendar of Events
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Museum Notes
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Gifts
ON THE COVER: Robert Bechtle (American, b. 1932) Palm Springs Chairs, 1975 Watercolor on paper 10 x 14 1/2 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; University purchase GMOA 1977.3587 Bechtle’s painting is just one of 100 that will be featured in GMOA’s forthcoming catalogue of the collection (January 2011).
FROM THE DIRECTOR
From the Director
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ake no mistake. Even with the new wing rapidly reaching completion, even with the good news that we have received two distinguished grants and other awards and even with the hard work of a gifted staff and the unstinting support of our patrons, Friends, Collectors and docents, we are facing extraordinary challenges in the next few years. Funding and staff reductions loom as do threats to our programming, and, in order to prepare for such eventualities, the staff held a full-day planning meeting in the last quarter. Among the decisions made in our meeting that directly affect our audiences and programming are new hours of operation. After a thorough review of how best to serve our patrons, we believe the museum should remain open on Mondays in order to allow out-of-towners the chance to visit before leaving Athens. We will then close on Tuesdays to tend to back-of-house collection, exhibition and planning duties, with the understanding that we will still allow visits by students or classes who make appointments. Our Louis T. Griffith Library and study centers in the humanities also will be available to scholars and students who make arrangements beforehand. We will stay open until 9 p.m. on Thursday nights, rather than on Wednesday nights, in order to give students greater access to the museum and to coordinate better our programming with the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Performing Arts Center. Our excitement over the opening of the new wing of the museum and the renovated and increased spaces in the “old” building are heightened by the new hours of operation, which will offer greater opportunity for our lay and academic publics. These changes are contingent in part on a reasonable budget and a staff roster that includes enough security officers to man the building—a greatly enlarged one— when it is open. Among museums, we are not alone in this reassessment of the means that will allow us to fulfill our mission of visual-arts education and scholarship for our communities of service, both town and gown, local, regional, national and international. Our peer professional organizations encourage us to be “strong, smart and savvy” in order to achieve success or, in our case, to maintain standards of excellence. We have certain advantages in that regard: A. Support from the University of Georgia. B. A dedicated staff––resilient, perspicacious and ambitious. Most are also technologically gifted, a decided plus as we attempt to reach more people with increasingly limited means.
“Most important, we must remain ambitious and aggressive, even competitive, in our desire to educate our audiences, to broaden knowledge through research in the visual arts and to emerge as leaders in articulating loudly the essential value of the arts in contemporary society.”
C. Loyal docents, volunteers and patrons who care about the Georgia Museum of Art and encourage us by their faithfulness to our mission. Because of their generosity of time, energy and resources, we will rededicate ourselves to engaging our communities; to embracing change from wherever it comes; to advocating for the visual arts on and off campus through national and international peer professional organizations; to forming partnerships with local, regional and national groups and leaders; and to finding new resources, human and financial, that will help us advance our vision. Most important, we must remain ambitious and aggressive, even competitive, in our desire to educate our audiences, to broaden knowledge through research in the visual arts and to emerge as leaders in articulating loudly the essential value of the arts in contemporary society. William Underwood Eiland, Director
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C O N S T R U C T I O N U P D AT E
November 30 Holder Construction completed the storage bar foundation and began installing skylights, which will provide natural light in the new galleries.
December 7 Workers continued to raise the limestone façade and began erecting structural steel on the storage bar, which will house storage space, a carpentry shop, office space, education classroom and employee workroom.
December 14 The connector and storage bar structural steel are nearly complete.
December 21 Holder finished the storage bar’s metal decking and prepped the connector slab.
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Phase II Construction Update
C O N S T R U C T I O N U P D AT E December 28 Limestone wraps around the west side of the building. Workers laid gray brick masonry in the parking area underneath the new galleries, which will be reserved for docent and handicapped parking.
January 4 New gallery window glass provides an example of another construction material, along with the limestone and gray brick, which will make up a large part of the addition. The connector’s poured concrete slab helps define the new lobby’s footprint. Third-floor interior-wall framing demarcates the new study centers. January 11 Holder poured the storage bar’s elevated slab and continued erecting the limestone façade, seen here on the south elevation.
January 18 Workers dug and poured concrete footings in the sculpture garden and installed sheathing on the storage bar.
View our live museum expansion cam and get weekly construction updates at http:// www.uga.edu/gamuseum/ support/phase2.html.
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C O N S T R U C T I O N U P D AT E January 25 Exterior stairs lead from the west-end gallery and behind the signage wall to Carlton Street. The new Performing Arts Center parking deck, where GMOA patrons and employees can park, is visible through the windows of the storage bar.
February 1 The entrance to the first-floor bathrooms gets a facelift as the gallery spaces near completion.
February 8 Workers began to pour sculpture garden walls, which will create a series of outdoor rooms, and poured the connector’s elevated slab.
February 15 As the connector shows signs of completion on the exterior, the long-awaited interior connector staircase, which leads from the lobby to the new galleries, is nearly complete.
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EXHIBITIONS
Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond
September 6–December 5, 2010 Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C. www2.winthrop.edu/vpa/Galleries/
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ne of the first major traveling retrospectives of Edmund Lewandowski’s work, this exhibition, organized by the Flint Institute of Arts, includes two paintings from GMOA’s permanent collection: Lewandowski’s “Devil’s Gateway” and “Third Avenue N.Y.C.” The retrospective is scheduled to be on view at GMOA in fall 2011.
Edmund Lewandowski (American, 1914–1988) Third Avenue N.Y.C., 1941 Gouache on paper 18 x 26 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GMOA 90.1
Edmund Lewandowski (American, 1914–1988) Devil’s Gateway, n.d. Watercolor on paper 21 x 15 1/2 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Transferred from the University of Georgia Department of Art GMOA 1961.814
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E V E N T P H OTO S
Black History Month Dinner Visual Arts Building
GMOA Events
1. Bill Eiland (director) pays tribute to Dr. Louis and Mrs. Mae Castenell. 2. Annelies Mondi (deputy director) and Athens artist Harold Rittenberry Jr. Family Day: Spring Festival Lamar Dodd School of Art 3. Family Day volunteers painted faces to look like real and imaginary animals.
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4. GMOA kids made mixed-up animal booklets. The Art of: Brew Terrapin Beer Company 5. Patrons tasted samples of several Terrapin selections. 6. Diane Adams, Berkeley Minor and Laura Straehla. Collectors’ Hard-Hat Tour: The new GMOA and the Lamar Dodd School of Art 7. Patron Clementi Holder and Bill Eiland pose in one of GMOA’s new galleries. 8. The Collectors enjoy a reception in the atrium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The Art of: Preservation Brick House Studio 9. Betty Alice Fowler (grants writer) and Flint Williams, son of Jenny Williams (public relations coordinator). 10. Historic preservation consultant Tim Walsh leads patrons on a tour of the Langston-Daniel-Wood house (ca. 1829).
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JULY Summer Film Series Avant-Garde Short Films of the 20th Century Film TBD Wednesday, July 7, 7 p.m. Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rm. S151. Introduction by Dr. Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in Art. Please check our website, www. uga.edu/gamuseum/films.html, for updated information.
Art Adventures: Printmaking Continues through July 9, 2010 One-hour workshops are designed for day care centers, camps and community centers in and around Athens-Clarke County and will be based on prints from the museum’s collection. For more information, please call 706.542.4662.
Summer Film Series Avant-Garde Short Films of the 20th Century Film TBD Wednesday, July 14, 7 p.m. Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rm. S151. Introduction by Dr. Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in Art. Please check our website, www. uga.edu/gamuseum/films.html, for updated information.
Film Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”/ “Det sjunde inseglet” Wednesday, July 21, 7 p.m. Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rm. S151. Introduction by Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in Art. This film, which takes its title from the book of Revelation, follows a medieval knight as he makes his way through the Swedish countryside, which has been ravaged by plague. Winner of the 1957 Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Swedish and Latin with English subtitles. (96 minutes)
AUGUST Family Day: Sketching Plants and Flowers Saturday, August 21, 10 a.m.–noon State Botanical Garden of Georgia Come to the State Botanical Garden to make your own sketchbook. Next, go into the gardens and use watercolor pencils to draw what you see.
The Collectors’ Trip: Hudson River Valley Tuesday, August 24–Sunday, August 29 This trip will focus on the art and architecture of New York’s Hudson River Valley, home to many American Romantic painters of the mid-19th century. Participants will visit historic homes, galleries,
museums and private collections. For more information or to reserve a spot, call 706.542.4662.
Family Day programs are sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota and the Friends of the Museum and are free and open to the public.
SEPTEMBER The Collectors Visit Thursday, September 23, 6–8 p.m. Private home, Greensboro, Ga. Visit a private collection with others who share a love of collecting art. $40 per person. Call 706.542.0437 for more information or 706.542.0830 to RSVP.
Insect-ival! Saturday, September 25, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. State Botanical Garden of Georgia Visitor Center Drop by GMOA’s table at the 16th Annual Insect-ival. Discovery stations, roach and beetle races, puppet shows and, of course, lots of live insects will also highlight this year’s event. $3 per person; $10 max/family; children under 2 years are free.
GMOA’s new docent education program will begin this fall. The docent corps is a specially trained group of volunteers who lead tours of the museum’s permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. The next docent education session will start in September 2010 in preparation for the museum’s grand reopening in 2011. Applications will be available in August on the museum’s website, www.uga. edu/gamuseum
Films are generously sponsored by the UGA Parents & Families Association.
Just My Imagination, a yearlong outreach program, is an exciting way for groups to learn from local artists who represent the best that Georgia has to offer. Available free of charge to community centers and libraries throughout the state, these workshops are designed to provide a meaningful exploration into the imaginative side of art. Your organization may host any one of the four workshops, which give both old and young a basic foundation on which to build their skills. The workshops are held on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. To request a brochure or schedule a workshop, call the education department at 706.542.4662. Reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. This program is sponsored by the Turner Family Foundation in memory of Nancy C. Turner.
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M U S E U M N OT E S
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Bill Eiland and Chris Peterson with their Sigma Pi Kappa awards.
Jennifer Mayer with Louis T. Griffith Jr.
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he staff at the Georgia Museum of Art sadly said good-bye to two staff members, Deirdre Conneely (associate curator) and Erika Lee (assistant business manager). Conneely married Drew Goodrich and moved to Boston, where Goodrich works for Sepracor Pharmaceuticals. Lee took a job in the accounting office at the Carter Center in Atlanta. We will miss them both and wish them the best of luck in their new locations. On March 20, the University System of Georgia (USG) Foundation honored distinguished GMOA supporter and board member C.L. Morehead Jr. with the 2010 Regents’ Hall of Fame Alumni Award in Atlanta. UGA president Michael Adams nominated Morehead for the award, which is given annually to an individual who shows an extraordinary commitment to a USG institution. Sigma Pi Kappa, the only national honor society focused exclusively on preservation, inducted Bill Eiland (director) for his efforts to identify and preserve all aspects of creative art, in particular paintings, sculpture and the decorative arts, on April 16. Other inductees included Friends board member Chris Peterson, museum patron Todd Emily and Athens developer Smith Wilson. Congratulations! Congratulations are also in order for GMOA public relations intern Jennifer Mayer, who received this year’s Louis T. Griffith Student of the Year Award. Mayer is a rising senior majoring in advertising at UGA’s Grady School of Journalism and has shown extreme dedication to the museum during her tenure in the department of communications. Kudos also go to past publications intern John Keith, who recently received a Fulbright Grant to teach English in South Korea next year. In travel news, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art Lynn Boland and preparator Lanora Pierce were both at the annual College Art Association conference in Chicago in February. In addition to meeting with museum peers, Boland participated in a curators’ session titled “Expanding Museums: Spaces and Choices” as well as a session on Italian art in memory of Andrew Ladis, Franklin Professor of Art History at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Pierce attended sessions related to women and the arts and visited the “Nature of Diamonds” exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History. GMOA associate curator of education Carissa DiCindio served as a judge for the “Spring into Art” exhibition at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Ga., in April. Together with Nancy Bookhart, an art professor from Paine College who received her MFA from UGA in 2005, DiCindio chose 65 works out of 400-plus entries for the juried exhibition, which opened June 7. We are happy to report that the museum, in partnership with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, has received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant for the exhibition and catalogue of “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.” This particular grant, which is given to only ten recipients, falls under the NEA’s “American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius” initiative, which celebrates the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the United States. The museum and its partners also received a Henry Luce Foundation grant for the same project in January. In other awards news, GMOA’s publication “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection” won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award in the Academic Press category.
GIFTS
Friends of the Museum The following gifts were made to the Georgia Museum of Art between February 5 and April 23, 2010: Alfred Heber Holbrook Society Ms. Martha Thompson Dinos Mr. and Mrs. Boone A. Knox Mr. and Mrs. Wyckliffe A. Knox Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland A. Radford Jr.
Patron’s Level Drs. Norman J. and Mary M. Wood Director’s Circle Dr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Carleton Dr. and Mrs. James W. Cooper Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Durham Mr. and Mrs. James B. Fleece Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gibson Mr. and Mrs. John M. Green Ms. Marilyn D. McNeely Dr. and Mrs. Ira G. Roth Dr. Elizabeth T. Sheerer
The following gifts were made to the Georgia Museum of Art between February 5 and April 23, 2010: In memory of Jane DiCindio by William U. Eiland In memory of Lamar Dodd by Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Steed In honor of Dr. Paul Manguerra by the Silver Angels group of the Catholic Center, University of Georgia
Illustration by Barbara Worth Ratner
Mission Statement The Georgia Museum of Art shares the mission of the University of Georgia 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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