Friday, June 23, 2006

recruiting Chihuly Walking Tour docents...

We would like to add more names to the list of official Chihuly Walking Tour guides.

 

Please let me know if you would be interested in leading Chihuly Walking Tours – even if it is only as part of your regular docent shift. Chihuly Walking Tours do involve walking and leaving the building, so please consider whether you feel comfortable with this.

 

We have not yet decided how training of a new group of Chihuly Walking Tour guides will take place, but it is less intensive than regular docent training. The first two training sessions in September 2006 will probably be about Chihuly, and ideally, we would have a training session for Chihuly guides at least once every 6 months in the future.

 

Chihuly Walking Tours are very popular, and the participants are very enthusiastic!

 

 

About Chihuly Walking Tours:

This is a walking tour, and tours begin at the Tacoma Art Museum, move to Union Station, and end on the Chihuly Bridge of Glass. Optional installations that you might also visit are the UW Library chandelier and The Swiss Tavern. Tours usually last between 1 and 2 hours, and the total walking distance is probably less than one mile. Please be prepared to walk in rain or sun.

 

The guides for the Chihuly Walking Tours are trained about glass in general and Chihuly in particular, and usually have a strong personal interest in Dale Chihuly’s glass.

The price is $10 per person ($8 on weekends), including admission to the Tacoma Art Museum, and is paid at the Tacoma Art Museum’s front admissions desk on the day of the tour.

 

Union Station is currently a federal courthouse, and valid ID such as a driver’s license or passport is required to enter. As a federal courthouse, Union Station is closed on weekends. The Chihuly Walking Tour price is $8 per person if Union Station cannot be entered. However, the glass installations can still be seen through the windows and front doors.

 

Chihuly Walking Tours are scheduled on demand, anytime during the Tacoma Art Museum’s open hours.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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REMINDER: docent potluck RSVP

Celebrate the beginning of summer with Tacoma Art Museum docents and staff!

 

END OF THE YEAR DOCENT POTLUCK

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 from 5:30-8:00 PM

at

Heide’s House

3710 N 7th Street, Tacoma, 98406 (near 6th and Union)

 

Please RSVP to Heide at ext. 3018 or hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

(and you are welcome to bring a guest)

 

Want to share your culinary talents? This is your opportunity! If your last name begins with:

A-G Please bring a dessert to share

H-R Please bring a main dish to share

S-Z Please bring a salad, veggies or fruit to share

 

Beverages will be provided by Tacoma Art Museum.

 

 

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

 

Thursday, June 22, 2006

FW: Call for Docents

Just to be clear – we are recruiting Tacoma Art Museum docents, as well as Chihuly Walking Tour docents.

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 


From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: FYI: Call for Docents

 

We are currently recruiting new docents – both regular Tacoma Art Museum docents and Chihuly Walking Tour docents. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass on this information.

 

 

A Call for Museum Tour Guides

Do you like discussing visual art, artists and art making? Become a member of Tacoma Art Museum’s dynamic group of tour guides and educators! A background in art, art history or previous docent experience is helpful but not required. Training is conveniently scheduled on weekdays and evenings. To find out more about becoming a Tacoma Art Museum tour guide, attend one of the following information sessions:

 

Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma WA 98402

®    Wednesday, July 19 at 10:30 am

®    Wednesday, July 19 at 6 pm

®    Wednesday, July 26th at 6 pm

 

To RSVP for one of these information sessions or for more information contact Carri Campbell, Associate Curator of Education at (253) 272-4258 ext 3038 or ccampbell@TacomaArtMuseum.org.

 

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

FYI: Call for Docents

We are currently recruiting new docents – both regular Tacoma Art Museum docents and Chihuly Walking Tour docents. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass on this information.

 

 

A Call for Museum Tour Guides

Do you like discussing visual art, artists and art making? Become a member of Tacoma Art Museum’s dynamic group of tour guides and educators! A background in art, art history or previous docent experience is helpful but not required. Training is conveniently scheduled on weekdays and evenings. To find out more about becoming a Tacoma Art Museum tour guide, attend one of the following information sessions:

 

Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma WA 98402

®    Wednesday, July 19 at 10:30 am

®    Wednesday, July 19 at 6 pm

®    Wednesday, July 26th at 6 pm

 

To RSVP for one of these information sessions or for more information contact Carri Campbell, Associate Curator of Education at (253) 272-4258 ext 3038 or ccampbell@TacomaArtMuseum.org.

 

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

French drawings online

The Essence of Line exhibition also includes an online component:

http://www.frenchdrawings.org/

 

“Search the Collection” is especially interesting – for example, you can see 117 drawings by Antoine-Louis Barye.

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 


From: Carri Campbell
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:44 PM
Subject: French drawings online

 

Essence of Line also includes an online component.

 

http://www.frenchdrawings.org/

 

 

Carri Campbell

Associate Curator of Education

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3038

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

Biography of Walters

Hi everyone:
Turns out that Walters made his money in the liquor trade, not the railroad. Please see this link to a biography on the Walters Art Museum website for more information.

http://www.thewalters.org/html/museum_detail.asp?ID=63

Penny

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Art Record : $135 million for Adele Bloch-Bauer by Klimt


Check out this painting ....

http://www.artdreamguide.com/adg/_arti/_k/_klimt/_opus/511.htm

NYTimes

Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt

A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been
purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate
Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a
painting.

The portrait, of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar
industrialist and the hostess of a prominent Vienna salon, is
considered one of the artist's masterpieces. For years, it was the
focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and a
niece of Mrs. Bloch-Bauer who argued that it was seized along with
four other Klimt paintings by the Nazis during World War II. In
January all five paintings were awarded to the niece, Maria Altmann,
now 90, who lives in Los Angeles, and other family members.

Although confidentiality agreements surrounding the sale forbid Mr.
Lauder to disclose the price, experts familiar with the negotiations,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said he paid $135 million for the
work. In a telephone interview Mr. Lauder did not deny that he had
paid a record amount for the painting, eclipsing the $104.1 million
paid for Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)" in an
auction at Sotheby's in 2004.

"This is our Mona Lisa," said Mr. Lauder, a founder of the
five-year-old Neue Galerie, a tiny museum at Fifth Avenue and 86th
Street devoted entirely to German and Austrian fine and decorative
arts. "It is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition." He said Christie's had
helped him negotiate the purchase.

For most of the last 60 years the portrait has hung in the Austrian
Gallery in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna near "The Kiss," another
gold-flecked Klimt masterpiece of the Art Nouveau era. With its
sinuous lines and intricate details, the painting, "Adele Bloch-Bauer
I," was commissioned by the subject's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer.
Mrs. Bloch-Bauer died of meningitis in 1925 at 43. In her will she
requested that the painting and four others by Klimt that the couple
owned be left to Austria upon her husband's death. But when Germany
annexed Austria in March 1938, Mr. Bloch-Bauer fled, leaving all of
his possessions behind. The Nazi government confiscated his property,
placed three of the paintings in the Austrian Gallery and sold the
rest.

Before Mr. Bloch-Bauer died, in November 1945, having spent the war
years in Switzerland, he revoked all previous wills and drafted a new
one. Since he and Adele had no children, he left his entire estate to
three children of his brother Gustav: Robert, Luise and Maria.

Of the three, only Maria Altmann is still living: she and her husband,
Fritz, fled Austria during the war and settled in Los Angeles in 1942.
She has a niece and two nephews; a cousin of her brother's second wife
also survives.

In a telephone interview on Friday Mrs. Altmann said she had met Mr.
Lauder, a former American ambassador to Austria, some years ago and
that she had visited the Neue Galerie when it first opened in November
2001.

"Mr. Lauder has a great understanding of Austria and a great love for
Klimt," she said, adding that neither she nor her relatives felt it
was practical for any of them to keep the painting, which depicts her
aunt, whom she remembers from her childhood but who died when she was
just 9.

That Mrs. Altmann and her relatives have possession of the painting is
a tale of perseverance and tenacity. After the war the family tried to
regain their stolen possessions, including the paintings, porcelains,
palaces and the sugar company founded by Mr. Bloch-Bauer. Much of the
artwork was divided up among the top Nazis, including Hitler and
Hermann Göring; Reinhardt Hedrick, a Nazi commander, occupied a summer
palace owned by Mr. Bloch-Bauer outside Prague.

The heirs were able to recover some of the works, but the Austrian
authorities ruled that Mrs. Bloch-Bauer's will had essentially
bequeathed the Klimts to Austria. Without access to the original
documents, the family had no case.

By the mid-1980's journalists had begun investigating the restitution
claim, and in 1998 Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist researching
the case for The Boston Globe, was able to find the documents,
including Mrs. Bloch-Bauer's will, which expressed a wish — but did
not require — that the Klimts go to Austria.

In 2000 Mrs. Altmann and the other heirs sued the Austrian government
in the United States. Austria went to court to seek a dismissal of the
suit, and the case wended its way to the United States Supreme Court,
which in June 2004 ruled that Mrs. Altmann could sue Austria in the
United States.

In January an arbitration tribunal in Austria decided in favor of Mrs.
Altmann and her fellow heirs, awarding them the five paintings. In
addition to "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" they include a second portrait of
Adele, from 1911, and three landscapes: "Beechwood" (1903), "Apple
Tree I" (circa 1911) and "Houses in Utterach on Lake Atter" (1916).
After the settlement, Steven Thomas, the lawyer representing the
Bloch-Baur heirs, said he had been approached by museums and
collectors around the world who were interested in buying one or more
of the paintings.

Mrs. Altmann said he had felt especially receptive to Mr. Lauder
because throughout all the years the family was struggling to reclaim
the art, he consistently kept in touch with her, offering to help in
any way he could. "He was incredibly generous and constantly
supportive," she said.

In April Mrs. Altmann and her heirs lent the paintings to the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, where they remain on view through June
30. Then the five works will travel to the Neue Galerie, where "Gustav
Klimt: Five Paintings From the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele
Bloch-Bauer" will be on view from July 13 through Sept. 18.

Mrs. Altmann said that when the gold portrait of her aunt finally
hangs in the Neue Galerie, she will feel that it is finally where it
belongs. The painting, which took Klimt three years to create, shows
her aunt regally posed, with a mysterious gaze, sensuous red lips and
her hands twisted near her face to conceal a deformed finger. He used
gold throughout the richly painted background and in the glistening
fabric of Adele's patterned gown. Art historians and chroniclers of
Vienna society in the early 20th century have suggested that the
artist and Ms. Bloch-Bauer were lovers.

"I never saw her smile," Mrs. Altmann recalled in Friday in the
interview. "She was always very serious and wore flowing white dresses
and carried a gold cigarette holder when it was very unusual for women
to smoke. She would have loved to have been a woman of today, to go to
university and to get involved in government."

Mrs. Bloch-Bauer was known for giving frequent parties and surrounding
herself with many of the great artists, politicians and intellectuals
of the day, among them the composer Richard Strauss. "She didn't have
teas for ladies like my mother," Ms. Altmann said. That wasn't down
her alley."

She said although Adele was very close to Mrs. Altmann's mother,
Therese, she also seemed to resent her at times because Therese had a
house full of healthy children and Adele had endured three tragic
births. (One child died three days after it was born, and two others
died within hours.)

She remembers asking her mother about the rumored love affair between
Klimt and her aunt. "My mother got mad and said, 'How dare you ask
such a thing? It was an intellectual friendship,' " she recalled. "But
I think it was very possible there was a romance."

Of Klimt, who died in 1918, when Ms. Altmann was just a toddler, she
remembers hearing that he often wore a floor-length smock with nothing
underneath.

After Adele died, seven years after Klimt, her husband created a kind
of shrine to her in what had been their bedroom. "The Klimts were
always in the bedroom, but after she died, the bed was removed and
there were always fresh flowers," Mrs. Altmann said.

As for the other four paintings, experts estimate that they are
together worth some $100 million.

The fate of these four has yet to be determined. "I can't decide,"
Mrs. Altmann said. "Maybe after they leave the Neue Galerie, they will
go to Christie's. I very much hope they end up in museums. But for now
I am just happy they have a home at the Neue Galerie. It is very
deserved. I couldn't have wished for a better place."

--
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Sanjeev Narang

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book pic

Dear Docents,
I'd like to recommend a fascinating book that fits perfectly with our Line
exhibit; it's called "The Judgment of Paris," by Ross King (he also wrote
"Brunelleschi's Dome" for those of you interested in architecture) and the
subtitle says it all-The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World
Impressionism. I'm also going to cut and paste in a list of the exhibition
works according to sections-it's a kind of map I made to help me get the
whole scope of the show in my head. It may or may not be helpful. (and I
just found out you can't send attachments to a blog!) Finally, I wish you
all the best and hope to get back to see some of the great upcoming shows.
If you're coming to Bellingham, drop me a line at this email...Barbara

Portraits (on left wall as you enter Street Gallery)
Ingres, The Architect Andr�-Marie Chatillon
G�rome, Profile of Monnier
Manet, Portrait of Henri Vigneau
Delaroche, Study for Louise Vernet on Her Deathbed
Saint-M�min, Portrait of Charles Carroll of Homewood

The Figure
Dehodencq, Two Studies for The Bullfight
Prud�hon, Cupid Testing the Flame of His Torch
Hervier, Sketch Sheet
C�zanne, Sketch after Puget�s Milo of Croton
Lehmann, Studies of Draped Figures
Delacroix, Two Views of a Young Arab & Studies for the Salon du Roi
Bargue, Arab Kneeling in Prayer
G�r�me, Arab Standing in Prayer
(diagonal wall) Ingres, Study for V�nus � Paphos
Couture, Nude with Crossed Arms
Cassatt, Study for Sombre Figure
Degas, Ballet Dancer Standing

Facial Studies
Ribot, Conversation Piece: Three Heads
Lacombe, Studies for Chestnut Gatherers
G�ricault, Three Studies for Heads of Naval Officers
Degas, Head of a Roman Girl
Carri�re, Studies of Heads: Woman and Child
Gavarni, Head of an Old Man
Redon, The Eye
(on right wall) Pils, Artillery Practice
Abdih-Hiddisch, a Minatarre Chief
Bida, Two Albanians
G�r�me, Dutch Cavalier
Messonier, Courtyard of the Artist�s Studio

Discovery of the Natural World (on left wall as you enter main gallery)
Ziem, Venice, Evening; Constantinople
Isabey, Harbor Scene at Night; Fishing Boats
Thiollet, At Le H�vre for the Lottery
Huet, Fishing Boats
Goeneutte, Rotterdam
Millet The Sheepfold, Moonlight
?Boissieu, View of the Lac de Garde

Composition (on right wall as you enter main gallery)
Fleury, Anacreon and Two Lovers
Forestier, The Wrath of Saul
Bergeret, Study for Filippo Lippi Enslaved in Algiers, Painting a Portrait
of His Captor
Bida, Ceremony of Dosseh
(on dividing wall) Fantin-Latour, Homage to Victor Hugo
Chavannes, Study for Hope
Chass�riau, Study for the painting Ariadne Abandoned
Bouguereau, The Flagellation of Christ

The Lighter Side: Caricature, Satire, Illustration
Daumier, The Amateurs; The Omnibus; Grand Staircase of the Palace of
Justice; The Good Friends
Thomas, Clowns in a Street
Guys, The Handsome Team,
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus
Beaumont, Here is the Pleasure, Sirs, Here is the Pleasure
Gavarni, �Goddamn! Madame, Do You Have a Husband?� & Actors

Drawing and Color (on dividing wall)
David, Composition with Three Figures
Millet,The Gleaners
Buhot, Winter Morning at the Old Quai de l�H�tel-Dieu,
Besnard, Crossing the Bridge
(back of title wall) Diaz de la Pe�a. Edge of the Forest
Piette, Figures in a Landscape
Daubigny, Study for the etching La Tonnelle & Tonnelle
L�on Bonvin, Flowering Chrysanthemum
(far wall after Satire) Fleury, Study for Brigands in the Abruzzi Ransoming
Monks
Bastien-Lepage, Piet�
Dor�, Jacob�s Dream
Corot, Saint Sebastian
Tissot, The Confessional
Vernet, Italian Peasants at a Shrine
Seurat, Two Men Walking in a Field
Van Rysselberghe, Evening: The Three S�the Daughters
Th�odore Caruelle d�Aligny, Landscape at Olevano
Lami, Study for a Painting of a Costume Ball Given by the Princess of Sagan
Renoir, The Washerwomen
Labrouste, View of an Etruscan Tomb
Marilhat, Study for Beneath the Archway & Beneath the Archway
Raffet, The Nocturnal Review
Delacroix, Turk Stroking His Horse
Jacquemart, The Washerwoman of Menton
Camino, Arab at the Fountain
Dedreux, Cavaliers
Giacomelli, A Perch of Birds
Gu�rard, 3 Decorative Borders in the Japanese Manner
Barye, Python in a Tree; Large Lion; Bear Attacking an Ox; Tiger Hunt,
Elephant Mounted by Indians
Delacroix, Lion and Snake
(on dividing wall) Rousseau, Landscape with Cottage
Jacquemart, Landscape
d�Aligny, Pastorale

Genre Scenes
Charlet, Old Man Before a Prie-Dieu
Fr�re, Interior with Three Boys Kneeling
Deshayes, Village Gate with Villagers
Vernet, Female Vendor with a Donkey and a Mason Cutting Stone
Bonheur, The Conversation
Decamps, The Washerwoman
Bonvin, Cook with Red Apron; Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery,
Parsley, Bowl, and Cruets
Bonvin, Old Woman with Brass Pot
Soyer, Interior with Old Woman and Boy
Duverger, Mother and Child
Breton, Repose