Newcomb
Art Gallery News
Warhol Foundation Supports Gallery's 07-08 Exhibitions
The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has committed $50,000 to support original contemporary exhibitions presented by the Gallery through 2008. To date, the Foundation has supported A Spectral Image of Self and One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, photographs by Deborah Luster.
Getty Foundation Funds Gallery Conservation Study
In October 2006, the Getty Fund for New Orleans awarded the Newcomb Art Gallery $15,000 to conduct a general conservation survey of Tulane University facilities and collections. Conservation specialist Paul Himmelstein, of Appelbaum and Himmelstein in New York, performed the survey from May 14 to May 18, 2007 meeting with the Gallery’s curator, registrar, and preparators to provide a general assessment of exhibit spaces, storage rooms, and campus loan sites.
Visits were made to Special Collections and The Latin-American Library both of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the Middle-American Research Institute, the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Amistad Research Center, and H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial Institute. Mr. Himmelstein's final report was submitted to the University in September.
Lurcy Trust Supports Gallery Exhibitions
In August 2007, the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust contributed $20,000 towards exhibition costs for 2007-2008. To date, funds have been used for The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age.
Gallery receives $20,000 through Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation
Following Hurricane Katrina, Newcomb Art
League President, Mignon Faget, designated a percentage of sales from her Fleur de Lis collection to help support the Louisiana Rebirth Initiative of the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. In August 2006, these funds were awarded to five New Orleans arts and cultural organizations in a special ceremony hosted by the Lieutenant Governor, Mitch Landrieu. The Newcomb Art Gallery is honored to have received $20,000 through this important program. For more information about Mignon's contribution, please click here.
Recent
Acquisitions
Reiss Gift
Ms. Mary Reiss (NC '40, MA-Ed '46) recently donated to the Gallery a c. 1914 hand-built Newcomb ceramic tile by Henrietta Bailey. The piece depicts a cypress swamp at dusk sculpted in low relief with blue and green oxide washes and a satin glaze finish. Unique to the tile is the original label with the work's title (cypress), date (GK55), price ($3.00).
The tile's familiar subject matter was introduced as a Newcomb motif sometime between 1908 and 1915, according to Newcomb Pottery scholar Jessie Poesch. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported in 1915, "In examining the pottery department one is struck immediately by the fact that designs on the articles are reproductions of the scenery of this section. There are no views of mountains or of rolling country, but the vases and other articles bear finely wrought designs of moss-draped live oaks and cypresses growing along the banks of the bayous. It is...thought that art should be representative of the life of the people, and the background of the section of which they live."
