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FROM THE MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES Museum News edited by Verna F. Ritchie

CALIFORNIA California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Two exhibitions selected from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts are on display at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor through November 9, 1978.

One is an exhibition of acquisitions from 1977-78, of draw ings and watercolors by Quentin de la Tour, Hokusai, Redon, and Vuillard, among others; and prints by Kuniyoshi, Signac, Hockney, and Frankenthaler.

The other, "19th Century French Drawings," is a small ex

hibition of master drawings of the 19th century including works by such artists as David, Ingres, Degas, and Seurat.

The J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a major addition to

its collection of Dutch art. It is Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man (c. 1631) attributed to the artist's Leyden period when he was in his early twenties.

COLORADO Denver Art Museum

The exhibition of "American Folk Painting" was shown at the Denver Art Museum through October 15, 1978. It consists of 50 paintings of 18th- and 19th-century rural life in America.

A major exhibition devoted to the environmental sculptures and architectural projects of Isamu Noguchi will be on display at the Denver Art Museum from October 20 through December 3, 1978.

CONNECTICUT Yale Center for British Art

An exhibition, "Augustus John: Studies for Compositions,"

celebrating the centenary of the Welsh-born artist, was on view

at the Yale Center for British Art through Octover 22, 1978. More than 100 studies of some of his early works were on dis

play for the first time. The exhibit is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog. Also at the Yale Center for British Art are two exhibitions

dealing with India which both run through December 3, 1978. One of the exhibits, "Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880," suggests the Indian view of foreigners in over 100 paintings by Indian artists commission ed primarily by the British and other Europeans. There is a

fully-illustrated catalog. The other exhibition, "The British View of India; Selected English Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection," highlights the British view of and attitude towards Indian life.

DELAWARE Delaware Art Museum

An exhibition, "Art Off the Picture Press," of 105 prints published by Tyler Graphics in collaboration with various art ists, including Joseph Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lic tenstein, and Frank Stella, was shown at the Delaware Art

Museum through September 24, 1978.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art's exhibition, "Artists and Their

Circle" was presented through October 1, 1978. It consisted of about 35 works on paper including pastels, watercolors, etch

ings, drawings, and engravings from the permanent collection.

The subject was portraiture: self-portraits, portraits of fam

ily members, other artists, and individuals active in the art

world by such artists as Childe Hassam, Phillip Evergood, Abraham Rattner, and James McNeill Whistler among others.

An exhibition of 88 recent photographs by eleven contempor ary Southern photographers was on exhibit at the Corcoran

Gallery of Art through September 25, 1978. The exhibition, "I Shall Save One Land Unvisited," will travel throughout the United States for two years and is accompanied by an extensive

catalog.

Museum of African Art The book, Art of Zaire: The Bronson Collection, to be re

leased concurrently with the Washington exhibition of the Bron son Collection at the Museum of African Art until September 24, 1978, presents works of art which have not been previously published or illustrated.

The Phillips Collection Rufino and Olga Tamayo traveled to Washington, D.C. for the

official opening on October 7, 1978 of the major exhibition, "Rufino Tamayo: Fifty Years of his Painting" at the Phillips Collection. This selective exhibition of 67 paintings is the cen

terpiece of the national symposium, "Mexico Today," spon sored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will re main at the Phillips until November 19, 1978.

From December 2 through January 7, 1979, the Phillips Col lection will host a retrospective exhibition, "Homage to Koko

schka," of more than 100 prints and drawings by the Austrian

Expressionist. The exhibition represents the years 1901 to 1976, and is drawn entirely from the collection of Reinhold,

Count Bethusy-Huc. The exhibition, organized and circulated

by the International Exhibitions Foundation, will travel on a

two-year tour of North America.

Smithsonian Institution:

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

On Henry Moore's 80th birthday, the Hirshhorn opened an exhibition of America's largest public collection of works by the artist including 8 monumental sculptures, 47 smaller works, 6 drawings, and 14 prints, many never before publicly exhibit ed. The exhibition, "Henry Moore: The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Collection" continued through September 22, 1978.

The works of two other artists represented in the Hirshhorn Collection have been on exhibit also. Forty-two paintings,

drawings, and watercolors by the American artist, Philip Ever

good, were shown through October 8, 1978. There is a 16-page illustrated catalog. An exhibition of 37 works by the German born satirist, George Grosz, marks the first public showing in its entirety of the Museum's Collection of Grosz's work. The

exhibition will continue through January 14, 1979, and is ac companied by a fully-illustrated catalog.

The retrospective exhibition organized by the Whitney Mu seum of American Art of Saul Steinberg's work will be shown at the Hirshhorn through November 26, 1978. After closing in Washington the exhibition will be seen in London and in Saint Paul, France. A series of 31 drawings created by Steinberg as the Smithsonian's artist-in-residence in January-April, 1967, will be on view also.

The Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts The exhibition, "New Stained Glass," opened at the Ren

wick Gallery in September, 1978, and will continue through February 19, 1979. The 41 contemporary works, created by 13 artist-craftsmen, range from the satiric to the surrealistic

and the decorative. The works are non-architectural and de

signed to be viewed as individual objects. There is an illus trated catalog published by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council, which organized the exhibition.

GEORGIA The High Museum of Art, Atlanta

The exhibition, "Prints of the High Museum: Image and Proc ess," a selection of some 200 of the High Museum's more than

1,000 prints from the 19th and 20th centuries, will continue

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through December 3, 1978. A catalog listing the Museum's com

plete current print collection is available.

ILLINOIS The Art Institute of Chicago

"The Athlete," a 25-year retrospective exhibition of more

than 200 sports drawings, photographs, and films by Robert Riger will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from Oc tober 24, 1978 through January 7, 1979. The exhibition repre sents Riger's important work for Sports Illustrated magazine and ABC's "Wide World of Sports." Written commentary by Riger, "The Influence of the Athlete on American Life" will accompany his work.

INDIANA Indianapolis Museum of Art

A retrospective exhibition spanning nearly 30 years of the work of Enrico Baj, one of Italy's leading contemporary art

ists, opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on October 18 and continues through November 26, 1978.

An exhibition of "Edward Penfield's Monthly Placards for Harper's Magazine" surveys the work which launched the

American poster craze and inspired a new aesthetic in Ameri

can commercial design. It will open at the Indianapolis Mu seum of Art on November 15, 1978, and continue through Janu ary 15, 1979.

A major exhibition of the works of the French artist, Jean Dubuffet, including 55 lithographs, oil paintings, and assemblages will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on November 28, 1978, and continue through January 2, 1979. A 50-page illus trated catalog will accompany the exhibition which has been on a year-long tour. It will end its tour at the Birmingham Mu

seum of Art, Alabama.

IOWA The University of Iowa Museum of Art

An exhibition of more than 100 objects from the collection of Charles Rand Penney, including oils, watercolors, drawings,

prints, doodles, and wallpaper designs, represented the work

of the American artist, Charles Burchfield, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art from September 8 through October 15, 1978. The exhibition is circulated by the Smithsonian Travel ing Exhibition Service. The exhibition, "Stage Designs and the Russian Avant-Garde

(1911-1929)," documents the genesis and development of Con structivism in relation to set and costume design for theater,

ballet, opera, film, cabaret, and the circus. Thirty Russian and

Soviet artists are represented in this exhibition which will open at the University of Iowa Museum of Art on October 22 and run through November 26, 1978.

LOUISIANA New Orleans Museum of Art

A converted haberdasher's thread case, a "Museum of

Drawers," was on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art

through October 15, 1978. The case, a conceptual work by the

Swiss artist Herbert Distel, has 500 "galleries," each housing one art work by such masters as Miro, Picasso, Johns, Rickey,

Warhol, Lindner, and Pearlstein, among others. A fully illus

trated catalog is available for $15.95. The retropective exhibition of work by H.C. Westermann or

ganized by the Whitney Museum moved on to the New Orleans Museum of Art where it remained until October 15, 1978. The exhibition will also be seen at museums in San Francisco,

Seattle, and Des Moines.

MASSACHUSETTS Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

The first major show of Mughal paintings in America, "The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660," will be on display at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through November 5, 1978. The exhibition will then travel to Baltimore and other locations. A major catalog is available.

Worcester Art Museum

A series of 22 prints by William Blake illustrating and com menting on the Book of Job will be displayed at the Worcester Art Museum from October 31 through December 10, 1978. In addition to the complete set of illustrations, other engravings by Blake and etchings by his follower, Samuel Palmer, will be displayed.

MICHIGAN The Detroit Institute of Arts

An exhibtion called "The Rouge: The Image of Industry in the Art of Charles Sheeler and Diego Rivers" observed the 75th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company and presents a view of the Rouge, 20th-century American symbol of industrial pow er. It was on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts through Oc tober 1, 1978. A 96-page catalog is available for $6.00.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis Institute of Arts

An exhibition, "Visions of Courtly India," consisting of 80 fine Persian miniatures will be on view at the Minneapolis In stitute of Arts through November 12, 1978. The miniatures range from the 17th to 19th centuries and come from the Pun jab Hill states of Northern India. There is a scholarly cata log available.

A major exhibition of approximately 120 paintings and sculp tures by Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, George Frederick

Watts, and Alfred Gilbert will be on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts beginning November 19 through January 7, 1979. These four artists represent the most central develop

ment in Victorian painting and sculpture after Pre-Raphaelit ism. "Victorian High Renaissance," after its opening in Minn

eapolis, will travel to Brooklyn and Manchester, England. A substantial catalog is being prepared.

Walker Art Center A retrospective exhibition, "Figure Sculptures in Everyday

Environments," of more than 50 sculptures and pastel draw

ings representing the full range of George Segal's work opens at the Walker Art Center on October 29 and continues through January 7, 1979. After the exhibition's stay at the Walker Art Center it will travel to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A catalog with many works reproduced in full color is to be published.

MISSOURI Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum

"The Sensuous Immortals: Sculpture from the Pan-Asian

Collection," was on exhibit at the Nelson Gallery of Art until October 29,1978.

An exhibition of drawings, collages, and photos done by the contemporary artist, Christo, in preparation for his "Wrapped Walkways" project in Kansas City's Loose Park opens at the Nelson Gallery of Art on September 29 and continues through November 12, 1978. A book, documenting the project, is sched uled for issue this winter.

NEW YORK Albright-Knox Art Gallery

"Bridget Riley: Works 1951-1978," a major retrospective exhibition of 59 paintings and 36 drawings and gouaches by this British artist was seen at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery through October 8, 1978. After closing in Buffalo, the exhibition travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas. There is an ex

tensive 80-page catalog accompanying the exhibition. A major retrospective exhibition, "Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years

of his Art," will open at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Oc tober 21 and continue through November 26, 1978. It includes 82 works spanning five decades and is scheduled to travel to the Hirshhorn in December. There is a 160-page fully illus trated catalog available.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The most comprehensive museum exhibition ever held of the

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work of Mark Rothko will open at the Guggenheim on October 27 and continue until January 14, 1979. The exhibition, "Mark

Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective," includes a selection of

almost 200 paintings and works on paper ranging from the mid

1920's to 1970. There will be a fully illustrated catalog. The retrospective will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles

County Museum of Art.

The Pierpont Morgan Library To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Gio

vanni Battista Piranesi, the Pierpont Morgan Library, will

have on view until November 26, 1978, an exhibition of his de signs and drawings in various media. A fully illustrated cata

log of the Morgan Library's entire Piranesi collection will be published by Dover Publications, Inc., for $7.50.

The Morgan Library, which owns the most extensive series

of Mediaeval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts on the

American continent, will show some of its most outstanding

Carolingian, Romanesque, and early Gothic illuminations of

French origin through December 3, 1978.

Whitney Museum of American Art

An exhibition of more than 100 drawings, watercolors, and

collages acquired by the Whitney Museum since 1973, was on

display through October 1, 1978. The 96-page catalog, "20th Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions," is

the first Whitney Museum publication devoted solely to the Drawing Collection, which now numbers approximately 1,000 works.

An exhibition prepared by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, "The Mouse Museum/The Ray Gun Wing: Two Col

lections/Two Buildings by Claes Oldenburg," includes a Geo metric Mouse and a right-angle Ray Gun housing over 600

items such as erasers, clothespins, and fag ends. It will re

main at the Whitney Museum through November 26, 1978.

There is a fully-illustrated catalog published by the Museum of Contemporary Art for $6.00

The first large-scale exhibition to focus on the pioneering efforts of the 15 major artists of the first generation New York School will be shown at the Whitney Museum through Decem ber 3, 1978. The exhibition, "Abstract Expressionism: The

Formative Years," emphasizes work created during World

War II years and the aftermath. There is a 140-page catalog available for $10.00.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester The first major show of contemporary kinetic art to be

mounted in a museum in the American northeast since 1968 was held at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester through October 15, 1978. The exhibition, "Energy into Art: Technological Art in America," spotlighted the work

of 15 artists producing some of the best kinetic and technologi cal art work today.

An exhibition of two major portfolios, "Vom Tode I and II,"

by the 19th-century German symbolist artist, Max Klinger, will be on display at the Memorial Art Gallery until November

19, 1978.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute exhibited works by Albers, De Kooning, Warhol, Pollock, and Rothko through Oc

tober 15, 1978. The exhibition, "Works on Paper: American

Art, 1945-1975," consisted of 73 works including drawings, silkscreen prints, watercolors, collages, woodcuts, and litho

graphs by 52 artists.

OHIO Cincinnati Art Museum

An exhibition of works from the Newark Museum's collection

of Tibetan art will make its debut at the Cincinnati Art Mu seum beginning on November 9 and continuing through Decem

ber 31, 1978. It will display Buddhist religious art and objects

used in the everyday lives of nobles, nomads, and peasants. There is a catalog available.

An exhibition, "Photographs from the Julian Levy Collection, Starting with Atget," will open on November 18 and run through December 24, 1978, at the Cincinnati Art Museum. A catalog is available.

The Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired six works of art

from the Robert von Hirsch collection recently sold at auction

by Sotheby's in London. Among them is a Rembrandt drawing of Shah Jahan and a sheet of study drawings by Raphael.

The Dayton Art Institute The Dayton Art Institute will mount an exhibition, "Courte

sans of the Floating World," to open on December 15, 1978, and run through January 21, 1979. Wood-block prints will fo cus on the lives of women of the Edo period (1615-1857). This exhibition will demonstrate how this type of Japanese art in fluenced 19th-century European artists.

The Toledo Museum of Art The Toledo Museum of Art has received a grant of $302,946

from the National Endowment for the Humanities to institue a

major new educational program for adults. This grant will

enable the Museum to offer three 10-week courses a year for three years as an officially designated Learning Museum.

A retrospective exhibition, "Richard Estes: The Urban Land

scape," will continue at the Toledo Museum of Art until Oc

tober 22, 1978. The exhibition includes 20 paintings which trace the development of his work from 1966 to the present. The catalog, including a recent interview with the artist, is

fully-illustrated and is available for $8.95, plus .50 for mail

ing. The exhibition will be shown later at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and finally at the Hirshhorn Museum in

Washington. An exhibition of etchings from the book Foirades/ Fizzles,

"Jasper Johns; Foirades/Fizzles," will open at the Toledo

Museum of Art on October 14 and continue through November

12, 1978. On November 12, an exhibition of the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany will open at the Museum and continue through December 17, 1978.

OREGON Portland Art Museum

"Zenga and Nanga: Paintings by Japanese Monks and Schol

ars," an exhibition of rare scrolls and screens by 55 artists

dating from the late 16th century to the early 20th century, was

seen at the Portland Art Museum through October 29, 1978.

Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, the exhibition will move to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, and remain there from November 26, 1978, through

January 8, 1979.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Museum of Art

The exhibition, "The Graphic Side of the Second Empire," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art includes approximately 75 prints and illustrated books from 1852 to 1870, showing the great diversity of printmaking under Napolean III. it consists of works by such artists as Manet, Daumier, Meryon, and

Bracquemond and will continue through November 19, 1978.

It precedes the major exhibition opening at the Museum on Oc

tober 1, 1978 of "The Second Empire: Art in France under

Napoleon III." This exhibition brings together over 400 works

of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, and

architectural drawing by the major artists of the period. Three

quarters of the exhibition, which will continue through Novem ber 26, 1978, will be seen for the first time outside of France.

VIRGINIA The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk

The 160-page catalog, "The Tiffany Collection from the

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Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," is now available. Every Tiffany piece in the Chrysler Museum Collection is illustrated in the catalog either in color or in black-and-white.

The work of two of England's greatest master silversmiths, Paul de Lamerie and Paul Storr, as well as works by 10 of their contemporaries active between the early 18th and early 19th century were shown in the exhibition, "The Gilbert Col lection: Monumental Silver and the Art of Mosaics." The mo

saics are Italian, dating from mid-17th to early 20th centuries, and are primarily baroque and neoclassical in style. The col

lection remained on view through October 22, 1978.

CANADA The Art Gallery of Ontario

Sixty-eight graphic works by Hundertwasser were on exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until October 1, 1978. The exhibition was organized by the Albertina Gallery in Vi enna and is accompanied by a catalog.

An exhibition of 13 Duchamp ready-mades will open at the Art Gallery of Ontario on October 6 and continue through Oc tober 29, 1978. A catalog for the show is entitled "Duchamp:

The Reality and the Man."

From the West Coast

edited by Jill Caldwell

Focus on Cedars-Sinai

Providing an alternative art space, Cedars-Sinai Medical

Center has developed an outstanding exhibition program for more than two years. The exhibition committees consist of

area artists who in turn select work of emerging Los Angeles artists to appear in the new space. The shows represent the

only current program in Los Angeles in which all exhibition selections are made by artists about their peers, and its suc

cess is largely due to the enthusiasm and co-operation of the

artists participating in the program. Because they actually plan,

select, and organize the shows themselves, there is more of a feeling of involvement than in many other public areas where artists merely are asked to donate a work. The exhibitions are

of benefit to the artists through experience, exposure, and feed

back as well as a benefit to the public through the quality shows thus assembled.

The Cedars-Sinai exhibition program not only enriches the

ambiance of the Medical Center, but it is a reaching out of the hospital to the community. The opportunity to visit a hospital with some focus other than illness lessens the gap between the sick and the well and serves as an integrating force for culture

as a whole.

One result of the program which is available to interested persons outside the L.A. area is the catalog, EXHIBITIONS 7(577. The publication is divided into eleven exhibition groups including "A Womans Exhibition," "The Altered Photography," "Directions in California Realism," and "California Light." There are 90 full-page reproductions (all in black-and-white) representing the more than 100 contributing artists. The cata

log is interesting not only in itself but for the concept behind it and is available for $10.00 from: Ruben Bennett, Community Relations, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boule

vard, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (213) 855-3651.

... More Museum and Gallery News

and Publications

Pre-1800

An important exhibition of nearly 250 works by the 16th century Italian sculptor, "Giambologna: Sculptor to the Medici

(1529-1608)," has been organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain. On view at the Royal Scottish Museum through Septem ber 10, it is now traveling to the Victoria and Albert Museum (September 27-November 19) and the Kunsthistorisches Mu

seum in Vienna (December 2-January 28, 1979). A fully-il

lustrated catalog will be the first reference work on Giambo

logna available in English and can be ordered from: Arts Coun cil of Great Britain, Arts Council Shop, 28 Sackville St., Lon don, WI.

"Venetian Paintings in Holland, 1300-1500" was the title of a small but important exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from July 22-October 15, 1978. It was the result of a systematic research scheme of Dutch private and public collections, initiated by Dr. H.W. van Os of Groningen Univer

sity and used previously with Siennese and Florentine paintings. An accompanying catalogue raisonn?" by Dr. van Os, The Early Venetian Paintings in Holland, has been published by Gary Schwartz, Maarssen.

18th-2 0th Centuries

During this past July the Chicago Art Institute held a rare exhibit of the only 6 known examples of the work of the French American silversmith Elias Boudinot ( 1706-1770). An illus trated catalog is available from: Art Institute of Chicago,

Michigan Ave. and Adams St., Chicago, IL 60603.

The work of British architect and designer Charles F.A. Voysey is the subject of a major circulating exhibition that opened on July 11 at the Brighton (England) Museum and Art Gallery and will subsequently travel to Darmstadt, Wolverham

pton, and Glasgow. The exhibition comprises more than 200 items, including architecture, pattern design, furniture, metal

work, and biographical material. An accompanying catalog,

containing some 120 illustrations, costs $9.10 plus postage from: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Church St., Brighton, Sussex, England BN I 1UE,

A traveling exhibition of "Hungarian Art Nouveau," orga nized by the Hungarian Institute for Cultural Relations and the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, is being circulated in this country by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The show comprises nearly 200 objects of fine, dec

orative, and commercial art in a wide variety of media. A 72

page catalog by Gyula Ernyey and Lilla Tompos, containing 7 color plates, 85 black-and-white illustrations, and a bibliogra

phy, is $6.50 from: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C. 20560.

"Cross Currents: Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from

the Cooper-Hewitt Museum" was on view at the museum from

September 19-November 5. Organized by curator of drawings and prints Elaine Evans Dee, it was composed of 135 French and Italian drawings and prints done between 1750 and 1825 as designs for architecture, interior design, and decorative arts. A catalog containing 135 black-and-white illustrations is

available from: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2 East 91st St., New

York, NY 10028.

"25 from 51" is the intriguing title of an exhibition held at the Birmingham (England) City Museum and Art Gallery through August 12, 1978. The "51" refers to the 1951 Festival of Britain, for which 60 British artists were commissioned to produce paintings of "not less than four feet by five feet." The 25 surviving selections in this year's show included works by Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Victor Pasmore among others and offer an interesting insight into both the problems of government patronage and the general state of British art

in the early 1950s. An illustrated catalog is available from the Birmingham Museum.

"The Other Nineteenth Century" is the most recent "re

visionist" exhibition to explore the work of previously neglect ed French and British academic artists, such as G?r?me, Ribot, Henner, Leighton, and Tissot. Works are drawn from the Tan nenbaum Collection in Toronto and the show, which opened in Ottawa over the summer, will tour museums in Victoria, Ed

monton, and Montreal before closing next July in Toronto. An

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elaborate, informative catalog is available from the National

Gallery of Canada.

An international loan exhibition of "Russian Non-Objective Art, 1915-22" was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from August 10-September 10. An accompanying catalog by the show's organizer, Andrei Nakov, can be ordered from the National Gallery.

"Van Dyck in Check Trousers; Fancy Dress in Art and Life, 1700-1900" was an exhibition held as part of the 1978 Edin

burgh Festival and was on view through September 10. It ex

plored the theme of that era's fascination with the fancy dress

portrait in paintings, prints, and photographs. An excellent

illustrated catalog is available from the Scottish National Por

trait Gallery.

The Galerie Huguette Ber?s was the scene this past summer

of an important exhibition of graphic works by Manet. A catalog by the show's organizer, Juliet Wilson, presents some new re

search and documentation for the dating of several works, most

particularly a water-color sketch after the "D?jeuner sur

herbe". The catalog is available from: Galerie Huguette Beres, 25, quai Voltaire, Paris, France.

"Twentieth-Century Portraits" was the theme of the Nation

al Portrait Gallery's (London) summer loan exhibition (June 9-September 17). An interesting selection of 70 portraits,

ranging from late Impressionism to Pop Art, was arranged in

five sections: "The artist and his family," "Friends and

models," "Intellectuals," "Public Figures," and "Patrons

and the social world". A catalog by Robin Gibson is available from: National Portrait Gallery, Carlton House Terrace, Lon

don WC2, England.

Contemporary

An exhibit of recent paintings and watercolors by Millard Sheets was held at Kennedy Galleries from October 6-21. An illustrated catalog is $5.00 from: Kennedy Galleries, 40 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

American Art

A 48-page "Classic Western American Catalog", containing 23 color plates plus text and biographical information on such artists as Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Charles

Schreyvogel, and Henry F. Farny, is $10.00 postpaid from:

Gerald P. Peters, PO Box 2524, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

"Posters for Victory; the American Home Front and World

War II?Posters from the West Point Museum" is the title of an entertaining and instructive exhibition of over 80 Ameri can and Canadian posters designed to bolster civilian and mil

itary efforts during World War II. It was held in West Point through October 31. A fully-illustrated, 126-page catalog of the show, with essay and notes by Curator of Art Michael E.

Moss, can be obtained at no charge by writing on institutional stationery to: West Point Museum, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996.

The Museum of American Folk Art in New York presented a show through October 15 entitled "Folk Art: the Heart of America," which traces the evolution of the heart as a design motif in American art through the example of 125 decorative and utilitarian objects on loan from collections all over the

country. An illustrated catalog, published as part of the mu

seum's quarterly magazine, The Clarion, is $3.50 plus $1.50

postage and handling from: Museum of American Folk Art, 49 West 53rd St., New York, NY 10019.

The Heritage Plantation presented a loan exhibition entitled "Birds in American Art" through October 15. It traced the use of the bird motif in this country from early Indian cul

tures to the present in over 100 paintings, drawings, prints,

sculptures, and a wide variety of other decorative and utili

tarian objects. A 64-page catalog containing 54 black-and

white illustrations is $2.00 plus 75c postage from: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Grove St., Box 566, Sandwich, MA 02563.

The first large-scale exhibition of the work of the American 19th-century trompe oeil painter, George Cope, was seen

first at the Brandywine River Museum through September 4 and then at the Dayton Art Institute from September 22-No vember 5. More than 50 paintings and drawings, most never

publicly exhibited before, were included. A 75-page catalog by Gertrude Grace Sill, containing 5 color plates and 54 black and-white illustrations, is $6.00 plus $1.30 postage and handl ing from: Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conserv

ancy, PO Box 141, Chadds Ford, PA 19317.

A loan exhibition, entitled "Mary Cassati at Home" was or

ganized by Barbara Stern Shapiro for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where it was held from August 5-September 24. The display included approximately 50 paintings, pastels, and prints, plus a selection of objects and artifacts depicted in Cassatt's art and a number of photographs, letters, and other

documents. A 16-page illustrated catalog is $2.00 plus 50c postage and handling from: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Bos

ton, MA 02115. A major traveling exhibition of works by the American land

scape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) has been organized by Theodore Stebbins, Jr., curator of American

paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "Close Obser

vations: The Oil Sketches of Frederic Edwin Church" will travel throughout the East and Midwest and close at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York early in 1980. A fully-illustrated, 150-page catalog by Stebbins is available from the Boston Mu seum of Fine Arts.

Oriental Art

The first show at Kennedy Galleries of "Fine Japanese Prints" was held from October 10-November 4, in coopera tion with Merlin Dailey. An illustrated catalog is $6.00 from: Kennedy Galleries, 40 West 57th St., New York, NY 10003.

A loan exhibition of bronzes, jades, ceramics, and textiles, entitled "The Auspicious Dragon in Chinese Decorative Art" is being presented at the Katonah Gallery from September 24

November 26. A 24-page, fully-illustrated catalog by exhibit organizers Sandra Grant and Catherine Brawer is $4.00 in

cluding postage from: Katonah Gallery, 28 Bedford Rd., Ka tonah, NY 10536.

The Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam cele

brated its fifth anniversary on June 2, 1978, with the opening of a selection of about 120 items from van Gogh's own col

lection of over 400 Japanese prints, which was on view through September 3. A catalog of the entire collection (in English) containing 84 pages, 6 color plates, 174 black-and-white illus

trations, and two important essays by Willem van Gulik and Fred Orton, is Dfl.15- from the Museum.

Primitive Art

"Peru's Golden Treasures" is the title of an exhibition of over 200 gold artifacts ranging in date from c.200 B.C. to the post-conquest era that were on loan from the Museo de Oro in

Lima to the California Academy of Sciences from June 15

September 17. A handsome 75-page, illustrated catalog is

$6.00 from: California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118.

The Frederick S. Wight Art Galleries at UCLA are host this fall to the first major exhibition devoted exclusively to the art and culture of the Moche civilization in northern Peru.

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"Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communica

tion" runs from October 10-November 26. An illustrated cat

alog is available from: Frederick S. Wight Art Galleries, Uni versity of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Photography

The catalog of a photographic exhibition, "Crying for a Vis ion," which documents the saga of Indian reservation life at

Rosebud, South Dakota, is available for $8.00 including post age from the Kansas City Museum of History and Science in Kansas City, Missouri.

A national juried show of black-and-white photography called "Canadians," organized by Nova Scotian photographer Peter Barss and Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery Director Mary Sparling, opened last June 30 after 3 years of planning. The show is presently on a 2-year tour to 18 centers across Canada and to Canada House in London. It is accom

panied by a 30-minute videotape and by a bi-lingual catalog that is available from the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery in

Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Miscellaneous

Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum was published last May as the detailed catalog of a concurrent exhibition of some 344 items. The catalog contains 127 pages and many illustrations and is available for ?9.50 (hardbound) or ?2.50 (softbound) from the Cambridge University Press.

"Das Bild des K?nstlers: Selbstdarstellungen" was a partial loan show held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle through August 27, covering five centuries of self-portraiture in all media. A fully illustrated catalog can be ordered from the Kunsthalle.

A major two-part needlework exhibition, "Embroidery Through the Ages," was on view at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design through September 2 and included items from the 14th 20th centuries made for both secular and church use. One sec

tion consisted of about 200 items lent by the Mus?e des Arts D?coratifs in Paris, where they were exhibited last year, which will travel next to Rice University in Houston. The other part comprises a similar number of examples from the Cooper Hewitt's own collection and emphasizes embroidery for per sonal and domestic use. Illustrated, 64-page catalogs of both

exhibits can be ordered from: Cooper-Hewitt Museum of De

sign, 2 East 91st St., New York, NY 10028.

ART BIBLIOGRAPHY Bicentenniel Bibliography of American Art?an Update

The "Bibliography of the Arts in America from Colonial to Modern Times," which has been in the process of compilation for the Archives of American Art over the past few years, under the direction of Bernard Karpel, is now tentatively scheduled for publication in mid-1979 by the Smithsonian Insti tution Press. Altogether, the bibliography will fill three vol umes containing about 20 separate bibliographies on special aspects of American art, with each bibliography running 1000 1500 annotated entries. A fourth volume will be devoted to a

master index. The set will sell for approximately $200.00, and more specific information about the bibliography will be dis tributed by the Smithsonain Institution Press early in 1979.

Materials Available

Video and Cable Guidelines for Librarians is still available from the Library and Information Technology Association of ALA. Among the subjects covered are video for library serv

ices, video for patron use, programming for special groups, fi

nancing, hardware, sources for programming, software, reg

ulations and franchising, and community organization and re sources. The book includes checklists of things to do, sources for information, and an extensive annotated bibliography. Cop ies are available prepaid at $3.50 each from: Library and In formation Technology Association of the American Library Association, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

The Art Library at Oberlin College has a microfilm of vol ume 29 only of Theime-Becker (Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kuns?er...) available for free. Volume 29 was pub lished in 1935 and covers "Rosa-Scheffauer." If any library is lacking this volume and would like to have the microfilm, please write to: Chris Huemer, Clarence Ward Art Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.

Apocrypha III, the third number of a journal of art and arch itectural history published by the graduate students of the De partment of Art and Art History at SUNY-Binghamton, is now available. It includes articles on such diverse subjects as "Eyckian Space and the Emergence of the Mathematical" and "The New York State Inebriate Asylum, Binghamton." Copies

may be ordered for $3.00 by writing to: Apocrypha, Dept. of Art and Art History, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13901.

New Publications

Northern California Art; an Interpretive Bibliography, by Joseph A. Baird, Jr., is the first volume in a new bibliography series from Library Associates. The publication was stimulat ed by the University of California at Davis Library's acquisi tion in 1977 of the Baird Archive of California Art and covers the period up to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Over 400 entries describe books and catalogs, peri odical literature, institutional and private collections, exhibi tion materials, and research facilities. The bibliography is $5.00 from: Library Associates, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616.

Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts; Cases and Materials, by John Henry Merryman and Albert Elsen, is a new book on the subject of art law. This collaboration between a law professor and a noted art historian is divided into seven major sections: Plunder, Destruction and Reparations; the National Movement of Stolen and Smuggled Works; Defining Art and the Limits of Artistic Freedom; The Artists' Right in a Work of Art; The Artist and the Legal World; The Collector; and The Museum. It was scheduled to be available for Fall 1978 delivery at an estimated price of $25.00 per copy from: Mathew Bender & Co., 235 East 45th St., New York, NY 10017.

The Center for Arts Information has published its new Di rectory for the Arts, a compilation of 145 organizations offer

ing free or low-cost services, programs, and funds for non

profit arts organizations, artists, and local sponsors in New York State and the nation. The Directory can be ordered for $6.00 softbound or $10.00 hardbound (postage and handling in cluded) from: Center for Arts Information, 152 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036.

White Walls; a Magazine of Writings by Artists is a new conceptual art publication originating in Chicago. As described by one of its editors in volume 1, number 1 (March 1978): "White Walls is an experiment in synthesizing word-related interests of artists and poets, focusing on that interface where poetic metaphor merges with the more iconographie structure used in written conceptual art texts." A handsome, "little magazine" type publication, White Walls is published twice a year, with regular subscriptions costing $4.00 per year and sponsoring subscriptions $25.00 per year. To order, contact:

White Walls, Box 8204, Chicago, IL 60680.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives has recently published two new titles in its Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian institution, a series designed to introduce the Institution's record and manuscript resources to the scholarly

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