2019–20 Annual Report: Collections

Chapter four

Jul 06, 2020

Acquisitions

See appendix 4a.

José Clemente Orozco, "Study for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl" (Panel 7) for "The Epic of American Civilization", about 1930–34, gouache on paper; W.988.52.81

ABOVE José Clemente Orozco, "Study for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl" (Panel 7) for "The Epic of American Civilization", about 1930–34, gouache on paper; W.988.52.81

Loans Currently Out

Natural Forces: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, June 26–September 7, 2020; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, September 25–November 29, 2020; Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December 19, 2020–February 28, 2021.

P.909.2
Frederic Remington
Shotgun Hospitality
Oil on canvas

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, February 14–March 14, 2020, reopening at Whitney approximately August 1, 2020–January 31, 2021.

W.988.52.171
José Clemente Orozco
Study for Gods of the Modern World (Panel 15) for The Epic of American Civilization
Gouache on paper

W.988.52.8
José Clemente Orozco
Study for Migration (Panel 1) for The Epic of American Civilization
Gouache on paper

W.988.52.81
José Clemente Orozco
Study for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7) for The Epic of American Civilization
Gouache on paper

W.988.52.23
José Clemente Orozco
Study for Ancient Human Sacrifice (Panel 3) for The Epic of American Civilization
Gouache, watercolor on paper

2006.93
Jackson Pollock
Untitled (Bald Woman with Skeleton)
Oil on smooth side of Masonite attached to stretcher

Lakota (Teton Sioux) | Plains | Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), Untitled (Crazy Horse Fighting the Apsaalooke [Crow]), page number 37 from a Short Bull notebook, graphite, ink, watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper; 2007.65.65.

ABOVE Lakota (Teton Sioux) | Plains | Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), "Untitled (Crazy Horse Fighting the Apsaalooke [Crow])," page number 37 from a Short Bull notebook, graphite, ink, watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper; 2007.65.65.

Loans Returned

From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space, Palmer Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, February 5–May 12, 2019;  the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, June 16–September 15, 2019.

P.946.12.2
John Sloan
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
Tempera underpaint with oil‑varnish glaze and wax finish on composition board

Something over Something Else: Romare Bearden's Profile Series, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 14, 2019–February 2, 2020.

P.986.77.3
Romare Howard Bearden
Mecklenberg County: Round about Sunset
Collage with watercolor and acrylic on Masonite

P.986.77.2
Romare Howard Bearden
Mecklenberg County: High Cotton, Mother and Child
Collage with watercolor and acrylic on Masonite

Peripheral Vision(s): Perspectives on the "Indian" Image by 19th-century Northern Plains Warrior-Artists, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 24, 2019–January 4, 2020.

2007.65.92
Plains | Northern Plains | Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke) | White Swan
Untitled (A Regiment Bugler)
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper

2007.65.93
Plains | Northern Plains | Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke) | White Swan
Untitled (White Swan Riding through Gunfire)
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper

2007.65.94
Plains | Northern Plains | Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke) | White Swan
Untitled (A US Cavalry Officer)
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper

2007.65.62
Lakota (Teton Sioux) | Plains | Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela)
Untitled ("Short Bull" and "Eagle Bear" Fleeing Gunfire from Apsaalooke [Crow] Scouts and US Soldiers), page number III from a Short Bull notebook
Ink and watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper

2007.65.47
Plains | Northern Plains | Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke) | White Swan
Untitled (White Swan in Battle with an Apsaalooke [Crow] Warrior)]
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper

2007.65.65
Lakota (Teton Sioux) | Plains | Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela)
Untitled (Crazy Horse Fighting the Apsaalooke [Crow]), page number 37 from a Short Bull notebook
Graphite, ink, watercolor on wove blue lined notebook paper

2007.65.95
Plains | Northern Plains | Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke) | White Swan
Untitled (White Swan Counting Coup on a Warrior, Possibly Lakota)
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper

A Life of Consecrated Labor: Eldress Rosetta Cummings, 1841–1925, Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire, April 26–December 15, 2019.

48.40.16995
Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire)
"Mozambique" Shaker dress and capelet 
Worn by Deaconess Rosetta Cummings, Enfield Shaker Village
Shaker dress and capelet made of striped fabric with off‑white and dark tan stripes

Sterling Ruby, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, November 7, 2019–February 2, 2020.

2018.37.320
Sterling Ruby
(Mapping) Maybelline (trademark) "Wet Shine Cherry Rain"
Nail polish and pen on paper

2018.37.321
Sterling Ruby
(Mapping) Maybelline (trademark) "Wet Shine Cherry Rain"
Nail polish and Sharpie pen on card

2018.37.322
Sterling Ruby
(Mapping) Maybelline (trademark) "Wet Shine Cherry Rain"
Nail polish and pen on paper

2018.37.323
Sterling Ruby
(Mapping) Maybelline (trademark) "Wet Shine Cherry Rain"
Nail polish and pen on paper

Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture "Thel" (1975–77) being painted after conservation work. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

ABOVE Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture "Thel" (1975–77) prior to conservation and painting. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

Objects Conserved

See appendix 4b.

  • Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture "Thel" (1975–77) after conservation and painting. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

    LEFT Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture Thel (1975–77) after conservation and painting. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

  • Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture "Thel" (1975–77) being painted after conservation work. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

    LEFT Beverly Pepper's site-specific sculpture Thel (1975–77) being painted after conservation work. Photo by Patrick Dunfey.

  • Sean Weeks-Earp from Ursula von Rydingsvard's studio conducts conservation work on von Rydingsvard's sculpture "Wide Babelki Bowl" (2007) before it was installed in front of Rollins Chapel on Dartmouth's Campus. Photo by Brian Wagner.

    LEFT Sean Weeks-Earp from Ursula von Rydingsvard's studio conducts conservation work on von Rydingsvard's sculpture Wide Babelki Bowl (2007) before it was installed in front of Rollins Chapel on Dartmouth's Campus. Photo by Brian Wagner.

  • Wendat (Huron) or Mi'kmaq (Micmac) | Wendat (Huron) | Mi'kmaq (Micmac) | Wabanaki | First Nation | Northeast Woodlands | Woodlands, Card Case, collected about 1851–02, birchbark case, embroidered with dyed moosehair and thread.

    LEFT Wendat (Huron) or Mi’kmaq (Micmac) | Wendat (Huron) | Mi’kmaq (Micmac) | Wabanaki | First Nation | Northeast Woodlands | Woodlands, Card Case, collected about 1851–02, birchbark case, embroidered with dyed moosehair and thread. Gift of Porter and Charles Tremain; 13.85.1211

  • Thomas Hart Benton, "Flood", 1937, lithograph on wove paper. Gift of Gilbert L. Augenblick, Class of 1943, Tuck 1944; PR.998.26.3

    LEFT Thomas Hart Benton, Flood, 1937, lithograph on wove paper. Gift of Gilbert L. Augenblick, Class of 1943, Tuck 1944; PR.998.26.3

  • Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Dolphin Candlestick, about 1860, translucent white and translucent light green lead glass, pressed. Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund; 2007.3.2

    LEFT Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Dolphin Candlestick, about 1860, translucent white and translucent light green lead glass, pressed. Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund; 2007.3.2

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