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Number 47 Fall 2021
NEWSLETTER
2022 Midwest Art History Society Conference
Call for Papers, March 10-12, 2022
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Menil Collection
Head south to Established in 1900, the
Bayou City for Museum of Fine Arts,
the 48th annual Houston holds a growing
conference of encyclopedic collection of
the Midwest Art more than 70,000 objects
History Society! The spanning from antiquities to
conference will be the present. The museum’s
held March 10-12, Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim
2022 in Houston, main campus comprises
Texas, in close a number of important
proximity to world- museum buildings and
class art collections, their collections, including
innovative art the newly opened Nancy
institutions and and Rich Kinder Building
cultural sites, designed by Steven Holl
which will provide a Architects (2020) to house
stimulating setting. 20th and 21st century
Participate in collections. The MFAH is
engaging sessions also home to two house
at one of the most museums, a repertory
impressive art cinema, two libraries, public
institutions in the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Kinder Building, designed by archives, and facilities for
nation, the Museum Steven Holl Architects conservation and storage,
of Fine Arts, Houston Associate Curator, African American as well as the International
(MFAH) on Thursday and Friday, and Afro-Diasporic Art, Modern Center for the Arts of the Americas
March 10 and 11, with special and Contemporary Art at the (ICAA), a leading research institute
sessions and visits to the Menil National Gallery of Art, Washington for 20th-century Latin American and
Collection and other area institutions D.C. Dr. Fletcher will examine the Latino art.
on Saturday, March 12. largest international exhibition effort
(MASPE, São Paulo and MFAH) to Additionally, the MFAH presents
On Thursday evening, members are date to treat the Black Atlantic as significant self-generated
invited to a keynote lecture, “Re- an area of cultural exchange and exhibitions, like the landmark
presenting Afro-Atlantic Histories,” transformation between Africa and 2004 Inverted Utopias: Avant-
presented by Kanitra Fletcher, the Americas. Garde Art in Latin America as
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The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza, Deborah Nevins & Associates, architects, opened in 2018
well as traveling shows like the variety of interpretive programs, Center on the ground floor of the
current exhibition Afro-Atlantic many with a focus on accessibility, Law building. General admission to
Histories on the history of the families and community outreach. MFAH is free on Thursdays.
Black Atlantic. The MFAH houses This programming not only takes
Conference attendees are
its own conservation studios, place in the galleries but also in
encouraged to take advantage
library and archives, and offers a the Kinder Foundation Education
of the beautiful spring weather
to explore the MFAH campus,
Lillie and Hugh Roy Sculpture
Conference Registration: Information on conference registration will be Garden and the beautiful works
found at the conference link at www.MAHSonline.org. Registration for in the Brown Foundation, Inc,
Plaza, which provides views of
the conference will commence December 1. Registration online is highly
downtown Houston. Just across
recommended, but you may also register at the conference, paying by
the street, the Contemporary Arts
check, or by filling out the form available on our website and mailing
Museum, Houston offers visitors
the form and check to the Treasurer’s address there provided. MAHS an opportunity to view exemplary
membership is required to register for and attend the conference. work by living artists. Established in
1948 and housed today in a space
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designed by Gunnar Birkerts in Beyond the Museum District, the
1972, the museum exhibits work nearby Montrose neighborhood
by local and global living artists developed in 1911, offers visitors
and organizes thought-provoking diverse dining and shopping
arts programming to educate and options. In the 1980s, it was the
inspire audiences. center of the gay community and
today is a demographically diverse
In close proximity to the Museum
area with renovated mansions,
District where MFAH is located
bungalows with wide porches,
are spectacular sites of downtown
and cottages located along tree-
architecture and green spaces
lined boulevards. More recently,
interspersed with a vibrant
Montrose has been named one
collections of museum spaces
of the “ten great neighborhoods
including the Asia Society Texas
in America” in 2009. The world
Center, the Buffalo Soldiers
class art collections of Dominique
National Museum, the Czech Kanitra Fletcher, Associate Curator, African
and John de Menil are housed in
Center Museum Houston, American and Afro-Diasporic Art, Modern
the Menil Collection in the heart of
Diverseworks, Holocaust Museum and Contemporary Art at the National
Montrose. The impeccable Renzo Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Houston, Houston Center for
Piano building features matchless MAHS Keynote Speaker, Houston, 2022
Contemporary Craft, Houston
galleries of Surrealist art, as well
Museum of African American
as later modern and contemporary Chapel, a museum building
Culture, Lawndale Art Center, the
art, arts of Africa, Oceania and dedicated to the art of Cy Twombly,
Jung Center, Children’s Museum
Latin America and important and the new Menil Drawing
of Houston, Houston Museum
temporary exhibitions. The Menil Institute with its own display and
of Natural Science, the Houston
campus also contains the Rothko study spaces.
Zoo, and the Health Museum. The
Houston skyline is distinguished
by a host of striking buildings,
varying from the Houston City
Hall, constructed by the Works
Progress Administration following
the Great Depression in the
1930s, to the 1999 postmodern
“Skyscraper of the Century”
Williams Towers designed by Philip
Johnson. Green spaces include the
Discovery Green, an area famous
for its restaurants,food trucks and
freecommunity events varying from
yoga to concerts and arts shows; Teresa Margolles, Lote Bravo, 2005, 400 handmade adobe mud bricks made out of soil
in which the bodies of murdered women were buried, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
and Herman Park, and Herman museum purchase funded by the 2007 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction,
Park, home of the Houston Zoo Mary and Roy Cullen, Sofia Adrogué, P.C. and Sten Gustafson, Celina and Alfredo
and park trails leading to a small Brener, Brad and Leslie Bucher, Eduardo and Eugenia Grüniesen, Bruce and Diane Halle,
lake with pedal boats and a Gonzalo Parodi, and Robert J. Card M.D. and Karol Kreymer in honor of Gilbert Vicario. ©
2005 Teresa Margolles
Japanese Zen Garden.
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Fernand Léger, Study for The Grand Parade (Etude pour La grande parade), 1953–54. Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 × 77 inches
(130.2 × 195.6 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Paul Hester
Menil Collection, Surrealism Galleries, 2018, image by Don Glentzer
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference March 10 – 12, 2022
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Menil Collection
We welcome your participation Drawings and Print Sessions A Material World: Symbolic
in the 2022 Midwest Art History at the Menil Drawing Institute Art Materials in the Works of
Society Annual Conference Edouard Kopp, Cheryl Snay, Contemporary African Artists
held in Houston. Sessions are listed Organizers This panel examines the
below. Conference presentations philosophical, psychological,
Drawings and Prints I:
are expected to be under twenty and sometimes spiritual ways
minutes long. Proposals of no more This session invites new research that many contemporary African
than 250 words and a two-page or perspectives on early modern artists conceptualize their creative
CV should be emailed to the chairs American and European drawings media (different types of wood,
of individual sessions. Deadline for and prints from the fifteenth to the clays, fibers, metals, dyes...). I am
submissions: Friday, December nineteenth century. interested in how various aspects
15, 2021. Chairs are to submit Cheryl Snay, Curator of European of these "living and transformative
finalized panels for their sessions Art, Snite Museum of Art, University substances" (unique physical
by January 10, 2022. of Notre Dame, csnay@nd.edu properties, natural behaviors,
associated myths, historic and
MAHS Drawings and Prints II: contemporary uses, personified
"initiations"...) can influence the
General Sessions This session invites new research
or perspectives on modern and overall meaning of the artists' work.
contemporary American and In what ways does this symbolic
Undergraduate Art History
approach to materials serve as a
Session European drawings and prints.
conceptual bridge between African
Faculty members who have Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr. artists working in the international
received outstanding research Foundation Chief Curator, Menil market and those working in a
papers from undergraduate Drawing Institute, ekopp@menil.org more local, religious-based art
students within the past two market? We will also consider
academic years are invited to Graduate Student/Early the role of more modern and
submit them for inclusion in our Career Workshop: Museum foreign creative materials (colored
eighth annual Undergraduate Work--Skills, Applications, markers, printing paper,...). What
Research Session. These papers Opportunities are we missing by assuming that
should explore specific art historical Rex Koontz, University of Houston these industrial tools are only a
research questions. In all cases, & Christine Bentley, Missouri means to an end and not an active
a faculty member (usually the Southern State University, participant in the artist’s creative
submitter) must serve as a mentor rkoontz@uh.edu & process?
and accompany the undergraduate bentley-c@mssu.edu
student to the annual conference. Jessica Hurd,
Submissions should include the Independent Curator,
Provenance Studies
complete paper – no more than jessicaannehurd@gmail.com
Jon Evans, University of Houston,
2500 words – a 250-word abstract jevans@uh.edu
and the student’s resume. In the Doing University-level
event that the paper is accepted, Ancient Art, Object-Based Learning in the
undergraduate student presenters Bridget Sandhoff, University of
Museum: Results from the
and faculty mentors are expected Nebraska Omaha,
Univ. of Houston-Museum of
to pay membership and conference bsandhoff@unomaha.edu
Fine Arts, Houston Course on
fees. Proposals should be emailed Latin American Art
as Word documents to the chairs. This is an invited panel.
Caroline Goeser, Museum of Fine
Paula Wisotzki, Loyola University, Arts Houston, cgoeser@mfah.org
pwisots@luc.edu
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Textiles/Fashion Between the Local and
Erica Warren, The Art Institute of Global: Art of the Americas
Chicago, ewarren2@artic.edu Cristina Gonzalez, Oklahoma
State University, cristina.gonzalez@
Global Middle Ages okstate.edu
Maggie Crosland,
Washington University+ Asian Art
Saint Louis Art Museum, Jennifer Lee, School of the Art
maggie.crosland@slam.org Institute of Chicago,
jlee241@saic.edu
Modernism and Migration
in Latin American Art: Global Contemporary Art
Transnational Ties and Sandra Zalman and Rachel
Transcultural Identity Middelman, University of Houston,
Olivia Wolf, Loyola University, szalman@uh.edu
owolf2@luc.edu
Modern Art
Decolonizing Art History Scott Sherer,
Lauren DeLand, Savannah College The University of Texas at San
of Art and Design, Antonio, scott.sherer@utsa.edu
delan104@umn.edu
Photography
Art History Pedagogy John-Michael Warner,
Beth Merfish and Sarah Costello, Kent State University, & Megan
University of Houston-Clear Lake, Jackson-Fox, Center for Creative
merfish@uhcl.edu Photography, The University of
Arizona,
Socially Engaged Art History
jwarne26@kent.edu,
Round Table
megrj26@email.arizona.edu
Cindy Persinger, California
University of Pennsylvania, & Early Modern Art
Azar Rejaie, University of Houston (15th-18th Centuries)
Downtown, persinger@calu.edu, Elizabeth Carroll, San Jose State Seated Male Funerary Figure, 300 BCE–
rejaiea@uhd.edu University,
300 CE. Classic Period; Mexico, Nayarit,
possibly San Sebastián region. Ceramic
New Research on Midwestern elizabeth.carroll@sjsu.edu and paint, 26 3/8 × 10 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches
Art and Artists (67 × 26.7 × 25.1 cm). The Menil Collection,
Recent Acquisitions in the Houston. Photo: Tom DuBrock
Rebecca Brienen, Oklahoma State Midwest
University, Cheryl Snay, Snite Museum of Art,
rebecca.brienen@okstate.edu University of Notre Dame,
African Art and Art of the csnay@nd.edu
African Diaspora Technical Art History
Felicia Mings, Curator, Art Gallery Amy Morris, University of Nebraska
of York University (AGYU) at Omaha, ammorris@unomaha.edu
mings@yorku.ca
Contemporary Art: Open
Art of the Indigenous Session
Americas: Ancient and
Edit Toth, The University of Texas at
Modern San Antonio, edit.toth@utsa.edu
Rex Koontz,
University of Houston,
rkoontz@uh.edu
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Spanish, Processional Cross, c. 1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase
funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund. 2018.135
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Wifredo Lam, Cuba, Arpas cardinales, 1948-1957. Menil Collection, 1969-15 DJ
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Louise Nevelson, Column from Dawn's Wedding Feast, 1959. Painted wood, 94 1/8 × 18 × 18 inches (239.1
× 45.7 × 45.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston. © Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York. Photo: Paul Hester
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Orazio Gentileschi (1565-1647), Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, c.1620 (oil on canvas), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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