The Glassell School of Art

160 Pages·2007·11.67 MB·English

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Cover: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Mary Cassatt The Expiring Eagle of Waterloo,c. 1902
Under the Horse-Chestnut Tree,1896–97 Gilt bronze mounted on worked granite
Drypoint and aquatint in colors Museum purchase with funds provided by
Gift of TheBrown Foundation, Inc. “OneGreat Night in November, 2005”
2005.974 2005.1066
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
is dedicated to excellence in collecting,
exhibiting, preserving, conserving,
and interpreting art for all people.
Leon Polk Smith
Open Composition, 1946
Oil on canvas
Bequest of Edward B. Mayo
2006.146
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µ˙ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006
Juan Gris
The White Tablecloth (La Nappe blanche),
1912–16
Oil on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided
by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions
Endowment Fund
2006.389
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Attendance July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006 Total Visits 4,294,315
Museum of Art 1,117,477
The Caroline Wiess Law Building provides an ideal space to exhibit the museum’s collection of
twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks, as well as installations of Oceanic art, Asian art,
Indonesian gold artifacts, and Pre-Columbian and sub-Saharan African artworks. Of special interest
is the Glassell Collection of African Gold, the greatest assemblage of gold objects in the world.
The Audrey Jones Beck Building features selections from the museum’s collection of prints,
drawings, photographs, and American art, as well as a sculpture court and extensive galleries designated
for exhibitions on its first floor. Antiquities and European art are presented in twenty-eight classically
designed galleries on the second floor. A tunnel featuring James Turrell’s art installation The Light
Inside joins the Beck and Law Buildings at the lower level.
Sculpture Garden 215,031
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden houses more than twenty masterworks by
some of the most acclaimed artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the MFAH
and other major collections. Created by sculptor Isamu Noguchi, the Cullen Sculpture Garden also
unites the pathways between the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Glassell School of Art.
Bayou Bend (House 40,447; Gardens 19,494) 59,941
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the former home of philanthropist Ima Hogg,opened to the
public in 1966. Miss Hogg donated her house and her acclaimed collection of American decorative
arts to the MFAH, and the collection now contains several thousand objects installed in twenty-eight
period room settings that showcase American decorative arts from 1620 through 1876.
Top to bottom:
The Caroline Wiess Law Building, designed in 1924 by architect William Ward Watkin,
and later expanded upon by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with the addition of
Cullinan Hall in 1958 and Brown Pavilion in 1974.
The Audrey Jones Beck Building, designed by architect Rafael Moneo and opened in 2000.
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, created by sculptor Isamu Noguchi
and opened in 1986.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, designed by architect John F. Staub and constructed
in 1928.
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Rienzi 18,266
Rienziis the center for European decorative arts at the MFAH. Comprising a remarkable art collection,
a house, and gardens, Rienzi was given to the museum by arts patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson
and Harris Masterson III and opened to the public in 1999.
Glassell School (Junior School 51,056; Studio School 45,024) 96,080
The Glassell School of Art serves as the teaching wing of the MFAH, with a variety of classes, work-
shops, and educational opportunities for students diverse in age, interests, experience, and needs. The
school offers classes at the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School, as well as Community
Outreach Programs, special programs for youths, and the Core Artist-in-Residence Program.
Off-site 737,141
Off-site Exhibitions and Programs enable the MFAH to reach out into the community, bringing
a variety of art-based experiences to diverse audiences in the Houston metropolitan area.
Web Site 2,050,379
The Web Site,www.mfah.org, provides access to the museum through the Internet, with information
provided in both English and Spanish. The MFAH’s Web site is a convenient on-line portal to the
museum’s buildings, exhibitions, collections, programs, and services.
Top to bottom:
Rienzi, designed by architect John F. Staub and constructed in 1952.
The Glassell School (illustrated) was designed by S. I. Morris Associates and opened in 1976. The
Junior School Building was designed by Carlos Jimenez Architectural Studio and opened in 1994.
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Dan, Ivory Coast/Liberia
Female Mask, early 20th century
Wood
Gift of Isabel B. and Wallace S.Wilson
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Contents
Museum of Art 8 Board of Trustees
9 Officers and Committee Chairmen
10 Report of the Director and the Chairman
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
12 Highlights of Accessions
38 Exhibitions
44 Accessions
Paintings, 44
Sculpture, 46
Drawings, 46
Prints, 49
Photography, 52
Film and Video, 74
Antiquities, 74
African Art, 74
Pre-Columbian Art, 74
Latin American Art, 74
Asian Art, 75
Decorative Arts, 76
Bayou Bend, 89
Rienzi, 91
100 Education Department
106 Conservation Department
108 Film Department
109 Publications Department
110 Museum Collectors
111 African American Art Advisory Association
112 Photo Forum
112 Design Council
113 The Garden Club of Houston
114 International Center for the Arts of the Americas
Sarah Campbell Blaffer 116 Report of the Director
Foundation of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Bayou BendCollection 117 Report of the Director of Bayou Bend
and Gardens 121 River Oaks Garden Club
Rienzi 122 Report of the Director of Rienzi
The Glassell School of Art 124 Report of the Director of the Glassell School of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, 128 Development Department
Houston 141 Independent Auditors’ Report
143 Financial Statements
152 Staff
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Board of Trustees
Life Trustees Mrs. James L. Ketelsen In Memoriam, S. I. Morris tions were serving as president of
Miss Carla Knobloch the Board twice (1960–62, 1967–68)
Mr. Isaac Arnold, Jr. Ms. Martha Katherine Long and chairing the capital campaign
Mrs. Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis for building the Brown Pavilion in
Mr. Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Mr. William N. Mathis the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Mr. Frank J. Hevrdejs Ms. Sara Scholes Morgan (1970–71). He also served on many
Dr. Marjorie G. Horning Mr. Charles J. O’Connell Trustee committees.
Mrs. Joseph D. Jamail Mrs. David A. Ott
Mrs. William S. Kilroy Mrs. George A. Peterkin Morris was a founding member
Mr. Richard D. Kinder Mrs. Karen Pulaski of the museum’s Photography
Mrs. Meredith J. Long Mrs. Harry M. Reasoner Accessions Subcommittee. He
Mrs. Thomas R. Reckling III Mr. H. John Riley, Jr. also established the SI Morris
Mrs. Wesley West Mr. Thomas Allen Roupe Photography Endowment, which
Mrs. Wallace S. Wilson Mrs. Courtney Lanier Sarofim has enabled the museum to acquire
Mr. Richard W. Wortham III Mrs. Richard P. Schissler ninety-two important works by
Mr. Milton L. Scott artists such as Robert Adams,
Elected Trustees Ms. Alice C. Simkins Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Richard
Mr. Matthew R. Simmons The prominent Houston architect Misrach, Irving Penn, and W.
Mrs. Nancy O’Connor Mr. Gerald B. Smith Seth Irwin “SI” Morris (1914–2006) Eugene Smith. Morris and his
Abendshein Mrs. Stuart West Stedman was born in Madisonville, Texas, wife, Susie, also provided funds to
Mr. Mark W. Albers Mrs. Charles W. Tate and moved to Houston when he help the museum acquire an addi-
Mrs. Joan G. Alexander Mrs. Ann Trammell was two years old. He graduated as tional sixty-four photographs,
Mrs. Robert H. Allen Mrs. Willie Trotty an architect from the Rice Institute including an important collection
Mrs. Prabha Bala Mrs. W. Temple Webber, Jr. in 1935, and three years later he of photographs by teachers and
Mr. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Mrs. Margaret Alkek Williams founded his own firm with Talbott students at the renowned Bauhaus
Mrs. John F. Bookout III Mr. William A. Wise Wilson. Morris continued practic- school of architecture and design
Mrs. Celina Hellmund Brener Mrs. Melvyn L. Wolff ing architecture in Houston under in Germany.
Mr. Charles Butt Mrs. Nina Zilkha various successor firms until his
Mr. Paul W. Carlisle, Jr. retirement in 1984. These firms Morris was known as a man who
Mrs. Bobby Smith Cohn Honorary Trustees designed residential, educational, made things happen. When he
Mr. Peter R. Coneway and commercial buildings that received a long-distance call from
Mrs. Franci Crane Mr. Raphael Bernstein have changed the face of Houston Europe, asking him to help raise
Mrs. Harry H. Cullen Dr. Renato Bertani and have won many awards for funds to acquire the Bauhaus
Mrs. Roy H. Cullen Mr. Philip J. Carroll architectural distinction. Morris’s photography collection for the
Ms. Roxanne Decyk Mrs. Linnet F. Deily most well-known project is the museum, he responded in his typ-
Mrs. Sara Paschall Dodd- Mrs. Diane M. Halle Astrodome (1965). Other projects ically terse fashion, “I’ll either give
Spickelmier Dr. George S. Heyer, Jr. include the Houston Country Club it or get it.” He made decisions
Mrs. John H. Duncan, Sr. Mr. A. Clark Johnson (1956), First City National Bank quickly and urged others to get to
Mrs. Sheldon R. Erikson Mr. Thomas V. McMahan (1960), the Houston Public Library the point, leading to his legendary
Mr. Tilman J. Fertitta Mr. Robert C. McNair downtown (1975), and the reputation for conducting short
Mrs. Linda K. Finger Mr. S. I. Morris* Prudential Insurance Company meetings. His skills as a problem
Mrs. Cherie Flores Mr. Randell C. Thomas Building (1977). His firm also solver and as a person who pre-
Mr. Alfred C. Glassell III designed the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. ferred looking at what might be
Mr. John B. Goodman Ex-Officio Trustees School of Art for the MFAH in rather than accepting the status
Mr. Samuel F. Gorman 1976. Morris and his numerous quo made him a facilitator of many
Ms. Licia A. Green-Ellis Mrs. W. Tucker Blaine, Jr. partners trained two generations of civic and charitable projects and
Mrs. Windi Grimes Ms. Jacqueline Baly Chaumette successful architects, and there is organizations in Houston.
Mr. Anthony W. Hall, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia S. Cook not a prominent firm in Houston
Mr. William C. Helms Mrs. D. Michael Dalton today that does not employ some- Morris left an indelible mark on the
Ms. Cecily E. Horton Mr. Mark Goldberg one who once worked for Morris. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and
Mr. Edward Joseph Hudson Ms. William E. Penland, Jr. he will be sorely missed.
Mrs. Ira J. Jackson Mrs. William H. White Morris was first elected to the Board
Mrs. Nancy Glanville Jewell of Trustees of the Museum of Fine
Mrs. Richard J.V. Johnson *Deceased August 2006 Arts, Houston, in 1957, and he
Mrs. Dennis N. Johnston served the institution in numerous
Mr. Lenoir Moody Josey, II capacities for the next five decades.
Ms. Carolyn Frost Keenan Among his most notable contribu-
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