From the DirectorMission and Message

Our spring exhibition program embodies two key elements of the Museum’s mission: theenrichment and amplification of academic programs at the College, and its special commitment toexhibiting works of art created by artists that have lived and worked in the Hudson Valley and Catskillmountain regions.

American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, on view through May 14, features116 American landscape paintings, and is a sequel to All That is Glorious Around Us, the show thatinaugurated our East Wing galleries in 2001. (Both exhibitions were organized by WestmorelandMuseum of American Art in Greensburg, PA).The depth and quality of the work in the exhibition, aswell as its strong regional focus, underscores the SDMA’s importance as a unique cultural resource forthe mid-Hudson region, both on- and off-campus. Complementing this historical exhibition in theChandler Gallery and North Gallery will be Second Nature: Selected Work by the Art Faculty, whichfocuses on the theme of Nature as seen in the 21st century by 15 members of the art department.Taken together, the two exhibitions will provoke a productive dialogue both on campus and beyond,looking at the past through the mirror of the present, and the present though the mirror of the past.

American Scenery features works that were selected from a unique and distinguished privatecollection that has been built over a period of more than 50 years.The collector (who prefers toremain anonymous) has brought vast intelligence and a keen eye to assembling what is one of themost comprehensive collections of its type that is still in private hands.While a number of the worksthat appeared in All That is Glorious Around Us make a return appearance in the current exhibition, thecuratorial focus is significantly different. Curator Judith Hansen O’Toole, director of the WestmorelandMuseum of American Art, has taken this opportunity to examine the affinities and differences amongthe scores of artists represented in the collection by placing thematically related works together inpairs, groups, or series, such as Times of Day,Weather Conditions, Atmosphere and Mood, Man’s Impacton Nature, and The Machine in the Garden. According to O’Toole, the exhibition “brings togetherpaintings that captured the natural effects expressed through the vast landscape of America...recallingthe underlying spiritual, philosophical, and nationalistic significance of the land,” notions that were“fundamental to and universally understood by this group of nineteenth-century artists.”

Complementing the broad, historical consensus presented in American Scenery are the diverseapproaches taken in Second Nature, the exhibition featured in the Chandler Gallery and North Galleryof the West Wing. Reflecting our inescapably complex, multi-faceted relationship to Nature in the 21stcentury, this exhibition amply demonstrates the depth of talent and insight among the Art Departmentfaculty.This edition of the faculty show departs from its most recent predecessors in that it organizesthe work thematically, presenting a smaller number of faculty in greater depth.The resulting exhibitionshould benefit students as they encounter their teachers’ work in a cohesive, meaningfully curatedcontext, underscoring the Museum’s important role in enriching and amplifying the College’s academicprograms.

The most visible—and certainly one of the most significant—ways for a museum to fulfill itsmission is through its exhibition programming.The SDMA is very pleased to present these two verydifferent, yet complementary exhibitions that showcase the continuum of creative practice in theregion.The message we send through the exhibitions and through the educational and public programsdeveloped for them is our unique commitment to the study and interpretation of art, both historicaland contemporary, produced in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills.The depth and quality of theseofferings will warrant multiple visits to the Museum, bringing new understanding and appreciation ofthe art on view to all who visit us this spring, admirably fulfilling the SDMA’s mission.

Neil C.TragerDirector

MUSEUM STAFF

Neil C. TragerDirector

Beth E. WilsonInterim Curator

Dr. Jaimee P. UhlenbrockAssociate Curator of Collections

Wayne LempkaCollections Manager

Judi EsmondEducation Coordinator

Amy PickeringVisitor Services Coordinator

Cynthia DillPreparator

Bob WagnerInterim Preparator

Hynek AltGraduate Assistant

Erin DinanArt History Intern

Jennifer EnrightArt History Intern

Executive Board, Friends of the SDMADavid A. Dorsky, ChairArthur A. AndersonMarna AndersonLinda BabbEric BrownJames CoxKurt DawKaren DorskyNoah P. DorskyLisa HahnMark KalishRobert Owens James ParrishMarjorie ShelleyDavid StimpsonNeil C.Trager

Museum Advisory CouncilMarna AndersonExecutive Board,Friends of the SDMA

Wendy BowerSchool of Liberal Arts and Science

Patti PhillipsArt Department

Carole CowanMusic Department

Sally CrossDevelopment Director

Kurt DawDean, School of Fine and Performing Arts

Elizabeth BrothertonArt History Department

Margaret JohnsonArt Education Program

Mary Beth CollierOffice of the Provost

Michael HeilTheatre Arts Department

John VanderLippePresiding Officer of the Faculty

Phyllis FreemanPsychology Department

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interventional conservation as well. Inaddition the preparator organizes the bi-annual BFA and MFA exhibitions. Few areaware of the efforts of the preparator whenvisiting an exhibition, which quietly reflectsthe care and attention to detail thatenhances the viewer’s experience. CynthiaDill was the SDMA’s first preparator, whocame to the museum from the College ArtGallery. Her insistence on meticulousattention to all physical aspects of anexhibition are a hallmark of SDMAexhibitions. In May 2005, Cynthia took aleave of absence to attend to personalmatters and Bob Wagner was engaged asinterim preparator.

Bob, a professional photographer, cameto the Hudson Valley after living and workingin Vienna, Austria, and New York City. Hephotographed on assignment for suchpublications as Männer Vogue, Tempo, andWiener in Vienna, and Rolling Stone, ForbesMagazine, InStyle, Travel and Leisure, andVanity Fair, among others, in New York City.After moving to Rock Tavern, a suburb ofNew Windsor in 1993 with his wife anddaughter, Bob wanted to become part ofthe photography community in the HudsonValley and began an association with theCenter for Photography at Woodstock.Impressed by the activities of CPW, hebegan to assist in the installation ofexhibitions and in the matting and framing of

photographs. His involvement with CPWwas such that in 1998 he joined the Boardof Directors. Always having been interestedin the world of museums and galleries, hefound great satisfaction in his associationwith CPW.

Bob’s professional work as aphotographer and his experience at CPWmade him the ideal candidate for interimpreparator in May 2005, as two photographyexhibitions were about to be installed, TheMaterial Image: Surface and Substance inPhotography and The Maverick Festival: AnExhibition on the Centennial of the MaverickArt Colony. Seven subsequent exhibitionsdealing with everything from painting,sculpture, and art metals, to complexinstallations have benefited from hisattention. “I appreciate the opportunity tohave input into the design process and towork as part of the Dorsky team,” Bob said.The SDMA is equally as appreciative.

Jaimee UhlenbrockAssociate Curator of Collections

The responsibility for the visual appeal of anexhibition at the SDMA in large part is theresult of work done by the preparator.Although working as part of a team thatincludes the curator of the exhibition andthe SDMA’s director, the preparator isresponsible not only for matting and framing,fabricating mounts, preparing pedestals, walltext, and labels, and installing exhibitions, ,but on occasion is required to do

Howard Greenberg, internationallyrecognized photography dealer and NewYork City gallery owner, donated 97 gelatinsilver prints by Allen Ginsberg (1926 –1997), American poet and leading apostle ofthe Beat Generation.This donation not onlyhelps to expand the scope of the DorskyMuseum’s holdings in American photography,but it greatly increases the number of otherimages by Ginsberg that are already part ofthe permanent collection.

This series of prints contains portraits ofWilliam S. Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, andNeal Cassady, who were all intimate friendsof Ginsberg’s during the “Beat” era inAmerican sub-culture of the 1950s and1960s. From these images one can not onlydocument the relationships between theseinfluential poets and thinkers of the period,but also gain a better understanding of theirunconventional lifestyles.

The photographs in this collection werecreated between 1953 and 1995 anddocument a range of locations, from interior

shots done in Ginsberg’s lower Manhattanapartment to various trips to China, India,and Morocco made by the photographerand his entourage. A number of these imagesalso contain extensive descriptions written bythe artist underneath the image, including hissignature.

However, what is even more interestingthan these exotic locales is the fact that thisdonation also contains self-portraits of theartist, and images of family membersincluding Ginsberg’s father, and brother,besides prints of famous people includingsinger and songwriter Bob Dylan, Dr.TimothyLeary from the Millbrook PsychedelicResearch Center, Beat Generation writersJack Kerouac and Herbert Hunke, and JelloBiafra of the Dead Kennedy’s rock bandfame. When taken as a whole, this collectionof photographs transports one back to theturbulent times of the 1950s and 1960swhile giving one a good view of thesomewhat ‘calmer’ lifestyle of the 1980s.

While Allen Ginsberg was the first Beatwriter to gain popular notice after he gave athundering performance of his poem Howl atthe now-legendary Six Gallery poetryreading in October 1955, his photographicescapades unfortunately have beenovershadowed by his subsequent success as

one of America’s new breed of poets andwriters. Yet, as one views this importantdonation of photographic images inretrospect, it is apparent that Ginsberg wasalso subconsciously laying the groundworkfor a new generation of Americanphotographers who increasingly have turnedtheir attention to photographing their lives ina less formal, more snap-shot like manner.

It is safe to say that the direct, gutsyapproach found in Ginsberg’s writings is alsoreflected in his photographs. It is this rawexploration of human emotions that remainswith the viewer long after the images havebeen put away.

Wayne Lempka, Art Collections Manager

Bob Wagner, Preparator

Profile:

And the Beat Goes On

Collection News

Alan Ginsberg, AmericanPeter Orlovsky visiting hisfamily1987; reprinted 1990Gelatin silver print onpaper2004.038.082

Exhibitions

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Night 8 comes from a key series ofabstract works (many of them executed inthe notoriously difficult-to-work Belgianblack marble) that, as a group, represent thefullest flowering of Ente’s development as asculptor in the 1960s. Having crossed thethreshold from stylized representation toabstraction in the 1950s, her concernsshifted to the compression of volumetricspace into an idiosyncratic sculpturallanguage of light, line, and balance thatseems derived from the two-dimensionalforms of drawing or painting.The obsessivelysmoothed patina on the flat planes ofmarble refract and reflect light across theinky blackness of the stone, a play that iseven more strongly emphasized by the waythe artist has softened the strong geometryof the squared-off slabs with irregularindentations and sloping edges, creating aseries of shimmering highlights across thepiece.The spatial depth of the work iscompressed, with an impossibly narrow gapbetween the two slabs that serves to createshadows that outline the front piece ofmarble. It is a sculpture that seems to pushitself constantly to the verge of two-dimensionality.

In the late 1960s, Ente turned to themonoprint, a process that consumed mostof her attention in the 1970s. As she put itherself, “Printmaking, instead of drawing, hasbecome the arena for further exploration of

sculptural ideas on a two-dimensionalsurface” (V.W. Jones, Contemporary WomenSculptors,1986, p. 154). Fragment No. 25 is anexcellent example of the technique Entedeveloped for this new process. Usingwooden templates of abstract shapes, shewould ink the block, and then stamp themdirectly on the paper (B. P. Clamp, Lily Ente. ..Listening to the Stone, 2001).Here she has repeated this action,overlapping the impressions to create anarea of dense ink in the upper half of thesheet, while allowing the suggestive outlinesof the block to fall away on the bottom halfof the page.The print reiterates the keyfeatures of her sculpture—a delicate balanceof line, mass, and abstraction—whilesubstituting the toothy surface of the paperthat appears in the trailing, incompleteimprints of the wooden template for theinfinite glossiness of the marble.

Together, the print and the sculptureprovide a fascinating glimpse into Ente’screative process, illuminating unexpectedaspects of her aesthetic in both media.

Beth E.WilsonInterim Curator

From the PermanentCollection

Lily Ente

Don Nice: The Nature of ArtFebruary 5 - April 22East Wing Fifty paintings by contemporary Americanrealist painter Don Nice focusing on his laterwork that mirrors the artist’s sense of placeand his relationship to the environment ofthe Hudson Valley and its river. In theseworks, Nice paints classic American productssuch as sneakers, candy wrappers, and sodabottles and juxtaposes them with naturalelements, such as bears, fish, birds, and fruitsin site-specific landscapes from the HudsonRiver Valley. In doing so, he has created adistinctive vision of civilization’s detritus inleague with cultural concerns for theenvironment.

Co-Conspirators: Artist and CollectorSelections from the Collection ofJames Cottrell and Joseph LovettFebruary 5 - April 10West Wing: Chandler Gallery

Fourty-seven works from the collection ofJames Cottrell and Joseph Lovett offering anin-depth look at the work of Jean-MichelBasquiat, Keith Haring, Malcom Morley, DavidHockney, and others, often through severalexamples of their work. Cottrell and Lovetthave been collecting art since 1976, withmuch of their collection built around apersonal relationship with an artist. Acohesive sensibility is evident as well that isbased on a love of painting and anappreciation for whimsy and humor.

BFA/MFA ExhibitionsApril 30 – May 18West Wing: Chandler Gallery and NorthGalleryGroup exhibitions of candidate for both theBachelor of Fine Arts and the Master of FineArts degrees that present work from theirthesis projects.These intriguing exhibitionsillustrate the broad range of ideas andapproaches to contemporary art practicemastered by undergraduate and graduatestudents in the 7 studio options of the artdepartment: painting, sculpture, printmaking,metals, ceramics, graphic design, andphotography.

Summer 2005

The Material Image: Surface andSubstance In PhotographyJune 8 – August 7East Wing: Morgan Anderson Gallery,Howard Greenberg Family Gallery, and theCorridor GalleryBeth Wilson, CuratorA comprehensive survey of photographicprocesses primarily drawn from the SDMApermanent collection.This reflects thephysical nature of the medium and thespecific visual and formal effects thathistorically have been enabled by thesephotographic processes.

The Maverick Festival: An Exhibitionon the Centennial of the MaverickArt ColonyJune 8 – August 7East Wing: Sara Bedrick GalleryDr. Jaimee Uhlenbrock, CuratorVintage photographs, prints, and memorabiliafrom the Jean Gaede/Fritizi Striebel Archiveof the Center for Photography atWoodstock.These document the annualbohemian festival organized by Hervey

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Lily Ente, Night 8, 1965Belgian marbleGift of Paulette Esrig, 2001.045

Fragment No. 25, 1969MonoprintGift of Paulette Esrig, 2001.045.002

These two works, both donated to theSDMA permanent collection by the artist’sdaughter, mark a significant turning point inEnte’s career.

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White at the Maverick Art Colony atWoodstock between 1915 and 1931.

Recycled Revisited: ArtisticResponses to the Earth CharterJuly 4 – September 18West WingJohn Dahlsen and Dr. Alice Wexler, CuratorsTwelve artists from the Art Society ofKingston responding to the Earth Charter, adeclaration of the fundamental principles forbuilding a just society with a specialemphasis on the world’s environmentalchallenges.This document’s vision recognizesthat environmental protection, human rights,equitable human development, and peaceare interdependent and indivisible.Theartists represented are Takashi Abe, BarbaraBachner, Rimer Cardillo, Dennis Connors,John Dahlsen, Anthony Krauss, Iain Machell,Meadow, Franc Palaia, Shelley Parriott, ElisaPritzker, and Cynthia Winika.

FALL 2005

Encaustic Works 2005East Wing: Morgan Anderson Gallery,Howard Greenberg Family GallerySeptember 17 – December 11Dr. Karl Willers and Beth E.Wilson, Co-CuratorsA selective survey of contemporary worksusing encaustics, a wax-based medium thatdates back to Classical Greece and Rome.This exhibition showcases a range ofinnovative contemporary approaches to themedium by 24 artists who live and work inthe Hudson Valley. Inspired by the biennialseries initiated ten years ago by R&FHandmade Paints of Kingston, New York, thisexhibition celebrates the company’s ongoingleadership in revitalizing and advancing themedium, through their exhibitions andworkshop programs. Artists in theexhibition include Nancy Azara, PamelaBlum, Danielle B. Correia, Jeri Eisenberg, DanFeldman, Lorrie Fredette, Gail Gregg,ValerieHammond, Jan Harrison, James Haskin, JudyHoyt, Martin Kline, Megan Irving, HeatherHutchinson, Allyson Levy, James Meyer,Wayne Montecalvo, Laura Moriarty, DeniseOrzo,Tracina Priest, Donna Sharrett, FawnPotash, Cynthia Winika, and Rebecca Zilinski.

Juxtapositions: Selections from theMetals CollectionSeptember 17 – December 11East Wing: Sarah Bedrick GalleryJames Bennett and Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, ArtDepartment, Co-CuratorsA focus on recent acquisitions that facilitatecomparisons between a wide range ofobjects – old and new, precious andcommon, unique and production work – inorder to better understand the fluid,

dynamic relationships between thesecategories in the field of metalsmithing.Theshow also includes renderings andpreparatory sketches by a number of artists,including the recently deceased HermannJünger, the renowned and influential Germanjeweler and former professor at theAkademie der bildende Künste in Munich,who also lectured at SUNY New Paltz.

The Cult of HappinessSeptember 17 – November 6East Wing: Corridor GalleryProf Elizabeth Brotherton, Art HistoryDepartment, CuratorThirty Chinese woodblock prints selectedfrom the SDMA’s permanent collection.Created in celebration of the lunar NewYear by anonymous craftsmen or peasantsduring the agricultural off-season, they werepasted on the doors and walls of homesthroughout China in the 19th and early 20thcenturies. Mounted in conjunction with theannual meeting of the New York Conferenceof Asian Studies (NYCAS).

Images in the Heavens, Patterns onthe Earth: The I Ching, photographsby Janet Russek and DavidScheinbaumOctober 1 – November 20West Wing: Chandler Gallery Sixty-four toned gelatin silver prints takenbetween 1972 and 2003 by Janet Russekand David Scheinbaum. Inspired by the IChing (Yijing) or Book of Changes, an ancientChinese book of divination comprising 64hexagrams, the images in the exhibitiondecipher the I Ching’s multiple layers ofwords and symbols by means of image andtext.

Reading Objects 2005November 9 – December 11East Wing: Corridor Gallery Judi Esmond, CuratorThe third in a series of collection-basedexhibitions with interpretive labels by SUNYNew Paltz faculty and staff that focused on aselection of new acquisitions from themuseum’s permanent collection andpotential gifts.The interpretive labels offereda variety of voices and diverse perspectivesfrom Thomas Mounkhall, Susan Miiler, AliceWexler, Jeff Miller, Rachel Elliott Rigolino, BobWagner,Thomas Olsen, John VanderLippe,Anita Gonzalez, April French, DennisO’Keefe, Mary Fakler, Elisa Dávila, RoseRudnitski, Eric Gullickson, April French,Marilyn Hoberg, Charlotte Schultz, LaurenceCarr, Anne Gorrick, Amanda Buhler, PaulineUchmanowicz, Robin Arnold, Jan ZlotnikSchmidt, and Peter Kaufman.

BFA/MFA ExhibitionsDecember 3 – December 14West Wing: Chandler Gallery and NorthGalleryGroup exhibitions of candidates for both theBachelor of Fine Arts and the Master of FineArts degrees that present work from theirthesis projects.These intriguing exhibitionsillustrate the broad range of ideas andapproaches to contemporary art practicemastered by undergraduate and graduatestudents in the 7 studio options of the artdepartment: painting, sculpture, printmaking,metals, ceramics, graphic design, andphotography.

On-Line Exhibitions

The Maverick Festival, 1916 – 1931A photographic archive with historicalcommentary on the Maverick Festival ofWoodstock, an annual bohemian festivalfounded by Hervey White of the MaverickArt Colony located in West Hurley that ranfrom 1915 to 1931. Mounted in conjunctionwith the exhibition The Maverick Festival: AnExhibition on the Centennial of the MaverickArt Colony.

Asian Art at the Samuel DorskyMuseum of ArtA review of the over 300 works of Asian artdivided into the categories of sculpture,painting, prints, and decorative arts. Mountedin conjunction with the New York StateAssociation of Asian Studies Conference.

Puerto Rican Silkscreen Posters,1952 – 1983Includes works by Lorenzo Homar, RafaelTufiño, José Alicea, and Antonio Martorell,among others, who represent the goldenage of the silkscreen poster in Puerto Rico.Mounted in conjunction with HispanicAwareness Month.

Provenience Unknown! IllegalExcavations Destroy theArchaeological HeritageDocuments the looting and illicit trafficing ofSouth Italian archaeological artifacts.This wascreated originally as a documentary panelexhibition by Daniel Graepler of theUniversity of Goettingen, Germany, andMarina Mazzei of the Superintendency ofArchaeological Properties for Puglia,Taranto,Italy.This English version was producedcollaboratively by the Art HistoryDepartment and the Samuel DorskyMuseum of Art.

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Public Programs

March 14 – Studio visit with Don Nice inconjunction with the exhibition Don Nice:The Nature of Art.

July 13 – Curator’s talk with Beth Wilson inconjunction with the exhibition The MaterialImage: Surface and Substance In Photography.

August 5 – Conversations@SDMA with JeanGaede, moderated by curator JaimeeUhlenbrock, held in conjunction with theexhibition The Maverick Festival: An Exhibitionon the Centennial of the Maverick Art Colony.

August 3 – Docent tour by Sarah Heady inconjunction with the exhibition The MaterialImage: Surface and Substance In Photography.

August 10 – Conversations@SDMA held inconjunction with the exhibition RecycledRevisited: Artistic Responses to the EarthCharter featured artists Barbara Bachner,Shelly Parriot. Anthony Krauss, Meadow,Franc Palaia, and Eliza Pritzker.

October 23 – Conversations@SDMA inconjunction with the exhibition EncausticWorks 2005 featured artists Fawn Potash,Nancy Azara, Laura Moriarity, and ValerieHammond,

September 21 – On Collecting, a roundtablediscussion with members of the Art JewelryForum, comprised a group of collectors,curators, and others from across the country.The discussion explored the nature of

collecting from personal and institutionalperspectives, as well as the mission andsubjectivity related to objects and theirdisplay.

October 1 – New York Conference onAsian Studies panel discussion on Chinesepopular prints, co-sponsored by the ArtHistory department and held in conjunctionwith the exhibition The Cult of Happiness.

October 6 – Lecture, Discreet Brushstrokes:Jasper Johns Use of Encaustics, RobertaBernstein, Art History department, SUNYAlbany, co-sponsored by the Art Alliance, afunded member of Student Association

November 30 – Conversations@SDMA withMyra Mimlitsch-Gray and Sarahs Turner, inconjunction with the exhibitionJuxtapositions: Selections from the MetalsCollection.

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The second new program is calledConversations@SDMA and was inaugurated inJuly.This is an on-going series at the museumthat seeks to build a dialogue betweencurators, artists, and audiences. The firstfeatured Jean Gaede, co-founder of the JeanGaede/Fritzi Striebel Archive from which theexhibition The Maverick Festival was drawn,who spoke about life at the Maverick ArtColony in the early 1900s. Recycled Revisited:Artistic Responses to the Earth Charter wasthe focus of one of the Conversations inwhich the artists Barbara Bachner, ShelleyParriott, Anthony Krauss, Meadow, FrancPalaia, and Elisa Pritzker participated.Encaustic Works 2005 was illuminated byConversations with Laura Moriarty, FawnPotash,Vallerie Hammond, and Nancy Azara.In December Myra Mimlitsch-Gray,participating artist and co-curator of theexhibition Juxtapositions: Selections from theMetals Collection was joined by Sarah Turnerin a dialogue about works in the exhibition.

Another innovative project for theSDMA was the creation of an educationalvideo on the history and technique ofencaustic painting and the transformation ofthe Seminar Room of the SDMA into aneducational environment in support of theexhibition Encaustic Works 2005.The videowas created by Mike Koczanksi ofInstructional Media Services, DanielleCorreia of R&F Handmade Paints inKingston, and SDMA museum educator JudiEsmond. Sean Snow from R&F HandmadePaints made a timeline of the history ofencaustic painting and put togetherinformative displays of encaustic tools andmaterials.

Hands-on workshops again were afeature of our educational program.Twoworkshops on the cyanotype techniquewere developed in conjunction with thephotography exhibitions The Material Imageand The Maverick Festival. Cyanotype wasone of the original photographic techniquesthat used light sensitive emulsion. HighSchool students from the YMCA took partin one workshop, while the second wasdedicated to adults. A important aspect ofthese workshops was a tour of the MaterialImage, where the various photographictechniques represented were discussed. Aworkshop on encaustic painting for SUNYNew Paltz students was given by R&FHandmade Paints in Kingston in support ofthe exhibition Encaustic Works 2005.Students received a demonstration by artistand SUNY instructor Wayne Montecalvoand 4 hours of studio ttime to work withthe encaustic medium.The exhibitionRecycled-Revisited was the occasion for asculpture and collage workshop given byShelley Parriott that focused on the used ofrecycled materials.

As always, SDMA exhibitions are theoccasion for group visits from students.SUNY New Paltz students came as part ofclasses in Art Criticism, Philosophy of Art,Basic Photography, Environmental Sociology,Introduction to Metals, Chinese Calligraphy,Introduction to the Visual Arts, Introductionto Drawing and Design, English as a SecondLanguage, and Freshman English. Studentsfrom the Language Immersion Institute weretreated to a Curator’s talk in German on theexhibition The Material Image by curatorBeth Wilson. In addition, student groups

The SDMA continues to offer a richvariety of educational programs both forschool groups and for the general public.Over 1,000 students and adults participatedin the SDMA’s engaging and informativeprograms. Aside from public lectures,curator’s talks, docent talks, school visits,demonstrations, and workshops, this yearsaw the introduction of two new publicprograms.The first, called Studio Visits, wasinitiated in March and focuses on an artist inthe working environment of the studio inorder to illuminate aspects of the creativeprocess. In conjunction with the exhibitionDon Nice:The Nature of Art, the artist DonNice opened his studio to a group of veryenthusiastic visitors from the SDMA, showingthem sketches from his travels and otherpreparatory sketches relating to his work.

Education News

A proud student holds up a cyanotype.

came from New Paltz High School, OnteoraHigh School, the YMCA, the Girl Scouts, andthe Children’s Center.

The SDMA and the Student ArtAlliance co-sponsored a public lecture byRoberta Bernstein of the Art HistoryDepartment at SUNY Albany. EntitledDiscreet Brushstrokes: Jasper Johns Use ofEncaustics, it was given in association withthe exhibition Encaustic Works 2005.Curator’s talks for various exhibitions weregiven by Karl Willers, Beth Wilson, and AliceWexler, while intern Sarah Heady fromOberlin College gave a series of docenttours to SUNY New Paltz Students, facultyand staff, as well as the larger New Paltzcommunity.

A round-table discussion On Collectingwas held in support of the exhibitionJuxtapositions: Selections from the MetalsCollection.This coincided with a visit to theexhibition by the Art Jewelry Forum, a not-for-profit national organization designed tonurture the field of contemporary artjewelry.Well-known collectors were able toparticipate in thoughtful discussions withpanel members.

Once again we are grateful for theenthusiastic support of the members of ourcampus community and of the larger outsidecommunity of the Hudson Valley.

Judi EsmondEducation Coordinator

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Children from the Children’s Center on campus are awestruck by Don Nice’s imaginative and colorful paintings in the exhibition Don Nice:The Nature of Art.

A student from New Paltz High Schoolcompletes a project for her Creative Crafts classat the metals exhibition Juxtapositions: Selectionsfrom the Metals Collection.

A demonstration of paint-making techniques atR & F Handmade Paints.

Nancy Azara engages everyone at herpresentation for the series Conversations@SDMAheld in conjunction with the exhibition EncausticWorks 2005.

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray and Sarah Turner discusscontemporary metals at the exhibitionJuxtapositions: Selections from the Metals Collectionfor the series Conversations@SDMA.

Richard Furmess of R & F Handmade Paints in Kingstondiscusses encaustic processes at the exhibition EncausticWorks 2005.

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DONORRobert and Barbara BachnerMatthew BialeckiBruce BlumenthalMargaret CostaKurt and Hillary DawPaulette and Bernard EsrigGeorge and Cami FischerTom FletcherProfs. Phyllis Freeman and David KrikunDavid and Ellen LevyMurphy’s Restaurant and PubWilliam and Sally RhoadsFranklin RiehlmanCarol A. RoperDr. Joan SegallChaim Tabak and Nava AtlasJoseph P. and Mimi TrapaniWindham Fine Arts

DUAL/HOUSEHOLDJim and Gloria Adair Miriam BedrickB. J. Berti and Vincent ScillaNancy Azara and Darla BjorkLee Bernstein and Lisa CollinsAlan CooperMelanie and Ryan CroninPenny and David DellJoseph Ellis and Ruth VoorhiesAngelo Franco and Rosemary DudaTom FletcherDavid and Irma GoldknopfAmy Huston and James HaskinLiz InnvarPhil and Janet KissingerArie and Jane Kopelman Frank and Susan KraatChui-chun LeeKurt MatzdorfThomas and Susan Mounkhall Marcel NageleTom Olsen and Marina GarattiBarbara and Lou PetruzzelliPhilip and Bunny SavinoGeorge A. SchnellJedd and Shannon SimsPeggy WallaceArthur WeyheReva WolfBarbara Zausner and Clem HallquistElena Zang and Alan Hoffman

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEArthur A. AndersonSara and Joseph BecrickDavid Dorsky and Helaine PosnerKaren DorskyNoah DorskyHoward Greenberg FamilyRobert Owens and Eve KleinJames and Mary OttawayHarold and Ellen Rubin

BENEFACTORJohn and Linda BabbAmy BrownAlice and Horace ChandlerDonna Harkavy and Jonathan PriceMark I. KalishGregory MillerMiguel OksJames and Phyllis Parrish Marjorie ShelleyHarvey and Phyllis RogoffDr. Mark and Ilene RosenDavid Stimpson and Natalia NikovaKenneth Wiener and Betsy RapoportSusan Wisherd

PATRONBarsky-Greenstein Foundation Adam and Risa DorskyMark Rosen & Tamara KirsonDavid Ian Watson

SPONSORMarna Anderson & Ernest ShawBeatrice BlondoProf. Peter D. G. BrownJames and Mary Anna CoxLisa HahnSiim and Mary Jane HanjaDavid and Carmen OlenickParks and Trails NYPlaza DinerSteven and Jane PoskanzerRaymond and Jean SchragPhilip SchunkWilliam W. & Sarah J.Vasse Ken Weiner & Betsy RapoportJ. Phillip Zand

CONTRIBUTORJoyce BalsamoJamie BennettAmy BurdickJudith ChaifetzAlan CooperJoan E. DavisonLinda FreaneySandra GreeneHelen HarkonenS.Warren HurleyPeter and Kathleen KrausSusan I. LewisCarol LoizidesAnn MorseDr. John Neumaier and Dr. Sara LutherJune and Irwin PolatsekDiantha SchullChuck and Jeanette StraeblerDana TerwilligerRose TerwilligerJaimee UhlenbrockHelen VukasinHelise Winters

STUDENTIlyssa LeperJacquelyn DuPreySiri HanjaSusan SproleNancy Wallace

Friends of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 2005

Happenings 2005

Howard Greenberg deep in conversation at the dedication of theHoward Greenberg Family Gallery.

Karen Dorsky and associate at the Friends of the SDMA membershiptable.

Distinguished scholars of Asian studies compare ideas atthe reception for the New York Conference on AsianStudies held at the SDMA.

Jason Ardovino receives a rose and a celebratory hug at hisMFA thesis exhibition.

Painter Don Nice shows his sketches of Africa to a group of SDMAvisitors to his studio.

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Beth Wilson and Wayne Lempka at the opening for the exhibition Reading Objects 05.

Professors Peter Brown and David Krikun examine photographs at the exhibitionThe Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography.

Artists Elisa Pritzker, Anthony Krauss, Alice Wexler, Shelley Parriott, and FrancPalaia at the opening of their exhibition Recycled Revisited: Artistic Responses tothe Earth Charter.

The SDMA hosts the annual Parks and Trails NewYork Awards Reception.

Beth Wilson, curator of the exhibition The Material Image: Surface and Substance inPhotography, gives a gallery talk.

Visitors to the SDMA at the opening of the exhibitions The Material Image: Surfaceand Substance in Photography and The Maverick Festival: An Exhibition on theCentennial of the Maverick Art Colony.

Happenings 2005 Continued▼

Katrina Finkle and Marie Foley, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.013

Darin York behind the wheel of his father’s Oldsmobile,1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.014

Thanksgiving Play. Debbie Walters, Katrina Finkle,Tommy Cuddeback, Peter Thrap, Marie Foley & Maureen Bradley, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.015

Bobby Cuddeback at the Cub Scout Blue and GoldAnnual Dinner, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.016

Charles “Butch” Cornish slaps Robert Kilmer on theback while Steve Hurn watches, Saron Gop and infantGeorgina Gordon, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.017

Dee Dee and Georgona Gordon at dinner, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.018

Pete Cahill’s band at the Volunteer Fireman’s AnnualDance. Gary Flinn plays air guitar, 1972Gelatin silver print2005.005.019

Rosie Miles & her daughter Donna at the VolunteerFireman’s Annual Dance, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.020

Tink Miles and his son Pecky. Freddie Richards puts alighted cigarette into Pecy’s pocket. Jennifer Bartelstares ahead, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.021

Betsy Colkin,Tommy Stickles, Stacy Atkinson, AmandaCahill, Petra Miller at the Day Care Center, 1983Gelatin silver print2005.005.022

Susie Furey, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.023

Evan Downey dressed as a cowboy on Halloween, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.024

Georgina Gordon dressed as Frankenstein onHalloween, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.025

Katrina Bruselle surprised at her desk on Halloween,1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.026

Christina Cahill, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.027

Craig Wickwire as “Prancer,” 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.028

Grade School Classroom, 1989Gelatin silver print2005.005.029

Middle School Desktop, 1987Gelatin silver print2005.005.030

Middle School Classroom, 1987Gelatin silver print2005.005.031

N. E. Baptist Church School Blackboard, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.032

“In Love,” 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.033

Gifts of the ArtistJames Bennett, American

Drawing for “Bottle with Two References,” 1988 Mixed media on paper2005.046.006

Drawing for Bottle with Two References,” 1988Graphite on paper2005.046.007

Drawing for “Red Site Series,” 1982Mixed media on paper2005.046.008

Drawing for “Red Site Series,” 1982Mixed media on paper2005.046.009

Red Site #5 (Brooch), 1982Enamel, sterling silver2005.048

Sharon Church, AmericanProposal for Brooch in Ebony and Gold, 1988Gouache, prismacolor pencil on paper2005.043.001

Leather Leaf Neckring, 1992Leather, 14 kt. yellow gold, vermilion2005.043.002

Kim Cridler, AmericanUntitled (necklace), 1995Steel, gold

Bettina Dittlmann, GermanHeart-Necklace, n.d.Iron, steel2005.055

Mark Goodman, AmericanBeverly Rice & her daughter,WendyGelatin silver print2005.005.001

Charles “Butch” Cornish, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.002

Bonnie Henderson, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.003

Nancy Garneau and her baby’s hand, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.004

Alan DeWitt, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.005

George “Skipp” Miles, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.006

Robbin Weil, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.007

Suzzanah Finkle, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.008

Ricky Boice and Tommy Cuddeback “exchange heads,”1972Gelatin silver print2005.005.009

Carol Brazee with John and Doug Simmons in theirkitchen, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.010

George Angiers and his granddaughter Rachel, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.011

Jeanne Bilquin dancing at home, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.012

Donald York, Jr. , standing beside his father’s wrecker,1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.042

Spiderman climbs the curtains, 1980Gelatin silver print2005.005.034

Hubcap and “Love Hurts” 45 rpm record, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.035

Robin Bertomen in her bedroom, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.036

Dean Henderson, Cindy Henderson, & Apphia Prauseplaying inside a Roy Rogers pup tent, 1973, Gelatinsilver print2005.005.037

Bobby Breen kissing a dog while two other dogsfornicate, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.038

Kara and Susie Breen with their dog and babycarriage, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.039

Leah Shackelton holding her Cher doll, n.d.Gelatin silver print2005.005.040

Donna Burke, Donald Call holding two catfish, Jennifer& Chris Najdek, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.041

Wendy Rice, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.043

Jessica Donlevy, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.044

Alicia Baker and Michael Jarvis, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.045

Dawn Craigoire and T. J. Miles, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.046

Tom Dean and his daughter Vickie on her weddingday, 1983Gelatin silver print2005.005.047

Pat Finkle and Alan McCord.The day following Alan’sfirst homemade tattoo, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.048

Pat Finkle and Alan McCord in their backyard, 1991Gelatin silver print2005.005.049

Jenny Clark Hopkins and her daughter Devon, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.050

Steve Clark & his son Andrew, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.051

Dee Dee Blass, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.052

Virginia Simmons, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.053

Joan Waters & her daughter Karen, 1980Gelatin silver print2005.005.054

Fran Day and her daughter Darcy, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.055

Carol Brazee and Roberta Simmons, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.056

Virginia Finkle and her daughter Vicki, 1972Gelatin silver print2005.005.057

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Acquisitions 2005

David McCall, 1972Gelatin silver print2005.005.083

David McCall, 1980Gelatin silver print2005.005.084

Michael Tanner & Darin York, 1979Gelatin silver print2005.005.085

Willow Pulver, a Girl Scout, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.086

Willow Pulver, A High School Senior, 1980Gelatin silver print2005.005.087

Clyde Miller at age 17, 1971Gelatin silver print2005.005.088

Clyde Miller at age 36, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.089

Mark Peck and his dog Doobie, 1975Gelatin silver print2005.005.090

Mark Peck and his dog Doobie, 1991Gelatin silver print2005.005.091

1982, 1982Gelatin silver print2005.005.092

1982, 1982Gelatin silver print2005.005.093

Lisa Gralnick, AmericanGold Brooch, 200218 kt. gold2005.056

“Iris” Ring, 199918 kt gold2005.057

“Iris” Ring, 1999Etching on paper2005.058.001

“Iris” Ring, 1999Etching on paper2005.058.002

Sergey Jivetin, UzbekCupola #4 (Brooch), 2005Watch hands, stainless steel2005.044

Yevgeny Kaganovich, AmericanPearl Necklace, 2005Latex, fresh water pearls2005.020

Anya Kivarkis, AmericanBrooch, 2005Copper, sterling silver, enamel2005.038

Myra Mimlitsch Gray, AmericanSpoon Study, 1993Etching & drypoint on paper2005.022

Tod Pardon, AmericanAgaboon (Brooch), 2003Sterling silver, 14 kt gold, wood, bone, pigment, glass,pearl2005.041.003

Frozen Light, 2001Sterling silver, 14kt gold, wood, bone, simulatedivory, glass, pigment2005.041.004

Jennifer Pollock, AmericanClip on Formality, 2004Sterling silver, plastic spoon, nickel silver2005.053

Vicki Finkle, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.058

Vicki Finkle, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.059

Moriah Morrison, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.060

Jack Clark and his son Jimmy, 1973Gelatin silver print2005.005.061

Steve McKiefran, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.062

Bill Hanley and his son Tommy, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.063

Merle Auclaire & his sons Stanley,Tommy, and Stevie,1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.064

Bill Hurn and his son Jesse, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.065

Harry Gop & his son Dicky, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.066

Sam “Pecky” Miles, 1974Gelatin silver print2005.005.067

Sam “Pecky” Miles and his daughter, 1986Gelatin silver print2005.005.068

1979, 1979Gelatin silver print2005.005.069

1978, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.070

19719, 1979Gelatin silver print2005.005.071

Willie Oles holds a steak knife, 1980Gelatin silver print2005.005.072

1988, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.073

1988, 1988Gelatin silver print2005.005.074

Brian Hay, 1982Gelatin silver print2005.005.075

1977, 1977Gelatin silver print2005.005.076

1990, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.077

1990, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.078

1997, 1997Gelatin silver print2005.005.079

Jesse, Homemade Tattoo, 1978Gelatin silver print2005.005.080

Jesse, Professional Tattoo In-Progress, 1990Gelatin silver print2005.005.081

Gloria Murname, 1983Gelatin silver print2005.005.082

Sharon Portelance, AmericanCovet The Pure (Brooch), 2000Sterling silver, 22 kt gold, glass, 14 Kt. white gold2005.037

Mary Preston, AmericanChromosome (brooch), 2002Oxidized silver, 18k gold, seed pearls, pearls2005.019

Sakurako Shimizu, JapaneseColor Circles (42 brooches), 2002Rhodium plating on sterling silver and brass,stainless steel, flag cloth2005.015.001.042

David Urso, AmericanSpiral Pin, 2005Sterling silver, mustard powder, epoxy2005.040.001

Hairlot Pin, 2005Sterling silver, alfalfa, espresso, epoxy2005.040.002

“X” Pin, 2005Sterling silver, ginger powder, epoxy2005.040.003

Sunburst Pin, 2005AmericanSterling silver, ground pigment, bath salts, epoxy2005.040.004

“O” Pin, 2005Sterling silver, chili powder, espresso flecks, epoxy2005.040.005

Door Pin, 2005Sterling silver, white clay, poppy seed, epoxy2005.040.006

Heather White, American Chrysanthemum (Brooch), 2004Polyurethane, fine silver, copper2005.047

Sayumi Yokouchi, AmericanPortable Garden 3, 1998Copper, brass, wood, enamel paint, rubber, plastic,contact paper2005.039 a-l

Gifts of James BennettFred Wall, American

Poptop Pin, 1992Found materials2005.046.001

David Tisdale, AmericanSpoon, 1986Anodized aluminum2005.046.002

Jim Cotter, AmericanFish Stick Fork, 1974Bronze2005.046.003

Gary S. Griffin, AmericanUntitled (from Disposable Brooch Series), n.d.

Rubber2005.046.004

Untitled (from Disposable Brooch Series), n.d.Silicon carbide2005.046.005

Gift of Jeannine BootonPhil Fike, American

Fibula (Brooch),1989Stainless steel2005.049

Gift of Ken GrayMichael Lionheart, American

Spoon, 1995Steel tie rod end2005.021

Gift of Howard GreenbergDebbie Fleming Caffery, American

May Vans Camp, 1987-1994Photogravure2005.070.030

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Acquisitions 2005 Continued▼

Lobsterman, Maine, 1946Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.041

Old Larsen, Lobsterman, Pigeon Cove, Mass., ca. 1946Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.042

Untitled (rapids), ca. 1946Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.043

Dewey Beach, Del., 1946Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.044

Oysterman, Chincoteague, Va., 1946Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.045

Untitled (antiques in shop), ca. 1935Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.046

Louis Faurer, AmericanChampion, New York, NY, 1950Gelatin silver print, printed 19802005.070.004

Women in Front of Billboard, New York, 1949Gelatin silver print, printed 19802005.070.018

Union Square with Hangers, New York, 1948Gelatin silver print, printed 19802005.070.019

Robert Frank, AmericanThe Day Andrea Was Born, 1954Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19542005.070.048

Mary Holding Pablo in the Park, ca. 1951Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19512005.070.049

Mary Breastfeeding Andrea While Pablo Lays on HisBack in Bed, 1954Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19542005.070.050

Mary Breastfeeding Andrea While Pablo Lays on HisBack in Bed, 1954Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19542005.070.051

Pablo with Unknown Woman and Man on a Picnic,1952Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19522005.070.052

Morris Huberland, AmericanHarlem Carnival, 1950Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19502005.070.106

Bryant Park, 42nd St., NYC, 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.107

San Francisco Bay, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940s2005.070.108

East Side Children on Open Lot, 1940sGelatin silver print; printer later2005.070.109

New York City, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.110

Greenwich Village, Festa of San Gennaro, 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.111

Downtown,Westside, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940s2005.070.112

Greenwich Village, NYC, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940s2005.070.113

42nd St. Library Steps, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.114

Super in Basement Apartment, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940s2005.070.015

Pa Pa, 1987-1994Photogravure2005.070.031

Enterprise, 1985-1994Photogravure2005.070.059

Henri Cartier-Bresson, FrenchMexico, 1964Gelatin silver print, printed 19642005.070.047

Untitled (landscape), ca. 1960Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s2005.070.070

Iran, 1960Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s2005.070.071

Saudi Arabia, 1960Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s2005.070.072

Untitled (woman on porch), 1948Gelatin silver print, printed 1960’s2005.070.073

Untitled (nuns at an art exhibition), 1960Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s2005.070.074

Untitled (politician speaking), 1960Gelatin silver print, printed 1960’s2005.070.075

Konrad Cramer, AmericanUntitled, 1950Silver print, printed 19502005.070.104

Eugene Speicher,1935Silver print, printed 19352005.070.122

Men with Stove, Emil Ganso and Russell Lee, 1937Silver print, printed c. 19372005.070.123

Arnold Eagle, AmericanThird Avenue El, Chatham Square Station, New York,1944Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.010

18th Street and Third Avenue, 1936Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.011

Tenement Kids, circa 1935-1937Gelatin silver print2005.070.032

New York, Merry-Go-Around, 1947Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.033

One Third of the Nation, New York, East Side, 1937Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.034

Spanish Grocery on the Bowery, 1940Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.035

Under the Third Avenue El, c.1936Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.036

Window, 18th Street Station, 1936Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.037

Eliot Elisofon, AmericanCharleston, S.C. Slum, 1945Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.001

Untitled (outside an antique shop), 1935Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.038

Mississippi, 1945Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.039

Untitled (Chaim Gross). ca. 1935Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.040

Untitled (woman walking with flame), 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.116

Stanton Street, NYC, 195’sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.117

NYC, East Side, 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.118

Spanish Children, Harlem, NYC, 1940sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940s2005.070.119

Boy Watching Window Display at Lord and TaylorChristmas Week, 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.120

Boys, Brooklyn Bridge Area, NYC, 1950sGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950s2005.070.121

Barbara Kasten, AmericanConstruct XI-B, 1981Unique Polaroid2005.070.056

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, AmericanClass Picnic, 1938Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19382005.070.067

South Ferry, 1938Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19382005.070.068

Rockport, Mass., 1938Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19382005.070.069

Leon Levinstein, AmericanUntitled (man and reflection), ca. 1953Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.062

India, c.1979Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19792005.070.063

Mexico, 1959Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19592005.070.064

Nuclear Protest,Wall Street, ca. 1968Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19682005.070.065

New Orleans, Mardi Gras, 1975Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 19752005.070.066

Sheila Metzner, AmericanUntitled, 1992Fresson print2005.070.058

Abelardo Morrell, AmericanBook: Portraits by Ghirlandaio and Botticelli, 1993Gelatin silver print2005.070.057

Edward Steichen, AmericanCarl Sandburg, Umpawaug Farm, 1939Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.053

The Photographer’s Best Model - George BernardShaw, London, 1907Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.054

Richard Strauss, New York, 1904Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.055

Seneca Ray Stoddard, AmericanLower Ausable Pond, 1876-91Vintage albumen print2005.070.007

Fort William Henry, 1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.024

14 Mile Island House, Lake George, from North, 1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.025

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Mountain House from South, Lake George, 1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.027

Lake Champlain, near the Elbow, 1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.028

Put’s Rock, Lake Champlain, 1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.026

Homeward Bound, Coaches at St.Wm. Henry Hotel,1891Vintage albumen print2005.070.023

Luzerne Falls, 1876-1891Vintage Albumen Print2005.070.008

Holy Cross,Warrensburg, 876-1891Vintage Albumen Print2005.070.09

Josef Sudek, AmericanWhite Mountain Panorama, 1948-1954Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.003

Still Life, 1930sVintage gelatin silver print2005.070.017

From “A Walk on Kampa Island,” 1963-1971Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.008

The Slavin Cemetery on Vysehrad Hill, Prague, 1948Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.020

View of Prague from Uvoz Street, 1948Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.021

18th Street and Third Avenue, 1936gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.011

NY Life, 1937Gelatin silver print, printed later2005.070.006

Eva Watson-Schütze, AmericanUntitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.076

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.077

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.078

Untitled (portrait of woman), 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.079

Untitled. 1915-1920Chloride print2005.070.080

Untitled, 1915-1920Chloride print2005.070.081

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.082

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.083

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.084

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.085

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.086

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.087

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.088

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.090

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.089

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.090

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.091

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.092

Elsie Speicher, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.093

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.094

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.095

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.096

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.097

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.098

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.099

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.0100

Untitled, 1900-1910Chloride print2005.070.101

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.102

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.103

Untitled, 1900-1910Platinum print2005.070.105

Weegee, AmericanFiremen Rush to truck wrapped in fire at Broome andThompson Street, September 7, 1937Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.014

In the Cooler, n.d.Gelatin silver print2005.070.029

One of Dewey’s Men, Assistant District Attorney JacobGrumer at scene of cop shooting,” n.d.Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.022

Man in Jail Cell, ca. 1940Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.002

Man in Jail Cell, ca. 1940Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.002

Sherman Billingsly, owner of Stork Club, talks withreporters about the threatened lock-up of his club foralleged non-payment of taxes, July 23, 1944Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.013

Untitled (men jumping over a wall), 1936Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.012

Untitled, 1936Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.016

Untitled (Fireman and Man on Ladder), 1936Vintage gelatin silver print2005.070.014

Camera WorkNumber XXII, 1908Complete Issue

Numbers XLII – XLIII, 1913Complete Issue

Gift of Mike Holmes & Elizabeth ShyperttSayumi Yokouchi, American

Brooch, 2000Oxidized silver, painted brass2005.054

Gifts of Barbara Bernald LoweAl Held, American

Untitled [abstraction], 1958Oil on canvas2005.004

Godfried Schalcken, Dutch Untitled (portrait of a lady), later 17th centuryOil on canvas2005.023.001

Untitled (portrait of a gentleman), later 17thcenturyOil on canvas2005.023.002

Gift of Myra Mimlitsch-GrayGary S. Griffin, American

Untitled (from the Disposable Brooch Series), 1983Sand paper, platinum2005.059

Gift of Dennis MooreJoan Barker, American

Underwater #6, 2004-2005Pigmented inkjet on paper2005.008

Gifts of Tod PardonEarl Pardon, American

Paint Patch (Bracelet), 1987Painted enamel, topaz, amethyst, ruby, rhodalite,on sterling silver2005.041.001

Untitled (Brooch), 1983Sterling silver, 14kt. gold, ebony, enamel, shell,rhodolite, ruby2005.041.002

Gift of Jonathan WahlAnonymous American

Military Cross Pendant of Lt. Col. O. Moulton, 1864Silver2005.018

Acquisitions 2005 Continued▼

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the SUNY New Paltz art faculty on the themeof ‘nature.’The diversity of these media reflectthe varied approaches taken by these facultymembers as they address issues of place, theenvironment, and our response(s) to them, aswe begin to appreciate what has been lost,what has been gained, and how we willcontinue to shape our relationship to ‘nature’ inthe future. Artists include Joan Barker, KarenCapobianco, Amy Cheng, Kathy Goodell, IttyNeuhaus, Matthew Palin, Chunsoo Park, GabrielPhipps, Emily Puthoff,Thomas Sarrantonio, AnatShiftan, Elena Sniezek, Suzanne Stokes, andPamela Wallace.

BFA/MFA Thesis ExhibitionsWest Wing: Chandler Gallery and NorthGalleryBFA 1, April 29 – May 3, opening receptionApril 28, 6 – 8 pmBFA 2, May 6 – May 10, opening reception May 5, 6 – 8 pmMFA 1, May 13 – May 17, opening receptionMay 12, 6 – 8 pmMFA 2, May 20-May 24, opening reception May 19, 7:30 – 9:30 pm

Group exhibitions of candidates for both theBachelor of Fine Arts and the Master of FineArts degrees presenting work from their thesisprojects.These intriguing exhibitions illustratethe broad range of ideas and approaches tocontemporary art practice mastered byundergraduate and graduate students in the 7studio options of the art department: painting,sculpture, printmaking, metals, ceramics, graphicdesign, and photography.

Summer 2006

Selections from the PermanentCollectionEast WingOpening TBA

Hudson Valley Artists 2006West Wing: Chandler Gallery and NorthGalleryOpening TBA

Style and Wit; Scene Designs of RayKurdtWest Wing: North GalleryJanuary 17 - 20

Exhibition of stage designs from the McKennaProductions Collection named in honor ofRaymond Kurdt, emeritus professor of TheatreArts, at SUNY, New Paltz. Held in conjunctionwith the Kennedy Center American CollegeTheater Festival.

American Scenery: Different Views inHudson River School PaintingEast WingFebruary 4 – May 14, opening receptionFebruary 4, 2 – 4 pmJudith O’Toole,Westmoreland Museum ofAmerican Art, CuratorCurator’s talk by Judith O’Toole at 1 pm,February 4

An exhibition of 19th century Americanlandscape painting by artists associated with theHudson River School.The exhibition featurespaintings grouped by pairs or arranged in seriesso the viewer can see how differentgenerations of Hudson River School artistsinterpreted the majestic American landscape.The Hudson River School, considered by manyto be the first truly American school ofpainting, flourished between 1825 and 1875.The three generations of artists (71 in all)represented in the exhibition of 116 paintingsare assembled from one private collection.

Second Nature: Selected Works by theArt FacultyWest Wing: Chandler Gallery and NorthGalleryFebruary 4 – April 2, opening receptionFebruary 4, 2 – 4 pmBeth Wilson, Curator

A range of artistic responses by members of

An annual juried exhibition featuring the workof emerging and mid-career artists living andworking in the mid-Hudson Valley and Catskillmountain regions.

On-Line Exhibitions

The Maverick Festival, 1916-1931A photographic archive with historicalcommentary on the Maverick Festival ofWoodstock, an annual bohemian festivalfounded by Hervey White of the Maverick ArtColony located in West Hurley that ran from1915 to 1931. Mounted in conjunction with theexhibition The Maverick Festival: An Exhibitionon the Centennial of the Maverick Art Colony.

Asian Art at the Samuel DorskyMuseum of ArtA review of the over 300 works of Asian artdivided into the categories of sculpture,painting, prints, and decorative arts. Mounted inconjunction with the New York StateAssociation of Asian Studies Conference

Puerto Rican Silkscreen Posters, 1952 –1983Includes works by Lorenzo Homar, RafaelTufiño, José Alicea, and Antonio Martorell,among others, who represent the golden ageof the silkscreen poster in Puerto Rico.Mounted in conjunction with HispanicAwareness Month.

Provenience Unknown! IllegalExcavations Destroy theArchaeological HeritageDocuments the looting and illicit trafficing ofSouth Italian archaeological artifacts.This wascreated originally as a documentary panelexhibition by Daniel Graepler of the Universityof Goettingen, Germany, and Marina Mazzei ofthe Superintendency of ArchaeologicalProperties for Puglia,Taranto, Italy.This Englishversion was produced collaboratively by theArt History Department and the SamuelDorsky Museum of Art.

American Scenery: Different Views inHudson River School PaintingOn-line version of the exhibition of the samename featuring 116 paintings from a privatecollection.

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