Menil Collection FY22 Annual Report

The Menil Collection 2022 Annual Report – SPINE

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Letter from the Director

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Mission Statement

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Board of Trustees

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Exhibitions

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Acquisitions

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Scholarship

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Community

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Support

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Financials

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Staff

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Letter from the Director

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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 2022 (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022).

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Photo: Daniel Ortiz

At the beginning of the Fiscal Year on July 30, the Menil opened Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes, an exhibition of more than forty objects from different historical moments of Andean history. Complementing these objects was a selection of photographic prints by Pierre Verger (1902–1996). The two portfolios that he gave John and Dominique de Menil at the time had never been exhibited prior to the museum’s show.

The exhibition and online publication celebrating Andean visual cultures coincided with the 200th anniversary of Peru’s independence.

In early fall, the Menil debuted Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s, an important exhibition focused on the experimental and prolific work of the French-American artist (1930–2002). This monumental display, along with the museum’s major retrospective of Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), which opened in the spring, continues the museum’s string of exhibitions that call attention to groundbreaking women artists. Also in our main building galleries was a selection of works by American photo­ grapher Bruce Davidson (b. 1933). The photographs offered an intimate perspective of Davidson’s subjects and their communities, from circus performers to Welsh miners to New York City neighborhoods.

At the Menil Drawing Institute, we displayed a major retrospective on Joseph E. Yoakum (1891–1972). The exhibition featured more than eighty drawings by Yoakum, including nine that were recently given to the museum. In addition, two shows spotlighted the museum’s permanent collection: Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975 and Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection. We also welcomed artist Marcia Kure (b. 1970) to create a site-specific wall drawing for the building’s living room, the third in the museum’s ongoing series. Kure’s NETWORK, 2021, used the line as a metaphor of contemporary and historical trade routes. In her formulation, the line is not only a mark; it is activated in space through the movement of bodies in daily actions.

In this report, you will find more information about these exhibitions, as well as scholarship highlights. You can also read more about the Menil’s public programs, which included our community days and Artist Talks with Alice Aycock, Mel Chin, Roni Horn, Marcia Kure, Liliana Porter, Kate Shepherd, and William T. Williams.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Rabinow

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Mission Statement

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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 toward 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 toward one another.

Excellence We uphold the highest professional standards.

We consistently strive to innovate those standards and exceed expectations.

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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.

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Board of Trustees Louisa Stude Sarofim, Chair Emerita Janet M. Hobby, Chair Doug Lawing, President Mark Wawro, Vice President James W. Stewart Jr., Treasurer Michael Zilkha, Secretary Nancy Abendshein Eddie R. Allen III Suzanne Deal Booth Clare T. Casademont Hilda Curran Francois de Menil

David Fitch Aziz Friedrich Barbara Goot-Gamson Cecily 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 Leslie Elkins Sasser Anne Schlumberger Miles Glaser (1925–2004), Trustee Emeritus

Menil Council Henrietta K. Alexander Chinhui Juhn Allen Michael D. Cannon Bettie Cartwright Stephanie Cockrell Caroline Finkelstein Cullen K. Geiselman Russell Hawkins George B. Kelly I.H. Kempner III Dillon Kyle Marley Lott Ransom Lummis Nancy M. Manne Poppi Massey Marc C. Melcher David C. Moriniere

John C. Moriniere Carol Neuberger Judy Nyquist Francesco Pellizzi Jessica Phifer Harry C. Pinson Leslie Elkins Sasser Raquel Segal Paul Seifert Kelly R. 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 Dominique de Menil Susan and Francois de Menil Margaret W. and J. A. Elkins, Jr. The Charles Englehard Foundation Fariha and Heiner Friedrich Hobby Foundation

Houston Endowment Inc. Caroline Weiss Law The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Annalee G. Newman Susan E. and Roy S. O’Connor Fayez Sarofim & Co. Louisa Stude Sarofim Scaler Foundation, Inc. Annette Schlumberger The Wortham Foundation

Exhibitions

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Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes July 30–November 14, 2021

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Drinking Vessel (Kero) in the Form of Head, Possibly Representing a Person from the Forest (Anti or Chuncho), late 15th–18th century. Quechua.

Colonial Period, Peru. Wood, natural resin, and pigments, 8 1/4 × 6 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (21 × 16.2 × 18.7 cm).

The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Paul Hester

Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes, the Menil Collection’s first display of Andean visual culture, featured more than forty objects from the permanent collection—complemented by loans from the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico—including polychrome ceramic vessels of the Nazca culture, important textiles from the Wari and Chimú civilizations, and 20th–21st-century examples of elaborately embroidered esclavinas (short capes) and monteras (hats) worn during religious festivals in Peru. The exhibition included the Menil’s large fragment of the 13th–14th-century so-called Prisoner Textile created by artists of the Chimú civil­ization. A generous grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project funded the conservation of the textile and the ongoing analysis of its relationship to nine fragments at other institutions.

The impetus for the exhibition was the accession of recently conserved gelatin silver photographic prints by Pierre Verger (1902– 1996), also known as Fátúmbí. Verger gifted two portfolios of nearly two-­hund­red original photographs to John and Dominique de Menil in gratitude for their support of his trips through the Central Andes during the early 1940s. His images of religious festivals in the Andes, taken between 1939 and 1945, depict the costumes, dances, drama, and fusion of indigenous and Catholic traditions at these regular events.

A bilingual digital publication, in English and Spanish, was created in conjunction with the exhibition and features essays by scholars of Andean culture and history, interactive multimedia, and music recordings. The publication is available at menil.org/read.

Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes was curated by Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections, The Menil Collection.

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This exhibition was generously supported by Melza and Ted Barr; Micheline and Germán Newall; Cecilia and Luis Campos; the Ferreyros Family; Valerie and Miguel Miro-Quesada; Brian M. Smyth and Rebecca E. Marvil; John Zipprich; Hightower Texas; Pluspetrol International; and the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

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September 10, 2021–January 23, 2022

Niki de Saint Phalle, Tir Séance, 26 June 1961, 1961.

Plaster, metal, acrylic, and objects on wood, 129 15/16 × 82 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (330 × 210 × 35 cm). Collection of Mamac, Nice. © Niki Charitable Art Foundation. All rights reserved. Photo: Muriel Anssens/Ville de Nice

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s was the first exhibition to focus on the experimental and prolific work of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) created during a pivotal decade. Numerous works from European collections were displayed in the United States for the first time.

The exhibition explored a transformative ten-year period in Saint Phalle’s career, when she embarked on two significant series: the Tirs, or “shooting paintings,” and the powerful Nanas. Affirming the artist’s place in postwar art history, this show highlighted these prescient works of performance, participatory, and feminist art, as well as her transatlantic projects and collaborations.

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s opened with the artist’s Tirs, created using a .22 caliber rifle. Often standing in front of an audience, Saint Phalle invited participants to shoot at white plaster surfaces that concealed imbedded bags of pigment or cans of paint, which would explode spectacularly upon the impact of the bullets. Saint Phalle explained that her intention was “to make a painting bleed.” Her para­ doxical method of creating a work through destruction was intended as commentary on the ingrained violence of the culture, as well as a feminist assault on the tradition of modern painting.

The exhibition continued with Saint Phalle’s explorations of gender through figural assemblages representing female archetypes, such as brides, mothers, goddesses, and monsters. Evolving from wall-bound reliefs to colorful and freestanding sculptures, these works became increasingly monumental and liberated, depicting curvaceous female forms with outstretched arms and powerful poses. Saint Phalle began creating these sculptures in the 1960s, and they are often seen as heralding the rise of an international feminist movement.

Accompanying the exhibition was a catalogue published by the Menil and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s was cocurated by Michelle White, Senior Curator, The Menil Collection, and Jill Dawsey, PhD, Curator, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Major funding for this exhibition was provided by Cecily E. Horton; a gift in memory of Virginia P. Rorschach; Bettie Cartwright; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional support comes from Eddie Allen and Chinhui Juhn; Suzanne Deal Booth; Dragonfly Collection, Garance Primat; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Cindy and David Fitch; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Janie C. Lee; Susan and Francois de Menil; MaryRoss Taylor; Wawro-Gray Family Foundation; Carol and David Neuberger; Julie and John Cogan, Jr.; Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister; MCT Fund; Niki Charitable Art Foundation; UBS Financial Services; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Support for this exhibition at both the Menil Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego was provided by Christie’s.

Research for this exhibition was supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975 October 29, 2021–March 13, 2022

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Marjorie Strider, Party, 1973. Acrylic and graphite on board, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Private collection, Houston. © Mike Chutko. Photo: Paul Hester

Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975 featured more than thirty drawings primarily sourced from the Menil Collection’s permanent holdings, along with select loans from local Houston collections.

Draw Like a Machine focused on works made during a time when gestural and expressionistic mark-making was considered increasingly outmoded, and artists were actively experimenting with images and processes borrowed from advertising and mass media. The drawings included in this exhibition bridged the seeming contradiction between the manual and the mechanical.

Highlights of the exhibition included Andy Warhol’s series of six drawings of critic Gene Swenson completed in 1962, the year before Swenson’s iconic ARTnews interview with Warhol, which centered on the broad inquiry, “What is Pop Art?” In response to the question, Warhol declared his intention to “be a machine” and “machine-like” in his art practice, a quote that inspired the exhibition’s title. Warhol used a blotted line technique that combined drawing and printmaking strategies to create works that intentionally resembled printed reproductions. The exhibition also included several other of Warhol’s drawings from the 1950s, highlighting the range of techniques he employed.

The exhibition also spotlighted a generation of American artists in the United States who bridged fine art and industrial design, including Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Idelle Weber. Certain works, for example, by Marjorie Strider and Tom Wesselmann, foregrounded the alluring visual advertising strategies developed by postwar marketing firms to direct and encourage consumer spending. Californian artists such as Ed Kienholz blurred the lines of art and commerce even further.

Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975 was curated by Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute.

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This exhibition was generously supported by Angela and William Cannady; Catherine Miller in memory of Marcy Taub Wessel; Indigo Natural Resources; Ann and Mathew Wolf Drawing Exhibition Fund; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Linda and George Kelly; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection October 29, 2021–March 13, 2022

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Sam Gilliam, Untitled, 2019. Watercolor and acrylic on washi paper, 73 × 38 1/2 in. (185.4 × 97.8 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Purchased in part with funds provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy Abendshein, and Caroline Huber. © 2022 Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection brought together a diverse group of thirty drawings from the mid-20th century to the present day that illustrate how artists have conceived of and realized their ambitions to render space, often in unexpected ways.

The term “spatial awareness” denotes the understanding of the relationship between one’s body and its surroundings. This exhibition included three-dimensional drawings that create physical space rather than represent it; works that emphasize the body in motion through its physical traces; and art that renders space through the use of line, illusion, voids, reflection, and transparency.

The exhibition featured drawings involving folding and layering techniques, with standout examples from Sam Gilliam and Dorothea Rockburne. Recently acquired by the Menil, Gilliam’s untitled work from 2019 asserts its physical materiality with eye-catching hues of blue and orange applied through a folding technique that involves repeatedly soaking absorbent Japanese paper with pigment, resulting in undulating irregular surface layers. Rockburne used translucent varnished paper in Rectangle, Square, 1978, so that viewers can better perceive its layered construction. Other works included Houston-based artist Rick Lowe’s Untitled, 2017, with a layered network of lines formed from the contours of dominoes that he traced over an aerial view of his neighborhood, and Trisha Brown’s Untitled (Montpellier), 2001, in which the artist used her entire body to make the work, drawing with charcoal held alternately in her fingers and between her toes while standing, crouching, lying, and tumbling over the paper surface.

When the Menil Drawing Institute was established as a program in 2008 and with its dedicated building completed in 2018, the Menil set out to provide opportunities for deep engagement and research using the growing permanent collection of modern and contemporary drawings.

Spatial Awareness was the first exhibition the museum organized with the support of the new Menil Drawing Institute Scholars Program. It was curated by Saskia Verlaan, the 2020–21 Menil Drawing Institute PreDoctoral Fellow.

This exhibition was generously supported by Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Linda and George Kelly; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Wall Drawing Series: Marcia Kure October 1, 2021–September 22, 2022

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Detail of Marcia Kure’s NETWORK, 2021, at the Menil Drawing Institute. The Menil Collection, Houston, Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. © Marcia Kure. Photo: Paul Hester

The Menil Drawing Institute presented the third of an ongoing series of ephemeral, site-specific wall drawings. Artist Marcia Kure (b. 1970) has a multidisciplinary art practice in which she explores a wide range of concepts, including colonial legacies and diasporic identities. She is known for compositions that feature Uli line, a Nigerian design motif traditionally drawn on bodies and the walls of homes, as well as her use of natural pigments.

Kure’s wall drawing used the line as a metaphor for contemporary and historical trade routes. In her formulation, the line is not only a mark; it is activated in space through the movement of bodies in daily actions. In NETWORK, 2021, Kure used kola nut, indigo, tea, and charcoal as drawing media while also addressing their role as commodities that trace the African diaspora. These connections implicate the viewer in a complex history of migration, labor, and exploitation. Furthering this narrative, the installation included two African sculptures placed on pedestals, one in the style of a Mande headdress and the other of a Dogon female figure, both modified with the addition of synthetic hair extensions.

Kure has said that, for her, “drawing has been a life-long journey.

It’s been a language that I’ve been trying to understand for the longest time—from historic South African cave drawings, to collage, to sewing— trying to find my own way of drawing the line. Line is not a mere mark on paper, it’s something that contains memory, purpose, and thought.

Line is something that we all engage with daily, our entire body participates in making the mark, implicating us all in a vast interconnected and entangled network that continues beyond the wall.”

Wall Drawing Series: Marcia Kure was curated by Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute.

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This exhibition was generously supported by Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Penelope and Lester Marks; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; and Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister.

Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs December 10, 2021–May 29, 2022

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Bruce Davidson, Selma March, Alabama, 1965.

Gelatin silver print, 18 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (48 × 32.4 cm).

The Menil Collection, Houston, Anonymous gift. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs consisted of a selection of the American photographer’s most consequential series made between 1956 and 1995. Primarily drawn from a recent anonymous gift to the Menil Collection of approximately 350 photographs, the exhibition offered an intimate perspective on Davidson’s subjects and their communities, from circus performers to Welsh miners to New York City neighborhoods.

The exhibition opened with works from one of Davidson’s earliest series, Brooklyn Gang, 1959. After reading an article about a group of teenagers called the Jokers who had instigated a skirmish in Prospect Park, Davidson (b. 1933) sought them out and earned their trust by socializing with them on street corners late at night.

Davidson’s resulting photographic essay portraying their adolescent struggles was published in Esquire magazine. The work received international acclaim, and the artist subsequently was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to document “Youth in America.” For this project, Davidson joined the Freedom Riders, college-age activists who confronted racial segregation in the American South. Davidson was profoundly impacted by the violent resistance the group encountered, as well as by the glaring inequity in the communities they visited.

From 1961 to 1965, Davidson continued to record the civil rights movement and the effects of segregation throughout the United States in his series Time of Change. His images show Mother Brown, a former slave living in Harlem, aboard the Circle Line boat tour as it passes the Statue of Liberty; a member of the Ku Klux Klan handing out pamphlets on the streets of Atlanta; and demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery in late March 1965, during their third attempt to reach the state capitol.

Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs was curated by Molly Everett, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection.

This exhibition was generously supported by Anne Levy Charitable Trust; Franci Neely; Erla and Harry Zuber; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition March 25–September 18, 2022

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Meret Oppenheim, The Night, Its Volume and What Endangers It (La nuit, son volume et ce qui lui est dangereux), 1934. Gouache and oil on board, 31 5/8 × 25 3/8 in. (80.3 × 64.5 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Purchased in part with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pro Litteris, Zurich

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition was the Swiss artist’s first major transatlantic retrospective. From her artistic beginnings in Paris through her postwar career in Switzerland, Meret Oppenheim (1913– 1985) created art that defied neat categorizations of medium, style, and historical movement. At the time of her death at age seventy-two, her output included object constructions, narrative paintings, hardedge abstractions, witty drawings, and collages and assemblages. This retrospective exhibition, organized chronologically, surveyed the sweep of her remarkably original artwork.

After arriving in Paris in 1932, the artist became involved with the Surrealists before returning to Switzerland prior to World War II. The show followed her subsequent reengagement with Surrealist ideas and development of a new visual vocabulary alongside postwar art move­ments such as Nouveau Réalisme and Pop. During the last two decades of her life, her longstanding interests in nature, abstraction, and enchantment combined to forge a novel new style. The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue featuring new scholarly texts.

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition was coorganized by the Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York (October 30,​2022–March 4, 2023); and the Kunstmuseum Bern (October 22, 2021–February 13, 2022). The exhibition was cocurated by Natalie Dupêcher, Associate Curator of Modern Art, The Menil Collection; Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art; and Nina Zimmer, Director, Kunstmuseum Bern / Zentrum Paul Klee.

Major funding for this exhibition was provided by Art Blocks; Bettie Cartwright; a gift in memory of Virginia P. Rorschach; Scott and Judy Nyquist; Marilyn Oshman; Susan Vaughan Foundation; The Vaughn Foundation; and Lea Weingarten. Additional support came from Henrietta Alexander in memory of Marcy Taub Wessel; Eddie Allen and Chinhui Juhn; Suzanne Deal Booth; Hilda Curran; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; Linda and George Kelly; Janie C. Lee; Susan and Francois de Menil; Franci Neely; Carol and David Neuberger; Susanne and William E. Pritchard III; Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister; James William Stewart, Jr.; MaryRoss Taylor; Nina and Michael Zilkha; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw April 22–August 7, 2022

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Joseph E. Yoakum, Chorro Valley Sanluis Obispo County Paso Robles California, n.d.

Black ballpoint pen, black fountain pen, and watercolor on paper, 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.3 × 20.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Anonymous gift. © Joseph E. Yoakum

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw was the first major museum retrospective in more than twenty-five years to focus on the dreamlike landscape drawings of Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1891–1972), a self-taught, visionary American artist. The show illuminated his vivid creativity, imaginative vision of the land and deep spirituality, and explored his complex biography as an African American man with Native American heritage.

Born in Missouri just twenty-five years after the end of the Civil War, Yoakum had little schooling before he left home to work for several circuses, traveling across the United States as well as abroad. He later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I and ultimately settled in Chicago’s South Side. Inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings before his death in 1972.

Yoakum’s drawings reflect his travels to every continent except Antarctica. As he put it, “I had it in my mind that I wanted to go to different places at different times. Wherever my mind led me, I would go. I’ve been all over this world four times.” His idiosyncratic drawings, predominantly landscapes in ballpoint pen, colored pencil, pastel, and watercolor, convey his poetic view of nature.

The exhibition at the Menil Drawing Institute featured more than eighty drawings by Yoakum, many from the collections of Chicago-based artists. Nine of these were recently given to the museum. An extensive, richly illustrated exhibition catalogue provided new scholarship on the artist and expanded upon key themes of the show.

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw was coorganized by Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute; Mark Pascale, Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago; and Esther Adler, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA. The exhibition was generously supported by Cecily Horton; Leah Bennett; Diane and Michael Cannon; Hilda Curran; Cindy and David Fitch; Barbara and Michael Gamson; Janet and Paul Hobby; Caroline Huber; Mary Hale Lovett McLean; John and Stephanie Smither Visionary Art Fund; James William Stewart, Jr.; Nina and Michael Zilkha; Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

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Richard Artschwager American, 1924–2013 Study of Potatoes, 1997 Charcoal on paper 25 × 19 in. (63.5 × 48.3 cm) Gift of Christina and Norman Diekman

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Geneviève Asse French, 1923–2021 Untitled, 1992 Oil on canvas 76 5/16 × 43 11/16 in. (193.8 × 111 cm) Gift of Silvia Baron Supervielle Untitled, mid 20th‑early 21st century Oil on canvas 76 5/16 × 44 13/16 in. (193.8 × 113.8 cm) Gift of Silvia Baron Supervielle Christo, Valley Curtain, 1970. Collage of gelatin silver prints, fabric, tape, colored pencil, graphite, and ink.

13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (35.3 × 42.9 cm). Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. © Christo and JeanneClaude Foundation

Untitled, mid 20th‑early 21st century Oil on canvas 76 5/16 × 44 13/16 in. (193.8 × 113.8 cm) Gift of Silvia Baron Supervielle Billy Al Bengston American, 1934–2022 Untitled (Dento), ca. 1965 Enamel lacquer silkscreened on incised aluminum 24 × 22 in. (61 × 55.9 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

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Chryssa, Flight of Birds, 1957–1960. Cast aluminum.

59 × 61 × 3 in. (149.9 × 154.9 × 7.6 cm). Gift of JPMorgan Chase & Co. © The Estate of Chryssa

James Bettison American, 1957–1997 Still Life with Lava Lamp, 1987 Oil and wood relief 26 1/2 × 18 × 2 1/4 in. (67.3 × 45.7 × 5.7 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps John Biggers American, 1924–2001 Opa Oranmiyan, Ile Ife, Nigeria, ca. 1957 Conté crayon on paper possibly mounted on board Sight: 29 15/16 × 19 in. (76 × 48.3 cm) Gift of Drs. Robert and Jean Galloway Trisha Brown American, 1936–2017 Left Foot Drawn by Right Foot, Right Foot Drawn by Left Foot, 1980 Graphite on paper 17 1/4 × 23 in. (43.8 × 58.4 cm) Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie in honor of Louisa Stude Sarofim

Untitled, 2007 Charcoal on paper 29 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (74.9 × 57.2 cm) Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie in honor of Louisa Stude Sarofim

Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson American, 1931–2017 Symbol, 1979–1980 Oil on velvet 16 × 14 1/4 in. (40.6 × 36.2 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

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Christo American, 1935–2020 Valley Curtain, 1970 Collage of gelatin silver prints, fabric, tape, colored pencil, graphite, and ink 13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (35.3 × 42.9 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Anne Doran Canadian, born 1957 Untitled (Study for Lush Life), 1986 Collage and ink on paper 19 5/8 × 14 in. (49.8 × 35.6 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Chryssa American, 1933–2013 Flight of Birds, 1957–1960 Cast aluminum 59 × 61 × 3 in. (149.9 × 154.9 × 7.6 cm) Gift of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Rackstraw Downes British, born 1939 Presidio Race Track Association Track, Presidio, Texas: The Judges’ Tower and Spectator Shelters, 2005 Graphite on cream paper with blue threads 10 × 50 1/4 in. (25.4 × 127.6 cm) Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie in honor of Franci Neely

Composition Bach, ca. late 1950s Wood, plaster, paint, and glass 34 1/2 × 34 × 5 in. (87.6 × 86.4 × 12.7 cm) Gift of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lygia Clark Brazilian, 1920–1988 Modulated Space (Espaço Modulado), 1958 Cut‑and‑pasted paper on paper 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm) Gift of Kool 1, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, on behalf of Irving Stenn, Jr. in honor of Louisa Stude Sarofim and Janie C. Lee

Presidio Horse Racing Association Track, Presidio, Texas. Looking East, South, and Southwest. The Judges’ Tower and Spectator William Eggleston, Untitled, ca. 1970, printed later.

Shelters, 2006 Dye imbibition photograph. Image: 17 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.

(45.5 × 29.8 cm). Sheet: 20 1/8 × 16 in. (51.1 × 40.6 Oil on canvas cm). Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter 15 × 106 in. (38.1 × 269.2 cm) Hopps. © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Eggleston Gift of Franci Neely in honor of the 30th Artistic Trust and David Zwirner anniversary of the Menil Collection

Bruce Conner American, 1933–2008 Untitled, 1961 Graphite on paper 26 × 20 in. (66 × 50.8 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Mary Beth Edelson American, 1934–2021 Earth Works: Reclaiming the Land, 1976 Graphite, ink, and colored pencil on card 26 7/16 × 35 15/16 in. (67.2 × 91.3 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Leah Bennett, Poppi Massey, and Mary Hale Lovett McLean

Linda Connor American, born 1944 Spirit Door, Egypt, 1989 Gelatin silver print Image: 9 5/8 × 8 1/2 in. (24.4 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 11 7/8 × 10 in. (30.2 × 25.4 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

William Eggleston American, born 1939 Untitled, 1972, printed later Dye imbibition photograph Image: 9 × 13 1/2 in. (22.9 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 16 × 20 1/2 in. (40.6 × 52.1 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Jay DeFeo American, 1929–1989 Untitled, 1953 From the series Tree Ink on paper 35 1/2 × 28 in. (90.2 × 71.1 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Mary Beth Edelson, Earth Works: Reclaiming the Land, 1976. Graphite, ink, and colored pencil on card 26 7/16 × 35 15/16 in. (67.2 × 91.3 cm). Purchased with funds provided by Leah Bennett, Poppi Massey, and Mary Hale Lovett McLean. © Mary Beth Edelson

Untitled, ca. 1970, printed later Dye imbibition photograph Image: 17 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (45.5 × 29.8 cm) Sheet: 20 1/8 × 16 in. (51.1 × 40.6 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Allen Ginsberg American, 1926–1997 William Burroughs, 1984 Gelatin silver print Image: 6 1/8 × 9 1/16 in. (15.5 × 23 cm) Sheet: 7 × 9 1/2 in. (17.8 × 24.1 cm) (visible) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps William Burroughs, 1953 Gelatin silver print Image: 7 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (19.1 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in. (23.9 × 31.5 cm) (visible) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps Hans Hofmann American, 1880–1966 Untitled, 1946 Gouache on paper 23 × 28 3/4 in. (58.4 × 73 cm) Gift of the Fitch Family in memory of Bobbie Fitch Barry Le Va American, 1941–2021 Accumulated Vision (Stages I & II): Length Ratios, 1976 Ink and graphite on paper 22 × 16 3/4 in. (55.9 × 42.5 cm) Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie Study for Corner Sections, 1977 Graphite and ink on paper and vellum 16 × 45 1/4 in. (40.6 × 114.9 cm) Gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie Sheets–To Strips–To Particles (According to Section), 1967 Ink on paper 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor Either, Or #2 (Centers and Segments, Exact Location, Switch), 1974 Ink on paper 42 × 126 in. (106.7 × 320 cm) Purchased with funds partially provided by the William F. Stern Acquisitions Fund Glenn Ligon American, born 1960 Untitled (How Does It Feel to Be White You?), 1991 Oil stick on paper 32 × 16 in. (81.3 × 40.6 cm) Purchased with funds provided by Louisa Stude Sarofim in memory of Dr. and Mrs. William Larimer Mellon, Jr.

Linda Lynch American, born 1958 Turmoil, 1999 Pastel pigment on paper Each: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm) Gift of the artist

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James Mullen American, born 1949 Untitled, 1981/1994 Collage, ink, and paint on paper 8 3/8 × 9 in. (21.3 × 22.9 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Nari Ward, Say Can You See, 2021. Security tags on American flag. 228 × 120 × 3 in. (579.1 × 304.8 × 7.6 cm).

Gift of Jeffrey Deitch and Michael Zilkha. © Nari Ward. Photo: Joshua White

Reuben Nakian American, 1897–1986 Study for Rape of Lucrece, 1958 Ink on paper 11 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (29.8 × 36.8 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps Robyn O’Neil American, born 1977 Maria Selma at Sunset, 2021 Gouache, colored pencil, graphite, and watercolor on mulberry paper 12 3/8 × 17 in. (31.5 × 43.2 cm) Gift of Clare Casademont and Michael Metz

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Betty Parsons American, 1900–1982 Sputnik, 1961 Oil on canvas 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm) Gift of Cecily Horton Giuseppe Penone Italian, born 1947 Leaves of Grass In The Hands–I wander all night, 2014 Graphite on tissue paper on Lyon silk veil Sheet: 15 × 19 1/2 in. (38.1 × 49.5 cm) Mount: 21 1/2 × 27 1/2 in. (54.6 × 69.9 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Lew Thomas American, 1932–2021 Bibliography 3, 1977 From the series Reproductions of Reproductions Screenprint 20/75 Image: 28 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (71.4 × 51.1 cm) Sheet: 30 1/4 × 22 1/8 in. (76.8 × 56.1 cm) Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps

Jorinde Voigt German, born 1977 Immersive Integral The Real Extent III, 2019 India ink, gold leaf, pastel, oil pastel, and graphite on paper in artist‑designed frame Sheet: 55 3/8 × 109 1/2 in. (140.7 × 278.1 cm) Frame: 59 × 115 × 3 11/16 in. (149.9 × 292.1 × 9.4 cm) Purchased with funds provided by the William F. Stern Acquisitions Fund Nari Ward American, born in Jamaica, 1963 Say Can You See, 2021 Security tags on American flag 228 × 120 × 3 in. (579.1 × 304.8 × 7.6 cm) Gift of Jeffrey Deitch and Michael Zilkha

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Wilks Land in East Sector of Antartica Continents on Rose Sea and Ice Shellf Cliffe of the Two Sectors Discovery Since Australia and New Zealand, stamped 1969 Black felt‑tip pen, blue fountain pen, purple ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper 12 × 18 7/8 in. (30.5 × 47.9 cm) Anonymous gift Joseph E. Yoakum, Mt Atzmon on Border of Lebanon and Palestine SE. A., stamped 1968.

Purple and black ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper. 19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in. (48.4 × 61.3 cm).

Anonymous gift. © Joseph E. Yoakum

Jessie Willard 2nd Challenge to Champion Fight with Jack Johnson for Worlds Heavy Weight Prize Fighting Champion Ship in Year 1917 and in 1921, stamped 1969 Black felt‑tip pen, blue fountain pen, black ballpoint pen, and pastel on paper 11 15/16 × 18 7/8 in. (30.3 × 47.9 cm) Anonymous gift

Joseph E. Yoakum American, 1886–1972 Chorro Valley Sanluis Obispo County Paso Robles California, 20th century Black ballpoint pen, black fountain pen, and watercolor on paper 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm) Anonymous gift Ground Floor of Grand Canyon Colorado River near Arizona State Line, stamped 1964 Black and blue fountain pen, colored pencil, and pastel on paper 12 × 17 15/16 in. (30.5 × 45.6 cm) Anonymous gift Installation view of Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw. Photo: Paul Hester

Mt Puyed Dome near Clermont France WE (Some Where in France Theres a Lily?), stamped 1970 Black felt‑tip pen, black ballpoint pen, blue fountain pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper 12 3/16 × 19 1/16 in. (31 × 48.4 cm) Anonymous gift Mt Sinaii at Sea Port on Gulf of Aquaba near Dhant al Haii of Saudi Arabia in Asia, stamped 1968 Blue and black ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper 11 7/8 × 19 1/16 in. (30.2 × 48.4 cm) Anonymous gift An Alaskan Passenger Sail Boat While in Vancouver British Columbia Canada, 1969 Blue fountain pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper 8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.5 × 25.6 cm) Anonymous gift

Mt Makkah near Village Mecca of Sudi Arabia SE Asia, stamped 1968 Blue felt‑tip pen, black fountain pen, colored pencil, and pastel on paperboard 14 1/16 × 21 15/16 in. (35.7 × 55.7 cm) Anonymous gift Mt Atzmon on Border of Lebanon and Palestine SE. A., stamped 1968 Purple and black ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper 19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in. (48.4 × 61.3 cm) Anonymous gift

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14 webpages, 113 images, 3 audio tracks, 1 video English/Español

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Archives

The Menil Archives preserves and provides access to administrative, business, and departmental records of the Menil Foundation and the Menil Collection, as well as exhibition history records, film and media materials, special collections, and the papers of John and Dominique de Menil. The Archives receives periodic transfers of institutional records that document the present and past activities of the museum.

In Fiscal Year 2022, Archives fielded 356 internal and external inquiries and hosted 118 onsite research visits. Extensive material from the Archives was featured in the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s, including film, photography, and drawings.

Library

The library of the Menil Collection supports the reference, research, and scholarly needs of the museum and outside scholars. The library added more than 1,500 new books, periodicals, and digital resources to its collection during Fiscal Year 2022. Materials from the Menil Library’s Special Collections were included in several of the Menil’s permanent collection galleries, and two books recounting the tales of Genevieve and Apollo and Daphne were displayed in Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition.

Significant acquisitions include Dubose Heyword’s Porgy & Bess, printed in 2013 by Arion Press and purchased with funds provided by the William F. Stern Endowment for Special Collections.

The library is open by appointment to graduate students, university and college faculty, museum professionals, professional artists and designers, art historians, arts professionals, and arts writers.

This online, bilingual publication focuses on the formation of the museum’s collection of Andean visual culture and related photography

by Pierre Verger. Essays authored by leading scholars in Andean studies highlight several of the major examples in the Menil’s first exhibition of Andean archaeological material and other works in the collection.

Important texts on macaw-feathered panels from the Wari civilization and the monumental Prisoner Textile from the Chimú civilization combine with artwork illustrations, music, video, and interactive features to animate the reader’s experience.

Authored by Paul R. Davis, Susan E. Bergh, Kari Dodson, Ana Girard, Amy B. Groleau, Heidi King, Zoila S. Mendoza

Installation view of Niki De Saint Phalle in the 1960s.

Photo: Paul Hester

Publishing

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

248 pages, 135 illustrations Hardcover

This publication presents a focused look at two bodies of work in the experimental practice of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002): the Tirs, or “shooting paintings,” and the Nanas. Alongside a poetic response to the work, four essays investigate Saint Phalle’s performances and works of feminist art as a ground-breaking oeuvre.

Together, they constitute a reevaluation of her transatlantic career, collaborations, and key contributions to artistic innovations in the 1960s.

The book includes the first-ever comprehensive and heavily illustrated chronology of all of Saint Phalle’s known shooting sessions in Europe and the United States, drawn from research conducted at the Niki Charitable Art Foundation, with archival images of the artist’s participatory and performance-based practice.

Authored by Jill Dawsey, Michelle White, Amelia Jones, Ariana Reines, Alena J. Williams, Molly Everett, and Kyla McDonald. Published with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

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Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw

252 pages, 200 color illustrations Hardcover

In this volume, invited specialists and the three cocurators of the exhibition Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw chronicle, assess, and reassess the work and career of an artist who spontaneously began to draw and paint landscapes at the age of seventy-one. The texts delve into the friendships Yoakum forged with the Chicago Imagists, who secured his place in art history, explore the religious outlook that may have helped him cope with a racially fractured city, and examine his complicated relationship to his African American and Native American identities.

With hundreds of color reproductions of his beautiful, dreamlike drawings, it offers the most comprehensive study of the artist to date, illuminating his vivid imagination and creativity.

Authored by Mark Pascale, Esther Adler, and Edouard Kopp.

Contributions by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mary Broadway, Clara Granzotto, Whitney Halstead, Faheem Majeed, Laura K. Minton, Emily Olek, and Ken Sutherland. Published with the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Page of DuBose Heyward’s Porgy & Bess, printed in 2013 at the Arion Press, showing one of 16 lithographs by Kara Walker.

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Progress image of Marcia Kure’s NETWORK. Photo: Sarah Hobson

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Allora & Calzadilla crates being staged for pick up in the main building foyer. Photo: Paul Hester

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 more than 17,000 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 2022, Registration arranged 171 shipments containing 2,156 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 2022, Art Services made 6,720 object moves.

The Collection Database team continually uploads data on artworks 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, 105 of which were added in Fiscal Year 2022.

Imaging Services supervises 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 reproduction rights for publications. In Fiscal Year 2022, 229 objects from the permanent collection were photographed.

During Fiscal Year 2022, the Menil Collection loaned seventy objects to twenty-three institutions in seven countries: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX University of Houston-Clear Lake Art Gallery, Houston, TX University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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Fellowships

Each year, the Menil Collection offers paid fellowships to established scholars and university students of art history and conservation at various stages of their careers.

Anne Schmid, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, participated in the Conserving Canvas Initiative with the removal of varnish from a Georges Braque painting and the preparation of a wax-resin extraction treatment for a Mark Rothko painting.

She also treated two two Walter De Maria canvases in preparation for an upcoming exhibition.

Anna Smith, recipient of the University of Houston Fellowship at the Menil Collection, worked closely with the curatorial team to advance scholarship on Walter De Maria’s plywood sculptures.

Karine Raynor, recipient of the John and Dominique de Menil Fellowship at Rice University, helped develop future exhibitions at the Menil Drawing Institute and assisted with the installation of Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition.

Filippo Bosco, 2021–22 Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Menil Drawing Institute and PhD Candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, studied the circulation of Minimalism and conceptual art projects in Europe between 1960 and 1970 and the legacy of Surrealist drawing practices in conceptualist work.

Anna Lovatt, 2021–22 Research Fellow at the Menil Drawing Institute, and Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, worked on her research project titled Lines of Resolution: Drawings and the Small Screen that explores the relationship between drawing, television, and video art of the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Conservation

In Fiscal Year 2022, the Conservation department hosted two workshops to research the extraction of wax-resin lining adhesive in preparation for the future treatment of The Green Stripe, 1955, by Mark Rothko. This study is part of Conserving Canvas, the Getty Foundation’s international grant initiative focused on the conservation of paintings on canvas.

Conservation conducted several recorded interviews with artists Mel Chin and Kate Shepherd and with fabricators to better understand works in the permanent collection and their treatment.

Conservators worked with visiting conservator Reinhard Bek to clean, treat, and restore movement to the kinetic sculpture 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 significantly deteriorated, was replaced in time for the Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s exhibition.

Eight members of the Conservation team presented their work at the American Institute for Conservation conference in Los Angeles in June 2022, lecturing on topics including the creation and preservation of Niki de Saint Phalle’s shooting paintings, artists’ intent and how it affects preservation of works whose inherent appearance mimics conditions of damage, novel treatments for wax-resin lined canvases, and research on the visual distinctions and identification of charcoal drawing materials in works on paper.

Conservation purchased a fiber optic reflectance spectrometer (FORS) in order to non-destructively characterize the colorants on a rare 13th–14th-century Chimú artwork known as the Prisoner Textile, which was on view in the Menil’s exhibition Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes. The team built a reference library using the Zumbühl and Antuñez de Mayolo Peruvian dyestuff collections and will compare FORS measurements taken on the Menil’s Prisoner Textile to those standards in search of the specific colorants used in its creation.

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Brad Epley, former Chief Conservator, the Menil Collection, taking part in the Conserving Canvas project.

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Artists Documentation Program

The Artists Documentation Program (ADP), founded in 1990, is a collaborative project between the Menil Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art to record and make publicly available interviews between artists and conservators. In these filmed conversations together with their artwork, conservators speak with artists about the materials and techniques they use as well as their wishes for the preservation and presentation of their art. In Fiscal Year 2022, former chief conservator Brad Epley and paper conservator Jan Burandt interviewed artist William T. Williams. The discussion focused on the painting Mercer’s Stop, 1971; a series of works on paper; the artist’s perspective on the aging of his work; and long-term preservation of artworks included in the landmark exhibitions The De Luxe Show and Some American History.

William T. Williams with Mercer’s Stop, 1971, Acrylic on canvas, 108 × 84 inches (274.3 × 213.4 cm). Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC. © William T. Williams. Photo: Caroline Philippone

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The Menil Collection organizes a variety of public lectures, conversations, and performances to deepen visitors’ appreciation of the art on view. These programs are free and open to everyone.

During Fiscal Year 2022, the Menil organized forty-five public programs. Highlights included two community days; six Artist Talks, featuring Mel Chin, Marcia Kure, Rick Lowe, Lilliana Porter, Kate Shepherd, and William T. Williams, as well as seventeen lectures, panel discussions, and conversations with noted curators, writers, and scholars.

In November 2021, writer and critic Hilton Als presented the annual Marion Barthelme Lecture Series. In his two-part talk, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Some American History and The De Luxe Show, Als explored Dominique and John de Menil’s curatorial practice in the late 1960s and early 1970s and how it led to their support for these two Houston-based exhibitions.

To celebrate the exhibition Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes, the museum hosted a Community Day, featuring an outdoor performance of Raíces del Perú by the Ballet Folklorico of Houston and a musical performance by Leyenda Andina, along with talks on the exhibition. Following the afternoon of programs, Axelrad Beer Garden hosted a special “Noche de Cumbia” event spotlighting the Menil’s exhibition.

The Menil inaugurated a new Neighborhood Community Day in April 2022, with an afternoon of art, music, poetry, and family activities in celebration of the museum’s vibrant neighborhood. Participating organizations included DACAMERA, Houston Center for Photography, Inprint, Pride Chorus Houston, Rothko Chapel, Watercolor Art Society, and Writers in the Schools (WITS).

In June 2022, the museum hosted a 35th Birthday Party, featuring short curator-led gallery tours, live music by Keyun and the Zydeco Masters, and refreshments and dessert on the Menil’s front lawn.

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Top to bottom: The Menil’s Neighborhood Community Day, 2021. Photo: Daniel Ortiz. DACAMERA Young Artists performance. Photo: Tony Martinez. Leslie Umberger lecture on self-taught artists. Photo: BEND Produtions

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

During Fiscal Year 2022, approximately 1,302 students from eight different schools made twenty-one in-person field trips to the museum.

There were forty-six additional classes taught virtually using the Menil’s collection.

Music Performances and Film Screenings During Fiscal Year 2022, the Menil Collection partnered with DACAMERA to host five concerts outdoors on the lawn and in the galleries. As part of their Stop, Look, and Listen! series, three of the perform­ances by DACAMERA Young Artists responded to the exhibitions Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes; Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952–1975; and Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs.

Additionally, the Menil collaborated with Aurora Picture Show on three film presentations in Fiscal Year 2022: Land Mark Land Scape, a program of short films on Land Art that complemented Dream Monuments: Drawings in the 1960s and 1970s; Fool in the Fairytale, an online screening of Niki de Saint Phalle films; and Seeking a Shared Humanity, a program of short experimental films about political and social activism in connection with the Menil exhibition Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs.

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BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at the Menil Collection, Houston. Courtesy: Aurora Picture Show

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Member Noontime Talks

Internships

Held on two Fridays each month, Noontime Talks are a popular way for Menil members to learn 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 departments, including Archives, Conservation, Curatorial, Facilities, and Publishing. The Menil presented twenty-one Noontime Talks in Fiscal Year 2022.

The Menil Collection offers two curatorial 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 and participate in a museum-wide cohort of emerging scholars to grow their development and network. For those interested in museum careers, these internships offer valuable curatorial experience.

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

Attendance In Fiscal Year 2022, the Menil Collection welcomed approximately 210,000 guests to museum buildings.

This number represents shoppers at the bookstore and visitors to all exhibition spaces, including the main museum building, Cy Twombly Gallery, the Menil Drawing Institute, and the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall.

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

Curator talk with Danielle Bennett. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

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The Menil Collection gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their cumulative gifts of $500 and above between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022.

$500,000–$999,999 The Brown Foundation, Inc. $200,000–$499,999 City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance $100,000–$199,999 The Cullen Foundation John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation Susan and Francois de Menil The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Wortham Foundation, Inc.

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$50,000–$99,999 The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy and Mark Abendshein The J.W. Couch Foundation Agnes Gund Cecily E. Horton Caroline Huber The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Isabel and Ransom Lummis Franci Neely The Powell Foundation Bill Stewart and Johanna Brassert Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray $25,000–$49,999 Eddie and Chinhui Allen Art Blocks Inc. / Calderon Family Fund Suzanne Deal Booth Bettie Cartwright Clare Casademont and Michael Metz Cockrell Family Fund Stacey and Casey Crenshaw Hilda and Greg Curran Cindy and David Fitch Barbara and Michael Gamson Janet Gurwitch and Ron Franklin Janet and Paul Hobby Cecily E. Horton Linda and George Kelly Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter Janie C. Lee and David B. Warren National Endowment for the Arts Marilyn Oshman Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Leslie and Shannon Sasser

Anne Schlumberger The Susan Vaughan Foundation The Vaughn Foundation Lea Weingarten Elizabeth and Barry Young Nina and Michael Zilkha $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous Henrietta K. Alexander Katie and Paul Barnhart Leah Bennett Leslie and Brad Bucher Angela and William Cannady Diane and Michael Cannon Julie and John Cogan, Jr. Marion and Jonathan Fairbanks The George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Willard and Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation Doug Lawing and Guy Hagstette Anne Levy Charitable Trust Cornelia Long Penelope and Lester Marks Mary Hale Lovette McLean Lois and George de Menil Cullen and Robert Muse Carol and David Neuberger Scott and Judy Nyquist The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Nancy Pittman The Brown Foundation, Inc. / Elisa and Cris Pye Cabrina and Steven Owsley The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation Wilhelmina E. Robertson Kelly Rorschach Kimerly Rorschach and John Hart Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation The Pierce Runnells Foundation Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister Vivian L. Smith Foundation John and Stephanie Smither Visionary Art Fund Eliza and Stuart Stedman MaryRoss Taylor Texas Commission on the Arts Morris A. Weiner The Clarence Westbury Foundation Whalley Foundation

$5,000–$9,999 Anonymous Nancy and Mark Abendshein Susan and Richard Anderson Francine and Westy Ballard Kristen and John Berger Libba and Geer Blalock Rosanna and Myron Blalock III Lesley and Gerald Bodzy Cecilia and Luis Campos Jenny Elkins Sam Field Foundation Dorene and Frank Herzog Mindy and Jeffery Hildebrand Stephanie Larsen Alison Leland The Lindley Family Foundation Shelli and Steven Lindley Emily and Jordan Marye Alison and Charlie Meyer, Jr. Catherine and Bill Miller Jennifer and William Monteleone III Mary Hammon and Jacob Quinn Kathryn and Richard Rabinow John Sapp Melissa and Doug Schnitzer Kelley and Jeffrey Scofield Raquel and Andrew Segal Mary and John Steen III Jennifer and David Strauss Jane and Daniel Zilkha Erla and Harry Zuber

Jerry Ann Woodfin Costa and Victor Costa Han Cun Lama and Samer Danial Margot and Zach Davis Megan Davis Haydeh and Ali Davoudi Jennifer and David Ducote Lisa and Ralph Eads Chandos and Ike Epley Olivia Farrell Jerry and Nanette Finger Foundation Caroline and Jeremy Finkelstein Cece and Michael Fowler Rodi and Robert Franco Monica and William Fulton Illa and William Gaunt Heidi and David Gerger Steve Summers and Glen Gonzalez Alessandra Grace and Sam Gorgen Elizabeth S. Gregory Claudio Gutierrez Kristy Hamilton Kelly and Russell Hamman Lauren Walstad Hardy Margaret Hawk Clifford Helmcamp and Jerry Jeanmard Laura and Galen Hines-Pierce Catherine Holste Holthouse Foundation for Kids Laurel and Arthur Huffman Deborah Hurwitz and Bruce Herzog George Joseph The Joan and Marvin Kaplan Foundation Emily Keeton Molly Kemp and Vance Knowles Kirkpatrick Family Fund Katie Kitchen and Paul Kovach Fund Nikola and Jason Kivett Karol Kreymer and Robert Card Emma Kronman Kiki and Taylor E. Landry

Renee Lewis and John Cary Robert Lorio Nancy McGregor Manne and Neal Manne Catherine and George Masterson Gretchen and Andrew McFarland April and William McGee Jennifer Nelsen and Vinod Pathrose Capera and Igor Norinsky Anaeze C. Offodile II Josh and Lisa Oren Veronica and Douglas Overman Elizabeth and George Passela Sue Payne Olivia and Edward Persia Calia and Peter Pettigrew Katherine and Bill Phelps Alison and Cullen Powell The RR Family Foundation Victoria Salem Winifred Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake Samantha Schnee and Michael Hafner Randy Schweickart Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert Kelly and Nick Silvers Diana Skerl Ann and John Kerr Smither Tatiana Sorkin Julia and John Stallcup Natalie and Jamey Steen Peggy and Mike Strode Katherine Warren Kelli and John Weinzierl Thomas F. Wessel John F. Wieland, Jr. JoAnn Williams Skyler Wyatt Lyndsey and Bret Zorich

$500–$999 Benjamin Ackerley Erik Allahverdian Allison Armstrong Ayers and David Ayers Carlos Bacino Kelly Barnhart Cathryn Chapman Abigail Roberts Chung C.C. Conner and David Groover The Cragg Family Foundation Paula Daly Sarah Foltz Maurine Ford Peter and Diana Garza Irma and Kirk Girouard Ben Kitchen Fund Jennifer Hau Sara Kelly Allison and Randy King Kathryn Lumpkins Tara Martin Annie and Taylor Mason Robert Maurice Michelle McGrath Katie F. McNearney Patricia Medors Sarah Mischer Caroline C. Negley Brynne and Brad Olsen Jessica Phifer Lillie Robertson David Ruiz Jennifer Segal Howard Sherman Jenna Skulstad Leigh and Reggie Smith Linley Stroud Emily Todd Tuckerman Foundation Kris and Michael Weller Laura and William Wheless IV Lynn and Oscar Wyatt * Deceased

$1,000–$4,999 Anonymous AHB Foundation Olof Arnman James and Kimberly Bell Liz and Steven Bender Helyna and John Bledsoe The Karen and Todd Blue Family Foundation Jill and Stirling Bomar Fredricka Brecht Greggory Burk Cynthia and Laurence Burns Sara Cain Chris and William Caudill Jereann Chaney Christian Clark

Paul and Mary Nugent, and Peter and Fan Morris. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Brandon and Denerica Cofield, and Jennifer and Rhett Carter. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

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Benefactor Anonymous Henrietta K. Alexander Eddie and Chinhui Allen Leslie and Brad Bucher Charles Butt Angela and William Cannady Diane and Michael Cannon Clare Casademont and Michael Metz Marsha and Samuel Dodson 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 Ann and John Johnson Linda and George Kelly Sissy and Denny Kempner Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter Doug Lawing and Guy Hagstette Rochelle* and Max Levit Nancy McGregor Manne and Neal Manne Cynthia and Robert McClain Mary Hale Lovett McLean Susan and Francois de Menil Sara and Bill Morgan Franci Neely Carol and David Neuberger Scott and Judy Nyquist Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Leslie and Shannon Sasser Robin and Andrew* Schirrmeister Scott Sparvero Lois and George Stark Bill Stewart Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray Morris A. Weiner Nina and Michael Zilkha

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The Menil Society is composed of philanthropic members who enjoy a special relationship with the M enil 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.

Friend Anonymous Melza and Ted Barr Jane and William Curtis Cece and Michael Fowler Morris and Amanda Gelb Heidi and David Gerger Claudia and Karsten Greve Melissa and Albert Grobmyer

Kathryn Hale Elise and Russell Joseph Page Kempner Jeanne and Michael Klein Karol Kreymer and Robert Card Cornelia Long Poppi Massey Yuliya Veretennikova-Penny and Daniel Penny Isla and Thomas Reckling Lillie Robertson Jacqueline and Dick Schmeal Adrienne and Timothy Unger Pavlina Vagioni and Matthew Hughes Ann Wales Marion and Benjamin Wilcox Cyvia Wolff John Zipprich Fellow Jacquelyn Barish Kelly Barnhart Katharine Barthelme and Shane Frank Jeff Beauchamp Lesley and Gerald Bodzy Carrie and Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl Cynthia and Laurence Burns Heather Carr and Aaron Sanders C.C. Conner and David Groover Jerry Ann Woodfin Costa and Victor Costa Megan Davis Brenda and Kenneth Dillon Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski Krista and Michael Dumas Nancy Dunlap Linda and Simon Eyles Sarah and Kenneth Fisher Margaret Hawk Catherine Holste Clifford Helmcamp and Jerry Jeanmard Deborah Hurwitz and Bruce Herzog Jill and Dunham Jewett Judy and Rodney Margolis April and William McGee Mary Ann and Alexander McLanahan Will McLendon Cristina and William Moore Anne and John Moriniere Fan and Peter Morris Cullen and Robert Muse Duyen and Marc Nguyen

Maureen O’Driscoll-Levy Patricia and Robert Pando Olivia and Edward Persia Jessica Phifer Bernadette Prakash Mary Hammon and Jacob Quinn Kathryn and Richard Rabinow Beverly and Howard Robinson Victoria Salem Winifred Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake Liana and Andrew Schwaitzberg Kelley and Jeffrey Scofield Raquel and Andrew Segal Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert Tejal Shah and Joshua Newcomer María Inés Sicardi Angela and Mark Smith Michael Stoeger Ellen D. Susman Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles Stephen Schwarz and Michael Naul Mark Taylor and Jon Mercado Elizabeth and Jack Weingarten Andrea and Bill White Elizabeth and Barry Young Erla and Harry Zuber

Stephanie and Gregory Evans Rachel and Edward Folse Kristina Van Dyke Fort and John Fort William Gage Pablo Garcia and Greg Martin Elizabeth and Wayne Gibbens Kathy and Martyn Goossen Joy and Don Haley Kelly and Russell Hamman Sarah and John Hastings Kellie and Jeff Hepper Dorene and Frank Herzog G.G. Hsieh Lee Huber Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie Kerry Inman and Denby Auble Franny and John Jeffries Cynthia Kagay and David Hayes Wendy and Mavis Kelsey Carla Knobloch Katherine Kohlmeyer Christa and Aivars Krumins Ashley and Curt Langley Elizabeth Lawnin Victoria Lightman

Aaron Loeb and James Flowers Terry Mahaffey Christine and Graham Makin Mari and Greg Marchbanks Penelope and Lester Marks Rebecca Marvil and Brian Smyth Surena and Misty Matin Gaye and Edward McCullough Amy and John Miller Elise Arnoult Miller and Scott Miller David Montague Gabriela Monterroso Betty Moody Amanda and Ren Nebel Jennifer Nelsen and Vinod Pathrose Sheila Noeth and Ted Dohmen Evelyn and Roy* Nolen Katy Pando Elizabeth and George Passela Maureen and Paul Perea Andrea and Carl Peterson Jason A. Presley Nicholas Proietti and Richard Beard Fairfax and Risher Randall Leonor and Eric Ratliff

Anna Brewster and Michelle Slater. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Associate Gail and Louis Adler Hamad Al Abdulla Joan and Stanford* Alexander Judy Ley Allen Maida and Paul Asofsky Carlos Bacino Ilene and Paul Barr Patricia Beaver-Skakun and Gary Skakun Alkesta and Curtis Belknap Paul L. Bowman Anna Brewster Marianna and Chris Brewster Susan and Raymond* Brochstein Virginia and William Camfield Tripp Carter Helen and Benjamin Cohen Patricia H. Colville George Connelly Nancy and Taylor Cooksey Elizabeth and Steven Crowell Paula Daly Helen Davis Margaret and William Davis Joell and Thomas Doneker Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition opening. Photo: Melissa Taylor

Kristen Castellanos Ridgway and David Ridgway Gloria and Nick Ryan Frank Rynd Karlsson and Brian Salek Neda Scanlan Mariana Servitje Ellen Simmons Hinda Simon Michelle Slater Douglas Smith Josephine and Richard Smith Janet and John Springer Eliza and Stuart Stedman Shawn Stephens and James Jordan Jennifer and David Strauss Jane and Gary Swanson Sandra Tirey and Jan van Lohuizen Bridget and Patrick Wade Lauren Walstad Hardy Katherine Warren Margaret and Kenneth Williams Skyler Wyatt * Deceased

Clare Casademont, Kathryn McNiel, Doug Lawing, Rick Lowe, India Lovejoy. Photo: Jenny Antill

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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 toward 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 Rebecca Rabinow, Director.

Nancy and Mark Abendshein Henrietta K. Alexander Eddie and Chinhui Allen Melza and Ted Barr 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 Hilda and Greg Curran Cindy and David Fitch Barbara and Michael Gamson Agnes Gund Janet Gurwitch and Ron Franklin

Janet and Paul Hobby Cecily E. Horton Caroline Huber Linda and George Kelly Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter 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 Mary Hale Lovett McLean Kimball and David Moriniere Susan and Francois de Menil Franci Neely David and Carol Neuberger

Salle Vaughn, Carol Neuberger, Paula Daly, Stephanie Larsen, and Linda Kelly. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

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Scott and Judy Nyquist Marilyn Oshman Susanne and William E. Pritchard III Kelly Rorschach Kimerly Rorschach and John Hart Louisa Stude Sarofim Leslie and Shannon Sasser Robin and Andrew* Schirrmeister Anne Schlumberger Bill Stewart and Johanna Brassert Salle and James* Vaughn Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro Morris A. Weiner and Leslie Field Lea Weingarten Nina and Michael Zilkha * Deceased

The Menil Collection is pleased to recognize gifts from corporations in Fiscal Year 2022. $25,000+ Art Blocks Inc. Frost Bank $10,000–$24,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies DeMontrond Automotive Group, Inc. H-E-B Houston Trust Co. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP UBS Financial Services Inc.

$5,000–$9,999 BrightView Marek Brothers Systems, Inc. Pluspetrol International $1,000–$4,999 Common Bond Shell Oil Company Foundation

In-Kind Support Alice Blue Baker Botts Bergner & Johnson Christie’s Eureka Heights Brew Co. Jackson & Company

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.

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

Anonymous (4) Jeff Beauchamp Collection of Mollie R. and William T. Cannady 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 Morris Weiner John L. Zipprich II

Membership

Patron Betty* and W. K. Adam Paolo and Surpik Angelini Bill Arning and Mark McCray David Aylsworth and Paul Forsythe Sarah Balinskas Louise and Henry Bethea Katherine Birchard and Richard Semelka Jody Blazek and David Crossley Nancy and Scott Bolduc Pauline Bolton Nana Booker and David Lowe Margaret Boulware and Hartley Hampton Kathleen A. Boyd James Browne Lori Choi Kathleen and Robert Clarke Steven L. Cowart Carol Currie Kimberly and Bradley Dennison Virginia Dwan* Thomas M. Edens Carolyn Egbert John Eymann Katherine Rhodes Fields Joseph A. Fischer III Kathleen and John Fitsgerald Helen Fosdick Mary Foster Donna and Gary Freedman Kerry A. Galvin Christopher Gardner and Gary Tinterow Peter and Diana Garza Leslie Gassner Mary L. Gibbs Irma and Kirk Girouard Marc E. Grossberg Richard Gruen David and Nanette Hartdegen Carola Herrin Marcia Hershey and Robert Roach Anna and Harold Holliday Steven Hooker and Rick Ankrom Carrie Horne Patricia Hunt and Joseph Milton Barbara and Charles Hurwitz Greg Ingram James Kelly Peaches and Harris Kempner Deborah Keyser and James Stafford Elizabeth and Albert Kidd Anne L. Kinder

Malcolm F. King, Jr. Ann and Timothy Koerner Rajiv Kohli Laurence Land Lara Landmesser and Frederic Warner Susan Lapin Benigna and Ernst Leiss Dinah Chetrit and Rich Levy Shelli and Steven Lindley Carl Masterson Michelle and Bill Matthews Beth McCracken Patricia Medors Margaret and Duane Montana Denise Monteleone Janet Moore Matthew A. Morgan Brian and Jennifer Moss Douglas A. Murphy Djenane Nakhle Phil Nevlud Mark H. Onak Phyllis Panenka and David Archer Michael R. Piana Carol and Daniel Price Mike and Sarah Ragsdale Macey and Harry Reasoner Vanessa Reniers Leslie and Russ Robinson Minnette Robinson* Melanie L. Rogers Susan and Mike Salinas John Sapp Jane and Richard Schmitt Sara and Michael Shackleton Karen Shouse Renie and Louis Silver Alana Spiwak and Sam Stolbun Raymond Stainback Carol T. Stamatedes Brian Stephens Harold Taylor Emily Todd Patricia Troncoso and William Pugh Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin* Jasper and Jane Ann Welch Kris and Michael Weller Heather and Robert Westendarp Charlotte and Larry Whaley Jill Whitten and Robert Proctor James Calvin Williams Gunilla and Jorge Zeballos

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Sponsor Charles and Conway Adams Ernesto Alfaro Nicholas Alfaro Joel Ang Claire and Wayne Douglas Ankenman Elizabeth and Bob Ardell Mary and Marcel Barone William A. Bartlett Jan and David Bean Nancy and John Belmont Rita and Joel Bergers Kathy and Andrew Berkman Shirley and Stanley Beyer Cynthia Birdwell Robert Blocker Carolyn Bloomer Jane and Roger Boak Minnette and Peter Boesel Linda and Philip Boyko Heather L. Brown Robin and Michael Bullington Katherine L. Butler Kathleen and Robert Butts Teresa Byrne-Dodge and Cameron Ansari Janet Caldwell Lora and Peter Caldwell Nancy S. Caminiti Cynthia and Robert Card Adel Chaouch Andrea Chiappe Charlott and Robert Childers Rhoda and Allen Clamen Nancy S. Crowther N. and Thomas Daly Diana Davis and Andrew Blocha Lynn Detrick and Harvey Marks Jimmy Dunne Martha and Daniel Dupêcher Inell Dyer-Klein Thomas Earthman Jane L. Eifler Kathleen and Keith Ellison Milton Erickson Patricia and Richard Ermler Milton J. Finegold Ann N. Finkelstein Bernice A. Fisher Caroline and Marion Freeman Edward J. Gibbon, Jr. Beverley and Wayne Gilbert Gretchen Gillis and David Cook

Menil members at the Sponsor level and above during the Fiscal Year 2022 (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022) 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.

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Christina Girard Penny and Shep Glass Rachel Glikin Gayle Goodman and Kenneth Adam Gwynn Gorsuch Helene and K. Lance Gould Caroline and M. P. Graham Rebecca R. Grant Mary and Charles Gregory Nonya and Jonathan Grenader Jacqueline and Brent Grundberg Robert W. Guynn Maureen and Gary Hall Babette and Tod Harding Michele Heater Carol H. Hebert Ann and Paul Herrera Amanda and Benjamin Holloway Laurel and Arthur Huffman Alan J. Hurwitz Raymond Hylenski George H. Johnson, Jr. Chandra Katragadda Ann and Stephen Kaufman Kim and David Kelly Jean King Sheryl Kolasinski Dohn Larson Alexander and Victoria Lazar Laura and Barry Leavitt Barbara and Larry Lipshultz Zena and Nouhad Majdalani Katerina and Juan Mangini Nitza and Moshe Maor Mary Lynn and J. Steve Marks Charles Martens

Lori and Marcel Mason Patricia McEnery and Jack Fletcher Elizabeth McClintock and Rick Adams Mary McIntire and James Pomerantz Sonja and Steve McKinnon Janice McNair Maria Merrill Jenny Meyer Tracey Meyer Jean S. Mintz Nancy and Robert Mollers Anne E. Murphy Liliane and Cesar Nahas Steve Nall and Tom Young Mary and Fred Nevill Carolyn and Michael Newmark Americo Nonini Sandra Nugent Carla O’Dell Betty and Duncan Osborne Rochelle and Sheldon Oster Bette and Richard Pesikoff Michael Phillips Lynn and Mark Pickett H. Russell Pitman Esther and Gary Polland Kathrin and Albert Pope Stephen and Janis Porter Lara and James Powers Paula and Irving Pozmantier Eamonn M. Quigley Jennifer and Peter Ragauss Maura and Walter Ritchie Elaine and Steven Roach Margot and Richard Rodriguez Daisy Lee and Bradley Roe

Mitchell and Melanie Baldridge, Amy Sutton and Gary Chiles. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Nathalie and Charles Roff Lynn and Alex Rosas Casey and Kevin Rowe Linda and Jerry Rubenstein Ellen Safier Franca B. Sant’Ambrogio Gemma and Luis Santos Patricia Schillaci Veronique and Luc Schlumberger Genie and Jimmy Schmidt Michelle and Clifford Shedd Christine and Michael Sigman Patricia and Fielding Smith Kathryn and Craig Smyser Linda B. Spain David Stevenson Michael G. Stewart Doreen and Dan Stoller Mary Lou Swift Susan and Bascom Talley Gregor and Christina Thaller Eleanor and Jon Totz Robert and Anne Tucker Patricia and Steven Uchytil Kathy and John Unger Barbara Volkmer and Pablo Ruiz-Berlanga Tanya and David Wells Monica S. White Janne Williams Nancy and N. L. Williams Clint Wilson Kay and Carl Wilson Daniel Zimmerman * Deceased

Peggy and Michael Strode, Margaret Strode. Photo: Jenny Antill

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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 Tim Barkley Cristina and Joshua Bedwell Kayla and Sean Berwald Chase Bice Libba and Geer Blalock Carrie and Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl Anna Brewster Elizabeth and C. Walker Brierre Matthew Brollier Lindsey Brown and Chris Shepherd Ashlyn Davis Burns Eva Kristina Bush and Todd Bush Sara Cain Jennifer and Rhett Carter Laura and John Chapman Ben Clemenceau Megan Davis Jessica and Brian Dear Julia Doran and Adam Carlis Bevin and Daniel Dubrowski John D. Edwards Margo Fendrich and Tommy Nguyen Dan Fergus Sarah Foltz

Laura Garrison and Anthony Ableman Clarissa and Jesse Gonzalez Lauren Walstad Hardy Abigail Harris and Edward F. Davis Jennifer Hau Robert Hereford Bradley Houston Mariya Idenova Claire Johnson Cynthia Kagay and David Hayes Madeline Kelly Sara Kelly Allison and Randy King Kirsten and Taylor Landry Laura and Keefer Lehner Megan E. Light Penelope and Lester Marks Kahler Biedenharn Marlow and Kristian Marlow Annie and Taylor Mason Jack McBride and Thain Allen Jay and Clay McKenna John McLaughlin Ashley McPhail Ognjen Miljanic

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Cocktails with a Curator with Clare Elliott. Photo: Sarah Hobson

Peter Molick Jennifer and William Monteleone III Reyad Nasser Duyen and Marc Nguyen Anaeze C. Offodile II Nancy Parsley and Zakary Banks Olivia and Edward Persia Fernando Miguel Ramos III Victoria Ridgway Brittany Sager Lea Salamoun Karlsson and Brian Salek Randi and Pablo Schmidt-Tophoff Kelley and Jeffrey Scofield Sarah Beth and Paul Seifert Orel Shoham Derrick Shore and Brandon Bourque Hannah Swiggard Susie and Payson Tucker Melissa and Oliver Tuckerman Lara Turan Robert W. Turnage Lynden Unger Jane and Daniel Zilkha

Jay Shinn, Megan Davis, and Paul Seifert. Photo: Dave Rossman

Menil Contemporaries Spring Mixer. Photo: Daniel Ortiz

Financials

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Operating Revenues Contributions and Grants Membership Program Revenue

$ 4,816,409 1,096,636 418,887

Investment Funds Designated for Current Year Operations

13,000,000

Gifts of Art

1,624,700

Contributions for Art Acquisitions

210,835

Funds Released for Art Acquisitions

163,000

Menil Campus Real Estate

1,743,429

Total Operating Revenues

$ 23,073,895

Operating Expenses

The Menil Collection

Curatorial and Collections

Program Revenue 2% Gifts of Art 7%

$ 23.1 Million

Real Estate 7% Contributions, Grants, and Membership 26%

Art Acquisitions 2%

Investments 56%

$ 4,818,572

Education and Public Programs

1,830,615

Exhibitions and Displays

4,506,511

Membership Activities

657,216

Buildings and Grounds

2,234,264

Capital Improvements

1,948,373

Fundraising

1,514,674

Management and General

3,940,490

Gifts of Art

1,624,700

Art Purchases

668,910

Total Operating Expenses

$ 23,744,324

Operating surplus /(deficit) before depreciation and amortization

$ (670,429)

Operating Expenses Gifts of Art 7%

$23.7 Million

Art Purchases 3% Curatorial and Collections 20%

Management and General 17% Education and Public Programs 8%

Investment Portfolio Unrestricted

$ 83,135,692

Temporarily Restricted

115,677,040

Permanently Restricted

136,798,413

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$ 335,611,145

Fundraising 6% Capital Improvements 8% Buildings and Grounds 9%

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.

Exhibitions and Displays 19% Membership Activites 3%

*Curatorial and Collections include: Archives, Collections Management, Conservation, Curatorial, and Library. **Education and Programs include: Bookstore, Communications, Public Programs, and Publishing.

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Director’s Office Rebecca Rabinow, Director Elsian Cozens, Director’s Office Liaison Mariana Kessler, Assistant to the Director, Internal Affairs Maryhelen Murray, Assistant to the Director, External Affairs Administration Ileana Del Toro, Chief Financial Officer Xuguang (Toby) Zhao, Controller Brandon Conner, Financial and Budget Manager Emilee Hunter, Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer Shiow-Chyn (Susie) Liao, Assistant Controller Suzanne Ralls, Accounts Payable Specialist Xinyi (Olivia) Zhang, General Ledger Accountant Melissa McDonnell Luján, Director of Project Development Advancement Judy V. Waters, Director of Advancement Katy Barber, Manager of Development Services Samuel Ferrigno, Manager of Individual Giving Madeline Kelly, Associate Director of Individual Giving Patrice McCracken, Prospect Researcher Daisy Perez, Director of Special Events Alyssa Reese, Assistant to the Director of Advancement Jasmine Saing, Development Services Associate Martin Schleuse, Manager of Foundation Relations Breanna Word, Special Events Assistant Archives Lisa Barkley, Archival Associate

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Bookstore Paul Forsythe, Manager Bozena (Bozi) Dobrijevic, Bookstore Associate Collection Management Susan Slepka Anderson, Director of Collection Management Stephanie Harris Akin, Senior Associate Registrar, Loans and Exhibitions Nadia Al-Khalifah, Assistant Registrar, Collections and Exhibitions David Aylsworth, Collections Registrar Catherine Fitzgerald Eckels, Registrar, Menil Drawing Institute Anna Foret, Senior Assistant Registrar, Loans and Exhibitions Jonathan Groom, Art Preparator Chris Henry, Art Preparator John (Russ) Lane, Art Preparator Margaret McKee, Digital Asset Manager Donna McClendon, Imaging Services Specialist Robert (Ole) Petersen, Art Preparator Caroline Philippone, Photographer Tony Rubio, Chief Preparator Julie Thies, Head of TMS Administration Patrick Yarrington, Art Preparator, Menil Drawing Institute

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Communications Sarah Hobson, Assistant Director of Communications Cathy Baumanis, Marketing Manager Amanda Thomas, Graphic Designer Conservation Bradford Epley, Chief Conservator Joy Bloser, Assistant Objects Conservator Jan Burandt, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper Dominic Clay, Conservation Technician, Menil Drawing Institute Chloe Cook, Conservation Coordinator James Craven, Conservation Imaging Specialist Annie Daubert, Conservation Records Administrator Desirae (Desi) Dijkema, Assistant Paintings Conservator Kari Dodson, Objects Conservator Mina Gaber, Matter/Framer Curatorial Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute Michelle White, Senior Curator Danielle Bennett, Curatorial Associate Megan Cekander, Administrative Assistant, Curatorial Department Paul R. Davis, Curator of Collections Natalie Dupêcher, Associate Curator of Modern Art Clare Elliott, Associate Research Curator Julia Fisher, Administrative Assistant, Menil Drawing Institute Kirsten Marples, Curatorial Associate, Menil Drawing Institute Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute Sarah Beth Wilson, Exhibitions Manager Exhibition Design Brooke Stroud, Exhibitions Designer Kent Dorn, Assistant Exhibitions Designer Alex Rosas, Exhibitions Design Assistant Human Resources Suzanne Maloch, Director of Human Resources Patrice Ashley, Benefits Coordinator Perla Mancillas, Sr. Human Resources Generalist Information Technology Oliver (Buck) Bakke, Manager of Information Technology Albert Diaz III, Assistant Network Support Technician Library Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, Librarian Robin Key, Assistant Librarian

Membership Carrie Ermler, Manager of Membership and Visitor Services Qasim Ali, Visitor/Membership Assistant Seneca Garcia, Visitor/Membership Assistant, Menil Drawing Institute Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Visitor/Membership Assistant Monique Harris, Visitor/Membership Assistant Lena Khattab, Manager of Patron Programs Andrew Kozma, Branard Street Receptionist Anna Loft, Visitor/Membership Assistant Anna Nugent, Membership Associate Kaneem Smith, Visitor/Membership Assistant Philip Karjecker, Visitor/Membership Assistant Museum Facilities/Operations Wesley Haines, Director of Facilities Chris Akin, Mailroom Clerk/Receptionist Juan Buenrostro, Custodian Carl Chaney, Custodian Nick Cedillo, Lead Custodian Bridget Eldredge, Maintenance Assistant/Relief Control Room Ernest Flores, Maintenance Assistant Roberto Gonzalez, Grounds and Custodial Supervisor Jack Patterson, Facilities Coordinator Alvin Ramirez, Groundskeeper Marco Ramirez, Groundskeeper Shivnaraine Sewnauth, Facilities Engineer Philip Soto, Maintenance Assistant Javier Verduzco, Custodian Public Programs Lauren Pollock, Manager of Public Programs Tony Martinez, Programs Coordinator Publishing Joseph N. Newland, Director of Publishing Nancy O’Connor, Associate Editor Safety and Security Ramona Al-Hardani, Gallery Attendant Arceli Arcilla, Gallery Attendant Cynthia Ballard, Gallery Attendant Bryant Bruce, Gallery Attendant Delana Bunch, Gallery Attendant Sabina Causevic, Gallery Attendant Cody Chapman, Gallery Attendant Mackenzie Crawford, Gallery Attendant William Cuevas, Control Room Monitor Aailyah Fields, Gallery Attendant Latisha Gilbert, Gallery Attendant Supervisor Jamarcus Gilmore, Gallery Attendant William Gomez, 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 Bordin Keplar, Gallery Attendant Reynaldo Legaspi, Gallery Attendant Dylan Matos, Gallery Attendant Alexej O’Malley, Gallery Attendant Jesper Panessah, Gallery Attendant Enelra (EJ) Rizalde, Gallery Attendant Meichelle Robinson, Gallery Attendant Anastasia Rodriguez, Gallery Attendant Laronda Shelvin, Gallery Attendant Kenneth Sherman, Gallery Attendant Mirzama Sisic, Gallery Attendant Supervisor Konjit Tekletsadik, Gallery Attendant Toren Thornton, Gallery Attendant Eric Valdez, Control Room Monitor Jacqueline Yagao, Gallery Attendant Macario Yagao, Gallery Attendant *Staff list as of June 30, 2022

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Free parking at 1515 West Alabama Street www.menil.org Cover, installation view of Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s, photo: Paul Hester; pp. 1–2, photo: Melissa Taylor; pp. 8–9, install­ation view of Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Central Andes, photo: Daniel Ortiz; pp. 18–19, Installation view of Geneviève Asse © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, photo: Paul Hester; pp. 24–25, photo: Sarah Hobson; pp. 32–33, Community Day, photo: Daniel Ortiz; pp. 38–39, photo: David Ortiz