Collections

The past year was also notable for several works acquired in preparation for the opening hang of the collection, most particularly a collaged painting by David Driskoll and a major painting commission by Julie Mehretu. The museum also received as a gift/purchase a large sculpture of a male figure from the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea from Valerie Franklin, who also donated a significant group of works from the Franklin Family Collection of Melanesian Art that have been on long-term loan. Purchases of two major ceramic works by artists Roxanne Swentzell and Rose Simpson, as well as a large photograph by Will Wilson, a large painting of a Standing Rock protest by Yatika Starr Fields, a remarkable beaded bag by Ken Williams, a painted paddle by Alison Marks, and a "treaty quilt" by Gina Adams have greatly enhanced the collection of contemporary Native American art. Other ceramics acquisitions include gifts of the work of Maria Superior. Students in Museum Collecting 101 acquired a work by South African photographer Zaneli Muholi, and the museum also purchased work by artists-in-residence Gina Adams (noted above) and Judy Glantzman. In the realm of American art, the museum purchased an important charcoal drawing by Joseph Stella of workers' houses in Pittsburgh made soon after the turn of the 20th century and a painting by Enrico Riley, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize recipient who is also a Dartmouth alum and chair of the Studio Art Department.

In the area of photography, the museum received a major gift of a 1925 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz that was selected by members of the 2018 Museum Collecting 101 class, who were given the opportunity to choose a work for the museum from the large and important photography collection of Weezie and Launny Steffens. The museum also purchased a 1931 portfolio of photographs by photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White selected from her forays to the fledging Soviet Union, and we received two large gifts of photographs: the works of New York Photo League members William Witt and Lou Stoumen, as well as of Ken Heyman, from Marina and Andrew Lewin; and works of 19th- and 20th-century photography, as well as vernacular photography, from photographer Jon Gilbert-Fox, who also donated a group of his own photographs, including some of those featured in his book Intimate Vermont. A gift of a portrait of Samuel Beckett by Henri Cartier-Bresson joins a long and illustrious list of previous gifts of works of art by Jane and Raphael Bernstein.

The museum's print collection was greatly enhanced by the gift of Chris Ofili's portfolio Black Shunga from Maud and Jeffrey Welles. The Hood purchased three additional print portfolios, one by contemporary Native American artists titled Lasting Impressions and two by the Dominican printmaking collective York Proyecto GRAFICA, including the compendium titled Here + There. In the area of European prints, collection additions included a print of a Mannerist engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller, purchased in honor of retiring Professor of Art History Joy Kenseth, and a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, acquired in honor of art history Senior Lecturer Jane Carroll.

In preparation for the Hood's reopening, staff sent a number of works for conservation, including paintings in the American galleries by Edith Cook, Thomas Doughty, and Thomas Hill, and also arranged for conservators to visit the museum. Also sent for examination was a bronze ewer that had been donated to the collection by Mark Lansburgh. There was no accompanying information on the ewer, save for the supposition that it might be Celtic. While we continue to await a final analysis of a lead isotope from the vessel, an examination of the ewer's metals has led us to believe that it was made in the ancient Roman period in either Spain or Germany. In addition, the Manton Endowment, which provides for the care of works related to the Orozco mural in Baker Library, enabled the museum to send a number of preparatory drawings for treatment and matting. This long-term project for the care of the drawings involves the selection of a group for treatment each year.

During the on-site visits by conservators ahead of the museum's reopening, the Assyrian reliefs were cleaned, as were a number of European bronzes (which were either waxed or dusted) and an Abelam figure of a woman giving birth. Site visits also led to work by conservators on Dartmouth's public sculpture, including the Kiki Smith and Joel Shapiro works, the latter of which was moved to its current site in front of the Charles Moore south façade of the Hood Museum soon after the reopening.

Another major project in preparation for the reopening involved the return to the Hood Museum of some major collection objects our on loan. These works were lent during the construction phase of the museum and gradually came back at the end of fiscal year 2017–18 and the beginning of fiscal year 2018–19. In the area of loans in general, it was a quiet year, as the museum's own collections were the focus of its first year of reopening. There were several loans, however, that enhanced the museum's presentation, including a contemporary intervention in the Kim Gallery by the artist Morehshin Allahyari, Japanese prints from the collection of Joseph and Judy Barker, a painting by Glenn Ligon that was on long-term loan from Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, and a sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye that was also a long-term loan.

Outgoing Loans

Loans Out

To the exhibition A Life of Consecrated Labor: Eldress Rosetta Cummings, 1841–1925, Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire, April 20–December 15, 2019:

Enfield Shakers (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793–1923
"Mozambique" Shaker dress and capelet worn by Deaconess Rosetta Cummings, Enfield, Shaker Village
Gift of Paul St. Gaudens; 48.40.16995

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

John Sloan, American, 1871–1951
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
About 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951
Tempera underpaint with oil-varnish glaze and wax finish on composition board
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; P.946.12.2

Loans Returned

From the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, long-term loan through July 2018:

Maxfield Parrish, American, 1870–1966
Hunt Farm, Daybreak
1948
Oil on Masonite
Gift of the artist, through the Friends of the Library, P.950.73 

Maria Oakey Dewing, American, 1845–1927
Iris at Dawn (Iris)
1899
Oil on canvas
Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisitions Fund and the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund; P.999.11

Pompeo Batoni, Italian, 1708–1787
William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth (1731–1801)
1752/53–56
Oil on canvas
Purchased through gifts from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940; Jonathan L. Cohen, Class of 1960, Tuck 1961; Frederick B. Whittemore, Class of 1953, Tuck 1954; Barbara Dau Southwell, Class of 1978 and David Southwell, Tuck 1988; Parnassus Foundation / Jane and Raphael Bernstein; and an anonymous donor; 2007.34    

Joseph Blackburn, English, active 1752–1778
Jonathan Simpson (1711–1795)
1758
Oil on canvas
Purchased through gifts from the Lathrop Fellows; a gift from W. David Dance, Class of 1940 in memory of Jane Dance; and through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund, the Katherine I. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund, the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, and the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund; 2007.83
    
After Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, French, 1755–1842    
Portrait of the Vicomtess of Vaundreuil
After 1785
Oil on canvas
Gift of Timotheus Pohl; 2005.18

John Sloan, American, 1871–1951
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
About 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951
Tempera underpaint with oil-varnish glaze and wax finish on composition board
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; P.946.12.2    

Preston Dickinson, American, 1891–1930        
Industrial Landscape (The Suburbs; Modern Industry) 
1919
Oil on canvas
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; P.950.64    

Jan Davidz. De Heem, 1606–1684    
Still Life with Grapes
About 1660
Oil on canvas
Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund and the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund; 2006.11

From the exhibition Mount Washington: The Crown of New England, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, October 1, 2016–January 16, 2017; long-term loan through July 2018:

George Loring Brown, American, 1814–1889    
The Crown of New England 
1868
Oil on canvas
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; P.964.129    

Gamaliel Waldo Beaman, American, 1852–1937        
Mount Washington from Manns Hill 
About 1880s
Oil on canvas
Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg;
P.987.34.2

From the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, long-term loan through July 2018:

Alex Katz, American, born 1927            
Supper 
1974
Acrylic on canvas
Gift of Joachim Jean Aberbach; P.975.70    

Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887–1986        
Taos Mountain, New Mexico 
1930
Oil on canvas
Gift of M. Rosalie Leidinger and Louise W. Schmidt; P.993.62
 

From the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, long-term loan through July 2018:

Attributed to the Berlin Painter, Greek, Attic, active about 505–460 BCE
Black-figure Panathenaic prize amphora depicting Athena between columns (side a); wrestlers and judge with staff (side b)
480–470 BCE
Terracotta    
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Winfield Smith, Class of 1918; C.959.53

From the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, long-term loan, April through July 2018:

Early Christian, Homs, Northern Syria            
Fragment of a mosaic floor panel depicting a rampant dog in flying gallop 
About 5th–6th century
Marble tesserae
Gift of Serena Ines Valli Martin-Trigona Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936; MIS.974.352    

Attributed to the Epidromos Painter        
Red-figure Kylix 
520–500 BCE
Red terracotta with black slip
Gift of Mr. And Mrs. Ray Winfield Smith, Class of 1918; C.970.35    

Geometric period, Athens, Greece        
Pyxis with lid 
Early 8th century BCE
Buff terracotta with brown and black slip
Purchased through a bequest from Lulu C. and Robert L. Coller, Class of 1923; C.985.15    

Attributed to the Athena Painter    
Black-figure lekythos 
480–450 BCE
Terracotta with black and white slip
C.X.412
    
Unknown, Roman                
Ram 
3rd–6th century 
Cast bronze with multicolored green and brown patina
Gift of Family Lansburgh, Classes of 1949, 1977, 1988; S.2000.52

From the exhibition Not Theories but Revelations: Abbott Handerson Thayer, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, March 15–July 15, 2016; long-term loan through July 10, 2018:

Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849–1921    
Below Mount Monadnock 
About 1913
Oil on panel
Purchased through gifts from the Class of 1955 and the Lathrop Fellows; P.997.22

From the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, long-term loan through July 10, 2018:

Thomas Eakins, American, 1844–1916    
The Architect (Portrait of John Joseph Borie, III, 1869–1926)
1896–98
Oil on canvas
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; P.935.1.19    

Claude Lorrain, French, 1604–1682    
Landscape with a Shepherd and Shepardess 
About 1636
Oil on canvas
Purchased through gifts from Kirsten and Peter Bedford, Class of 1989P; and Julia and Richard H. Rush, Class of 1937, Tuck 1938; and through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, and the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund; purchased through gifts by exchange from Mr. Richard Andrew Aishton, Class of 1918, in memory of Mrs. Kate Aishton Mecur; Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Class of 1889; Mrs. Frank U. Bell; Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Cantor, Class of 1960; Mrs. Moses Dyer Carbee; Bernard Grebanier; Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H; Ruth M. and Charles R. Lachman; Bella C. Landauer, Class of 1923P; Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. McGoughran, Class of 1920; Richard H. Mandel, Class of 1926; Earle W. Newton; Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Penzel; Anton Adolph Raven, Class of 1937H; Eleanor St. George in memory of her husband, Charles St. George; Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Schweitzer; Mr. and Mrs. John F. Steeves, Class of 1911; George C. Stoddard, Class of 1918; Howard Swift, Class of 1952; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Wolff, Class of 1935; Dr. Myron Wright, Class of 1937; and through the Julia L. Whittier Fund and the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund; P.989.21
    
Cuzco School, Peruvian        
Our Lady of Pomata 
18th century
Oil on canvas
Gift of Marta Phillips in memory of David F. Phillips, Class of 1951; P.998.15.1

From the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, long-term loan, October 11, 2015–August 9, 2018:  

Frederic Remington, American, 1861–1909        
Shotgun Hospitality 
1908
Oil on canvas
Gift of Judge Horace Russell Class of 1865; P.909.2

From the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, long-term loan through September 2018:

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, French Cree / Shoshone / Salish, born 1940    
The Rancher
2002
Acrylic on canvas
Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund; 2005.13
    
Jared French, American, 1905–1988            
Street Fight 
1934
Tempera with oil glaze on canvas
Gift of Ilse Martha Bischoff; P.950.32.5
    
Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901–1990        
Harlem Loge 
About 1934
Oil on canvas
Gift of the artist; P.948.35
 

From the exhibition The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, November 3, 2017–September 3, 2018:

Lilly Martin Spencer, American, 1822–1902    
The Jolly Washerwoman 
1851
Oil on canvas
Purchased through a gift from Florence B. Moore in memory of her husband, Lansing P. Moore, Class of 1937; P.993.25
 

From the exhibition Entrepreneurship and Classical Design in Boston's South End: The Furniture of Isaac Vose & Thomas Seymour, 1815–1825, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, May 10–September 14, 2018:

Attributed to Isaac Vose & Son, Boston, active 1819–1825    
Secretaire a abattant 
About 1820
Mahogany veneer, mahogany, poplar, white pine, ash and gilt brass
Gift of Mrs. William Dexter; F.965.90.11
    
Thomas Sully, American, 1783–1872    
George Ticknor (1791–1871), Class of 1807
1831
Oil on canvas
Gift of Constance V. R. White, Nathaniel T. Dexter, Philip Dexter, and Mary Ann Streeter; P.943.130

From the exhibition Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 31–October 21, 2018:

Adolph Gottlieb, American, 1903–1974    
Male and Female 
About 1955–56
Brush and ink over graphite on wove paper
Bequest of Lawrence Richmond, Class of 1930; D.978.164

From the exhibition The World to Come: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Anthropocene, the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, September 2018–January 6, 2019:

Subhankar Banerjee, American (born India), born 1967        
Caribou Migration I
2002
UltraChrome print
Purchased through the Charles F. Venrick 1936 Fund; 2006.61

From the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, long-term loan, January 2016–February 2019:

Egypt        
Face from sarcophagus lid
Ptolemaic Period (323–30 BCE)
Limestone with black paint
39.64.6721

From the exhibition America Creative: Portraits by Raymond Everett Kinstler, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, March 15–May 25, 2018;  
extended loan through March 2019:

Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1926–2019    
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991), Class of 1925 
1982
Oil on canvas
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College; P.982.54

From the exhibition Body Politics: Art and Fashion from South Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2–April 29, 2019:

Zanele Muholi, South African, born 1972            
Sex ID Crisis
2003
Gelatin silver print
Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund; 2006.42

Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984    
Inkosikazi (Queen), from The Self-Portrait Project (2007/2013)
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; 2014.58.2

Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984    
Imfundo, Impahla neBhayibheli (Education, Apparel, and the Bible), from The Self-Portrait Project (2007/2013)
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; 2014.58.11

Nomusa Makhubu, born 1984    
Imvunulo (Traditional Dress), from The Self-Portrait Project (2007/2013)
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund; 2014.58.12

From the exhibition Undressed: The Nude in Context, 1500–1750, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 9–July 16, 2019:

Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669    
Adam and Eve 
1638
Etching on laid paper
Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935PR.997.5.88

From the exhibition Frida Kahlo and Folk Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, February 27–June 16, 2019:

Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886–1957        
Untitled (Portrait of Girl with Orange Bow) 
About 1935
Pastel and charcoal on tracing paper
Gift of George E. Vaillant, M.D.; D.990.31
    
Unknown, Peruvian    
Bull effigy vessel
Early-mid-20th century
Terracotta, white slip
Gift of Constance M. Landmann, in memory of Frederick E. Landmann; 2008.4.1

From the exhibition Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art, the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, January 28–June 3, 2019:

Joe Fig, American, born 1968        
Maker of Dreams (Ivan Albright 1949) 
2000
Mixed media
Gift of Monroe A. Denton Jr., Class of 1968, in honor of Friends at the Hood Museum of Art; S.2004.70

From the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, long-term loan, April 2016–May 2019:

Ivan Albright, American, 1897–1983            
The Vermonter (If Life Were Life There Would Be No Death) 
1966–77
Oil on Masonite
Gift of Josephine Patterson Albright, Class of 1978HW; P.985.31