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Woman: The Art of Gaston Lachaise BY PAULA RAND HORNBOSTEL

Figure 1 Gaston Lachaise (American, born France 1882-1935) Elevation, 1912-27 Bronze, 46-3/8 inches high Collection of the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

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he wonderful exhibition, Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France, closed on Sunday, June 3, at midnight, after being open continuously for twenty-four hours. The final day saw 5,689 visitors stream through the exhibition, bringing the thirteen-week total to 80,431. Since NOMA reopened after Katrina in March 2006, we had averaged just 5,000 visitors a month. So over 25,000 visitors a month for Femme is a tremendous increase. Even more important for NOMA’s future, over 2,000 individuals and families became new members of the Museum. The Femme exhibition really captured the hearts of the people of Louisiana, who deeply appreciated this wonderful gift from France. Many visitors came repeatedly to see the exhibition. I was so gratified by the enthusiastic response and want to share some of the comments from our Visitors’ Book. From a lady from Baton Rouge: “Marvelous, inspiring. Thanks for a once in a lifetime opportunity.” A couple from Covington wrote: “It was illuminating seeing the rise of women through these great works of art.” Another visitor from Baton Rouge: “I was moved to tears several times not only by the beauty but the generous, gracious gift of the people of France, given to help us rebuild. Today, more than ever, I was so proud of my French heritage.” A visitor from Wisconsin: “Beautiful museum. The Femme exhibition was spectacular. I came down specifically to see it.” And one from New Jersey: “Wonderful—France has done what America has not done—Support New Orleans. Vive NOLA!” From Florence, Alabama: “This was superb! We came only for the exhibition but had a wonderful time exploring your beautiful city—It is looking better every day—Keep up the hard work. Long Live New Orleans!” From Metairie: “This exhibition is one of the very best I have ever seen. The groupings were specific and direct—helping to understand the change of society and its social mores concerning women. So insightful and enjoyable! An afternoon of pleasure.” Another visitor on the last day: “I am so grateful to France but so sad to say goodbye to these paintings. The exhibit really helped me to try to go on with my life after I went through the storms of 2005—I will remember this all my life.” So a final Merci, merci, merci to the French Government, the lending museums, the FreeportMcMoRan Foundation and our other generous sponsors, NOMA’s dedicated staff and volunteers, our wonderful members, both old and new, and all of our visitors, who together made the Femme exhibition such a great success. Vive la France! E. John Bullard

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JULY/AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007

Woman: The Art of Gaston Lachaise Paula Rand Hornbostel

Albrecht Dürer: Renaissance Engravings and Woodcuts George Roland

Windows of Heaven: Russian Ikons from the Collection of Daniel R. Bibb and the New Orleans Museum of Art John Webster Keefe

Delegation from Japan Donates More Than $200,000 for NOMA’s Children’s Art Program

Taylor Scholars Awards Program Honored TOP Students

Art in Bloom Makes a Triumphant Return Virginia Panno

Share the Love at NOMA’s LOVE in the Garden Virginia Panno

Longtime NOMA Staff Member Carmen Stargardter Retires Jacqueline L. Sullivan

Odyssey Ball 2007 Will Preview Celebrated Collection of Native American Art Virginia Panno

Fabergé Egg Hunt is Another Sweet Success Virginia Panno

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Woman: The Art of Gaston Lachaise BY PAULA RAND HORNBOSTEL

n 1911, the year the New Orleans Museum of Art opened, Gaston Lachaise was in Boston working on a series of voluptuous statuettes inspired by the love of his life, whom he referred to as ‘Woman.’ His forms are, in part, classical, from his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with a hint of Art Nouveau, from his time working with René Lalique, cutting-edge, from his desire to push the boundaries of art, and evocative, informed by the exotic art of other cultures, including pre-Columbian, ethnographic, Indian and Southeast Asian. Gaston Lachaise was born in 1882 in Paris. His father was a cabinet-maker who designed Mr. Eiffel’s apartment in the Eiffel tower. Lachaise attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited yearly in the Salon. In 1905 at the age of twenty-three, the sculptor said adieu to Paris, and set sail for Boston in pursuit of French Canadian-American Isabel Dutaud Nagle, or ‘Belle’ as he called her. They had met and fallen in love in Paris. He remembers first seeing her by the bank of the Seine; she remembers their meeting in the Jardin du Luxembourg; yet another account, from their friend the American painter Marsden Hartley, claims they met before some object at the Musée de Cluny. What matters is that they met, changing both of their lives forever. The two were married in New York in 1917. Neither returned to France. Lachaise had fled Paris with a desire for freedom, not unlike that possessing many coming to New Orleans, and he found what he was looking for in Isabel. In an autobiographical statement from 1928, Lachaise described Isabel, his wife as of 1917, as “the primary inspiration, which awakened my vision, and the leading influence that has directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word ‘Woman’.” The sculptures that define Lachaise’s reaction to the body of ‘Woman,’ its curves, movements and inner caverns, are famous and captivating. To the puritan Americans of his time, though, they were shocking. While Lachaise gained numerous commissions for works unrelated to Isabel, his oeuvre is dominated by her presence: ample hips, a full bust, slender legs with delicate ankles and feet. Though she measured only five foot two inches tall and weighed about 110 pounds, Isabel becomes grandiose under Lachaise’s skilled hand, tremendous—revealing Lachaise’s consuming passion for her. As later French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois writes, “Gaston Lachaise had one god. And it was a woman, his wife. He put this particular woman on a pedestal, both figuratively and literally.”

Figure 2 Gaston Lachaise (American, born France 1882-1935) Nude with a Coat, 1912 Bronze, 13 inches high Collection of the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

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From Boston, Lachaise came to New York in 1912. His first great triumph was to be represented in the landmark 1913 Armory Show by a powerful plaster statuette entitled Nude with a Coat, 1912 (fig. 2). Likened to Rodin’s standing draped nude of Balzac, this little nude presages the creative genius unveiled later in Lachaise’s career. At about this time, Lachaise began as assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship. Besides frequenting the salons of the Stettheimer sisters and the circle of Paul Rosenfeld, Lachaise became affiliated with The Dial, a monthly literary journal dedicated to “the best in all the arts.” The magazine included writings by such pioneers as T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings and Henry McBride, and works of art by such figures as Picasso, Braque, Leger, Marin, Demuth and Nadelman. In 1920 The Dial published Lachaise’s Dusk, 1917, on its frontispiece. Included in this exhibition are his portraits of art gallery pioneer Alfred Stieglitz and the poet e. e. cummings, as well as many others affiliated with The Dial. On his own time, Lachaise worked to immortalize ‘Woman,’ moving, at rest, in agony, and in ecstasy, but always majestic. With one arm lifted Woman in a Chair, 1924 (fig. 3) has an unforgettable presence. Rising ethereally on arched feet and twisting slightly at the torso, his major work Elevation (1912-27) (fig. 1) recalls Isabel’s features, but at the same time summons the meditative mood of South East Asian celestial dancers, and embraces an unearthly weightlessness and idealism. Lachaise’s later work is characterized by a celebration of flesh and an exaggeration of certain, sometimes sexual, anatomical features. Lincoln Kirstein has called works from this period “heroic incarnations of flesh so violent, so disturbing that for some time to come they can only provoke wonder.” In Burlesque Figure, 1930 (fig. 5), Lachaise exaggerates the right hip of the dancing nude, conveying the sumptuous bump and grind of the Burlesque dancers at the National Winter Garden Burlesque on Houston Street in New York, which he frequented with e.e. cummings. Regarding the works bearing Isabel’s likeness, Janet Hobhouse has suggested that Lachaise “used his art for a kind of long-distance

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Figure 3 Gaston Lachaise (American, born France 1882-1935) Reclining Woman with right Arm Raised, 1924 Bronze, 13 inches high Collection of the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

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ravishment of his somewhat autocratic, often remote mistress.” Lachaise increasingly sought to convey the experience of loving Isabel, and according to Kirstein, Lachaise was not shy to use such “universal symbols for the source and continuation of human life” as “the organs and spasms of birth.” A good example of one such work is In Extremis (circa 1934) (fig. 4). In these later more expressionistic interpretations of what he called ‘Woman,’ one might say he abandoned objectivity in favor of a more private, personally expressive view. One hastens to cite e. e. cummings, who said: “Three things Lachaise, to anyone who knows him, is, and is beyond the shadow of a doubt: inherently naif, fearlessly intelligent, utterly sincere.” Lachaise lived to see his work adorn the buildings of Rockefeller Center. In 1935, the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited his work in the first retrospective ever given to a living artist. Tragically, Lachaise died that year, at the height of his creative power at the age of fifty-two. The legacy of Lachaise can be seen in public institutions around the nation, including NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture (Heroic Man, 1930-34). This exhibition, a selection of eighty sculptures and twenty drawings organized by the Lachaise Foundation, captures the essence of Lachaise, the man and his work, and his critical role in the birth of American Modernism. The drawings included complement the sculptures and are characteristic of Lachaise’s vivid drawing style in their fluid lines and swelling contours, and besides a few men, portray a host of female nudes, dancing, strutting, and just plain being beautiful. ■ Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935 is on view at NOMA September 8 through October 21, 2007. The exhibition was organized by the Lachaise Foundation in association with Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York. Paula Rand Hornbostel received her MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, at New York University and works at SalanderO’Reilly Galleries in New York. She is a trustee of the Lachaise Foundation in Boston.

Figure 4 Gaston Lachaise (American, born France 1882-1935) In Extremis, circa 1934 Bronze, 14 inches high Collection of the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

FACING PAGE Figure 5 Gaston Lachaise (American, born France 1882-1935) Burlesque Figure, 1930 Bronze, 24-1/2 inches high Collection of the Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts

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ALBRECHT DÜRER: Renaissance Engravings and Woodcuts

The literal meaning of renaissance is “rebirth.” At a time when New Orleans is having its own rebirth, it is inspiring to see art of the famous earlier Renaissance.

GEORGE ROLAND

The Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings, NOMA

OMA is presenting a splendid exhibition of works by the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer from two distinguished German collections. The original engravings and woodcuts dating from 1496 to 1519 include episodes from the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible, classical mythology, allegories, and scenes of everyday life. The artist is Germany’s greatest ever, one of the greatest in the world.

Albrecht Dürer was a man at the crossroads in art history when the formal Gothic images gave way to the beauties of the Renaissance. He was born of well-to-do parents in Nuremburg in 1471 and trained by his father as a goldsmith. His talent for chasing (engraving) precious metals was obvious, and he was sent south to study art and philosophy in Italy. Back home in the Gothic north he introduced the latest developments in art that he had learned. For example, in centuries past, the Madonna and Child had been a popular subject: Dürer added the recently invented view of a landscape to the background just as the Italians did. The people in his pictures were now individuals, not stereotypes. Even when the subjects were familiar, he invented imaginative, even startling compositions, using perspective to create the illusion of space. This was all new up north. Dürer had a love for incidental details; his pictures teem with flowers, animals, insects, ornaments, architectural elements, all sorts of odds and ends, all particular and all identifiable. It is one of the pleasures in Dürer’s art to find these details. Take for example his little dog who frequently accompanies the action, and up front, too, as in The Visitation. A Löwchen, or Lion Dog, is relatively rare today but very stylish in the 1500s— another example of Dürer being up-to-date. Gutenberg invented movable type around 1450 and launched popular printing; Dürer embraced the new technology with enthusiasm, much like artists today have adopted the computer. He told the well-loved stories, not in words and letters but in pictures—the life of the Virgin Mary, Christ’s Passion, the Nativity, the Apocalypse—in a series of pictures rather like a strip cartoon or movie storyboard. He printed them in many copies and sold them himself—as popular as comic books today. Of course his early gift for engraving made his printing plates very beautiful, a skill Dürer readily adapted to making carved woodblocks as well. Today we marvel at the paper prints he made from these materials; they are among the greatest treasures of European art. The exhibition includes four complete cycles of prints as well as many single pictures, both engravings and woodcuts. It offers New Orleans the opportunity to enjoy the art of this greatest master of printmaking. ■

ALBRECHT DÜRER: Renaissance Engravings and Woodcuts, The Dürer Collection of the Foundation of Lower Saxony and The Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Germany, will be on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through August 19, 2007. A catalogue of the exhibition will be available in the Museum bookshop.

Albrecht Dürer (German 1471-1528) Melencolia I, 1514 Engraving Dürer Collection of the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Germany Though we easily understand the expression on the angel’s face, the allegory has puzzled scholars for centuries. It is thought to portray the hopelessness of the artist to understand eternal ideas even when provided with all the scientific apparatus known to man. Is it the spiritual self-portrait of Albrecht Dürer?

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Albrecht Dürer (German 1471-1528) The Visitation, circa 1503-04 From the series of twenty prints, The Life of the Virgin, 1511 Woodcut Dürer Collection of the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Germany The Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth meet in a sun-lit landscape, but surely not in the Holy Land. We find them in the German mountains. And dressed in the latest fashions of the turn of the sixteenth century. As we see in almost every picture, the artist includes his monogram AD.

Albrecht Dürer (German 1471-1528) The Four Horsemen From the series of sixteen prints, The Revelation of Saint John (Apocalypse), Second Latin edition of 1511 Woodcut Dürer Collection of the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Germany The hideous riders—War, Famine, Pestilence and Death—gallop across the landscape, destroying all in their path. Dürer’s vision of the catastrophe became the standard way to depict the disasters. War carries a sword, Famine the scales, Pestilence a bow and Death on a pale horse, the pitchfork.

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WINDOWS OF HEAVEN: Russian Ikons from the Collection of Daniel R. Bibb and the New Orleans Museum of Art BY JOHN WEBSTER KEEFE The RosaMary Foundation Curator of the Decorative Arts, NOMA

he word “ikon” is of Greek origin and signifies an image or reflection. It was in this sense that the Russian Orthodox Church applied the word to representations of saints, holy personages or scenes taken from the Scriptures. Legend holds that the first ikon was created by St. Luke the Evangelist when he painted the Madonna and Christ Child. With the tenth-century conversion of Russia to Christianity, the Byzantine style of depicting holy images came to Kiev, the traditional birthplace of present-day Russia. That Byzantine style struck a resonant chord with the innate Russian taste for grand solemn design and richly ornamented surfaces, with the result that it was quickly assimilated, and ikon painters were able to express themselves well in its idiom. Ikons were intended to teach important Orthodox Christian iconography and mysteries to a vast population, which remained largely illiterate through the opening years of the twentieth century. Since this didactic purpose was paramount, it was crucial that an image be instantly

recognizable and remain so. This led to a strict set of rules and conventions for the depiction of each image. Tradition dictated the color, pose, attributes and text of each ikon; realism, originality and naturalism were eschewed in favor of stressing religious content. Images of saints or holy persons could take human form but were not to be mistaken for ordinary mortals. Thus, the influence of the original Byzantine style endured for centuries until increasing westernization and secularization in the nineteenth century effected changes in favor of naturalism. Unlike Roman Catholic religious painting, Russian ikons were not intended as sumptuous decoration for churches and homes of the devout. Instead, each was seen as a prayer in tangible form and was revered as a holy and sacred object. The painters themselves were supposed to be devout and of good character; in turn, this led to many of them being monks. The best ikon painters followed the prescribed code of depicting these subjects in order to convey religious fervor. It was hoped that their carefully conceived images would kindle a similar deep response in the viewer. The glowing ikons thus became the focus and inspiration of one’s devotion and were an intimate accompaniment of faith. By the fourteenth century, the profusion of ikons displayed on the traditional screen separating the nave from the sanctuary led to the development of the ikonostasis, a combined altar screen and ikon stand. Eventually, the ikonostasis filled the width of the church and reached an impressive height, all of which created an opulent vision of heaven on earth. The ikons were arranged on the ikonostasis in tiers in a prescribed order. In individual houses, the red corner, or the corner of beauty, was reserved for ikons and was always located in the inner right-hand corner of the chamber. The residence of every faithful Russian Orthodox Christian had such a corner, with the result that the ikons themselves ranged from humble to the lavish depending upon the socio-economic status of the household. However, the sanctity of the ikons never changed; their purpose was to keep the spirit of the Orthodox faith alive and daily renewed in the hearts of the owners. The most popular ikons depicted the earthly life of the Madonna and Child such as the Mother of God of Kazan and the Vladimir Virgin. Others dealt with the panoply of Russian saints among the most prominent of whom was St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia; St. George the Dragon Slayer, whose image had long been part of the Russian coat-or-arms; and St. Cyril, who was said to have invented the Russian, or Cyrillic, alphabet.

Figure 1 CHRIST PANTOCRATOR, circa 1880-1887 Egg tempera on panel, silver, silver-gilt, mahogany and glass By the Sazikov workshops (active 1783-1887) St. Petersburg and Moscow Collection of Daniel R. Bibb The prestigious Sazikov firm was awarded an Imperial Warrant in 1837 and went on to become an important competitor to the firm of Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). In this ikon, one observes the company’s refined use of luxury material to create a moving and powerful image. It is noteworthy as well that this St. Petersburg image of Christ has become softer and more natural than its Byzantine-style prototypes. Photo by Judy Cooper

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Figure 2 THE TIKHVIN VIRGIN, circa 1709 Egg tempera on panel, silver-gilt, Collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art Gift of William P. Thompson. 1983.176.7 One of Russia’s most venerated miracle-working images, the Tikhvin Virgin was alleged to have been based upon a fifthcentury ikon brought from Jerusalem to Constantinople. Following the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the ikon was brought to Russia and eventually placed in the Cathedral of The Holy Wisdom in Novgorod. The image was thought to possess miraculous powers and became one of the most holy images of Tsarist Russia. The ancient Novgorod Tikhvin Virgin was brought to the United States following the cataclysm of the Russian Revolution. Photo by Judy Cooper

At the end of the sixteenth century, it became a Muscovite fashion to place a stamped, embossed and/or chased metal cover, a riza, over the ikon, leaving exposed only such primary elements as the face, hands and feet of a figure. These covers protected the image from dust, candle and votive lamp soot, and the touches and kisses of the faithful. Later, the rizacovered ikons were placed in beautiful shadowbox-like frames of fine carved and parcel-gilt wood called kiots, which often featured a protective glass panel or door. The metal riza was crafted of silver, silver-gilt, brass, and gilt-brass and occasionally of gold. The most elaborate of these rizi were set with genuine or paste gems to enhance the heavenly, other-worldly effect of the underlying ikon. Atlanta collector Daniel R. Bibb, a longtime friend and patron of the New Orleans Museum of Art, was given a Russian ikon nearly thirty years ago, and that gift sparked a lifetime interest in the field. For him, these resplendent “windows of heaven” poignantly recalled the splendor of a vanished Russia, the Russia of the Tsars, magnificently garbed clerics and long-past ceremonies. He instituted a program of acquisition from other collectors, dealers, auctions and estate sales, eventually also assembling a working library on the subject of ikons. The Bibb Collection presently numbers seventy examples ranging in date from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Russian ikons have formed part of NOMA’s permanent collection since 1928. This facet of the collection was greatly augmented in 1981 and 1983 by the gift of William P. Thompson of twenty-six ikons, whose dates spanned the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century. Mr. Thompson’s interest in ikons ranged from lively provincial types to highly sophisticated Moscow and St. Petersburg examples adorned with elaborate rizi. The Thompson gift included such enduringly venerated subjects as The Mother of God of Kazan, Christ Pantocrator (fig. 1), The Tikhvin Virgin (fig. 2) and St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker. NOMA’s ikons thus form an appropriate complement to those in the Bibb collection. The visually rich exhibition recalls the long and worthy tradition of the Russian ikon as well as the traditions of a vanished Russia and its customs. The Museum is indebted to Daniel Bibb for graciously consenting to share the rewards of thirty years of impassioned collecting with its visitors. ■

The exhibition opens on Saturday, June 23, and continues through Sunday. August 26, 2007, in the Ella West Freeman galleries on the first floor of the Museum.

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Delegation from Japan Donates More Than $200,000 for NOMA’s Children’s Art Program

ABOVE Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Director General, Disaster Management and Planning Bureau, Policy Planning and Administration presents a check to NOMA Director E. John Bullard

RIGHT U-Stage celebrates the occasion with their chindonya performance, which is a unique Japanese street performance developed from the 1920s. Students from Hynes Elementary and John Dibert Schools were in attendance at the press conference in March. Photos by Judy Cooper

n March 28, officials from the Government of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, visited New Orleans to sign a memorandum of understanding with the New Orleans Museum of Art to inaugurate the HyogoNOMA Children’s Arts Initiative Pilot Program, a project initiated after Hurricane Katrina. The three officials from the Hyogo Prefectural Government, Mr. Kenji Nagamune, Director General, Disaster Management and Planning Bureau, Policy Planning and Administration Department; Mr. Takanod Kitaoka, Director, Hyogo Business and Cultural Center; and Mr. Yusuke Yahata, Senior Officer, Planning Division, Disaster Management and Planning Bureau, Policy Planning and Administration Department, also visited areas devastated by the hurricane and met with officials of the city to discuss disaster preparedness and recovery. After Hurricane Katrina hit and devastated the Gulf Coast region in August 2005, the Hyogo Prefectural Government and the government’s affiliated organizations set up the Hyogo Prefecture Disaster Relief Fundraising Committee for Hurricane Katrina to support

the people of the devastated area. Hyogo Prefecture is home to the city of Kobe, where a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck in 1995 and destroyed most of the city in addition to claiming thousands of lives. Because of the calamities suffered by both Kobe and New Orleans, the people of Hyogo have felt a bond between the two affected regions. The Committee raised 23,949,930 yen, or $203,800, from September to December 2005 from the people of Hyogo Prefecture. The Hyogo-NOMA Children’s Arts Initiative Pilot Program will be operated by NOMA and fully funded for two years by this donation. The program aims to bring art therapy into New Orleans public and charter schools, provide annual field trips to NOMA for each participating class, support “Family Sundays,” wherein children and their families from participating schools can come to NOMA and the Museum’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden for special activities, free of charge, and have first-hand experiences with the art. Consul General of Japan in New Orleans Masauru Sakato delivered the following remarks at the press conference in March. “Mr. Bullard, Mr. Nagamune, ladies and gentleman, I am pleased to attend today’s ceremony as it marks a compassionate commitment between the people of Hyogo Prefecture and the New Orleans Museum of Art to the children of New Orleans. This occasion has emerged from our common painful experience of two natural disasters, the Great Earthquake in Kobe in 1995 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. If there is a “silver lining” to be found in these experiences, it is that people from around the world have joined together to help. While the United States swiftly delivered relief materials right after the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, more recently we saw the tremendous outpouring of support from Japan aimed at accommodating the immediate needs of victims in the area right after Katrina. Our two communities now share a profound cooperative spirit. In addition to monetary and material support, the Consulate General of Japan in New Orleans has coordinated exchange programs enabling information and experience to be shared between Hyogo and New Orleans in an effort to learn from one another’s hardships. After the initial lecture presentation with experts from Japan held one year ago at the Port of New Orleans, a delegation of leaders representing New Orleans traveled to Kobe and Tokyo last October to participate in dialogues with Japanese experts on disaster prevention and recovery. In this time we have seen progress not only in the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, but also in the collaborative relationship between New Orleans and Hyogo. Today marks a new opportunity for New Orleans and Hyogo to reinforce their bond as they are brought together to initiate a unique art project dedicated to nurturing the creative and emotional well-being of this city’s children. It is art, among other things, missed and needed by children in devastated areas who have sustained deep psychological wounds. Only one month after the earthquake, Hyogo Prefectural Council of Theaters for Children and Parents started art projects such as puppet theater performances which toured elementary schools and kindergartens delivering enormous joy to 11,500 children within four months. We believe that with its unique projects dedicated to the children, NOMA will play a special role in the recovery process of this region.” ■

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Taylor Scholars Awards Program Honored TOPS Students

arrying on the legacy created by the late Patrick F. Taylor, former chairman, president, CEO and sole owner of Taylor Energy Company, the Taylor Scholars Awards Program continues to reward students for their hard work in the classroom. All Louisiana students in grades seven through twelve are eligible for the Taylor Scholars Awards Program and recipients are rewarded with free admission to three of Louisiana’s top attractions: the New Orleans Museum of Art, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and Audubon Zoo. The New Orleans philanthropist’s vision of creating a program that would encourage students to strive to continue their education continues to grow and break new enrollment records along the way. Final student participation numbers were announced on May 9, 2007, at NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. More than 125,000 students are participating in the program with a ten percent increase in public school participation since last year. “It was my late husband’s dream to teach the valuable life lesson to the youth of Louisiana that rewards come from hard work,” said Phyllis M. Taylor, chairman and president of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. “These students have shown that perseverance pays. We hope that they’ll continue to realize the importance of education and applying themselves academically. There is a reward waiting for them upon graduation, participation in the TOPS program,” Taylor added. The Taylor/Audubon Students and Scholars Program was created in 1996 through a $750,000 gift, which has increased to $900,000, from Mr. Taylor to establish, in perpetuity, the programs with Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and Audubon Zoo. These programs are the first of their kind in the nation.

Some Taylor Scholars express their gratitude to Phyllis Taylor. Photo by Judy Cooper

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(left to right) Ron Forman, president and CEO of Audubon Nature Institute; Phyllis M. Taylor, chairman and president of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation; E. John Bullard, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art Photo by Judy Cooper

“The amazing legacy that Pat Taylor left has impacted so many children,” says Ron Forman, president and CEO of Audubon Nature Institute. “It has been a pleasure to see the excitement on their faces as they visit Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and Audubon Zoo. They are proud of their accomplishment, and Audubon Nature Institute is honored to celebrate that with them.” The success of the Audubon program led to the formation of the Taylor/NOMA Scholars program in 1997. The $360,000 endowment from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation also was designed to create, in perpetuity, the Taylor/NOMA Scholars Program for all Louisiana students in grades seven through twelve who have completed the school year with a minimum 2.5 grade point average. Students are invited to bring one parent or guardian with them free all year long, and they also receive ten percent off in the NOMA Museum Shop. “It is essential that children are involved in the arts,” says E. John Bullard, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of NOMA. “A wellrounded education includes art appreciation. Not all children will become artists, but every child can benefit from being introduced to the world of art. That’s why we at NOMA are so proud to be a part of the Taylor Scholars Program.” ■

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Art In Bloom Makes a Triumphant Return BY VIRGINIA PANNO NVC Reporter

bsence truly does make the heart grow fonder. On March 28, 2007, more than one thousand partygoers were on hand to welcome back an event postponed by a certain storm. Vive la Nouvelle Orleans!, the nineteenth Art In Bloom, set new attendance records, acknowledging the long-awaited return of a beloved springtime tradition. Art In Bloom Chairs Kate Werner of the Garden Study Club of New Orleans and Leah Engelhardt of the New Orleans Museum of Art Volunteer Committee masterminded this five-day showcase of creative and inspirational floral designs, featuring more than one hundred exhibitors. The 2007 theme, Vive la Nouvelle Orleans!, celebrated the history, life and rebirth of New Orleans. The atmosphere was jubilant at the Wednesday night Patron and Preview Party, where guests feasted on outstanding offerings from twenty-five of the city’s top restaurants, while viewing the fabulous floral creations of New Orleans’ post-Katrina heroes, as well as the works of local garden clubs and professional designers. Music filled the air courtesy of a grant from the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic. Vavavoom, the Rebirth Brass Band, and Sunpie Barnes and His Afro-Caribbean Sunspots kept the Great Hall jumping, while the action in the auction rooms thrilled local art collectors.

Thursday lecturers, René Hofstede and Haskell Eargle, enchanted a sell-out crowd with their marvelous designs and delightful stories. The Pigéon catered the Art In Bloom luncheon at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters, which sizzled with Ballin’s fashions modeled by NVC members. Special thanks to Joy Cronvich, Wendy LeGardeur and Jane Cohn of Ballin’s and to NVC Chair Kay McArdle, who coordinated the show. Art In Bloom blossomed for five glorious days, March 28 through April 1, 2007. The event netted more than $185,000, to be split by NOMA and the Garden Study Club of New Orleans. All who attended this marvelous feast for the senses could only echo its theme, Vive la Nouvelle Orleans! ■

The major underwriter for Art In Bloom 2007 was the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation. The 2007 event was sponsored by Luzianne, Superior Energy Services and Iberiabank. Additional support was provided by the Lupin Foundation; International Sureties, Ltd.; Harrah’s New Orleans Casino and Hotel; McIlhenny Company; Murphy Exploration & Production Company U.S.A.; PHI, Inc.; KPMG LLP; Morgan Keegan; Shields Mott Lund LLP.

(clockwise) NOMA Director E. John Bullard, 2007 Art In Bloom Co-chair (NVC) Leah Engelhardt, NVC Chair Kay McArdle, 2007 Art In Bloom Co-chair Kate Werner (Garden Study Club) FAR RIGHT (top) Garden Study Club member and NOMA Honorary Life Trustee Banana Reily, 2008 Art In Bloom Chairs (left) Dana Hansel (NVC) and Anne Redd (Garden Study Club) Photos by Mike Moffitt

(top) Pam Halter and NOMA Trustee Dr. E. Ralph Lupin; NOMA Trustee Janet Frischhertz with husband, James FAR RIGHT (left to right) NVC models: Mimi Schlesinger, Jane Schramel, Ellen Miclette, Camille Collins, Diane Walmsley, Kim Elms Photos by Mike Moffitt

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Share the Love at NOMA’s LOVE in the Garden BY VIRGINIA PANNO NVC Reporter

Longtime NOMA Staff Member Carmen Stargardter Retires BY JACQUELINE L. SULLIVAN Deputy Director, NOMA

riday, September 28, is the date for the NVC’s most romantic fund raiser, LOVE in the Garden. Within the lush environs of NOMA’s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, event Chairman Brenda Vorhoff promises an unforgettable evening of dining and dancing under the stars to the sounds of Louisiana Spice. The Patron Party gets started at 7 p.m. The LOVE in the Garden general party takes place from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Prices for NOMA members begin at $50 for regular admission and $85 for patron level. A special category complete with event recognition and reserved seating will be available for $1,000, including six patron level tickets. (No tickets will be mailed.) Gather your friends together and share the LOVE by co-hosting a sponsor table! This event boasts Judy David in charge of entertainment; Kimberly Zibilich, restaurants; and Liz deBoisblanc, “LOVE souvenir keepsakes.” Committee members also include Ann Balzli, Susan Bennett, Nancy Blouin, Camille Collins, Melinda de la Vergne, Beth Goddard-Menchel, Edith Moseley, Jane Schramel and Lynn Skidmore. For more information, please call 504-658-4121 or visit www.noma.org. ■

ver the last thirty years, many occurrences are marked at NOMA as before King Tut or after King Tut. Staff members are asked, “Were you hired before or after Tutankhamen.” Carmen Stargardter is one those staff members who came “with” King Tut and who has stayed for thirty years. Carmen was employed initially as a sales associate in the special Tutankhamen Museum Shop. Working with more than seventy-five new staff, Carmen was hired to see that all visitors were happy when they left the Museum and that they made a purchase in the King Tut

Education department staff, past and present, joined to wish Carmen a fond farewell (left to right): Allison Reid, past assistant director for education; Joanna Sternberg, assistant director for education; Ann Meehan, past curator of education; Alice Rae Yelen, past curator of education; Lee Morais, past assistant director for education; Carmen Stardgardter; Shirley Massinter, past curator of education; Kathy Alcaine, past curator of education; Mary Jane Parker; past curator of education. Photo by Judy Cooper

Shop. Carmen also was instrumental in the networking of the new staff, such as off-days luncheons or late-evening get-togethers. Additionally, Carmen was one of the few who made it through the entire eighteen-week period and the passage of 870,594 visitors who, no doubt, saw her great smile or who got a friendly hello when she waited on them. After King Tut, the Museum planned two major exhibitions for l979—The Gold of El Dorado and The Ancient Art of Nubia and the Sudan. We needed someone to manage the audio tour for the many anticipated visitors. Immediately, Camen’s name came to mind, and she was hired as the manager of the audio tour for these major shows. By the time the exhibitions had ended, we knew that Carmen would make a great addition to the permanent staff and that her best interface would be with our education department and our docent program. Before long, Carmen was supervising the logistics of our docent training—scheduling docents and their related school tours. She became responsible for assisting with preparation of materials, space, and art activity for each docent and each scheduled school. None were easy tasks because of the sheer volume of docents, schools, students, and curators of education. However, it always came together Tuesday through Friday for twenty-five years without fail. Carmen is the expert coordinator of people, volunteers, students, docents and parties; whatever the event calls for she is the very energetic, dedicated Museum professional to complete the task. Carmen has represented NOMA well to all our community, and we wish her the best in her new endeavor. Assistant Director for Education Joanna Sternberg said of Carmen, “We are all replaceable in the jobs we do. But I think in Carmen’s case, it’s going to take at least seven people—hopefully with her same work ethic, easy smile, gentle nature and endless patience and energy. She is part of what makes this environment a community rather than a workplace and has rightfully earned the devotion and gratitude of everyone here. ■

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Odyssey Ball 2007 Will Preview Celebrated Collection of Native American Art BY VIRGINIA PANNO NVC Reporter

Fabergé Egg Hunt Is Another Sweet Success BY VIRGINIA PANNO NVC Reporter

he 2007 Odyssey Ball Chairs Louis and Sandra Wilson proudly announce details of this year’s gala. The November 10 opening of Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art will be the centerpiece of this year’s Odyssey Ball. The donation of three hundred remarkable objects collected over the last forty years by the late Dr. Thomas Whitecloud and his wife, Mercedes, is a milestone for the New Orleans Museum of Art, adding significant breadth and depth to NOMA’s Native American collection. It will provide a stunning backdrop for the night’s festivities. Blaine Kern, Jr. of Mardi Gras Productions will transform the Great Hall with the colors and images of the harvest while the lively sounds of Rockin Dopsie, Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters most certainly will add the beat. Sandra Pulitzer and Julie Miller Hart have other musical guests to captivate ball-goers. ■

he skies threatened on April 1, but the rain was a no-show—“April Fool.” More than five hundred guests, young and old, enjoyed the second annual Fabergé Egg Hunt in NOMA’s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Chairs Sanda Groome and Elizabeth Crawford kept things hopping in this beautiful setting with face painting, balloon-making and crafts. The Easter Bunny himself was on hand to greet the doting grandmas, proud parents and enthusiastic tykes. Papillion again entertained on this overcast, but dry, Sunday afternoon. Elmer’s Candy generously donated the delicious chocolate eggs. To make this happy event complete, a live rabbit, suitable for petting, added just the right touch. ■

Fabergé Egg Hunt Co-Chair Elizabeth Crawford with husband, Keith, and son Edmund Philipson FAR RIGHT, TOP The Easter Bunny, courtesy of Elmer’s Candy, was the visiting celebrity! FAR RIGHT, BOTTOM Entertainer Papillion gets some assistance from the crowd.

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Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Receives Isaac Delgado Memorial Award

Delgado Society Presents Annual Award to Artist Willie Birch

t the Annual dinner of NOMA’s Fellows at the Museum on April 15, Paul J. Leaman, Jr. was presented with the Isaac Delgado Memorial Award for extraordinary service and generosity to the New Orleans Museum of Art. The Delgado Award was established in 1975 in honor of the Museum’s founder and is given to those individuals, who have demonstrated a similar dedication to nurturing the arts in New Orleans. Paul Leaman was first elected to NOMA’s Board of Trustees in 1985 and has served continuously since then. In 1995-96 he served as Board President when he negotiated the agreement that finalized the gift of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. He then played a key role in raising the $12 million needed to build and endow the Garden. Following Katrina, Mr. Leaman volunteered to chair NOMA’s Katrina Recovery Campaign, which set a $15 million goal to be raised over thirty-nine months, to stabilize the Museum’s finances and repair and restore the building and Garden. He has been tireless in raising funds from foundations, corporations, and individuals, both in New Orleans and across the country, particularly in New York City. Paul Leaman is an enthusiastic collector of contemporary art, which fills his home and office. Over the years he has been a generous donor to NOMA’s art collection in a number of different areas. One of his most important gifts was a collection of objects by Peter Carl Fabergé, the great Russian jeweler, which are now on view in the new installation in NOMA’s popular Fabergé Gallery. ■

he Delgado Society of the New Orleans Museum of Art presented its 2007 Artist Recognition Award to artist Willie Birch. The artful dinner presented especially for the occasion took place at the Windsor Court Hotel on May 21, and was hosted by the hotel’s general manager, Ashish Verma. After a one-year absence due to Hurricane Katrina, the award presentation continued the Delgado Society’s

NOMA Director E. John Bullard (right) presents the Fellows annual Isaac Delgado Memorial Award to NOMA Trustee Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Photo by Judy Cooper

tradition of annually honoring a Louisiana artist of national prominence. Previous recipients of the award are a “who’s who” of Louisiana artists: MIchael P. Smith, Dr. Arthur Silverman, Lin Emery, John Scott, George Dureau, Gene Koss, Elemore Morgan, George Dunbar, Auseklis Ozols, Richard Johnson, Robert Warrens and the late Ida Kohlmeyer. Many of the previous honorees were in attendance at this year’s event to applaud Birch as he joined their prestigious group. ■

Artist Willie Birch (fourth from right) is joined by some of the past honorees of NOMA’s Delgado Society’s Artist Recognition Award: Elemore Morgan, Robert Warrens, Gene Koss, Michael P. Smith, Birch, Richard Johnson, Lin Emery, George Dureau Photo by Judy Cooper

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Join A Circle and Upgrade Your Support of NOMA

he Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art cordially invites you to upgrade your support and become a member of the Patron’s Circle, Director’s Circle or President’s Circle. These categories, our most prestigious levels of annual giving, are comprised of individuals who contribute $5,000, $10,000 or $20,000 each year in unrestricted funds. NOMA is pleased to extend unique privileges including Fellows and Collector’s Society memberships to those who demonstrate their commitment at these levels. We are most grateful for your generous and continuing support.

President’s Circle

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Director’s Circle

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A New Charitable Giving Option: Make a Charitable Donation to NOMA from Your IRA

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Free admission to the Museum and Sculpture Garden plus free admission for additional guests when accompanied by the donor Reciprocal membership in major art museums across the U.S. and Canada

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Complimentary membership in The Fellows and Collector’s Society

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All Members Previews of special exhibitions; with prior arrangement, Circle members may bring additional guests.

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A special evening program with the Museum’s Director An opportunity to have a private tour with the Director or Curator of a collection or special exhibition of your choice, with complimentary beverages in the Woldenberg Board Room, for a party of up to six individuals, at a mutually agreed upon time

An invitation to attend a private dinner with the Board President, Museum Director and a private collector in a major city.

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A special dinner in a private collector’s home

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For private parties, elegant private galleries are available for rental

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Invitations to attend behind-the-scenes events with Museum curators

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A special series of Curators’ Talks

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Advance tickets for Members’ lectures

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Advance announcements for special travel programs

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A special reception in the Sculpture Garden

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Annual listing on Donor Wall as a member of the Circle group

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Listing in the Annual Report

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Special recognition in Arts Quarterly

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Two complimentary publications selected by the Museum

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An opportunity to use an elegant private gallery with the rental fee waived

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id you know that a new provision in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 allows taxfree direct transfers from IRAs to qualified charities? IRA owners who have attained age seventy at the time of the gift can make tax-free charitable distributions directly from their IRAs to nonprofit organizations such as NOMA. The distribution is tax-free because it goes directly to charity. Since it is not taxable income to you, you don’t ever claim a charitable deduction on your Form 1040. In addition, these gifts are not subject to the percentage limitation rules that affect the other charitable gifts you are making. The only limit is that the total transfers from IRAs to charities cannot exceed $100,000 per year. This is in addition to your usual charitable gifts, so you can actually increase your overall giving by $100,000 per year. Charitable gifts from your IRA also satisfy your minimum annual distribution requirement from your IRA. Therefore, you can redirect taxable income you would otherwise be required to receive to charity. The provision is for tax years 2006 and 2007 only, so you should act soon.

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Previews of special exhibitions on press preview days __________________________________________________ These circles recognize cumulative giving in a calendar year, restricted to gifts of Annual Appeal and membership dues. Contributions to capital projects and special events do not apply. __________________________________________________ For further information, please contact NOMA’s Development Department, 504-658-4115. ■

You can direct your IRA gifts to NOMA, your alma mater, or to any other public charity, since they are qualified charitable distributions under this new provision. Distributions to charitable remainder trusts, donor-advised funds or private foundations do not qualify. Contact your IRA plan administrator to make the transfers directly to the charities. There is a form you will need to fill out, listing the charities and the amounts to be transferred. Don’t wait until the end of the year, though, because IRA sponsors may be swamped with requests, so act now! Just as with any charitable contribution, you should receive the regular acknowledgment from the charity, and you may not receive anything of value in return for your contribution. ■

As with all advice on charitable giving, you should review your plans with your own professional advisors. This article is meant for educational purposes only.

Circles and Fellows of the New Orleans Museum of Art

he two most prestigious levels of annual giving in the support of the New Orleans Museum of Art are the Circles and the Fellows. We invite you to consider upgrading your support of NOMA and join the following Circles and Fellows of the New Orleans Museum of Art. For information, please call 504-658-4100.

CIRCLES Mr. and Mrs. Richard Adkerson Mr. and Mrs. Wayne F. Amedee Aron Charitable Foundation,Inc. Mr. and Mrs. F. Macnaughton Ball, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bertuzzi Mr. and Mrs. Sydney J. Besthoff III The Booth-Bricker Fund Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Boyce, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Brennan Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bryan III Mr. E. John Bullard III Mr. and Mrs. William K. Christovich Mrs. Carmel Cohen Dr. and Mrs. Isidore Cohn, Jr. Columbus Properties, LLC Mr. and Mrs. James G. Coulter Ms. Barbara D. Currier Mr. Leonard A. Davis Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation Downman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Prescott N. Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. David F. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. S. Stewart Farnet Mr. and Mrs. Ludovico Feoli Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Francis Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Freeman, Jr. Ms. Tina Freeman and Mr. Philip Woollam Ella West Freeman Foundation Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. Frischhertz Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Garvey Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. George Dr. Kurt A. Gitter and Mrs. Alice Rae Yelen Mr. and Mrs. William A. Goldring Goldring Family Foundation Ms. Jo Ann Greenberg Mrs. John D. Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hansel Helis Foundation Heymann-Wolf Foundation Mrs. Killian L. Huger, Jr. Mrs. Charles W. Ireland Mrs. Barbara Viavant Johnsen Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Kaufman Mr. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Lindemann The Lindemann Foundation, Inc. Dr. E. Ralph Lupin Mrs. Paula L. Maher Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mathes Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. McInvale Mr. and Mrs. R. King Milling Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Monrose, Jr. Mrs. Robert Nims Dr. and Mrs. Frank Norman Dr. Howard and Dr. Joy D. Osofsky

Mr. and Mrs. Gray S. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick Ms. Cheryl Pierce Mrs. and Dr. James F. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Pierson, Jr. Reily Foods Company Dr. and Mrs. Edward F. Renwick Mrs. Franรงoise B. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. R. Randolph Richmond, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Rodrigue Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen Ms. Adrea D. Heebe and Mr. Dominick D. Russo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Schneider Seismic Exchange, Inc. The Selley Foundation Mrs. Gayle M. Shearer and Mr. Edward Shearer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shelton Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel Sizeler Realty Co., Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Soltis Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Stahel Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Strub Mrs. and Mr. James L. Taylor Mrs. Patrick F. Taylor Mrs. John N. Weinstock Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation Mr. Gerald Weissman and Mrs. Weissman Mrs. Nan S. Wier William Randolph Hearst Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Wilson, Jr. Ruby K Worner Charitable Trust Zemurray Foundation

FELLOWS Mrs. Adele Adatto Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Adatto Mrs. Jack R. Anderson Mrs. Jack R. Aron Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bailey Mrs. Howard T. Barnett Dr. Robert E. Barron III Ms. Roberta P. Bartee Mr. and Mrs. Beauregard L. Bassich Mr. Robert M. Becnel and Ms. Diane K. Zink Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Benjamin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Mente Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Dorian M. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Berenson Ms. Virginia Besthoff and Ms. Nancy Aronson Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali Mrs. Janet Blocker Mr. Harry J. Blumenthal, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Bodenheimer Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Bollinger Mr. R. Carey Bond and Mr. Henry Lambert Mrs. Jane Bories and Mr. Sam Corenswet Dr. and Mrs. John C. Bowen III Ms. Jean M. Bragg Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Bright, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. B. Temple Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Perry S. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bruno Ms. Pamela R. Burck Mr. Harold H. Burns Mr. Steven Callan

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Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Capomazza di Campolattaro Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carbine Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Chase III Dr. Victor P. Chisesi Mr. John A. Chrestia Mr. Stephen W. Clayton and Mr. W. P. Brown III Mr. and Mrs. John Clemmer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Coleman Mrs. John J. Colomb, Jr. Ms. Shirley Colomb and Don Clausing Mr. Barry J. Cooper and Mr. Stuart H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Orlin Corey Ms. Jeanette Cornnam Mr. and Mrs. Rufus P. Cressend Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Currence, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Valeton J. Dansereau Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Davis III John W. Deming and Bertie Murphy Deming Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Con G. Demmas Mr. and Mrs. George Denegre, Jr. Drs. Raja W. and Nina Dhurandhar Mrs. Albert S. Dittmann, Jr. Ms. Ann R. Duffy and Dr. John Skinner Mrs. Charles J. Eagan, Jr. Dr. Clayton B. Edisen Dr. Ruth R. Ettinger and Dr. Ron Hardey Mr. and Mrs. D. Blair Favrot Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Favrot, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Favrot Mr. and Mrs. Edward Feinman Mr. and Mrs. Darwin C. Fenner Ms. Natalie Fielding Mrs. Julia Fishelson Ms. Anne A. Fitzhugh Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Frierson Mrs. and Dr. Harold A. Fuselier, Jr. Mrs. Anne Gauthier Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Genre Mrs. Dennis A. Georges Mrs. Luba B. Glade Mrs. Louis A. Glazer Mrs. Frederick A. Gottesman Dr. and Mrs. Warren L. Gottsegen Ms. Susan Talley and Mr. James C. Gulotta, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Hamp H. Hanks Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Hardin Mrs. Robert B. Haspel Mrs. H. Lloyd Hawkins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Heller Mr. and Mrs. Theo M. Heller Mrs. S. Herbert Hirsch Mrs. William H. Hodges Mr. Harry T. Howard III Mr. and Mrs. Harley B. Howcott, Jr. Dr. Jack A. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Huguley III Mr. and Mrs. Merl Huntsinger Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Jacobs Dr. Ronald A. Javitch Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Judell Mrs. Arthur L. Jung, Jr. Mrs. Gloria S. Kabacoff Mrs. Fred Kahn Mr. and Mrs. Morris Klinger Mr. and Mrs. E. James Kock, Jr.

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Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Labauve Mr. and Mrs. John P. Laborde Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Lane III Mrs. James M. Lapeyre, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Lapeyre, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Lassen Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lawrence Mrs. Rita Benson LeBlanc Mr. Victor C. Leglise, Sr. Dr. Edward D. Levy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Levy Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Logan Mr. Edward B. Ludwig, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. George D. Lyons Dr. Cris Mandry Mr. and Mrs. Adam B. Marcus Mrs. Shirley R. Masinter Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Mason Ms. Kay McArdle Ms. Elizabeth R. McCall Mr. and Mrs. John McCollam Mr. and Mrs. William McCollam, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mestayer Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mintz Mrs. Bernard D. Mintz Mrs. Elaine Mintz Mr. and Mrs. Saul A. Mintz Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Mitchell Mr. Michael D. Moffitt Ms. Stephany S. Monteleone Mrs. George R. Montgomery Dr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Morgan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morton Mrs. Peter E. Moss Mr. and Mrs. J. Frederick Muller, Jr. Ms. Karyn E. Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Bert Myers Mrs. Elizabeth S. Nalty Ms. Carolyn Nelson Mrs. Isidore Newman II Mrs. Ulisse Nolan Mr. and Mrs. John B. Noland Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Norman, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John L. Ochsner Mr. Roger H. Ogden Dr. Sanford L. Pailet Karyl Pierce Paxton Mr. and Mrs. Norvin L. Pellerin Dr. Quinn Pepper Mrs. Ben J. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Dick H. Piner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. O. Miles Pollard, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Pulitzer Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Reily, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Reiss, Jr. Ms. Sally E. Richards Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Rittenberg Mr. and Mrs. John K. Roberts, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Roddy Mr. Andre Rodrigue Mr. Jacques Rodrigue Mr. Arthur Roger Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Rosenblum, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. J. William Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Louie J. Roussel III Mr. and Mrs. Hallam L. Ruark Mrs. Basil J. Rusovich, Jr.

Ms. Nadine C. Russell Miss Courtney-Anne Sarpy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schornstein, Jr. Dr. Milton W. Seiler Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Selber, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Shane, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Shapiro Mrs. Shepard H. Shushan Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Simmons Dr. and Mrs. Julian H. Sims Mr. and Mrs. John Sinnott Mrs. Evald L. Skau Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Slater Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Smith Mrs. James Carlos Smith Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Smith, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Sontheimer Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford Mrs. Mary E. Stern Dr. and Mrs. Harold M. Stokes Mrs. Harold H. Stream, Jr. Dr. Nia K. Terezakis Mr. and Mrs. George G. Villere Mr. and Mrs. St. Denis J. Villere Mr. and Mrs. R. Preston Wailes Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Wedemeyer Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph F. Weichert III Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weilbaecher Ambassador and Mrs. John G. Weinmann Mr. Thomas P. Westervelt Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. White Mr. Charles Lewis Whited, Jr. Mr. George Q. Whitney Mrs. Warren Wirth Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Young

NOMA’s Katrina Recovery Fund Continues To Receive Major Support

ollowing Hurricane Katrina, NOMA embarked on an ambitious financial recovery strategy of $15 million over three years. The Museum has received extraordinary support from individuals, corporations, foundations and museum organizations throughout the country. The members of the Museum’s board of trustees and staff are grateful to the following donors to NOMA’s Katrina Recovery Fund as of June 1, 2007. ■ FOUNDATIONS Alconda-Owsley Foundation American Express Philanthropic Program The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Azby Foundation Benjamin Rosen Foundation Blue Dog Relief Fund The Buddy Taub Foundation Burkenroad Foundation California Community Foundation Caterpillar Foundation Downman Family Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ella West Freeman Foundation Eugenie & Joseph Jones Foundation French Heritage Society Henry Luce Foundation Helis Foundation Heymann-Wolf Foundation Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation J. Aron Charitable Foundation The J. Paul Getty Foundation John Burton Harter Foundation Laurel Foundation Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation Philanthropic Collaborative The Rosentiel Foundation Samuel H. Kress Foundation Samuel Newhouse Foundation/Times-Picayune Schon Charitable Foundation Thaw Charitable Trust Van Der Linden Family Foundation Whitehead Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Zemurray Foundation FEDERAL Institute of Museum and Library Sciences National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities CORPORATE Altria Group, Inc. AOS Family Relief Fund Arthur Roger Gallery Cheim & Read Gallery Deutsche Bank America’s Foundation FedEx Corporation General Exploration Co Inc. Hughey and Associates LKBOC, LLC Louisiana Public Facilities Authority Merrill Lynch M. S. Rau Antiques LLC One Canal Place LLC Palm Beach International Art and Antique Fair Sizeler Realty Co., Inc. United Technologies Wequasett Inn Resort and Golf Club MUSEUM ORGANIZATIONS American Association of Museum Directors Brooks Memphis Museum of Art Cincinatti Museum of Art Columbus Museum of Art Flint Institute of Arts Friends of the Bass Museum Kimbell Art Museum

Louisiana Endowment for the Arts Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities North Carolina Museum of Art Opelousas Museum of Art Southeastern Museums Conference Tampa Museum INDIVIDUALS Adele Adatto and Family Bethlehem K. Andrews F. M. Ball Mr. and Mrs. Luis Banos Paul Bellardo Andrew K. Block Charles E. Carmichael Ann Cox Chambers Christopher E. Cragg Mignon Faget Eric Fischle Sandra Freeman Janice M. Gillaspie Mrs. John D. Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Quintin T. Hardtner Donald L. King Virginia S. Kock Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Elisabeth Lewyt Paula L. Maher James McClennan George Mills Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moore Leonard and Susan B. Nimoy Wanda O’Shello Kurt Overton Gary, Tracy and Kate Phano George and Wendy Rodrigue Lisa and Jonathan Rotondo-McCord Greg Salter Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Stahel Jack Stein Jean Stein George G. Villere Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Emily Kass and Charles J. Weinraub George V. Young AXA GALLERY GALA, NEW YORK INDIVIDUALS Mr. John C. Abajian Mrs. Stephen E. Ambrose Mr. Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Macnaughton Ball, Jr. Ms. Roberta P. Bartee Mrs. Anita Friedman Berman Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bertuzzi Ms. Franklin Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Bright, Jr. Mrs. Barbara Viavant Broadwell Ms. Donna Brydson Mr. E. John Bullard Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Canizaro Michael and Marie Capellas Mr. Russell L. Carson Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caufield Mr. and Mrs. John Clemmer Dr. and Mrs. Carmel Cohen Mr. and Mrs. James G. Coulter Mr. Douglas S. Cramer Ms. Barbara D. Currier Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Richard Danziger Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Davidson IV Mrs. Mary Davidson Mr. William J. Deasy Mrs. Ruth delaGueraniere Mr. and Mrs. D. Frank Dixon Ms. Jean Doumanian

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Mr. George B. Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. Prescott N. Dunbar Mr. Hayden Dunbar Dr. and Mrs. John Ollie Edmunds, Jr. Allison S. Elsee Ms. Julia S. Elsee Margaret Evangeline Eydale Mr. Jeffrey J. Feil Professor and Mrs. Meyer Feldberg Linda Fendley D.F.K. Finlay Mr. Edward Finnegan Julia Fishelson Barbara Fleischman Charles Fleischmann Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Freeman, Jr. Alexandra D. Georges Mr. and Mrs. Peter Georgescu Mr. and Mrs. Louis Germano Dr. Kurt A. Gitter and Mrs. Alice Rae Yelen Mary Louise Guertler Ms. Agnes Gund and Mr. Daniel Shapiro Ms. Patricia Hambrecht Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hansel Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Mr. Louis H. Haym Peter J. Hicks Mary Tavener Holmes Mrs. Killian L. Huger, Jr. Ms. Jaqueline Humphries Jennifer Maguire Isham Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Judell Mrs. Gloria S. Kabacoff Mrs. George M. Kaufman Grace and Sanford Kaynor Dodie Kazanjian Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Kearney Anne Keating Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. Kissinger Charles D. Klein Susan F. Kline Mr. Michael S. Kramer Mr. George C. Lancaster Loeber Landau Mr. Richard Landy and Mrs. Landy Jo Carole Lauder Mr. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. Lee H. Ledbetter Nicholas B. Lemann Mrs. Lewis Liman Mr. and Mrs. George L. Lindemann Jesse Robert Lovejoy Al and Gail Maiolo Mrs. Shirley R. Masinter Mr. Jeremy R. Michael Rosetta A. Miller Donald K. Miller Mr. and Mrs. R. King Milling Mrs. Elaine Mintz Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Morrison, Jr. Mr. Louie Mtisu Mr. Jonathan Neil Mary Lockett Nelson Patrick and Kim Nettles Dr. and Mrs. John L. Ochsner Ms. Kathleen O’Grady Marie D. O'Neill Janice and Roger Oresman Dr. Howard and Dr. Joy D. Osofsky Ms. Judith Y. Oudt Jane B. Owen Daniel and Nancy Paduano Mr. Geoffrey S. Paul Nicholas and Carol Paumgarten Drs. Paul and Virginia Pellicci Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Pierson, Jr. Max Pine

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Mr. and Mrs. O. Miles Pollard, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rault Mr. and Mrs. Stan Rawn Mr. and Mrs. William Rayner Mr. and Mrs. Howard Read Mr. and Mrs. James J. Reiss, Jr. Ms. Bryce W. Reveley Daniel and Barbara Ribacoff David Rockefeller Kenneth and Ellen Roman Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenberg John Parker Roy Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Rubinstein Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Ruch Mrs. Dominick Russo, Jr. and Ms. Andrea Heebe Mr. and Mrs. John K. Saer Vera Plaskon Safai Jane Safer Mr. Ira Sahlman Didi and Oscar Schafer Ms. Janet L. Schinderman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Schloss Mr. Jan Schoonmaker Katie Schwab Mr. Richard A. Shaffer Ms. Sharene Shariatzadeh Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shelton Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Sherrill Mr. Frank V. Sica Mr. and Mrs. Rodney R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Baker Smith Mr. Stephen Sondheim Mr. Robert Sonnier Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford Mrs. Mary E. Stern Mrs. Harold H. Stream, Jr. Mrs. Patrick F. Taylor Clara P. Walmsley Mr. William M. Weiant Ms. Rosalyn Ditta Weinstein Mrs. John N. Weinstock Mr. Gerald Weissman and Mrs. Weissman Ian A. Weyehauser Mr. Charles Lewis Whited, Jr. Mrs. Nan S. Wier FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS Ann Kendall Richards, Inc. Anncox Foundation, Inc. The Annette Urso Rickel Foundation, Inc. AXA Art Insurance Corp. AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company AXA Foundation The Azby Fund Barbara and Donald Tober Foundation Bialkin Family Fund Inc. BLL Foundation The Broad Art Foundation Bronx Arts Ensemble Caroline and Charles Ireland Foundation Catherine Associates, LLC Charina Foundation, Inc. The Chazen Foundation The Dana & Stephen Hansel Family Foundation Inc. Ferer Foundation The Fertel Family Foundation Hazen Polsky Foundation Heymann-Wolf Foundation The James Family Charitable Foundation Janklow Foundation

The Jim and Linda Robinson Foundation, Inc. The John R. Jakobson Foundation, Inc. John W. Deming and Bertie Murphy Deming Foundation Kent School Corporation Kraus Family Foundation Lacroix Investment Co., LLC The Leonard & Evelyn Lauder Foundation Lehman Brothers LKBOC, LLC The Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation The McCormick Company of Louisiana Metropolitan Philanthropic Fund Inc. N.O. On Stage/Le Chat Noir One Canal Place LLC Parkside Foundation Richard S. and Karen LeFrak Charitable Foundation, Inc. The Robert J. Hurst Foundation The Rosenstiel Foundation Rudin Management Co. Inc. Sherrill Foundation Sotheby’s Strategic Hotel Funding, L.L.C. Tishman Speyer Properties, LP Wildenstein & Co., Inc. The William and Mary Greve Foundation, Inc. William T. Kemper Charitable Trust

WILDENSTEIN & CO. BENEFIT AT LE BERNADIN, NEW YORK FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS AXA Foundation Forbes Foundation J and H Weldon Foundation Lazard Capital Markets LLC Royal Bank of Toronto Wildenstein & Co., Inc. INDIVIDUALS Mrs. Russell Aitken Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bertuzzi Charles Bich David Bull E. John Bullard Mr. and Mr. Joseph C. Canizaro Dr. Alan Caspi Mr. and Mrs. Henry Casselli Margaret Civetta Nicolas Coblence Dr. Richard Coburn Mrs. and Mrs. Christopher Condron Barbara Currier Victor Demorchelier P. Hayden Dunbar Viviane Ebersman Holly Ellison William Fagaly Randy Fertel Christiane Fischer Randy Florke Christopher Forbes Michele Fron Katherine Gill Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goldberg Carmen Guberina Anne Guité Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hays Nicole Hirsh Mrs. Charles W. Ireland Konrad Keese

Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Helen Lebrecht The Honorable Jean-David Levitte Annie Lin Teresa Longyear Gerald McKelvey Mr. and Mrs. Martin McKeon Ms. Murray Matthew Nimetz David Olszowy Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Roger Oresman David Owsley Beth Perez Marilyn Perry Raymond Rathle, Jr. Bryce Reveley Mrs. Françoise B. Richardson Karin Rispal Mr. and Mrs. George Rodrigue Frederic Romano Debra Runkle Mr. and Mrs. James Sheperdson David Siebel Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rosen James Thurmond Smithgall Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford Eve Alexandra Stafford Gerald Stiebel Terry Taffer Mrs. Phyllis Taylor Paul D. Underwood Mrs. Henry Weldon Sarah Wertheimer Guy Wildenstein Kristina Wildenstein Samantha Wildenstein David Wildenstein Anthony Williams WILDENSTEIN & CO. BENEFIT RECEPTION, NEW YORK FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS Bernheim Foundation Inc. Goldman & Co., CPA Eric Javits Family Foundation The Lauder Foundation Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund Schlinder, Cohen & Hockman LLP INDIVIDUALS Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bloom Thatcher M. Brown, III Richard Coburn Mrs. Carmel Cohen Thomas and Elizbieta D’Agostino Fred Feinsilber Edward R. Finch, Jr. Aaron I. Fleischman Elizabeth Fondaras Joanne Dupont Foster James Goldschmidt Claudine Goutze Mr. and Mrs. Peter Handal Sara Kay Jacques Leviant Michael Longchampt Eleanor Lorig Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller Mr. and Mrs. R. King Milling Mr. and Mrs. William Scheide Dr. Traer Van Allen Charles Whited

O N T R I B U T I O N

he New Orleans Museum of Art has established a number of special funds for gifts in honor of or in memory of friends or family members or to commemorate an event. Recipients or their families will be notified of the gift and will be acknowledged in Arts Quarterly. For information on NOMA special funds, call (504) 658-4100. Donations for all funds should be mailed to the New Orleans Museum of Art, P.O. Box 19123, New Orleans, Louisiana 70179-0123. ■

JEANNETTE SOLOMON FUND IN MEMORY OF JEANNETTE SOLOMON: Marian Solomon

KATRINA RECOVERY FUND

DR. CARL ADATTO FUND

PAUL J. LEAMAN, JR. RECEIVING THE ISAAC DELGADO MEMORIAL AWARD:

IN MEMORY OF

Wanda O’Shello Kurt Overton Greg Salter Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer

Mrs. Saul Stone Thomas Smith and Family Mr. and Mrs. Julian Good Fannette S. Bulm Jennie Tarabulus Mr. and Mrs. Richard Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Drew S. Nelson

CHRISTOPHER G. SYKES: Dorian Bennett ROBERT F. SPANGENBERG: Shirley R. Masinter

IN HONOR OF

DR. CARL ADATTO:

JOHN SANTOPADRE: Dorian Bennett DOLLY ANN JOHNSEN: Mr. and Mrs. C. Alvin Bertel, Jr. EVELYN COX: Dr. and Mrs. Charles Genre EDWARD ROSEN: Mrs. Blum Mrs. Joel Myers JOHN DUMAR: Ann Yvette de la Villesbret

LOUIS HARRIS FUND

PAMELA FIORI: Historical Society of Palm Beach County

DONNA ROSEN: The Rosenstiel Foundation

IN HONOR OF KAREN HARRIS’ BIRTHDAY: Dara and Bruce Baird

IN MEMORY OF

ENDOWMENT FUND

GEORGE “STAR” MAYER: Mr. and Mrs. Birch McDonough

NVC FLOWER FUND

IN MEMORY OF

JIMMY SULLIVAN: Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor Jane Phillips

IN HONOR OF

ROBERT MONROE:

VICTORIA COOKE: NOMA Volunteer Committee

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer

JIMMY SULLIVAN: Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer

LIBRARY FUND NVC GENERAL FUND

GEORGE MONTGOMERY: Mr. and Mrs. Quintin Hardtner III Patricia Waters

IN HONOR OF IN HONOR OF

GEORGE WHITNEY FUND

PRESCOTT DUNBAR’S BIRTHDAY: Joel W. Weinstock Mr. and Mrs. D. Blair Favrot Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer

IN MEMORY OF

WENDY RODRIGUE’S BIRTHDAY: Ellie and John Straub

GEORGE WHITNEY: Louis Echavarria Mr. and Mrs. Quintin Hardtner, III Mr. and Mrs. Harley Lowcott, Jr. Jehovina M. Kelsall Edward D. Levy, Jr., M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer Will Sibbald Noel Williams Sally C. Goodyear

WILLA SLATER’S BIRTHDAY: Carol Rosen IN MEMORY OF PALMER BEDSOLE: Dorian Bennett JIMMY SULLIVAN: Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Ball Kurt Overton Greg Salter

MILLIE HAWKSHEAD: ExxonMobil

MARIE (MICKEY) GREVE: ExxonMobil

IN MEMORY OF WAYNE FREY: Diane and Hughes Walmsley ADELE ARCEMENT: Cammie and Charles Mayer Jean Taylor and Leslie Curran JEANETTE SOLOMON: Dorothy Rivenbark LOUISE HARRIS: Barbara and Hal Ruark

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BOBBY MONROE: Jean Taylor Pam and Stanley Fried Kay McArdle

PHOTOGRAPHY FUND

JOHN SANTOPADRE: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg

IN HONOR OF

ANNA MAE CISNEROS: Jerry and Richard Ingolia Cammie and Charles Mayer Pam and Stanley Fried Kay McArdle

BRET CUNNINGHAM: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg

JASON DIBIASO’S BIRTHDAY: Kurt Overton Greg Salter

JIMMY SULLIVAN: Jerry Ingolia Fay Beth Wedig

IN MEMORY OF

JOHN D. JACKSON: Cammie and Charles Mayer

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg

SCULPTURE GARDEN FUND IN HONOR OF

ROGER KAVANAGH: WALLY WALKER: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg

TIM TYRELL’S BIRTHDAY: Kurt Overton Greg Salter DEBRA SHRIVER’S BIRTHDAY: Paul J. Leaman, Jr.

WAYS OF GIVING

he future of the New Orleans Museum of Art depends to a large

degree on the foresight and generosity of today’s visionaries— our members—who are willing to consider new ways to make gifts. Here are a few suggested methods of making a difference for NOMA:

GIFT OF CASH OR MARKETABLE SECURITIES Gifts may be restricted to a designated program or applied to NOMA’s general operating fund.

GIFT OF LIFE INSURANCE Name NOMA as policy owner and beneficiary and receive immediate tax deductions on your premium.

GIFT OF PROPERTY Gifts of real estate, boats, or artwork provide NOMA with marketable assets and may enable you to avoid capital gains taxes.

NAMED ENDOWMENT FUND The principal of a fund established in your name—or for someone you wish to honor or memorialize—is managed for growth, while the income from the fund supports Museum programs.

CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST/CHARITABLE LEAD TRUST Provide NOMA or yourself with a steady income stream and, with a remainder trust, leave a significant future gift to NOMA. Both arrangements entitle you to considerable tax savings.

BEQUESTS Name NOMA as a beneficiary in your will and make a lasting contribution to the Museum.

For more information about any of these suggested methods of giving to NOMA, call (504) 658-4115.

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CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP

e are deeply grateful to the following member firms whose investment in the Museum makes it possible for NOMA to pay dividends in service to the public, to the business community, to the City of New Orleans, to the greater metropolitan area and to the State of Louisiana.

NOMA welcomes this new corporate member: GUARANTOR: Willoughby Associates Limited, Winnetka, IL

GUARANTOR The Esplanade at City Park Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre New Orleans Saints Reagan Equipment Co., Inc. Tidewater, Inc. Whitney National Bank Willoughby Associates Limited Windsor Court Hotel

BENEFACTOR Gambit Communications, Inc.

PATRON Associated Office Systems Brian Schneider Company Columbus Properties, LLC Lemle & Kelleher The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation

MASTER Dooky Chase’s Restaurant Emirau Partners Energy Partners, Ltd.

IPC New Orleans 1, LLC McDermott International Inc. MPress Oreck Corporation The Schon Charitable Foundation

LEADER J. Aron and Company, Inc. Barriere Construction Company, Inc. Boh Bros. Construction Company, Inc. Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers Dorian M. Bennett, Inc. Eskew + Dumez + Ripple The Laitram Corporation M. S. Rau Antiques, LLC Magnolia Marketing Company McIlhenny Company Milling Benson Woodward, LLP The Monteleone Hotel Murphy Exploration & Production Co. Neal Auction Company, Inc. New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. New Orleans Silversmiths Rathborne Companies, LLC Regions Bank The Soniat House

Taylor Energy Company The Times-Picayune

ASSOCIATE Baker CAC, Inc. Bowie Lumber Associates Dauphine Orleans Delta Petroleum Co., Inc. E. N. Bisso and Son, Inc. Fidelity Homestead Association A Gallery For Fine Photography Hunt Forest Products, Inc. KPMG Mignon Faget, Ltd. Royal Antiques, Ltd. The Steeg Law Firm LLC Waggonner and Ball Architects 901 So. Peters St. LLC

CONTRIBUTOR A. L. Lowe Picture Framing Company Aquatic Gardens Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz Bolton Ford Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Company Inc. Dreyfus-Cortney, Inc.

Dupuy Storage & Forwarding Corporation Gulf Coast Bank Hirsch Investment Management, L.L.C. James A. Mounger, A Professional Law Corporation Jon Antiques Le Richelieu Motor Hotel Sisung Securities Corporation Tujague’s Restaurant URS Corporation Waters, Parkerson and Co., Inc.

UNIVERSITY MEMBERS Delgado Community College Loyola University Notre Dame Seminary Nunez Community College Our Lady of Holy Cross College Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond Southern University of New Orleans St. Scholastica Academy Tulane University University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of New Orleans Xavier University

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THE ART OF BUSINESS

When you take your place among the Corporate Members of the New Orleans Museum of Art, you are supporting the continuing excellence of the Gulf South’s finest institution for arts and arts education. NOMA is a force for economic development, contributing greatly to our city’s prominence as an international cultural center and visitor destination. The business and professional sectors have long recognized that the Museum makes our community a more desirable place for families and companies to locate.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP IN THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART

BENEFITS TO YOUR COMPANY WHEN YOU INVEST IN THE PREEMINENT CULTURAL INSTITUTION OF OUR CITY CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP ❑ Please have NOMA’s Corporate Membership Director call. ❑ Please send me a brochure on Corporate Membersip. ❑ Our check is enclosed in the amount of $_______________. Please make check payable to: New Orleans Museum of Art. ❑ Please send an invoice in the amount of $______________. Firm Name ____________________________ Contact Person ____________________________ Phone ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City/State/Zip ____________________________ Mail to: Corporate Membership New Orleans Museum of Art P.O. Box 19123 New Orleans, LA 70179-0123

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Your Corporate Membership provides world-class benefits to your employees and a positive image for your company. From unlimited family admission to NOMA, to the loan of fine art from NOMA’s permanent collection, to a Company Day for all your employees and their families, your Corporate Membership is a high profile business asset and a great business decision. The vitality and growth of the New Orleans Museum of Art is dependent, quite literally, on the companies we keep. Our Corporate Membership Program provides the opportunity for your business, whether large or small, to participate at the level most beneficial to you. We have streamlined the rate structure and improved benefits, so select your membership category today, and enjoy all the special privileges of Corporate Membership at the NOMA.

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP PRIVILEGES • Free family admission at all times (immediate family, including children and grandchildren 17 years and younger). • Free subscription to Arts Quarterly • Invitations to Members’ Only Previews throughout the year • Discount of 10% in the Museum Shop • First notices of Special Events at NOMA • Opportunity to participate in Members’ Art Tours in America and abroad • Curatorial Opinion Service • Opportunity to participate in Volunteer Programs • Access to the Dreyfous Art Reference Library

GUARANTOR

$10,000 &

ABOVE

• Use of the Museum for a member’s business special event at a mutually agreeable time. • Your company’s name prominently displayed in the Museum. • The loan of four works of art from NOMA’s Permanent Collection. • A private viewing and guided tour of an exhibition for the executives of your firm. • Family Membership privileges for ten designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • A complimentary invitation for one designated official to NOMA’s Holiday Party. • Specially scheduled Corporate Day with recognition in the Museum and free admission for all employees and their families. • A Speakers Bureau program at your place of business or at the Museum. • 125 Museum passes. • Curatorial consultation. • One framed poster and a catalogue from the Museum’s inventory.

BENEFACTOR

$7,500

• Limited use of a Museum space for a member’s business function at a mutually agreeable time. • Your company’s name prominently displayed in the Museum. • The loan of three works of art from NOMA’s Permanent Collection. • Family Membership privileges for eight designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • A complimentary invitation for one designated official to NOMA’s Holiday Party. • Specially scheduled Corporate Day with recognition in the Museum and free admission for all employees and their families. • A Speakers Bureau program at your place of business or at the Museum. • 100 Museum passes. • Curatorial consultation. • One framed poster and a catalogue from the NOMA’s inventory.

PATRON

$5,000

• The loan of two works of art from NOMA’s Permanent Collection. • Family Membership privileges for six designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • A complimentary invitation for one designated official to NOMA’s Holiday Party. • Specially scheduled Corporate Day with recognition in the Museum and free admission for all employees and their families. • A Speakers Bureau program at your place of business or at the Museum. • 75 Museum passes. • Curatorial consultation. • One framed poster and a catalogue from the NOMA’s inventory.

MASTER

$2,500

• The loan of one work of art from NOMA’s Permanent Collection. • Family Membership privileges for five designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • A Speakers Bureau program for your employees at your place of business or at the Museum. • 50 Museum passes. • Curatorial consultation. • One framed poster and a catalogue from the NOMA’s inventory.

LEADER

$1,000

• Family Membership privileges for four designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • 25 Museum passes. • Two posters from the NOMA’s inventory.

ASSOCIATE

$500

• Family Membership privileges for three designated officials with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • 15 Museum passes. • A poster from NOMA’s inventory.

CONTRIBUTOR

$250

• Family membership privileges for two designated official of your firm with Reciprocal Membership at 39 participating museums. • 10 Museum passes.

NOMA EDUCATION: Art Classes for Children Summer Art Studio Classes are limited to twenty students. Pre-registration is required.

Come learn new techniques in artmaking at NOMA’s Summer Art Studio. NOMA will offer a variety of summer art classes for children, which will be taught by professional art teachers. The classes will introduce children to the Museum’s collections and special exhibitions while providing students with an exciting atmosphere. In the classes students can express their creativity using a variety of art materials. Our art teachers stress the importance of the creative process over the final product. We believe that in art there are no wrong answers. All classes begin with a brief tour through NOMA’s collections to view a series of artworks related to each art project. The cost of each session of six classes is $75 for members of the Museum and $90 for nonmembers. All materials are included. Each session runs for two weeks on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Classes are limited to twenty students. Pre-registration and payment in advance are required. Students should bring an old shirt or smock to wear as classes can get messy. For more information, please contact the education department, jsternberg@noma.org or 504-658-4131.

Summer Session IV July 25 – August 3 (6 classes) Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays It’s in the Mix ages 5–7, 10 a.m.–Noon Using mixed media in two- and three-dimensional forms allows artists to communicate their ideas in new ways. Students in this session will combine media such as painting, collage, drawing, and monoprints to express their own dreams, feelings and stories. The students also will explore the elements of art as they learn to master mixed media.

Modern Masters ages 8–12, 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Explore NOMA’s permanent collection of modern art masters. In this session students will view works of Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The modern masters will inspire students to create their own contemporary works. Students will focus on the basic elements of art and learn how these historical concepts apply to artists’ work today. ■

Summer Session III July 11 – 20 (6 classes) Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays Bring on the Basics! ages 5–7, 10 a.m.–Noon In this session students will explore the tremendous possibilities of creating art. This art session will focus on the basic concepts of design used to make two-dimensional objects. Students will learn about line and shape and discover basic drawing techniques. They then will move on to experimenting with color and texture as they create imaginative works of art.

Visual Storytelling ages 8–12, 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Explore the world of visual storytelling. In this session, students will use their limitless imaginations to create comics and cartoons that are as fun to make as they are to read. Students will develop drawing techniques that convey movement, emotions and visual excitement. An emphasis also will be placed on story planning.

In the art class “Modern Masters,” students will be inspired by the artwork of the modern masters, like Joan Miró’s Persons in the Presence of a Metamorphosis (1936), in NOMA’s permanent collection.

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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES Classic New Orleans Films Series

Enjoy a visit to NOMA and revisit classic Hollywood movies. This film series features classic movies that are set in or about New Orleans. The films take place in NOMA’s Stern Auditorium and begin at noon. Films are free with Museum admission. For more Classic New Orleans Films information, please contact the education department, 504-658-4131 or jsternberg@noma.org.

gangsters and their internal jealousies. Louis Armstrong makes a small appearance, and the film includes jazz classics such as “St. Louis Blues” and “St. James Infirmary.” It is an entertaining film more than historically accurate.

Saturday, August 25, Noon The Flame of New Orleans (1941, 79 min.)

Films begin at noon and are free with Museum admission.

Family Workshop Pre-registration is required for NOMA’s Family Workshops. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Saturday, July 28, Noon Birth of the Blues (1941, 87 min.) Birth of the Blues tells the story of Jeff Lambert (Bing Crosby), a clarinetist who breaks from his traditional band to form a jazz band with Memphis (Brian Donlevy) and Betty Lou (Mary Martin). Set in New Orleans in the 1910s, the trio’s fame is compromised by

NOMA offers Sunday afternoon art workshops designed as a collaborative venture in which children and their adult companion create an art project together. Children should be between five and twelve years old and must be accompanied by an adult. After a tour of NOMA’s collection to view artworks related to the workshop, participants will create their own project. The cost of the workshop is $10 per family for Museum members and $15 for nonmembers plus Museum admission. All art supplies are provided by NOMA. Pre-registration is required. For information on NOMA’s family workshops, please contact the education department, 504-658-4131 or jsternberg@noma.org.

Sunday, July 15, 2 p.m. Chip Off the Old Block Albrecht Dürer was considered a master printmaker at the turn of the sixteenth century, and many of his impressive engravings and woodblock prints are on view at NOMA. In this workshop, children and their adult companions examine Dürer’s impressive woodblock creations then apply the same techniques and tools in their own work. The elements of art— shape, line and texture—will be explored as participants delve into the world of printmaking.

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The French comedy director René Clair made his American debut in this film featuring Marlene Dietrich. Set in 1840, the European Claire Ledoux (Dietrich) comes to New Orleans with the sole intention of marrying a wealthy man (Roland Young). Posing as a society lady, Ledoux makes every attempt to keep her colorful past behind her. ■

Bing Crosby stars in the film Birth of the Blues, which will be shown at NOMA on Saturday, July 28, at noon.

Sunday, August 12, 2 p.m. Making Modern Ikons: Who Inspires You? A wide array of ikons can be seen in NOMA’s exhibition Windows of Heaven: Russian Ikons from the Collection of Daniel R. Bibb and the New Orleans Museum of Art. In this workshop, participants will create their own celestial and ethereal icons recreating centuries old techniques. Bring in an image of your own that represents a saint, relative, personality or favorite scene to inspire your design.

Sunday, September 16, 2 p.m. Scrolling Through Life

The lecture “Making Modern Ikons: Who Inspires You?” will be presented by NOMA on Sunday, August 12, at 2 p.m.

Traditional Japanese paintings are created by applying ink and watersoluble colors to paper or silk and are often hung as a scroll from a silk background. Participants in this family workshop will create their own Japanese-style paintings using ink on rice paper. These paintings then will be framed with cloth and hung from a rod. ■

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES Sunday Afternoon Lecture Series NOMA’s Lecture Series will be presented in the Museum’s Stern Auditorium. The lectures are free with Museum admission

Sunday, July 15, 2 p.m. A Conversation with Henry Casselli with George Roland, The Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings, NOMA, and Henry Casselli, Artist Even in his earliest artistic efforts, New Orleans native Henry Casselli successfully captured the intimate details of the human condition. Join Curator of Prints and Drawings George Roland for a discussion with Casselli on his work to date with particular attention to the drawings in the exhibition Really Beautiful: Henry Casselli Drawings, Sketches and

Watercolors from the Lieselotte and Ernest Tansey Collection, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through September 2, 2007.

Sunday, July 22, 2 p.m. Collecting the Devotional, Connecting the Spiritual: Ikons as Windows of Heaven by John Webster Keefe, The RosaMary Foundation Curator of the Decorative Arts, NOMA Lavishly decorated Russian ikons are considered the physical manifestations of private prayer. Their commission by religious patrons for liturgical ritual as well as for quiet

devotion was intended to connect the mortal supplicant to the realm of the divine. Join NOMA Curator of the Decorative Arts John Keefe for a presentation on these venerable objects and the assembly of a dazzling regional collection in conjunction with NOMA’s exhibition Windows of Heaven: Russian Ikons from the Collection of Daniel R. Bibb and the New Orleans Museum of Art, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through August 26, 2007.

Sunday, August 12, 2 p.m. Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Reflections on Albrecht Dürer as a Master Printmaker by Mary Jane Parker, Artist and Teacher, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Albrecht Dürer’s intensely detailed prints have long set the standard of excellence for works on paper. In conjunction with NOMA’s exhibition Albrecht Dürer: Woodcuts and Engravings from the Foundation of Lower Saxony and the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, artist and NOCCA faculty member Mary Jane Parker presents today’s perspective on Northern Renaissance techniques, examining Dürer’s work in the context of the greater printmaking tradition The exhibition is on view at NOMA through August 19, 2007. ■

Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m. Gaston Lachaise and the Heroic Ideal by Paula Hornbostel, Lachaise Foundation Trustee

NOMA will present the lecture “Gaston Lachaise and the Heroic Ideal” on Sunday, September 9, at 2 p.m.

It was Gaston Lachaise’s devotion to and fascination with his wife, Isabel, that inspired many of his early twentieth-century sculptures. His graphically sensual and curving forms celebrate this feminine muse he called “Woman,” rendering ideals of femininity with powerful results. This lecture with Paula Hornbostel, trustee of the Lachaise Foundation, promises an insight into the artist’s life and work and an overview of the exhibition Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art September 8 through October 21, 2007. ■

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nnual operating support for NOMA’s exhibitions, the “Van Go,” free admission for Louisiana residents, family workshops, films, lectures, art classes and numerous other special programs enjoyed by visitors from throughout the city, the state, the country, and, indeed, the world, are made possible through the generosity of our many sponsors. The New Orleans Museum of Art and its thousands of visitors are deeply grateful to these friends for their continued commitment. If you would like additional information on sponsorship, please contact the Museum’s development department, (504) 658-4115. ■

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SHERATON NEW ORLEANS HOTEL: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Exhibition Support

THE CUDD FOUNDATION: Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Catalogue and Exhibition Support

THAW CHARITABLE TRUST: Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Catalogue and Exhibition Support

GOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION: Odyssey Ball 2006

THE HELIS FOUNDATION: Free Admission for Louisiana Residents LAKESIDE SHOPPING CENTER AND THE FEIL ORGANIZATON: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support THE PATRICK F. TAYLOR FOUNDATION: Taylor NOMA Scholars Program WDSU NEWSCHANNEL 6: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support ZEMURRAY FOUNDATION: General Operating Support

THE GPOA FOUNDATION: Educational Pre-Visit Video of African Art Collection GREATER LAKESIDE CORPORATION: Odyssey Ball 2006

$100,000 + FREEPORT-MCMORAN FOUNDATION: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Title Sponsor

DOWNMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: NOMA Exhibitions

HOUSE OF BLUES FOUNDATION ROOM: Odyssey Ball 2006

$34,999 - $20,000 ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support JOE W. AND DOROTHY DORSETT BROWN FOUNDATION: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support JONES, WALKER, WAECHTER, POINTEVENT, CARRERE & DENEGRE L.L.P.: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Catalogue and Exhibition Support

MRS. CHARLES W. IRELAND: Odyssey Ball 2006 GLORIA KABACOFF: Odyssey Ball 2006 THE MCILHENNY COMPANY AND THE GUSTAF WESTFELDT MCILHENNY FAMILY FOUNDATION: Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Catalogue and Exhibition Support MARDI GRAS PRODUCTIONS BY BLAINE KERN, JR.: Odyssey Ball 2006 M. G. AND P. L. MAHER FOUNDATION: Odyssey Ball 2006 RENAISSANCE PUBLISHING: Odyssey Ball 2006 SHELL EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION COMPANY: Van Go, NOMA’s Museum-on-Wheels ROBERT AND JOLIE SHELTON: Odyssey Ball 2006

OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR/LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, RECREATION AND TOURISM: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support

$99,999 – $50,000 BLANCHARD AND COMPANY, INC.: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support

THE ROSAMARY FOUNDATION: Family Workshops Handbook of School Programs TRIBUNE BROADCASTING: ABC26 AND WB38: Van Go, NOMA’s Museum-on-Wheels

CHEVRON: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support Handbook of School Programs Teacher’s Packets LOUISIANA DIVISION OF THE ARTS: General Operating Support ??? THE LUPIN FOUNDATION: General Operating Support LOVE in the Garden 2006 ??? Odyssey Ball 2006 Art In Bloom 2007

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BELLSOUTH: Odyssey Ball 2006 SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF: Odyssey Ball 2006

THE BOOTH-BRICKER FUND: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support CAPITAL ONE: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France NOMA Members Day Sponsor

$9,999 - $5,000

EUSTIS INSURANCE & BENEFITS: Odyssey Ball 2006

$19,999 - $10,000 THE AZBY FUND: Security Equipment BLAINE KERN, JR.: Odyssey Ball 2006 BRINKER INTERNATIONAL, INC.: French Heritage Society’s Katrina Heritage Rescue Fund, West Palm Beach DR. AND MRS. JOHN D. BERTUZZI: Odyssey Ball 2006 CHILI’S AND ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL RESTAURANTS: Odyssey Ball 2006

FRISCHHERTZ ELECTRIC COMPANY: Odyssey Ball 2006 MR. AND MRS. LAWRENCE D. GARVEY: Odyssey Ball 2006 DEBRA AND ROBERT PATRICK: Odyssey Ball 2006 RUBY K. WORNER CHARITABLE TRUST: Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France Exhibition Support THE TUNICA-BILOXI TRIBE OF LOUISIANA AND PARAGON CASINO RESORT: Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art Catalogue and Exhibition Support

MUSEUM NEWS MUSEUM NEWS MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING SCHEDULE The board of trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art will not meeting in July or August. The next meeting of the board is Wednesday, September 19, at 4 p.m.

NVC NVC GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2007 The NOMA Volunteer Committee will hold its next general meeting on Monday, September 10, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. A light lunch will be served.

VOLUNTEERS THANK YOU, VOLUNTEERS Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped with the Femme, femme femme exhibition. As always, we could not do it without you. We appreciate the time you have given now more than ever because we know that many of you are still dealing with Katrina-related issues. The exhibition has been a great success, and your expertise at the member’s desk has been invaluable. You have signed up a record number of new members, handed out and retreived audio guides, assisted in the very busy gift shop, and, in general, you have been everywhere needed. NOMA counts on its volunteers even more during major exhibitions, and you never let us down. Again, THANK YOU! ■

NOMA Trustee Phyllis Taylor’s dearest friends toasted NOMA’s Femme, femme, femme exhibition at her Taylor-made party at the Museum. (left to right) Jenny Hamilton, Sarah Graham, Phyllis Taylor, Christie Mintz, Juli Miller-Hart, Barbara Turner-Windhorst, Cheryl Mintz

SENIOR STAFF E. John Bullard, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director Jacqueline L. Sullivan, Deputy Director Kurt Overton, Assistant Director for Development Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art/Curator of Asian Art Joanna Sternberg, Assistant Director for Education Gail Asprodites, Controller Aisha Champagne, Graphics Coordinator/Webmaster Victoria Cooke, Curator of European Painting Sheila Cork, Librarian/Grants Officer Marilyn Dittmann, Senior Development Associate William A. Fagaly, The Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art Brandi Hand, Public Relations Officer Jimmy Jeffrey, Sculpture Garden Manager Jennifer Ickes, Assistant Registrar Kristin Jochem, Development Associate for NVC John W. Keefe, The RosaMary Foundation Curator of The Decorative Arts Heather Nelson, Development Associate for Membership Karl Oelkers, Computer Coordinator Wanda O’Shello, Publications Coordinator/Arts Quarterly Editor George Roland, The Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings Paul Tarver, Registrar/Curator of Native American and Pre-Columbian Art Patricia Trautman, Museum Shop Manager Milton Vinnett, Building Superintendent/Chief Engineer NOMA BOARD OF TRUSTEES Sydney J. Besthoff III, President Mrs. Edward George, Vice-President E. Ralph Lupin, M.D., Vice-President Charles A. Snyder, Vice-President Edgar B. Chase III, Treasurer Mrs. Françoise Billion Richardson, Assistant Treasurer David F. Edwards, Secretary William Aaron Mrs. John Bertuzzi J. Herbert Boydstun Isidore Cohn, Jr., M.D. Leonard Davis S. Stewart Farnet Tina Freeman Mrs. James Frischhertz Lawrence D. Garvey Mrs. Mason Granger Edward F. Harold Mrs. Erik Johnsen Dr. Stella Jones Herbert Kaufman, M.D. Paul J. Leaman, Jr. Mrs. Paula L. Maher Edward C. Mathes Mrs. Charles B. Mayer Kay McArdle Councilmember Shelly Midura Mrs. R. King Milling Mayor C. Ray Nagin Dan Packer Mrs. Robert J. Patrick R. Hunter Pierson Thomas Reese, Ph.D. Michael J. Siegel Mrs. Richard L. Strub Mrs. James Lyle Taylor Mrs. Patrick F. Taylor Louis A. Wilson, Jr. HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES H. Russell Albright, M.D. Mrs. Jack R. Aron Mrs. Edgar B. Chase, Jr. Prescott N. Dunbar Mrs. Richard W. Freeman, Jr. Kurt A. Gitter, M.D. Mrs. H. Lloyd Hawkins Mrs. Killian L. Huger Richard W. Levy, M.D. Mrs. J. Frederick Muller, Jr. Mrs. Charles S. Reily Mrs. Françoise Billion Richardson R. Randolph Richmond, Jr. Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford Harry C. Stahel Mr. and Mrs. Moise S. Steeg, Jr. Mrs. Harold H. Stream Mrs. John N. Weinstock

NATIONAL TRUSTEES Mrs. Carmel Cohen Aaron I. Fleischman Mrs. Caroline W. Ireland George L. Lindemann Mrs. James Pierce Mrs. Benjamin Rosen Mrs. Robert Shelton Mrs. Billie Milam Weisman Mrs. Henry H. Weldon

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AUGUST

SUNDAY, Happy Independence Day—Museum Closed SUNDAY, 2 p.m., Family Workshop, “Chip Off the Old Block”

2 p.m., Lecture, “A Conservation with Henry Casselli” with George Roland, The Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings, NOMA, and Henry Casselli, Artist

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SUNDAY, 2 p.m., Lecture, “Collecting the Devotional, Connecting the Spiritual Ikons as Windows of Heaven” by John Webster Keefe, The RosaMary Foundation Curator of the Decorative Arts, NOMA

SUNDAY, 2 p.m., Family Workshop, “Making Modern Ikons: Who Inspires You?” 2 p.m., Lecture, “Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Reflections on Albrecht Dürer as a Master Printermaker” by Mary Jane Parker, Artist and Teacher, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

SATURDAY, Noon, Classic New Orleans Film Series, The Flame of New Orleans (1941, 79 min.)

SATURDAY, Noon, Classic New Orleans Film Series, Birth of the Blues (1941, 87 min.)

NOMA EXHIBITION SCHEDULE From Our Native Clay: Selections of American Art Pottery from the Permanent Collection Ongoing

SEPTEMBER

Articles of Beauty: Edo-period Paintings, Prints, Textiles and Decorative Objects Through October 28, 2007 Lalique, Lalique, Lalique: Legends in Glass Through July 29, 2007 The Arts and Club of New Orleans: An Artistic Legacy Through August 5, 2007 Albrecht Dürer: Renaissance Engravings and Woodcuts, Dürer Collection of the Foundation of Lower Saxony and The Konrad Liebman Foundation, Germany Through August 19, 2007 Windows of Heaven: Russian Ikons from the Collection of Daniel R. Bibb and the New Orleans Museum of Art Through August 26, 2007 Really Beautiful: Henry Casselli Drawings, Sketches and Watercolor Pre-studies from the Lieselotte and Ernest Tansey Collection Through September 2, 2007 Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935 September 8 – October 21, 2007

SUNDAY, Opening Day—Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., NOMA Members Preview—Gaston Lachaise 1882-1935

SUNDAY, 2 p.m., “Gaston Lachaise and the Heroic Ideal” by Paula Hornbostel, Lachaise Foundation Trustee

MONDAY, 10:30 a.m., NVC General Meeting and Lecture

SUNDAY, 2 p.m., Family Workshop, “Scrolling Through Life”

Wednesday, 4 p.m., NOMA Board of Trustees Meeting

FRIDAY, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., LOVE in the Garden Patron Party 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., LOVE in the Garden General Party

For further information on upcoming exhibitions and events at the New Orleans Museum of Art, call (504) 658-4100, or visit our website at www.noma.org.

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