New Acquisitions

New Acquisitions

Title: 22 Sketches from the Joan Mitchell Sketchbook - 1949-1951
Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992)
Media: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Various sizes
Gift of: Dr. Gina Puzzuoli Miller 2009.10.1-22


Title: Bowl - Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD)
Media: Porcelain with celadon glaze
Dimensions: 2 ½” h x 7 3/8” dia.
Gift of: Alex Franklin 2009.8.3


Title: Pair of Vases - Meiping form Kangxi style, Jai Jing period 1890s
Media: Porcelain vase, multicolor glazes with Hard-paste porcelain famille verte colors, carved wooden lid
Dimensions: 16 ½” h
Gift of: Alex Franklin 2009.8.1AB


Title: Moonscape - 1970
Artist: Don Shepherd (American, 1930-2002)
Media: Colorless mold blown glass
Gift of: William H. Blenko, Jr. 2009.7.10


Title: Untitled, possibly from Spherical Series - 1979
Artist: Don Shepherd (American, 1930-2002)
Media: Free blown glass
Signed “DS ’79”
Gift of: William H. Blenko, Jr. 2009.7.9


Title: Vessels - ca. 1970s
Artist: Malcolm Wright (American, b. 1939)
Dimensions: Vase (12 ½” h x 10” diameter)
Bowl (5 ½” h x 10” diameter)
Platter (2 ½” h x 16” diameter)
Gift of: Mr. and Mrs. James Hoey 2009.9.1-3


Title: Eight Vessels - ca. 1957
Artist: Jamestown Glasshouse, Virginia
Media: green hand-blown glass with applied stickers
“Hand blown in Jamestown, Va.”
Reproduction line of original Jamestown glass.
Gift of: William H. Blenko, Jr. 2009.7.1-8


Title: Coffin with Woman in Blue - 1990
Artist: Edd Lambdin (American, Kentucky, b. 1935)
Media: Construction of wood, paint, and fiber
Dimensions: 4 ¾” h x 10 ¼” w x 2 ½” d
Gift of: Carolyn Bagby 2009.6


Gifts of Art

Title: Mother of God Who Points to her Son (“Hodegetria” type) - Russia, 19th century
Artist: Icon
Media: Oil on wood in brass riza
Dimensions: 12 ¼" h x 10 ½" w x 1" d
Gift of: Joseph McDonie 2007.3


Title: The Raising of Lazarus - ca. 1600
Artist: Jan Müller (Dutch, Amsterdam 1571-1628)
Media: Engraving after Abraham Bloemaert Second of two states
Dimensions: paper size: 16" h x 21" w
plate size: 14" h x 19" w
In Memory of Dr. Marion C. Korstanje
Gift of: The Fitzpatrick Society 2007.2


Museum Purchases

Title: Officer King - 2006
Artist: Brian Kreydatus
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60" x 48"
Purchase award for Exhibition 280


Title: Incense Box, (kögö) - Japan, early Edo period, 17th century
Media: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 3 ¼" x 3" x 1 3/8"
Lacquer with design of a flowering plum tree, Maki-e background on lid, with taka maki-e tree trunk and leaves, nashiji background in box interior; coral inlay, also with inlaid silver character mark of "Qian Dai"
Funds Provided by: The William Warner Jones Endowment, 2007.4AB


Title: Treasure Trove - 2005, Edition 5/7
Artist: Karen Kunc (American, Avoca, NE, b. 1949)
Media: Woodcut
Dimensions: Image: 14 x 80"
Frame: 18 ¾ x 85 x 2 ¼"
Funds Provided by: The Daniel R. Silosky Endowment, 2007.5


Title: Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - ca. 1914-1915
Artist: Paul Sawyier (American, 1865-1917)
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14" h x 17 1/8" w
Frame: 21 ½" h x 24 ½" w x 2" d
Provenance: The artist to his sister Lillian Sawyier Hill; by descent to her son Henry Sawyier Hill; to his wife May Conway; to her brother, Richard Conway; to his cousin, Gertrude Domigan; by descent in the family to the present.
In memory of Harold R. (Steve) Wheeler and Sarah Slack Wheeler
Funds Provided by: The Sarah Slack Wheeler Charitable Trust


Title: Photo Op - 2004
Artist: Joseph Smith (American, Easton, PA, b. 1936)
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 16" h x 22" w
Frame: 22" h x 28" w x 1¼" d
Exhibited HMA, Gropius Master Workshop Exhibit, March 17 - May 13, 2007
Museum Purchase, 2007.7


Title: Crater/Reconstruction Series - 2001
Artist: Mike Vatalaro (American, Pendleton, SC)
Media: Stoneware
Dimensions: 20" x 19" x 6"
Exhibited HMA, Gropius Master Workshop Exhibit, January 27 - March 11, 2007
Funds Provided by: The Helen Crissey Memorial Fund, 2007.6


Title: Mistique - 2009
Artist: Barbara Burton (American, Kentucky)
Media: Ink, paint on paper
Dimensions: 18” h x 23 ½ ” w
Museum Purchase 2009.11.3


Title: Correction - 2009
Artist: Barbara Burton (American, Kentucky)
Media: Ink, paint on paper
Dimensions: 23 ½ ” h x 18” w
Museum Purchase 2009.11.2


Title: Seedlings - 2006
Artist: Barbara Burton (American, Kentucky)
Media: Ink, paint on paper
Dimensions: 23 ½ ” h x 18” w
Museum Purchase 2009.11.1


News Releases

Fitzpatrick Society Purchases Photographs for HMA’s Dean Firearms Gallery

firearms The recently invigorated collectors’ club known as the Fitzpatrick Society at the Huntington Museum of Art, marked the end of a successful year with the acquisition of nine 19th century photographs depicting men with firearms.

The guns in the photographs parallel (in make and model) those on display in the Museum’s Herman P. Dean Firearms Gallery.

Six of the images are Civil War tintypes, and depict Union soldiers with a Colt Army Revolver, a Colt Root Revolver, and a Colt 1851 Navy Revolver among others. Another is a rare, early cartes de visite of Comanche Warrior Hiding Bear, holding a Winchester 1866 (yellowboy) rifle.

These photographs will soon be added to the displays in the gallery. This acquisition adds to HMA’s excellent collection of antique firearms by providing visitors with a visual context, as well as adding a “human” element.

The Fitzpatrick Society has a distinguished history with HMA and is responsible for numerous acquisitions throughout the years, including prints by Yvonne Jacquette, Claude Lorraine, Jean-François Millet, Helen Frankenthaler, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, and Olivia Parker, as well as a 15th-17th century Innuit Story Board from St. Lawrence Island.

Events for the coming year include a trip to Cincinnati on November 3, 2006, to visit the Cincinnati Art Museum for a guided tour of Waking Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Collection from the Delaware Art Museum, lunch, and in the afternoon to visit the recently renovated Taft Museum for a guided tour with the Museum's curator; a print weekend, which will include an evening of cocktails and comraderie with fellow collectors at a local print collector’s residence, demonstrations at the Museum of various printmaking techniques, and an evening cocktail party, and discussion with IFPDA Print Dealer Charles Young, and a trunk show of his inventory; Opening reception for Romance with the Landscape in January; and the annual meeting where Fitzpatrick Society members vote to purchase a work of art for the permanent collection, using Fitzpatrick Society dues. For more information on the Fitzpatrick Society, and to become a member, please call Senior Curator Jenine Culligan (304) 529-2701, Ext. 26.

A Memorial

By Jenine Culligan


Release Date: Sep 21, 2010

The Museum has lost a true friend with the passing of Dr. Marion C. Korstanje. He was a true philanthropist, who took great satisfaction in sharing his passion for art with others. Dr. Korstanje was an active and dedicated board member for 12 years, and a knowledgeable member of the Museum’s Collections Committee. He was a true Renaissance man, a noted ophthalmologist in Huntington, W.Va., practicing for more than 40 years, spoke many languages, loved reading, nature, travel, and art, especially Asian ceramics, natural history prints and old master prints.

Dr. Korstanje’s first donation to HMA (made in 1969, along with Dixie Franklin) was a 19th century Japanese Imari Temple Vase, which is more than six feet tall. Later, in 1996 he began to donate his exquisite and extensive collection of natural history prints, which includes many fine works by the top artists working in the field of botanical and bird prints, including Mark Catesby, John Gould, John J. Audubon, Alexander Wilson, Crispin de Passe, Gerard van Spaendonck, Pierre Joseph Redoute, and many, many others. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Korstanje donated more than 240 natural history prints to the Museum, forming a collection to rival larger institutions, and one that speaks to Dr. Korstanje’s Dutch heritage (his parents came to the U.S. from the Netherlands to establish a bulb and flower business), as well of his love of beauty and nature. This collection perfectly conveys HMA’s missions in combining nature and art. A selection of these botanical prints traveled the country from 2001-2003 in a national tour titled Exotica: Plant Portraits from Around the World.

Goltzius Minerva, Venus and Juno by Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)

Just two years ago Dr. Korstanje made the decision to begin the formation of a collection of old master prints. In 2005 he bought a beautiful set of three engravings by Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617) titled Minerva, Venus and Juno, from 1596; a superb woodcut by Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1578-1652) titled The Garden of Love, ca. 1632 (after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens); and an amazingly detailed etching by Stefano della Bella titled La Morte sul Campo di Battaglia, from 1663. In January 2007, just a month-and-a-half before his death, Dr. Korstanje donated these prints along with an etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), two hand-colored lithographs by Joseph Wolf (British (b. Germany) 1820-1899) from Daniel Elliot’s “A Monograph on the Birds of Paradise;” a Qing Dynasty (ca. 1800) cobalt monochrome porcelain vase, and a K’angxi Dynasty (1662-1722) blue and white porcelain Lidded Jar with prunus pattern. Dr. Korstanje will be greatly missed, but his many gifts to the Museum will be cared for and exhibited in perpetuity.

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