Need a sub

Fellow Docents,

My husband has eye surgery that was just scheduled in the middle of my TAM tour time on Wednesday, October 20th.  He will be unable t drive so I must be there.  I have time available on Sunday, October 17 or after November 4.  I am running the middle school book fair the 22-29 of October.  If we can work something out let me know asap.

Thank you,

Sheila Spinn

sense of place sign ups

For those of you who may still be interested in signing up for a work in Sense of Place to research, here is what has not yet been spoken for:

 

Paul Berger, Late Fall

Harry Bertoia, Small Bush

James Lavadour, Release the Sun

Kenjiro Nomura, Puget Sound

Ruth Penington, Untitled [necklace]

Kiff Slemmons, Rosario

James Everett Stuart, The Puyallup River, Washington

George Tsutukawa, Chimera

 

Let me know if anyone is interested in claiming any of these.

 

I have artist files for you to pick up to get started on your research. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, come see me. They are on the edge of my desk, labeled by artist, so you can also pick it up if I’m not here (please leave me a note so I know you have it).

 

We will present our findings to each other at training on Nov 17 or Nov 22. Please also submit a page of notes so we can have something to refer to in the future.

 

Thanks

Tara

 

 

Tara Young

Associate Curator of Education

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, WA 98402

253.272.4258 x 3016

 

 

more follow up

At last week’s training, some of you said you wanted to learn more about the symbolism in the Hudson River School paintings. Rock recommends Barbara Novak’s Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting.

 

I also mentioned that Patricia had a couple of recommendations for reading about the overarching theme of A Sense of Place. These are the texts that she used as inspiration when she was developing the exhibition:

 

Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space, 1964

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time, 1994

Tuan, Yi-Fu, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, 1977

 

 

Tara Young

Associate Curator of Education

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, WA 98402

253.272.4258 x 3016

 

 

follow up

Hi All,

To follow up on Biz’s question at training about the Barbizon school, I wanted to send along this definition of that movement from the Getty Institute’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus.

 

Barbizon School (<modern European fine arts styles and movements>, <modern European styles and movements>, ... Styles and Periods)
Note: An informal group of painters that was centered in the village of Barbizon around the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau. Influenced by John Constable and 17th century Dutch landscape painters, the Barbizon painters were concerned with depicting naturalistic settings and the dignity of peasant life. Theodore Rousseau, the unofficial leader of the School, moved to the Fontainebleau region in 1841 and began acquiring disciples, such as Jean-Francois Millet, who would later become the most renown member of the Barbizon School, and whose work had more overt socialist overtones. Because of their non-traditional approach to subject matter, it took until the 1850's for the individual members of the School to become critically accepted. Rousseau, in fact, had been rejected by the Salons so often he garnered the nickname 'le grande refuse'. After several decades of success, the movement lost popularity with Millet's death in 1875. Though often seen as a transitional movement between classical landscape painting and Impressionism, the Barbizon School's importance lies with their plein-air landscape technique and humble, unpretentious subject matter.

 

 

Tara Young

Associate Curator of Education

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, WA 98402

253.272.4258 x 3016

 

 

Info on Daniel Wadsworth

Hello Fellow Docents,

Richard and I sent similar questions to the Wadsworth museum email and
the Wadsworth Librarian (John Teahan) over there emailed us
information about Daniel Wadsworth.

Hope this helps.
Sanjeev

***

Dear Sanjeev Narang

The catalogue to our Hudson River School exhibition has a very good
essay describing the importance of Daniel Wadsworth in the formation
of this collection.
I hope you and other docents have access to copies of this catalogue
since it would be extremely useful for anyone leading tours of the
exhibition.

In brief,
Daniel Wadsworth(born 1771- died 1848) was a philanthropist, a patron
of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, and an amateur artist and
architect. He inherited his money from his father Jeremiah who was
George Washington's Commissary General during the American Revolution.

In the early 1840s Daniel devised a plan to create an art gallery for
the city of Hartford. This plan was then expanded to include the
Connecticut Historical Society and the public library and the
resulting institution became an "atheneum" in the true 19th century
sense of the word.

The historical society and the public library moved into their own
quarters in the 1950s and the Wadsworth Atheneum of today is
exclusively devoted to display of fine and decorative arts.

I estimate there are approximately 100 paintings of the Hudson River
School in the Atheneum.

Sincerely,
John Teahan

***

Dear Richard,

Daniel Wadsworth inherited his wealth from his father, Jeremiah.

Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804) was George Washington's Commissary-General
during a portion of the American Revolution.

He also performed that function for the French troops in America during the war.

He was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1787.

After the revolution he was involved in banking, insurance and land
speculation. He was one of the richest men in Connecticut at the time
of his death.

Daniel 'dabbled' in business briefly, but after his father's death he
basically spent his life as a philanthropist and patron of the arts.

We are happy to hear that you are enjoying the Atheneum's collection.

John Teahan,
Atheneum Librarian

one more time....

Dear Docents,

 

Please excuse my multiple requests, but I wanted to send this out one more time to see if I can find anyone to take these tours. They should both be fun groups to work with. I appreciate your considering this!

 

Friday, October 15, 5:45-7:00. We have a rental for a dinner event this Friday, and the group has requested a tour of the building. This is a great way for us to introduce our exhibitions to people who may not have visited us before.

 

Friday, October 22, 2:00: Tour with the Boise Art Museum docents. This should be a fun opportunity to work with a group of fellow docents.

 

Thanks.

Tara

 

Tara Young

Associate Curator of Education

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, WA 98402

253.272.4258 x 3016

 

 

October 22

Hi docents!
I am unable to cover my October 22 shift from
12:30-4:30. It's a Friday afternoon, and they have
been busy and fun lately (with a few scheduled private
tours too!). I have a work conflict and have to be in
a meeting all day.
Thank you in advance for considering!
Holly



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