Milestones in American Art

Articles and Essays Concerning Key Personnel Appointments and Retirements at Art Museums,

Acquisitions of Artworks, and Miscellaneous Events

(this catalog discontinued in 2006)

2006

• America's Home of Impressionism Restored to Period of Historic Significance (2/6/06)

2005

• The Lyme Academy Story, article by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler (6/15/05)
• Expanded Galleries of American Art with Loans from the Terra Foundation for American Art Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (4/6/05)

2004

• San Antonio Museum of Art Appoints Dr. Marion Oettinger, Jr. as Interim Director (8/13/04)
• Bellevue Art Museum Names Michael W. Monroe as Executive Director and Chief Curator (7/12/04)
• Brian T. Allen Named Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art (6/3/04)
• Currier & Ives Prints Acquired by the Springfield Museums (5/10/04)
• Orlando Museum of Art Acquisitions Programs (5/4/04)
• San Diego Museum of Art Names Derrick R. Cartwright as Executive Director  (4/28/04)
• Frist Center Names Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D., Executive Director (4/23/04)
• Norman Rockwell Image Promotes French Museum Exhibit (3/19/04)

2003

• Karen Brosius Named Executive Director of Columbia Museum of Art (12/22/03)
• Robert Breunig Named Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona (10/13/03)
• Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Permanently Installed in Milwaukee Art Museum (9/23/03)
• Adam D. Weinberg Appointed Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art (9/2/03)
• Charles A. Shepard III appointed Executive Director of The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (7/9/03)
• Dr. Douglas R. Nickel Appointed Director of the Center for Creative Photography (6/25/03)
• Plains Art Museum Names Edward E. Pauley as President/C.E.O (4/21/03)
• Brian J. Ferriso Appointed Executive Director and CEO of The Philbrook Museum of Art (3/5/03)

2002

• New Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (10/31/02)
• As it was in the beginning, essay by John H. Strietelmeier (9/26/02)
• Tamarind: Forty Years (9/20/02)
• Mint Museum of Art Receives Six Romare Bearden Paintings (9/9/02)
• Dr. Bonnie G. Kelm Appointed Director of the University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara (8/22/02)
• Janie Cohen Appointed Director of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum (8/19/02)
• Metropolitan Museum Opens Gallery Devoted to the Works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (8/6/02)
• Collaboration on Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné (7/15/02)
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Acquires 'Starlight' in Harbor by American Painter Fitz Hugh Lane (7/11/02)
• Inez S. Wolins Appointed Executive Director of C.M. Russell Museum (7/3/02)
• Allentown Art Museum Appoints David R. Brigham as Director (5/16/02)
• Neal Benezra Appointed Director of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (4/29/02)
• Dr. Robert E. Shimp Appointed Director of Buffalo Bill Historical Center (3/1/02)
• Cassatt and Duncanson Paintings Acquired by MFAH (2/11/02)
• Margaret Ann Skove Named Director of Columbia Museum of Art (1/21/02)

2001

• David Mickenberg Named Director of Wellesley's Davis Museum and Cultural Center (11/27/01)
• French and U.S. Museums Inaugurate French Regional and American Museums Exchange To Facilitate Exchanges Between Participating Museums (11/1/01)
• Jack Becker Appointed Director of the Museum of Art at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art (10/31/01)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Appoints Anthony G. Hirschel as New Director (8/24/01)
• Dr. John Schloder Appointed Director of St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts (8/16/01)
• Daniel T. Keegan Named Inaugural Oshman Executive Director at the San Jose Museum of Art (7/6/01)
• Patterson Sims Appointed Director of the Montclair Art Museum (7/5/01)
• The Long Island Museum Names Jackie Day New President / CEO (4/23/01)
• J. Brooks Joyner Is New Director of Joslyn Art Museum (3/27/01)
• Beth Levinthal Named Director of the Heckscher Museum of Art (3/16/01)
• Orlando Museum of Art Receives Gift of Carolyn Brady Painting (3/13/01)
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Acquires Artworks by African-American Artists (2/21/01)
• Acquisitions at Joslyn Art Museum (2/15/01)
• John Hallmark Neff appointed executive director at Reynolda House, Museum of American Art (2/11/01)
• The Berkshire Museum Announces Appointment of Ann Mintz as Director (1/2/01)

2000

• Metropolitan Museum of Art's John K. Howat to Retire in 2001 (12/19/00)
• Janice Driesbach Appointed Director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden (12/16/00)
• Bellevue Art Museum Opens the Doors to Its New Home (11/10/00)
• College Art Association: 89th Annual Conference (10/23/00)
• Derrick Cartwright Is New Director of Hood Museum of Art (10/17/00)
• Robert A. Kret Named Director of The Hunter Museum of American Art (10/17/00)
• Brigham Young University ­ Museum of Art Acquires Important Paintings (10/10/00)
• Michael J. Warner Is New Executive Director at C.M. Russell Museum (9/13/00)
• David Butler to Leave Swope Art Museum for Director Position at Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art (9/1/00)
• Wyeth's "Hay Ledge" Returns to Greenville (8/29/00)
• Stamford Museum & Nature Center Welcomes Sharon Blume as Director (8/16/00)
• Arthur H. Wolf to Lead Museum of Northern Arizona (8/9/00)
• Virginia Museum Curator Receives Getty Research Grant for Work on James McNeil Whistler (8/7/00)
• New Art Museum for Southern Vermont (8/5/00)
• Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona Commences 25th Anniversary (6/10/00)
• The Grand Salon of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery Reopens (5/30/00)
• Michael E. Shapiro Appointed High Museum of Art Director (5/30/00)
• Utah Museum of Fine Arts Receives Grant for New Building Wing (5/27/00)
• Buell Children's Museum at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center is Completed (5/27/00)
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Appoints Michael Brand as Director (5/23/00)
• SITE Santa Fe Receives Ford Foundation Challenge Grant (5/19/00)
• C. M. Russell Home and Log Cabin Studio: National Historic Landmark (5/13/00)
• Cahoon Museum Announces New Director (4/15/00)
• E. John Bullard's Service to the New Orleans Museum of Art (3/18/00)
• Katharine Lee Reid New Director at Cleveland Museum of Art (3/17/00)
• Hyde Collection Art Museum Appoints Randall Suffolk as Director (3/14/00)
• Olaf Wieghorst Museum Opening in El Cajon, California (3/14/00)
• Robert Kuhn Painting Donated to Genesee Country Village & Museum (3/9/00)
• From the Fountainhead to the Future (2/27/00)
• The Utah Museum of Fine Arts Is Awarded $75,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation (2/2700)
• Charles K. Steiner: New Director of Wichita Art Museum (1/24/00)
• Charles P. Helsell Named Director of Blanden Memorial Art Museum (1/24/00)

1999

• Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art Receives NCAA 1999 Award of Distinction (12/19/99)
• Alfred Mitchell Homes Receive Historic Designation from the City of San Diego (12/13/99)
• Scott Marks Is First Museum of Photographic Arts Film Curator (11/20/99)
• Hood Museum of Art Acquires Rare Outdoor Still Life by Maria Oakey Dewing (11/1/99)
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Purchases Painting by Frederick Carl Frieseke (10/29/99)
• Dr. John R. Lane Appointed Dallas Museum of Art's Eugene McDermott Director (10/16/99)
• Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey Receives Appointment as Dallas Museum of Art's Curator of American Art (10/16/99)
• Bill Nebeker: 1999 Cowboy Artists of America President (10/12/99)
• Robert Hull Fleming Museum Searches for Paintings by Charles Louis Heyde (1822-1892) (10/10/99)
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art Reopens (10/6/99)
• Hearst Art Gallery of Saint Mary's College Appoints Carrie Brewster as Director (9/26/99)
• Terry L. Oldham Is New Director at Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (9/26/99)
• C.M. Russell Museum Appoints Tom Maytham Executive Director (9/23/99)
• Ms. Lial A. Jones Appointed Director of the Crocker Art Museum (9/9/99)
• South Dakota Art Museum Receives Grant to Research Harvey Dunn (8/20/99)
• New Director Frank Goodyear Jr. to Lead Heard Museum Into New Century (8/9/99)
• Over 500 NMAA "Treasures to Go" to 70 Museums Nationwide (8/6/99)
• Treasures of USC: The Collecting Continues (4/27/99)
• C. M. Russell Museum Expansion Coming (7/1/99)
• Amon Carter Museum Expanding Its Space, "Coming Attractions" Last Exhibition before Closing (6/30/99)
• Construction of New de Young Museum in San Francisco Scheduled to Begin in 2001 and Be Completed by 2006 (6/22/99)
• Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art Receives Luce Foundation Grant (6/18/99)
• Polk Museum of Art Re-Accredited by AAM (6/18/99)
• John L.Gray: New Executive Director at Autry Museum of Western Heritage (6/17/99)
• Getty Museum Announces Important Gifts of Photographs (6/10/99)
• Mission San Juan Capistrano Hosts Art Competition; Joan Irvine Smith Fine Arts to Award $10,000 in Cash Prizes (6/3/99)
• National Gallery Collectors Committee Selects Steichen Painting, Other Works for 20th Century Collection (5/26/99)
• Center for Native American Art at Portland Art Museum (5/13/99)
• San Diego Museum of Art Names Dr. Don Bacigalupi as Next Director (4/8/99)
• Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco (4/8/99)
• New 63,000 square foot Utah Museum of Fine Arts (3/30/99)
• Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum Announces Drawing for E. I. Couse Painting (3/26/99)
• Edward Hopper Watercolor on View at Reynolda House Community Day (3/18/99)
• Major Expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Moves Forward with the Construction of the Audrey Jones Beck Building (3/10/99)
• "New Acquisitions 1998" at the Portland Museum of Art (3/9/99)
• National Academy Artists To Teach at Monterey Museum of Art (3/4/99)
• Second Donation by Joyce and Leonard Greene to Hudson River Museum Glenview Campaign (3/2/99)
• Charles Russell and Maynard Dixon Paintings Given to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Collection (2/27/99)
• Manuel Neri, artist-in-residence at Boston University (2/14/99)
• Katonah Museum of Art: An Endowment For the Future (2/8/99)
• Nelson Museum of the West Opens in Cheyenne Wyoming (2/1/99)
• George G. King: Director of The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum(1/17/99)
• John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, The Complete Paintings: Volume I (1/17/99)
• LAM/OCMA Trust Collection Acquires Paintings (1/17/99)
• Cantor Arts Center Apppints Dr. Claire Perry as Curator of American Art (1/5/99)
• 1999 Second Thursday Panels at the Carmel Art Association (1/1/99)
• Heard Museum Doubles Venue Space (12/18/98)
• An Artistic Community: Hope School of Fine Arts Biennial Faculty Show (12/14/98)
• Harris Place: New Home for Lyman Allyn's Collection of Dolls and Toys (12/14/98)
• Weir Farm National Historic Site to Develop Museum (12/9/98)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services Honors Chrysler Museum of Art (12/8/09)

1998

• California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media (12/4/98)
• Happiness Is (11/18/98)
• Bolton Museum and Art Gallery Seeks to Acquire Thomas Moran Painting (11/18/98)
• Eye on the Future at the Eiteljorg (11/18/98)
• Adam D. Weinberg: New Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy (11/16/98)
• Castle Museum Renovation Allows Display of Smithsonian Traveling Exhibitions (11/7/98)
• Jack Cooke and Edward L. Gaylord Assume New Leadership Roles On National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Board of Directors (10/24/98)
• Thomas Hart Benton and Jasper Francis Cropsey paintings Acquired by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (10/24/98)
• Miniatures/98 at the Albuquerque Museum (10/24/98)
• Informal Dialogues at the Bayly (10/14/98)
• New Endowed Curatorships at Met (10/14/98)
• Georgia Museum of Art Launches Web Page (10/14/98)
• Two American Art Books Published by Art Institute of Chicago This Fall (10/14/98)
• 42nd Annual Juried Exhibition at San Diego Art Institute (10/14/98)
• Art Institute of Boston Merging with Lesley College (10/14/98)
• Jasper F. Cropsey 's A Summer Afternoon Donated to Saginaw Art Museum (10/12/98)
• Rockwell Museum Acquires Ernest L. Blumenschein Masterpiece (10/12/98)
• Frank E. Schoonover's,Ojibway Indian Spearing the Maskenozha (Pike), Joins Rockwell Museum Collection (10/12/98)
• Definitive Book on Frederick Carder Published (10/12/98)
• 17th Annual Outdoor Arts Festival of the Bruce Museum (10/10/98)
• UCLA Medical Center Medical Art Program Achieves $20,000 Through 1998 Benefit Event (10/9/98)
• A Taste For Art (10/8/98)
• Online Newsletter from Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (9/20/98)
• Museum Premieres CD-ROM (9/20/98)
• Intemational Museum of the Horse to Host American Academy of Equine Art 19th Annual Juried Exhibition (9/17/98)
• Intemational Museum of the Horse Purchases Calumet Trophy Collection (9/17/98)
• Frick Collection Launches Website with "Virtual Tour" (9/16/98)
• Four Centuries in American Art Pane of Stamps Issues (9/2/98)
• Adirondack Museum Launches Its First Capital Campaign (8/29/98)
• Meryman Portraits of Sagendorphs Donated (8/5/98)
• The Huntington Receives Gift of Thomas Moran Painting (7/29/98)
• Williamsburg Symposium (729/98)
• Albany Institute of History & Art Prepares to Begin Expansion Project (7/27/98)
• Kresge Foundation Awards $500,000 to Albany Institute of History & Art (7/27/98)
• The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (7/22/98)
• National Museum of American Art Announces 1998 Winner of the Annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize (7/22/98)
• Joslyn Art Museum Changes Hours and Admission (7/22/98)
• Telfair Museum of Art Announces Major Expansion Plans (7/21/98)
• Philbrook Museum of Art Receives National Accreditation (7/17/98)
• Roy R. Neuberger Celebrates 95th Birthday July 21, 1998
• The Uris Brothers Foundation Has Awarded a $10,000,000 Endowment to Create New Educational Programs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (7/14/98)
• Guests Experience Wild West Weather During National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Annual Prix de West Art Sale
• The J. Paul Getty Trust Names Dr. Barry Munitz, Educator, College Administrator, and Business Leader, as Next President and Chief Executive Officer (1/5/98)

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