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ACQUISITIONS  

Gifts of Art

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

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


Museum Purchases
Brian Kreydatus, Officer King, 2006, oil on canvas, 60 x 48"

Brian Kreydatus, Officer King, 2006, oil on canvas, 60 x 48". Purchase award for Exhibition 280.

Incense Box, (kögö), Japan, early Edo period, 17th century, 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". Dimensions: 3 ¼" x 3" x 1 3/8". Funds provided by the William Warner Jones Endowment, 2007.4AB

Karen Kunc (American, Avoca, NE, b. 1949), Treasure Trove, 2005, woodcut, edition 5/7. Image: 14 x 80" framed: 18 ¾ x 85 x 2 ¼". Funds provided by the Daniel R. Silosky Endowment, 2007.5

Paul Sawyier (American, 1865-1917), Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, about 1914-1915, 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. Funds provided by the Sarah Slack Wheeler Charitable Trust in memory of Harold R. (Steve) Wheeler and Sarah Slack Wheeler

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

Mike Vatalaro (American, Pendleton, SC), Crater/Reconstruction Series, 2001, 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

A MEMORIAL
By Jenine Culligan

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.

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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Fitzpatrick Society Purchases Photographs for HMA’s Dean Firearms Gallery

 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.

 
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