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98 Art Documentation, Fall, 1984

NEWS FROM THE CHAPTERS

ARLIS/Arizona Five members of the ARLIS/Arizona Chapter visited the

historic mining town of Jerome, Arizona, located between Flagstaff and Prescott. A walking tour was conducted by Nancy Smith, Assistant Curator, Jerome Historical Society. Jerome had the start of its modern development in 1876 with the filing of the first mineral (copper, gold, silver) claims. The town boomed to a one-time population of 15,000 people. Changing technology, smelting inefficiency, and the Depression finally forced the closure of such fam ous mines as the Little Daisy and the Phelps Dodge's United Verde complex in 1953. A mass exodus took place, but a few hardy souls lived on to form the Jerome Historical Society. In 1967, Jerome was designated a National Historic Land

mark. The Historical Society now rents many of the aban doned houses and buildings to people who are willing to renovate them. There are also a variety of art galleries and gift shops to visit. As a result, Jerome has become a grow ing mountain-side community, comprised mainly of artists.

ARLIS/Kentucky-Tennessee Following breakfast on Saturday morning, we began our

ninth annual meeting by touring the much acclaimed Art & Architecture Building at the University of Tennessee. It was designed by the firm of McCarty Bullock & Holsaple (see Architectural Record 170:, pp. 108-13 [June 1982]). A tour of the building was given by the Chapter's newest member, Sandy Walker, Slide Librarian for the UT Department of Art.

From UT we went to the Customs House, which houses the McClung Historical Collection, a department of the Knoxville-Knox County (Lawson-McGhee) Library. Dr. Wil liam MacArthur gave us a tour of the building which has served a variety of purposes from post office to federal building to office building and now, in part, library. The Customs House is still in the process of renovation and re storation of which the end product will result in the building serving as historical museum and exhibition center.

It was in the former court chamber that we held our an nual business meeting. We discussed possible projects which we could cooperatively work on and finally decided to follow through with the establishment of a collection of

bibliographic instruction brochures/handouts on art and re lated topics. Stephen Patrick agreed to house the materials

and to serve as a clearinghouse for these items. It was de cided that a notice would be placed in ARL/S/Update con cerning the project and to ask for the support of all ARLIS members in gathering these items which we will share with the membership. The election of a new Secretary/Treasurer took place and Stephen Allan Patrick was selected to serve for 1984-86. Jack Robertson will continue to serve as Chairman until next year. We decided to investigate having a joint meeting with the Ohio Chapter in Cincinnati next Spring. The meeting was adjourned.

Following lunch at the Hilton, we met William (Sandy) McNabb, our tour leader for the afternoon walking tour of historic downtown Knoxville. Mr. McNabb is a freelance writer and a board member of Knoxville Heritage, Inc., cur rently working on a book of historic architecture in Knox ville. Important sites we observed were: Tennessee School for the Deaf/Knoxville City Hall now TVA Office Building, YMCA Building, Customs House/Old Post Office, New Post Office/Federal Building, Knox County Courthouse, and the Blount Mansion.

ARLIS/New England In spite of a snowstorm two days before, a group of about

fifteen people met in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, March 31st, for a most interesting and well-planned day. We met at the Portland School of Art Library in the Baxter Building for buffet lunch. This was followed by a slide lecture by Brooks

Stoddard on Portland architecture and a slide lecture by Connie Hayes on the Portland School of Art Program. We viewed two current exhibitions there: "Four Other Schools" (on the student work from RISD, Swain, Massachusetts Col lege of Art, and the Boston Museum School) and photo graphs by Carl Chiarenza. We then toured the Portland Museum of Art. This was an

opportunity to see and experience the heavily publicized new museum building by I.M.Pei. Here we had a short gal lery talk by Peggy Burchenal, Director of Education, to orient use to the museum buildings and collections. We then went out to the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of

Art on the campus of Westbrook College. Judith Sobel, Di rector of the Gallery, received us with warm hospitality and refreshments. She then gave a gallery talk on the collection and the building. The gallery houses a small but truly fine collection, including works by Courbet, Degas, Gauguin, Sargent and Van Gogh. The building is often referred to as a "jewel" and was designed by Thomas A. Larsen of The Architects Collaborative.

A joint meeting of the New England and Western New York Chapters was held on Saturday, May 5, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. The meeting was hosted by RILA. A short business meeting was held to discuss elections of new officers and the status of the by-laws revision vote. The new by-laws failed to pass due to a lack of six votes (short of the 2/3 vote required).

ARLIS/New York On May 23, ARLIS/New York met at the Hunter College

Art Gallery. The exhibition, "Endgame: Strategies of Post modernist Performance," was on view; the gallery curator, Maurice Berger, presented a lecture on the exhibition.

The 11th Annual Exhibition Publications Awards cere mony followed. Sonja Bay, Dorothy Franco, Cornelia Cor son and Paula Frosch served on the Awards Committee, and jointly decided on the selection of winners in the various categories of exhibition publicity material, i.e., catalogs, posters and gallery announcements. The awards were pre sented as follows: Wave Hill Center for Environmental Studies for its 1983

exhibition catalog, "Portrait of an Era in Landscape Archi tecture: the Photographs of Mattie Edwards Hewitt," as an example of matching design with the spirit of the work of the artist.

Leo Castelli Gallery for its poster, "James Rosenquist," as a witty and striking example of exhibition publicity.

Studio Museum Harlem for its 1983 exhibition catalog, "The Sound I Saw: the Jazz Photographs of Roy De Carava," for a well designed format expressive of the work of a fine photographer. Franklin Furnace Archive for its 1983 exhibition catalog, "Cubist Prints/Cubist Books," for fine graphic design and meticulous scholarship.

Wildenstein Gallery for its 1983 exhibition catalog, "La Revue Blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism," for combining scholarship with great visual appeal. Heller Gallery for publicity material of consistent high

quality. After the ceremony, a tour of Hunter College's Wexler

Library was conducted.

ARLIS/Northern California The Spring meeting for the Northern California chapter of

ARLIS was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Twenty-five members including a large number of visual resource curators attended this session on automation. The

meeting began with a tour of McHenry Library and a visit to their slide collection. A business meeting was conducted in mid-morning. Ballots for the 1984-85 election of new offi cers were distributed. Ann Gilbert of U.C. Berkeley will be the new incoming chair. Members who had attended the

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Cleveland conference spoke about the sessions they ob served, and future plans for the chapter were discussed.

The first talk was presented by Alan Ritch, Coordinator of Library Instruction at U.C. Santa Cruz. He demonstrated

several art and architecture searches on MELVYL, the Uni versity of California's on-line union catalog, and explained MELVYL's history and future possibilities. The members then broke for a picnic lunch on the campus grounds which overlooked the Monterey Bay.

The afternoon sessions began with Barbara Woolsey of California State University, Chico, presenting a talk on the reference applications of CLSI, known primarily as an on line circulation control system. Darlene Tong, of San Fran cisco State University, spoke next on using a personal computer for indexing a project on artists' periodicals which she is preparing for publication by La Mamelle. Stanford University's on-line catalog SOCRATES was explained by Donna Ridley-Smith, Reference Librarian and Humanities Bibliographer. She brought several print-out searches for display and discussed some of the reference possibilities she has found in using an on-line system.

The final session for the day was given in the U.C. Santa Cruz slide collection where members were given a demon stration of their on-line slide catalog and shown several examples of recent searches that had been produced from their data files.

ARLIS/Ohio The Spring ARLIS/Ohio chapter meeting was a stepping

stone. Because the ARLIS/Allegheny chapter was recently dissolved by ARLIS/NA, this was the first meeting that its former members attended as regular members of our chap ter. The highly successful meeting was organized by Anne Gordon, Chairperson-elect of ARLIS/Ohio.

The Frick Library at the University of Pittsburgh was the first of many stops for the day. A segment of time was also allotted for the members to visit the Carnegie Institute which includes the Museum of Art, Museum of Natural His tory, and Carnegie Public Library.

At the business meeting luncheon, Anne Gordon reported on correspondence received from Shirlee Studt, our Mid west Regional Representative, asking all chapters to partici pate in creating a regional union list of the major micorform sets listed in the December issue of Art Doc. Ms. Studt also thanked the Ohio chapter for its efforts in the success of the ARLIS/NA Conference held in Cleveland. Correspondence from Elizabeth Byrne, editor of our newsletter COLLAGE, reminded our members that she agreed to be editor and not

writer. The Chapter needs articles; she suggested articles on the Cleveland Museum of Art move to its new quarters and the new color xerox machine and its public use at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

The Secretary/Treasurer, Dian Disantis, reported a treas

ury balance of $367.89. It was also reported that the Chapter had made a gift to Jack Brown for acting as Chair for the Cleveland conference. Dues reminders will be sent to members.

After the business meeting, we proceeded to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon

University, and a visit to its bindery and conservation work shop, to the gallery of botanical art, and to its library. Jean Gunner, the Institute's bookbinder, provided us with useful information on conservation techniques. Before a tour of the Hunt Botanical Library, we visited the

gallery and were addressed by James J. White, the curator of botanical prints. Mr. White briefly escorted us through an exhibition entitled "Still Lifes and Nature Studies from the George J. McDonald Collection."

Our last visit was to the botanical library where Bernadett Callery spoke. The Institute's collection of botanical and hor ticultural literature focuses on works published prior to 1850, with particular emphasis on incunabula and herb?is. There are about 25,000 works in the collection. One library is opened to the public. There is inter-library loan, but it is not on OCLC. The classification is by subject.

ARLIS/Southern California On Friday, April 27 approximately 25 ARLIS/SC mem

bers met at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles' exciting new museum.

Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Assistant Curator, took members through the current installation from the "In Context" Series: commissioned works from artists Michael Heizer, Maria Nordman, Michael Asher, Bruce Schwartz, and Robert Thierrien.

Members were intrigued by the non-traditional museum structure and the space (the building was formerly a warehouse for housing Los Angeles City police squad cars). The grandeur of space and scale coincide with some of the "monumental" works of the commissioned artists such as Heizer's piece, 45?, 90?, 180 /Geometric Extraction, geomet ric forms twenty-one feet high composed of corrugated board with simulated surface of rock grain. This is installed in the central space of Temporary Contemporary. On Friday, May 18, twenty-two ARLIS/SC members at

tended the joint Southern and Northern California Annual Chapter Business Meeting held at the San Diego Museum of Art Library. Our hostess was Nancy J. Andrews, Librarian of the San Diego Museum of Art Library. The library tour was the first event. The pride and joy of the Art Library is the exhibition catalog collection of 60,000 available for resear chers. The amazing quality of the library is attributed to the dedicated twenty volunteers and the one and only full-time professional librarian which make up the library staff.

The Annual Business Meeting was introduced by retiring Chair Carl Baker of the Los Angeles County Museum Li brary, and reports were read by the retiring Secretary/ Treasurer and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. The new 1984 officers were introduced by the new Chair, James Bower of the Getty Center: new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Ms. Helene Kosher of the University of California Riverside Slide & Pho tograph Collection; new Secretary/Treasurer, Ms. Nancy Strowbridge of the Los Angeles County Museum Slide Li brary. Chair of the Los Angeles 1985 Conference, Joan Ben edetti, took the floor and reported the present status of the conference program. Volunteers were asked to sign up at this time for Hospitality, Exhibition, and Registration desks. The meeting adjourned and members were able to take ad vantage of the many art galleries and museums in the Park: Museum of Photographic Arts featuring a Muybridge Mo tion Studies Exhibit and an Olympics photography show, the San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, the Space Museums, and the Timkin Art Gallery. Members had a private tour of the Timkin Art Gallery with researcher and docent Gay Ney.

ARLIS/Western New York The spring meeting, a joint meeting with ARLIS/New

England, was held on May 5th at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. Members from both chapters convened in the Library at 11:30 a.m., at which time the chapters parted for their respective business meet ings. Following these, the group met in the auditorium for a series of presentations on the Getty Trust. Wolfgang Freitag discussed the background, recent developments, and prog rams of the Getty Trust, and as example programs, the Art and Architecture Thesaurus and RILA were addressed by Toni Petersen and Michael Rinehart respectively. After the presentations, members divided up into various tours. Tours included RILA; the Library; Photographs and Slides; Paginations, an exhibition of bookworks; and a gallery talk by David S. Brooke, Director of the Clark Art Institute. That evening members attended an opening reception of The

Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf at the Williams College of Art.

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