GRADUATE

if NEWSLETTER Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art

offered in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute Box 8, Williamstown, Mass. 01267

Issued once a year for the Alumni, Students and Friends of the Program

NUMBER 9 FALL, 1984

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CLASS OF 1984: (Left to right) Charles Shepard Ill, H. Rodney Nevitt, Jr., Bradley Brigham (seated) who will receive his degree next year, Michael Floss, Nancy Spector, Samuel Edgerton (Director), Dorothy Reinke (Assistant to Director), Robert Phelan, who will receive his degree next year, Thomas McVarish and Nancy Green Photo by William H. Tague

ANNUAL REPORT, 1983-1984 Academic year 1983-84 witnessed two firsts ever for the Graduate Program in Art History. It enrolled the largest

entering class (13) and it organized the first grand reunion which took place last May 11-12, in honor of the founding class's tenth anniversary (more on that later, with lots of pictures).

For some time the Director has been thinking that the Program might function better with more students. In fact, the Institute, by virtue of the number of constructed carrels, has room for as many as twenty-five two-year residents. Thus, for this year, it was decided to open the enrollment beyond the usual ten per class, and see if it might be possible to entice and support an expanded group. Thirteen proved a lucky number for once, as that many neophytes moved into the Clark in September, 1983 and quickly established a remarkable cameraderie. So successful indeed was the experiment, that eleven candidates were selected for the entering class of '86, rounding our the total enrollment to twenty-four (the twenty-fifth carrel is unavailable this year).

As usual, a number of outside and inside lectures were sponsored (all or in part) by the Graduate Program (see attached list). Our Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professors in 1983-84 were, for the first term, John W. McCoubrey from the University of Pennsylvania, and for the second, James F. O'Gorman of Wellesley College. McCoubrey offered courses on landscape painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while O'Gorman presented his specialty, American architecture around the time of H.H. Richardson.

( Again, as usual, the first-year students traveled to Italy during January Winter-Study with the Director. The trip was wonderful, tracking a route from Rome to Zurich through Assisi, Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Milan (with side-trips to Arezzo, Siena, and Ravenna). As the previous year, Williams College alumni and undergraduate senior art majors were invited to go along, and eight extra persons availed themselves of this opportunity.

But the main event of the year, as far as alumni of the Graduate program are concerned, was the Tenth Anniversary Reunion held last spring. No less than ninety guests attended the scheduled events, including faculty, both retired and presently teaching, friends and staff of the Clark, spouses, and thirty-four former students- more than one third of all who have ever graduated. While the class of '81 was best represented in terms of numbers (nine out of ten), three (Fran (Eastman, John Haletsky, and Irena Hochman) of the first class of '74, however, did manage to find their way back. Nonetheless, it was fitting that these doughty originals who dared to test the new twelve years ago, be duly declared the guests of honor. Hence the Director appropriately awarded each the Williams Cane, as special reminder not only of alma mater but of inexorably advancing age.

While the evening banquet on Saturday night (May 12) was delightful, and old friends were able to dine together and toast each other and their careers, the true intellectual highlight of the whole affair was the afternoon address by George Heard Hamilton, first Director of the Graduate Program, entitled "The Further Frontiers of Manet Criticism." Here, Professor Emeritus Hamilton discussed the possibility of applying the latest fashion in literary criticism known as "deconstruction" to Manet's art. His talk was then followed by an open discussion among a panel of present and former directors of the Program (Edgerton, Hamilton, Franklin W. Robinson, and Michael Rinehart) and all the returning alumni in the audience, concerning past, present, and continuing value of the Graduate Program to the profession of art history.

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LECTURES 1983-1984 Professor Mojmir S. Frinta, Department of Art Hisrory, SUNY-Albany, "Observations of Punch-Work Decorations in Medieval Italian Painting."

Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Institute of Fine Art, "Rembrandt's Vision of the Dutch Landscape."

Professor George Heard Hamilton, Williams College, "Manet or Marx: Two Sides of the Coin."

Professor Katherine Weil-Garris, Institute of Fine Arts, "Raphael's Death and Transfiguration."

Professor John W. McCoubrey, Visiting Clark Professor from University of Pennsylvania, 'Turner's Burning of the Houses of Parliament." Leonard K. Eaton, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan, "The Quack Doctor and the Politicians: George Caleb Bingham's Paintings of American Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century."

Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Professor of Art, "Super-Hero Comics, Children's Picrorial Perception and Italian Renaissance Art." ( James F. O'Gorman, Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art, "Man-Made Mountain: The Ames Monument and Geological Analogy in the Architecture of H.H. Richardson."

William Ashworth, Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, "Recurring Images in Early Zoological Illustration."

Professor Willibald Sauerlander, Director of the Zentralinstitut flir Kuntsgeschichte in Munich and Visiting Professor at Harvard University, "Omnes perversi sic sunt in Tartara mersi-The Message of Romanesque Sculpture." (' Professor James F. O'Gorman, Visiting Clark Professo'r from Wellesley College, "Wright and Melville's Chimney: Literature and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century."

Josef Konvitz, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, "Utopia on Maps: French Engineering Vision in the Late Enlightenment."

Marcia Hall, Professor of Art History, Temple University, "Color and Techniques in 16th-century Italian Painting: Some Observations. "

CLASS OF 1974 Judith Adams (31 The Green, Charlbury, Oxford OX7 3QR, England) who is a bookseller, specializing in rare and elusive books on the History of Art, sent greetings to all her friends and colleagues in Williamstown when she returned her questionnaire. Jeanne Bresciani Orenstein (150 E. 61 St., NY., NY. 10021) is Director for Dancers for Isadora, preparing for the fall season in New York at the Theatre of the Open Eye, She will also be teaching, lecturing and performing in Brazil next spring. Elizabeth Agee Cogswell (315 W. Maple Ave., Morrisville, Pa. 19067) reports the arrival last January of her daughter, Emily, a sibling of Thomas, age 4. She was scheduled to return to her job in the Development Office at Princeton University this last September. Her husband,Jamie, will be commuting toJohn Hopkins University to work with the director of the library on a Council of Library Resources internship. Nancy Klaus Cooper (275 S. 22 St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103) has received an MBA and is working in the importing business. Gregory Smith (609 Stratford PI., Toledo, Ohio 43620), Assistant Director for Administration at the Toledo Museum of Art, reports that currently his most significant project is working on the formulation of a multi-million dollar capital campaign, and in establishing a group of professionals like himself which may be titled, "The Association of Art Museum Administrators." Susie, his wife, completed Law School at the University of Toledo this last August, and he, in his spare time, is painting the exterior of their Craftsman-style house in Toledo's Old West End neighborhood! No reply from Francesca Eastman, William Gavin,John Haletsky, Diane Musicant Fennelly, Lynn Rutkin or Cynthia Winter.

CLASS OF 1975( Elizabeth Ely Zuckerman (6055 Montemalaga, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. 90274) writes that she is a partner in InfoEdit, specializing in picture research/ editing and publishing services. All this in addition to caring for Katie, age.?, and Peter, age 4. She has become close friends with Rachel Burbank, '81. Jay Fisher (1607 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md, 21217) has been promoted to Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In addition he has been elected to a second, three-year term as a director of the Print Council of America, and co-editor of the "Newsletter" in 1985. He is the contributing author of the exhibition catalogue, From Regency to Empire, French Printmaking, 1715-1814, sponsored by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Baltimore Museum of Art, opening in Baltimore this November. He has also been working on an exhibition, The Prints of Edouard Manet, under the auspices of the International Exhibitions Foundation, which will open in May, 1985, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Closer to home, he is on the Visiting Committee of the Williams College Museum of Art through Spring, 1985.Johanna Karelis (129 Park St., Williamstown) mother of Alexander, age 5, and Oliver, age 2, is an editor at RILA, which is housed in the Clark Art Institute. No answer from Mary Cheney Nelson, Anna Cohn, Linda Creigh Nyvall, Amy Golahny Kopley, Peter Hero, Irena Hochman,Jennifer Lester, Cynthia Quay Tashijan or Jeffrey Thompson.

CLASS OF 1976 Gary Burger (326 Oblong Rd., Williamstown) is still Direcror of the Berkshire Museum in nearby PittSfield, so we have a chance to see him occasionally in his official capacity. Kee 11 Choi (242 East 80th St. 1*3A, NY., NY. 10021) is now a fine art dealer specializing in Oriental art. Lois Fichner-Rathus (311 Summit Ave., Summit, N.]. 07901) announces the arrival of a second daughter, Jordan, last December. She is still teaching, and has completed her textbook for Prentice-Hall which is in production. She has signed another COntract for another textbook, and has received a grant for Cezanne research this fall. Judith McCandless Williams (15 Greenway Plaza, 1* 14-D, Houston, Tex. 77046) began Law School at the University of Housron this fall. Michael Shapiro (5291 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mont. 63108) is now Curator of 19th and 20th century art, at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Philip Verre and his wife,Jane, and stepson,Jordan, are now living at 1* 120012 East 86th St., N.Y. 10028 and Philip is Curaror of Exhibitions, Bronx Museum of Art. Kathy Zimmerer-McKelvie (15344 La Salos Dr., Whittier, Calif. 90603) is still Director of the University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and continues to teach Contemporary Art. She has also contributed numerous articles and reviews ro the West Coast

\. periodicals, Images and Issues and Artscene. and has written articles on several California painters. She and her husband, Lorne, planned to spend August and September in France and Italy. No reply from: Jeanne Berggreen Plekon, Gaye Brown or Melanie Gifford.

CLASS OF 1977 Beth Carver Wees (289 Gale Rd., Williamstown) is continuing as Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Clark, and is working on a catalogue of the English silver. She will be teaching a Winter Study course on silver at Williams in January. Deborah Coy Ahearn (16 West 74 St., N.Y., N.Y. 10023) spent six weeks in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia for the Winter Olympics, and started with Sotheby's as the fine arts appraiser in March. Henry Duffy (75 Prospect St., Demarest, N.]. 07627) was an Intern with the New York Historical Society last summer, working on an exhibition on the history of Lake George and other projects. This fall semester he is an adjunct at Marymount College in Tarrytown, teaching 19th-century art. Susan Dodge Peters (159 Rossiter Rd., Rochester, N.Y. 14620) announces the arrival of a daughter, Elizabeth, on May 30th. Now with two children, she is still writing for the City Newspaper in Rochester, and actively involved in trying to keep the International Museum of Photography in Rochester. John W. Stamper (307 N. Victoria St., Mishawaka, Ind. 46544) is currently finishing the requirements for his Ph.D. at Northwestern, and expects to finish the dissertation by December, 1984. Fronia Wissman (1012 Cole St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117) is finishing up her dissertation for Yale, and looking for work in the Bay area. Not heard from: Eileen Casey Jachym, Michael Klein, Robert Mattison or Judith Weiss.

CLASS OF 1978 Leonard Amico (2702 Wisconsin Ave., N. A., Apt. 109, Washington, nc. 20007) received his M. Phil. from Yale in 1984, and is presently writing his dissertation while on a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks. Lucinda Barnes (390 Ruby St., Laguna Beach, Calif. 92651) is a Lecturer in art history at California State University in Long Beach, and has contributed to a catalogue at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, entitled Action/Precisio1t: The Direction in New York, 1955-60. John Coffey (21 Potter St., Brunswick, Me. 04011) is Curator of Collections at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, President of the Board of Directors, Maine Festival of the Arts, and a Member of the Visual Arts Advisory Panel, Maine State Commission on the Art and Humanities. Stephen Edidin has been appointed curator of collections of the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey. Adrian Hoch (230 A Street, Apt. 17, Davis, Calif. 95616) is Visiting Professor in Art History, at the University of California, Davis. She will be presenting a paper on Simone Martini at the upcoming convention of the C.A.A. in Los Angeles in February of 1985. All this in a hasty note because she had just returned from Europe! Brian Lukacher (Dept. of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. 04011) didn't have a home address to give us as he and his wife, Joanne Martin, headed for Bowdoin to teach 19th century and American art. Now that he is nearer, we hope to see him in Williamstown some day. He recently published articles on Joseph Michael Gandy (the subject of his dissertation) in AAFiles, Annals of the Architectural Association, Daidalos, and Berlin Architectural Journal. No word from Jane Boyle or Carole Cunningham.

CLASS OF 1979 Laura M. Giles is the new curator of European paintings and drawings at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University

( J( of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Franklin Kelly (3306 Humboldt Ave., So. #4, Minneapolis, Minn. 55408) is Associate Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Last March he gave the 1984 Anne Burnett Tandy Lectures in American Civilization at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth (on F. E. Church). Wendy Owens (403 E. Marshall St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850) will be on leave from the Johnson Museum until December 1984, doing research on the MacBeth Gallery under a grant from the Luce Foundation. She has also organized an exhibition, The Watercolors of David Milne: a Survey Exhibition, which will be on view in Vermont and Connecticut next fall. No answer from: Hiram Butler, Stephen Eisenman, Chris London, Margaret Kaufman McCallum, Lily Milroy, Sheryl Reiss, Mary Spivy Dangre­mond or Jennifer Wade.

CLASS OF 1980 Cheryl Brutvan (196 North St., #6-C, Buffalo, N.Y. 14201) is Assistant Curator, in charge of Prints and Drawings at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo. Paula Koromilas Burke (24 Henry St., Darien, Conn. 06820) wrote of her move from Brooklyn to Connecticut. She is finding her daughter, Katherine, quite an adventure now that she is in "The Terrible Twos." Martha Krom (15 Berkshire St., Worcester, Mass. 01609) has been Assistant, Curator of Education at the Worcester Art Museum for over two years. She is presently implementing an NEA-funded outreach program for senior adults, as well as developing outreach kits for elementary school children. She will also be teaching again a survey course in art history at a local college. This last August she received her MBA from Anna Maria College, and then treated herself to a month in Europe gaining material for a course she plans to teach in the spring on patronage and collecting. Chris Bartolo LeMoal (2 Winthrop Ave., East Norwalk, Conn. 06851) and her husband, John, have bought a lovely old brick Tudor house in Connecticut. John is with the Chemical Bank and she is working as the art historian for Sandak, Inc. Christine Podomaniczky (14 Water St., Thomaston, Me. 04861) writes of the arrival of Anna Katinka in December, 1983. She is on leave from the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland where she has been Curator for four years. She hopes to teach or write on a part-time basis during the year, but says she and Michael will probably relocate to enable him to pursue interests in wood (furniture) conservation. She just recently was appointed to the Museum Advisory Panel of the Maine State Commission for the Arts and Humanities. Not heard from: Ned Hawkins, David

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CLASS OF 1981 Rachel Burbank (5129 Laurette St., Torrance, Calif. 90503) was in the East visiting her parents in Maine where she went to visit Chris Podomaniczky '80, at the Farnsworth Art Gallery, who was hanging her last show while still part-time Curator. Since Chris's Anna and Rachel's second daughter, Andrea, are only two months apart, they had much to share and to get caught up on. Bonnie Campbell (1706 lIth St., #6, Sacramento, Calif. 95814) is still Curator with the Capitol Historical Furnishings & Art Program and consultant to the California Restoration Subcommittee. She just finished a four-year project resulting in a color brochure on Art & Antiques in the Capitol. She was planning to attend the National Preservation Conference in Baltimore in October. As of October, Laurie McGavin (600 11th Street, Brooklyn, N.¥. 11201) was to become associated with Nordstern International, a fine art insurance company. She was also to become an Adjunct Art History professor, teaching a survey course at Kings College, in Briarcliff Manor. Sally Mills (P. O. Box 291, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.¥. 12601) continues as Curator of the Vassar College Art Gallery. She says it has been a slow year since their Hudson River School landscape show, "All Seasons and Every Light" went on the road. She spent some time in the Adirondacks with Jennifer Gordon, also '81, and then made a 98-mile canoe trip in Maine's Allagash wilderness. Ruth Pasquine (60-64 Union St., Newark, N.J. 07105) is continuing to lecture at The Cloisters and doing some free-lance writing and editing. She reports she is very happy and doing well, and finally getting settled since all her possessions stored in Williamstown for the past few years were delivered! John Pultz (251 West 92nd St., N.¥., N.Y. 10025) has left MOMA and started as a full-time student at the Institute of Fine Arts, working for his doctorate in Modern Art. Catherine Scallen (Dept. of Art and Archaeology, McCormick Hall, Princeton, N.J. 08544) successfully completed her general examination for the MFA from Princeton last May, and is beginning research on her dissertation, "The Theme of Meditation in Rembrandt and His Circle" which included a trip to The Netherlands in July. Amy Shammash (170 East 83 St., Apt. 3-G, N.¥., N.¥. 10028) is currently Assistant Publicist with Penguin Books in the city and reports she took a brief trip to Spain and Morocco in July. Maureen Walsh (c/o Woodruff Emlen, 624 Pembroke Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010) spent part of the summer at "Ft. Hoosac" here in Williamstown, while she did some research. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in the field of Dutch art at Bryn Mawr and working as Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings. No answer from: Jennifer Gordon, Kenneth leDoux or Ann Rosenthal.

CLASS OF 1982 Julia Bernard (Dept. of Art, University of Chicago, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60637) is presently enrolled in the PhD. program at the University of Chicago. She recently worked on an exhibition of German Neo-Expressionist prints at The Renaissance Society there. She also mounted the exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art this summer, "Capital Art: 12 Artists from Washington, D. C", sponsored in part by the Graduate Program. Maura Feeney (11 Bieselin Rd., Bellport, N.¥. 11713) continues as Registrar of the Connecticut Historical Society. Sandra Ludig (63 Park St., Williamstown) recently completed the catalogue for an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art of their collection of drawings by Samuel Palmer. She passed her qualifying exams at Yale last May, and will be doing dissertation research in England most of next year, travelling on a Metropolitan Museum, Theodore Rousseau Fellowship. Her dissertation is on Gainsborough's Fancy Pictures. Anne Reed (3584 Indian Queen Lane, Philadelphia, Pa .19129) became Director of Art for the Provident National Bank in July. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Curator's Group, and recently attended the symposium, "Corporate Culture and the Arts" in Chicago. John Wetenhall (Dept. of Art, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 94305) has finished his course work at Stanford towards his doctorate and is writing his dissertation on Modern Public Sculpture. He stopped in briefly at the Clark this summer when he was back East. No reply from: Wanda Bubriski, Minott Kerr, Paula Kozol or Nancy Sojka,

CLASS OF 1983 Julie Aronson (3945 Garrison St., N. A., Washington, D. C 20016) is a Research Assistant in American Art at the National Gallery of Art, researching and writing a catalogue of their American Naive paintirlgs collection. Cynthia Deith (509 E. 87 St., Apt. 2-W, N.¥., N.¥.) left the Curatorial Dept. here at the Clark, and as of September began her studies at the Institute of Fine Arts working toward her doctorate. She will be sharing an apartment with Nancy Spector, '84. Tom Fels (North Bennington, Vt. 05257) is working at the Williams College Museum of Art and also doing some writing. A review of his catalogue on Carleton E. Watkins was in the May/June issue of the Print Collector's Newsletter. He himself wrote a review of the most recent New York show by Pat Adams which appeared in the summer issue of ARTS magazine. Anne Havinga (234 South 21st St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103) is continuing as Curatorial Intern in the Dept. of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Peter Lynch (188 Bishop St., New Haven, Conn. 06511) is a second-year doctoral candidate in Renaissance Studies at Yale University. James Weiss (no address in New Haven yet) finished one year as Curator at the Arkansas Arts Center, and this last September began his doctoral studies at Yale University. No response from: Vincent Carnevale, Judith Lenett or Ellen Wood.

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CLASS OF 1984

Bradley Brigham (Jacksonvill Rd., Colrain, Mass. 01340) is finishing up some of his course work at the University of Mass., and hopes to get his degree from Williams next June. Michael Floss (229 Elm St., Northampton, Mass. 01060) is an intern at the Smith College Museum of Art, joining Nancy Sojka, Class of '82. Nancy Green (50 Hoxsey St., Williamstown) is continuing with her work at the Williams College Museum. Thomas McVarish (179 Franklin St., Apt. 5, Stoneham, Mass. 02180) is temporarily employed in the Boston area. Rodney Nevitt, Jr. (Perkins Hall, Room 422A, Harvard University,

( Cambridge, Mass. 02138) is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Harvard University, specializing in Dutch art of the 16-17th centuries. Robert Phelan (17 Seeley Ave., Albany, N.¥. 12203) is finishing up some course work and plans to get his degree from Williams next June. Charles Shepard (1678 Murfin, Apt. 6, N. W. 3, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48105) and his wife, Susan, are at the University of Michigan, where she is now pursuing her graduate studies. Nancy Spector (509 E. 87th St., Apt. 2-W, N.¥., NY. 10028) is continuing her work as a Hilla Rebay Fellow at the Guggenheim, working on the Kandinsky catalogue raisonne. This September she started her doctoral studies at the Institute of Fine Arts. Otherwise, she says, she is trying to adjust to city life after two wonderful years in Williamstown.

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