oct | nov | dec | 2011 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art

oct | nov | dec | 2011
s a n t a b a r b a r a m u s e u m o f a r t

from the director
Dear Members,
As you will see in this issue of the newsletter, the Museum’s staff has been very busy this summer
preparing for the myriad of fall presentations and events. Among the highlights is the splendid
exhibition Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910 – 1912, which opened in September
and represents one of the most important shows SBMA has ever staged.
We also look forward to the re-opening of all of the newly renovated Asian galleries, and the launch
of a year-long photographic series focusing on California photographers with Al Weber: Lofty Vistas.
SBMA continues to put its permanent collection in the spotlight with the return to the galleries of
the stunning piece by Anish Kapoor, Turning the World Inside Out, along with other selected
abstract works; and with part of the Museum’s extensive collections of a single artist’s oeuvre in the
exhibition Echoes of Japan: The Prints of Henri Rivière (1864 – 1951). In addition, SBMA is proud
to celebrate the extensive local talent of our own community with View from Here: Santa Barbara
Artists in the Permanent Collection, featuring more than 20 individual artists and works from the
1970s to the present.
We would like to pay tribute to Priscilla Giesen, a Sustaining Trustee of the Museum who
recently passed. She first became a Trustee in 1979, and had also served on the Exhibitions
and Acquisitions, Nominating, and Museum Collectors committees. Generously, she helped
fund dozens of photographic purchases and gave several works of art to the Museum. She will
be fondly remembered.
All of our donors are so greatly appreciated. The Museum relies heavily on private contributions to
carry out our mission of integrating art into the lives of people. We hope that you will remember this
when you receive an appeal to give to the Museum Fund for Excellence in November. We thank you
for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Larry J. Feinberg, Director
2011 – 2012 Board of Trustees
Kenneth Anderson, Chair
John C. Bishop, Vice Chair
Laura Lewis Shelburne, Secretary
Richard C. Banks
Patricia Blake
Susan D. Bowey
Les Charles
Jane Eagleton
Audrey H. Fisher
Greg Fowler
Gregg Hackethal
Michael Armand Hammer
Perri Harcourt
Michael Healy
Judith Hopkinson
Cyndee Howard
Joan Jackson
Gina Jannotta
Robert P. Marshall, Jr.
Dudley E. Morris
Joanne Pearson
Ceil Pulitzer
H. Smith Richardson III
Nancy Schlosser
George Schoellkopf
Marianne Sprague
Stokley Towles
Dody Waugh
Larry J. Feinberg,
Director & Chief Executive Officer
James Hutchinson,
Chief Financial Officer
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exhibitions
Picasso and Braque:
The Cubist Experiment,
1910 –1912
September 17, 2011 – January 8, 2012
McCormick Gallery
The recent opening of this extraordinary exhibition at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Art not only provides visitors a rare opportunity to see the
works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during two pivotal years
in art history, but also an opportunity to experience, learn, and interact
with the works using the latest digital-imaging technology.
SBMA and co-organizer, the Kimbell Art Museum, worked with MegaVision, a digital-imaging company
based in Goleta, CA to capture spectral images of select pieces in the exhibition. The quality of spectral
imaging surpasses that of normal professional photography, and it allows for the viewing of works of art in,
literally, a new light.
The ability to capture these high quality pictures is made possible through the recent progression in imaging
technology, especially in the area of LEDs (light emitting diodes). The power of LEDs has allowed the
RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) filters to be removed from behind the lens of the camera and replaced with
RGB light aimed directly onto the object that is being photographed. Because our eyes do not actually see
colors in the same way that RGB cameras see colors, and because LEDs come in many different colors,
more colors than just RGB can be used, resulting in much more accurate color images. And not only visible
light is possible, but now there are options for ultraviolet and infrared which can reveal features invisible to
human eyes. The elimination of the filters in the optical path allows for a higher quality image, greater accuracy
of color, and most important in the art preservation world, a reduction of harmful light by a factor of
10-10,000----1000% and up.
Screen shot of the iCubist app illustrating the ability to view
works in infrared and ultraviolet.
Users of the app can deconstruct a Cubist work and
attempt to put it back together.
Other museums and organizations, including the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Library of Congress, have
used this technology for discovery, archival, and recording purposes. But no museum has sought to spectrally
image oil paintings, and in particular, high Cubist canvases, for a special exhibition and its catalogue.
The spectral images capture each brushstroke with astonishing fidelity, not only in terms of color but also
texture. This is the first exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, to include these magnificent spectral images
both for the enjoyment of the public and for scholars alike.
In the galleries, visitors to the exhibition are able to view and interact with this technology using a specially
created iPad application to delve more deeply into the enigma that is Analytic Cubism. Affectionately titled
iCubist, the app was designed specifically for the Picasso and Braque exhibition, showcasing the spectral
images along with three other original activities.
The iCubist activities allow users to:
• View and study works with a level of detail and precision never before possible for museum audiences.
Users have the ability to manipulate a succession of digitized spectral images that show the artworks at
different light frequencies (ultraviolet and infrared), revealing the most minute details. Such fascinating
views of the paintings uncover important decisions made by the artists in developing their compositions.
• Deconstruct a Cubist composition and attempt to put it back together. By rebuilding these composite
reproductions, visitors learn first-hand about the intellectual and creative processes employed by Picasso
and Braque in their paintings. The physical act of moving visual elements emphasizes compositional
choices made by the artists to create, for example, a sense of balance or movement. It also highlights
recognizable elements and describes their significance.
Users can compare digital reproductions of paintings by clicking
on markers that pop up to explain key aspects of the artists’
individual styles
Explore the history of Cubism by means of an
illustrated timeline.
• Compare digital reproductions of paintings by the featured artists, Picasso and Braque, by clicking on
markers that pop up to explain key aspects of their individual styles. This interactive activity will help visitors
exercise connoisseurship to distinguish between the artists’ hands, despite their close similarity during
the Cubist years.
• Explore the history of Cubism by means of an illustrated timeline that includes vintage photography of the
artists and their friends and reproductions of key works of art.
The preloaded iPads will be available at the entrance to the exhibition in Thayer Gallery.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, as
well as the generous support of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board, Mildred and Charles
Bloom Fund, Willfong Family Trust, Michael Armand Hammer, Dody Waugh, Dead Artists Society (SBMA
support group), Jane and Ken Anderson, Ceil Pulitzer, Marianne and Norman F. Sprague III, M.D., and
Charlene and Tom Marsh.
Above: Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet,1911-1912. Oil on canvas.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Title screen of the iCubist app on preloaded
iPads, available free of charge to visitors.
About the iCubist Developer
SBMA has benefited once again from the opportunity to collaborate with some of
the best and brightest graduate students at UC Santa Barbara. Through the talents
of the gifted Reza Ali, who just completed his Master’s degree in Media Arts and
Technology, the iCubist application was born. This app was developed specifically
for Picasso and Braque in collaboration with SBMA’s organizing and Chief Curator
Eik Kahng, I.S. Manager Joe Price, and Director of Education Patsy Hicks, and has
received nothing but positive response since its release for the exhibition’s opening
venue at the Kimbell Art Museum in late May. As one tweeter put it: “Picasso and
Braque trailblazes use of iPad as exhibition guide. Bye bye Acoustiguide. You won’t
be missed.”
A blogger on the bigthink.com site observed: “The educational value of iCubist goes
well beyond knowing and understanding Cubism. The interactive game features,
once widely available, will offer young and old opportunities to flex their creative
muscles on a visual level. For today’s visually oriented youth struggling with developing
creative and critical thinking skills, iCubist might be a fun way to become the next
Picasso or Braque in some field.”
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exhibitions
Echoes of Japan:
The Prints of Henri Rivière (1864 – 1951)
October 1, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Campbell and Gould Galleries
Admiration for Japanese art was a defining characteristic of the Parisian artistic avant-garde in the late 19th century.
While most European artists were content to incorporate typically Japanese compositional techniques into their work,
the printmaker Henri Rivière took his appreciation further than most: he taught himself the labor-intensive woodblock
technique used by Japanese printmakers and used it (and later color lithography) to produce print albums that deliberately
emulated theirs―most famously, Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, a modern, urban take on Katsushika Hokusai’s
celebrated Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
Drawn entirely from the Museum’s extensive holdings of Rivière’s prints and drawings — many of which were donated
by collectors Sara and Armond Fields — this exhibition is the first at SBMA to showcase the full range of the artist’s
work. The display traces his career from his early days as a designer of shadow plays for Montmartre’s bohemian Cabaret
du Chat Noir to the albums of Parisian cityscapes and Breton landscapes with which he made his name. Rivière’s
prints, including examples from all but two of his albums, as well as a handful of independent etchings and drawings,
will be supplemented by a selection of the Japanese landscape prints that inspired him and a set of woodblocks carved
by his contemporary, Frank Morley Fletcher (1866 – 1949), to bring his working process to life. Together, these prints
vividly illustrate the way he overlaid one type of exoticism — the landscape and Celtic culture of Brittany — with another:
in the words of critic Claude Roger-Marx, he treated Brittany “as an extension of the Japanese archipelago.”
Vantage Point: California Photography Series
In an upcoming series of exhibitions, the Museum-goer will experience the vast terrain of contemporary photography.
Photographers take to the air, go underground, roam cyberspace, get on the road, and walk the streets to find their
particular vantage point on the American scene. Location, however, is only part of the story. A multitude of distinctly
personal decisions determine the look of a photograph and subtly communicate a photographer’s unique point of view.
Al Weber: Lofty Vistas
October 1, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Emmons and Von Romberg Galleries
Continuing Exhibition
Van Gogh to Munch: European Masterworks
from the Armand Hammer Foundation and
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Ongoing
Preston Morton Gallery
In September, key works from the Armand Hammer Foundation and
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation were reinstalled in the Museum’s
Preston Morton Gallery, which are generously on loan from these
organizations for the next two years.
In the first exhibition of this series, Al Weber offers Lofty Vistas of Monterey Bay and California. The photographer
has prowled the landscape in a small airplane, wafting at relatively low altitude and slow speeds, to
reveal the abstracted land forms and man-made geometries that are unknowable to earth-bound eyes. The
traces and marks of geological sculpting, the precisionist lines of plowed fields and roadways, and the substantive
weight of shadow-changing shapes offer privileged glimpses into an otherwise hidden world. Taken
over the past five decades, in both black and white and color, Weber’s images reveal the shape-shifting
landscape over time.
Top: Henri Rivière, Moonlight (Clairs de lune), 1896.
Lithograph. SBMA, Gift of Sara and Armond Fields.
Center left: Al Weber, Red Salt Flats & Skiff, 1969.
Chromogenic print. SMBA, Museum purchase.
Bottom left: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Pleasures of the
Evening, 1875. Oil on canvas. Michael Armand Hammer and
the Armand Hammer Foundation.
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exhibitions
View from Here: Santa Barbara Artists
in the Permanent Collection
October 1, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Sterling Morton East and West Galleries
While Santa Barbara is known for its extraordinary landscape, climate, history, and culture, the dynamic pulse of our
community comes from the artists who call it home. The creative range of these individuals is as wide as it is deep, and
their work enlivens the city. View from Here provides a selection of works in the permanent collection by artists currently
living and working in Santa Barbara, and represents works acquired from the 1970s through the present. While the
exhibition presents only a fraction of the local talent in the region, it speaks to the ongoing artistic vitality of an extraordinary
place. Artists include Hilary Brace, Irma Cavat, Anne Diener, Michael Dvortcsak, Dane Goodman, Mary Heebner,
Hank Pitcher, Keith Puccinelli, Harry Reese, William Rohrbach, Marie Schoeff, Ilene Segalove, Joan Tanner, and more.
Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out
and Selected Abstraction, 1940s – 90s
October 8, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Davidson Gallery
Anish Kapoor was born in India and educated in London, where, in the 1980s, he became part of a group of young artists
who reinvigorated British sculpture. Primarily concerned with the issue of cultural origins and spiritual expression,
Kapoor has said “I don’t want to make sculpture about form...I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion,
about experience that is outside of material concern.” In the mid-1990s, Kapoor began working with cast metal, the
result being works like Turning the World Inside Out. An organic sphere cast in stainless steel and then highly polished,
this work is a synthesis of Kapoor’s Western European education. Drawing inspiration from the natural forms of Brancusi
and Isamu Noguchi, Kapoor recasts their modernist simplicity in terms of his own cultural identity.
Selected Abstraction, 1940s–90s presents a diverse range of paintings from local and the Museum’s collections that
stem from, but are not necessarily the most common, names found in the orthodox history of Abstract Expressionism.
Beginning with offshoots of Lyrical Abstraction (Tachisme) in Europe, moving through various New York styles, and ending
up in Southern California, this exhibition treads an eclectic course through the legacy of Abstraction. Particular yet
also open, this selection comments on Abstraction’s idiosyncrasies as well as its continuing vitality. Artists include Helen
Frankenthaler, Clinton Hill, Hans Hofmann, John Millei, Ed Moses, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Kenzo Okada, Richards Ruben,
John Seery, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, and Ulfert Wilke.
Top left: Phil Argent, Husk, 2009, Acrylic on canvas. SBMA,
Gift of Shoshana Wayne Gallery and Museum purchase, Art
Visionaries.
Top right: Anish Kapoor, Turning the World Inside Out, 1995.
Cast stainless steel. SBMA, Museum Purchase, 20th Century
Art Acquisition Fund and funds provided by Eli and Leatrice
Luria and the Luria Foundation, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace,
Jr., Smith Richardson and the Grace Jones Richardson Trust,
and the SBMA Visionaries.
Bottom right: John Seery, Manhattan Jump, 1974. Acrylic on
canvas. SBMA, Gift of Mr. Leigh Block.
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new acquisitions
European Art
This generous gift from SBMA trustee, Joanne Pearson, fills a gap in the permanent collection, enabling the Museum
to provide the academic foil by which the avant-garde’s radical rejection of tradition can be measured. French painter
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) was one of the most successful artists of his generation. Usually categorized
as “academic” because of his classical training and highly polished technique, he was cast in less than flattering terms by
the Impressionists and their friends; hence, his relative obscurity today. Nevertheless, Bouguereau was avidly collected
throughout Europe and America during his lifetime. This portrait, which was painted during the artist’s early maturity, showcases
his prodigious technical abilities.
The sitter has been identified as the thirteen-year-old daughter of the Danish vice-consul in Paris, Emile Hoskier
(1830 – 1915). Although Bouguereau aspired to be known for his history paintings, his natural gift for portraiture provided
him with a convenient means of supporting himself. Bouguereau’s approach is indebted to the art of Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (1780 – 1867), which he would have known through his first teacher Louis Sage, a pupil of Ingres. His teacher
in Paris, François-Edouard Picot (1786 – 1868) was a student of Jacques Louis-David (1748 – 1825), providing yet a second
link to the neoclassical school. Picot and his friend, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904), the other great 19th-century
exponent of French classicism, inherited Ingres’ deep admiration of the Renaissance masters, which they combined with
an exacting verisimilitude derived from countless studies done from life. Bouguereau’s portraits share this suave synthesis
of the idealized types drawn from the art of the past and an unerring eye for nearly photo-realistic detail. In this portrait, he
captures his sitter’s youthful radiance, presenting us with a beguilingly seductive array of closely observed particulars, from
the satin sheen of her blue ribbons to the soft glow of her gold beads.
Photography
Fresh out of graduate school, photographer Mike Mandel found the contemporary art world in a state of flux. He explains,
“Competitions for NEA grants and university jobs began to revolve around the hierarchy of art world professionals.” As a
form of small, tongue-in-cheek protest, Mandel created The Baseball Photographer Trading Cards. The 134 collectable
cards featured photographers and the first generation of photography historians —figures like Beaumont Newhall, Ansel
Adams, and Barbara Morgan—in the guise of baseball players, with accompanying statistics on the reverse side. “I wanted
to lampoon the newfound celebrity-hood of photo personalities in the art marketplace.”
Today, however, the tide has again shifted. Mandel’s cards, once created to be easily accessible and mass produced, are
now collectors’ items. Mandel writes, “I find myself in the position of selling these at a premium, participating in the same
commercial matrix that the cards originally intended to parody.” He continues, “I can accept that. Now they are historic
artifacts of an earlier generation of photography.”
Mrs. Scott O’Leary’s recent gift to the museum of 20 Baseball Photographer Trading Cards has since inspired a promised
gift of 24 additional cards.
Asian Art
Best known as a bird-and-flower painter, Seitei depicted landscapes as well as figures. He was also a brilliant illustrator
and designer of textiles and cloisonné in Tokyo. In 1878, Seitei traveled to Paris and studied Western-style painting for
three years as the first Japanese artist to study abroad in Europe. He was among the first Meiji artists to have his work
collected in the West and was an early proponent of the Nihonga movement (“Japanese painting” as opposed to Western
painting).
This painting of dancers in a boat moored under a willow tree in moon light exemplifies the best of Seitei’s paintings in its
unique blend of the tradition and the new. It is executed with flawless technique of elegant brushwork and refined washes.
His startling use of color combinations accents the central figures and creates a sharp contrast with their dream-like surroundings,
befittingly conveying a subject of beauty and poetic lament.
When this was painted, the subject of female entertainers in a boat acquired multiple meanings. It would have been understood
as depicting a fallen lady prostitute, who legendarily worked from boats off the shores of Asazuma, a town by Lake
Biwa near Otsu. The subject was also an homage to an earlier ukiyo-e artist Hanabusa Itcho (1652 – 1724) who popularized
this theme not only in paintings, but also in songs. It was rumored that Itcho’s paintings and songs of Asazuma boat
resulted in his exile in 1698. The subject was understood as a parody of the Shogun’s concubine, thus a critique of the
ruler not minding his rule.
Center spread image
This mesmerizing oval exemplifies Analytic Cubism, and particularly Braque’s version of it, at its most sophisticated.
Braque’s introduction of imitated typographical letters suggestive of the artist’s bohemian milieu (for example, bière [beer]
at middle left), as well as his tendency to activate the overall canvas surface as if pulsating from both beneath and above,
are in clear evidence.
Top left: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Portrait of Mademoiselle Martha Hoskier,
1869. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Gift of Joanne and Andrall Pearson.
Center left: Mike Mandel, From the series, “The Baseball Photographer Trading
Cards,” 1974. SBMA, Gift of Kathy O’Leary.
Bottom left: Watanabe SEITEI, Shirabyoshi Dancers in Asazuma Boat. Hanging
scroll; ink and color on silk. SBMA, Museum purchase with John and Peggy
Maximus Fund.
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education program highlight
From the Sunken Gardens to the Sea
Our Home/Nuestro Hogar
Clay Tile Mural at the Eastside Library
This summer, pre-school students from Storyteller Children’s Center collaborated with SBMA’s Homework/Artwork
After-School Program participants to create hand-sculpted clay tiles inspired by landscapes and cityscapes in the
Museum’s permanent collection and the environment of Santa Barbara — from sea life in the channel to Fiesta
dancers in the Sunken Gardens. Our Home/Nuestro Hogar is the second installation of the “people, places, things”
multi-year mural series in partnership with the Eastside Library.
SBMA Teaching Artist Tina Villadolid met with both student groups throughout June and July, 2011, that included a
tour and sketching trip to the Museum. The 4- and 5-year-old Storyteller children explored the elements of art and
life under the ocean. The 6 – 13-year-old Homework/Artwork students sculpted tiles of specific places in the community
that have meaning for them, including the wharf, the mission, the courthouse, the zoo, and the Museum.
All of the tiles were assembled into a final collective composition that includes textured pieces created by the program
participants’ parents and siblings during a family workshop. These family tiles depict multiple generations hiking,
swimming, and building sand castles on the beach together, showing a true appreciation of living life in Santa
Barbara.
Terri Allison, Executive Director of the Storyteller Children’s Center, states, “Once again, Storyteller Children’s
Center is extremely fortunate to be able to work with Tina Villadolid and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This year,
we’re especially excited to be collaborating with the Museum’s Homework/Artwork After School Program, creating
something together for the Eastside Library. This is an opportunity that these children would not ordinarily be offered,
and the benefits for these families will last as long as the mural itself.”
The unveiling reception took place Tuesday, August 16 at the Eastside Library. Images of the tiles will also be displayed
in the Museum’s elevator as part of the Going Up! series September 1 – October 15, 2011.
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Georges Braque, Bottles and Glasses, 1912. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Santa Barbara. Photo © MegaVision. © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

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“European Collection” noon
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“Picasso and Braque” noon
Focus Tour
“Gods & Goddesses” noon
Focus Tour
“Asian Collection” noon
Jim Bayless Jewelry
Trunk Show
12 – 5 pm
Focus Tour
“Echoes of Japan” noon
Focus Tour
“Picasso and Braque” noon
Theo Helmstadter
Ceramics Trunk Show
12 – 5 pm
Focus Tour
“European Collection” noon
Indigena Design
Trunk Show
12 – 5 pm
Focus Tour
"Gods & Goddesses" noon
Jerry sTinn Jewelry and
"The Wrap" Trunk Shows
12 – 5 pm
Focus Tour
“Echoes of Japan” noon
Focus Tour
“Picasso and Braque” noon
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public programs
Thursdays, October 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17, 10 am – noon
Art Talks @ SBMA
Fall lectures feature The Cubist Imagination, A Sneak Peak at Dionysos, Anish Kapoor,
Mummies for Sale . . and more! For the full listing go to www.sbma.net.
Mary Craig Auditorium. $40 SBMA Members/$50 Non-Members
To subscribe, visit the Visitor Services Desks in person, or call 963.4364 x400.
Save the dates! Winter Art Talks @ sbMA: The 19th Century in France
and the U.S. are Thursdays, February 9 – March 29, 2012.
Members’ pre-registration begins Tuesday, December 6.
Concerts
Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 pm
Borealis String Quartet
This Vancouver-based quartet will perform a selection of Taiwanese folk songs arranged by
Zhe-I Lee to celebrate the opening of SBMA’s Asian galleries after an extensive renovation,
along with pieces by Raminsh and Beethoven.
Mary Craig Auditorium
$15 SBMA Members/$19 Non-Members
Thursday, December 1, 7:30 pm
Aviv Quartet
This award-winning quartet was founded in Israel in 1997 and since then has won numerous
awards, including the Grand Prize at the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition. They have
performed at the Louvre, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, and twice at SBMA.
Mary Craig Auditorium
$15 SBMA Members/$19 Non-Members
Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Visitor Services desks, or by calling 963.4364 x400.
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
A Fanatic Heart: The Life of Vincent van Gogh
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith will speak about their new biography of Vincent van
Gogh. They will talk about the revelations that emerged during ten years of research and the
profound ways in which Van Gogh’s turbulent personal life, as well as his deep immersion in the
art and literature of his era, helped shaped one of the signature imaginations in Western Art.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for Museum Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Exhibition Related Programs: Echoes of Japan
Tuesday, October 4, 5:30 pm
The Work of Henri Rivière
Karin Breuer, Curator in Charge at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts/Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco will discuss the work of Henri Rivière as it fits within the tradition of wood
block prints and the cross cultural connections between East and West.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Sunday, November 6, 2:30 pm
Animation Celebration
The shadow play became a popular entertainment in Paris during the 18th and 19th centuries,
especially at Le Chat Noir where artist Henri Rivière was the designer. Film makers were also
inspired by this technique, as illustrated in the following films. Suitable for all ages
Exhibition Related Programs: Picasso and Braque
Film Series
These short early films provide an expanded context for understanding the transformations in time and
space that were integral to the avant-garde aesthetic of the period of Picasso and Braque and the
Cubist experiment.
All films in the Mary Craig Auditorium
Free Films for 1st Thursdays
Thursdays, October 6; November 3, 5:30 pm
October 6:
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
(Directed by Arne Glimcher, 2008, 60 min.)
November 3: Paris: The Luminous Years: Towards the
Making of the Modern (Directed by Perry Miller
Adato, 2010, 120 min.)
Thursday, October 13, 5:30 pm
Ballet Mécanique and Crazy Ray
Ballet Mécanique (1924, 19 min.) is directed by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, with cinematography
by Man Ray and musical score by George Antheil. Crazy Ray (1925, 35 min.), by René Clair,
is a comedy that charts a ray invented by an eccentric doctor that stops time. Introduction by Peter
Bloom, Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB.
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Thursday, October 20, 5:30 pm
Early Animation and the Avant-garde: Featuring
Fantasmagorie and The Cameraman’s Revenge
Early avant-garde animation films by Émile Cohl, whose pre-World War I works remain unexpected
and entertaining in their narrative line drawing. Also featured is Ladislaw Starewicz’s stop action
animated comedy, The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912, 13 min.). Introduction by Peter Bloom, Professor
of Film and Media Studies at UCSB.
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Sunday, October 23, 10 am – 5 pm
Picasso and Braque Symposium
Join six scholars for this one-day seminar on the themes of the exhibition. The speakers will be
joined by equally distinguished scholars, who will moderate what promises to be a lively
discussion following each presentation.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members and Students/$15 Non-Members
For more information and reservations, call 963.4364 x400
This event has been generously sponsored by SBMA support group, The Dead Artists Society.
Sunday, December 4, 2:30 pm
Performance and Discussion with Clarence Barlow
Professor Clarence Barlow will frame a discussion of the historic and contemporary link between music,
math, and the visual arts as a parallel form of avant-garde expression to the early Cubist experiment.
Includes a brief film screening and original works by UCSB composition program graduate students.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Member/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Sunday, December 11, 2:30 pm
Performance and Discussion with John Schneider
John Schneider, an internationally-recognized guitarist, composer, author, and broadcaster, will
select and present music from the imaginative world of Picasso and Braque that enlarges our
understanding of the parallel strains of exploration and innovation of these two artists.
Music performed live in the Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
This 1926 film uses shadow play techniques to tell a charming tale taken from 1001
Arabian Nights. (Directed by Lotte Reiniger, 65 min.)
Princes and Princesses
This 2000 film combines the stories of several popular fairy tales.
(Directed by Michel Ocelot, 70 min. with subtitles)
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for SBMA Members/Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Thursday and Friday, November 17 and 18, 5:30 pm
Atelier
In November, the Museum becomes a performance space as acclaimed British writer and actor Tim
Crouch brings his play England to SBMA. In this performance, tailored to works in the Museum’s galleries,
Crouch explores the veil between actor and audience, and between art and commerce in an
intimate interactive two-actor play. A discussion with the director and actors follows the performance.
Includes hors d’oeuvres, wines, and signature cocktails.
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The same performance occurs both nights. Audience is limited to 60 guests each night.
$25 SBMA Members and Students/$50 Non-Members

for kids & families
Sunday, October 30, 1 – 4 pm
Free Family Day Día de los Muertos
For the 22nd year, the Museum honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a variety
of family festivities in the galleries and back plaza including music and dance performances, artmaking
activities, bilingual storytelling, a special display of altars created by school and community
groups, and traditional refreshments.
Admission to the event and to the Museum is free
Family 1st Thursdays
Bring the whole family and enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family
Resource Center located across from the Museum Café on the Lower Level. Museum
Teaching Artists will assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects.
Afterwards, enjoy selected galleries until 8pm.
Free
Thursday, October, 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910 – 1912
cubist Monotypes
Paint a limited palette monotype portrait using repeating details and multiple points
of view in the style of Picasso and Braque.
Thursday, November 3, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out and
Selected Abstraction 1940s-90s
Painted Paper Collages
Play with the power of color by assembling dynamic compositions from blocks of
vividly painted paper inspired by Hans Hoffman’s Simplex Munditis, 1962.
Thursday, December 1, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Echoes of Japan: The Prints of Henri Rivière (1864 – 1951)
Painterly Prints
Create painterly monoprints of Japanese inspired landscapes by applying ink directly to
printing plates after the work of Henri Rivière.
Studio Sundays on the Front Steps
Sundays, October 9; November 13; December 11,
1:30 – 4:30 pm
Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching
Artists on the Museum’s front steps. Each month explore a different medium, including clay,
metal, ink, wood, photography, and paper, and gain inspiration from works of art in the Museum's
permanent collection or special exhibitions.
Free
Free education programming, like Family 1st Thursdays and
Studio Sundays, is made possible through the generosity of
our Members and donors to the Museum Fund for
Excellence. Thank you!
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photo gallery
Van Gogh to Munch
The Museum’s Benefactors Circle, Director’s Patron, and Curators’ Patron
members clinked glasses at the opening for Van Gogh to Munch: European
Masterworks from the Armand Hammer Foundation and Sarah Campbell Blaffer
Foundation during a glittering cocktail reception. The event showcased the
ravishing collections on loan from the two foundations. The exhibition was made
possible through the generosity of Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree.
Michael Keaton, Olivia Peloubet, Viktor Hammer,
and Michael Armand Hammer.
Adele Rosen with Dead Artists Society* co-chair Alice Willfong.
*Dead Artists Society (D.A.S.) focuses on the areas of 19thand
early 20th-century American and European art. D.A.S.
provides support for the Museum’s Chief Curator Eik Kahng
and her vision for the programming associated with these
areas. D.A.S. offers unprecedented access to curators and
conservators at museums both locally, nationally, and abroad.
Members will enjoy sneak previews of exhibitions, specially
organized trips to attend major art fairs, and rarely seen private
collections. For more information about D.A.S. or other
curatorial support groups, please contact Alexandra Mosher at
884.6425 or amosher@sbma.net.
Lois Erburu
Mystery in Masterpieces
The Women’s Board hosted its ever-popular Mystery
in Masterpieces with a glitzy party complete with a
mystery hunt promised by Clue Master Jamie Fleming to
stump even the most seasoned mystery hunt participant,
delectable tapas and desserts flowing throughout the
evening, silent auction hosted by Tiffany & Company,
and a drawing for Platinum Passes to the 2012 Santa
Barbara International Film Festival. Museum Director
Larry Feinberg expressed, “It was everything that we
had hoped for — fun, glamorous, and thoughtprovoking!”
Proceeds raised from the event support
acquisitions, exhibitions, special projects, and education
programs. The Women’s Board is a major sponsor for
Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910 – 1912.
Exhibition sponsor and Life Honorary Trustee, Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree; Larry Feinberg,
Director; and Dinner Sponsor and Trustee Joey Pearson.
Gwen Baker, Women’s Board President and Gold Donor with Henry,
with Mystery Hunt first place winners Bob Johnson and Lisa Reich.
Zora and Les Charles
Trustee Michael Armand Hammer and Arlene Montesano
Clue Master Jamie Fleming
Adam Benshea and Lisa Hill, and second place Mystery Hunt winners Catherine and David Major.
Jamie Marth and new Women’s Board member Karen Chin
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Janet Garufis (second from right), representing Platinum Donors Montecito Bank & Trust, with Adam Bertolet,
Victoria Leishman, Matt Bertolet, Colleen O’Brien, and Sam Bertolet.
Representing Tiffany & Company, Chelsea Valenzuela, Joanna Strange, and David Breed.

profile
Legacy Society
An honorary group, the Legacy Society celebrates friends of the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art who have faith in its future and, as a result of
naming SBMA as beneficiary of their estate plan, play a unique role
to ensure that generations to come will be able to enjoy the treasures
and rich educational opportunities of the Museum. Members were
invited to an annual luncheon honoring their commitment and featured
a private walk-through of Van Gogh to Munch with Chief Curator,
Eik Kahng. For more information about the Legacy Society or in
planning your bequest, please contact Barbara Ben-Horin, Director
of Development, at bbenhorin@sbma.net or 884.6431.
Dr. Christel Bejenke, Dr. George Wittenstein, and Eik Kahng
Legacy Society Members
Keith J. Mautino
Wilson Quarre and Peggy Wiley
Jane and Kenneth Anderson
Judi and Larry Anderson
Margaret and Howard Arvey
Victor K. Atkins
Gwendolyn and Henry Baker
W. L. Baumes
Barbara Ben-Horin
Jill and John Bishop
Patricia and Richard Blake
Lida Light Blue and Frank Blue
Dora Bradley
Michele and Arnold Brustin
Zora and Les Charles
Marilyn and Joseph Chuharski
Sue and J.W. Colin
Mercedes H. Eichholz
Christine and Robert Emmons
Cinda and Donnelley Erdman
Larry J. Feinberg and Starr Siegele
Melissa and Trevor Fetter
Keith Fishman
Mary Garton
Jane Gottlieb
Lois and Richard Gunther
Eva and Yoel Haller
Anne and Houston Harte
G. Ray and Susan Hawkins
Lorna S. Hedges
Leslie Hovey
Edith Huey
Anne Jones
Susan Jorgensen and Alice Gillaroo
Karen Kawaguchi
Elaine and Herbert Kendall
Lynn P. Kirst and Lynn R. Matteson
Marjorie and Paul Kissner
Penny Knowles
Ann Koepfli
Stephen and Louise Komp
Sheila and Thomas Lambert
Patricia Levee
Arthur Lincoln
Judith Little
Lillian and Jon Lovelace
Leatrice Luria
Anne Luther
Keith J. Mautino
Gretchen and Marshall Milligan
Joan and Carl Mottek
Cynthia and Chapin Nolen
Robert P. and Vivianne Palazzo
Alex Pananides
Claire and Gerald Parent
Virginia Ridder
Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree
Gloria Rubin
Nancy B. Schlosser
Mary Kent Scott
Shirley Stapleton
Vicki and Patrick Stone
Louise Tighe
Dody Waugh
Beverly Whitmore
Peggy Wiley
Alice Willfong
Dr. George Wittenstein and Dr. Christel Bejenke
Lida Light Blue and Frank Blue
Judi and Larry Anderson
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donors
Special Thanks to our Donors
The Museum gratefully acknowledges those whose annual contributions support our
exhibitions, educational programs, activities and services in the community. Included are
the names of those who made gifts of $2,500 or greater, in cash or stock, between July
1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Bequests and memberships are incorporated into the totals.
Donors of gifts of art are listed separately.
If there is an error or an omission, we sincerely apologize and ask that you bring it to the
attention of Karen Kawaguchi, Senior Development Officer, at 884.6428.
$1,000,000+
Estates of Marjorie and J. Hewes Crispin
$500,000+
Estate of Elaine Stepanek
$200,000+
Anonymous
$100,000+
Anonymous
Estate of Ina T. Campbell
The Getty Foundation
Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree
$50,000+
Astrid and Lawrence Hammett
Lillian and Jon Lovelace
The Luria Foundation
Gretchen and Marshall Milligan
Joanne Pearson
SBMA Women's Board
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
$25,000+
Anonymous
Jane and Ken Anderson
Jill and John Bishop
Susan Bowey
The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation
Anne and Houston Harte
Judith L. Hopkinson
Cyndee Howard
Bob and Siri Marshall
Mericos Foundation
Mimi Michaelis
Cecille and Michael Pulitzer
SBMA smART Families
Nancy B. Schlosser
Marianne and Norman F. Sprague III, M.D.
Alice Willfong
Estate of Otis M. Williams
$10,000+
Patricia and Richard Blake
The Charles Bloom Foundation
Shelby Bowen
The Broad Art Foundation
Dana and Albert R. Broccoli
Charitable Foundation
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
The Glen and Mary Ann Charles
Family Foundation
The Cheeryble Foundation
Jane Radin Eagleton
Christine and Robert Emmons
Elisabeth and Greg Fowler
Michael H. Healy and Timothy Walsh
Natalia and Michael Howe
Ann Jackson Family Foundation
Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation
Gina and Joseph Jannotta
Kirby-Jones Foundation
Susan Jorgensen and Alice Gillaroo
Just Folk/Susan Baerwald and Marcy Carsey
Elaine and Herbert Kendall
Korea Foundation
Lehrer Family Foundation
Alicia Nogales and Gregory S. Little
Jacqueline Little and Henry Turmon
LLWW Foundation
Tom and Charlene Marsh
Estate of Elise Mudd Marvin
Sheila and Frank McGinity
Amanda and Jim McIntyre
Margaret and Dudley Morris
George Schoellkopf and Gerald Incandela
June H. Schuerch
Simms Mann Foundation
Eric Skipsey
The Evan C. Thompson Foundation
Louise L. Tighe Family Charitable Lead Trust
The Towbes Foundation
Vos Family Foundation
The Elizabeth Firth Wade Endowment Fund
Wells Fargo Foundation
$5,000+
Susan E. Bower
Brittingham Family Foundation
California Arts Council and
National Endowment for the Arts
Virginia Castagnola-Hunter
Marcia and Jamie Constance
Alyce and Michael Dalany
Mercedes H. Eichholz
Martha and John Gabbert
Dorothy and John Gardner
Nancy and Michael Gifford
Godric Foundation
Gregg Hackethal and Penny Jenkins
Lorna S. Hedges
Joanne C. Holderman
Korean Cultural Center
Suzie and Bruce Kovner
Marilyn Magid
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies
Montecito Bank and Trust
Rita and Steven Moya
Nancy and Kevin O'Connor
Claire and Gerald Parent
Lorie and Michael Porter
Alex and Eileen Rasmussen
Ridley-Tree Foundation
Regina and Rick Roney
Santa Barbara Foundation
SBMA Museum Collectors Council
Maryan and Richard Schall
Stephanie and Fred Shuman
Vicki and Patrick Stone
Target
Caroline and Steve Thompson
Winifred M. Vedder
Venoco, Inc.
Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
Patricia and Joseph Yzurdiaga
$2,500+
Christina Allison
Gwen and Henry Baker
Richard C. Banks
Jasie Barringer
W. L. Baumes
Christopher Baxter
Michael and Sheila Bonsignore
Ella and Scott Brittingham
The Broder Foundation
Susan and Claude Case
Suzanne and Tom Deardorff
Monica and Seth Epstein
Léni Fé Bland
Melinda Goodman
Paul Guido, Ph.D.
Michael Armand Hammer through
The Armand Hammer Foundation
Felicie and Paul Hartloff
Christine and Michael Holland
Lucille and Richard Janssen
Joy of Giving, Inc.
Louisa J. Judge
Rebecca Kapustay and David Ludwig
Steven L. Karan
Jacquelyn Klein-Brown and Michael Trambert
Carole E. MacElhenny
Deanna and William Major
Jennifer and John Markham
Amy and Michael Mayfield
The McIntyre Foundation
Mary and James Morouse
Margaret M. Morris and C. Harold Morris
Marie Morrisroe
Laurette and David Nitka
Ruth and Robert Reingold
Jeanne L. Reynolds
Virginia Ridder
Anne and Jim Rothenberg
Rudi Schulte Family Foundation
Laura and Craig Shelburne
Barbara and Wayne Smith
Christine Smith
Diane and Selby Sullivan
Susan and John Sweetland
Jeanne Thayer
Anne and Michael Towbes
Molora and Kenneth Vadnais
Gifts of Art
Carroll and Susanne Barrymore
Roy and Claudia Colmer
Mercedes Eichholz
Etherton Gallery
Keith Fishman
Cynthia and Patrick Goldrick
Clement R. Hoopes
Pirkle Jones/Jennifer McFarland
Frances Kent
Ann S. Koepfli
David La Faille
Edwin Laing
Robert M. Light
Peter Mendenhall Gallery
Klaus Naumann
Kathy O'Leary
Dr. Narendra and Rita Parson
Joanne Pearson
E.K. Richmond
Donald Rogers
John Sexton
Barry Sloane
Mike Tweddle
Margaret Weston
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new trustees
SBMA Welcomes New Trustees
The Museum is pleased to announce the election of the newest members of the Museum’s
Board of Trustees: Les Charles, Michael Armand Hammer, Perri Harcourt, Joan Jackson, Gina
Jannotta, Stokley Towles, and Dody Waugh. In addition, SBMA would like to recognize newly
elected officers under new leadership of Board Chair Kenneth Anderson, including Vice Chair
John Bishop, and Secretary Laura Shelburne.
Les Charles
Mr. Charles and his brother
and partner Glen wrote for television
hits such as M*A*S*H,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
and Phyllis, and produced the
original Bob Newhart Show
and Taxi. The duo also teamed
with Jim Burrows to create and
produce Cheers, which won
Emmys, Writers Guild Awards,
Golden Globes, People’s
Choices and many other awards in its 11-year run. Mr. Charles
and his wife Zora are passionate collectors of art, especially Latin
American, Modern, California plein air, original children’s book
illustrations and early photography. Mr. Charles also collects rare
books. He is a trustee of the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, and
the couple are actively involved with American Oceans Campaign
and World Wildlife Fund and support local organizations including
the Santa Barbara Zoo, the Music Academy, Direct Relief
International, Girls Inc., Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History,
Planned Parenthood, the Santa Barbara City College Daycare
Center, and Friends of the Santa Barbara and Montecito Libraries.
They were recipients of the Wright S. Ludington Award from the
Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 2010.
Michael Armand
Hammer
Mr. Hammer is Chairman and
CEO of The Armand Hammer
Foundation and the Hammer
International Foundation,
Chairman and President of
8-31 Holdings, Inc. and owner
of Hammer Galleries and
Knoedler Galleries in New York
City. He is a founder and Chairman
Emeritus of the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural
Center in Los Angeles, and is a former Director of The Armand
Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma,
New Mexico. Mr. Hammer serves as a member of the
Board at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, the Investment
Committee for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
and the Board of Directors of the Dream Center in Los Angeles.
He also is the former Vice President and member of the Board
of Directors and Executive Committee of Occidental Petroleum
Corporation. Mr. Hammer is an art collector, and active in various
professional, civic, and charitable organizations.
Perri Harcourt
Ms. Harcourt is a California
native and long-time Santa
Barbara resident. She attended
UCSB as an undergraduate
and graduate student in educational
psychology, and has
spent the greater portion of her
adult life working with organizations,
schools, and non-profits
in various leadership roles to support their mission. She is a
trustee and past president for the Foundation for Santa Barbara
City College (SBCC) for over 25 years, and was recently elected
to emeritus status. She also established the Donald H. Harcourt
Memorial Scholarship at the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation
for deserving high school students and scholarships at SBCC.
Ms. Harcourt currently serves on the board of trustees of Cate
School, remains an advisor trustee to Laguna Blanca School, and
has been actively involved with Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara
for over 30 years. In 2007, she was honored with the Santa Barbara
News-Press Lifetime Achievement Award.
Joan Jackson
Ms. Jackson graduated from
Ohio State University with a
major in English Literature
before accepting a fellowship
at Stanford University, where
she both studied and taught
English. After accompanying
her husband on a two-year tour
of duty in Japan, Ms. Jackson
returned to the United States and resided in Los Angeles after a
brief stint in Santa Barbara. It was in Los Angeles that she became
interested in the visual arts and became a docent at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art. After eight years, she and her family
returned to Santa Barbara. She has been involved with many nonprofits
in the last 35 years, including the Santa Barbara Museum
of Art Women's Board, CAMA, Garden Club of Santa Barbara,
Laguna Blanca School, the Cate School Board of Trustees, and
Casa del Herrero, where she has played an active role since its
inception in 1994.
Gina Jannotta
Ms. Jannotta was born and
raised in the Chicago area and
has been active in educational
and arts-related organizations
since 1961, including serving
as a Docent at the Art Institute
of Chicago for 40 years. She
joined the Art Institute’s Woman’s
Board in 1977 and chaired
the Education Committee, and
in 1989, was elected and served as the Woman’s Board President
and as a Museum Trustee through 1992. Ms. Jannotta was also
a governing member of the Orchestral Society (Chicago), on the
Women’s Board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and an
active member in the Chicago Horticultural Society, Guild of the
Chicago Historical Society, and the Garden Guild of Winnetka.
She currently serves as a Sustaining Member of the Garden Club
of Santa Barbara and the Junior League, and arranges flowers as
a volunteer at Casa del Herrero.
Stokley Towles
Mr. Towles currently acts as a
Limited Partner of the Boston
Office of Brown Brothers Harriman
& Co. with responsibilities
in general banking and global
custody. He joined the firm in
1960, was appointed a Manager
of the Banking Department
in 1969, and became a
General Partner in 1978. Mr.
Towles is a recently retired
director of Norfolk and Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
Charles River Insurance Company, Dorchester Mutual Insurance
Company, Groveland Mutual Insurance Company, Fitchburg Mutual
Insurance Company, Inc., Newbury Corporation and Woelfel
Insurance Agency, Inc. Mr. Towles is a Trustee of the Vincent
Memorial Hospital, Treasurer and a Trustee of St. Philip's Church,
Mattapoisett, MA, and an Overseer of the Boys and Girls Clubs
of Boston. He has served as Treasurer and Trustee of Noble and
Greenough School, Dedham, MA for almost 15 years, and also
recently retired as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, culminating with the museum’s recent
addition of the new American Art wing.
Dody Waugh
Ms. Waugh has been actively
involved with community and
cultural organizations throughout
southern California for
more than 40 years. She has
been a member of the Board
of Overseers at the Hoover
Institution for more than 20
years, and was formerly on the
boards at Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, Doheny Eye Institute, Music Center, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, and the Leadership Council of the Mayo Clinic. Ms.
Waugh is a sustaining member of Las Madrinas, an organization
to provide financial support to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
and its medical research programs, and has been an active member
since the early 1970s.
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travel with SBMA
2012 Tours Announced
sbMA presents a broad array of
travel opportunities that focus on
art, architecture, and gardens often
with private visits, guest lecturers,
and expert guides.
• Havana Revealed
January 31 – February 8
and February 7 – 15, 2012
• Fabled Andalusia and Morocco
aboard Corinthian ii
April 6 –15, 2012
The group at Topkapi Palace (Front row: Jill Finsten, Gwen Baker, Vicki Myers, Mimi Michaelis, Catherine Freedberg, Jane Eagleton;
Back row: Bill Cornfield, Nigel McGilchrist, Henry Baker, Bart Myers, George Schoellkopf, Ida Rickborn, Gerald Incandela)
Spotlight on: The Hidden Treasures
of Turkey with Nigel McGilchrist
In May, Nigel McGilchrist, Oxford-educated art historian, led a group of Santa Barbara Museum of Art
travelers on an insider’s tour of Turkey, acccompanied by Jill Finsten, SBMA's Director of Special Projects for
the Study of Art and Culture.
“Nigel’s insights, historical information, and knowledge of art made
the trip so special.” – Gwen Baker
“(The trip was) simply superb for the knowledgeable traveler.” – SBMA Traveler
• Holland and Belgium, featuring
Floriade aboard M.S. AmaDolce
April 21 – 29, 2012
• Islands of Antiquity through
Greece and Turkey aboard
Aegean Odyssey
May 1 – 16, 2012
• Art, Arboreta, and Estates
of Honolulu
May 9 – 13, 2012
• From Amsterdam to Lucerne by
River, Rail, Lake and Land
June 27 – July 7, 2012
• Secret Art Treasures of Italy
aboard Corinthian ii
August 24 – September 2, 2012
• French Lifestyle:
A Month in Provence
September 29 – October 28, 2012
• Insider’s Perspective: Rome
October 24 – 31, 2012
• Amalfi Coast and the Region
of Apulia with Susie Orso
Fall 2012
• North India:
Legendary Rajasthan
Fall 2012
Mary and Dwight Whiting, Carolyn Holmes, Astrid and Joe McVeigh
Spotlight on: Coastal Life along the
Adriatic Sea
Further travel opportunities are available for
members of curator support groups. Call
805.884.6436 for information.
To be added to the early interest list for any
of these tours, please contact 805.884.6436,
travel@sbma.net, or visit www.sbma.net/travel.
A group of SBMA travelers sailed the Adriatic aboard the new and luxurious l’Austral this past June. Highlights
included the stunning islands of Korcula and Hvar, Diocletian’s Palace, and Pula’s magnificent amphitheater
in Croatia, as well as the charming towns of Kotor and Cetinje in Montenegro.
“Our cruise along the Dalmatian Coast was the trip of a lifetime, full
of the beautiful destinations of Croatia and Montenegro, fascinating
lectures, and excellent guides.” – SBMA Traveler
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shop & dine at SBMA
The Museum Store
October
In October, the Museum Store celebrates American Craft Week.
This year's celebration brings together individuals, small businesses,
and organizations in recognition of the countless ways handmade
objects enrich our daily lives and contribute to our national aesthetic
and economy.
Saturday, October 8, 12 – 5 pm
Linda Shull Glass Jewelry Trunk
Show and Ceramics Demonstration
Linda Shull’s work incorporates her own handmade, fused, dichroic
art glass with sterling silver in whimsical and fun patterns. She uses
the kinetic qualities of dichroic glass to create depth, movement,
and intensity, and experiments with metals and crushed glass
in her kiln-fired pieces to ensure that each piece is truly unique.
Scott Semple is a cutting edge world renowned large format
ceramic artist from Santa Barbara. He is co-owner and
Chief Artistic Director of Pacific Ceramic Design,
LLC which produces installation grade ceramic
fine art for both private and corporate settings.
Semple is considered a pioneer and a
leader in the field of ceramics, and is one of only a handful of people in
the United States pushing the boundaries of wheel thrown pottery by
building pieces in the 6 to 8 foot range, helping to establish a new
movement in clay referred to as "up-scaling."
Sunday, October 16, 12 – 5 pm
Jack Cousin Trunk Show
Fine art woodworker and concert musician, Jack Cousin, has played double bass with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic since 1974. Each handcrafted exotic wood pen in "The Cremona Collection" is inspired by
the glorious textures and shapes of the string instruments that surround him in the orchestra. Employing
the discipline and artistic expression developed during a lifetime in music, Jack individually crafts each
pen into a work of art.
Museum Café
The Museum Café heats things up as it starts to
get cool outside with Siqueiros Lobster Ravioli
with Roasted Prawns and Avocado Fresh corn
Salsa, Chipotle crema, and Queso Fresco.
New!
Join us on the Museum's State Street entrance
steps patio. Come relax, city watch, and enjoy a
delicious lunch or tapas!
New!
The Museum Store is proud to carry the
publication The Young Leonardo: Art and
Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence by SBMA
Director, Larry Feinberg. Leonardo da Vinci is
often presented as the "Transcendent
Genius," removed from or ahead of his time.
This book attempts to understand him in the
context of Renaissance Florence. Situating
him within the political, social, cultural, and
artistic context of his time, Feinberg shows how this environment
influenced Leonardo's artistic output and laid the groundwork for the
achievements of his mature works.
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-
Winning Jackson Pollock, and Van Gogh: The Life note, "Leonardo
da Vinci lived a long and uniquely creative life. Now, at last, we have
a completely fresh and compelling look at the artist's early years...A
complex, demythologized appreciation of the man and his genius
emerges from this wonderfully written book."
November
Saturday, November 19, 12 – 5 pm
Jim Bayless Jewelry Trunk Show
Local artist Jim Bayless works in sterling silver, semi-precious stones, and found bone and fossils
to create gorgeously-sculptured, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. This trunk show features a collection
of mermaid-themed jewelry from petrified whale bone that Jim has found on the beaches
of Santa Barbara.
December
Saturday, December 3, 12 – 5 pm
Theo Helmstadter Ceramics
Trunk Show
Theo Helmstadter returns to SBMA after a busy and productive
year in the studio, teaching, and working on his ever-evolving
body of functional stoneware forms. He will present his newest
work, a range of pieces from tea ware, to large vases and platters.
Saturday, December 10, 12 – 5 pm
Indigena Design Trunk Show
Artist Porfirio Gutierrez was born and raised in Teotitlan, an important
center of Zapotec culture located in the state of Oaxaca,
Mexico, where he was taught the art of weaving at age 12 by his
father on a traditional loom and integrating natural dyes. Gutierrez
has since developed a fine expertise of a tradition that has
been in his family for more than 2,000 years, illustrated in unique
rugs, tapestries, runners, and pillows of Indigena Design.
Saturday, December 17, 12 – 5 pm
Jerry Stinn Jewelry and "The Wrap" Trunk Shows
Master silversmith and local artist Jerry Stinn returns to create his signature, one-of-a-kind silver
bracelets in the Museum Store.
Caron Miller, local fabric artist, features her Signature Velvet collection
— luscious wearables in solid black velvet with lime green dots,
solid lime green velvet with black dots, and hand-painted
violet/navy/black velvet with a hand-painted silver liner.
For all you velvet scarf lovers, these three will definitely
be the hot ticket the winter.
Museum Cafe Hours
Tuesday – Sunday
11 am – 4 pm
Museum Store Hours
Monday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
Shop online at
www.sbmastore.net
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exhibitions
Cover: Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet
(detail),1911-1912. Oil on canvas. Museo
Thyssen-Bornemisza. © 2011 Estate of
Pablo Picasso/ Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York.
www.sbma.net
Al Weber, Red Tractor, San Joaquin Valley
(detail), 1974. Inkjet print. Courtesy of the
Photographer.
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