Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Minutes of the Art Acquisitions Sub-committee Meeting

LOANS FROM THE COLLECTION:

1. 
   Tiffany & Company, Coffee Pot and Cream Jug, 1878, Silver, Coffee Pot: Overall: 7 × 2 7/8 × 5 in. (17.78 × 7.3 × 12.7 cm); Cream Jug: Overall: 4 × 2 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (10.16 × 6.03 × 8.26 cm), Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis, 85.283.1-2.
   

Tiffany Studios, Dresser Lamp, ca. 1900, Favrile glass, brass, electrical fittings, 10 1/2 x 4 (diameter) in./lamp 4 x 8 (diameter) in./shade (26.7 x 10.2 (diameter) cm./lamp 10.2 x 20.3 (diameter) cm./shade cm), Gift of Mabel and George McDonald, 89.29ab.

Tiffany Studios, Inkwell, ca. 1900, Gilded bronze, favrile glass, Overall: 4 × 4 1/2 in. dia. (10.16 × 11.43 cm), Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Nouveau Fund, 73.17
Exhibition: “Louis Comfort Tiffany:  Art & Innovation,” The History Museum, South Bend, IN, March 31 – October 1, 2018
Recommendation: Lend with courier.

2. 
   Carle Van Loo, A Pasha Having His Mistress's Portrait Painted, 1737, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 26 × 30 in. (66.04 × 76.2 cm), Framed: 35 × 39 1/2 in. (88.9 × 100.33 cm)
   

Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 59.20
Exhibition: “Wyeth, Parrish, Rockwell and the European Narrative Tradition,” Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, June 9 – October 28, 2018.

Recommendation: Lend.

3. 
   NöelNicolas Coypel, The Rape of Europa, 1722, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 35 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (90.17 × 102.24 cm), Framed: 44 1/2 × 49 1/4 in. (113.03 × 125.1 cm), Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 97.128
   

Exhibition: “Orléans Collection,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, October 25, 2018 – January 27, 2019.

Recommendation: Lend

4. 
   Max Beckmann, King Saul, 1947, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 51 3/8” H x 29 5/8” W (130.4 x 75.2 cm); Framed: 57 3/8” H x 35 ¾” W (145.6 x 90.7 cm), Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 84.5.
   

Exhibition: “Max Beckmann, Figures in Exile,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2018 – January 27, 2019; Caixaforum, Barcelona, Spain, February 20 – May 28, 2019. The loan is requested only for the second venue in Barcelona.

Recommendation: Lend with courier.

5. 
   Giovanni Battista Moroni, Two Donors in Adoration before the Madonna and Child, and St. Michael, 155760, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 35 1/4 × 38 1/2 in. (89.54 × 97.79 cm; Framed: 45 1/2 × 48 1/2 in. (115.57 × 123.19 cm), Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 62.20
   

Exhibition: “The Portraits of Giovanni Battista Moroni,” The Frick Collection, New York, NY, February 21 – June 2, 2019.

Recommendation: Lend.

6. 
   Francisco Goya, General Nicolas Philippe Guye, 1810, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 41 3/4 × 33 3/8 in. (106.05 × 84.77 cm); Framed: 52 1/4 × 43 3/4 in. (132.72 × 111.13 cm), Gift of Mr. John Lee Pratt, 71.26
   

Exhibition: Untitled, Beyeler Museum AG, Riehan/Basel, Switzerland, May, 2020 – August, 2020.

Recommendation: Lend with courier.


CHANGES TO LOANS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED:

1. 
   Greek, Attic, attributed to Triptolemos Painter and attributed to Charinos, Red-Figured Ram’s Head Rhyton (Drinking Cup), ca. 480 B.C., Terracotta, 8 7/8” H x 5 ½” W x 10 ½” D, overall. Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 79.100
   

Exhibition: “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings” Venues & dates: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 7, 2018 – January 6, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 17 – May 19, 2019

The planned second venue, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has withdrawn from the exhibition.

2. 
   Tibetan, Padmasambhava, 18^th century, Copper alloy, gemstones, traces of paint, Overall: 23 1/2 × 16 × 12 in. (59.69 × 40.64 × 30.48 cm). Berthe and John Ford Collection, Gift of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, 91.530a-b.
   

Exhibition: “The Second Buddha: Master of Time,” (formerly “The Second Buddha: The Lotus-born Guru”), The Rubin Museum of Art, February 2, 2018 – January 7, 2019, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, February– June, 2019.

The request for the loan is withdrawn.
LOANS DENIED:

1. 
   Claude Monet, Field of Poppies, Giverny, 1885, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 23 5/8 × 28 ¾ in. (60.01 × 73.03 cm), Framed: 34 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (87.63 × 100.33 cm), Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 85.499
   

Exhibition: “Monet and His Places,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

10/20/2019  2/2/2020, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, 2/29/2020  6/1/2020.
Reason for denial: The painting is needed for VMFA’s traveling exhibition of the Mellon Collection.
MOTION: Mr. Michael J. Schewel MEETING: Art Acquisitions Committee

SECOND: Ms. Cynthia Fralin DATE: 13 December 2017

CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED MEETING

WHEREAS, the Art Acquisitions Sub-Committee has convened a closed meeting on this date pursuant to an affirmative recorded vote and in accordance with the provisions of The Virginia Freedom of Information Act; and

WHEREAS, Section 2.2-3712 of the Code of Virginia requires a certification by this Board that such closed meeting was conducted in conformity with Virginia law;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Art Acquisitions Sub-Committee hereby certifies that, to the best of each member's knowledge, (i) only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the closed meeting to which this certification resolution applies, and (ii) only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed or considered by the Art Acquisitions Sub-Committee.
VOTE

AYES: Jecklin / Gottwald / Peterson / Royall

NAYS: None
ABSENT DURING VOTE: M. Harris
ABSENT DURING MEETING: Abramson / Fralin / Markel / Schewel

Recorded by: Jody Green

Administrative Assistant, Director’s Office

And

Laura Keller

Assistant to the Secretary of the Foundation