Grants Awarded
Theodore Robinson, The Wedding March, 1892
Through projects realized with the support of Terra Foundation grants, audiences in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and throughout the United States have been able to experience American art exhibitions and programs. The foundation also embarks on its own initiatives and partnerships in pursuit of its mission.
Grants, initiatives, and partnerships funded in the current fiscal year are listed below.
Academic and Public Program Grants
(SIC) ASBL (Brussels, Belgium)$4,000
4/14/2011
To support the international conference "French Theory: Reception in the Visual Arts in the United States Between 1965 and 1995." Funding supports the participation of scholars addressing the role of French Theory in American visual art made before 1980.
ANCHOR GRAPHICS @ COLUMBIA COLLEGE (Chicago, Illinois)
$9,200
To support (2) talks included in the 2009–2010 Anchor Graphics @ Columbia College lecture series, "Scraping the Surface," which explores the history and practice of printmaking and American visual culture.
ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, THE (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$10,000
10/15/2010
To support a two-day public symposium that brings together scholars and other experts to present perspectives on themes in the exhibition Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tempe, Arizona)
$41,925
4/9/2010
To support the November 2010 symposium "Surrealism and the Americas," organized by Arizona State University and the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, which will examine the introduction and development of surrealism throughout the Americas.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO (Toronto, Canada)
$20,000
6/17/2010
To support the 2010–2011 programming for "At Work," a group of concurrent exhibitions focusing on the issue of labor in the production of art, specifically that of Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, and Betty Goodwin.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$181,400
4/14/2011
To establish a three-year postdoctoral curatorial fellowship in American art at the Art Institute of Chicago. The fellow will conduct research on special projects and be involved with general curatorial work within the department of American art, and will have additional opportunities to participate in a wide range of activities such as object-specific research, gallery installations, program planning, volunteer training, and gallery tours.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$30,500
6/24/2011
To support a three-part lecture series on historical American art, which presents world-class speakers who offer fresh and innovative findings in American art scholarship and relate these directly or indirectly to works of art in the museum's collection. The series is part of the museum's larger 2011–12 thematic focus "Echo Effect," an exploration of the relationship between originals and multiples in artistic presentation.
ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DE PONTIGNY–CERISY, THE (Cerisy, France)
$35,000
To support the July 2–9, 2010, international conference "The Sign of Stieglitz," which will examine Stieglitz and his influence on the New York avant-garde between 1890 and 1930.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000
6/24/2011
To support a public lecture and series of related activities featuring art historian Wanda Corn (Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita, Stanford University), who will speak on the subject of her book Women Building History: Public Art and the 1893 Columbian Exposition (2011). The lecture kicks off the Chicago Humanities Festival's 2012 season and provides a focus on the contribution of women to a project of international scope at a time when women were not regularly accepted in the public arena.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000
9/15/2011
To support the Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art for the years 2012, 2013, and 2014 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival's annual two-week celebration of the humanities, which the Terra Foundation has supported since 2006. Previous speakers include notable art historians David Lubin, Angela Miller, Erika Doss, Jennifer Greenhill, and Sarah Burns. The grant supports a public lecture; a roundtable program for graduate students in the Chicago region led by the speaker and a local scholar; and an online presentation of the public lecture on the Chicago Humanities Festival's website along with a downloadable teacher guide.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000
10/15/2010
To support the expansion of American art content on the Chicago Humanities Festival's website and to further develop online study guides for teachers and students, allowing year-round, worldwide access to these materials.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000
To support the 2009–2011 Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art, which is part of the annual Chicago Humanities Festival. Established in 2006, this named lectureship has been a popular addition to the organization’s annual two-week celebration of the humanities and is dedicated to an art historical topic related to the annual festival theme.
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000
To support the digitization and online presentation of the 2006, 2007, and 2009 Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art delivered at the annual Chicago Humanities Festival.
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
1/15/2010
To support American art programs that are part of the 2010 Family Summer Reading Program titled "Reading is Art-rageous," which will focus on the theme of art in everyday life and will celebrate art in Chicago.
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (New York, New York)
$42,800
To support 2010 and 2014 Distinguished Scholar Sessions at the 2010 and 2014 Annual Conferences, both of which will take place in Chicago. The purpose of the sessions is to celebrate the contributions of distinguished scholars and curators of American art through panels that will bring together an honoree and five participants.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$20,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2011 international symposium "Reframing the New Topographics in Europe" at the Nederlands FotoMuseum in Rotterdam. Organized through Columbia College Chicago, the symposium resituates the influences and links between the landmark 1975 George Eastman House exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape and the European photography and intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s. The symposium coincides with the opening of a new version of the exhibition New Topographics, organized by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, for which the Terra Foundation funded the international tour.
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART (London, United Kingdom)
$179,280
10/15/2010
To support two (2) short-term visiting professorships and one (1) two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship in American art at the Courtauld Institute of Art for the 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 academic years. The positions are designed to expose students to the best of recent scholarship on historical American art.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION (Washington, D.C.)
$22,360
To support the October 2009 initial meeting of an International Scholarly Advisory Board and (2) 2010 online seminars.
FRIENDS OF HISTORIC SECOND CHURCH (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,670
To support a 2010 lecture series about late-19th and early-20th century American art and design and a self-guided brochure about Second Presbyterian Church, a designated Chicago landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places noted for its outstanding Arts and Crafts interior.
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART (Atlanta, Georgia)
$20,000
4/14/2011
To support a public-forum panel discussion on the topic of international partnerships that took place in New York City on May 18, 2011, in which participants explored the increasingly important role of international collaboration as art museums work to bring new works of art and scholarship to their audiences.
INSTITUT NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART (Paris, France)
$168,000
10/15/2010
To support two (2) eight-week visiting professorships and one (1) two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship for the 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 academic years that focus on the history of American art and transatlantic exchange. The professors and fellows are shared between the departments of art history and American studies at the École Normale Supérieure, the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, and the Université de Tours.
JANE ADDAMS HULL-HOUSE MUSEUM (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000
10/15/2010
To support the development of interpretive materials and programs designed to highlight American art and artists associated with the Hull-House settlement. Programs include a series of fifty "civic dialogues" that will use art and information about the history of arts education at Hull House to explore the question "What does it mean to be an American?", and a summer 2011 workshop for teachers on the history of art at Hull-House
JOHN F. KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES (Berlin, Germany)
$22,800
6/24/2011
To support the international conference "Cultural Mobility and Transcultural Confrontations: Winold Reiss as a Paradigm of Transnational Studies." A German-American painter, designer, and teacher, Winold Reiss (1886–1953) emerged in the 1920s and 30s as an influential figure in transnational encounters and modernist aesthetics. The conference takes place in Berlin on October 27 –29, 2011.
JOHN F. KENNEDY INSTITUTE, FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN (Berlin, Germany)
$153,000
10/15/2010
To support four (4) three-month visiting professorships at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin for the 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 academic years. Visiting professors will offer specialized courses, seminars, and lectures on the history of American art and visual culture, and will participate in the larger academic community throughout their stay.
MUSÉE DU LOUVRE (Paris, France)
$24,000
To support the La Fayette Database of American Art, which catalogues works of American art produced between 1680 and 1940 in French public collections and is accessible through the Musée du Louvre's Web site (www.louvre.fr). The La Fayette Database was created in 2006 through grants from both the Terra Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
$230,000
To support a new Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in 1600–1950 American Art History in the Department of Art History. The fellowship will begin during the 2010–2011 academic year.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, THE (Washington, D.C.)
$16,000
To support the November 13–14, 2009, symposium "African Art, Modernist Photography, and the Politics of Representation," co-organized by the Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland's David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and the University of Maryland's Department of Art & Archaeology.
SALEM STATE COLLEGE (Salem, Massachusetts)
$30,000
To support the March 2010 scholarly symposium "Visual Culture and Global Trade in the Early American Republic." This symposium will examine early American visual arts in the context of global trade, particularly that with China and the East Indies.
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$30,200
6/24/2011
To establish an annual public lectureship and corresponding one-day seminar for graduate students in art history that provides a platform for the growing body of scholarship examining 1960s and 1970s American art from Americanist perspectives. During the second year, a panel discussion will be held in place of the lecture. Invited scholars include Michael Leja, Cécile Whiting, Ursula Frohne, Wouter Davidts, and James Boaden.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)
$162,552
10/15/2010
To support three (3) scholarly symposia, in 2011, 2013, and 2015, that examine American art in a global context. These biennial symposia are the final three of a five-part series organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with funding from the Terra Foundation. The 2011 symposium focuses on artistic exchange between the United States and Latin America.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)
$676,000
6/17/2010
To support the 2011–2017 Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which seek to foster a cross-cultural dialogue about the history of art of the United States up to 1980. They support work by scholars from abroad who are researching American art or by U.S. scholars, especially those who are investigating international contexts for American art. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research. The stipend for a one-year fellowship is $27,000 for pre-doctoral fellows or $42,000 for post-doctoral and senior fellows, plus generous research and travel allowances. For more information, please visit www.americanart.si.edu/fellowships.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)
$12,000
To support the new Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize, which will recognize excellent scholarship by a non-American in the field of historical American art. The annual prize will be awarded based on quality, new scholarship, and original perspectives.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)
$59,000
To support the October 1–2, 2009, scholarly symposium “A Long and Tumultuous Relationship: East-West Interchanges in American Art,” which will address the complex interactions between American and Asian artists and visual traditions from the 18th to the 20th century. The symposium will challenge earlier scholarship, which often looked primarily at Asian influences on American art as a unidirectional and limited development.
STERLING & FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
$25,000
6/17/2010
To support an August 2010 pre-exhibition convening on Winslow Homer in preparation for a 2013 exhibition on the artist co-organized by the Clark Art Institute and the Musée d'Orsay.
TATE BRITAIN (London, England)
$19,310
4/14/2011
To support a major international conference in conjunction with the exhibition Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World at Tate Britain. Both the exhibition and the conference address the need to set the distinctive Anglo-American modernist movement of Vorticism within its wider cultural and historical context, which historically has only marginally included the role of American artists, writers, and thinkers.
UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN BASSE–NORMANDIE (Caen, France)
$27,500
4/9/2010
To support the March 2011 international symposium "Collaboration and the Artist's Book: A Transatlantic Perspective," which focuses on the evolution of artists' books from the beginning of the twentieth century to 1980 in Europe and the United States.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (London, United Kingdom)
$24,100
To support the October 15–17, 2009, international, scholarly symposium "Transatlantic Romanticism," which will be hosted by three partnering institutions: the Royal Academy of Art, the Paul Mellon Center for British Art, and University College London. Its aim is to rethink romanticism in the American visual arts within a transatlantic framework, integrating economic relations and the political conflicts and rivalries of the period.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (Berkeley, California)
$6,900
1/15/2010
To support the International American Studies Research Group's June 2010 meeting, which will consist of a two and a half day public symposium titled "Seeing the U.S.A. through Visual Culture," followed by two and a half days of internal seminar discussion.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$230,000
To support the new Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in pre–1945 American Art History in the Department of Art History. The fellowship will begin during the 2010–2011 academic year.
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Glasgow, Scotland)
$10,825
To support the investigation of the National Inventory Research Project, Department of History of Art, University of Glasgow, into the creation of an online database of historical American art in British public collections similar to the Musée du Louvre's La Fayette Database of American Art.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (Urbana, Illinois)
$14,290
10/15/2010
To inaugurate an international internship program at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate students from the École du Louvre during the 2011–2012 academic year. Two students from the Louvre will spend one semester each working as an intern with the Indianapolis Museum of Art's collection of American art while simultaneously taking a course in the history of American art at the University of Illinois.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
$12,650
1/15/2010
To support the 2011 symposium "Art across Frontiers: Cross-Cultural Encounters in America," organized by the School of American and Canadian Studies. The two-day international symposium will explore the impact of trans-nationalism on the visual arts in the United States through cultures in migration. It will look at trans-cultural exchange between Euro-American, Native American, African American, and Latino-American interactions within the United States, as well as cross-border relations between the art of the United States and the visual cultures of the Americas from the colonial period to the present.
VIVIAN G. HARSH SOCIETY (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000
6/17/2010
To support the August 2010 program "Connecting with Traditions of African American Art," organized by the Vivian G. Harsh Society in partnership with the Southside Community Art Center and the Chicago Public Library. The two-day program will focus on African American art and art history, and feature noted art historian, author, and artist Samella Lewis and other scholars.
WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS (WTTW) (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000
10/15/2010
To support the production of a series of segments about American art to air on WTTW's popular news magazine show, Chicago Tonight. This two-year project features stories about American artists, collections, exhibitions, and art-historically significant spaces in Chicago. With past Terra Foundation grants, WTTW has produced segments ranging in topic from outsider artist Henry Darger to photographers and friends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, and from Tiffany decoration at the Chicago Cultural Center to Progressive-era murals in Chicago Public Schools.
WINDOWS TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC.(Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000
To support the 2009–2010 production of (6) segments about historical American art for "Artbeat," a feature on WTTW's popular weeknight news magazine Chicago Tonight.
Chicago K-12 Grants
ART RESOURCES IN TEACHING (A.R.T.) (Chicago, Illinois)$60,000
4/9/2010
To support the 2010 "American Art Partners" Summer Institute, a 5-day professional-development program for 25 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers, and ongoing professional development for participants during the school year.
ART RESOURCES IN TEACHING (Chicago, Illinois)
$36,000
To fund a summer institute for teachers whose students participate in “American Art Partners,” a program offered by Art Resources in Teaching with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), which engages Chicago Public Schools students with American art in the AIC collection.
ART RESOURCES IN TEACHING (Chicago, Illinois)
$66,400
To support the 2009 "American Art Partners" program, a 5-day institute for Chicago Public Schools teachers, which introduces them to American art in the Art Institute of Chicago and Terra Foundation collections and ideas for incorporating American art in the school curriculum, as well as (3) artist residencies in classrooms of participating teachers during the 2009–2010 school year.
ART RESOURCES IN TEACHING (Chicago, Illinois)
$202,800
4/14/2011
To support professional-development activities for teachers participating in Art Resources in Teaching's "American Art Partners" program from 2011 through 2013. During the summer institute, teachers learn strategies for introducing students to American art; learn about the American art collections and related resources available at the Art Institute of Chicago (where the program is held); and collaborate with fellow teachers from their school and with artists to plan lessons that bring American art into their language-arts and social studies instruction.
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000
To support a fall 2009 professional-development workshop for teachers, "Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham's Chicago Legacy," and (2) field-trip programs, "Picturing America," which highlights local examples of work by artists featured in the National Endowment for the Humanities' "Picturing America" poster collection; and "Art in Architecture," through which students explore interrelationships between art and architecture in Chicago buildings.
CHICAGO METRO HISTORY EDUCATION CENTER (Chicago, Illinois)
$30,000
4/9/2010
To support "Public Art and Chicago History," a professional-development and curriculum-development program for Chicago Public Schools history and social studies teachers on the subject of public art in Chicago. The program will bring together local scholars and 10 teachers in grades 6–12 for a series of workshops focused on integrating public art into the history curriculum.
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Chicago, Illinois)
$38,400
To support the February 2009 professional development and curriculum project “CPS Pictures America,” which will convene teams of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers and librarians from 30 schools for training focused on “Picturing America,” a new teaching resource from the National Endowment for the Humanities consisting of 40 high-quality American art posters with a curriculum manual. This project builds on two earlier Terra Foundation for American Art grants: in May 2008, the Terra Foundation awarded a grant of $25,000 to the National Trust for the Humanities to help make the “Picturing America” resources available to more than 600 schools; and in October 2007, the Terra Foundation funded a $27,000 pilot project in CPS (“Starting Art in the Library”) that informed the development of “CPS Pictures America.”
CHICAGO TEACHERS' CENTER, NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000
To support the fourth year of "American Art in Classroom Teaching," a professional-development and curriculum-development program for K–8 teachers, which is part of a larger initiative, "Every Art, Every Child (EAEC)." Lessons on American art developed through "American Art in Classroom Teaching" will be incorporated into the EAEC curriculum resource.
CHICAGO TEACHERS' CENTER, NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (Chicago, Illinois)
$40,000
9/15/2011
To support the first year of a three-year initiative, "Studio Thinking and American Art," for a group of sixty K–8 art and classroom teachers from fifteen schools in the Chicago Public Schools system. The project will provide intensive, sustained professional development, focusing on American art and the "Studio Thinking" framework for art education, developed by researchers affiliated with Project Zero at Harvard University. Teachers will work with artist-educators and American art specialists to develop curricula and refine their teaching strategies and use of art in the classroom.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000
9/15/2011
To support "Talkin' Back: American Photography and Creative Writing," a multifaceted program that serves Chicago Public Schools teachers and students. Offered by the college's Center for Community Arts Partnerships and Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), the program allows students and teachers to learn about American photographs in the MoCP collection and to create their own photographs, poems, and prose. Terra Foundation funds will support curriculum- and professional-development activities for teachers as well as a culminating exhibition of student work at the MoCP.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$45,000
10/15/2010
To support "Talkin' Back," a year-long program offered by the Columbia College's Center for Community Arts Partnerships and Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP). The program allows students and teachers to learn about American photographs in the MoCP collection, create their own photographs, and respond to the photographs using poems and prose. The project culminates with a public exhibition of students' writing and photographs, and includes professional-development opportunities for classroom teachers and teaching artists.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
To support the 2009–2010 program, "Talkin' Back: Chicago Youth Respond," organized by Columbia College Chicago's Center for Community Arts Partnerships and Museum of Contemporary Photography, through which teachers and students will be introduced to historical American photographs. The program includes artist residencies at (6) Chicago Public Schools sites and professional development programs for select Chicago Public Schools teachers.
INTUIT: THE CENTER FOR INTUITIVE AND OUTSIDER ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000
9/15/2011
To support Intuit's Teacher Fellowship Program in 2011–2012, designed to help teachers integrate outsider art into their curricula. Teachers will learn about the work and lives of outsider artists and develop lessons intended to introduce students to outsider art and to help them explore their personal visions. Sessions include lectures, visits to collections, an artist-led workshop, and curriculum planning. The program culminates with a public exhibition of students' work at Intuit in June 2012.
MARWEN (Chicago, Illinois)
$11,000
4/14/2011
To support Marwen's American-art focused teacher courses. Courses include "Watercolor in the City" in which participants examine watercolors by Winslow Homer at the Art Institute of Chicago then create their own watercolors using the lakefront as source material; and "Drawing: Works on Paper" in which participants examine drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection by American artists who worked in a variety of media then make their own collection of drawings using a range of wet and dry media and drawing processes.
MARWEN (Chicago, Illinois)
$11,500
To support (3) summer 2009 teacher courses that will blend American art history and art making.
Participants will develop studio projects that can be replicated in the classroom, which will be inspired and informed by American art holdings at the Art Institute of Chicago.
MARWEN (Chicago, Illinois)
$11,500
4/9/2010
To support three 15-hour teacher courses that will serve approximately 45 K–12 teachers, primarily from Chicago Public Schools. Courses blend art making with introductions to the work of American artists and include a visit to the Print and Drawing Study room at the Art Institute of Chicago. Course titles are "Watercolor in the City," "Drawing: Works on Paper," and "Children's Book Illustration: Nonfiction."
NEWBERRY LIBRARY, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$10,000
9/15/2011
To support "Art & Exploration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture," a three-day "Teachers as Scholars" seminar at the Newberry Library in April and June 2012. During the program teachers will examine and plan classroom projects with the Newberry's rich holdings in the art and visual cultural of exploration, focusing on the exploration of the Missouri River, Yellowstone, Mexico, and the North and South Poles. Participants will reconvene in June to report on the results of teaching with this material.
SMITHSONIAN EARLY ENRICHMENT CENTER (Washington, D.C.)
$65,850
4/14/2011
To support a two-day conference in Chicago in the summer of 2011 and a follow-up program in the spring of 2012 for approximately 80 Chicago Public Schools teachers which will focus on the National Endowment for the Humanities' "Picturing America" teaching resource as well as American art at the Art Institute of Chicago. The program examines selected works of art either featured in "Picturing America" or in the Art Institute's collection as a means of exploring major themes, such as American identity and diversity. During the conference, participants plan classroom projects using one or more works of American art.
Exhibition Grants
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)$200,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2012–2013 retrospective of the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Co-curated by the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom), the exhibition is the first retrospective to be mounted since the artist's death in 1997. It will bring together approximately 130 of the artist's most definitive paintings and sculptures, as well as roughly thirty works on paper, many of which will be exhibited publicly for the first time.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000
4/14/2011
To support Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, the first major museum exhibition to examine the full scope and diversity of vanguard photographic practice by conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition includes 130 works by 56 key figures of the era such as American artists John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Bruce Nauman.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$20,000
To support the September 2010 internationally collaborative pre-exhibition convening for the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tate Modern, London, which is scheduled to open in Chicago in April 2012, followed by the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), and the Tate Modern. During the planning conference, the co-curators will present the current exhibition plans, share ideas for the catalogue, and invite responses, critiques, and suggested expansions or new directions.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
To support the catalogue and the 2009–2010 exhibition Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago. Drawn entirely from Chicago-area public and private collections, the exhibition will trace the English Arts and Crafts Movement and its subsequent impact on American Arts and Crafts practitioners.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$95,000
To support the symposium and 2011 presentation of the exhibition American Modern:
Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White. Co-organized by the Amon Carter Museum and the Colby College Museum of Art, this exhibition will feature works by the photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White and will examine how these photographers reinvented the genre of documentary.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
To support the 2011 exhibition John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, which will focus on the evolution of his watercolor technique and his creation of a new, avant-garde vocabulary for the medium.
ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS (AAMC) (New York, New York)
$20,000
4/9/2010
To support a session and reception at the May 2010 9th annual meeting of AAMC, which took place in Chicago.
AZIENDA SPECIALE PALAEXPO (Rome, Italy)
$150,000
To support the catalogue and 2009–2010 Alexander Calder retrospective organized in conjunction with the Calder Foundation. This exhibition will provide a comprehensive survey of Calder's career and will be the first major showing of the artist's work in Rome.
BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM (Hamburg, Germany)
$150,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2009 exhibition Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time. This exhibition of 75 paintings and works on paper, drawn from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection, presents a broad and comprehensive overview of American art from 1900 to 1950, showcasing both well- and lesser-known artists for international audiences.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Phoenix, Arizona)
$140,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and international presentation of the 2009–2011 exhibition New Topographics, which will reconstruct the landmark 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. The exhibition will assess the aims of the original exhibition; examine the international implications of an American impulse in photography since that time; and consider its precursor’s formidable influence on young photographers today.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU (Paris, France)
$50,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2009 exhibition Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, which follows Calder's progression from painter to sculptor during the crucial years he spent in Paris from 1926 to 1933.
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM (San Francisco, California)
$150,000
To support the symposium, catalogue, and the 2011 exhibition Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, which will examine Stein's work and her place in 20th-century art and cultural history. This exhibition will provide an in-depth portrait of Stein by knitting together her many identities—her creativity, her engagement with multiple art forms, her domestic life, her desire for fame, and her bi-continental allegiances.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2009–2010 exhibition Sargent and the Sea. The exhibition will examine the little explored marine paintings, watercolors, and drawings executed by John Singer Sargent. Featuring 90 works completed between 1874 and 1880, the exhibition includes works from his travels to Normandy, Nice, Brittany, Naples, Capri, Morocco, and other Mediterranean ports.
DAVID AND ALFRED SMART MUSEUM OF ART, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$35,000
To support the online publication and 2009 exhibition Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection, which will focus on the art and life of American artist H. C. Westermann. It will draw on the museum's extensive holdings of Westermann material, donated by the artist's family and associates.
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS(Chicago, Illinois)
$60,000
To support education programming and the 2010 exhibition From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden, which will provide a survey of Bearden's graphic work, including lithographs, etchings, collagraphs, serigraphs, photomontages, monoprints, screenprints, drypoints, as well as engraving and collagraph plates.
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2011–12 exhibition Re: Chicago, a selection of 50 paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, and sculptures by Chicago artists. The exhibition focuses on art in Chicago from 1860 to the present and examines the role of place in artists' work and thought.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, THE (Detroit, Michigan)
$500,000
5/1/2010
To support the catalogue and 2013–2014 exhibition tour Frederic Church: The Holy Land and Beyond, which will be the first detailed examination of Frederic Church and the Middle East. It will offer the first in-depth look at the visual culture of Orientalism in New York in the years preceding the Civil War; provide new information about the studies Church completed in the Middle East; include the first scholarly analysis of Church's virtually unknown collection of photographs of the Middle East; and present an analysis of Olana written by a scholar specializing in Islamic architecture.
DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY (London, United Kingdom)
$25,000
To support the 2010 exhibition The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art. This exhibition will introduce British audiences to three generations of the Wyeth family—N.C. (1882–1945), Andrew (1917–2009), and Jamie (born 1946)—as well as the lesser-known daughter of N.C. and sister of Andrew, Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), and her husband, Peter Hurd (1904–1984).
DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (Chicago, Illinois)
$37,000
To support educational programming and the 2011 exhibition Buried Treasures: Art in African American Museums, drawn from the collections of 30 African American institutions around the country. The exhibition will display approximately 90 works of art by 19th- and 20th-century African American artists.
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO (New York, New York)
$200,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2009–2010 exhibition, Nexus: New York 1900–1945, which will explore artistic exchanges between artists from 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries who traveled to and resided in New York during the early decades of the 20th century and American artists residing in New York at the same time. Visitors will learn about the institutions, schools, and groups that galvanized cosmopolitan activity in which Caribbean and Latin American artists participated in important dialectical exchanges with American artists.
FONDATION HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (Paris, France)
$170,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2011–13 retrospective of the work of Lewis Hine (1874–1940) that explores his career as a photographer, educator, and social-justice worker. The exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Fundacion Mapfre (Madrid), and the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam).
FONDAZIONE PALAZZO STROZZI (Florence, Italy)
$100,000
6/24/2011
To support the 2012 exhibition Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists as part of Florence's city-wide celebration of the 500th anniversary of the death of explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The exhibition considers the reciprocal influences between Italian and American painters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
FRUITMARKET GALLERY, THE (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
$150,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2011 exhibition Narcissus Reflected, which examines the Narcissus myth in twentieth-century surrealist painting, photography, installation, film, and video. The exhibition presents American art within the context of what historically has been seen as a European movement and introduces certain American artists, such as San Francisco-based Jess (1923–2004), to audiences in the United Kingdom.
GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME (Paris, France)
$150,000
9/15/2011
To support the first retrospective of the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) in France and Canada. The exhibition is co-curated by the Jeu de Paume and the Ryerson Gallery and Research Center (Toronto, Ontario), with the Canadian presentation taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibition explores the different stages of Abbott's expansive career through more than 120 photographs.
GALLERIA CIVICA DI MODENA (Modena, Italy)
$50,000
4/14/2011
To support a 2011–12 retrospective of the work of Josef Albers (1888–1976), co-organized by the Galleria Civica di Modena and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (Connecticut). The exhibition traces key stages of the artist's career, from the Weimar and Berlin years to those of Black Mountain College and New Haven, and includes paintings, drawings, glass, watercolors, and photographs.
HARVARD ART MUSEUM (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$195,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2010–2011 project, Lyonel Feininger at Harvard, which entails the Berlin and Munich presentations of two complementary exhibitions drawn from Harvard’s formidable collection of work by Feininger. One exhibition will be devoted to his drawings and watercolors and the other to his virtually unknown photographs. The exhibitions will offer new assessments of his contribution to the exchange of ideas between Europe and the United States in modernism’s formative decades.
HELSINKI CITY ART MUSEUM (Helsinki, Finland)
$300,000
4/14/2011
To support a major survey of the career of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986). Presented by the Helsinki City Art Museum, the Fondazione Roma Museo (Rome), and the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich), this is the first-ever exhibition of O'Keeffe's life and work to be shown in these three countries.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000
4/14/2011
To support a 2013–14 exhibition, co-organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), that comprises surrealist sculptures and documentary photographs. The exhibition traces Surrealism's progress from its inception in Paris in the 1920s through its international expansion in the 1980s, with a special emphasis on its renaissance in New York during World War II.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000
To support the 2010 exhibition Moholy-Nagy: An Education of the Senses at the Loyola University Museum of Art. The exhibition aims to bring to life the art and ideas of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy.
INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND ARTISTS (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2009–2010 exhibition Object & Image: Man Ray, African Art, & the Modernist Lens at the Phillips Collection, the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, and any additional venues. The exhibition examines the pivotal role that photographs of African art by Man Ray and others played in the American and European perception and collecting of African objects, as well as their incorporation into modern art.
INTUIT: THE CENTER FOR INTUITIVE AND OUTSIDER ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$43,000
To support the 2010 presentation of the exhibition The Treasure of Ulysses Davis Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop, organized by the High Museum of Art in collaboration with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation. The exhibition presents the sculptures of Ulysses Davis (1914–1990), a Savannah barber and self-taught woodcarver.
KUNSTHALLE EMDEN (Emden, Germany) / PALAZZO MAGNANI (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
$200,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2008–2009 exhibition Joan Mitchell— A Discovery of the New York School, which will introduce the work of Joan Mitchell to German, Dutch, and Italian publics. Thirty-five oil paintings will chronicle her work from 1950 until her death in 1992.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (Los Angeles, California)
$250,000
To support the catalogue and the 2011–2012 exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, co-organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, Mexico). The exhibition will examine the importance of Surrealism in American art, the role of women in the surrealist movement, and the unique character of the phenomenon in the United States and Mexico.
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000
To support the catalogue and 2009 exhibition Back to the Future, which will include work by Alfred Jensen, Charmion von Wiegand, and Simon Gouverneur whose abstract art developed from strong spiritual convictions.
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
$20,000
6/17/2010
To support education programs and the August 2010–August 2012 loan of three Terra Foundation for American Art artworks: Charles Prendergast's carved Chest (1920), and the panel Four Figures and Donkey with Basket of Flowers (c.1915–1917), and a Charles and Maurice Prendergast frame Dreamworld (1908). This loan and grant developed from the Terra Foundation of American Art's strategic plan to place fragile works of art on view in partner museums.
MINT MUSEUM OF ART (Charlotte, North Carolina)
$75,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2012–2013 exhibition Seeing the World Within: Charles Seliger in the 1940s, the first to consider the significance of his paintings from the 1940s, a critical decade in his artistic development. The exhibition will travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
MONA BISMARCK FOUNDATION (Paris, France)
$25,000
9/15/2011
To support The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art at the Mona Bismarck Foundation's American Cultural Center in Paris. The exhibition presents paintings and drawings by N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth. Including over eighty works, the exhibition will consider the breadth of the Wyeth family's output and illuminate both common themes and their creators' distinctive achievements over the past century.
MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, THE (New York, New York)
$225,000
To support the catalogue and the 2010–2011 exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968 at the Morgan Library and at the Albertina (Vienna, Austria). The exhibition will trace the development of Roy Lichtenstein's black-and-white drawing style in the 1960s.
MUSÉE DES IMPRESSIONISMES (Giverny, France)
$100,000
To support the catalogue and the 2009 exhibition Joan Mitchell: Paintings, organized in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and drawn from collections in the United States and Europe. This exhibition will be the first in France since 1994 to focus on Mitchell's work.
MUSEO CARLO BILOTTI (Rome, Italy)
$140,000
To support the catalogue and 2010 exhibition Philip Guston, Roma which examines the relationships between the work of Philip Guston, his return to figuration, and Italian culture, landscape, and artistic patrimony. It will feature 38 works in oil on paper from Guston's Roma series, executed during his tenure as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1970–1971.
MUSEO DE ARTE DE LIMA (Lima, Peru)
$250,000
1/15/2010
To support the 2009–2010 exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Undoing Spaces at the Museo de Arte de Lima and the Paço Imperial (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). This comprehensive overview aims to introduce Latin American audiences to the work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). Photographic and film documentation of his iconic building ‘cuts' will be presented alongside drawings, sketches, and written materials.
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (New York, New York)
$150,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2012 exhibition Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta (1903–1964), which provides an overview of the artist's career and examines her contributions to the dissemination of the precepts and ideals of the Bauhaus philosophy that inspired her.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Los Angeles, California)
$150,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2012–13 exhibition Painting the Void, which posits destruction as a shared global artistic sensibility as well as a coherent mode of artistic production. It features 85 breakthrough works created between 1949 and 1962 by 25 artists from eight countries, including American artists Lee Bontecou, Salvatore Scarpitta, and Robert Rauschenberg.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2011–12 exhibition the language of less (then and now), which examines the Museum of Contemporary Art's holdings of 1960s and 1970s American and European minimalist art alongside art made by a younger generation of American and international artists who work in the lineage of the minimalists.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000
To support the 2009 Chicago presentation of the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition explores the career of R. Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to the visual arts and architecture. The MCA presentation will also highlight Fuller's substantial ties to Chicago and Illinois.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois)
$175,000
1/15/2010
To support the catalogue and the 2010 exhibition Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and two additional venues. This exhibition will explore the enduring artistic legacy of Alexander Calder (1898–1976). Despite his prominence, Calder has not previously been considered an influential figure for contemporary artists. Some 35 sculptures by seven contemporary artists will be juxtaposed with 50 works by Calder.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LUDWIG FOUNDATION VIENNA (MUMOK) (Vienna, Austria)
$290,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2012–2013 exhibition Claes Oldenburg, a comprehensive overview of Oldenburg's oeuvre from the late-1950s to the present. The exhibition, organized by MUMOK in collaboration with the Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), emphasizes Oldenburg's work from 1960 to the mid-1970s. It will examine Oldenburg as one of the most innovative artists of the postwar period and a major exponent of the Pop Art movement. Terra Foundation funds will support the international tour of the exhibition to MUMOK, the Museum Ludwig, and the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain).
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2012–2013 retrospective exhibition and international tour of the work of George Bellows, including paintings, drawings, and lithographs, with a special emphasis on the period between 1907 and 1915.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2012–2013 exhibition and international tour of Warhol: Headlines, which focuses on a group of works made by Andy Warhol between 1956 and 1968 for which newspaper headlines served as a source of inspiration.
NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON (London, United Kingdom)
$165,250
6/17/2010
To support the catalogue, Study Day, and 2011 exhibition currently titled George Bellows and His Contemporaries, co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the National Gallery. Consisting of 10 to 12 paintings, including (4) works from the Terra Foundation for American art, it will introduce London audiences to the work of this American artist and his circle of peers. Located in Room 1, the gallery space closest to the main entrance, this focus exhibition will attract a large audience.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON (London, United Kingdom)
$150,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2013 exhibition George Catlin's Indian Gallery, which will include approximately seventy portraits of Native Americans by George Catlin (1796–1872) that were originally displayed in London in the 1840s. In addition to tracing the stylistic development of this largely self-taught painter, the exhibition will include an examination of the creation and reception of the Indian Gallery when it made its nineteenth-century debut in Europe.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, THE (Washington, D.C.)
$55,500
6/17/2010
To support educational programming and the 2012 exhibition A Will of Their Own: Judith Murray and the Women of Achievement in the Early Republic centered on the extended loan of the Terra Foundation for American Art's portrait of Mrs. Judith Murray by John Singleton Copley (1770–1772).
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (New York, New York)
$63,500
4/9/2010
To support the catalogue and 2010–2011 exhibition Brion Gysin: Dream Machine at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich Kunsthalle (Zurich, Switzerland), and the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France). This exhibition will provide new scholarship on his work and its influence on the art of today.
NEWBERRY LIBRARY, THE (Chicago, Illinois)
$8,000
6/17/2010
To support a planning grant for the 2013 exhibition Picturing the Home Front: Art & Visual Culture of the Civil War, which is co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Newberry Library. Utilizing the lens of the home front, the exhibition will examine the war's impact on the daily lives of everyday Americans, not through scenes of battle or heroic portraits of officers and soldiers, but through images and other materials that relate how ordinary Americans experienced the war from a distance.
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York, New York)
$175,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2013–2014 exhibition The Armory Show at 100, celebrating the centenary of the 1913 Armory Show. The Armory Show introduced the American public to European avant-garde paintings and sculpture and represented a watershed in the history of American art. This exhibition will reassess the Armory Show with a carefully chosen group of eighty to ninety works.
PEABODY-ESSEX MUSEUM (Salem, Massachusetts)
$200,000
4/14/2011
To support Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, a major traveling exhibition presenting Native American art and culture from the United States and Canada. Through some 100 objects, the exhibition focuses on themes that question long-held assumptions and misconceptions, particularly those related to change, worldview, community, place, identity, and politics.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION (Venice, Italy)
$100,000
4/9/2010
To support the catalogue and the 2010–2011 exhibition Adolph Gottlieb, which will offer a retrospective of the career of Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), including the artist's early drawings and etchings, pictographs, and his signature expressionist and abstract works.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$25,000
6/17/2010
To support a 2011 symposium and August 2010–August 2012 loan of one Terra Foundation for American Art painting, George Tooker's Highway (1953). The symposium will focus on a group of artists—Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans—who used a realist method to transform the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom. This loan and grant developed from the Terra Foundation's strategic plan to place fragile works of art on view in partner museums.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$312,000
5/1/2010
To support the catalogue, symposium, and 2012 exhibition Henry O. Tanner: An International Retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas). The exhibition will interpret his work in relation to the four places that were central to his career—the United States, Paris, the French countryside, and North Africa and the Holy Land—and in relation to contemporaneous French and American artists.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$312,000
4/9/2010
To support the catalogue, symposium, and 2012 exhibition Henry O. Tanner: An International Retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, Texas). The exhibition will interpret his work in relation to the four places that were central to his career—the United States, Paris, the French countryside, and North Africa and the Holy Land—and in relation to contemporaneous French and American artists.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$50,000
10/15/2010
To support George Inness in Italy, the 2011 exhibition surveying Inness' engagement with Italian art and landscape from his first sojourn there in 1851–1879. Special emphasis is placed on the first major work that was completed by Inness in Italy, Twilight on the Campagna (Philadelphia Museum of Art), which has not been on public view since 1952.
RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX–GRAND PALAIS (Paris, France)
$250,000
4/14/2011
To support an in-depth survey of the work of Edward Hopper (1882–1967), co-organized by the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris) and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), that explores Hopper's rootedness in American realism and contemporaneous European (especially French) painting and photography.
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT (Frankfurt, Germany)
$75,000
4/14/2011
To support the 2011 exhibition Kienholz: The Signs of the Times, which explores the work of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and positions them as progenitors of installation art, highlights the social criticism of their work, and situates their art early in a line that extends to several contemporary European artists.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (New York, New York)
$200,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2012–2013 retrospective exhibition John Chamberlin: Choices. The exhibition will take place at the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao, Spain, offering a reexamination of the artist's practice throughout his nearly sixty-year career. This full-scale retrospective will be the first in the United States in more than a quarter century.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California)
$300,000
1/15/2010
To support the catalogue and the 2011–2012 exhibition Rodin in America: Influence and Adaptation 1876–1930, which will explore the substantive manner in which American artists responded to the innovative aesthetic principles, formal solutions, and novel themes in the work of French sculptor, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). Some 100 objects in an array of media by American artists—such as Gutzon Borglum, Malvina Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Steichen, John Storrs, and Lorado Taft—will be shown alongside sculptures and watercolors by Rodin.
STIFTUNG MUSEUM KUNST PALAST (Düsseldorf, Germany)
$100,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2011–2012 exhibition Crossing Bridges Between Cultures: The Düsseldorf School of Painting, the first comprehensive survey of the Düsseldorf School of Painting in more than thirty years. The exhibition establishes an international context through which the Düsseldorf School, which drew an international community of artists during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, may be compared with leading European and American schools of painting of the day.
TATE (London, United Kingdom)
$575,000
To support the catalogue and the 2009–2010 exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This comprehensive retrospective of the life and career of Arshile Gorky will include paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings.
TATE (London, United Kingdom)
$165,000
4/9/2010
To support the London presentation of the 2010–2011 exhibition Eadweard Muybridge, organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This exhibition will be the first retrospective in half a century to examine all aspects of Muybridge's career.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$252,800
6/17/2010
To support two pilot Research and Development grants for a two-year period: $5,000 grants for International Curatorial Travel and $25,000 grants for Internationally Collaborative, Pre-Exhibition Convenings. Both types of grants would allow for international exchanges among curators and encourage international curators both to learn more about historical American art and to present exhibitions of American art at their home institutions.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (New York, New York)
$350,000
10/15/2010
To support the 2011–2012 retrospective exhibition and international tour of Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. The exhibition provides an overview of Feininger's career through approximately 120 works, including early satirical cartoons and comics, abstract oils and watercolors, and carved wooden figures, and sets his art against the backdrop of world events to explore what it meant to be an American artist working in Germany during the early twentieth century.
YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY (New Haven, Connecticut)
$150,000
To support the exhibition catalogue and 2010 exhibition John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-91. In 1890, the artist John La Farge (1835-1910) and the historian Henry Adams (1838-1918) embarked on a year-long journey to the South Pacific. This exhibition and catalogue will provide a broad contextual examination of the most important La Farge South Seas works, in addition to offering a case study of the vogue for exotic travel among artists and writers in the second half of the 19th century.
YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Tokyo, Japan)
$200,000
9/15/2011
To support the 2011–2012 exhibition Jackson Pollock: A Centennial Retrospective, the first retrospective of Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) in Japan. To be held on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the exhibition is organized by the Yomiuri Shimbun and presented at the Aichi Prefectural Museum and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. The exhibition will highlight Pollock's paintings, drawings, and prints, and will examine the influence of the artist on the Gutai group as well as his reception in Japanese magazines and newspapers.
Partnerships and Initiatives Grants
BUNKAMURA MUSEUM OF ART (Toyko, Japan)$150,000
To support the catalogue and 2010–2011 exhibition Monet and the American Artists of Giverny (working title), co-organized by the Bunkamura Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, which will travel to three venues in Japan. The exhibition will introduce Japanese audiences to numerous American artists who lived and worked in the Normandy village of Giverny, where Claude Monet made his home.
MUSÉE DES IMPRESSIONNISMES (Giverny, France)
$14,500
4/9/2010
To support the loan of (3) works from the Terra Foundation for American Art collection to the 2010 exhibition Impressionism on the Seine. The exhibition will bring together sixty paintings produced along the banks of the Seine to trace the history of impressionism and post-impressionism. Loans from major French and American collections will include works by Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, and Georges Seurat as well as less well-known artists such as Armand Guillaumin, Henri Rouart, and Maximilien Luce. The three Terra Foundation paintings will be included to emphasize the presence of American artists in Giverny.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$64,650
9/15/2011
To support the ongoing tour of the Terra Foundation's flagship painting, Gallery of the Louvre by Samuel F. B. Morse, at its third venue, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) from August 2012 through April 2013. The painting will serve as the focal point of a gallery thematically devoted to the training, professional identity, and self-representation of American artists in the nineteenth century. Public programs will include a scholar's day, a lecture by David McCullough, and a copying class for PAFA's fine arts students.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$81,700
9/15/2011
To support the first in a series of annual presentations of American art over the next five years jointly organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (High), the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (CBMA), the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Louvre), and the Terra Foundation for American Art (TFAA). The first presentation, Encounters with American Art: Thomas Cole, will focus on the theme of landscape with four paintings by Thomas Cole and one by Asher B. Durand, and will open January 2012 at the Louvre and then travel to the CBMA and the High. The Terra Foundation has also provided additional support for the Louvre to publish a scholarly book on its painting by Thomas Cole.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$67,670
9/15/2011
To support planning meetings for a Terra Foundation partnership exhibition currently titled Landscape Painting in the Americas, 1830–1930. The meetings will convene a team of at least five curators from museums in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America to discuss exhibition content. The first meeting will be hosted by the co-organizing institution Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and will include a public component during which participating curators present their exhibition ideas to an audience.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$125,233
10/15/2010
To support the video documentation of the Terra Foundation's iconic painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833) by Samuel F. B. Morse, which is undergoing extensive conservation treatment. The video will allow the Terra Foundation to present new insights regarding Morse's materials and techniques and the painting's construction that have come to light through the conservation process. Footage will be used for an array of applications, including DVD and web formats.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$95,000
10/15/2010
To support the development of a web-based resource in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War (1861–1865) that presents a diverse selection of key visual materials about the war, including paintings, public monuments, and illustrations from Chicago collections. This five-year project will be developed in collaboration with other Chicago-based organizations and will include professional development through which teachers will be introduced to the resource to learn how to effectively use the material to illuminate the Civil War and its significance in American history and culture for students of diverse backgrounds.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Chicago, Illinois)
$62,000
To support “What’s the Matter with Modernism?: Reclaiming its Multiple Meanings," a two-day June 2009 symposium and related evening public program, which will coincide with the Milwaukee Art Museum presentation of the exhibition The Eight and American Modernisms, co-organized by the Terra Foundation. The symposium will include panel discussions and gallery talks. Participants, including both established scholars and new voices in the field of American art, will complicate and discuss the terms and ideas that have formed the basis of our understanding the art of in the first three decades of the twentieth century within an innovative framework that will encourage dialogue and debate. To help structure the discussion, the symposium will open with a panel session focusing specifically on the scholarly historiography of this period and its revisions. Subsequent panels will feature short papers and roundtable discussions analyzing important keywords such as realism, regionalism, or abstraction. A separate public program showcasing a well-known essayist with a reputation for probing interesting aspects of American art will augment the academic program.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Paris, France)
$70,500
1/15/2010
To support the Terra Summer Residency's 10th anniversary symposium "Geographies of Art: Sur le Terrain" and celebration. The Terra Summer Residency (TSR) is the Terra Foundation's premier academic program in Europe. To celebrate this anniversary, a three-day June 2010 scholarly reunion will bring together TSR alumni, 2010 fellows, and scholars of American art. Recognizing the importance of the program's impact on younger scholars of American from both Europe and the United States today, the theme "Geographies of Art: Sur le Terrain" pays homage to TSR's embrace of an international and cross-cultural perspective on American art and culture.
TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART (Paris, France)
$25,000
10/15/2010
To support the integration of the recently donated 3,500-volume library of the late Roger Breed Stein, professor emeritus of the history of art at the University of Virginia, with the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe Library in Paris. The gift broadens the library's offerings and provides extensive research materials in American studies and visual culture.
TERRA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS, 2010-2011
$97,000
To support the Terra Research and Travel Grants, which are awarded to six European scholars studying American art and culture at the doctoral and post-doctoral level. These grants support short-term travel, giving doctoral students and junior researchers the opportunity to consult resources which are only available in the United States. The fellowships are offered through partnering institutions in France (Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art, Paris), Germany (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin in partnership with Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich) and Great Britain (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
TERRA RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS
$109,570
6/24/2011
To support the annual Terra Research Travel Grants, which provide funding for doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars outside the United States to travel to the United States for research on topics concerning American art and visual culture prior to 1980. Six to nine grants are awarded annually: up to $6,000 for doctoral students and up to $9,000 for postdoctoral scholars (those who received their degree within ten years of the application deadline). In 2012, the program will be administered directly by the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe (rather than through selected universities) and scholars worldwide will be eligible to apply.
TERRA SUMMER RESIDENCY
$395,000
6/24/2011
To support two years of the Terra Foundation for American Art's annual Terra Summer Residency, which brings ten doctoral students and emerging artists to Giverny, France, for eight weeks to pursue individual research and participate in group programs focused on American art and visual culture. In 2012, the program will be open to scholars and artists worldwide, extending beyond its former European and American geographic boundaries; and positions for the visiting senior artists and scholars will be filled by application. Five to seven positions are awarded annually to senior artists and scholars.
TERRA SUMMER RESIDENCY (Giverny, France)
$346,369
To support the Terra Summer Residency, which Michael Leja, a noted historian of American art, cited as one of the most transformative elements in the current shaping of American art studies as an international field. The program enables doctoral students in American art and visual culture to pursue individual research and intellectual exchange with artists and prominent art historians while in residence in Giverny, France, for 8 weeks during the summer.
TERRA TEACHER LAB (Chicago, Illinois)
$203,300
To support the Terra Teacher Lab, a year-long professional-development program designed for social-studies, art, and language-arts teachers and school librarians in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The Teacher Lab introduces teachers to American art and supports them as they develop innovative ways to use American art to bring their curriculum to life. The program is distinguished in the depth and breadth of instruction it provides and the degree of follow-up with participants.