Annual Report 2022 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART Annual Report 2022

Cover: Artist Leonardo Drew installs his nearly three story high, sitespecific sculptural installation in the Main Street lobby, June 2021.

The Year in Review

July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022

Dear Friends,

Transition and recovery were the defining qualities of Fiscal Year 2022. The effects of the pandemic persisted— and continue to have an impact as we write—as economic fluctuations, the Great Resignation, climate issues, and social and political turmoil prolonged challenging conditions especially for museums and other nonprofit institutions. While these challenges are significant, the actions we have taken and our strategies for the future provide counterbalance and reason for optimism. We have been true to our mission and celebrate art and art making every day with our permanent and special exhibitions, and we help animate the city of Hartford through a full calendar of art- and culture-based programming and activities.

We have weathered more than our share of change in 2022 and are beginning to experience the beginnings of a positive shift with a full recovery still approximately two or more years away. The daily business of the museum continues as the entire staff makes the transition to longer-range planning for our finances, exhibitions, and programming. In the past year, we prioritized building internal management processes, delving deeply into our accounting and human resources practices, and implementing new controls.

Indeed, we have taken good advantage of adversity to make transformative changes for the betterment of our institution:

• Both of us dropped interim from our titles as Jeff assumed responsibility as the museum’s CEO and Gerry was elected to a full term as board president.

• Implemented a distributed leadership model in which a chief executive officer and a director run the museum together, dividing responsibilities and overseeing operations and programming, respectively

• Hired a new management team including a new director and new heads of development, marketing and communications, and finance

• Restructured the Development Department

• Secured critical state funding for operations and state bonding to enable us to begin to address our larger capital needs

• Increased the marketing budget to raise awareness of the Wadsworth’s collections, exhibitions, programming, and free admission to Hartford residents and children

• All aspects of the human resources function were outsourced; a new employee handbook has been written, and a new performance management process put in place to support professional and organizational development

• Routine finance functions were outsourced, streamlining operations and improving controls

• With sensitivity to the intentions of our donors, we have methodically reviewed almost 150 different endowment funds, ensuring not only that each donor’s intent is fully understood and honored but also that the funds are used to the optimum benefit of the museum

The museum mounted two highly successful special exhibitions this fiscal year to both critical and public acclaim. By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women

Jeffrey N. Brown CEO

Gerard Lupacchino Board President

Left: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player (detail), c. 1615–18. Oil on canvas. 30.5 x 28.25 inches. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Charles H. Schwartz Endowment Fund.

Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 featured masterworks by this renowned painter in dialogue with the works of sixteen successful women artists who inspired her or in turn were inspired by her extraordinary career. Milton Avery represented the first major retrospective of Avery’s career in more than thirty years and offered a fitting tribute to an artist whose art career began in Hartford. The show went on to receive rave reviews at its London opening.

A Challenging Environment

To appreciate the complex position in which the Wadsworth currently operates, it is helpful to acknowledge our challenges as they are now. With fiscal recovery from the pandemic improving but still years away from normalcy, the museum operates with a structural operating budget deficit. Extraordinary efforts and one-time grants and other means of nonrecurring support such as government relief programs have been used to close the gap, but these funding sources are not sustainable in the long-term. Key museum areas including building maintenance, conservation, theater logistics, programming, and DEAI development—to name a few—remain underfunded as we move into the next fiscal year.

The museum participated fully in the federal Paycheck Protection Program, but that has run its course. And because of our operating model, we do not qualify for the federal Save Our Stages money. State programs that were so helpful in the last fiscal year have been greatly reduced in the current fiscal year. Great effort is being made to rebuild the museum’s operating income, membership rolls, and contributions from donors, all of which suffered during the pandemic, but this takes time. Clearly, we are not out of the woods yet but have great faith in the steps we have taken for the future.

Path for the Future

Let us consider the future from this moment forward in the form of the Fiscal Year 2023 Operating Plan. The first full year of implementation of the museum’s strategic plan will be foundational and will take us into a period of rebuilding and growth, now well underway. It begins with investment in long-neglected areas including collections management (curatorial and registration), development (major gifts, membership, donor management, and cultivation), infrastructure, programming, and marketing. We are moving our

efforts beyond a focus on special exhibitions to a more comprehensive presentation of our amazing collections, collaboration across the area’s many arts organizations, and finding new ways to provide an oasis of art and culture for our communities as well as delight our visitors from all around the world.

To do this we needed to institute new processes across the organization that are focused on increasing our effectiveness while seeking new synergies among our programming, development, and marketing activities. Our strategy is to build unique experiences for our guests that help increase their engagement with us and, in turn, their support for the museum. Operating income will continue to grow as we increase involvement in the museum and its activities. Programming will continue to support our special exhibitions, but also develop activities that support broader artistic interests.

The outsourcing of HR and finance is almost complete, moving beyond transactional support to becoming more strategic partners. Finance is working with each department to develop three-year financial plans so we can set goals and map progress of the long-term investments we are making. The Curatorial Department is focused on developing a much longer time horizon for planning of exhibitions and installations and the strategic management of our collections, which will give us more time to seek input from our communities, involve The Amistad Center as a collaborative partner, and to raise funds to support these activities. You will see the Development Department emphasize donor

Visitors explore Milton Avery

management and cultivation. Across the board, we hope you will be able to perceive our commitment to diversity and the communities that surround us. Through hiring, artist engagement, programming, and importantly, listening sessions and exhibition focus groups we hope to become a leader among our peers in engaging traditionally underrepresented groups.

We are blessed to work with skilled and passionate colleagues who continue to demonstrate extraordinary flexibility and determination as we build a more vibrant and sustainable Wadsworth.

Our New Director

A key factor in our optimism for an increasingly bright future of the Wadsworth is the appointment of our new director, Matthew Hargraves. One year ago, we launched an extensive search for the right person to head our curatorial, exhibitions, programming, education, library, archives, and other activities—the crucial counterpart to the CEO designated to focus on the operations side of the business of running a large museum. We were looking for no less than the guardian of the spirit and purpose of the Wadsworth, and our standard-bearer for what we believe is a pivotal time in our organization’s history.

We did a series of cultural assessments to help us set a benchmark for the leader we hoped to find. Over a period of seven months, we examined the credentials of thirty-two viable applicants from the US and abroad. We gradually reduced the candidate pool to five. Each of the

finalists participated in three sets of panel interviews conducted by the search committee and responded to the questions that most greatly impact our mission and the health of our museum:

• How would you increase attendance?

• How would you increase diversity, equity, access, and inclusion?

• How would you improve relationships with all stakeholders, internally and externally?

• How would you strengthen community engagement?

• How would you embrace technology, considering our greatest competition comes from streaming entertainment services, immersive experiences, and the many temptations of the digital world?

• How would you evolve our external relationships with an eye toward transcending our current position in the international marketplace?

And most importantly, we needed to be convinced of the successful candidate’s ability to manage, develop, and lead a team of exceptionally talented individuals with tremendous expertise, and to be an inspiring leader with a compelling vision for the museum.

Ultimately, we found our new director already installed in the curatorial office suite, serving wonderfully as our interim chief curator. In the search committee evaluation process, Matthew scored in the top position of every category, adding to the mix his passion and knowledge for our collections, as well as the greater Hartford community in which he has lived for the last fifteen years. What follows next in this report is an excerpt of a wonderful and quite inspiring address Matthew gave on Saturday, September 17, 2022, to the staff, the Board, and friends of the Wadsworth about his vision. His words energized all present by acknowledging our past successes and sketching out a path for our progress along a continuum we hope will extend many years into the future. We hope you will enjoy this taste of the longer presentation. A full transcript will be made available upon request.

Thank you for your support of the museum and all its programs.

With gratitude and optimism,

Jeffrey N. Brown CEO Gerard Lupacchino Board President

A New Vision for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Excerpted from a September 17, 2022, speech by Director Matthew Hargraves

This painting of Cardinal Gonzaga in his picture gallery in Rome, painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini around 1749, is one of the many showstoppers from our collections and is a staple in our Morgan Great Hall. Although it has been in our collections for nearly three-quarters of a century and seen countless times over by those in our galleries and beyond, looking at it today I see many interesting connections that relate to my vision for the future of this great museum.

Simply put, my goal for our future is to restore the Wadsworth’s position of preeminence among art museums.

Left: Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, Roman, 1691–1765), The Picture Gallery of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (detail), 1749. Oil on canvas. 78 x 105.5 inches. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

Matthew Hargraves Director

The Wadsworth has an extraordinary history of innovation, from being the very first public art museum in the United States, founded in 1842 and opening in 1844. And we have realized so many firsts since:

• First building built in the international modern style in the US

• First Mondrian to enter a US collection

• First Picasso exhibition in the US

• First museum to be seriously interested in minimalism

• First museum to seriously engage with contemporary art in a regular way through our MATRIX program

The list is almost endless. That pioneering spirit is absolutely written into the DNA of our institution. Restoring the Wadsworth to that place where we look boldly forward is at the center of my vision.

So, how do you get this from a painting from the late eighteenth century, you might wonder? Panini presents us with several concepts that will help us achieve this path forward.

As Proud as Cardinal Gonzaga

At the center, Cardinal Gonzaga is surrounded by his collection, which he built over the course of a lifetime. I don’t think you commission a painting on this scale, and put yourself right in the middle of it, unless you’re extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished. The Wadsworth should be just as proud as Cardinal Gonzaga of all that has been achieved over the course of its one hundred and eighty years. Like Cardinal Gonzaga, our achievements deserve a bit of boasting.

There is certainly an element of glamour in this scene. My vision for the Wadsworth at this moment includes reviving that spirit of glamour and fun that we associate with the glorious Chick Austin years of the 1920s and 1930s when scarcely a week went by without some kind of social event or party—usually costumed. Florence Berger, who was the general curator at that moment,

famously said that there was “no place for frivolity in an art museum.” Sorry, Florence, I disagree.

The Wadsworth should be a place that offers people entertainment, a place where they can come to socialize; to see others and to be seen themselves. That sense that an institution doesn’t have to take itself too seriously all the time is a key part of what we’ll work to accomplish.

First-hand Encounters with Great Works of Art

Importantly, there are more people in this gallery than just its patron. This might seem obvious to us, as a public art museum, but it is so crucial to the success of our museum—we need to create an experience here that people will seek out. In Panini’s painting, we see a group of people gathered around studying, examining, enjoying, preserving, caring for, admiring, taking pleasure in works of art.

This is the fundamental thing that art museums can offer that no one else can: first-hand encounters with works of art. We have the ability to be saturated with images wherever we are at all times, but only museums can really give us that face-to-face experience.

In recent years, when museums closed during the pandemic, the negative impact of having lost access to works of art was undeniable. I’m very proud to say that this museum was among the first in our region to reopen, and when we did, people were craving that experience. Finding ways to harness desire and enthusiasm for art and encouraging people to engage with our collections and understand what they are encountering is central to our work.

Embrace Our Atheneum

Surprisingly, and perhaps a little counterintuitively, in the background of this scene you’ll see that the windows are wide open. While our responsibility as safekeepers of our collections won’t allow us to fling open our

windows, I interpret this as a metaphor for openness; the kind of openness with which we want our museum to operate, the kind of openness we aspire to.

We want the Wadsworth to appeal to and be here for everyone in our community, and we want everyone to feel welcome in our museum. We want to reflect the interests and experiences of everyone who visits.

When the Wadsworth was founded, it was founded as an atheneum—a place for art, a library, and at the time, the historical society. I have no doubt that at various times in our history the idea of being called an atheneum may not have appealed to some, or many. The word may conjure dusty images of older white men with cigars on leather couches perhaps, but for me it does something else.

The very first atheneum in the English-speaking world was created in Liverpool at the end of the eighteenth century and it was anything but stuffy. It was founded to encourage some rather dangerous ideas coming in from France after the French Revolution, but nevertheless, it was an institution that was about exchanging the newest ideas in society, a place for debate and discussion about what different opinions could be broached in a respectful and mutually encouraging way. This is actually a rather interesting model for a museum in the twenty-first century, because what a great role for a museum to play—a place where people from different backgrounds can encounter each other in a mutually respectful way.

This suggests in the year 2022, that embracing our position as an atheneum will be of very positive value.

Exhibitions & Sponsors

Sustaining support for the Wadsworth Atheneum provided by the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Paul Manship: Ancient Made Modern

February 11–July 3, 2021

Major support provided by the David T. Langrock Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Research support for this exhibition including access to archival materials provided by the Manship Artists Residency + Studios.

Goya, Posada, Chagoya: Three Generations of Satirists

April 23–November 7, 2021

Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years

May 14–October 17, 2021

Support for this exhibition was generously provided by The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc.

Leonardo Drew: Two Projects

Front lawn: June 4–November 14, 2021

Main Street lobby: June 18, 2021–January 2, 2022

This exhibition was made possible through major support provided by the estate of James B. Lyon and generous support from Agnes and Billy Peelle.

Stories in Ivory and Wood, told by Master Carvers

June 11, 2021–January 23, 2022

By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800

September 30, 2021–January 9, 2022

This exhibition was generously supported by the Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., the National Endowment for the Arts, The David T. Langrock Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Tavolozza Foundation, the Private Art Dealers Association, Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Dau Family Foundation.

Three self-portraits by Artemisia Gentileschi brought together in By Her Hand

Milton Avery

March 5–June 5, 2022

Exhibition organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Support for this exhibition was generously provided by The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., The Saunders Foundation, and the Estate of James Lyon.

Exhibition curated by Edith Devaney at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Andrea Karnes at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Erin Monroe at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

49th Annual Hartford Youth Art Renaissance (HYAR): It’s Only Natural

May 7–29, 2022

The Wadsworth thanks its generous funders of School and Teacher programs: Lincoln Financial Foundation, Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, SBM Charitable Foundation, S&S Worldwide, and Travelers. We extend gratitude to the entire Hartford Public Schools community for its tireless work.

Hamilton: The Art of Remaking History

June 24–September 11, 2022

This exhibition was presented in collaboration with The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts and the Connecticut Historical Society.

Made possible through the Wadsworth Atheneum Exhibition Fund supported by the estates of James Lyon, Karen Kelleher, and Susannah Shickman.

Leonardo Drew, Number 82S (2021)

MATRIX

Generously supported by the Wadsworth Atheneum’s Contemporary Coalition.

Todd Gray / MATRIX 186

March 4–July 18, 2021

Generously supported by the Howard Fromson Exhibition Fund, the Larsen Fund for Photography, and The Cowles Charitable Trust.

Christina Forrer / MATRIX 187

August 13, 2021–January 2, 2022

Generously supported by The Coby Foundation Ltd.

Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188

February 3–May 1, 2022

Generously supported by The Saunders Foundation.

Naama Tsabar / MATRIX 189

Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 6)

June 3–September 11, 2022

Naama Tsabar / MATRIX 189

Spotlight

A Remarkable Friendship: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril

April 30–August 29, 2021

Discovering Rose Fried’s Nephew by Alice Neel

September 10, 2021–January 23, 2022

Edward Russell Thaxter, Love’s First Dream

March 10–July 31, 2022

Installations

Jennifer Bartlett: The Island and Pink Fence

November 6, 2021–January 23, 2022

Creative Connecticut: Travis Dimeer Terry, IEMBE bag

April 19–August 15, 2022

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Through the Looking Glass

March 12–November 28, 2021

Changing Lanes: Mobility in Connecticut

December 9, 2021–April 3, 2022

Anika Noni Rose

May 26–September 18, 2022

Todd Gray / MATRIX 186

Jennifer Bartlett: The Island and Pink Fence

Acquisitions

American Decorative Arts

Wetmore Family Manuscripts, Day Books, and Accompts Ledgers, Volumes I–VI 1744–1848

Staddle Hill, Middletown, Connecticut

The Krieble Family Fund for American Art, 2021.15.1–6

Peter Bentzon

St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1786–after 1852

Set of Six Forks, c. 1830

Silver

The Elijah K. and Barbara A. Hubbard Decorative Arts Fund, 2021.16.1–6

Pictured at right

Mathias Hoyris

born Curacao, Charlotte Amelie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, c. 1781–1865

Ladle, c. 1830

Silver

The Elijah K. and Barbara A. Hubbard Decorative Arts Fund, 2021.16.7

Martin Blank

American, b. 1962

Torso, c. 2005–10

Hot-sculpted glass

Gift of Sandra P. Gordon, 2021.19.1

Peter Bentzon was one of a handful of identified silversmiths of African descent working in early America. He was a free person of color who apprenticed to an unknown silversmith in Philadelphia from approximately 1799 to 1806 before moving to Christiansted, St. Croix, to begin his career. There are few silver objects by Bentzon known today, and this is the only set of forks.

The rare set joins a nutmeg grater by Bentzon already in the Wadsworth’s collection (acquired 2021). The objects are complemented by a ladle created by Mathias Hoyris (also acquired this year, see information at left), and a marrow scoop (acquired 2019) from the workshop of Alexander Petrie, where a highly skilled enslaved silversmith named Abraham labored. These acquisitions make the Wadsworth the only museum in the United States with silver attributed to three metalsmiths of African descent, two of whom, Bentzon and Hoyris, had their own workshop and mark.

Contemporary Art

Christopher Wilmarth

American, 1943–1987

Study for Nine Clearings for a Standing Man #4, 1973

Ink and ink wash on paper

Gift of Jack and Susan Cowart in memory of Christopher Wilmarth, 2021.13.1

Trenton Doyle Hancock

American, b. 1974

Fix, 2006–08

Portfolio of 18 prints. Etching, lithograph, silkscreen on paper, ed. 17/30

Published by Brodsky Center, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gift of Dr. Samuel R. Peterson and Martha M. Peterson, 2021.14.1.1–20

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds Native American, Cheyenne/Arapaho, b. 1954

Dunging the Ground, 1996

Silkscreen ink on aluminum

Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, and partial gift of the artist, 2021.17.1a,b

Pictured at right

Janine Antoni

American, The Bahamas, b. 1964

Lick and Lather, 1993

One licked chocolate self-portrait bust and one washed soap self-portrait bust on pedestals, ed. 3/7

Gift of Ara Arslanian, 2021.18.1a,b

The Wadsworth commissioned this work by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds for the artist’s 1996 MATRIX 131 project. It illuminates one of the earliest and most brutal events in American history, the fiercely genocidal Pequot War (1636–37) that took place here in Connecticut. In late May 1637, settlers from Connecticut and Massachusetts set out for Mystic, attacking a Pequot tribe village, burning it to the ground, and incarcerating nearly all seven hundred inhabitants. The next year, the Pequot nation was dissolved through the Treaty of Hartford, forcibly signed by the few surviving members of the tribe.

Heap of Birds developed this work during a site visit to the museum in August 1995. The words of John Mason, leader of the Connecticut regiments, and John Underhill, who led the Massachusetts forces, were drawn from documents the artist discovered in the Connecticut Historical Society, and appear on either side of the sign. The words of the two white captains celebrate the massacre of the tribe in the name of God.

Heap of Birds developed the two-part sign as a public art intervention to be installed in dialogue with the Wadsworth’s Nathan Hale monument, which generally represents a heroic portrayal of the establishment of the American colonies.

John O’Reilly

American, 1930–2021

Artist and Model, 1985

Polaroid montage

2022.1.1

Pictured top right

Dutch Youth in My Studio, 1985

Polaroid montage

2022.1.2

Pictured bottom right

Occupied Territory #1–Hilz, 1994

Polaroid montage

2022.1.3

Studio Dream, 1990

Polaroid montage

2022.1.4

Dogtown-Hartley Series 10-27-08, 2008

Polaroid, color coupler print, halftone

2022.1.5

Hillside Garden 1-25-81, 1981

Polaroid montage

2022.1.6

Patio Evening, 1950

Polaroid montage

2022.1.7

The Parrot, 1988

Polaroid montage

2022.1.8

One as Two, 1989

Polaroid montage

2022.1.9

After Genet, 1994

Polaroid montage

2022.1.10

Achille, 1997

Polaroid montage

2022.1.11

Wrestlers 9-13-08, 2008

Halftone, color coupler print

2022.1.12

Dogtown Hartley Series 1/24/09, 2009

Polaroid, color coupler, halftone montage

2022.1.13

Wrestlers 2-3-09, 2009

Halftone, color coupler

2022.1.14

After a Bath 1-3-10, 2010

Halftone montage

2022.1.15

Under a Cloud, 2015

Watercolor, crayon, paper montage

2022.1.16

Gifts of Hosfelt Gallery, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery, and James Tellin.

The most celebrated series in the artist’s oeuvre thus far, Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures (1997–2002) is emblematic of teenage experience. The series began in New Haven, Connecticut, and tells a fictional story about an empowered community of young women. The monumental series operates like a storyboard of chance encounters with groups of young women exploring their independence, growth, and place in the world. Highly relatable, each composition inspires a potential story informed by a viewer’s own experiences.

By documenting teenage girls as rebels at play in bucolic frontier landscapes, the series offers a feminist recasting of vagabond narratives like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957). The complete series of sixty-nine photographs was made on solo road trips between Connecticut and California over five years. This acquisition is the original, full set of unique photographs printed by the artist, who is regarded as a master color printer.

Justine Kurland

American, b. 1969

Girl Pictures, 1997–2002

Sixty-nine C-prints, unique Purchased through the gift of Robinson A. and Nancy D. Grover and the Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2022.2.1–69

Pictured top right: The Wall (2000); bottom left: Bathroom (1997); bottom right: Snow Angels (2000)

Charles LeDray

American, b. 1960

Untitled, 1992

Wool, cotton, paper, pencil, metal, thread

Gift of Dr. Samuel R. Peterson, 2022.5.1

Lyle Ashton Harris

American, b. 1965

Americas: Kym, Lyle & Crinoline

1987–88

Gelatin silver print

Gift of Alice Zoloto Kosmin and Marvin Kosmin, 2022.6.1

Deborah Kass

American, b. 1952

Single Red Yentl (My Elvis), 1992

Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

Gift of Alice Zoloto Kosmin and Marvin Kosmin, 2022.6.2

Known as Cavaliere d’Arpino, Giuseppe Cesari was a leading artist in Rome around 1600. Drawing played a central role in his artistry and today he is considered one of the most accomplished draftsmen of all time. This recently rediscovered work is the only surviving compositional drawing for one of the most important public commissions in Italy at the time—a series of six ancient Roman history scenes painted for the Palace of the Conservators (Palazzo dei Conservatori) in Rome.

Between 1595 and 1640, Cesari decorated the walls of the Great Hall (Sala degli Orazi e Curiazi), the most prominent space in the palace, which was used for public hearings of the City Council. The fresco titled The Discovery of Romulus and Remus is positioned opposite the Great Hall entrance used by visitors, a focal point indicative of its significance in the setting.

An outstanding example of the artist’s draftsmanship executed at the height of his career, this drawing is the first work by Cesari to join the Wadsworth’s collections. Its acquisition is an important addition to the museum’s collection of European drawings and serves as an exceptional example of the mannerist style complementing baroque works in the collections by Caravaggio and his contemporaries.

European Art

Giuseppe Cesari

Italian, 1568–1640

The Discovery of Romulus and Remus

1596

Red chalk

Charles H. Schwartz Endowment Fund, 2022.7.1

Picture top left

Félicie de Fauveau

French, 1801–1886

Sainte Genevieve, 1841

Carrara marble, partly gilt

Purchased through the gift of James Junius Goodwin, 2022.4.1a,b

European Decorative Arts

Samuel Whitford II

English, c. 1780–1856

Spoon, 1819–20

Silver

Gift of Carol Santry-Covello, 2021.20.1

Johann Heinrich Köhler

German, Dresden, 1669–1736

Miniature Clock in its Original Case

c. 1720

Silver-gilt, silver, gemstones, carnelian, polychrome enamel

The Elijah K. and Barbara H. Hubbard Decorative Arts Fund, purchased in honor of Linda H. Roth for forty years of service to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2022.3.1

Pictured bottom left

Summer Lawn Party

Program Highlights

The year brought a welcome return to in-person programming as we activated exhibitions and our collections through conversation, music, poetry, film, and hands-on creativity. Student groups returned in the fall for tours, kickstarted by a visit from Governor Ned Lamont, Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, and art students from Weaver High School. Second Saturdays for Families and Community Days brought our audiences together to celebrate art in all its forms. Highlights for exhibitions and programs focused on the collections and special events are listed below, followed by programs offered to our core audience areas.

Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years

Gallery Talk: Documenting Milton Avery Gary Knoble, historian

Gallery Talk: Milton Avery Erin Monroe, curator

Leonardo Drew: Two Projects

Summer Film Series and Live Music, curated by Leonardo Drew King Kong, preceded by the Matt DeChamplain Trio

A Raisin in the Sun, preceded by the Summer Lawn Party: Jam Out Gloria, preceded by Nekita Waller Beasts of the Southern Wild, preceded by Acute Inflections

Summer Lawn Party: Jam Out United Outkast, Phat A$tronaut, and The Lost Tribe

Summer Lawn Party: Featuring Cafeteria Radio

Gallery Talk: Leonardo Drew and Material Transformation

Casey Mallinckrodt, objects conservator

The Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art with Leonardo Drew

A Remarkable Friendship: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril

Gallery Talk: Leaving the Moulin Rouge Oliver Tostmann, curator

MATRIX

Artist Talks:

Christina Forrer / MATRIX 187

Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188

Naama Tsabar / MATRIX 189

Floor Loom Demonstrations

Hartford Artisans Weaving Center

Christina Forrer and Sabrina Orah Mark in Conversation (virtual program)

Gallery Talk: Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188

Patricia Hickson, curator

MATRIX: On the Art of Tom Burr, Torkwase Dyson, and Tony Smith

James Voorhies, executive director, Tony Smith Foundation, in conversation with artists Tom Burr and Torkwase Dyson

Presented in partnership with the Tony Smith Foundation

MATRIX Past and Present: Nevine Mahmoud and Pipilotti Rist in Conversation (virtual program)

Stories in Ivory and Wood

Told by Master Carvers

Gallery Talk: Stories in Ivory and Wood (virtual program)

Vanessa Sigalas, associate curator

Gallery Talk: Master Ivory Carvers

Linda Roth, curator

Goya, Posada, Chagoya: Three Generations of Satirists

Gallery Talk: Goya, Posada, Chagoya

Patricia Hickson, curator

Gallery Talk: Posada’s Prints: Humor and Satire

Erin Monroe, curator

By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800

Lecture: The Exhibition and its Making

Oliver Tostmann, curator

Lecture: Nevertheless, She Persisted: Artemisia’s Adventures

Elizabeth Cropper, dean emerita of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Supported by the Trinity College

Department of Fine Arts and the James F. and Isabelle S. C. English Fund

Study Day

Museum curators, conservators, and scholars of Italian art gathered for a morning of presentations and discussion about Gentileschi and her contemporaries. The Study Day was moderated by Oliver Tostmann and Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, co-curators of By Her Hand, and presentations were given by Michael Cole, Columbia University; Sheila Barker, Medici Archive Project; and Allen Kosanovich.

Sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Gallery Music

Petra Jenkinson, lutist

Gallery Talk: Artemisia Gentileschi: Conservation Notes

Allen Kosanovich, paintings conservator

Opera: La Liberazione Di Ruggiero by Francesca Caccini

CT Lyric Opera

Concert: Sunday Serenades: By Her Hand: Women in Art and Music

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Gallery Talk: Noble and Virtuous: Women and Textile Arts in Early Modern Italy

Katherine Tycz, scholar

Co-sponsored by the Costume & Textile Society

Discovering Rose Fried’s Nephew, by Alice Neel

Film: Alice Neel

Gallery Talk: Alice Neel

Patricia Hickson, curator

World AIDS Day Poetry Reading

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Rhonda Ward, and Summer Tate

Tom Burr, Torkwase Dyson, and James Voorhies in conversation

Artist Nevine Mahmoud discusses her work in MATRIX 188

Milton Avery

Lecture: Milton Avery: An Introduction

Edith Devaney, Milton Avery organizing curator and managing director and curator for David Hockney Inc. and the David Hockney Foundation

Docent Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Docent Council

Month with Milton Sketch Challenge and Critique Night

Gallery Talk: Milton Avery Erin Monroe, curator

Lecture: In Milton’s Footsteps (virtual program)

Erin Monroe, curator

Presented in partnership with the Auerbach Library Associates and the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library

Concert: Sunday Serenades: Modernist Creations

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Edward Russell Thaxter: Love’s First Dream

Gallery Talk: Thaxter’s Love’s First Dream

Casey Mallinckrodt, objects conservator

Gallery Talk: Thaxter’s Love’s First Dream

Matthew Hargraves, chief curator

Collection and Special Programs

Arakawa Thieves in Discussion (virtual program)

David Crane, Marilyn Greenberg, Kathe Gregory, Scott Kahn, and Russell Lewis in conversation with Patricia Hickson

Pierre Matisse and an Ancient Figurine from Mexico (virtual program)

Megan E. O’Neil, assistant professor of art history, Emory University, and faculty curator of the art of the Americas

Restoring a Nineteenth-century Folio (virtual program)

Laura O’Brien Miller, conservator, in conversation with librarian Amy Kilkenny and curator Erin Monroe

Co-sponsored by the Auerbach Library Associates

Concert: Sunday Serenades: Mozart in the Museum

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

The Pennington Lecture and Book Discussion: Vision & Justice by Sarah Lewis

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and AfricanAmerican studies, Harvard University, and founder of The Vision and Justice Project Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Capital Community College Foundation, and Liberty Bank as a collaboration between Capital Community College, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, and the Wadsworth Atheneum

Conservation Programs

Gallery Talk: Kensett’s Coast Scene with Figures (Beverly Shore)

Allen Kosanovich, paintings conservator

Gallery Talk: Maria Martins and Germaine Richier

Casey Mallinckrodt, objects conservator

Gallery Talk: Blank’s Torso

Casey Mallinckrodt, objects conservator

Pop-up Conservation in the Galleries

Music, Dance, and Performance

Voices of Concinnity Chamber Ensemble

CONNetic Dance: Nutcracker Suite and Spicy (virtual program)

Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus: Singing from the Heart of Hartford

Arazzo Music Festival

Music in the Galleries

Samuel DeCaprio

Jaclyn Jones

Voce Concitato

Matt DeChamplain and Nat Reeves

Rick Germanson and Nat Reeves

Classes

Finding Light: Novice Photography

Finding Beauty through the Lens In collaboration with Defining Studios

Films Manhattan Short Film Festival

Erin Monroe leads a gallery talk in Milton Avery

School and Teacher Programs

Student Tours

Docent-guided visits were available to PreK-12 students, designed to correlate with state and national curriculum standards. This year, 2,946 students toured the museum from sixty-three schools across all eight counties in Connecticut and represented thirty-one cities and towns in the state, in addition to schools from Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

Virtual Tours and Programs

Live, docent-guided virtual visits were available to PreK-12 schools, designed to correlate with state and national curriculum standards. This year, 272 students took part in this program from four schools in Connecticut and Vermont.

Professionally produced videos, paired with museum-developed curricula, allowed teachers to implement aspects of our popular Studio Programs, Art and Writing, and Museum on the Move in their own classrooms. These resources reached 280 students from two schools in Connecticut and Georgia.

Studio Programs

In-person studio programs served 275 students this year. Specially developed themes stimulate imagination, dynamic discussion, and creative expression in this program that combines a gallery tour with a studio art experience. Studio programs are available during school hours and after school (Community Arts Program). Themes structured for specific grade levels include Animals in Art, Color My World, Be the Curator, Drawing out the Details, Making Myths, Art and Poetry, and STEAM: Sketch Like a Scientist.

Governor Ned Lamont and art students from Weaver High School tour Christina Forrer / MATRIX 187

Art and Writing

This curriculum for grades 3-8 builds students’ narrative, descriptive, and expository writing skills through the investigation of art. Six schools from Hartford and Cheshire brought 314 students to the museum for an associated tour.

Partnership with Connecticut’s Old State House

Students learn about the meaning of objects and architecture illustrating local and state history as they discover their place within this cultural narrative. Visits include hour-long tours at the museum and at Connecticut’s Old State House.

Hartford Youth Art Renaissance

The forty-ninth annual exhibition, It’s Only Natural, was hosted at the museum and online for the first time, highlighting art created by PreK-12 students. A closing reception for families and supporters celebrated student artists with tours, live music, and special guests. A new partnership with Colt Park extended the exhibition through the summer with placement of artwork reproductions along park fencing.

Summer Pre-Collegiate Program

Two Hartford high school students from Great Path Academy and Pathways Academy of Art and Design were awarded scholarships to attend the summer 2022 Hartford Art School’s Summer High School Visual Arts Portfolio Program and participate in associated museum visits.

Evening for Educators

PreK-12 teachers and administrators returned to the museum in the spring for an in-person program focused on Milton Avery

Teacher Workshops and In-Service Training

Professional development sessions provide educators with tools to incorporate the visual arts into their classroom instruction. A series of virtual workshops were held this year for Waterbury art teachers.

Superintendent of Hartford Public Schools, Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez (left) with a student artist and his work in HYAR

Images: Visitors explore the galleries, make art, and enjoy performances during Second Saturdays for Families

Community and Youth Programs

Second Saturdays for Families

The museum welcomed nearly four thousand visitors this year through the return of in-person Second Saturdays for Families. Families experience art together with hands-on art projects, family-centered tours, music, and the performing arts. Programs in January and February were held virtually.

Community Days

The Wadsworth Atheneum and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture offered Juneteenth Family Day with free admission all day and extensive programming for nearly four hundred visitors of all ages. Virtual programming was offered for Martin Luther King Jr. Community Day.

Community Arts Program

The Community Arts Program offered hands-on studio programs to afterschool groups from Hartford-area organizations. Wish Museum School and Hartford Public Library brought seventy-three students to experience the program.

Summer Community Studio

Summer Community Studio welcomed youth groups to the museum for a tour and related hands-on art-making experience. Community organizations including the Hispanic Health Council, Camp AGAPE, and Real Art Ways brought 198 youth to participate.

College and University Engagement

University Tours

Virtual and in-person visits were available to college and university classes and groups, including tours tailored to a specific academic course or topic. This year, 875 students participated from fifteen colleges and universities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.

Internship Program

Eight interns from five universities worked approximately 610 hours in the Communications and Marketing, Conservation, Curatorial, Education, Library and Archives, and Registrars departments.

Docent Program

Docent Council

Sixty-eight docents volunteered more than four thousand hours to train and provide more than one thousand in-person tours and one hundred virtual tours to more than nine thousand visitors of all ages. Docents attended twelve training sessions relating to exhibitions, the collection, and touring strategies led by education and curatorial staff as well as outside guest speakers.

Docent-in-Training Class

Nine docents-in-training completed their mentorship this year and joined the council as full docents.

Eileen S. Pollack Docent Education Lecture

Nancy Siegel, professor of art history and culinary history, Towson University

Museum Experience and Interpretation

Exhibition Interpretive Elements

The Education staff develops in-gallery interactives and resources in conjunction with exhibitions and the collections. A reading area and a booklet of artist biographies were produced for By Her Hand. For Milton Avery, we offered a color-based find-and-seek activity, a felt wall interactive, the #monthwithmilton sketch challenge, and a reading area.

Mobile Guide

The mobile guide allows visitors to access multimedia resources about collection objects and special exhibitions. New content was created in conjunction with By Her Hand and Milton Avery

Access Programs

Wadsworth Welcome

Free admission for Hartford residents is offered through Wadsworth Welcome. Nearly five thousand residents who speak fifty-five languages have registered for Wadsworth Welcome since its launch in August 2016.

Library ARTpass

ARTpasses are available for check-out at 178 town and school libraries, providing free admission for two adults and a discount on films.

Teacher Discovery Passes

All educators who book a visit for their students receive a free pass to explore the museum’s collections and exhibitions to plan curricular connections to classroom activities.

Left and right: Milton Avery, Husband and Wife (detail), 1945. Oil on canvas. 33.74 x 44 inches. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger

Member Programs

Artful Conversations

Hidden Histories in the American Silversmithing Trade

Thursday, September 2, 2021 (virtual program)

Brandy Culp, Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts

Lee Krasner’s Self-Portrait

Thursday, November 4, 2021 (virtual program)

Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture

Jan Brueghel the Elder’s Mountainous Landscape with Herdsmen Resting by a Path

Thursday, January 6, 2022 (virtual program)

Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art

Cady Noland: Four Works in the Collection

Thursday, March 10, 2022 (virtual program)

Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art

Stories from a Silver Centerpiece

Thursday, May 5, 2022 (virtual program)

Linda Roth, Director of Special Curatorial Projects and Charles C. and Eleanor Lamont Cunningham Curator of European Decorative Arts

Edward Russell Thaxter: Love’s First Dream

Thursday, June 9, 2022 (virtual program)

Matthew Hargraves, Interim Chief Curator

By Her Hand

Premier Member Opening Reception

Wednesday, September 19, 2021

Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art

Member-Only Curator Tours

Friday October 1, and Saturday, October 2, 2021

Oliver Tostmann, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art

Milton Avery

Premier Member Opening Reception

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, with Edith Devaney, organizing curator for Milton Avery

Member Preview Days

Thursday, March 3, and Friday, March 4, 2022

Member-Only Curator Tours

Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5, 2022

Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture

Program Partners

Institutions

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Arazzo Music Festival

Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

Capital Community College

Connecticut Lyric Opera

Connecticut’s Old State House

CONNetic Dance

CultureConnect

ExecMommyGroup

Friends of Colt Park

Hartford Artisans Weaving Center

Hartford Art School

Hartford Performs

Hartford Public Schools

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Ice Cream for a Dream

Mandell Jewish Community Center

Creative Professionals

Acute Inflections, musicians

Jacqueline Bright, artist

Tom Burr, artist

Cafeteria Radio, DJs

Alvin Carter Jr., musician

Sean Cavanaugh, artist

Connecticut LEGO User Group

David Crane, artist

Anne Cubberly, performer

Samuel DeCaprio, musician

Defining Studios, photographers

Dejave’ Dance Company, dancers

Wayne Dixon, musician

Leonardo Drew, artist

Torkwase Dyson, artist

Christina Forrer, artist

FriendZWorld Music, musicians

Marilyn Greenberg, artist

Kathe Gregory, artist

Jakar Hankerson, dancer

Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus, musicians

Deka Henry, artist

Petra Jenkinson, musician

Jaclyn Jones, musician

Scott Kahn, artist

Andre Keitt, storyteller

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, poet

Michael Kycia, musician

David K. Leff, writer

Russell Lewis, artist

Lily Sexton & Mama’s Marmalade, musicians

The Lost Tribe, musicians

Nevine Mahmoud, artist

Susan Mangiero, writer

Mariachi Academy of New England, musicians

Adrian Martinez, photographer

Matt DeChamplain Trio, musicians

Maxx Meether, performer

Amanda Mendoza, artist

Ed Johnetta Miller, artist

Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental, performers

New England Ballet Theatre of Connecticut, dancers

Sabrina Orah Mark, writer

Phat A$tronaut, musicians

Revisionist Films

Pipilotti Rist, artist

Dongbin Shin, musician

Bonnie Rose Sullivan, artist

Summer Tate, poet

Naama Tsabar, artist

United Outkast, musicians

Voce Concitato, musicians

Voices of Concinnity Chamber Ensemble

Nekita Waller, musician

Rhonda Ward, poet

Miles Wilson-Toliver, musician

Content Specialists

Margaret Antonitis, educator

Students in the ASPIRE Program at Farmington High School

Cat Balco, Hartford Art School

Sheila Barker, Medici Archive Project

Jeanika Browne-Springer, editor

Michael Cole, Columbia University

Elizabeth Cropper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Dean Emerita)

Edith Devaney, David Hockney Inc. and the David Hockney Foundation

Janna Israel, Princeton University Art Museum

Japan Society of Greater Hartford

Stephanie A. Johnson-Cunningham, Museum Hue

Gary Knoble, historian

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Harvard University

Laura O’Brien Miller, conservator

Megan E. O’Neil, Emory University

Marla Price, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Nancy Siegel, Towson University

Beth Silver, Neuberger Museum of Art

Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art

Rose Thompson, Royal Academy of Arts

Katherine Tycz, scholar

James Voorhies, Tony Smith Foundation

Funders

Major funding provided by:

Bank of America

Lincoln Financial Foundation

Charles Nelson Robinson Fund

Newman’s Own Foundation

S&S Worldwide

Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Travelers Foundation

Additional support provided by:

Bradley, Foster & Sargent Inc.

Dana DeLoach Memorial Fund

Eileen S. Pollack Docent Education Fund

Nassau Financial Group

SBM Charitable Foundation Inc.

Talcott Resolution

The Design and Decorative Arts Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum

The Docent Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Museum endowed funds for education:

Docent Memorial Fund

Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education Endowment

The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation

The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund

The Saunders Foundation Charitable Music Endowment Fund

Anne Cubberly’s puppets at Juneteenth Family Day

Leonardo Drew’s sculptural landscape on the Main Street lawn invited all passersby to sit, socialize, and play.

Governance, Philanthropy & Professional Staff

Officers

Gerard Lupacchino President

Duffield Ashmead IV Senior Vice President

Cheryl A. Chase Vice President

Michael F. Klein Vice President

Hy J. Schwartz

Vice President

Frederick C. Copeland Jr.* Treasurer

Emilie de Brigard Secretary

Board of Trustees

Duffield Ashmead IV

Marta Bentham

Cheryl A. Chase

Frederick C. Copeland Jr. *

Mally Cox-Chapman

Robert Dance

Alison D. Davis

Emilie de Brigard

Lily de Jongh Downing

Philippa Feigen Malkin

Joseph R. Gianni

G. Duncan Harris

Laura R. Harris

David G. Jepson

Michael F. Klein

Robert D. Kump

Gerard Lupacchino

Merrill F. Mandell

Jeffrey G. Marsted

Timothy P. McLaughlin

Elsa M. Núñez

Eileen S. Pollack

Matthew A. Schaefer

Hy J. Schwartz

Jean-Pierre van Rooy

Barbara G. Ward

Michele Wren Cook

Henry M. Zachs

Honorary Trustees

Carole Bailey French

Coleman H. Casey

Linda Cheverton Wick

Karen Cronin Wheat

David W. Dangremond

Mary G. Dowling

Clare C. Edwards

Mary P. Gibbons

Helen B. Gray

Arnold C. Greenberg

Nancy D. Grover

Christopher Larsen

Henry R. Martin

Stephen B. Middlebrook

John H. Motley

Samuel R. Peterson*

Claire M. Pryor

Susan A. Rottner

Robert H. Smith Jr.

Ex Officio Trustees

Jeffrey N. Brown CEO

Cynthia J. Bulaong Designee of the Mayor of Hartford

Caroline Cunningham Young Designee of the Office of the Governor

Matthew Hargraves Director

Carolyn M. McGrattan President, Friends of the Wadsworth

Carol A. Urick President, Docent Council

Tamara Williams

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Executive Committee

Duffield Ashmead, IV Senior Vice President; Chair, Curatorial Committee

Cheryl A. Chase Vice President; Chair, Facilities Committee

Frederick C. Copeland, Jr.* Treasurer; Chair, Finance Committee

Mally Cox-Chapman Co-Chair, Development Committee

Emilie de Brigard Secretary; Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee

David G. Jepson Chair, Audit Committee

Michael F. Klein Vice President; Chair, Education Committee

Gerard Lupacchino President; Co-Chair, Development Committee

Matthew A. Schaefer

Chair, Investment Committee

Hy J. Schwartz Vice President;

Joseph Gianni Member at Large

Committee Chairs

David G. Jepson Audit Committee

Duffield Ashmead IV Curatorial Committee

Mally Cox-Chapman and Gerard Lupacchino Development Committee

Michael F. Klein Education Committee

Cheryl A. Chase Facilities Committee

Frederick C. Copeland Jr.* Finance Committee

Matthew A. Schaefer Investment Committee

Emilie de Brigard

Nominating and Governance Committee

Board of Electors

Linda Alexander-Cowdery

Pedro Bermudez

Jane E. Britton

Karen K. Byrne

John F. Byrnes

Jay Cantor

Erin K. Cardon

Carol L. Cheney

Francine Christiansen

Sheila C. D’Agostino

Eric D. Daniels

Joanne L. Eudy

Susan G. Fisher

Claire S. Galli

Lauren R. Greenspoon

Karen K. Holden

Douglas M. John

Pastor AJ Johnson

Todd A. Kaufman

Kathleen G. Kraczkowsky

Lee G. Kuckro

Leena K. Langeland

Leigh A. Newman

James Prosek

Brie Quinby

Marcia Reid Marsted

Andre E. Rochester

Marguerite Rose

Benjamin B. Sams

Jesse Sugarman

Jerry Theodorou

Sally Wister

Eric M. Zachs

Four pastels by Rosalba Carriera reunited after over half a century in By Her Hand. On loan from a private collection, their installation in the exhibition marked the first time a complete series of pastels by Carriera had been presented in the United States.

Philanthropy

We wish to acknowlege our generous donors for their support.

$50,000+

Anonymous Foundation

Dr. Duffield Ashmead IV and Mr. Eric Ort*

The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc.

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation*

Estates of James and Tina Collias

Emilie and Raul de Brigard*

Mrs. Mary P. Gibbons*

Estate of June

M. Rosenblatt Revocable Trust

The Saunders Foundation*

The Douglas Tracy Smith and Dorothy Potter Smith Fund

Estate of Charles G. Woodward Trust

$25,000–$49,999

Anonymous

Estate of Eva Andrews Trust

Mally and James Cox-Chapman, MD*

David W. Dangremond*

Mr. Christopher Larsen*

Esther Pryor, Claire Pryor, Pryor Foundation*

Estate of Evelyn Bonar Storrs

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Ward*

Henry Zachs

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Estate of Harriet Bundy

Coleman H. Casey and Jo Champlin

Casey

Ms. Carol L. Cheney*

Halsey and Michele Cook*

Frederick and Susan Copeland Fund

Mr. Robert Dance and Mr. Bob Loper*

Lily de Jongh Downing*

Estate of Isabelle S. English

Mr. Arnold C. Greenberg and Mrs. Beverly Greenberg~*

Mrs. Nancy D. Grover*

Ms. Laura R. Harris*

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Jepson*

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Klein*

Elizabeth M. Landon and Harriette M. Landon Foundation

Mr. Gerard Lupacchino and Mr. Lynn C. Beaulieu*

Dr. Timothy McLaughlin and Dr. Marian F. Kellner*

Dr. Nancy A. Neff*

Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Pearson*

Mrs. Martha M. Peterson and Dr. Samuel R. Peterson, PhD~*

Mr. and Mrs. Elliott B. Pollack*

Matthew and Robin Schaefer*

Mr. and Mrs. Hy Schwartz*

The Vandeventer Foundation

Helen G. Waterman

Jr. Trust FBO

Robert

$5,000–$9,999

Anonymous

The William H. and Rosanna T. Andrulat Charitable Foundation

Philippa Feigen Malkin, Leonardo Drew, and Jeffrey N. Brown

The Lyman B. Brainerd Family Foundation

Mr. Jeffrey N. Brown and Ms. Virginia Gascon*

Sandra Canning*

Sylvan C. Coleman Foundation Trust

Hon. and Mrs. Alfred V. Covello*

Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Eudy*

The Fuller Family Charitable Fund

The William Horvitz Family Fund

The Maisie Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Marsted*

Susan B. Matheson and Jerome J. Pollitt*

The Katharine K. McLane and Henry R. McLane Charitable Trust

Dr. Elsa M. Núñez*

Agnes and Billy Peelle*

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pfaff*

Mr. Douglas H. Robins*

Mr. and Mrs. Joel J. Rottner*

Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick*

$1,500–$4,999

Anonymous

Allan S. Goodman Inc.^

Mr. Joel B. Alvord*

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Berman, Esq.*

Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Budd^

Mrs. Karen K. Byrne^

John and Marla Byrnes*

Professors Jean Cadogan and Alden Gordon*

Dr. Erin Cardon*

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Castellani*

Ms. Susan R. Chandler*

Mr. and Mrs. John B. D’Agostino, Esq.*

The Day Family Foundation

Mary Jane Dunn^

Mr. and Mrs. Jared I. Edwards*

Ms. Gail Erickson and Ms. Christa Rice

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Fisher*

Mrs. Claire S. Galli*

Peter S. Gersten and Ana N. Lawler^

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goldfarb^

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Hess

Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund

Mr. and Mrs. David Horvitz

Jonathan and Kelly Jarvis*

Diane Korntheuer and Peter Grzybala*

Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Kosto*

Mr. Lee G. Kuckro*

Dr. Leena K. Langeland, DDS, DMD^

Ms. Carol LeWitt and Mr. Bruce Josephy*

Jane and Roger Loeb^

Dr. Leta W. Marks^

Marks Family Foundation

The Stephen and Patricia Middlebrook Fund

The Nassau Companies of New York

Robert and Margaret Patricelli*

Anne P. and Andrew Pinto Fund

Brie Quinby and Evan Cowles^

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Rea^

Mrs. Belle K. Ribicoff*

Anne and Eric Rice

Ann M. Sagalyn

Benjamin Sams*

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Sappington*

Mrs. Mary T. Sargent*

Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Scherer Jr.^

Mrs. Frances W. Seymour*

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shipman*

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith Jr.*

Catherine and Keith Stevenson*

Sharon G. and J. Frank Travis*

Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Pierre van Rooy^

Mr. and Mrs. John H. P. Wheat*

Mr. Michael Wilder

Ms. Sally Wister and Mr. Robert D. Parrott^

The Alexander M. and Catherine Maus Wright Charitable Trust

$500–$1,499

Anonymous

Simon E. Abrahms

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Adkins^

Mr. Ivan A. Backer and Ms. Paula Fisher

Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bailey

Sarah Baker and Christopher Toomey

Mr. Barry Baskind and Ms. Eileen Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Betts

Ms. Eleanor W. Blake^

Scott and Mary Ayre Boden

Dr. Tim Brown and Mrs. Karen Brown

Mr. Harold C. Buckingham Jr.

Kenneth and Jean Butler

Dr. and Mrs. John T. Cardone

Dr. Angelee Diana Carta and Dr. Tris J. Carta

Ms. Mary-Claire Carter

Mr. Gary L. Carter and Ms. Elizabeth York

Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Carver

Mrs. Elaine L. Charendoff^

Ms. Diane Christensen and Mr. Robert Stone

Judith and John Clark

Mr. Sanford Cloud Jr. and Dr. Diane Cloud

Sara Marcy Cole^

Ms. Audrey B. Conrad

Mrs. Anna and Mr. Charles F. Corcoran III^

Mr. Howard H. Crane and Mr. Gary Sullivan

Cheryl and Tim Curtis

Ms. Catherine Daly

Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Daniels

Aldo DeDominicis Foundation

Guy and Lori DeFrances

Denise Desmarais^

Ms. Hollis Dorman^

Mrs. Nathan L. Dubin^

Sara R. and Alan A. Dun Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan I. Edwards

Fund for the Deborah Eldridge Service Award of the Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford

Richard E. and Marcia A. Evans

Mr. and Ms. Mark A. Evans

William Falk

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Fay

Kenneth and Mary Feathers

Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Fellman

Dr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Ferrante^

Vaughan Finn and Steve Nightingale

Lily de Jongh Downing and David Yudain

Mr. Lawrence R. Fish

Jeanne D. Fisher

Mr. William Friedman and Ms. Pamela Diggle

Matthew Garrett and Margot

Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron L. Gersten^

Christiana N. Gianopulos and Paul H. Butler

Mr. William J. Glick

Blanche and Steven Goldenberg

Ms. Rona Gollob^

Alexander Yale Goriansky

Steven and Dorcas Gorski

Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Gossner

Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Inc.

Oz Griebel Fund

Doris and Ray Guenter

Mr. Stanley A. Guzek and Ms. Trish Bowen

Dr. Cornelia W. Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. James Harders

Mr. Bradley Harper

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hoffman

Mrs. Jean H. Holden^

Ms. Norma M. Horvitz

Mrs. Ann D. Howard

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Hunt^

Ms. Jena Janovy

Mrs. Petra Jenkinson

Douglas and Lois John^

Ann and Patrick Kenny

Joel and Naomi Kleinman

Steven and Deborah Kleinman

Keith and Elaine Knowlton

Konover Coppa Family Fund

Mr. Bradford Korder

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kosman

Mrs. Kathleen G. Kraczkowsky^

Mrs. Nancy A. Kramer

Mr. and Mrs. Andres N. Kukk

Mr. and Mrs. Robert LaPorte

Mr. Gerald Lemega and Mrs. Nancy Lemega-Watt

Jo-Anne Leventhal and Jeff Koerner

Michael S. and Carolyn W. Levine^

Mrs. Helen Lewtan^

Dr. and Mrs. Carl W. Lindquist

Thomas and Margah Lips

Mrs. Cynthia Mackay

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Macris^

Karen G. Markert

Alan Marks

Dick Marks and Jenny Morrison

Ms. Kathleen Coville Marr^

Ken and Robin Masslon

Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Mayo

Mr. Earl F. McMahon and Ms. Dina Plapler^

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Millar

Amalie Montstream

Attorney Ann B. Mulcahy

Eleanor K. and Frederick J. Mullen

Charlie Murrin

Christine N. W. and Thomas F. Owens Jr.

Mrs. Katherine Papathanasis

Mrs. Marlene G. Passman^

Kristen Philips and Matthew Schreck

Ms. Elenor G. Reid

Kristen Renehan

Ms. Martha S. Rhine

Henry Riely^

Mr. Stephen Roth

Ms. Roberta L. Roy

Edward and Linda Ruby^

Mr. Steven Sadler and Mrs. Elyse Sadler

James Scala

Ms. Nina Scherago

Erling and Jeanne Schmidt

Mr. Daniel Schnaidt and Ms. Cynthia Tucker

Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Schreiber^

Jack and Donna Sennott

Mr. Joseph M. Shortall and Ms. Sara L. Bernstein

The Shulansky Foundation Inc.

Mr. Joseph B. Solodow^

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Soyster^

Mr. Henry Steiner^

Mrs. Margaret Storrs^

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Stout^

Donna and Thomas Swarr^

Margery and Stephen Swigert

Mrs. Beverly W. Thomas

Alvin Thompson and Lesley Morgan-Thompson

Dennis H. Thornton Jr. and Steven B. Regis

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Tilney

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Trumble^

Mr. Theodore J. Tucci and Ms. Nancy A. Hronek

Ms. Margaret E. Tully

Mrs. Robert O.Y. Warren^

Ms. Margot Weiss

Ms. Nancy Williams

Roberta Woronow and Theodore Kaplan^

Judy and John Zinn^

* Society of Daniel Wadsworth

^ Atheneum Associates

~ Deceased

Caroline Cunningham Young and First Lady Annie Lamont

Dr. Duffield Ashmead and Lee G. Kukro

Dr. G. Duncan Harris and Dr. Sarah Lewis

Special Contributions

Legacy Society

The museum is delighted to recognize the following donors who have provided for the Wadsworth Atheneum in their estate plans. Their foresight and generosity will play a key role in ensuring the institution’s future growth and success.

Anonymous

Duffield Ashmead IV and Eric Ort

Mrs. Elizabeth Autorino

Mr. Gerard Lupacchino and Mr. Lynn C. Beaulieu

Richard and Barbara Booth

Ms. Frances J. Brooks

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Bruner

Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Carver

Coleman H. Casey and Jo Champlin Casey

Ms. Susan R. Chandler

Mr. and Mrs. Stephan L. Christiansen

Mrs. Susan Copeland and Mr. Frederick Copeland Jr.*

Mrs. J. Noyes Crary

Mr. David W. Dangremond

Mr. George David

Mr. and Mrs. Raul R. de Brigard

Mrs. Alice M. DeLana

Mrs. Paxton Dunn

Mrs. Maggie Eickholt

Mr. and Mrs. Karl Fleischmann

Mrs. Nora K. Fox

Mr. and Mrs. John French III

Mr.* and Mrs. Sandra B. Fromson

Mr. Victor P. Gagliardi Jr.

Mr. Frank Garofolo and Mr. Donald Osborne

Mr. John M. Gibbons III

Mrs. Harry J. Gray

Mr. Arnold C. Greenberg and Mrs. Beverly P. Greenberg*

Ms. Rachel K. Grody

Nancy D. Grover

Ms. Laura R. Harris

Ms. Lillian N. Kezerian

Ms. Kathleen G. Kraczkowsky

Ms. Elizabeth Kvam

Mr. Christopher Larsen

Ms. Carol LeWitt and Mr. Bruce Josephy

Mr. Henry J. Link

Marily MacKinnon

Ms. Laura L. McIntyre

Mr. Andrew C. McKirdy

Mr. Stephen B. Middlebrook

Mr. Lawrence A. Monte

Mr. John H. Motley

Ms. Janet E. Murnaghan

Ms. Margaret Ogden

Ms. Ann S. Parkhurst

Mrs. Millard H. Pryor Jr.

Mr. John M. Reynolds

Mrs. Virginia Rosen

Mr. and Mrs. Kerry W. Rutledge

Mr. and Mrs. Oswald P. Scheller

Hal and Patty Sprague

Mrs. Marie L. St. John

Mr. Phil L. Steele

Ms. Elizabeth Steven

Melinda and Paul R. C. Sullivan

Mrs. Doris A. and DeRoy* Thomas

Mrs. Catherine Tremaine

Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Walker

John H. P. Wheat and Karen Cronin Wheat

Mr. Henry M. Zachs

Mrs. Eleanor E. Zajac*

Visitors gather outside the Wadsworth during outdoor Second Saturdays for Families programming

In Honor & In Memoriam Donations

In honor of Brandy Culp

The Groton Fund

In honor of Anne and Eric Rice

Ms. Gail Erickson and Ms. Christa Rice

In honor of Hollis Dorman

Fund for the Deborah Eldridge Service Award of the Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford

In honor of Jeff Brown and Gerry Lupacchino

Mr. Joseph B. Solodow

In honor of Leta Marks

Sarah Bryant

Elijah Falk

Jonah Falk

William Falk and Cathy Marks

Zoe Fisher-Falk

Hannah Leaver and Emma Marks

Alan Marks/Marks Family Foundation

Dick Marks and Jenny Morrison

Jacob Marks

Jeremy Marks

Jonathan Marks

Rachel Webster

In honor of Lily Downing’s birthday

Mr. and Mrs. John H. P. Wheat

In honor of Linda Roth’s forty years of service and publication of Morgan the Collector

Michele Beiny and Michael Harkins

Bernard Dragesco and Didier Cramoisan

Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Inc.

Laura R. Harris

David and Francie Horvitz

Timothy McLaughlin and Marian Kellner

Jeffrey Munger and Robert Whitman Charitable Fund

David and Linda Roth

Emily Roth and Drew Makar

Mr. and Mrs. John H. P. Wheat

In honor of Lynn Beaulieu’s birthday

Rob Ruggiero

In memory of Beverly Greenberg

The Marsted Family Fund

In memory of Carol Cunin

Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Jacobs

In memory of Mary C. Schroeder

The Pryor Foundation

In memory of Edd Russo

The Pryor Foundation

In memory of Frederick Copeland

Laura Allison

Jeffrey and Virginia Brown

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation

Sarah and John Giles

Arnold and Beverly Greenberg*

David and Sharon Jepson

Kathleen Kraczkowsky

Boothbay Harbor Country Club’s Golf Group

Nathan Liverant and Son LLC

Douglas and Ellyn Marshall

The Marsted Family Fund

Karen and Philip Roberts

Robert and Sharon Smith

Mr. and Mrs. John H. P. Wheat

In memory of Mary C. Schroeder, a book for the Auerbach Library

Mr. John Teahan

In memory of Melinda Trummel

Ms. Nancy Williams

In memory of Michalina Bordonaro

Peter and Kathryn Bordonaro

In memory of Robert Jaczko

Jenifer Bystry

Susan Miao

In memory of Dr. Samuel R. Peterson

Jeffrey and Virginia Brown

Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear

Jeffrey and Marcia Reid

Marsted

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith Jr.

Auerbach Library Associates

Memorial Gifts FY21–22

FY21

In memory of Margaret T. Atwood

John Teahan

In memory of John Byrne

Eleanor Blake

Deb and John Fuller

Sharon and Robert H. Smith Jr.

John Teahan

In memory of Gene Gaddis

Eleanor Blake

Sharon and Robert H. Smith Jr.

John Teahan

In memory of Karen Kelleher

Karen Byrne

In memory of Edd Russo

John Teahan

In memory of Bill Staples

Karen Byrne

John Teahan

In memory of Norris P. Swett

Anne-Paul Swett

In memory of Joan Traverso

Karen Byrne

FY22

In memory of Mary C. Schroeder

John Teahan

* Deceased

Corporate & Foundation

Supporters

Amica*

Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass   Bank of America^

The Benevity Community Impact Fund*

Bradley, Foster & Sargent Inc.^

Charities Aid Foundation of America*

Sylvan C. Coleman Foundation Trust

Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development

Connecticut Humanities

David T. Langrock Foundation

Global Atlantic Financial Group^

Greater Hartford Arts Council

Hartford HealthCare

Liberty Bank

Lincoln Financial Foundation  Mile High United Way

The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc.  Nassau Financial Group

S&S Worldwide~

The Saunders Foundation

SBM Charitable Foundation

Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut

Travelers^

Institutional Members

American School for the Deaf

Capital Community College   The Loomis Chaffee School

Miss Porter’s School

Trinity College

University of Connecticut

University of Hartford

University of Saint Joseph

* Matching Gift

^ Corporate Member

~ Gift In Kind

Visitors gather for a Summer Lawn Party

In Memoriam

Samuel R. Peterson & Frederick C. Copeland Jr.

The Wadsworth remembers two long-serving members of the Board of Trustees and generous supporters of the museumwho passed away this year.

Samuel R. Peterson passed away on May 12, 2022. Dr. Peterson was an art history scholar, educator, and collector who devoted his considerable expertise and inspiring involvement to the Wadsworth through his many years of service and support. He most recently served as Honorary Trustee following a long tenure as Trustee, and as a member of the Curatorial Committee, the Auerbach Library Associates, and Design and Decorative Arts Council. His many contributions to the Wadsworth, including numerous gifts of significant works of art, will leave a lasting impact on this museum.

Frederick C. Copeland Jr. passed away on June 18, 2022. He served with distinction as Treasurer of the Wadsworth’s Board of Trustees, Chair of the Finance Committee, and member of the Audit, Compensation, Curatorial, Investment, and Executive Committees as well as President of the Design and Decorative Arts Council during his many years of service to the museum.

He was an accomplished business professional and an avid collector who freely shared his expertise and collections with the Wadsworth, with great benefit to the museum’s fiscal and exhibition strengths.

Both Sam and Rick will always be remembered fondly at the Wadsworth and receive our every gratitude.

Samuel R. PetersonFrederick C. Copeland Jr.

Special Interest Groups

Special interest group contributions help the Wadsworth Atheneum fund programs and initiatives central to its mission. We appreciate the generous donors who founded and support these special groups each year.

Auerbach Library Associates

Jill and Cecil Adams

Randi Ashton-Pritting

Jeffrey Travis Atwood and Stephen Vamvakas

Leonard and Elizabeth Banco

Jan Beatty and Michael Park

Elizabeth Berns

Eleanor W. Blake

Christina Bleyer

Edlyn Blitzer

Donna Bozzuto

Ann Brandwein

Jeff Brown and Virginia

Gascon

Karen K. Byrne

Bonnie and Fred Castellani

Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear

Charles F. and Ann Corcoran

Mally and James Cox-Chapman, MD

Sheila and John D’Agostino

Robert Dance and Bob Loper

Emilie R. and Raul de Brigard

John and Ann Drake

Clare and Jared Edwards

Ilene Frank

Anita and Anthony Ferrante

Deb and John Fuller

Claire S. Galli

Basie B. Gitlin

Professors Alden Gordon and Jean Cadogan

Laura R. Harris

Margaret M. Hoskins

Bill Hosley

Robert Kret

Marcus Lawson

Billie M. Levy

Gwen and Sherwood Lewis

Miriam Lloyd-Jones

Timothy McLaughlin, MD, and Marian F. Kellner, MD

Philippa Feigen Malkin and Jonathan Malkin

Jeff Marsted and Marcia Reid

Janice Mathews

Brenda Miller

Ann B. Mulcahy

Nancy A. Neff, PhD

Lorraine and Mark Parsons

Jeff Partridge

William R. Peelle

Eileen and Elliot Pollack

Brie Quinby and Evan Cowles

Bridget Quinn-Carey

Pieter Roos

Marguerite and Robert Rose

Susan and Joel Rottner

Sharon W. and Robert H. Smith Jr.

Joseph B. Solodow

Mervyn F. Strauss

Anne-Paul Swett

John Teahan

Carol A. Urick

Hope Vath

Lawson Ward

Roberta Weiner

Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick

Luke Williams

Sally Wister and Robert D. Parrott

Henry Zachs

Judy and John Zinn

Contemporary Coalition

Dr. Duffield Ashmead IV and Mr. Eric Ort

Coleman H. Casey and Jo Champlin Casey

The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Raul de Brigard

Nancy D. Grover

Laura R. Harris

Marcia Reid Marsted and Jeffrey G. Marsted

Agnes and William R. Peelle Jr.

Susan and Joel Rottner

Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick

MATRIX 189—The MATRIX program is generously supported by the Wadsworth’s Contemporary Coalition

Costume & Textile Society

Victoria Albert

Duffield Ashmead and Eric Ort

Lynne Bassett

Margaret Bliss

Christine Bogino

Diane Brainerd

Mary Busick

Karen Byrne

Elizabeth Carlson

Liz Carter

Helena Carvalho

Carol L. Cheney

Catherine Civitillo

Hyla Cohen

Tina Collias

Carol Covello

Linda Alexander Cowdery

Shelia D’Agostino

David W. Dangremond

Emilie de Brigard

Clare Edwards

Anita Ferrante

Karin Fester

Betsy Fiacre

Muriel Fleischmann

Terry Gaudet

Sarah Gessner

Ruth Ann Graime

Deborah Greenspan

Cynthia Grogan

Carol Hall

Caroline Harris-Burney

Laura Harris

Laverne Hemsen

Barbara Hess

Ann Howard

Diane Jones

Sharon Kocay

Monika Krawczyk

Susan Lagasse

Leena Langeland

Shelia Lazarus

Rosalind Leibowitz

Gwendolyn Love

Cynthia Mackay

Leta Marks

Kathy Marr

Hank and Sharon Martin

Nancy Neff

Kathy Papathanasis

Lorraine Parson

Genevieve Pfaff

Sofia Pordgorski

Eileen Pollack

Brie Quimby

Linda Roth

Rosalie Roth

Susan Rottner

Maisie Russell

Renee Samuels

Sonia Shipman

Pam Skelly

Robert Smith

Linda B. Sonnenblick

Carolyn Spencer

Therese Squillacote

Maureen Tesoro

Tina To

Sharon G. Travis

Susan Turner

Hope Vath

Barbara Ward

Rosanne Warmouth

Tania Pichardo Weiss

Karen C. Wheat

Edith Whitman

Heide Williams

Pamela Wood

Virginia Yohe

Judy Zinn

Design & Decorative Arts Council

Simon Abrahms

Duffield Ashmead IV and Eric Ort

Lynn Beaulieu and Gerard Lupacchino

Eleanor W. Blake

Diane F. Brainerd

Jeffrey N. Brown and Virginia Gascon

Karen Byrne

Marla and John Byrnes

Jean Cadogan and Alden Gordon

Susan Chandler

Sara Marcy Cole

Betsey and Jeff Cooley

Susan and Frederick C. Copeland Jr.*

Anna and Charles Corcoran

Tim and Carol Covello

Linda Alexander-Cowdery and Jamie Cowdery

Mally and Jim Cox-Chapman

Brandy Culp

Sheila and John D’Agostino

Robert Dance and Robert Loper

David W. Dangremond

Emilie and Raul de Brigard

Mary G. Dowling

Clare and Jared Edwards

Susan and Robert Fisher

Sheila Burke Flanagan

Claire S. Galli

Sandy and Aaron Gersten

Ana Lawler and Peter Gersten

Mary P. Gibbons

Arnold Greenberg

Laura Harris and Joseph Solodow

Ann Howard

Kelly and Jonathan Jarvis

Lois and Douglas John

Marian Kellner and Timothy McLaughlin

Gale and Bernard Kosto

Kathy Kraczkowsky

Lee G. Kuckro

Leena Langeland

Margaret Lawson

Kathleen Coville Marr

Marcia Reid and Jeffrey Marsted

Sharon and Hank Martin

Jim Northrop

Marlene Passman

Martha and Sam Peterson

Jennifer Pitman

Eileen and Elliott Pollack

Brie Quinby and Evan Cowles

Marguerite and Robert Rose

Linda and David Roth

Susan and Joel Rottner

Jeff Russak

Robin and Matt Schaefer

Sharon and Robert Smith

Filomena and Thomas Soyster

Marie-Claire and J. P. van Rooy

Hope Vath

Scott Walter and Bradley Harper

Barbara and Tom Ward

Karen Cronin Wheat and John

H. P. Wheat

Edith Whitman

Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick

Judy and John Zinn

* Deceased

Docent Council

Carol Urick, President

Ann B. Mulcahy, Vice President

Leta Marks, Secretary

Jan Beatty, Treasurer

Maria Adams

Linda Alexander

Phoebe Allen

Toni Ambrosino, Docent in Training

Pauline Arendt

Carolyn Backmender, Emerita

Katie Battersby, Docent in Training

Jan Beatty

Nicole Bernabo

Liz Berns, Emerita

Eleanor Blake

Edlyn Blitzer

Donna Bozzuto

Jack Brin, Emeritus

Nathan Brody

Susan Rand Brown

Cassandra Butler

Karen Byrne, Emerita

Deborah Carey

Susan Carey

Bonnie Castellani

Kevin Chiang

Russell Chicoine

Sharon Cormier

Carol Covello, Emerita

Tim Curtis

Sheila D’Agostino, Emerita

Susan Danseyar

Beth Ann Davis

Jean Davis

Alexandra Doane, Docent in Training

Elizabeth Doughney

Ann Drake, Emerita

Ruth Ellison, Emerita

Ramon Espinoza

Joanne Eudy

Chester Fernandez, Docent in Training

Anita Ferrante, Emerita

Linda Flowers, Emerita

Deborah Fuller

Stephanie Gacso

Claire Galli

Terry Gaudet

Rose Gauthier, Docent in Training

Carol Genco

Augusta Gonzalez

Joyce Goodwin-Brin, Emerita

Frank Gordon-Quiroga, Docent in Training

Barbara Greenbaum

Ernesto Gutierrez-Miravete

Laura Harris

Andrea Hartman

Della Hennelly, Emerita

Margaret Hoskins, Emerita

Laura Hunter, Docent in Training

Taka Iwashita

Alba Jaquez, Docent in Training

Judi Jurich

Lilian Kezerian, Emerita

Ted Kinasewitz

Diane Kopp, Emerita

Elise LaFosse

Leena Langeland

Tracy Lawlor, Emerita

Michael Levinson

Stuart Levy

Gwen Lewis, Emerita

Penny Lisi

Miriam Lloyd-Jones

Grace Loeffler

Yolanda Lowell

Marcia Machuga

Diane Macris, Emerita

Beth Malley

Leta Marks

Pamela Mays

Laura McIntyre

Susan Meisler

Christi Moraga

Helene Myers

Ann B. Mulcahy

Martha-Rea Nelson, Docent in Training

Lee Oliver, Emerita

Kim Parets

Madeline Pesanti

Leo Pigaty

Julia Pistell, Docent in Training

Lynn Raicik

Lisa Rarus

Lisa Ryan, Docent in Training

Brad Schide

Ginger Smith

Henrietta Stargardter, Emerita

Mervyn Strauss

Maureen Tesoro, Emerita

Sara Titus

Laure Toppin

Carol Urick

Hope Vath

Eugenia Villagra, Emerita

Lawson Ward

Rosanne Warmoth

Mary Wilde, Docent in Training

Sally Wister

Marion Zaffino, Emerita

Kim Zimmerman, Emerita

Judy Zinn, Emerita

Susan Zito

Edith Devaney, organizing curator of Milton Avery, delivered the Docent Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Docent Council

Friends of the Wadsworth Atheneum

Officers

Carolyn McGrattan, President

Lisa Chapman, Vice President

Ann L. Bryan, Treasurer

Helene Brown, Corresponding Secretary

Executive Committee

Susan Blair, Nominating

Jane Britton, Past President, Festival of Trees and Traditions Co-chair

Karen Brown, Programs

Kate Coley, Fine Art & Flowers Co-chair

Kathleen Walsh Deasy, Day Art Tours

Terry Gaudet, Festival of Trees and Traditions Cochair

Alice Hagan, Volunteers

Anita Herbst, Flower Committee Coordinators

Mary King, Day Art Tours

Diana Letniowska, Marketing & Social Media

Bernadette Mayer, Directory

JoAnn Phelon, Membership

Shirley Randazzo, Historian

June Schaffer, Hospitality

Angham Zakko, Newsletter

Members

Marlene Adkins

Sally Alubicki

Ann Alvord

Cheri Bertus

Susan Bigelow

Kathleen Blint

Christine Bogino

Elissa Breiling

Geri Chamberlain

Lisa Cole

Sandra E. Conlin

Emilie de Brigard

Pauline Dickstein

Renee Dubin

Mary Jane Dunn

Donna Eliasson

Cynthia Enright

Melissa Erdman

Susan Gaffney

Dee Gordon

Judy Gunning

Patricia Hadlow

Sherry Harriman

Susan Horn

Lynn B. Horne

Ann Howard

Karin James

Lorilee Jeppesen

Deborah Key

Marjorie Kniola

Kathy Kraczkowsky

Nancy La Perla

Kathleen Lamy

Susan Lareau

Goodwin Medal Recipients

Lee Lester

Jo-Ann Librio

Jane Loeb

Marily MacKinnon

Sue McCandless

Jackie Morrill

Martha Rea Nelson

Margaret Neville

Gwen O’Connell

Pat O’Connell

Dottie O’Meara

Paula Passaretti

Joyace Peoples

Ann Louise Price

Alyce Rawlins

Eleanor Rohfritch

Elaine Romeo

Noriko Rossi

Susan Rottner

June Roy

Linda Ruby

Ginny Schneider

Sonny Shipman

Mary Ann Souza

Beverly Thomas

J.J. Tillinghast

Donna Wadstrup

Janet Ward

Margery Warren

Sarah Winter

Jaime Wisneski

Joan Wojciehowski

Barbara Zakarian

Carol Zapadka

Rose Zbikowski

A distinguished service award to recognize individuals or entities who have served the Wadsworth Atheneum with extraordinary loyalty, dedication, and service.

Genevieve Harlow Goodwin, 1983

Eleanor Howland Bunce, 1985

United Technologies Corporation, 1986

Talcott Stanley, 1988

Dorothy Clark Archibald, 1990

Joan Joseloff Kohn, 1991

Burton G. Tremaine Jr., 1992

The Women’s Committee of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1994

Nancy B. Krieble, 1996

Georgette Auerbach Koopman, 1997

Nancy D. Grover, 2001

Millard H. Pryor Jr., 2002

Christopher Larsen, 2003

Robert H. Smith Jr., 2006

Coleman H. Casey, 2008

The Docent Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2009

David W. Dangremond, 2014

Henry R. Martin, 2018

Festival of Trees & Traditions, organized by the Friends of the Wadsworth Atheneum

Marisely Gonzalez gets kids started on an art making project during Juneteenth Family Day

Fiscal Year 2022 Professional Staff

Director’s Office

Jeffrey N. Brown CEO

Tanya Beckett Executive Administrator

Kelley Salemi Governance Coordinator

Marketing & Communications

April Swieconek Director of External Affairs

Jessica Kelley Boucher Communications Manager

Aviva Santopietro Digital Communications Specialist

Erik Bowen Film & Exhibition Technician

Conservation

Allen Kosanovich Paintings Conservator

Casey Mallinckrodt Objects Conservator

Kat Sarris Framer/Conservation Assistant

Curatorial Office

Brandy Culp

Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts

Jordan Fenn

Curatorial Administrator

Mark Giuliano Exhibition Designer

Matthew Hargraves Interim Robert H. Schutz Jr. Chief Curator

Patricia Hickson

Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art

Erin Monroe

Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture

Alison Parman

Exhibition & Publications Manager

Allen Phillips Collections Imaging and Publications Manager

Jared Quinton Marsted Fellow for Contemporary Art

Linda H. Roth Director of Special Curatorial Projects and Charles C. and Eleanor Lamont

Cunningham Curator of European Decorative Arts

Vanessa Sigalas

David W. Dangremond

Associate Curator for Collections Research

Oliver Tostmann

Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art

Development

Hollis Dorman

Interim Director of Development

Ann Marie Drury

Special Events and Programs Manager

Keri Halloran Development Assistant

Julia Isenberg

Associate Director of Development

Kate Paulo

Grants Manager

Diana Reeve

Membership Manager

Andrea Sorna

Tessitura Database Specialist

Erin Sullivan Grants Assistant

Education & Visitor Services

Anne Butler Rice

Georgette Auerbach

Koopman Director of Education

Lindsey Fyfe School and Teacher Programs Manager

Denise Giannino

Docent and Tour Programs Manager

Marisely Gonzalez

Youth and Community Programs Manager

Courtney Hebert

Manager of Groups & Visitor Services

Jama R. Holchin

Evaluation & Digital Interpretation Specialist

Adam Lenz

Public Engagement and Programs Manager

Michelle McFarland

Head of Visitor Experience & Services

Gallery Attendants

Brooke Borsberry

Gallery Attendant Supervisor

Cicily Collazo

Front Desk Lead

Nahndi Ali

Chianna J. Calafiore

Alexa Casey

Taylor B. Casey

Angelika L. Clement

Mya L. Concepcion

Liam S. Cook

Harmony S. Cooper

Martha E. Crandall

Luis R. Cruz

Hunter Cyr

Jessica Daniel

Eileen Dulen-Jennings

Travis J. Dumas

Anne Dunne

Margaret A. Faasen-Arey

Daniela C. Figueroa

Gabriela Figueroa

Ryan Flanders

Carter Fluckiger

Elizabeth Fortin

Alison L. Goldie

Caitlin E. Green

Emilie Iglesias

Gary A. Jacobs

Raechel O. Johnsky

Silme Khan

Jane Linnell

Sarah Loomer

Emilie Iglesias Lopez

Jillian J. McBride

Arin Norman-Hall

Benjamin M. Pitt

Bailey Ruiz

Aidan Schroeder

Persa Shehreen

Julia Sollars

Brianna Sterling

Amelia Sullivan

Cassandra M. Venoutsos

Joshua V. Vieira

Ayana Williams

Museum Services

Cecil Adams

Director of Facilities & Capital Projects

Willard Coppedge Properties Services

Finance

Tracey Krasniewski

Director of Finance

Information Technology

Noreen Farrow

Information Systems

Technician/Office Services

Library & Archives

Amy Kilkenny

Head of Library and Archives

Chloe Collins Library and Archives Assistant

The Museum Shop

Stacey M. Stachow Museum Shop Manager

Sarajane Cedrone Museum Shop Assistant

Alexisjacqueline Martinez Museum Shop Associate

Protection Services

Steve Gerich Supervisor

Registrar

Mary C. Busick

Chief Registrar

Paige Culbert

Senior Associate Registrar for the Permanent Collection

Emma Cameron

Associate Registrar

Jon Eastman

Manager of Art Handling/ Preparators

Joe Bun Keo

Art Preparator

Rick Bogdan

Audio Visual Technician/ Art Preparator

Christopher Schroeder

Art Preparator

Casey Mallinckrodt leads a conservation gallery talk

Internships

Fall 2022

Chloe Collins Simmons University

Library and Archives

Jessica Daniels

Registrar Department

Olivia Grella

Central Connecticut State University

Communications and Marketing Department

Spring 2022

Anthony Rosado

Trinity College

American Art Department

William Boutzalis

University of Connecticut

Communications and Marketing Department

Noah Coyle

Wesleyan University

Education Department

Denis McMahon

Library and Archives

Summer 2022

Mackensie Griffin

Bard Graduate Center

American Decorative Arts Department

Donglin Chen

Trinity College

Registrar Department

Volunteers

Education Department

Maryann-Kurth Garza

Barbara Greenbaum

Laura Harris

Gerard Lupacchino

Ava Schwartz

Hy Schwartz

Spencer Schwartz

Student volunteers from Trinity College Student Club

JELLO

Employee volunteers from The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Auerbach Art Library & Museum Archives

Jan Beatty

Eleanor Blake

Karen Byrne

Ann Drake

Staff Publications

Erin Monroe

Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2021.

The Landscape of Milton Avery’s Connecticut Years, in Edith Devaney et al, Milton Avery. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2021.

Milton Avery, ‘So Close to Hartford.’ Connecticut Explored, Winter 2021–22, pp. 14–19.

Ancient Made Modern: Muses in the Art Deco Era, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine, Fall-Winter 2021, pp. 22–25.

Oliver Tostmann (co-editor)

By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.

American art intern Anthony Rosado (left) and Kat Sarris, conservation assistant, review archival letters for Hamilton: The Art of Remaking History

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Board of Trustees

Lauren Allen-Jones

Richard Alleyne

Jeffrey Brown

Diane Cloud, EdD

B. Aaron Crosson Sr.

Emilie de Brigard

Sasha Douglas

Ellis Echevarria

Anjanette Ferris-Senatus

Martin John

Antoinette Lazarus

Sarah Lewis

Gerard Lupacchino

Elizabeth Normen

Ellen Nurse

JoAnn Price

Claire Pryor

Maisie Russell

Kimberley Scott

Paula Silas Guy

Kenneth Williams

Tamara Williams

Judy Young

Professional Staff

Kimberly Kersey Executive Director

Margot Early Program Manager

Dr. Sarah Lewis delivers the first annual Pennington Lecture, a collaboration between The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Capital Community College, and the Wadsworth

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Financial Statements

Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets

Year ending June 30, 2022 (with comparative totals for the year ending June 30, 2021)

Notes to the financial statements are available upon request.

Design:

Scout Collective

Printing:

Hitchcock Printing

Photography:

Allen Phillips

Owen James Designs

Defining Studios

Adrian Martinez

John Groo