2021 Annual Report

The Menil Collection Annual Report

The following pages are a testament to the hard work, resiliency, and creativity of the Menil Collection’s staff during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is with immense gratitude that I acknowledge the steadfast guidance of the Menil Foundation Board of Trustees, led by President Doug Lawing, Chair Janet Hobby, and Chair Emerita Louisa Stude Sarofim. Fiscal Year 2021 (July 1, 2020 June 30, 2021) began halfway into what would become a seven-month pandemicrelated closure of the Menil to the public. Museum staff nimbly faced the related challenges and managed to accomplish a significant amount during the closure and in the months following our reopening in September 2020.

The Menil’s mission to make art accessible at no charge to the visitor cushioned us during this time; museums whose budgets are heavily dependent on visitor entry fees, location rentals, and restaurant and retail sales felt the immediate loss of revenue much more acutely. Nonetheless, the Menil experienced a decrease in revenue in every sector. The Executive Team made immediate and assertive efforts to reduce general spending in order to prioritize care for our employees; the well-being of the museum’s collection, buildings, and grounds; and safe access to our green spaces for the community. No employees were furloughed or let go as a result of the closure, and employee benefit levels were maintained.

Museum executives focused their efforts on staff morale, con nectedness, and engagement. For months, Human Resources sent out daily emails, and a new, beautifully designed weekly staff newsletter was launched. During this period, which was also one of intense social unrest and transformation, five significant staff-led initiatives were begun. One group researched the history of the Menil neighborhood. Another revised the museum’s values statement, adding a clause that specifically addresses diversity and inclusion. A third identified ways to better onboard new staff members with the goal of ensuring they feel included and supported. The fourth explored and instituted a program to teach all employees conver sational Spanish. And the fifth studied inclusive language, sharing ideas and examples of how Menil staff can be considerate colleagues and more welcoming to our visitors.

The museum’s public programs team created new outdoor and online offerings. A series of recorded conversations—In Dialogue— was initiated between Menil curators and notable scholars, artists, and art professionals. Audiences for these conversations extended around the globe.

We are pleased to share this annual report highlighting the notable events that took place across the Menil Collection’s neighborhood of art during Fiscal Year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021).

Photo: Daniel Ortiz

The Menil carefully, safely, and successfully recalled its staff to its buildings in time for the September 2020 reopening. In order to live up to the museum’s “all for one and one for all” spirit, Executive Team members spent two weeks helping the Visitor Assistants in the main museum building, greeting guests at the front door and explaining the museum’s new safety protocols.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Menil Foundation’s The De Luxe Show (1971), the Menil honored Virginia Jaramillo, the only woman included in the historic presentation, with her first ever solo museum exhibition. Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969–1974 (September 26, 2020 July 3, 2021) was a popular and critical success. The New York Times ran a two-page profile on Jaramillo, which drew significant attention to an exhibition that the octogenarian artist described as “life changing.” Museums around the country are now lined up to display her work.

Also on view was a significant exhibition by the Puerto Ricobased artists Allora & Calzadilla, who spent three years creating new work for an installation that responded to both the Menil’s Surrealist collection and to the shared experiences of life in Houston and San Juan. The ambitious installation assumed new relevance when, in February 2021, the museum closed for a week because of Texas’s elec trical grid failure; one of Allora & Calzadilla’s monumental pieces is a commentary on Puerto Rico’s crippling and extended loss of electricity following Hurricane Maria.

The Menil Drawing Institute exhibited a range of 20th-century drawings in Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century (November 14, 2020 April 11, 2021) and Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s (May 21–September 19, 2021). Saskia Verlaan, the inaugural Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Drawing Institute, was able to spend the first year of the pandemic living in the Menil’s newly completed Scholar’s Bungalow. During her nine-month residency, she worked on her disser tation and organized the exhibition Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection (October 29, 2021–March 13, 2022).

Beginning in September 2020, the Menil began providing gallery guides in both English and Spanish for every exhibition it produces. Additionally, Spanish subtitles are now included on select public programs videos (available on YouTube), and the Conservation Department’s Artist Documentation Program team conducted their first Spanish-language interview with artist Daniel Lind-Ramos.

Fiscal Year 2021 was one of the most challenging in the Menil’s history. Yet, in hindsight, it is clear that the museum ended the year stronger and with a renewed sense of purpose and pride. The staff came together during a major crisis and supported one another. Together, we look forward to sharing new exhibitions, artist lectures, musical performances, special events, and more in the years to come.

Sincerely, Rebecca Rabinow

The Menil Collection is committed to its founders’ belief that art is essential to the human experience. Set in a residential Houston neighborhood, the Menil fosters direct personal encounters with works of art and welcomes all visitors free of charge to its museum buildings and surrounding green spaces.

Values Statement

The Menil’s institutional culture and actions are guided by the following core values:

Inclusivity We are committed to being equitable, inclusive, and welcoming to all people.

Integrity We strive towards transparency and accountability, and we actively work to combat bias and racism in all of our practices, interactions, and activities.

Empathy We are a small staff who work closely together. We listen to different points of view and are committed to acting with kindness, respect, and understanding towards one another.

Excellence We uphold the highest professional standards. We consis tently strive to innovate those standards and exceed expectations.

Intellectual Curiosity Guided by our founders’ vision, we are committed to being socially and culturally aware, to pursuing new and challenging ideas, and to advancing new scholarship and new perspectives.

Community We aim to contribute to the cultural vibrancy of our diverse community by being a site for learning, sharing, and the free exchange of ideas. We are a thoughtful and active member of the Montrose and greater Houston community; we are a good neighbor and responsible partner.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Firm in the belief that art is essential to human experience, the Menil Collection remains free to all, always. From their philanthropic vision to their work with artists, our founders sought to combat prejudice and champion social justice. This legacy lives on in our work and mission, to which diversity, inclusion, and equitable representation are fundamental.

True commitment to diversity and inclusion is an active process; we are dedicated to the work of listening, learning, and taking action that this ongoing commitment necessitates. It is our responsibility to reflect the diversity of our community, from our galleries and programming to our offices and green spaces. At the Menil, you are included, welcomed, and needed.

Board of Trustees

Louisa Stude Sarofim, Chair Emerita

Janet M. Hobby, Chair

Doug Lawing, President

Mark Wawro, Vice President

George B. Kelly, Treasurer

Michael Zilkha, Secretary

Nancy Abendshein

Suzanne Deal Booth

David Fitch

Aziz Friedrich Barbara Goot-Gamson

Cecily E. Horton

Caroline Huber

Janie C. Lee

Alison Leland Isabel Lummis

Clémence Molin

Bénédicte de Montlaur Franci Neely Marilyn Oshman

William E. Pritchard III David Ruiz Anne Schlumberger James W. Stewart, Jr. Marcy Taub Wessel *

Miles Glaser (1925–2004), Trustee Emeritus

Menil Council

Henrietta K. Alexander

Eddie R. Allen

Chinhui J. Allen

Michael D. Cannon

Bettie Cartwright

Clare Casademont Cullen K. Geiselman Russell Hawkins Carol Kelley

I. H. Kempner III Marley Lott Ransom Lummis Nancy McGregor Manne Poppi Massey Marc C. Melcher Francois de Menil

David C. Moriniere

John C. Moriniere Carol Neuberger Judy Nyquist

Francesco Pellizzi Jessica Phifer Harry Pinson Leslie E. Sasser

Paul Seifert Kelly Silvers Reggie R. Smith Aliyya Stude Patrick G. Wade Lea Weingarten William H. White Barry Young

Founding Benefactors

Sylvie and Eric Boissonnas

The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Edmund and Adelaide de Menil Carpenter

The Cullen Foundation

Margaret W. and J. A. Elkins, Jr.

The Charles Englehard Foundation

Fayez Sarofim & Co.

Fariha and Heiner Friedrich Hobby Foundation

Houston Endowment Inc.

Caroline Weiss Law

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Dominique de Menil

Susan and Francois de Menil

Annalee G. Newman

Susan E. and Roy S. O’Connor

Louisa Stude Sarofim

Scaler Foundation, Inc. Annette Schlumberger

The Wortham Foundation

Exhibitions

Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon

September 26, 2020–June 20, 2021

Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon featured seven sculptural works by the internationally acclaimed collaborative duo Allora & Calzadilla (Jennifer Allora, b. 1974, and Guillermo Calzadilla, b. 1971). Since 1995, the Puerto Rico-based artists have built a research-based practice that responds critically to the intersections of culture, history, and geopolitics.

Created specifically for the Menil Collection’s main building, the works used sounds, cast shadows, and novel sculptural mate rials to evoke an awe-inducing atmosphere of bewilderment and beauty. The artists visited the museum repeatedly over the course of four years to develop this exhibition. Intrigued with the museum’s renowned holdings of Surrealism, they researched the historic role that the Surrealists played in the Caribbean in the years surrounding World War II, including their anti-colonial stance and their fascina tion with noontime. Allora & Calzadilla connected this history to the current moment by seeking out similarities between Houston and their home of San Juan, both port cities that have been deeply impacted by energy commerce and the effects of a changing climate.

As an example, Blackout, 2020, was created from a Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority transformer that exploded during Hurricane Maria in 2017. The artists bisected the transformer’s steel exterior to expose its inner workings, which they cast in bronze. The shiny metallic conductive wire, radiator pipes, and insulators form a striking contrast with the matte exterior casing, creating a sculptural division that references the exhibition’s theme of solar noon, when the sun at its zenith cuts the day in half.

Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon was curated by Senior Curator Michelle White and was accompanied by a publication.

Major funding for this exhibition is provided by The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation; Brad and Leslie Bucher; Cecily E. Horton; the Susan Vaughan Foundation; Hilda and Greg Curran; Linda and George Kelly; and Lea Weingarten. Additional support comes from Cindy and David Fitch; Jereann and Holland Chaney; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; Mary and Bernard Arocha; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; Marcy Ellen Taub; Nina and Michael Zilkha; and the City of Houston

through Houston Arts Alliance.

Allora & Calzadilla, Blackout (detail), 2020. Power transformer, bronze, electricity, vocalists, 120 1/2 × 85 1/2 × 78 3/4 inches (306.1 × 217.2 × 200 cm). Photo: Sarah Hobson

Virginia Jaramillo, Untitled, 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 84 1/8 x 71 in. (213.7 x 180.3 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne Deal Booth. Courtesy of the Artist. © Virginia Jaramillo

Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969–1974

September 26, 2020–July 3, 2021

With bright, flat fields of color and thin undulating lines, the paint ings of American artist Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939) from the early 1970s exemplify the art movement known as “hard edge abstraction.” Jaramillo’s curvilinear paintings are defined by what fellow artist Frank Bowling called “lighting whips,” wavy lines that seem to slice into immersive and monochromatic planes of color. According to Jaramillo, her canvases create a mental space that invites reflection. As she describes it, “I lay out the ground work and the viewer projects on the space,” filling the “spatial areas with their own feelings and experiences.”

Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969–1974 was the artist’s first solo museum show and part of an ongoing series of Menil exhibitions that feature contemporary artists represented in the muse um’s permanent collection. This focused presentation also marked the fiftieth anniversary of The De Luxe Show, one of the first racially inte grated exhibitions of modern abstraction held in the United States. It was organized by the Menil Foundation and curated by New York artist Peter Bradley in 1971. Jaramillo, the only woman and Latina included, exhibited the painting Green Dawn, 1970, which was borrowed back for this recent exhibition at the Menil.

Born in El Paso, Texas, in 1939, Jaramillo was raised in Southern California and studied at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles; she has been based in New York since the late 1960s. In the early 1970s, she exhibited at the Whitney Annual. Her curvilinear paintings have been included in recent major exhibitions that reconsider artists of color, including We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, at the Brooklyn Museum; Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, curated by the Tate Modern, London; and Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969–1974 was organized by Senior Curator Michelle White.

Major funding for this exhibition is provided by a gift in memory of Virginia P. Rorschach; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Diane and Michael Cannon; and Marley Lott. Additional support comes from Laura and Walter Elcock; Poppi Massey; Mary Hale Lovett McLean; Suzanne Deal Booth; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Janet and Paul Hobby; Linda and George Kelly; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Emilio Scanavino, Untitled , 1969. Grease pencil and acetate on cardboard, 52 × 35 cm. Collezione Ramo, Milan. © Estate of Emilio Scanavino. Photo: Studio Vandrasch Fotografia, Milan

Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century

November 14, 2020–April 11, 2021

Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century was the first large-scale survey of modern Italian drawings ever held in the United States. This exhibition introduced visitors to the essential and multifaceted, yet often overlooked, role that drawing played during a particularly creative period of Italian art.

During the twentieth century, Italy generated a continuous series of revolutionary and highly influential artistic movements. From Futurism to Metaphysical Art, Spatialism to Arte Povera, artistic pro duction in Italy was characterized by a high level of innovation. Nowhere was this creative spirit more manifest than in the realm of drawing. Italian artists experimented with a wide range of materials and tech niques, producing autonomous works, as well as studies exploring ideas that could be realized in other mediums. Through drawing, they tackled themes as varied as history and myth, language, subjectivity, the body, the modern city, space and abstraction.

The show featured approximately 70 works by artists, including Umberto Boccioni, Alighiero Boetti, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, and Giuseppe Penone, as well as under recognized figures, such as Maria Lai and Carol Rama. Apart from a handful of works belonging to the Menil, loans came from the Collezione Ramo, a major collection based in Milan that is devoted to collecting, studying, and promoting twentieth-century Italian drawings.

Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century was coorganized by Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Curator, Collezione Ramo.

Major funding for this exhibition is provided by BB&T and SunTrust, Now Truist. Additional support comes from Carol and David Neuberger; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; The Embassy of Italy and the Consulate General of Italy in Houston; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Caroline Huber: Janie C. Lee; Susan and Francois de Menil; Franci Neely; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; James William Stewart, Jr.; Nina and Michael Zilkha; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

× 20 1/2 in. (73.7 × 52.1

Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s

May 21–September 19, 2021

Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s presented drawings that flout the monument’s conventions as a permanent, grand, or commemorative form. Scaled to the size of the page but enormous in ambition, the drawings render environments absurd, surreal, and subjective.

The show took inspiration from the unrealized exhibition “Dream Monuments,” planned by Dominique and John de Menil in the late 1960s. The de Menils invited Richard Long, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, and others to develop proposals for art situated in the landscape, a mode of artmaking then known as earthworks but now more commonly called Land Art. Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s marked the first time that a selection of drawings submitted for the original “Dream Monuments” was displayed as a group.

Expanding the scope of the earlier project, Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s included artists who were investi gating the theme of monumentality during the same period. Claes Oldenburg’s drawings depict larger-than-life bowling balls and billiard balls that are simultaneously whimsical and threatening as they roll through New York City, in Central Park and down Park Avenue. Artists such as Alice Aycock, Agnes Denes, Jackie Ferrara, and Will Insley render fictional cities and labyrinthine constructions that are as monumental in concept as they are in size. For Beverly Buchanan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, and Michelle Stuart, monumentality is tran sient, fleeting, and difficult to capture by its very nature. Stuart made rubbings of the ground, transferring the pitted earthen surface onto massive sheets of paper. This labored process alludes to the everchanging geological and cultural traces upon the land. Such experi mentation with drawing was critical as artists grappled with the idea of monumentality—from the absurd to the poetic—to confront the social, political, and environmental concerns of the day.

Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s was cocurated by Erica DiBenedetto, guest curator, and Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute.

This exhibition was generously supported by the Mathew and Ann Wolf Drawings Exhibition Fund; Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Janet and Paul Hobby; Linda and George Kelly; Janie C. Lee; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; Wawro-Gray Family Foundation; Marcy Taub Wessel; and the City of Houston

through Houston Arts Alliance.

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Untitled , 1973. Charcoal on paper, 29

cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Barbara Chase-Riboud

Acquisitions

Acquisitions

Pierre Alechinsky

Belgian, born 1927

With Pleasure (Avec plaisir), 1963 Etching, 15/50

Plate: 19 1/8 × 13 3/8 in. (48.5 × 34 cm) Sheet: 24 1/4 × 18 3/4 in. (61.6 × 47.6 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Allora & Calzadilla

American and Cuban, working together from 1995 Graft, 2019 Recycled Polyvinyl Chloride and paint Largest flower size: 3 × 3 × 3 in. (7.6 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)

Installation dimensions variable with a minimum inclusion of 17,500 flowers Purchased in loving memory of Marcy Taub Wessel with funds provided by Hilda and Greg Curran; Leslie and Brad Bucher; Ellen Susman, Stacy Kuhn, and Harry Susman; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leigh and Reggie Smith; Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray; and Nina and Michael Zilkha

Gretchen Bender

American, 1951–2004 Untitled, 1982 From the series The Pleasure is Back Silkscreened enamel on sign tin 92 1/4 × 63 1/2 in. (234.3 × 161.3 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Dawoud Bey

American, born 1953 Woman on Fulton Street and Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 1988

Inkjet print, 3/4 Image: 41 × 30 in. (104.1 × 76.2 cm) Sheet: 44 × 34 7/8 in. (111.8 × 88.6 cm) Gift of Ellen Kaim Benninghoven in memory of her son Cameron Benninghoven

Amy Blakemore

American, born 1958

Mr. Lassiter, 2003, printed 2008 Chromogenic color print, Artist proof Image: 19 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (49.5 × 49.5 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 in. (49.5 × 61 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Gray Foy, Untitled (Interior with Distorted Figures and Armoire), ca. 1944. Graphite on printed paper, 8 × 4 3/4 in. (20.3 × 12.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the estate of Gray Foy

American Birdcage, 19th-early 20th century Wood and steel 17 7/8 × 11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (45.4 × 29.2 × 41.9 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Ay-o

Japanese, active in the United States, born 1931 Untitled (Rainbow Steps), 1968 Paint on metal 24 7/8 × 3 15/16 × 3/4 in. (63.2 × 10 × 1.9 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Roger Ballen

American, active in South Africa, born 1950 78 images

Inkjet prints

Various dimensions and dates Gift of Dana and Eric Newman

Leonard Baskin

American, 1922–2000 Tobias and the Angel, 1958 Wood engraving, 89/300 Image: 14 7/8 × 14 7/8 in. (37.8 × 37.8 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Robin Bruch

American, born 1948 Untitled, 20th century Paint and pastel on paper 36 1/2 × 17 in. (92.7 × 43.2 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Untitled, ca. 1970 Mixed media on paper 40 × 26 in. (101.6 × 66 cm)

Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie

Rudolf de Crignis

American, 1948–2006 Painting #01-07, 2001 Oil on canvas 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm) Gift of Ben Maiden and Karen Bell in loving memory of Jan Maiden

Painting #99-08, 1999 Oil on canvas 30 × 30 in. (76.2 × 76.2 cm)

Gift of Ben Maiden and Karen Bell in loving memory of Jan Maiden

Painting #02-04 , 2002 Colored pencil on mat board 11 3/8 × 12 7/8 in. (28.9 × 32.7 cm)

Gift of Ben Maiden and Karen Bell in loving memory of Jan Maiden

Zarina,

Surface, 2006

Hard ground and softground etching and drypoint, 14/25

Panel (each): 15 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (40 × 40 cm)

Gift of Ben Maiden and Karen Bell in loving memory of Jan Maiden

Cup’ig (Cup’ik) peoples Mask, mid-20th century Alaska, Nunivak Island, possibly Mekoryuk Wood, feathers, plant material, and paint 21 × 25 × 7 1/2 in. (53.3 × 63.5 × 19.1 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Jay DeFeo

American, 1929–1989

Untitled No. 1, 1955

Tempera and oil paint on paper mounted on white paper, mounted on cardboard 15 5/8 × 12 1/4 in. (39.6 × 31.1 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Untitled, ca. 1952

Charcoal and ink on paper 27 13/16 × 16 5/8 in. (70.6 × 42.2 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Untitled (Figure), ca. 1952

Tempera on paper on cardboard 29 × 26 in. (73.7 × 66 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Poggibonzi, ca. 1952

Tempera on paper on board 23 1/8 × 23 in. (58.7 × 58.4 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Anne Doran

Canadian, born 1957 Charm, 1985

Photographs mounted on aluminum panels

24 × 27 × 1 in. (61 × 68.6 × 2.5 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Mark Flood

American, born 1957 Untitled, 1988

Screenprint on canvas 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Lucio Fontana

Italian, 1899–1968

Spatial Concept (Concetto Spaziale), 1968 Etching and aquatint with embossing and punched holes

Sheet: 25 × 18 1/2 in. (63.5 × 47 cm) (visible) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter in honor of Louisa Stude Sarofim

Gray Foy

American, 1922–2012 79 drawings

Various dimensions and dates

Anonymous gift and gift of the estate of Gray Foy

Sam Gilliam

American, born 1933

Untitled, 2019

Watercolor and acrylic on washi paper 73 × 38 1/2 in. (185.4 × 97.8 cm)

Purchased in part with funds provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy Abendshein, and Caroline Huber

Nancy Graves

American, 1939–1995

Untitled (Heat Density Measurement of a Cyclone), 1974

Watercolor, gold leaf, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 × 30 in. (57.2 × 76.2 cm)

Gift of the Nancy Graves Foundation in honor of Janie C. Lee

Stephen Greene

American, 1918–1999

Portrait of Gray Foy, ca. 1948 Graphite on paper 9 × 7 in. (22.9 × 17.8 cm)

Gift of the estate of Gray Foy

Mona Hatoum

Palestinian, active in London, born 1952

Marble Slicer, 2002

Marble and stainless steel, 2/3 40 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (102.9 × 92.7 × 115.6 cm)

Gift of Jereann and Holland Chaney

Rachel Hecker

American, born 1958

Made in China, 2017

Acrylic on canvas 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Mona Hatoum, Marble Slicer, 2002. Marble and stainless steel, 2/3 40 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (102.9 × 92.7 × 115.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Jereann and Holland Chaney. Photo: Stephanie Harris Akin

Veil, 2011. Gold leaf on bamboo blinds, 142 × 48 in. (360.7 × 121.9 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of the artist. Photo: Paul Hester

Richard Hunter

British, active 20th century

Seated Portrait of Gray Foy, ca. 1944

Graphite on paper

13 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (34.3 × 27.3 cm) Gift of the estate of Gray Foy

Robert Indiana

American, 1928–2018 ERR, 1963

Photogravure and etching

Plate: 4 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (10.8 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (21.6 × 18.8 cm) (visible)

Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Virginia Jaramillo

American, born 1939 Preparatory Sketch for Curvilinear Painting, ca. 1971

Graphite on paper 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Gift of the artist

Rashid Johnson

American, born 1977 Untitled Anxious Red Drawings, 2020 Oil stick on cotton rag paper Sheet (each): 59 3/4 × 40 1/2 in. (151.8 × 102.9 cm) Anonymous gift

Ray Johnson

American, 1927–1995 Parsley on Snake for Polly from Ray, ca. 1965 Collage on paper Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (24.8 × 34.9 cm) (visible)

Frame: 10 3/4 × 14 3/4 × 1 in. (27.3 × 37.5 × 2.5 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Kwaio peoples Club (‘alafolo), early-mid 20th century Solomon Islands, Malaita Island Wood and white pigment

37 × 1 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (94 × 4.4 × 3.8 cm)

Gift of John and Laura Arnold

Club (‘alafolo), early-mid 20th century Solomon Islands, Malaita Island Wood and white pigment

42 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (108 × 5.7 × 6.1 cm)

Gift of John and Laura Arnold

Sol LeWitt

American, 1928–2007

R113, 1973 Torn paper 13 1/4 × 23 1/2 in. (33.7 × 59.7 cm)

Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter in memory of Edward B. Mayo

Mark Lombardi

American, 1951–2000

Untitled, ca. 1995

Ink on paper

11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Jim Love

American, 1927–2005 Retired Chimneysweep, 1964 Steel and bottle brush 10 × 11 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 29.2 × 19.7 cm) Bequest of Edward B. Mayo

Rick Lowe

American, born 1961 Untitled, 2020

Acrylic paint and paper collage on canvas 72 × 60 in. (182.9 × 152.4 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation

James McCracken, Jr.

American, 1942–2017

Pure Apple Cyder, 1975 Watercolor

Image: 4 × 3 in. (10.2 × 7.6 cm) Sheet: 11 × 7 5/8 in. (27.9 × 19.4 cm) Anonymous gift in honor of Princess Ubol Ratana Mahidol

The Bat Distillator, 1972 Watercolor

Image: 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 14 1/8 × 11 3/8 in. (35.9 × 28.9 cm) Anonymous gift in honor of Georges de Menil

Robert Motherwell

American, 1915–1991

A Sea of Sand, 1973

Acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on canvas 71 1/2 × 84 1/4 in. (181.6 × 214 cm)

Gift from the Collection of Louisa Stude Sarofim in memory of J. David Kirkland, Jr.

Stephen Mueller

American, 1947–2011 Untitled, 1978

Acrylic on paper Frame: 28 × 34 in. (71.1 × 86.4 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

James Mullen

American, born 1949 Discourse on Method, 1982

Acrylic on canvas

64 1/4 × 62 1/4 in. (163.2 × 158.1 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

They Held Together, 1981

Acrylic on canvas 62 1/2 × 52 1/4 in. (158.8 × 132.7 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Peter Nagy

American, born 1959 Critical Mass, 1983 , printed 1987

Plastic laminated photocopy 11 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (29.2 × 22.6 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

EST Graduate, 1983, printed 1987

Plastic laminated photocopy 10 5/8 × 8 in. (26.9 × 20.3 cm)

Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

The Objectification of Suicide, 1986

Photocopies on cardboard box 9 1/4 × 17 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (23.5 × 44.7 × 12.1 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Elaine Reichek

American, born 1943 Untitled, 1973 Gesso, thread, tape, and graphite on canvas 24 × 13 7/8 in. (61 × 35.3 cm)

Purchased with funds provided by Ann and John W. Johnson, Kellie and Jeff Hepper, Kay and Max Watson, Ruthie and Adam Miller and friends of the artist

Susie Rosmarin

American, born 1950 1471, 1992 Ink on paper 22 7/8 × 17 5/8 in. (58.2 × 44.7 cm) (visible) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Robert Ryman

American, 1930–2019 Untitled, 1962–1963

Oil on unstretched canvas in artist-made frames

Each Frame: 11 × 11 1/4 × 1 1/8 in. (27.9 × 28.6 × 2.8 cm)

Installation dimensions variable Gift of William and Virginia Camfield

Peter Sacks

American, born in South Africa, 1950 Sangoma Series No. 29, 2020

Mixed media on paper 30 × 22 1/2 in. (76.2 × 57.2 cm) Gift of Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim

American, 1943–2003

Untitled, 1970

Screenprint, 50/100

19 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (49.5 × 64.8 cm)

Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Untitled, 1975

Screenprint Sheet: 17 1/4 × 20 3/4 in. (43.8 × 52.7 cm) (visible) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Kate Shepherd

American, born 1961

Here and There, 2020

Enamel and transfer paper on paper

12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.8 × 48.3 cm)

Gift of Leah Bennett

Here and There, 2020

Enamel and transfer paper on paper

12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.8 × 48.3 cm)

Gift of Michael Naul and Stephen Schwarz

Janet Sobel

American, born in Ukraine, 1894–1968

Untitled, ca. 1946–1948 Synthetic paint and sand on composition board

17 5/16 × 14 in. (43.9 × 35.6 cm)

Gift of Leonard Sobel and Family

Untitled, ca. 1948

Crayon and gouache on drawing pad paper

18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)

Gift of Leonard Sobel and Family

Untitled, 1940s

Colored pencil on paper

14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)

Gift of Leonard Sobel and Family

Untitled, mid 1940s

Graphite on paper

12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Gift of Leonard Sobel and Family

Untitled, ca. 1948

Pastel on drawing pad paper 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)

Gift of Leonard Sobel and Family

Michael Tracy

American, born 1943 Untitled, 1998

Wood and gilt

10 1/8 × 8 1/8 × 3 in. (25.7 × 20.6 × 7.6 cm) Bequest of Wm F. Lassiter

Untitled, ca. 1980

Ink and collage on paper 36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Richard Tuttle

American, born 1941

When Pressure Exceeds Weight V, 2012 Drypoint with applied paper elements, 6/9 7 5/8 × 13 3/8 in. (19.3 × 34 cm) Bequest of Wm. F. Lassiter

Raoul Ubac Belgian, active in France, 1910–1985 Wounded Head (Tête blessé), 1946 Pastel on paper 32 11/16 × 18 7/8 in. (83 × 47.9 cm)

Purchased with funds provided by Louisa Stude Sarofim, Carol and Neil Kelley, Susanne and William E. Pritchard III, and Bridget and Patrick Wade

Pierre Verger

French, 1902–1996

172 images, 1939–1945 Gelatin silver prints Various dimensions

Zarina Indian, 1937–2020 Abyss, 2013 Woodcut on paper

27 1/2 × 22 in. (69.9 × 55.9 cm) Bequest of the artist

Veil, 2011 Gold leaf on bamboo blinds 142 × 48 in. (360.7 × 121.9 cm) Bequest of the artist

Installation view of Spatial Awareness Drawings from the Permanent Collection featuring Sam Gilliam’s Untitled (on left), 2019, alongside Christoper Wilmarth’s Drawing for “Calling” (1974) and Amy Sillman’s Rome #1 (2014). Photo: Paul Hester

Scholarship

Outgoing Loans

The pandemic led to many cancelled and postponed international exhibitions. Ultimately, during Fiscal Year 2021, the Menil Collection loaned 18 objects to the following six institutions in three countries:

Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Artists Documentation Program

Since 1990, the Artists Documentation Program (ADP) has recorded interviews between artists and conservators. The artists are asked about the materials and techniques used, as well as their wishes for the preservation and presentation of their art. In January 2021, artist Daniel Lind-Ramos discussed his work with ADP Fellow, Irene EstevesAmador, Ph.D. The conversation focused on the materials and methods that Lind-Ramos uses to create his found object assemblage sculptures.

All ADP interviews are accessible online at adp.menil.org.

Video still of Artist Documentation Program Fellow Irene Esteve-Amador interviewing the artist Daniel LindRamos in his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico on January 29, 2021

The Menil Archives was founded in 2000 to collect, organize, preserve, and provide access to the history of the Menil Foundation, the Menil Collection, and the de Menil family. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Archives, the Menil launched a new oral history initia tive in 2020. A series of recordings captured peer-to-peer conversations with current and former Menil staff and individuals with strong personal or professional connections to the Menil.

During Fiscal Year 2021, the Archives accessioned 95 linear feet of documents and 323 gigabytes of digital records from 11 Menil departments. In addition, the Archives fielded 350 internal and external inquiries, ranging from documentary film projects to exhibition research. Prior to March 2020, when in-person appointments were suspended, the Archives hosted 124 onsite research visits. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Archives staff continued to facilitate remote research, duplication, and permissions requests, ensuring vital access to archival collections.

Library

The library of the Menil Collection supports the reference, research, and scholarly needs of the museum and outside scholars. The library added over 1,500 new books, periodicals, and digital resources to its collection during Fiscal Year 2021. Materials from the Menil Library’s Special Collections were featured throughout the Menil’s permanent collection galleries.

In December 2020, the Menil received a generous gift of more than 800 books on the history of art, with emphasis on Dada, Surrealism, and Modernism, from the library of Dr. William A. Camfield, Joseph and Joanna N. Mullen Professor of Art History Emeritus at Rice University.

Photo: Menil Archives

Menil Librarian Lauren Gottlieb-Miller with Hiddenness by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, a large, illustrated book with original prints by Richard Tuttle. This special acquisition was purchased with generous funds provided by Louisa Sarofim in memory of Karl Kilian.

Photo: Menil Archives

Collection Management

The Menil’s Collection Management Department consists of Registration, Art Services, Collection Database Administration, and Imaging Services.

Registration oversees all documentation related to the acquisition, exhibition, and storage of the more than 19,000 artworks in the permanent collection. The team coordinates all exhibitions and gallery rotations, as well as incoming and outgoing loans. Registrars manage contract negotiations, fine art insurance, packing and crating, shipping, couriers, and electronic and physical file management for all projects. In Fiscal Year 2021, Registration arranged 112 shipments containing 868 objects.

Art Services professionally installs and dismantles all Menil exhibitions and rotations. The team is responsible for packing and crating incoming and outgoing loans, monitoring storage areas, tracking location moves, and couriering outgoing loans with complex installation requirements. In Fiscal Year 2021, 6,028 moves of objects were completed by Art Services.

The Collection Database team continually uploads data on art works from the permanent collection to the Menil’s internal database and website (menil.org). More than a thousand entries are currently available to the public, 242 of which were added in Fiscal Year 2021.

Imaging Services supervises all new photography of collection objects, archival materials, and rare books for the Menil. Imaging staff manage analog object photography and digital imaging collections, license images to outside scholars and publishers, and secure repro duction rights for publications. In Fiscal Year 2021, 82 objects from the permanent collection were photographed.

The Menil Collection

Photo: Susan Slepka Anderson

Photo: Susan Slepka Anderson

Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon

Combining an artist book and exhibition documentation, this volume is filled with stunning full-page photographs of the Menil exhibition, new texts on the individual artworks, and reprints of some of the artists’ research materials. Essays by Senior Curator Michelle White and art historian Roberto Tejada capture the spirit of Allora & Calzadilla’s deeply thoughtful and multifaceted practice. Excerpted writings by literary critic Roger Caillois (1913–1978), French poet Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), and others, as well as drawings and photographs made in the 1940s, provide context for the artists’ Caribbean perspective on political and environmental instability. Commissioned texts are by Julie Ault, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Daniel Immerwahr, Gerardo Mosquera, Molly Nesbit, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Maria Stavrinaki, and composer David Lang.

Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art

An object biography may be considered a portrait of an artwork, synthesizing research into the origin, creation, purpose, and history of its life in the world, and often including its collection history. The eight essays on Menil Collection artifacts in Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art are the first such in-depth studies published on the museum’s ancient world collection. Featured works include a Mesopotamian votive figure, a group of Greek bronze horses and a bronze Menil fawn (a subspecies of fallow deer coinci dentally sharing the museum founders’ name), and a number of small Egyptian perfume or oil bottles in the shape of heads. This innovative anthology grew out of Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis’s Collections Analysis Collaborative, a multi-year educa tional and research initiative with Rice University and the University of Houston. Essays by 14 authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to shed light on the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. Essays by curators at three other U.S. museums frame ancient art and provenance studies at their institutions. Even as it takes on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and collecting taste, this book revivifies works often consigned to either a conceptual limbo or an obscure imperial past.

Edited by John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis.

Conservation

A significant year-end gift from Suzanne Deal Booth has enabled the department to acquire a new computed radiography system to replace the previous system. The machine permits greater flexibility in adjusting the image without requiring multiple exposures or extra object handling. As a result, Conservation staff will be able to use x-radiography far more extensively than before.

In May 2021, the Conservation Department was awarded a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project to complete a comprehensive scientific study and conservation of a rare 14th-century double panel section from an artwork known as the “Prisoner Textile.”

As part of the project, Objects Conservator Kari Dodson worked with visiting Textile Conservator Kathleen Kiefer to mount and frame the large textile, enabling its first ever installation in the museum. Assistant Objects Conservator Joy Bloser worked with Conservator Reinhard Bek to clean, treat, and restore movement to the kinetic sculp ture M.O.N.S.T.R.E., 1964, by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. Papier mâché elements were stabilized and a rubber toy alligator, which had deteriorated significantly, was replaced. Bloum Cardenas, trustee of the Niki de Saint Phalle Charitable Art Foundation and granddaughter of the artist, visited the museum during the treatment to review the condi tion and history of this work and others in the collection.

Photo: Sara Beck

Photo: Sarah Hobson

Menil Drawing Institute Scholars Program

The fellowship program is a key component of the Menil Drawing Institute. It fosters the highest level of scholarship and makes possible rich, interdisciplinary, object-based conversations on the history, theory, criticism, and practice of modern and contemporary drawing. Saskia Verlaan was the inaugural Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Menil Drawing Institute. A Ph.D. candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, Verlaan’s dissertation examines draw ings by artists working in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.

Photo: Sara Beck

Installation view of Spatial Awareness Drawings from the Permanent Collection, curated by Saskia Verlaan. Photo: Paul Hester

Public Programs

The Menil Collection organizes a variety of public lectures, conversa tions, and performances to deepen visitor appreciation of the art on view. As always, programs are free and open to everyone. During Fiscal Year 2021, the Menil debuted two new series:

In Dialogue

Launched in July 2020, the Menil’s In Dialogue series featured live, online conversations. Museum curators were joined by notable scholars, artists, and art professionals for engaging discussions that take an artwork in the permanent collection as their starting point.

The series kicked off with a conversation between Senior Curator Michelle White and artist Jamal Cyrus about his recent work, Misconstrued Rap Lyric #1, 2019, then on view in the museum’s foyer.

The Menil held fourteen In Dialogue programs throughout Fiscal Year 2021.

On Drawing

A n initiative of the Menil Drawing Institute, On Drawing presents three programs each year on the history, theory, criticism, and materiality of drawing.

For this series, the Menil welcomed Natilee Harren, a scholar of modern and contemporary art history and theory; Louisa Elderton, editor of Vitamin D3, and Dr. Anna Lovatt, art historian; and Dr. Cathleen A. Baker, an accomplished paper conservator, author, and publisher.

Musical Performances

Throughout Fiscal Year 2021, the Menil Collection partnered with DACAMERA to host a series of concerts held on the lawn and online.

DACAMERA Artistic Director and pianist Sarah Rothenberg performed Maurice Ravel’s Une barque sur l’ocean in front of Helen Frankenthaler’s Hybrid Vigor, 1973, a painting on loan to the museum. DACAMERA’s Young Artists performed works inspired by the art of Mark Rothko.

Photo: Sarah Hobson

Writers in the Schools

Writing at the Menil Collection is a nationally acclaimed program organized by Writers in the Schools (WITS) that brings Gulf Coastarea school groups to the museum. Educators and professional writers discuss the art on view and prompt their students to create stories, poems, and prose. In addition to being a financial supporter of the program, the Menil opens its art buildings early so that WITS may visit the galleries outside of regular museum hours.

During the Fiscal Year 2021, approximately 4,000 students from 23 different schools made 26 in-person field trips and 118 virtual field trips to the museum.

Outdoor Programs

The Menil Collection held numerous community-oriented programs in its green spaces throughout Fiscal Year 2021. Highlights included: Jazz concerts by the Jalen Baker Quartet and Will Cruz and Quattro, copresented with DACAMERA.

Film programs presented in partnership with Aurora Picture Show, including BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), a lively evening of community-sourced projections on the façade of the museum.

An outdoor music experience with local artists and musicians Jamal Cyrus, Peter Lucas, and Flash Gordon Parks, held on the summer solstice. Poetry readings by graduate students in University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, inspired by their visits to the Menil’s exhibi tion Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon.

Photo: Paul Hester

Member Noontime Talks

Held on Fridays, Noontime Talks are a popular way for Menil Collection members to learn more about the artwork on view and the projects in progress across our 30-acre neighborhood of art. Each tour is led by a member of the Menil staff from a variety of different departments, including archives, conservation, curatorial, facilities, and publishing. The Menil presented 16 Noontime Talks in Fiscal Year 2021.

Bookstore

Housed in a gray bungalow that faces the entrance to the main museum building, the Menil Collection Bookstore offers an assortment of hard-to-find art books, gift items, and Menil merchandise. The children’s section stocks French, Italian, and Spanish titles, along with an assortment of toys and games that appeal to the museum’s youngest visitors. The bookstore also features a selection of artwork and jewelry by Texas-based artists.

The Menil Collection Bookstore 1520 Sul Ross Street Wednesday–Sunday 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Internships

The Menil Collection offers internship opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the art history departments at Rice University and the University of Houston. Students support research and exhibition planning under the guidance of Menil staff. For those interested in museum careers, these internships offer valuable experience.

Attendance

In Fiscal Year 2021, the Menil Collection welcomed approximately 121,589 guests to the buildings on campus. This museum does not track the number of visitors to our green spaces.

Photo: Sara Beck

The Menil Collection gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their cumulative gifts of $500 and above between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.

$500,000 +

The Brown Foundation, Inc.

$200,000–$499,999

Anonymous Suzanne Deal Booth

$100,000–$199,999

The Cullen Foundation

John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation

Houston Museum District Association

The Wortham Foundation, Inc.

$50,000–$99,999

Janet and Paul Hobby

Cecily E. Horton

Houston Arts Alliance

The J.W. Couch Foundation

Linda and George Kelly

The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Isabel and Ransom Lummis Franci Neely

The Powell Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy and Mark Abendshein

Bettie Cartwright

Clare Casademont and Michael Metz

Cindy and David Fitch Barbara and Michael Gamson

Agnes Gund

Janet Gurwitch and Ron Franklin Caroline Huber

John P. McGovern Foundation

Janie C. Lee and David B. Warren

Susan and Francois de Menil Marilyn Oshman

Susanne and William E. Pritchard III

Leslie and Shannon Sasser

Anne Schlumberger

James William Stewart, Jr. Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro

Lea Weingarten

Marcy Taub Wessel* Nina and Michael Zilkha

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous Mary and Bernard Arocha Jim F. Avant

Melza and Ted Barr Angela and William Cannady Diane and Michael Cannon Cockrell Family Fund The Cockrell Foundation

Julie and John Cogan, Jr.

Consulate General of Italy in Houston The DM Foundation

The Frill Foundation

The George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation

Carol and Neil Kelley

Stephanie Larsen

Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter

Doug Lawing and Guy Hagstette Marley Lott

Nancy McGregor Manne and Neal Manne MCT Fund

Carol and David Neuberger

Micheline and Germán Newall Niki Charitable Art Foundation Scott and Judy Nyquist Karen and Harry Pinson

Garance Primat

Kathryn and Richard Rabinow Kelly Rorschach

Kimerly Rorschach and John Hart Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister

MaryRoss Taylor

Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Texas Commission on the Arts

The Vaughn Foundation Morris A. Weiner Whalley Foundation Elizabeth and Barry Young

$5,000–$9,999

Susan and Richard Anderson Leslie and Brad Bucher

Jerry Ann Woodfin Costa and Victor Costa

Laura and Walter Elcock

The Ferreyros Family Cullen K. Geiselman

Mindy and Jeffery Hildebrand

Willard and Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation

Alison Leland

Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth

Poppi Massey

Mary Hale Lovett McLean

Valerie and Miguel Miro-Quesada

Thomas F. Wessel John Zipprich

$1,000–$4,999

The Adler Foundation

AHB Foundation

Ellen Benninghoven and Michael Schafer

Tripp Carter

Alessandra Grace and Sam Gorgen Sheri Henriksen

Libba and Geer Blalock

Jereann Chaney

Megan Davis

Krista and Michael Dumas

Rodi and Robert Franco

Shane T. Frank

Nancy Fischer

Cece and Michael Fowler

Heidi and David Gerger

Elizabeth S. Gregory

Heimbinder Family Foundation

Lauren Walstad Hardy

Joan and Marvin Kaplan Kirkpatrick Family Fund Katherine and Paul Kitchen Bryn K. Larsen

Anne Levy Charitable Trust

Renee Lewis and John Cary Nancy Littlejohn Libbie J. Masterson

Gretchen and Andrew McFarland

Alvin and Lucy Owsley Foundation

Beverly and Howard Robinson

Karlsson and Brian Salek

Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert

Lisa and Russell Sherrill

Sicardi Gallery

Mia and Peter Smith

Leigh and Reggie Smith

Lois and George Stark

Bridget and Patrick Wade

Katherine Warren

Ann and Mathew Wolf

Jane and Daniel Zilkha

Erla and Harry Zuber

$500–$999

Anonymous Pauline Bolton

Lauri and Christopher Cragg

Eve R. France

Nanette Finger*

Olive Hershey and Arvin Conrad

Susan Lapin

Gina and Lawrence Markey

Neupert-McGrath Charitable Fund

Sue Payne

Mark Taylor and Jon Mercado Emily Todd

Gifts shown here include all non-membership gifts in support of annual museum operations, exhibitions, conservation, public programs, and other projects.

Constellations, April 29, 2021. Photo: Jenny Antill

Constellations, April 29, 2021. Michael Schafer, Ellen Benninghoven, and Eureka Gilkey. Photo: Jenny Antill

Menil Society

The Menil Society is composed of philanthropic members who enjoy a special relationship with the Menil Collection. Members are dedicated to fostering deeper engagement with the museum, its mission, and its world-renowned collection by generously supporting exhibitions, programming, and the museum’s annual fund.

Benefactor

Henrietta K. Alexander

Eddie and Chinhui Allen

Leslie and Brad Bucher

Charles Butt

Angela and William Cannady

Clare Casademont and Michael Metz

Julie and John Cogan, Jr. Laura and Walter Elcock

Olivia Farrell

Caroline and Jeremy Finkelstein

Cindy and David Fitch

Barbara and Michael Gamson

Agnes Gund Diana and Russell Hawkins

Judith and Marc Herzstein

Janet and Paul Hobby

Caroline Huber

Linda and George Kelly

Stephanie Larsen

Doug Lawing and Guy Hagstette

Rochelle and Max Levit

Cornelia Long

Nancy McGregor Manne and Neal Manne

Matthew Marks and Jack Bankowsky

Kathrine G. McGovern

Susan and Francois de Menil

Sara and Bill Morgan Kimball and David Moriniere

Franci Neely

Carol and David Neuberger

Scott and Judy Nyquist

Karen and Harry Pinson

Susanne and William E. Pritchard III

Leslie and Shannon Sasser

Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister

Anne Schlumberger

Lois and George Stark

James William Stewart, Jr.

Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro

Morris A. Weiner and Leslie Field

Nina and Michael Zilkha

Friend

Nancy C. Allen

Melza and Ted Barr

Bettie Cartwright

Jereann Chaney

Jane and William Curtis

Marsha and Samuel Dodson

Peter Farrell

Nanette Finger*

Cece and Michael Fowler

Amanda and Morris Gelb

Heidi and David Gerger

Claudia and Karsten Greve

Kathryn Hale

Dorene and Frank Herzog

Elise and Russell Joseph Nicole and Evan Katz

Sissy and Denny Kempner Marley Lott

Cynthia and Robert McClain Nancy E. Meinig

Anne and John Moriniere

Kathryn and Jimmy Newman Cabrina and Steven Owsley

Isla and Thomas Reckling

Lillie Robertson

Jacqueline and Dick Schmeal

Scott Sparvero

Erika and John Toussaint

Ann Wales

Lea Weingarten

Andrea and William White Marion and Benjamin Wilcox

Cyvia Wolff

John Zipprich

Fellow

Allison Armstrong Ayers and David Ayers

Jeff Beauchamp

Lesley and Gerald Bodzy

Carrie and Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl

Cynthia and Laurence Burns

Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles

C.C. Conner and David Groover

Lauri and Christopher Cragg

Margaret and Nigel Curlet Krista and Michael Dumas

Nancy Dunlap

Jenny Elkins

Sarah and Kenneth Fisher Kristina Van Dyke Fort and John Fort Shane T. Frank

Cullen K. Geiselman

Melissa and Albert Grobmyer

Claudine and David Hartland

Margaret Hawk Debbie Hurwitz and Bruce Herzog

Catherine Holste

Karol Kreymer and Robert Card Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter Nancy Littlejohn

Elena and Kenneth Marks

Penelope and Lester Marks

Poppi Massey

April and William McGee

Mary Ann and Alexander McLanahan

Vickie Milazzo and Thomas Ziemba

Cristina and William Moore

Stephen Schwarz and Michael Naul Micheline and Germán Newall

Duyen and Marc Nguyen

Patricia and Robert Pando

Maureen and Paul Perea

Calia and Peter Pettigrew

Bernadette Prakash

Mary Hammon and Jacob Quinn

Kathryn and Richard Rabinow

Beverly and Howard Robinson

David Ruiz

Victoria Salem

Winifred Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake

Kelley and Jeffrey Scofield

Bryan Scrivner

Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert

María Inés Sicardi

Kelly and Nick Silvers

Leigh and Reggie Smith

Mark Taylor and Jon Mercado Adrienne and Timothy Unger

Elizabeth and Jack Weingarten Lynn and Oscar Wyatt Erla and Harry Zuber

Associate

Gail and Louis Adler

Veronika Fedirko and Marc Adler

Joan and Stanford Alexander

Judy Ley Allen

Carlos Bacino

Melanie and Mitchell Baldridge

Jacquelyn Barish

Nancy and Barry Barnett

Ilene and Paul Barr

Laura Bellows

Anna Brewster

Marianna and Chris Brewster

Susan and Raymond Brochstein

Sara Cain

Virginia and William Camfield

Tripp Carter

Kristen Castellanos Ridgway and David Ridgway

Estela and David Cockrell

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Helen and Benjamin Cohen

Patricia H. Colville

Nancy and Taylor Cooksey

Susie and Sanford Criner

Elizabeth and Steven Crowell

Paula Daly

Eugenia Cable Daniel-Dreyfus

Helen Davis

Margaret and William Davis

Joell and Thomas Doneker

Rachel and Edward Folse

Louise and Lawrence Glenn

Kathy and Martyn Goossen

Elizabeth S. Gregory

Josh Hansel

Sarah and John Hastings Kellie and Jeff Hepper

Lee Huber

Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie

Kerry Inman and Denby Auble

Jill and Dunham Jewett

Wendy and Mavis Kelsey

Carla Knobloch

Katherine Kohlmeyer

Christa and Aivars Krumins

Linda Kwok

Victoria Lightman

Terry Mahaffey

Christine and Graham Makin

Mari and Greg Marchbanks

Judy and Rodney Margolis

Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth

Surena and Misty Matin

Gaye and Edward McCullough

Florence and William McGee

Mary Hale Lovett McLean

Gary Mercer*

Amy and John Miller

Elise Arnoult Miller and Scott Miller

Betty Moody

Fan and Peter Morris

Evelyn and Roy Nolen

Mary and Paul Nugent

Brian O’Donnell

Maureen O’Driscoll-Levy

Mari Omori

Veronica and Douglas Overman

Katy Pando

Elizabeth and George Passela

Sue Payne

Olivia and Edward Persia

Andrea and Carl Peterson

Jessica Phifer

Alison and Cullen Powell

Jason A. Presley

Eliza Lovett Randall

Fairfax and Risher Randall

Leonor and Eric Ratliff

Gloria and Nick Ryan

Frank Rynd

Alicia Kowalchuk and Benjamin Saldaña

Karlsson and Brian Salek

Neda Scanlan

Marc Schindler

Mariana Servitje

Sondra and George Shipley

Carey Shuart

Ellen Simmons

Hinda Simon

Douglas Smith

Josephine and Richard Smith

Janet and John Springer

Eliza and Stuart Stedman

Shawn Stephens and James Jordan

Michael Stoeger

Jennifer and David Strauss

Sandra Tirey and Jan van Lohuizen

Margaret Vaughan Cox and Jonathan Cox

Bridget and Patrick Wade

Emily and Paul Ziemba * Deceased

Nancy Allen and Chinhui Allen. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Michelle White, Virginia Jaramillo, Henrietta Alexander. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Charmstone Circle

The Menil Collection’s Charmstone Circle recognizes individuals who make annual financial gifts of $25,000 or more to the museum. Menil Society memberships, exhibition support, and unrestricted giving all count towards Charmstone Circle recognition. Charmstone Circle donors enjoy unparalleled access to the museum and the collection and are celebrated at an unforgettable annual dining and art event with Director Rebecca Rabinow.

Nancy and Mark Abendshein

Eddie and Chinhui Allen

Melza and Ted Barr

Karen and Todd Blue

Suzanne Deal Booth

Leslie and Brad Bucher

Angela and William Cannady

Diane and Michael Cannon

Bettie Cartwright

Clare Casademont and Michael Metz

Stephanie and Ernest Cockrell

Julie and John Cogan, Jr. Hilda and Greg Curran

Cindy and David Fitch

Barbara and Michael Gamson Agnes Gund

Janet Gurwitch and Ron Franklin

Barbara Hines

Janet and Paul Hobby Cecily E. Horton

Caroline Huber

Linda and George Kelly

Stephanie Larsen

Doug Lawing and Guy Hagstette

Janie C. Lee and David B. Warren

Isabel and Ransom Lummis

Nancy McGregor Manne and Neal Manne

Kathrine G. McGovern

Susan and Francois de Menil

Franci Neely

David and Carol Neuberger Scott and Judy Nyquist

Marilyn Oshman

Karen and Harry Pinson

Susanne and William E. Pritchard III

Kelly Rorschach

Kimerly Rorschach and John Hart

Leslie and Shannon Sasser

Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister

Anne Schlumberger

Raquel and Andrew Segal

James William Stewart, Jr.

Salle and James* Vaughn

Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro

Morris A. Weiner

Lea Weingarten

Marcy Taub Wessel* and Thomas Wessel Nina and Michael Zilkha

Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Corporate Support

The Menil Collection is pleased to recognize gifts from corporations in Fiscal Year 2021.

$25,000–$49,999

Bank of America

Christie’s Frost Bank PNC Bank Truist

UBS Financial Services Inc.

$10,000–$24,999

Bloomberg Philanthropies H-E-B

Houston Trust Co. Indigo Natural Resources LLC Kirkland & Ellis LLP

$5,000–$9,999

BrightView De Beers Diamond Jewellers Hightower Texas Marek Brothers Systems, Inc.

$1,000–$4,999 Shell Oil Company Foundation TOTAL E&P USA, Inc.

$500–$999

AmazonSmile Foundation Baker Hughes Co. Chevron DGD Group, Inc. Kroger Food Stores W.S. Bellows Construction

In-Kind Donors

Bergner and Johnson

Christie’s City Kitchen

DACAMERA Eureka Heights InfoVine Jackson & Company

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Glass Key Society

Named after a beloved painting by René Magritte, the Glass Key Society honors individuals who have included the Menil Collection in their wills, personal trusts, or other planned giving arrangements. Through their thoughtful contributions, members of the Glass Key Society help to ensure a vital future for the museum. For information about making a legacy gift, please contact Judy Waters, Director of Advancement, at 713–525–9425 or jwaters@menil.org.

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Jeff Beauchamp

Mollie R. and William T. Cannady

Installation view of René Magritte, The Glass Key, 1959. The Menil Collection, Houston. © 2021 C. Herscovici/Artists Right Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Sara Beck

Tripp Carter

Julie and John Cogan, Jr. Helen and Benjamin Cohen Christy and Louis Cushman

Diane Arnold and Bill Frazier

Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl

Alex Heylen and Monika Lybeer

Greg Ingram

Paige and Todd Johnson

Douglas L. Lawing

Terry Mahaffey

Mary Hale Lovett McLean

Marc Melcher

Franci Neely

Laurie Newendorp

Francesco Pellizzi

Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Marietta Voglis

John L. Zipprich II

Patron

Betty and W. K. Adam

Katie Adams

Anaceli Aldaz

Paolo and Surpik Angelini

Rick Ankrom and Steven Hooker

Phyllis Panenka and David Archer

Maida and Paul Asofsky

Sarah Balinskas

Patricia Beaver-Skakun and Gary Skakun

Louise and Henry Bethea

Nancy and Scott Bolduc

Nana Booker and David Lowe

Margaret Boulware and Hartley Hampton

Philip W. Carrott

Kathleen and Robert Clarke

George Connelly

Steven L. Cowart

Sheila Noeth and Ted Dohmen

Sara and Paul Doyle

Virginia Dwan

Thomas M. Edens

Sheldon and Clayton Erikson

Martha and Blake Eskew

Katherine Rhodes Fields

Joseph A. Fischer III

Kathleen and John Fitzgerald

David Aylsworth and Paul Forsythe

Helen Fosdick

Rodi and Robert Franco

Donna and Gary Freedman

Kerry A. Galvin

Peter and Diana Garza

Leslie Gassner

Mary L. Gibbs

Irma and Kirk Girouard

Marc E. Grossberg

Paula and Dwayne Harris

David and Nanette Hartdegen

Susan and Robert Hawkins

Anna and Harold Holliday

Holly Holmes

Betsy Strauch and Lonnie Hoogeboom

Carrie Horne

Patricia Hunt and Joseph Milton

Barbara and Charles Hurwitz

Greg Ingram

Erica and Macgill James

Joan and Marvin Kaplan

Joan and Lawrence Katz

Jim and Kathleen Keahey

Carolyn J. Keating

Peaches and Harris Kempner

Elizabeth and Albert Kidd

Anne L. Kinder

Malcolm F. King Jr.

Susan Lapin

Benigna and Ernst Leiss Dinah and Rich Levy

Christopher R. Manske

Carl Masterson

Mariquita Masterson

Peggy and David Matthews Jean and Henry May Wilmer H. McCorquodale Beth McCracken

Patricia Medors

Mary and David Montague

Margaret and Duane Montana Denise Monteleone

Janet Moore

Matthew A. Morgan

Frances E. Mount

Douglas A. Murphy Djenane Nakhle

Kelley and Walter O’Hara Alisa E. O’Leary

Michael R. Piana

Paula and Irving Pozmantier Carol and Daniel Price

Garance Primat

Sarah and Mike Ragsdale Macey and Harry Reasoner Rebecca Rentz and Daniel Cricks

Greg Robertson

Minnette Robinson

Leslie and Russ Robinson

Lynn and Alex Rosas

Jane and Richard Schmitt Sara and Michael Shackleton

Karen Shouse

Renie and Louis Silver

Barbara and Louis Sklar

Anita and Gerald Smith

Angela and Mark Smith Ann and John Smither

Alana Spiwak and Sam Stolbun

Raymond Stainback

Lise Suino

Kay and Albert Tabor

Harold Taylor

Emily Todd

Patricia Troncoso and William Pugh Martha Walton

Lara Landmesser and Frederic Warner

Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin*

Barbara and Howard Weiner

Heather and Robert Westendarp Charlotte and Larry Whaley

Jill Whitten and Robert Proctor Joni and John Zavitsanos

Sponsor

Gayle Goodman and Kenneth Adam

Charles and Conway Adams

Claire and Wayne Douglas Ankenman

Marilyn Archer and Jack Eby

Elizabeth and Bob Ardell

Grace and Christopher Armstrong Susie and David Askanase

Kirby Attwell*

William A. Bartlett

Josef Barton

Jan and David Bean Nancy and John Belmont Rita and Joel Bergers

Kathy and Andrew Berkman Shirley and Stanley Beyer

Katherine Birchard and Richard Semelka

Jody Blazek and David Crossley

Diana Davis and Andrew Blocha

Robert Blocker

Carolyn Bloomer

Jane and Roger Boak Minnette and Peter Boesel

Shelly Botkin

Paul L. Bowman

Linda and Philip Boyko

Sheryl Kolasinski and Frank Briscoe

Barbara A. Brooks

Heather L. Brown

Annie Buford-Stephenson and J.D. Stephenson

Robin and Michael Bullington

Katherine L. Butler

Kathleen and Robert Butts

Janet Caldwell

Lora and Peter Caldwell

Nancy Caminiti

Kathleen Canning

Cynthia and Robert Card

Jane Carr

Charlott and Robert Childers

Julie and John Cohn

Paul Coltrin Garet Cooke

Nancy S. Crowther

Rochelle Cyprus

Lynette Davila-Murphy and Eduardo Ramirez

Barbara and Jonathan Day

Lynn Detrick and Harvey Marks

Jimmy Dunne

Martha and Daniel Dupêcher

Thomas Earthman

Jane H. Eifler

Patricia and Richard Ermler

Milton J. Finegold

Ann N. Finkelstein

Bernice A. Fisher

Caroline and Marion Freeman

Charles and Mary Anne Fried

Edward J. Gibbon Jr.

Beverley and Wayne Gilbert

Gretchen Gillis and David Cook

Christina Girard

Helene and K. Lance Gould

Caroline and M. P. Graham

Rebecca R. Grant

Nonya and Jonathan Grenader

Robert W. Guynn

Maureen and Gary Hall

Michele Heater

Carol H. Hebert

Ann and Paul Herrera

Carola and John Herrin

Janice L. Hewitt

Jane C. Hogan

Amanda and Benjamin Holloway

William F. Howell

Laurel and Arthur Huffman

Alan J. Hurwitz

Dianna and Craig Johnson George H. Johnson Jr.

Patricia Johnson

Gerry Karkowsky

Kim and David Kelly

James T. Kelly

Jean King Ann and Timothy Koerner

Rajiv Kohli

Quin D. Kroll Jr.

Alexander and Victoria Lazar

Shelli Lindley

Sheila Lipkin

Barbara and Larry Lipshultz

Keith Little

Robert MacNaughton

Katerina and Juan Mangini

Nitza and Moshe Maor

Mary Lynn and J. Steve Marks

Kenneth Marks

Daria and Charles Martens

Lori and Marcel Mason

Jacklyn and Malcolm Mazow

Rebecca and R. Scott McCay

Marion A. McCollam

Jacki and Frank McCreary

Patricia McEnery and Jack Fletcher

Georgia and Joel McGlasson

Mary McIntire and James Pomerantz

Sonja and Steve McKinnon

Janice McNair

Maria Merrill

Jean S. Mintz

Nancy and Robert Mollers

Kay Lin and Ken Mueller

Anne E. Murphy

Cay and James Murtha Liliane and Cesar Nahas

Mary and Fred Nevill

Carolyn and Michael Newmark

W. M. Nicholas

Americo Nonini

Tom Novosad

Carla O’Dell

Betty and Duncan Osborne Rochelle and Sheldon Oster

Frances and Walter Pagel

Anthony and Janet Parisi

Joan and José Pérez

Alexander and Ronald Perkowski

Bette and Richard Pesikoff

Jan-Claire Phillips and Jerome Kendall Michael Phillips

Lynn and Mark Pickett H. Russell Pitman

Esther and Gary Polland Kathrin and Albert Pope Stephen and Janis Porter Eamonn M. Quigley

Jennifer and Peter Ragauss

Susan P. Raine Solana Ripple

Maura and Walter Ritchie Elaine and Steven Roach Margot and Richard Rodriguez

Daisy Lee and Bradley Roe

Jane S. Root

Brennan C. Rosales

Shirley E. Rose

Casey and Kevin Rowe

Linda and Jerry Rubenstein

Ellen Safier

Joyce and Mohammed Salhoot

Franca B. Sant’Ambrogio

Gemma and Luis Santos

Kathie Y. Saucier

Patricia Schillaci

Veronique and Luc Schlumberger

Greg Shannon

Michelle and Clifford Shedd

Carrie Shoemake

Astrid and James Sidbury Christine and Michael Sigman Peter and Marjorie Silverstein

Patricia and Fielding Smith Kathryn and Craig Smyser

Clarice Snokhous Linda B. Spain

Brian Stephens

David Stevenson

Michael G. Stewart

Mary Lou Swift

Susan and Bascom Talley

Walker and Susan Taylor

Gregor and Christina Thaller

Nancy P. Thompson

Richard Bebermeyer and Randolph Tibbits

Barbara C. Tilley

Eleanor and Jon Totz

Robert and Anne Tucker Kathy and John Unger

Aysha Kassim-Voronoff and Chester Urban

Barbara Volkmer and Pablo Ruiz-Berlanga Barbara and Charles Wade

MaryFaye and Peter Way

Randal Weber

Janne Williams

Margaret and Kenneth Williams

Nancy and N. L. Williams

Terry Wilmarth Kay and Carl Wilson

Lauri and Robert Wray

Angelica and Milton Young

Steve Nall and Tom Young

Daniel Zimmerman Edith and Robert Zinn *Deceased

Menil members at the Sponsor level and above during the Fiscal Year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021) are listed. Every effort has been made to ensure that this list is accurate. If errors or omissions have occurred, please accept our sincere apologies and contact membership@ menil.org.

Menil Contemporaries

The Menil Contemporaries is a membership group for emerging patrons, collectors, and art enthusiasts who share a common passion for the Menil Collection. Menil Contemporaries are the next generation of leaders and advocates of the Menil.

Partner

Emma Hanes and Anthony Ableman

Elizabeth and David Anders

Evan Baldridge

Melanie and Mitchell Baldridge

Tim Barkley

Cristina and Joshua Bedwell

Chase Bice

Kahler Biedenharn Marlow and Kristian Marlow

Amy Mason and Michael Birk

Nina Delano and Wirt Blaffer

Libba and Geer Blalock

Elizabeth and C. Walker Brierre

Matthew Brollier

Lindsey Brown and Chris Shepherd

Kaylen Burke and Ross MacDonald

Eva Kristina Bush and Todd Bush

Sara Cain

Julia Doran and Adam Carlis

Christian Clark

Kathryn and William Davis

Lindsay Davis

Megan Davis

Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski

Larianna Dunn

John D. Edwards

Kathleen and Keith Ellison

Sutton Fannon

Mary Feeley* and Robert Daniels

Sarah Foltz

Clarissa and Jesse Gonzalez

Jessica Trincanello and Jeremy Griggs

Richard Gruen

Grace and Will Grundy Claudio Gutierrez

Joy and Don Haley

Jennifer Hau Niki Kasumi Clements

Madeline Kelly

Sara Kelly

Lena and Joseph Khattab

Taylor E. Landry

Megan E. Light

Natalie Marchbanks Dolling

Penelope and Lester Marks

Annie and Taylor Mason

Jack McBride and Thain Allen

Katie F. McNearney

Ognjen Miljanic

Jennifer Nelsen and Vinod Pathrose

Emily Newport

Duyen and Marc Nguyen

Capera and Igor Norinsky

Anaeze C. Offodile II

Allison and Kyle O’Neill

Nancy Parsley and Zakary Banks

Christine and Josh Pazda

Olivia and Edward Persia

Jason A. Presley

Fernando Miguel Ramos

Lea Salamoun

Karlsson and Brian Salek

Victoria Salem

Winifred Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake

Liana and Andrew Schwaitzberg

Kelley and Jeffrey Scofield

Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert

Colleen R. Sheedy

Claire Smith and Russell Murrell

Jennifer and David Strauss

Margaret Strode

Alexandra Tennant

Doris Thomas

Cammie Tipton-Amini

Melissa and Oliver Tuckerman

Robert Turnage

Mary Elizabeth and Hunter Wakefield

Laura L. Worth

Donald P. Yarborough

Jane and Daniel Zilkha

The Menil Collection

Jennifer Nelsen and Vinod Pathrose. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Margo Fendrich and Lam Nguyen. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

* Deceased

Menil Contemporaries at the annual Spring Mixer, May 18, 2021. Photos: Daniel Ortiz

Financials

Operating Revenues

Contributions and Grants $ 4,219,290

Membership 1,158,097

Assets Released from Restrictions for Operations 147,447

Funds Released for Art Acquisitions 137,000

Investment Funds Designated for Current Year Operations 12,300,000

Donations for Art Acquisitions 305,652 Gifts of Art 8,089,430

Program Revenue 296,468

Menil Campus Real Estate 1,512,737

Total Operating Revenues $ 28,166,122

Operating Expenses

Curatorial and Collections $ 4,450,023

Education and Public Programs 1,367,491

Exhibitions and Displays 4,695,641

Membership Activities 495,698 Buildings and Grounds 2,294,488

Capital Improvements 1,942,479 Fundraising 1,131,313 Management and General 3,046,825 Gifts of Art 8,089,430

Art Purchases 362,496

Total Operating Expenses $ 27,875,884

Operating surplus /(deficit) before depreciation and amortization $ 290,238

Investment Portfolio

Unrestricted $ 92,078,928

Temporarily Restricted 143,626,972

Permanently Restricted 136,439,078

Total Investments $ 372,144,978

Data is derived from the financial statements of the Menil Foundation, Inc., as of June 30, 2021. A complete set of the Menil Foundation, Inc., audited financial statements for 2020–2021 is available on request.

Director’s Office

Rebecca Rabinow, Director

Sara Beck, Writer/Editor

Elsian Cozens, Director’s Office Liaison

Maryhelen Murray, Assistant to the Director

Administration

Chris Akin, Mailroom Clerk/Receptionist

Brandon Conner, Financial and Budget Analyst

Ileana Del Toro, Chief Financial Officer

Earline Gray, Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer

Rosivel Guttierez, Accounting Specialist

Shiow-Chyn (Susie) Liao, Assistant Controller

Melissa McDonnell Luján, Director of Project Development

Xinyi (Olivia) Zhang, General Ledger Accountant

Advancement

Katy Barber, Manager of Development Services

Brandon Bourque, Manager of Special Events

Sarah Farley, Assistant to the Director of Advancement

Jeremy Faulk, Manager of Foundation Relations

Sam Ferrigno, Manager of Individual Giving

Madeline Kelly, Major Gifts Officer

Patrice McCracken, Prospect Researcher

Jasmine Saing, Development Services Coordinator

Jennifer Scamardo, Special Events Assistant

Judy Waters, Director of Advancement

Katie White Wisian, Corporate Giving Officer

Archives

Lilly Carrel, Archivist

Lisa Barkley, Archival Associate

Bookstore

Paul Forsythe, Bookstore Manager

Collection Management

Stephanie Harris Akin, Associate Registrar, Loans and Exhibitions

David Alysworth, Collections Registrar

Susan Slepka Anderson, Director of Collection Management

Chris Becker, Administrative Assistant

Catherine Eckels, Registrar, Menil Drawing Institute

Anna Foret, Assistant Registrar, Loans and Exhibitions

Chris Henry, Art Preparator

John (Russ) Lane, Art Preparator

Donna McClendon, Imaging Services Specialist

Margaret McKee, Digital Asset Manager

Robert (Ole) Peterson, Art Preparator

Alex Rosas, Associate Art Preparator, Menil Drawing Institute

Tony Rubio, Chief Preparator

Julie Thies, Head of TMS Administration

Charles (Patrick) Yarrington, Art Preparator

Communications and Public Programs

Sarah Hobson, Assistant Director of Communications

Tony Martinez, Public Programs Coordinator

Lauren Pollock, Manager of Public Programs

Amanda Thomas, Graphic Designer

Conservation

Jan Burandt, Paper Conservator

Desi Dijkema, Assistant Paintings Conservator

Kari Dodson, Associate Objects Conservator

Bradford Epley, Chief Conservator

Mina Gaber, Matter/Framer

Sara Kornhauser, Artist Documentation Program Fellow

Adam Neese, Conservation Imaging Specialist

Anna Schmid, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting

Conservation

Sarah Thompson, Conservation Coordinator

Brianna Warren, Conservation Studio Technician

Curatorial

Nadia Al-Khalifa, Administrative Assistant

Brianne Chapelle, Administrative Assistant, Menil Drawing Institute

Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections

Natalie Dupêcher, Assistant Curator of Modern Art

Clare Elliott, Associate Research Curator

Molly Everett, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr. Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute

Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute Michelle White, Senior Curator

Exhibition Design

Brooke Stroud, Exhibitions Designer Kent Dorn, Assistant Exhibitions Designer

Human Resources

Suzanne Maloch, Director of Human Resources

Patrice Ashley, Benefits Coordinator

Information Technology

Oliver (Buck) Bakke, Manager of Information Technology

Library

Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, Librarian

Robin Key, Assistant Librarian

Membership

Carrie Ermler, Manager of Membership and Visitor Services

Seneca Garcia, Visitor and Membership Assistant

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Desk Attendant

Monique Harris, Visitor and Membership Assistant

Lena Khattab, Manager of Patron Programs

Andrew Kozma, Receptionist

Anna Nugent, Membership Associate

Kaneem Smith, Visitor and Membership Assistant

Kimberly Vera, Member Events Coordinator

Museum Facilities

Juan Buenrostro, Custodian

Nick Cedillo, Lead Custodian

Ernest Flores, Maintenance Assistant

Wesley Haines, Manager of Facilities

Jack Patterson, Assistant Facilities Engineer

Kenneth Ruiz, Custodian, Menil Drawing Institute

Shivnaraine Sewnauth, Facilities Engineer

Javier Verduzco, Custodian

Publishing

Joseph Newland, Director of Publishing

Nancy O’Connor, Associate Editor

Rental Real Estate

Ramon Castillo, HVAC/Plumbing Technician

Roberto Gonzalez, Maintenance Supervisor

Jose Antonio Lopez, Maintenance Assistant

Georgina Molina, Assistant Manager of Rental Real Estate

Alvin Ramirez, Handyman

Jose Soriano Salazar, Groundskeeper

Philip Soto, Maintenance Assistant

Security

Ramona Al-Hardani, Gallery Attendant

Vicente Ancheta, Gallery Attendant

Arceli Arcilla, Gallery Attendant

Cynthia Ballard, Gallery Attendant

Matthew Barton, Gallery Attendant

Stanley Bermudez, Gallery Attendant

Delana Bunch, Gallery Attendant

Sabina Causevic, Gallery Attendant

Megan Cekander, Gallery Attendant

William Cuevas, Control Room Monitor

Roger Davidson, Gallery Attendant

Bridget Eldredge, Maintenance Assistant/Relief Control Room

Rodolfo Fornillos, Gallery Attendant

Latisha Gilbert, Gallery Attendant Supervisor

Jamarcus Gilmore, Gallery Attendant

Tony Gipson, Gallery Attendant

Jorge González, Gallery Attendant

Nydia Gutierrez, Gallery Attendant

Vera Hadzic, Gallery Attendant

Earl Harris, Control Room Monitor

Shawnie Hunt, Control Room Monitor

Sossina Kenfere, Gallery Attendant

Reynaldo Legaspi, Gallery Attendant

Jesper Panessah, Gallery Attendant

Enelra Rizalde, Gallery Attendant

Meichelle Robinson, Gallery Attendant

Glenn Shepherd, Director of Safety and Security

Kenneth Sherman, Gallery Attendant

Mirzama Sisic, Gallery Attendant Supervisor

Konjit Tekletsadik, Gallery Attendant

Richard Thompson, Gallery Attendant

Eric Valdez, Control Room Monitor

Alec Zapata, Gallery Attendant

*Staff list as of June 30, 2021

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Photo credits: Cover, photo: Sarah Hobson; inside cover, photo: Sara Beck; pp. 8–9, installation view of Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century; pp. 14–15, Installation view of Allora & Calzadilla, Graft, 2019. Recycled polyvinyl chloride and paint, dimensions variable. Purchased in loving memory of Marcy Taub Wessel with funds provided by Hilda and Greg Curran; Leslie and Brad Bucher; Ellen Susman, Stacy Kuhn, and Harry Susman; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leigh and Reggie Smith; Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray; and Nina and Michael Zilkha. © Allora & Calzadilla. Photograph © Fredrick Nilsen; pp. 20–21, Video still of Assistant Objects Convervator Joy Bloser interviewing artists Allora & Calzadilla in the Menil Collection Conservation Lab on June 3, 2021; pp. 28–39, photo: Sara Beck; pp. 34–35, photo: David Ortiz