University of Richmond Museums Fall 2012 Newsletter

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND MUSEUMS JOEL AND LILA HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART JOEL AND LILA HARNETT PRINT STUDY CENTER LORA ROBINS GALLERY OF DESIGN FROM NATURE

FALL SEMESTER 2012

Welcome!

Welcome to the University of Richmond Museums. We hope you enjoy looking through our new brochure, available both in printed form and electronically on our website, to see what we are bringing to Richmond this fall semester. Mark your calendars and plan to attend our many events and see our thoughtprovoking exhibitions in the three museums that comprise the University Museums.

The American artist Kenneth Hayes Miller, the focus of one of our exhibitions this fall, encouraged his students by stating that artists in the modern world were responsible for “keeping art alive.” Today, that responsibility is shared with museums. In particular, university museums have a special role in bringing art, cultural artifacts, history, and natural sciences, to all of our audiences, from our students to the many visitors from our communities. Our university museums have each taken this idea to heart as a central part of our mission, and we hope our exhibitions and programs keep that spirit of art alive for you as you visit and participate in our museums. Let’s keep art alive!

There’s no better way than taking an active and supportive part in our museums.

Contemporary artist Joan Snyder talks with a group of students during the retrospective exhibition of her prints presented last spring semester in the Harnett Museum of Art. Special exhibitions in the University Museums provide opportunities to bring leading professional artists, scholars, art historians, art dealers, architects, philosophers, and other notable people from the museum field to campus to give lectures and to meet with our students and our visitors from the Richmond community and the region.

Cover: Dorothea Lange (American, 18951965), Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940, gelatin silver print, 20 x 23 1/2 inches, Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

I recently saw the Williams College Museum of Art referred to as “the largest classroom on campus,” providing a unique laboratory for the study of art. Here at the University of Richmond, I like to think our three museums and our “art on campus” program surely make us the largest classroom on our campus.

Nothing is more gratifying than seeing our museums as an integral part of our students’ academic experience and the University’s partnering with the Richmond community.

The fall semester brings a full schedule of special exhibitions and related events and programming, a feast of enriching visual and intellectual experiences. I hope you won’t miss any of these offerings, and I look forward to seeing you and your friends at the University Museums throughout the semester.

Richard Waller Executive Director University of Richmond Museums

The Social Lens: Photographs by Dorothea Lange and Her Contemporaries HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AUGUST 22 TO OCTOBER 7, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND RECEPTION, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5

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Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965), Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, gelatin silver print, 23 x 18 inches, Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

Influential photographer Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) helped establish the visual and cultural history of Depression-era America in the 1920s and 1930s with her iconic photographs documenting rural conditions, migrant workers, suffering families, and ravaged landscapes. Highlights of the exhibition are her seminal portraits, White Angel Breadline, Migratory Farm Worker, and Migrant Mother, iconic photographs that came to personify pride and resilience in the face of abject poverty during the Great Depression. Thirty of Lange’s strikingly empathetic images are included, along with the work of other important socially conscious documentary photographers of the period, such as Mike Disfarmer, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Wright Morris, and Ben Shahn.

The exhibition is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions, and all the works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. At the University of Richmond Museums, the exhibition and related programming, coordinated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, University Museums, are made possible in part with the support of the University’s Cultural Affairs Committee and funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund.

Annual Student Exhibition HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AUGUST 22 TO SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Selected by the studio art faculty, the exhibition features works by studio art majors and minors along with non-majors enrolled in beginning through advanced studio art classes during the University’s 2011-2012 academic year.

The exhibition is organized by University of Richmond Museums and coordinated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums.

Centennial Celebration: Prints by John Cage HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AUGUST 22, 2012, TO JUNE 28, 2013

John Cage (American, 1912-1992), Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, Lithograph A, 1969, color lithograph on black paper, 28 x 40 inches, Joel and Lila Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Museum purchase with funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund, H2012.10.01

American artist, composer, poet, and music theorist John Cage (1912-1992) was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. His interest in East Asian and Indian philosophy led him to abandon intention, memory, and personal taste to focus instead on process and chance in music, performance, and visual art, and this is especially evident in his prints. To commemorate John Cage’s centennial in 2012, on view are several prints, including Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, Lithograph A and Lithograph B, created in 1969 as a tribute to artist Marcel Duchamp.

Organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, the exhibition is made possible in part with funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund.

Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science LORA ROBINS GALLERY THROUGH NOVEMBER 16, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND RECEPTION, FRIDAY, OCT. 26 (see centerfold for details)

Buried almost 3,000 year ago in ancient Egypt, Ti-Ameny-Net’s mummified body and wooden casket were purchased by a Richmond College professor and brought to the University of Richmond in 1876. The exhibition features Ti-Ameny-Net, her coffin, and other ancient Egyptian objects in addition to highlighting new scientific information discovered about the mummy.

The exhibition is organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Caroline Cobert, ’12, with Elizabeth Baughan, Assistant Professor of Classics and Archaeology, University of Richmond, and N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, University Museums.

Coffin Lid of Ti-Ameny-Net (detail), Egyptian, 25th – 26th Dynasties (760-525 b.c.e.), painted wood, 69 x 21 ¼ x 11 ½ inches, Collection of the Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World, Department of Classical Studies, University of Richmond

Collecting Paradise in the Philippines: Selections from the Margaret B. Dunkum Shell Collection LORA ROBINS GALLERY THROUGH JUNE 14, 2013 PUBLIC PROGRAM, FRIDAY, NOV. 2 (see centerfold for details)

The exhibition features more than fifty shells and corals from the Margaret B. Dunkum Shell Collection that highlight the rich marine environment that surrounds the 7,100 islands that make up the archipelago of the Philippines. In 2005, the collection of more than 1,500 shells, corals, and other specimens was given in Mrs. Dunkum’s memory by her daughters Barbara D. Long and Florence D. Gadol to the museum.

The exhibition is organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Matthew Houle, Curator of Museum Collections, University Museums.

Endive Murex, Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791), Panglao, Bohol, Philippines, 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Gift in memory of Margaret B. Dunkum by her daughters Barbara D. Long and Florence D. Gadol, R2005.08.364

Torn from Darkness: Works by Felix Lembersky LORA ROBINS GALLERY SEPTEMBER 25 TO DECEMBER 2, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND PREVIEW RECEPTION, MONDAY, SEPT. 24

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Felix Lembersky (Russian, born Poland, 1913-1970), A Woman in Recline: The Siege of Leningrad, 1964, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 42 1/8 inches, Collection of Yelena Lembersky

The exhibition features a selection of twenty paintings and works on paper created from 1942 to 1964 by Felix Lembersky (1913-1970), a Russian-Soviet artist of Jewish origin. He was an easel painter, theater stage designer, teacher, and cultural leader.

Working in Soviet Russia at a distance from Western movements, the artist created a body of work that offers his own vision, a synthesis of Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Realism through Russia’s historical circumstances and through his own particular conscious awareness of Russian and Eastern spiritual traditions.

Lembersky’s visual context is grounded in Eastern Europe — Poland, where he was born; Ukraine, where he was raised; Leningrad, where he lived; and the small towns of middle Russia and the Urals, where he traveled. He became a refugee at the onset of World War I, he grew up in the crucible of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, witnessed pogroms, lived through the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, and survived the 900-day siege of Leningrad and the devastation of World War II, including the murder of his parents by the Nazis. In his work he approached many subjects forbidden in his day, such as Christianity, Judaism, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism. Some of his most poignant works are portraits of fellow citizens, including factory workers, children, and victims of Nazi brutality.

The exhibition is organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Joseph Troncale, Associate Professor of Russian, Modern Literatures and Cultures, University of Richmond; and Yelena Lembersky, architect, independent curator, and granddaughter of the artist; with Lourdes Figueroa, ’13, art history and Russian studies double major, University of Richmond.

The exhibition is made possible in part with funds from the University’s Cultural Affairs Committee and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fund of the Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures. A fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue, published by the University Museums, with essays by Joseph Troncale, Lourdes Figueroa, Alison Hilton, Wright Family Professor of Art History, and Director, Art and Museum Studies M. A. Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and Galina Lembersky, daughter of the artist, is available.

Keeping Art Alive: Prints and Drawings

by Kenneth Hayes Miller and His Students HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART AND PRINT STUDY CENTER OCTOBER 5, 2012, TO APRIL 7, 2013 PUBLIC PROGRAM, FRIDAY, OCT. 5 (see centerfold for details)

American artist Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876-1952) influenced hundreds of students as a highly respected instructor at the New York School of Art from 1899 to 1911 and the Art Students League of New York from 1911 until a year before his death.

An admirer of Renaissance art, Miller impressed upon his students the importance of studying the techniques of the Old Masters while capturing the essence of the modern day. The exhibition features prints and drawings by Hayes Miller and his students, including Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Minna Citron, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and George Tooker. The works range from depictions of urban American life in the 1920s and 1930s, specifically in New York, to studying and presenting the figure, to images reflecting how his students developed their own personal styles. All the works in the exhibition were selected from the permanent collection of the Harnett Print Study Center.

Organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, and Haley Jones, ’14, leadership studies major, University of Richmond, and 2012 Harnett Summer Research Fellow, University Museums, the exhibition is made possible in part with funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund.

Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1895-1965), Leaving the Shop, 1929, etching on paper, 8 x 9 7/8 inches, Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Museum purchase, H2007.04.02

Free Public Programs at the Museums University Museums programs take place on the campus of the University of Richmond.

Co-sponsored or related programs are held both on and off campus as indicated.

All programs are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, September 5, 7 to 9 p.m.

7 p.m., Lecture, Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Center for the Arts “Women of the FSA, Working in the South 1935-1943” Beverly Brannan, Curator of Photography, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

8 to 9 p.m., Reception and viewing of the exhibition The Social Lens: Photographs by Dorothea Lange and Her Contemporaries, Harnett Museum of Art, University Museums

Friday, September 7, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

5:30 to 6:30 p.m., First Fridays East, Depression-era music Beverly Brannan and refreshments, Library of Virginia lobby, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond 7 p.m., Curator’s Talk, Wilton Companies Gallery, UR Downtown, 626 East Broad Street, Richmond, by Hayley Harrington, ’12, curator of the exhibition 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Viewing of the exhibition The Spirit of Virginia: Photographs for the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Sunday, September 9, 7:30 p.m.

Music Performance, Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Center for the Arts Del McCoury Band with special guest band Chatham County Line (tickets are required, for more information, visit the Modlin Center at modlin.richmond.edu) Lecture/Demonstration with members of the band the following day, time to be announced

Wednesday, September 12, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Gallery Talk, Harnett Museum of Art, Modlin Center for the Arts “A Singular Gesture: Dorothea Lange” Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator, Virginia Museums of Fine Arts, Richmond

Tuesday, September 18, 6 to 8 p.m.

6 p.m, Film Screening, Keller Hall Reception Room, Modlin Center for the Arts “To Render a Life” [documentary film by Ross Spears based on the 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans] 7:30 to 8 p.m., Q & A with the director of the film, Ross Spears [Co-sponsored with Bonner Center for Civic Engagement]

Monday, September 24, 2012, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

6:30 p.m., Symposium, Carole Weinstein International Center Commons “Torn from Darkness: A Symposium on the Art of Felix Lembersky” Yelena Lembersky, architect, independent curator, granddaughter of the artist, and co-curator of the exhibition; Joseph Troncale, Associate Professor of Russian, Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures, University of Richmond, and co-curator of the exhibition; Alison Hilton, Wright Family

Professor of Art History, and Director, Art and Museum Studies M. A. Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and Lourdes Figueroa, ’13, art history and Russian studies double major, University of Richmond; moderated by Erling Sjovold, Associate Professor of Art, Department of Art and Art History, University of Richmond

8 to 9 p.m., Reception and preview of the exhibition Torn from Darkness: Works by Felix Lembersky, Lora Robins Gallery, University Museums [Co-sponsored with Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures]

Friday, September 28, 2 to 2:30 p.m.

Gallery Talk, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University Museums “The Works and Artistic Identity of Felix Lembersky” Lourdes Figueroa, ’13, art history and Russian studies double major, University of Richmond

Tuesday, October 2, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Artist’s Talk, Harnett Print Study Center, University Museums “From Concept to Codex: Creating an Editioned Artist’s Book” Josh Hockensmith, ’92, book artist, writer, and translator, with Stephen Addiss, Professor of Art History and Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities-Art, University of Richmond

[Co-sponsored with Department of Art and Art History]

Friday, October 5, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m., Curator’s Talk, Harnett Museum of Art, Modlin Center for the Arts “The Amazing Legacy of Kenneth Hayes Miller: His Art and His Students” Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, and co-curator of the exhibition 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Preview of the exhibition Keeping Art Alive: Prints and Drawings by Kenneth Hayes Miller and His Students, Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study Center, University Museums

Monday, October 22, 7 to 9 p.m.

7 p.m., Lecture, Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Center for the Arts Introduction by Carl Solway, President of Carl Solway

Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, a specialist in contemporary art, and juror of the exhibition “The 2012 Harnett Biennial ”

“Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller & Car #4” Thomas T. K. Zung, longtime friend and architectural

partner of Buckminster Fuller; President, Buckminster Fuller, Sudao & Zung Architects; and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Stanford University Libraries

8 to 9 p.m., Artists reception and preview of the exhibitions The 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints and Buckminster Fuller, Inventions: Twelve Around One, Harnett Museum, University Museums

Thomas T. K. Zung

Friday, October 26, 6 to 8 p.m.

6 p.m., Lecture, Ukrops Auditorium, Queally Hall

“Napoleon in Egypt: The Beginning of Egyptology” Bob Brier, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy,

C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University, New York

7 to 8 p.m., Reception and viewing of the exhibition Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science, Lora Robins Gallery, University Museums

[Co-sponsored with Department of Classical Studies]

Shuttle service available between the two locations Friday, November 2, 12 to 12:30 p.m.

Curator’s Talk, Lora Robins Gallery, University Museums “Building a Shell Collection” Matthew Houle, Curator of Museum Collections, University

Bob Brier

Museums, and curator of the exhibition “Collecting Paradise in the Philippines: Selections from the Margaret B. Dunkum Shell Collection”

Sunday, November 4, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Family Arts Day with University Museums and Modlin Center for the Arts [see p. 13 for details]

Wednesday, November 28, 6 to 8:30 p.m.

6 p.m., Curator’s Talk and Performance, Carole Weinstein International Center Commons “Religious Iconography Meets Cultural Understanding: Perspectives from Nepal” Emily Bowden, ’13, anthropology and geography double major, University of Richmond, 2012 Arts &

Sciences Summer Research Fellow, 2012-2013 Curatorial Assistant, University Museums, and co-curator of the new installation of objects from Nepal, India, and the Himalayas 6:30 p.m., Dance performance with Priti Patil, Indian classical dance instructor

7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Reception and preview of the new installation Religion and Tradition: Objects from Nepal, India, and the Himalayas, Lora Robins Gallery, University Museums

The 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART OCTOBER 23 TO DECEMBER 9, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND ARTISTS RECEPTION, MONDAY, OCT. 22

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The tenth competitive national exhibition organized by the University of Richmond Museums is a celebration of contemporary printmaking by artists from throughout the United States. This year’s juror is Carl Solway (shown to the right), President of the Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, and a specialist in contemporary art.

Buckminster Fuller, Inventions: Twelve Around One HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART OCTOBER 23 TO DECEMBER 9, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND PREVIEW RECEPTION, MONDAY, OCT. 22

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Buckminster Fuller (American, 1895-1983), Motor Vehicle – Dymaxion Car, from the portfolio Inventions: Twelve Around One,1981, screenprint in white ink on clear polyester film layered over photographic screenprint on paper, 30 x 40 inches, Courtesy Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

The exhibition features a portfolio of thirteen projects spanning the career of Buckminster Fuller (American, 1895-1983), one of the most influential engineers and designers of the twentieth century. Each of the prints is a screenprint on transparent Mylar of the patent drawings for an invention overlaid on an image of the realized version of the project; included are his Dymaxion Car, patented in 1933 and known for its pioneering automotive aerodynamic design, and Geodesic Dome, the design for which Fuller is most well known. Also in the exhibition are several stainless steel sculptures, his screenprint Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map, and Dymaxion Rowing Shell designed with two parallel 21-foot-long fiberglass hulls.

Organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Carl Solway, President of Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, and publisher of the “Buckminster Fuller, Inventions: Twelve Around One” portfolio, the exhibition is made possible in part with funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund.

Religion and Tradition: Objects from Nepal, India, and the Himalayas LORA ROBINS GALLERY NEW INSTALLATION, OPENS NOVEMBER 29, 2012 PUBLIC PROGRAM AND PREVIEW RECEPTION, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 (see centerfold for details)

The installation features objects from the permanent collection of the Lora Robins Gallery, including wood and stone carvings, jewelry, and bronze statues from Nepal, India, and the Himalayas. The new arrangement of the objects from this region of the world emphasizes the relationship between the two dominant religions, Buddhism and Hinduism, as seen in the cultural artifacts in the museum’s collection. The selected works illustrate figures, stories, symbols, and aspects of cultural and religious significance, and the display includes examples of traditional craftsmanship used to produce objects for worship, for everyday use, and for economic trade in the region.

The installation is organized by University of Richmond Museums and curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, and Emily Bowden, ’13, anthropology and geography double major, University of Richmond, 2012 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellow, University Museums, and 2012-2013 curatorial assistant, University Museums.

Above: Krishna and a Gopi, India, twentieth century, wood, 36 x 12 x 3 inches, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of Herbert A. Duke, R1986.03.51 Left: Shiva and Parvati, Nepal, seventeenth century, bronze, 7 7/8 x 7 x 5 inches, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of Mrs. Gertrude Howland, R2001.03.03

FamilyArts Day Celebration!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 12:30 TO 3:30 P.M. UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS & MODLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Join University Museums and Modlin Center for a FREE! arts-centered family fun day with tours of the exhibitions in the Harnett Museum of Art, hands-on art activities in the Booth Lobby and Modlin Courtyard, entertainment, refreshments, and special guests Grammy®winning ensemble eighth blackbird.

Performance, 3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall, Saint-Saën’s Carnival of the Animals featuring the eighth blackbird ensemble (paid tickets required for performance, for information visit modlin.richmond.edu)

Youth & Family Programs The exhibitions and collections of the University Museums provide opportunities for professors, teachers, and students to integrate museum learning into the classroom and homeschool settings. Guided tours can be arranged to accommodate your needs.

FOR TEACHERS University Museums provides educational resources for K-12 educators. Exhibitions generate a range of activities comprising worksheets, interactive tours, and lesson plans. Museum educators are pleased to work with visiting classes to develop additional activities based on their specific curriculum needs. To explore education materials created for specific exhibitions, visit the exhibitions webpage at museums.richmond.edu. Guided tours are customized for specific curriculum requirements and stress critical thinking, observational skills, and creativity.

PUBLIC TOURS University Museums serves the campus community and beyond.

Many organizations schedule tours, including childcare centers, religious groups, retirement communities, as well as various studio art, art history, and science interest groups. Tours focus on highlights from the collection and special exhibitions.

To book a tour, contact Denisse De Leon, Coordinator of Museum Visitor and Tour Services, University Museums, at 804-289-8237, or e-mail ddeleon@richmond.edu

Student Docents, Museum Attendants, & Museums Story Time University of Richmond students are active in the University Museums’ programs and exhibitions as museum attendants, as behind-the-scenes curatorial, collections, tech, and marketing assistants, and as student docents. Our Student Docent Program trains students with interests in art, science, and education to provide an exciting and interactive museum experience for visitors of all ages.

STUDENT DOCENTS offer public tours of the collections and special exhibitions, assist with educational programs, and often lead the Museums Story Time program for young visitors.

Museum attendant Maggie Springer reading to young visitors during Museums Story Time, and museum attendant Laura Wyrick and museum docent Richard Barnett helping with children’s art activities during University Museums Family Day.

MUSEUMS STORY TIME for children takes place on Sundays at 2 p.m. on September 23, October 28, and November 11. For more details, visit us at museums.richmond.edu

Student Summer Research in the Museums University of Richmond students Haley Jones and Emily Bowden spent the summer employed full-time in the University Museums studying and working with the collections as part of their research fellowships.

Haley Jones, ’14, leadership studies major, was our eleventh Harnett Summer Research Fellow, funded

by Joel and Lila Harnett. Haley’s main research was on the artist Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876-1952) and his influence on his many students, including such artists as Isabel Bishop and Reginald Marsh, among others. Her curatorial research on the prints and drawings by these artists in our collection is evident in the exhibition Keeping Art Alive, and she will give a curator’s talk in March.

Emily Bowden, ’13, anthropology and geography double major, was an Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellow. The focus of her research was on objects from Nepal, India, and the Himalayas in our collection. As the 2012-2013 curatorial assistant in the University Museums, Emily will continue her research and planning of the new installation during the fall semester, and she will give a curator’s talk at the opening event on November 28.

Haley Jones looking at a print that will be included in her exhibition.

Emily Bowden studying an object for the new installation she curated.

Art on Campus from the University Museums Collections In addition to the exhibitions in the University Museums, selected works from the permanent collections are on view in many of our University buildings. When you walk around the campus, it becomes a “museum without walls” as you encounter paintings, prints, sculpture, decorative arts, cultural artifacts, and natural specimens from University Museums collections in the public spaces of the University’s buildings. The print to the right is currently on view in the Robins School of Business and was included in The 2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints exhibition in the Harnett Museum of Art.

Frederick Nichols (American, born 1948), Upper Rapidan Pool, 2009, screenprint on paper, 32 x 48 inches, Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Museum purchase, from The 2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints, H2010.21.01

University Museums Exhibitions on Tour Exhibitions organized by the University of Richmond Museums often travel on national tours to be presented at other museums. Currently, you can see three of our exhibitions on view at the following museums.

Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company, May 3, 2012, to June 16, 2013, Brooklyn Museum, New York Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, September 4, 2012, to January 6, 2013, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures, September 4 to December 16, 2012, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California Covered Vase, circa 1887, Edward Lycett (American, born England, 1833-1910), Faience Manufacturing Company (1881-1892), Brooklyn, New York, cream-colored earthenware painted over ivory-glazed and luster ground with polychrome enamels and flat gold paste decoration, 18 1/4 inches tall, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, R2011.01.01.

From the Aesthetic Ambitions exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum Hours & Directions

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JOEL AND LILA HARNETT MUSEUM OF ART Sunday through Friday (8/22-12/14), 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Labor Day (9/3), Fall Break (10/13-16), Thanksgiving Week (11/17-25), and Semester Break (12/15-1/13).

JOEL AND LILA HARNETT PRINT STUDY CENTER Sunday through Friday (10/5-12/14), 1 to 3 p.m. and by appointment (804-287-6424).

Closed Fall Break (10/13-16), Thanksgiving Week (11/17-25), and Semester Break (12/15-1/13).

LORA ROBINS GALLERY OF DESIGN FROM NATURE Sunday through Friday (8/22-12/14), 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Labor Day (9/3), Fall Break (10/13-16), Thanksgiving Week (11/17-25), and Semester Break (12/15-1/13).

Call 804-289-8276, or visit museums.richmond.edu, for information and directions.

New Digital Signs & E-mail Invitations When you visit the University Museums, we now have digital sign monitors at the entrance of each museum to let you know what’s on view and what events are coming up. Also please ask any of our staff, including Denisse De Leon, our Coordinator of Museum Visitor and Tour Services (shown here with our new digital signage), or any of our student museum attendants about what’s happening at the University of Richmond Museums.

At the University Museums, we are increasing our “green” sustainability efforts by offering electronic mailings and less printed materials. If you would like to receive our electronic announcements, please send us your e-mail address and indicate whether or not you are currently on our mailing list. E-mail us at: museums@richmond.edu

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Copyright and photograph credits: Cover image and image, p. 3 © Estate of Dorothea Lange; top image, p. 2 © Kevin Schindler; bottom image, p. 2 © University Museums; image, p. 4 © John Cage Trust at Bard College; images, p. 5 © University Museums, photographs by Taylor Dabney; image, p. 6 © Yelena Lembersky, photograph by Arthur Evans; image, p. 7 © Estate of Kenneth Hayes Miller; bottom image, p. 10 © Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller; images, p. 11 © University Museums, photographs by Taylor Dabney; images, pp. 12 and 13 © University Museums; top image, p. 14 © Frederick Nichols; bottom image, p. 14 © University Museums, photograph by Taylor Dabney; image, p. 15 © University Museums Printed © 2012 University of Richmond Museums, Virginia 23173

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