WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
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FISCAL YEAR 2022 / SEPT 1, 2021 – AUG 31, 2022
ANNUAL REPORT
The Worcester Art Museum's mission is to connect people, communities, and cultures through the experience of art.
Message from the Director
Fiscal Year 2022 was foundational to the continual building of the Worcester Art Museum’s future. During this time, the Museum strengthened itself while staying wholly focused on our defined mission, vision, and values. This work can be seen in many areas of the Museum’s operations, perhaps most visibly in the work to revitalize our campus in order to welcome the widest possible audience.
We could not begin to look ahead and envision the future of WAM without fundraising. This past year was record-breaking. The Museum received two monumental anonymous gifts totaling $16 million. Additionally, we raised $1 million in program support, and were fortunate enough to receive $2.2 million in unrestricted support, exceeding our goal by 45%. We are ever grateful for our dedicated WAM supporters!
Our exhibitions over the past year spanned history, culture, geography, and perspectives. Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity was a successful collaboration with Clark University that demonstrated WAM’s capacity to use art in current conversations around social issues. The Museum is looking to apply this careful thinking to how all art is presented, which is further supported by our DEAI work. Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London drew a large audience, while WAM’s own Jewels of the Nile was lauded as “beguiling” by The Wall Street Journal.
WAM has continued to stay committed to sharing the power of art not only with Worcester audiences, but with people around the world. Through our loan program, over 1.1 million individuals across the globe saw extraordinary pieces from WAM’s collection. This includes The Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Collection at the Worcester Art Museum which was presented at the Toledo Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum in Fiscal Year 2022. Additional venues include the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida (fall/winter 2022-2023); Saint Louis Art Museum (spring 2023); Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia (summer/fall 2023); and San Antonio Museum of Art (spring 2024).
We deepened roots with our local community and drove engagement through thoughtful, creative programming. Nearly 55,000 visitors engaged in programming in this fiscal year—20,000 more than the year prior. Engagement with our community is an ever-present component of WAM’s goals.
All these achievements contribute to a cycle of success that hinges on the revitalization of our physical space. With the completion of Lancaster Plaza this past year, the Lancaster Lobby is being activated with new ways to connect and welcome visitors, including a partnership with local coffee roaster Acoustic Java. The Museum Library is moving to an innovative new space, coinciding with a renovation of the Higgins Education Wing.
Thank you to all our staff, trustees, corporators, members, donors, funders, volunteers, visitors, followers, students, and neighbors. Together we create one unified whole that learns and grows together to further the Worcester Art Museum’s mission.
Jean and Myles McDonough Director
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Board of Trustees
2021-22
Dorothy Chen-Courtin, President
Douglas S. Brown, Vice President
Sarah G. Berry, Treasurer
Susan M. Bassick, Clerk
Lawrence H. Curtis
Jennifer Davis Carey
James C. Donnelly, Jr.
Michael B. Fox
Mark W. Fuller
Jennifer C. Glowik-Adams
Karen M. Keane
Sohail Masood
Margaret McEvoy-Ball
Thomas P. McGregor
Philip R. Morgan
Malcolm A. Rogers
Jonathan R. Sigel
Anne-Marie Soullière
Cynthia L. Strauss
George W. Tetler III
Christina Villena
Ex Officio
Matthias Waschek,
Jean and Myles McDonough Director of the Worcester Art Museum
Trustees Emeriti
Herbert S. Alexander
Marie A. Angelini
Joseph J. Bafaro
Ellen R. Berezin
Lisa M. Bernat
Karin I. Branscombe
Irene Browne-Grim
Sara Buckingham
Mary T. Cocaine*
J. Christopher Collins
Richard B. Collins
Dix F. Davis
Henry B. Dewey
John B. Dirlam
Antonella Doucette
Warner S. Fletcher
Gabriele M. Goszcz
James N. Heald 2nd
George E. Hecker
John Herron
Prentiss C. Higgins
M Howard Johnson
James D. Javaras
William D. Kelleher
Judith S. King
Lisa Kirby Gibbs
David A. Lemoine
David A. Lucht
C. Jean McDonough*
Lisa H. McDonough
Katharine M. Michie
Moira Moynihan-Manoog
Frederic H. Mulligan
John F. O’Brien
Richard J. Pentland
David A. Persky
Phyllis Pollack
Sarah C. Ribeiro
John Savickas
Clifford J. Schorer III
Richard P. Sergel
Michael D. Sleeper
Sumner B. Tilton
* = deceased
Corporators 2021-22
Corporators, as stewards of the public trust, ensure the continuation of the Worcester Art Museum's mission to collect, preserve, exhibit, and educate. Critical to the foundation and outreach of the Worcester Art Museum, Corporators serve as ambassadors, participants, and contributors, and are charged with the powers provided by law, as well as the Corporation's Articles of Organization and Bylaws. Corporators are expected to consider the Museum a top philanthropic priority.
David R. Adler
Kolawole Akindele
Robert Alario
Herbert S. Alexander
Che Anderson
John B. Anderson
Janet Andreson Dealy
Julia D. Andrieni
Andrew Athy
Barbara T. Athy
Edward M. Augustus, Jr.
Richard M. Avis
Joseph J. Bafaro, Jr.
Bradford Barker
Joan T. Barry
Thomas Bartholomew
Susan M. Bassick
Eric Beattie
Lisa Beittel
Lisa M. Bernat
Sarah G. Berry
Maureen Binienda
Charles A. Birbara
Maurice J. Boisvert
Karin I. Branscombe
John P. Brissette
Christopher A. Brown
Douglas Brown
John H. Budd
Eric Butler
Anne Byers
Benjamin Byun
Caroline A. Camougis
Suzanne R. CampbellLambert
Jay E. Cantor
Stephen Casey
Matilde Castiel
Jennifer B. Caswell
Rodmia Cesar
Harriette L. Chandler
Dorothy Chen-Courtin
Germán Chiriboga
Catherine Choquette
Kim M. Ciborowski
Vin Cipolla
Donna Cohen
Bryan J. Coleman
J. Christopher Collins
James E. Collins
Sarah Connell Sanders
Timothy Convery
Leonard C. Cowan
Tracy A. Craig
Emily L. Crim
Joshua Croke
Elizabeth A. Crowley
Lawrence H. Curtis
Leslie Cutler
Jyoti Datta
Laurel Davis
Jennifer Davis Carey
Eileen deCastro
Nina Chapin de Rochefort
Gail Dempsey
Siobhan Dennis
Paul DePalo
Jeffrey L. Dill
Thomas M. Dolan
James C. Donnelly, Jr.
Antonella Doucette
John Duggan
David C. Ekberg
Patricia Z. Eppinger
Allen Falke
Karen C. Falke
Andrew Feldman
Marianne Felice
Justin L. Fletcher
Romina Sarreal Ford
David E. Fort
Michael B. Fox
Mark W. Fuller
Dina Gaudette
Paul J. Giorgio
Maureen L. Glowik
Jennifer C. Glowik-Adams
Stephen J. Gordon
Gabriele M. Goszcz
Mel L. Greenberg
J. Michael Grenon
Eve Griliches
Abraham W. Haddad
Monica Hamel
Frank F. Herron
Emily G. Holdstein
Sandy Hubbard
Leigh C. Hudson
Kate Hutchinson
Kham Inthirath
Todd Michael Jenny
Nancy Jeppson
Katherine Burton Jones
Dr. Oliver C. Joseph
Rachel Kaminsky
Amar V. Kapur
Evelyn Karet
Marshall Katzen
Karen M. Keane
Lydia Keene-Kendrick
Lori E. Kelly
Paul Kelly
W. David Kelly
Alison C. Kenary
Arthur G. Kentros
Bruce King
Jean A. King
Judith S. King
Lisa Kirby Gibbs
Julie Ann Lamacchia
Mary Ellen Lane
John P. Lauring
Diane Lebel
Paul Levenson
Ottilie Levine
Ann T. Lisi
Patricia S. Lotuff
Suzanne Maas
Ingrid Jeppson Mach
Paul J. Mahon
Robert Mailloux
Susan Mailman
Sohail Masood
Samantha P. McDonald
Lisa H. McDonough
Kate McEvoy
Margaret McEvoy-Ball
Linda R. McGoldrick
Thomas P. McGregor
Martha B. McKenna
Toni K. Meltzer
Thomas S. Michie
Erwin E. Miller
Christopher Mitchell
Satya B. Mitra
Philip R. Morgan
Florcy Morisset
Michelle S. Morneau
Lisa S. Mucciarone
Mary Munson
Emily P. Murray
Michael V. O’Brien
Candace Okuno
Megan O’Sullivan O’Leary
Stephanie Opalka
Robert G. Oriol
Edward J. Osowski
Joseph L. Pagano
Kathleen Pagano
Susan M. Palatucci
Deborah Penta
William O. Pettit
Joseph Petty, Mayor of
Worcester
Philip J. Phillips
Sherri Pitcher
Phyllis Pollack
Pam Provo
Douglas Radigan
George C. Rand
Carl D. Rapp
Mary Jane Rein
Luanne Remillard
Sarah Ribeiro
Giselle Rivera-Flores
Ruthann P. Rizzi
Carol W. Robey
Linda B. Robbins
Camille I. Roberts
Malcolm A. Rogers
Dr. Leah Rothstein
Kent dur Russell
John Savickas
Anh Vu Sawyer
Dr. Shlomit Schall
Clifford J. Schorer III
Carol L. Seager
Patricia A. Segerson
J. Thomas Selldorff
Roger Servison
Janice E. Seymour
Mark L. Shelton
Gary Shurland
Jonathan R. Sigel
Jang B. Singh
Jaclyn Skagerlind
Carol J. Sleeper
Joffrey Smith
Margaret Snow
Anne-Marie Soullière
Kristina M. Spillane
Robin S. Starr
Carolyn J. Stempler
John C. Stimpson
Cynthia L. Strauss
Susan Strickler
John J. Szlyk
George W. Tetler III
Robert Thompson
Lynne Tonna
Josephine R. Truesdell
Judith C. Vaillancourt
Luke M. Vaillancourt
Rev. Dr. Esau Vance
Russell VanderBaan
Carmen D. Vazquez
Christina Villena
Brenda Verduin Dean
Hank von Hellion
Omar Wahab
Elizabeth Wambui
Kristin B. Waters
Charles Weiss
Barbara K. Wheaton
Hillary White
Bernard Whitmore
Emily G. Wood
Stacy E. Woods
John T. Worcester
Alan S. Yoffie
Valerie Zolezzi Wyndham
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Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London
November 13, 2021 – March 13, 2022
This pioneering exhibition presented masterpieces from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, in an innovative exploration of love's role in the creation of some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. Organized thematically with works spanning from the late 16th century to the present day, Love Stories argued that ideas of love and desire have been critical to the development of portraiture since the genre's emergence in the English Renaissance. More so than other art forms, portraits—sometimes given as tokens of love—offer visual records of relationships, celebrate key moments like engagements and weddings, and serve as memorials to deceased or absent lovers.
At the heart of this exhibition was a series of real-life love stories, each of which shed light on a different aspect of romantic love. From past notions of romantic love as a dangerous illness, to today's celebration of romance as a means of finding fulfillment in life, this exhibition ultimately reveals love as a constant and defining element of the human experience over the past 450 years.
This exhibition was organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
WAM's presentation was made possible through the generous support from the Fletcher Foundation. Project also funded in part by the Ruth and John Adam, Jr. Exhibition Fund, Richard A. Heald Curatorial Fund, Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund, Michie Family Curatorial Fund, John M. Nelson Fund, and Hall and Kate Peterson Fund. Related programming supported by the Bernard G. and Louise B. Palitz Fund.
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US | THEM | WE: RACE X ETHNICITY X IDENTITY
February 19 – June 19, 2022
Addressing identity as a socio-political issue has been a central theme for artists since the 1970s. Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity considered the ways that contemporary artists accentuate concepts like race and ethnicity through various visual strategies. Four formal devices served as the foundation for the exhibition: Text, Juxtaposition, Seriality, and Pattern. Artists often employ one or more of these approaches as means of storytelling, protest, and celebration. This exhibition demonstrated how these organizing principles serve as a common tool through which personal and communal social status are explored.
The exhibition was co-curated by Nancy Kathryn Burns, Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, and Toby Sisson, Associate Professor and Program Director of Studio Art at Clark University. In spring 2021, thirteen Clark University students enrolled in the advanced studio course, “Contemporary Directions,” which explored the topic of identity and was co-taught by Sisson and Burns. Despite the constraints of the coronavirus pandemic, students met with artists over Zoom and created artworks in response to objects featured in the exhibition. These student works were on display in an ancillary gallery in the Museum. This exhibition was organized in partnership with, and with support from, Clark University. Additional support provided by the Fletcher Foundation, Marlene and David Persky, Michael and Kristy Beauvais, Eve Griliches, Sara Shields and Bruce Fishbein, and Kristin B. Waters. Project also funded in part by the John M. Nelson Fund and Hall and Kate Peterson Fund. Related programming supported by the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund and Spear Fund for Public Programs.
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Exhibitions
Gachnang, Joanna Bossart, Joseph Benjamin, Konrad Tobler, Kyle Wilton, Louis Barney, Lourdes Mercado, Luciano Berti, Marc Pia, Marvin Siegel, Miguel Maldonado, Niki Hosig, Remy Pia, Roland Fellmann, Rosa Duran, Ruth Libermann, Sean Casey, Susann Bossart, Vijay Kapoor, 1992 – 1998, wax and oil on panel, Collection of Noel Kirnon. © Byron Kim 2021. Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York.
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Jewels of the Nile:
Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum
June 18, 2022 – January 8, 2023
The magnificence of ancient Egypt shone through in jewelry—the most precious and personal of human possessions—in this expansive exhibition. Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum put the Museum’s collection of early Egyptian jewelry on view for the first time in a century. Remarkable for both its breadth and quality, this collection was assembled by Kingsmill Marrs (d. 1912) and Laura Norcross Marrs (1845 – 1926) and given to WAM by Mrs. Marrs.
Jewels of the Nile showcased 300 objects, ranging from tiny beads and gems to large sculptures from the Museum’s other Egyptian holdings. The exhibition delved into the materials and techniques used in the creation of personal adornments, the evolution of style over the centuries, and the early twentiethcentury phenomenon of Egyptomania sparked by archaeological exploration in the region. Interactive components and interpretive programs allowed visitors of all ages to explore and experience for themselves this fascinating aspect of ancient Egyptian culture. Jewels of the Nile was curated by Peter Lacovara, Ph.D., Director of The Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund; and Yvonne Markowitz, Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator Emerita of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This exhibition was made possible through the generous support from Dr. Sohail Masood, his wife Mona Masood, and their children Laila Masood and Omar Masood.
Additional generous funding provided by the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., Fletcher Foundation, and Sandy Hubbard and Thomas J. Logan. Interactive elements in the exhibition supported in part by the Mass Cultural Council's Innovation Fund. Related programming supported by the Schwartz Charitable Foundation.
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Additional support from:
Pictured above: Brooch Featuring a Skiff with Blossoms and an Ancient Plaquette, umarked, (plaquette) New Kingdom, ca. 1539 –1077 BCE; (gold mount) late 1800s – early 1900s, glazed steatite and gold (modern), Gift of Mrs. E.D. Buffington, 1914.2
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AUCTIONEERS
Us Them We |
Left: Gallery view of
Race Ethnicity Identity
Photo: © Steven King, Clark University
Media Partner:
Angus McBean, Berto Pasuka,1947, vintage bromide print, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Byron Kim, Synecdoche: Danielle Brunner, Dominic Shamyer, Ella Kim, George Gountas, Glenn Ligon, Jay Patrikios, Johannes
Education and Experience
Public and Group Tours
Studio Class Programs
Adult, teen, and youth classes were held yearround online and in person.
Studio Class Events
Community Partnerships
•Arts Alternative, Worcester County Juvenile Courts
•Centro
•City of Worcester (Polling Site, Ward 3, Precinct 2)
•The Clemente Course in the Humanities
•Genesis Club, Inc.
•India Society of Worcester
•Mass Cultural Council-UP Initiative
•Open Door Gallery (Open Door Arts/Seven Hills Foundation)
Public Programs
Arms & Armor Demonstrations (virtual and in-person)
Deck the Halls!
Diwali at WAM
Flora in Winter
In partnership with the Worcester Garden Club. Spring Community Day
Master Series
Sponsor:
Creating an Icon: Edward Augustus Brackett's visit to John Brown's Prison Cell
Speaker: Laura C. McDonald, Art Collections
Registrar at Tufts University Art Gallery.
Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat
Speaker: William R. Short, Ph.D., author, filmmaker, lecturer, and independent scholar specializing in Viking-age topics.
Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Speakers: Lucy Peltz, Ph.D., Head of Collection Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator 18th Century Collections from the National Portrait Gallery, London; A. Cassandra Albinson, Ph.D., Head, Division of European and American Art, and Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of European Art, at Harvard Art Museums. Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity
Speaker: Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College.
Pierre Subleyras’ Portrait of Maria Felice Tibaldi
Speaker: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Ph.D., Curator and Head of Italian and Spanish paintings, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Amulets and Adornments from Islamic Lands
Speaker: Courtney Ann Stewart, Researcher of Islamic Art History, and the History of Jewelry and Gemstones.
•Salisbury Cultural District
•Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts
•Summer Together–with Recreation Worcester and other agencies
•Worcester Child Development Head Start
•Worcester Cultural Coalition
•Worcester Garden Club
•Worcester Jewish Community Center (JCC)
•Worcester Public Library
•Worcester Public Schools, AP Art History
•Worcester Public Schools, CultureLEAP
•Worcester Public Schools, 21st Century Community Learning
•Youth Art Month
Community Access: free or discounted admission
• Card to Culture Program: EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare
In partnership with the Mass Cultural Council, Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Massachusetts Health Connector
• Community Access Program
Provides free general admission to local youth and adult social service agencies throughout the year.
• Free First Sundays
Free admission for all visitors.
Sponsored by Sandy Hubbard and Thomas J. Logan and
• Blue Star Museums, Veterans and Active Duty Military
Volunteer Impact
The Worcester Art Museum thanks all of its generous docents and volunteers who give many hours of their time to the Museum. Volunteers help us advance our mission and without them, our work is truly not possible. In Fiscal Year 2022, over 300 volunteers put in approximately 2,000 hours of work on behalf of the Museum—both virtually and in person. These hours include 500 hours of docent tours, provided by our 50 docents who gave a total of 373 private and public tours, and also includes other volunteers across Museum departments. In addition, WAM is grateful to all of the Trustees and committees across the Museum, as well as to the Corporators and Members’ Council, for their important work on committees and for their help with day-to-day activities at the Museum.
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Social Media Highlights
September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022
WAM in the News
Highlights from September 2021 through August 2022
GBH News – Morning Edition, December 2, 2021
GBH – Open Studio, “Open Studio: New Exhibit From London’s National Portrait Gallery Launches In Worcester,” December 17, 2021
The Boston Globe, “Asking the Urgent Questions in Us Them We,” February 23, 2022
Live auctioneers, “Worcester museum’s ‘Us Them We’ surveys socio-political landscape,” February 1, 2022
Worcester Magazine, “Contemporary artists explore identity in Worcester Art Museum's 'Us Them We’,” February 16, 2022
The Boston Globe, “Conscious Coupling in ‘Love Stories’,” February 8, 2022
PBS News Hour, “New exhibit chronicles how love has been depicted in art through the ages,” February 14, 2022
Spectrum News 1, “New exhibition at Worcester Art Museum highlights art and identity,” February 18, 2022
Telegram & Gazette, “‘Transformative’ investment: Worcester Art Museum begins work on $2.1M research library,” March 14, 2022
Worcester Business Journal, “Worcester Art Museum commences $2M library addition,” March 10, 2022
The Boston Globe, “Writers Celebrating the Worcester Art Museum’s Collection…,” April 17, 2022
Spectrum News 1, “Clark University students create video game inspired by Higgins Armory collection,” May 9, 2022
Telegram & Gazette, “‘Symphony of sensibilities’: In Worcester State/Worcester Art Museum collaboration, art inspires essays,” May 9, 2022
Telegram & Gazette, “Worcester Art Museum shows off Egyptian treasures in ‘Jewels of the Nile,’” June 17, 2022
Worcester Business Journal, “After nearly 100 years, WAM begins full exhibition of Egyptian jewelry donation,” June 20, 2022 Antiques and Arts Weekly, “‘Jewels of the Nile’ Sails into Focus at the Worcester Art Museum,” July 1, 2022
Worcester Magazine, “Worcester artist Kat O'Connor has solo exhibition at Worcester Art Museum,” July 12, 2022
Wall Street Journal, “Style on the Nile: Egypt’s Wearable Art,” August 27, 2022
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REPORT
Acquisition Highlights
Everything
We've
Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now–Above,
Nicholas Galanin Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax Nations Alaskan interdisciplinary artist, considers abstraction an important formal device. In his art, Galanin discusses the way in which art historians, galleries, and museums have ignored the importance of abstraction as a marker of Native American identity. He says, “Oftentimes institutions or [the] western art canon deny our communities’ abstraction, even though our foundations of cultural visual language are often extremely abstract and have also influenced many celebrated abstract movements.” This WAM acquisition, with bright abstract blue and gold, was featured in Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity (see Exhibitions, page 7).
Woman Driver/S.Boston/July 1977 and Seaview Motel/Truro/Mass, John Goodman John Goodman, a documentary photographer based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, describes himself as a photographer as being “drawn to the human body and its contradictions… [and exploring] the contest between light and dark, grit and tenderness, power and grace.” The two photographs acquired by WAM in FY22 encompass all of these contradictions. The first, Seaview Motel/Truro/Mass, is an ethereal scene featuring a blonde woman in a phone booth in the foreground, with a beach umbrella and a children’s slide in the background behind a white and white fence. The second, Goodman’s Woman Driver/S.Boston/July 1977, features a woman with large curlers in her hair who is staring down the camera from the driver’s seat of a car. While each image displays the human body in a different way, the photos center them and explore the relationship between the person and their environment.
Fish Standard (Mahi-Maratib)
This past year WAM acquired a large Indian/Mughal Fish Standard (62 × 73 cm) dated to around 1700 made of gilt copper alloy and iron. This striking object is a battle standard in the form of a fish, a symbol of power and courage that cannot be tamed. The hollow body is engraved with scales, except for the underside, which is engraved with motifs of lotus flowers that surround the conical pole mount. It also features two recurved and serrated pectoral fins and one recurved and serrated dorsal fin. The fish’s face is embossed with two, large eyes, a nose, and thick eyebrows that are etched with individual hairs. There are also distinctive curls at the temples. Lining the top of the mouth are engraved, curved whiskers. The fish’s agape mouth reveals large iron fangs and a row of smaller iron teeth at both the top and bottom. The inside of the mouth is lined with red velvet. The other half of the body would have been fashioned out of cloth, which, when billowing in the wind, would have been both an impressive and intimidating sight on the battlefield.
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Nicholas Galanin (American Indian, Tlingit and Unangax Nations, born 1979), Everything We've Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now – Above, 2019, monotype and gold leaf with additional preexisting pink platetone, Chapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, 2021.83
John Goodman (American, born 1947), Woman Driver/S.Boston/July 1977, 1977; printed 2019, archival pigment print, Helen Sagoff Slosberg Fund in Honor of Daniel Catton Rich, 2021.96
Fish Standard (Mahi-Maratib), Indian, Mughal, about 1700, gilt copper alloy and iron, Museum purchase through the Eliza S. Paine Fund and Higgins Collection Acquisitions Fund, 2022.38
WAM’s loan program boomed in Fiscal Year 2022, with over 1.1 million people around the world seeing pieces from our collection. 140 WAM objects went on loan to museums around the world as a part of our temporary and longterm loan program and traveling exhibitions program, including: 31 WAM objects on temporary loan to museums in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States (including New York, California, Colorado, Michigan, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Arkansas, Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts); 20 WAM objects on long-term loan to museums in New York, Kentucky, Texas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom, and 89 WAM objects included in traveling exhibition Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum.
Among these pieces were three paintings by Winslow Homer, loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Gale (1916.48), In a Florida Jungle (1911.19), and Coral Formation (1911.15). While at The Met, over 200,000 visitors viewed these three paintings amongst 85 others in an exhibition entitled Crosscurrents, exploring Homer’s career across time through paintings of American life and scenery.
Loans
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Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910), The Gale, 1883–1893, oil on canvas, 1916.48
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910), In a Florida Jungle, 1885–1886, watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on moderately thick, moderately textured, off-white wove paper, Museum Purchase, 1911.19
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910), Coral Formation, detail, 1901, watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, off-white wove paper, Museum Purchase, 1911.15
Conservation Highlights
Conservation Highlights
WAM conservators worked on many exciting projects during Fiscal Year 2022. For example, Senior Objects Conservator Paula Artal-Isbrand completed the restoration of the larger than life-size Shipwrecked Mother and Child by Edward Augustus Brackett (1904.64). Using several different methods of cleaning, she methodically removed decades of soot and grime from the marble sculpture. To repair broken and missing bits of fingers and toes, Paula made use of 3-D printing technology. In collaboration with WPI, she replicated the missing digits in acrylic resin. Before gluing the replacements to the original, a layer of Japanese tissue was inserted between the marble and the acrylic to ensure that the replacements could be removed in the future. Paula then painted the restored fingers and toes using conservation-grade acrylics to match the color of the surrounding stone. In August, the sculpture was permanently relocated to the Morgan Gallery for all to enjoy.
This year, George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Term Chair in Conservation and Chief Conservator Rita Albertson treated The Calling of St. Matthew by Italian Baroque painter Bernardo Strozzi (1941.1). Treatment of the large oil on canvas consisted of surface cleaning, re-varnishing and retouching it in preparation for a 2021 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and the Quirinale in Rome. Although the international exhibition was cancelled during the pandemic, Rita was able to spend more time on completing the project. In February, the painting was reinstalled in the 17th-century European gallery
In Fiscal Year 2022, Paper Conservator Eliza Spaulding examined 188 works of art on paper, which included new acquisitions, loans to the Museum and permanent collection works. Eighty-five of the loans arrived from England and were featured in the WAM special exhibition Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London (November 13, 2021 – March 13, 2022). Eliza documented the condition of each of these works when they arrived and monitored their condition while on display to ensure no changes had occurred.
Arms & Armor Conservator Bill MacMillan focused much of his attention in 2022 on the touring exhibition, The Age of Armor that opened in November at the Toledo Museum of Art. This involved preparing the works for travel, as well as packing and installing them for Toledo.
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Edward Augustus Brackett, Shipwrecked Mother and Child, 1848–1851, white marble, Gift of Edward Augustus Brackett,1904.64
Bernardo Strozzi The Calling of Saint Matthew, about 1620, oil on canvas, Museum Purchase, 1941.1
Tribute to Endowments
Worcester Art Museum was founded on a passion for art and community made possible through philanthropy. For nearly 125 years, the Worcester Art Museum has relied on the generosity of donors who believe in the value of the Museum. We honor and recognize the following families, who have supported the Museum by creating endowed funds. The income produced by these funds is used to support the purposes communicated by the donor. These funds provide important financial support to WAM and its programs. The Museum is grateful for this enduring legacy of support provided by the following endowed funds:
Ruth and John Adam, Jr. Exhibition Fund
George I. Alden Trust Assistant Director of Education Fund
George I. Alden Trust Docent Education Fund
Harriet B. Bancroft Fund
S.N. Behrman Library Fund
Sally Riley Bishop Fund
Barbara A. Booth Flower Fund
Karl L. and Dorothy M. Briel Library Fund
Alexander H. Bullock Fund
Burrow Movie Fund
Isabel Baker Carleton Memorial Fund
Abbie S. and Mildred L. Cather Fund
Douglas Cox and Edward Osowski Fund for Photography
Dorothy Frances Cruikshank Education Fund
Charles E. Culpeper Conservation Laboratory Fund
Dwight A. Davis Fund
Alexander and Caroline Murdock DeWitt Fund
Docent Education Fund
Ruth and Loring Holmes Dodd Fund
Frank F. Dresser Fund
Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Fund
J. Irving England & Jane L. England Charitable Trust
David Freelander Memorial Education Fund
David J. Freelander Scholarship Fund
George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Conservation Fund
Thomas Hovey Gage Memorial Fund
Austin S. Garver Fund
Sarah C. Garver Fund
Edward F. Goggin Fund
Nehemias Gorin Foundation Fund
Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Booth Family Fund for Education and Outreach
Martha A. Cowan Fund
Jeppson Memorial Fund
Louise R. and John F. Reynders Fund
Marvin Richmond Fund
Chapin Riley Fund
Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson Fund
Nathan and Barbara Greenberg Discovery Fund
Nathan and Barbara Greenberg Education Fund
Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund
Charles A. Hamilton Fund
Richard A. Heald Curatorial Fund
Edith Florence Hendricks Scholarship Fund
Herron-Dresser Publications Fund
Chester D. Heywood Scholarship Fund
Hiatt FAME Fund
Jacob Hiatt Scholarship Fund
Higgins Armory General Endowment Fund
The Higgins Curator of Arms and Armor and Medieval Art Endowment Fund
Hoche-Scofield Foundation
Christian A. Johnson Discovery Fund
Christian A. Johnson Exhibition Fund
The Christian A. Johnson Resource Center Fund
Frances A. Kinnicutt Fund
Philip Klausmeyer Conservation Fund
Joseph and Shirley Krosoczka Memorial Youth Scholarship Fund
Macomber Conservation Fund
Jean and Myles McDonough Director Endowment Fund
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Fund
Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund
Michie Family Curatorial Fund
John M. Nelson Fund
Paine Charitable Trust
Eliza S. Paine Fund
Bernard G. and Louise B. Palitz Fund
Hall and Kate Peterson Fund
Mary E. and Irene L. Piper Scholarship Fund
Susan Ella Reed-Lawton Fund
Arthur J. Remillard, Jr. Youth Education Fund
Romanoff Education and Library Fund
Marion Olch Ruhman Education Fund
William S. Sargent Fund
Norman and Dorothy Sharfman Education Fund
Helen Sagoff Slosberg Fund
Ethel M. Smith Education Fund
Spear Fund for Public Programs
Stoddard Acquisition Fund
Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Endowment Fund
Stoddard Charitable Trust Directors Fund
Stoddard Discovery Fund
St. Wulstan Society Fund
Sudbury Foundation Scholarship Fund
Alice Eliza Waite Memorial Fund
Miriam Washburn Trust Fund
Karl B. A. Wass/Lundquist Family Scholarship Fund
James A. Welu Curator of European Art Fund
Mary Louise Wilding-White Fund
Worcester Art Society
If you are interested in establishing a fund please contact the Development Department at 508.793.4363 or email developmentinfo@worcesterart.org
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Tributes
(In Memory/In Honor of)
In Memory of Regina M. Bonofilio
WAM Art Docents
In Memory of Janet Buck
James A. Welu
In Memory of Isabel Baker Carleton
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis R. Carleton
In Memory of Mary T. Cocaine
Ms. Lynne Berlyn
James Croteau
Margaret Lee Dima
Laquanda Franklin
Eric Jeppson and Nancy Fifield Jeppson
Stephen and Valerie Loring
Mrs. Judith Markowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Powell
Elaine Rassias
Mary Samaras
George Tsandikos
Maria and James Tsihlis
Jean Welch
Worcester Red Sox
In Honor of Arlene and Arthur Constant
Frayda Abramson
In Honor of Cynthia Strauss and Harry
Sherr
Steven Maddox
In Honor of James C. Donnelly, Jr.
Ruah Donnelly and Steven E. Dinkelaker
In Memory of Jane Goodyear Hall
Bill Alicandro
In Memory of Alan Harris
Dr. Diane Lebel
In Memory of Frances Jacobson
James A. Welu
In Honor of Edward J. Osowski
Louise W. Gleason
In Honor of Jarrett Krosoczka
Richard Hennessy
In Honor of Cathie Markham
Bernard Dems
In Memory of Dororthy M. Masterson
Karen and David Baer
Philip and Diane Masterson
Michael and Martha Palermo
In Memory of Jean McDonough
Mary and Warner Fletcher
John and Geri Graham
Jay and Joan Hershman
Alice Hwang
Eric Jeppson and Nancy Fifield Jeppson
Marlene and David Persky
James Ray
WAM Art Docents
Worcester Red Sox
In Memory of Melvin Merken
Rachelle M. Pologne
In Memory of Sandra Danine Rapp
Michael Abele
John and Karen Andreoli
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Barnhill
Linda Baron
Thomas and Theresa Barosky
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bath
Michael Bell
Margareta Berg
Caroline Berlinger
Alden Bourne
Thomas Buckingham
Loren Bunag
Kathleen Chartener
Byron Clark
Paul and Suzanne Cohan
James Comer
Patricia Crump
Barbara Demmon
Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey
Antonella and Roger Doucette
Marillyn and John Earley
Judy Felgoise
Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Fox
Christy Galloway
Diane Goldstein
Pauline Governale
Jeanne and David GovernaleCousineau
Lori Griswold
James and Susan Halpin
Alan Havranek
Michael Hayeck
Douglas Howland
Evelyn Karet, Ph.D.
Michael Kelleher
Teri Keller
Daniel Kenary
Judith S. King
Dominique Kliger
Hilary Kruchowy
Rich Kyle
Stephen and Valerie Loring
Gerald Matteson
Kathleen and Douglas Means
Christopher Mehne
Carol Momjian and Michael Hanamirian
Michelle Moriniere
Gregg and Jean Nabhan
Ann C. Nelson
Christopher L. Nelson
Michael O'Connor
Scott and Natasha Pollock
Christine and Jonathan Proffitt
Alex Rapp
Ann-Cathrine Rapp
The Rapp Family Fund
Audrey Schnur
Lynda and Robert Sorrenti
Mr. and Mrs. J. Lincoln Spaulding
Barbara Sweeney
Cheryl Tucker
Mary Beth and Steve Verget
Olivia von Heydekampf
Aric Wei
James A. Welu
The Woods Family
Peter Yarger
In Honor of John Savickas
Unibank
In Memory of Susan Scherer
Amy and Robert Dunn
In Honor of Anne-Marie Soullière
William and Lia Poorvu
In Honor of Eliza Spaulding
Karen and Frederick Spaulding
In Memoriam of Hope and Ivan Spear
Brian and Monique Spear
In Memory of Carol Sutton
Chelsea Ellsworth
Catherine Oles
WAM Art Docents
In Honor of Marnie Weir
David and Jeannie Brooks
Legacy Society
The Legacy Society was formed to recognize those individuals who have included the Worcester Art Museum in their will or estate plans. These generous and visionary Members ensure that the Museum is a vibrant institution that will deliver transformative experiences for future generations. We are grateful to the following individuals who have either left a legacy gift or have included the Museum in their estate plans, thereby making WAM a priority during their lifetime and beyond:
Members of the Legacy Society
Anonymous
Anonymous
Toni Begman
Sarah and Allen Berry
Philip H. Brewer
Dr. Elaine and Mr. Robert* Bukowiecki
Alexandra Cleworth and Gary Staab
Susan C. Courtemanche
Dix and Sarah Davis
Brenda Verduin Dean
Margery Dearborn
Robert A. DeLuca
Patricia and Richard Desplaines, Jr.
Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey
Maria* and John Dirlam
Andrea N. Driscoll
Heath Drury Boote
Stephen C. Fitzsimmons
Dr. James and Mrs. Kathleen Hogan
Frances* and Howard Jacobson
Peter Jefts
Lisa Kirby Gibbs and Peter Gibbs
Joan Peterson Klimann
David* and Barbara Krashes
Marcia Lagerwey and Loren Hoekzema
Claude M. Lee III
Dr. Paul J. Mahon
Jodie and David Martinson
Mr.* and Mrs. Robert K. Massey
Dr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Meltzer
Linda and John* Nelson
Edward J. Osowski
Sarah and Joe Ribeiro
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Rose
Mr.* and Mrs. Sidney Rose
Ruth R. Rubin
Jennifer L. and Richard E. Saffran
Dr. Peter B. Schneider
Dr. Shirley S. Siff and Robert M.* Siff
Mary Skousgaard
Mr.* and Ms. Jack Tobin
Members who live on through their generous gift
Mrs. Margery A. Adams
Harriet A. Alexander
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Arthur Jr.
Ann Baumann
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Booth
Karl and Dorothy Briel
Eleanor H. Burke
Douglas P. Butler
Dr. and Mrs. William T. Carleton
William R. Carrick
Mrs. Fairman C. Cowan
Jeanne Y. Curtis
Mary S. Cushman
Janet B. Daniels
Eleanor Daniels Bronson Hodge
Shirley Look Dunbar
Michael E. Economos
Cathleen C. Esleeck
James E. Lowell
Maurice I. Hurwitz
Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Freelander
Esther and Howard Freeman
Eleanor M. Garvey
Judith S. Gerrish
Robert D. Harrington, Jr.
Mrs. Milton P. Higgins
John and Marianne Jeppson
Britta Dorothy Jeppson
Mary Patricia Keasbey
Sarah Bramson Kupchik
Irving and Marie Lepore
Anne Lewis
Sara Mallard
Myles and Jean McDonough
Ellen E. McGrail
Don and Mary Melville
Henry T. Michie
Jean H. Miles Mrs. David J. Milliken
Mrs. Anne (Nancy) Morgan
Haim G. Nagirner
Viola M. Niemi
Mary Ann Horner Pervier
Marilyn E. Plue
Richard Prouty
Mr. and Mrs. Chapin Riley
Blake Robinson
Louise and Elijah Romanoff
Agnes B. Russfield
Leonard B. Safford
Edith Safford
Katherine Sawyer
John. R. Scarborough
Norman L. Sharfman
Hope and Ivan Spear
Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson
Helen E. Stoddard
Lois Tarlow
Madeline Tear
Richard S. Teitz
Hester N. Wetherell
Margaret Ray Whitney
Irving N. Wolfson, M.D.
Mrs. Ledlie L. Woolsey
Elton Yasuna
If you are interested in naming the Worcester Art Museum in your will or estate plans, or already have, please contact the Development Office by calling 508.793.4363 or by emailing us at EmilyIsakson@worcesterart.org
For more information on planned giving, please visit worcesterartlegacy.org
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Financial Picture
Statement of Financial Position
AUGUST 31, 2022 (With Summarized Comparative Information for 2021)
Assets Current assets Cash and cash equivalents1,832,096 $ 8,307,998 $ 10,140,094 $ 5,761,590 $ Grants and other receivables464,733 - 464,733 299,760 Contributions receivable, net10,723 5,325,680 5,336,403 1,174,566 Investments 1,955,214 - 1,955,214 3,514,531 Inventories96,042 - 96,042 78,823 Prepaid expenses376,851 - 376,851 407,926 Total current assets4,735,659 13,633,678 18,369,337 11,237,196 Property and equipment, net14,541,453 - 14,541,453 11,014,388 Contributions receivable, net- 8,418,190 8,418,190 2,249,191 Investments 6,340,755 100,973,468 107,314,223 125,136,921 Collection- - -25,617,867 $ 123,025,336 $ 148,643,203 $ 149,637,696 $ Liabilities and Net Assets Current liabilities Accounts payable, trade1,226,402 $ - $ 1,226,402 $ 440,921 $ Accrued and other liabilities369,167 - 369,167 377,118 Deferred revenue803,823 - 803,823 446,878 Total current liabilities2,399,392 - 2,399,392 1,264,917 Deferred compensation liability198,954 - 198,954 100,000 Total liabilities2,598,346 - 2,598,346 1,364,917 Net assets Without donor restrictions23,019,521 - 23,019,521 19,949,520 With donor restrictions- 123,025,336 123,025,336 128,323,259 Total net assets23,019,521 123,025,336 146,044,857 148,272,779 25,617,867 $ 123,025,336 $ 148,643,203 $ 149,637,696 $
Without DonorWith DonorTotals RestrictionsRestrictions20222021
Statement of Activities
AUGUST 31, 2022 (With Summarized Comparative Information for 2021)
RestrictionsRestrictions20222021 Support and revenue Admissions262,263 $ - $ 262,263 $ 173,411 $ Memberships236,460 - 236,460 158,911 Public education310,686 - 310,686 108,524 Museum shop and wholesale218,424 - 218,424 164,418 Food and beverage89,542 - 89,542 21,359 Auxiliary activities374,459 - 374,459 318,606 Contributions and grants of cash and other financial assets4,421,351 16,978,219 21,399,570 6,898,706 Operating revenue, gifts and grants5,913,185 16,978,219 22,891,404 7,843,935 Net investment return(765,344) (12,359,835) (13,125,179) 27,039,149 Loss on disposal of property and equipment(196,601) - (196,601)Net assets released from restrictions Satisfaction of purpose restrictions9,634,567 (9,634,567) -Total14,585,807 (5,016,183) 9,569,624 34,883,084 Expenses Program services Curatorial and conservation3,194,924 - 3,194,924 2,472,483 Education744,823 - 744,823 537,565 Library107,754 - 107,754 79,582 Museum shop and wholesale199,742 - 199,742 163,259 Food and beverage145,318 - 145,318 86,880 Supporting services Administration2,620,886 - 2,620,886 2,684,146 Public affairs and development1,549,268 - 1,549,268 1,461,397 Buildings and grounds1,705,138 - 1,705,138 1,602,761 Security1,266,312 - 1,266,312 992,525 Total11,534,165 - 11,534,165 10,080,598 Change in net assets before changes related to collection3,051,642 (5,016,183) (1,964,541) 24,802,486 Collection acquisitions(263,501) - (263,501) (594,891) Income from deaccession of collection items- 120 120Net assets released from restrictions Satisfaction of purpose restrictions281,860 (281,860) -Change in net assets 3,070,001 (5,297,923) (2,227,922) 24,207,595 Net assets, beginning of year19,949,520 128,323,259 148,272,779 124,065,184 Net assets, end of year23,019,521 $ 123,025,336 $ 146,044,857 $ 148,272,779 $
Without DonorWith DonorTotals