PDF Book - El Paso Museum of Art Foundation

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MUSEUM STAFF
Reginald Fisher, Director
Woody Crumbo, Keeper of Collections and Researcher in Western Americana
Warren Travis, Exhibit Technician and Researcher in Decorative Arts
Rosemary Corcoran, Administrative Secretary and Librarian
Tina Holguin, Public Services Secretary
Peter Grivas, Museum Assistant
Gustavo Hernandez, Maintenance Superintendent and Furniture Restorer
Alfredo Castro, Janitor-Caretaker
JUNIOR ARTS CENTER
Ellen Coogler, Artist in Residence; Teacher – Experiencing Art
Jan Herring, Artist in Residence; Teacher – Expressiveness and How to Paint It
Woody Crumbo, Artist in Residence
EL PASO BOY CHOIR
Dr. E. A. Thormodsgaard, Musical Director
Alvin Lotspeich, Rehearsal Assistant
J. Sande Morrison, Rehearsal Assistant
Clarice Knight, Musical Arranger
RESTORATION CONSULTANT
F. DuPont Cornelius
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Museum Staff
Michael A. Tomor, Ph.D., Director
Nanette Giron, Executive Assistant to the Director
CURATORIAL
Christian Gerstheimer, Curator
Sylvia Ortiz, Curatorial Secretary
Nick Muñoz, Preparator
Michelle Villa, Registrar
DEVELOPMENT
Jeff Romney, Head of Development
Lilia Fierro, Event Coordinator
Emma Garcia, Development Clerical Assistant
Barbara Read, Department Marketing Assistant
EDUCATION
Tracey Fontenot, Head of Education
Laura Zamarripa, Assistant Education Curator
Claudia Davila, Museum School Coordinator
Nora Wilson, Education Department Assistant
OPERATIONS
William Beck, Operations Assistant
William H. Bolte, Service & Security Worker
Mundo Bueno, Service & Security Worker
Pedro Campos, Operations Assistant
Bernardino Contreras, Museum Operations Assistant
Marco Forti, Service & Security Worker
Jesus Garcia, Museum Operations Assistant
Sara Garza, Service & Security Worker
Esteban Lopez, Service & Security Worker
Arthur Magallanez, Service & Security Worker
Arturo Vargas, Maintenance Mechanic
EPMA STORE
Norma Geller, Museum Store Manager
Evy Martinez, Museum Store Clerk
El Paso Museum of Art
Directors 1960-2010
Reginald Fisher (1959 - 1963)
Woody Crumbo (Interim 1963 - 1964)
Clay Aldridge (1965 - 1966)
Leonard Sipiora (1967 - 1990)
Peter de Wetter (Interim 1990 - 1991)
Becky Duvall Reese (1991 - 2005)
Amy Paoli (Interim 2005 - 2006)
Michael A. Tomor, Ph.D. (2006 - present)
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RAYMOND L. TELLES, JR., MAYOR The City of El Paso is proud of its new Museum of Art which now opens its doors to the
Public, with an invitation to all to participate in the array of cultural activities it offers
for their inspiration, recreation and enjoyment. The City expresses appreciation to
the Life Members of the original El Paso International Museum Association whose
valuable gifts and unselfish efforts are gratefully acknowledged. I am honored to
have this privilege to conferring upon them the title of FOUNDERS of the El Paso
Museum of Art.
Studio of Tintoretto (Italian, Venetian, active mid 16th century to early 17th century)
The Adoration of the Shepherds, Date unknown
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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JOHN COOK, MAYOR
Mayor’s Passage for the 50th Celebration of the
El Paso Museum of Art On behalf of the City of El Paso, it is with great honor and pleasure to
extend my warmest and sincerest appreciation to all of the people and
organizations, past and present, whose contributions these past five
decades have elevated the El Paso Museum of Art to standards of high
reverence, with an art collection, so encompassing, it is valued as one of the
best among cities across the United States.
The Museum’s history is deeply rooted, like a desert tree in our arid land. The
El Paso Museum of Art, as we know it today, evolved from a seed planted
at the turn of the century by the Woman’s Club of El Paso, who commenced
their first art exhibition on April 25, 1900 in Chopin Hall, a small building
in downtown El Paso. During that era, these pioneers offered art classes
to children at local schools and educated the community about the Arts.
During the next 26 years, the seed became a seedling and inspiration
nurtured the idea of a possible city museum. In 1926 at a Woman’s Club
meeting the suggestion was pitched and discussion eventually evolved
into a committee. This group of art enthusiasts received input from various
organizations in town which led to the pursuit of this dream. Soon after, in
1930 the El Paso International Museum was incorporated and was followed
by an official State Charter in 1932. Thereafter, the Museum Association
needed a suitable building to house and exhibit its art work, so they began
a Building Campaign to raise funds to acquire a facility. This opportunity
arose in 1940; the El Paso International Museum Association pursued the
acquisition of the mansion of the late State Senator, W.W. Turney, who
passed away the previous year in 1939.
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The Mansion, a two story, colonial style home, was designed by nationally renowned architect Henry C. Trost in 1907. His
architectural designs and buildings are iconic fixtures in the southwest area and his name etched on cornerstones of more than
200 buildings. His unique architecture is a blend of Chicago style intertwined with regional Pueblo and Spanish architecture.
His mentors included prominent architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright from Chicago, the Windy City.
Through the exchange of $5,000, the association purchased (widow) Ida Turney’s interest in the mansion and obtained title
to the property. To ensure municipality ownership and operation, the museum released the title to the City, setting up tax
foreclosure proceedings of the property and ensuring the conversion of the property into a municipal museum. To complete the
transaction, the City and County purchased the Turney Mansion for $11,860 at a tax auction. The Turney Mansion, at 1200
Montana Avenue, was the centerpiece for art in the city of El Paso since 1947, when it officially opened its doors to the public.
For the first seven years of its occupancy at the Turney Mansion, the Museum utilized the second floor of the home to catalog
and safeguard its small but diverse art collection. It shared the building with the Bundles for Britain and Bundles for America
projects, who used the first floor. In the early years the Museum was characterized as a historical museum and cultural center,
but the decade of the 1950s changed the ambiance of the museum with the acquisition of various, outstanding art compositions
from prominent Santa Fe artists from northern New Mexico.
The Museum, a seedling in its previous state, was now maturing into a tree with its branches extending beyond our city, state and
national borders. The Museum’s notoriety grew in 1957, as the City was presented the opportunity to own a major collection
of European Art owned by Samuel H. Kress, a wealthy, national businessman who owned Kress Five & Dime Shopping Stores
throughout the United States. He was also a philanthropist and established a foundation in 1929. Through this venue he
amassed an enormous collection of valuable and historical art from all over the world. But his most profound gift was sharing
his precious treasures with others all throughout our great country. (Details about the prestigious Kress Collection can be
researched at the Kress Foundation website: www.kressfoundation.org).
To properly house and exhibit the City’s fraction of the Kress Collection, the Turney Mansion was expanded in 1960 with two
additional wings. The mansion’s expansion was funded by the City of El Paso, along with its future operational costs. The Kress
Collection sprouted a new leaf on that settled, desert tree, our Museum. It would no longer be considered the International
Museum; it was now owned by a municipality, the City of El Paso and to reflect that ownership it was renamed, the El Paso
Museum of Art. The Samuel H. Kress Collection arrived on April 20, 1961 with 57 paintings and two sculptures. Although the
earliest work of that collection is from c. 1200, the collection features primary time periods of art history: International Gothic,
Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo. It was said at the time, that the Kress Collection in El Paso was surpassed in quality only by
the Kress art gift to the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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The Kress Collection has become the focal point of the Museum, but it has branched out
like a mature, aged desert tree, providing shelter for other noteworthy artists and their most
inspiring art pieces. These include renderings from Peter Hurd, Charles M. Russell, and Tom
Lea. The Museum has gained from individuals and organizations other valuable pieces, some
recognized, others anonymous. These collections include Colonial Mexican art paintings,
retablos and sculptures. In addition, American Collections have been garnered over the years
through singular gifts, donations, bequeaths and purchases.
The establishment of the El Paso Art Museum Association in 1960 had been instrumental
in assisting our Museum directors throughout the years in preserving the integrity of the
Museum and its pieces. Today, the collections are housed in a state-of-the-art facility located in
downtown El Paso, in the mecca of our Cultural District, with 104,000 square feet of building.
Construction began in 1996, and it was ready for occupancy two years later at a cost of
eight million dollars through contributions by the City of El Paso, foundations, corporations
and individuals. The amenities of the Museum include a well-equipped auditorium, reference
library, classrooms, storage facilities and 30,000 square feet of exhibition space; this includes
permanent galleries and additional space for temporary and traveling exhibits. The Museum
has more than 6,000 pieces in its collection and it continues to flourish and expand.
In celebrating its 50th Anniversary, I would like every El Pasoan to take the time to enjoy the
priceless gifts that we have to offer at the El Paso Museum of Art. Decade after decade the
Museum has transformed into a special place of significance and history. The desert tree, the
Museum, has reached enormous heights; artists of all periods - its branches, are full of leaves;
more than 6,000 art pieces - and so thick not a ray of light pierces its canopy. It is a museum
so full that only 10% of its collection is displayed at any one time.
Jacopo Del Sellaio (Italian, Florentine, 1442 - 1493)
Saint Jerome and Saint Francis, ca. 1480
Tempera on wood transferred to masonite
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
I want to acknowledge all those, past and present, for their commitment, contributions,
innovation, motivation, dreams, desires and dedication. The El Paso Museum of Art is, and
will always be, El Paso’s Pride from its essence and early beginnings, to its present and future
stature. Congratulations to all, on behalf of our citizens, our City of El Paso administration and
staff, and yours truly, Mayor John Cook.
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El PASO MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION
To ART, which has been called, “The truest, finest, most enduring record of the activities of man,” we
dedicate this museum. The hope of its Founders is that it provide a channel of esthetic fulfillment for the
people of El Paso.
Its location in this flourishing, international metropolis astride the historic “Pass of the North,” predetermines the aspiration of its Trustees that it become nothing less than the “Metropolitan” Museum
of the Rio Grande. Its program, cast in terms of public service, contemplates activity in all major fields:
acquisition and conservation; exhibition and presentation; interpretation and education; extension and
participation. A prime concern is held in behalf of contemporary art and artists for it is believed that the
true stature of an age is indicated by its art.
Dan R. Ponder, President
Attributed to Lambert Sustris (Dutch, active 16th century)
The Education of Cupid, ca. 1540
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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TRUSTEES Col. John L. Ballantyne
Col. E. M. Barron
Gen. A. H. Bender
Cleofas Calleros
Charles S. Chauvet
Mrs. Otis Coles
C. W. Connors
H. M. Daugherty
Chris P. Fox
Mrs. Josephine Clardy Fox
H. D. Fulwiler
J. M. Hanks
Mrs. R. T. Hoover, Jr.
Joseph F. Irvin
E. M. Kelley
William A. Kolliker
Tom Lea
Mrs. Dexter Mapel, Jr.
Robert E. McKee
Dan R. Ponder
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PRESIDENTS OF THE EL PASO ART MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION 1960 - 1993
1960 Mr. Dan Ponder
1977 Dr. Edward Egbert
1961 Mr. Dan Ponder
1978 Dr. Edward Egbert
1962 Mr. Dan Ponder
1979 Mr. William B. Duncan
1963 Mr. Dan Ponder
1980 Mr. William B. Duncan
1964 Mr. Dan Ponder
1981 Mrs. V. Blaine Qualls
1965 Mr. Tom Lea
1982 Mr. Maury P. Kemp
1966 Mr. Louis Daeuble
1983 Mr. Frank Feuille, IV
1967 Mr. Louis Daeuble
1984 Dr. Barry G. King
1968 Mr. Charles H. Leavell
1985 Mrs. Sam Young
1969 Mr. Charles H. Leavell
1986 Mr. William J. Derrick
1970 Mr. Leonard Goodman, Jr.
1987 Mr. George McBride
1971 Mr. Richard W. Mithoff
1988 Mr. George McBride
1972 Mr. Frank Feuille, III
1989 Mr. George McBride
1973 Mr. Sam Moore, Jr.
1990 Mrs. Richard Miller
1974 Mr. Sam Moore, Jr.
1991 Mrs. Richard Miller
1975 Mr. Sam Moore, Jr.
1992 Mr. Burton Patterson
1976 Mr. William W. Holik, Jr.
1993 Mr. Bernard Panetta
PAST CHAIRMEN OF THE MEMBERS GUILD 1966 – 1993
1966 Gertrude Goodman
1981 Susan Wantland
1967 Gertrude Goodman
1982 Charlotte Dissly
1968 Mardee deWetter
1983 Jill Smith
1969 Mary Lou Horwitz
1984 Ellen Marslender
1970 Marian Collins
1985 Elouise Phelan
1971 Bette Hervey
1986 Carolyn Overley
1972 Phyllis O’Hara
1987 Kathy Issa
1973 Eleanor Goodman
1988 Charlotte Nobles
1974 Charlotte Edmunds
1989 Lynn Hallaby
1975 Jackie Borrett
1990 Marcela Panetta
1976 Evelyn Cantrel
1991 Angela Gallardo
1977 Alice Beard
1992 Joyce Ewald
1978 Virginia Fisk 1979-1980 Sally Borrett
1993 Joyce Ewald
1980 Marie (Mills) Kolliker
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EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION First President of the El Paso Museum of Art Association and former Mayor Dan Ponder would be both pleased and impressed
with the 2010 El Paso Museum of Art 50 years after his dedication remarks. As the finest art museum on the Rio Grande
and the anchor of downtown El Paso’s Museum District, the El Paso Museum of Art continues to fulfill the aspirations of its
founding trustees.
As we look forward to the next 50 years, this city owned El Paso Museum of Art will continue to act as a cultural beacon for
the entire Paso Del Norte Region. With the support of its citizens and the El Paso Museum of Art Foundation, our Museum will
continue to flourish with outstanding exhibitions and educational programs while caring for its art treasures through preservation
and restoration.
The EPMA Foundation, founded in 1998 by former El Paso Mayor, Peter de Wetter, will help provide the additional programming,
preservation and educational needs of the Museum through grants from the earnings of its permanent endowment fund. This
fund will grow through the generous support of the citizens of our region who realize the importance of art and its preservation
for future generations.
Jack Maxon, Chairman
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El Paso Museum of Art Foundation Board Jack Maxon, Chair
Travis Johnson, Vice Chair
Barron Fletcher, Treasurer
Rebecca Goodman Krasne, Secretary
Roberto Assael
Katherine Brennand
Veronica Callaghan
Jackson V. Curlin
Alejandra De La Vega
David de Wetter
Caroline North
Mervin Moore
Oscar Ornelas
Sam Moore, Advisor
EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION NAMED ENDOWMENTS
Jack V. and Barbara Price Curlin Fund
Margaret and Peter de Wetter Gallery Fund
Peter de Wetter Memorial Fund
Charlotte Edmunds Education Fund
Doris Eisenberg Fund
Ann Enriquez Memorial Fund
Ginger Francis Seminar Room Fund
Larry Francis Board Room Fund
Leonard and Eleanor Kohlberg Goodman Fund
Katharine White Harvey Fund
Tom Lea Gallery Fund
Tom Lea Memorial Fund
Frank and Sara McKnight Family Fund
Gloria Osuna Perez Memorial Fund
Richard and Frances Mithoff Fund
Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery Fund
Patricia and Jonathan Rogers Grand Lobby Fund
Maria Misiewicz Sadowski Fund
Cita Schuster Fund
Mary Yelderman Fund
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RIO GRANDE In this vast desert and mountain region called the Rio Grande, which claims the waters of three important rivers – the Pecos, the
Conchos and the Grande – which stretches across a third of a million square miles from the Colorado Rockies to the Gulf of
Mexico and the North American Continental Divide to the Great Plains and which comprises the very heartland of the Greater
Hispanic Southwest, we of the staff of the El Paso Museum of Art find an horizon and a purpose for our labors in behalf of Art
and the “art climate” of El Paso.
In this particular environment occurred a unique chapter of human history. Here the trials and endeavors, the successes and
failures, the joys and sorrows of three great peoples seeking ethnic fulfillment crowd the scenes of time.
Today, within a few hours automobile drive from any of the modern cities which mark the Rio Grande periphery – Tucson,
Denver, Amarillo, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Monterrey, Saltillo, Torreon – live major groups of American Indians rooted to
their original soil and following their own mode of life. In this region Spanish speakers still exceed English speakers in number
and many are fluent in both languages, but neither is more at home in his native tongue than are the quarter of a million Indians
in their tribal dialects.
We of the staff believe that from the blending of the Indian, the Hispanic and the Anglo peoples here, one day, will emerge a
finer and nobler variety of American Civilization of which the world of man will be pleased to say, “That is Rio Grande.”
Reginald Fisher, Director
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El PASO AND ITS MUSEUM OF ART TODAY
Nestled along the southern tip of the great Rocky Mountains, sculpted and shaped by the Rio
Grande through the high mesas of the desert southwest, El Paso is rich in culture and historical
significance. Those who live here know this and are more inspired now than ever to sustain the
El Paso Museum of Art, in this community along the border of Mexico.
The El Paso Museum of Art is no longer the best kept secret, a solitary jewel in the desert. It
is a beacon among museums in North America, the pride of our arts community, and the
repository of our treasures. It has become a haven for our regional past in the United States
and our European and Mexican origins. The El Paso Museum of Art’s role in the world of art
will continue to emerge, as others embrace the beauty and solitude of our location and the
magnificence of our art.
The El Paso Museum of Art provides a place for a visual art dialogue, where the creative forces
that arrest our routines and remind us of the true purpose of our efforts. We tell stories of life
through over 6,000 works of art by artists who became messengers of the past and scribes of
what our future is to hold. From academic to abstract, the El Paso Museum of Art continues to
evolve as our population diversifies.
The Museum, through collections, exhibitions, and education programs, has provided a snap
shot of the community as well as the world art scene since the middle of the Twentieth Century
through the opening of the Twenty-first. Through our programs, we teach about process and
creation and give art works and history meaning beyond our books and our oral traditions.
The Museum provides for us a context for the past and a visual archive for our future.
Attributed to Antonio Rizzo (Italian, Venetian, active 1465 - 1498)
A Virtue Holding a Bowl, ca. 1460
Marble
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Michael A. Tomor, Ph.D., Director
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THE KRESS COLLECTION
The El Paso Museum of Art is the fortunate beneficiary of the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation and is scheduled to receive, in April, 1961, one of the Foundation’s
regional allocations of European masterworks. This priceless gift to the City of El
Paso is expected to comprise nearly fifty pieces of the finest art man has produced,
which range in time from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries.
A special wing has been provided within the Museum to house these treasures of
culture heritage which will be preserved here for the enjoyment of all generations
to come. It will be difficult to find adequate means by which El Paso may express its
appreciation for this significant benefaction!
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641)
Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1618 - 1621
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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THE KRESS COLLECTION
The foundation of the El Paso Museum of Art’s entire collection, is fifty-seven
paintings and two sculptures from c. 1200 - 1770 offered to the City of El Paso by
the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1957. Included in this gift are masterpieces by
Sano di Pietro, Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto, Lavinia Fontana,
Anthony Van Dyck, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jusepe Ribera, Bartolome Esteban Murillo,
Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto and Hyacinthe Rigaud. This singular gift of tremendous
generosity was the impetus for the establishment of the El Paso Museum of Art as a
city-run entity and the building of an entire museum wing to house the collection. Mr.
Robert E. McKee, El Paso building contractor and close associate to the Kress family,
company, and Foundation, kept alive for many years the hope that El Paso would
be the recipient of a significant collection of European art. McKee’s perseverance,
the willingness of former El Paso Mayor Raymond Telles, Jr. to open a municipal art
museum, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation gift proved to be a partnership of
success. With great fanfare, this collection was unveiled on April 20, 1961. Over the
years, the European art collection, of which the Kress Collection is the majority, has
been enhanced by additional accessions, gifts from the Summerlee Foundation and
individual purchases.
Since the 1998 move to the new Museum building, the permanent collection is now
housed in a state-of-the-art museum facility with climate control and video surveillance.
At regular intervals the Kress Foundation sends professional art conservators to
examine and, if necessary, to treat the artwork they donated. On rare occasions if
the conservators deem an artwork in need of restoration at the New York University
conservation labs the Kress Foundation funds all conservation work. Scheduled for
the spring of 2011 the EPMA will introduce a long-awaited book of its European art
collection. This new book with updated scholarship and full-color photography was
made possible by generous grants from the Kress Foundation, National Endowment
for the Arts, and funding from the El Paso Museum of Art Foundation. With this book
the Kress collection will continue to further the Museum’s national profile.
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ACQUISITIONS
The El Paso Museum’s acquisition interest converge toward the Rio Grande with the
progression of history, from Renaissance to Contemporary. As predestined in part
by circumstance of geography and history and in part by the direction of the several
collections inherited from the International Museum Association, the fields of concern, to
which the Museum’s acquisition program is related, include: Contemporary Rio Grande;
Art of the Louisiana Purchase; Mexico – Pre-Columbian to Contemporary; U.S.A. –
Colony to Nation; Decorative Arts of the Western World.
Above all, the aim of acquisition for permanent possession must be toward masterpieces
in the several fields to which the Museum is devoted.
Master of the School of Lucca (Italian, active 13th century)
Madonna and Child, ca. 1200
Tempera and gold on wood
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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ACQUISITIONS TODAY
The mission of the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), of “collecting, interpreting, publishing
and exhibiting European, American and Mexican art, ”defines the scope of its collections.
The EPMA endeavors to build its permanent collection with artworks of excellence that
reflect the region’s communities of El Paso, Texas, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and
Las Cruces, New Mexico. EPMA’s accessions are selected with the goal of providing a wide
range of educational opportunities about art of the highest quality for diverse audiences.
Selection criteria for additions to the collection are based on art historical significance,
aesthetic value and collection enhancement.
The development of the Museum’s permanent collection, of now over 6,000 works of art is
linked to the Museum’s unique location near the U.S./Mexico border. The El Paso Museum
of Art has been collecting since 1959 when it added Tom Lea’s Pass of the North mural
design. Notable additions to the collection since 1960 include:
Gustave Bauman’s Hollyhocks and Mountain, 1921
Theodor Earl Butler’s Fireworks, Vernon Bridge, 1908
Irving Couse’s Autumn Moon, 1927
Fremont Ellis’ Valley of the Gods, 1926
Sam Gilliam’s Beyond the Blue Door, 1999
Malvina Hoffman’s Anna Pavlova, 1925
Luis Jimenez’s Statue of Liberty- Barfly, 1969-74
Tom Lea’s Rio Grande, 1954
Julian Onderdonk’s Bluffs on the Guadalupe River,
17 Miles above Kerrville, Texas, 1921
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk’s Buffalo Hunt, c. 1898
Audley Dean Nicols’ Sunland Landscape, 1923
Rembrandt Peale’s Girl at a Window, Portrait of Rosalba, 1846
Frederic Remington’s The Mystery (Sign of Friendship), 1909
Diego Rivera’s Canyon, 1934
Juán Sánchez Salmerón’s Ecce Homo, c. 1700
Joseph Henry Sharp’s Elk Foot and Bawling Deer, Fire and Twilight, c. 1915
Gilbert Stuart’s President George Washington, 1796
Leon Trousset’s View of El Paso, 1885
Juán Sánchez Salmerón (Mexican, active 1666 - 1708)
Ecce Homo, ca. 1700
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton McCreery Davison in memory of
Fenton R. McCreery
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LIBRARY Since the term museum has come to mean conservatory of heritage and since knowledge of heritage reposes in books, the
development of an adequate reference library must have an important place in every significant museum program.
The El Paso Museum of Art opens with a good beginning toward essential references on its library shelves and with a modest
item for purchase of books in its budget.
It is hoped that the cooperative project which has been initiated between the Museum and the El Paso Public Library for a
consolidated catalog of the art resources of the several major libraries in El Paso will provide a much needed reference center
for El Paso artists and art interested scholars.
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Algur H. Meadows Library
Upon completion of the new downtown facility in 1998, the Algur H. Meadows Foundation donated the funds that supported
the creation of the Library. Fifty years in the making, the dream of the Museum of Art Library becoming a public library
will soon become a reality. We are preparing the Library to be a welcoming and comfortable environment for scholarly research and academic discourse, with public hours, managed by professional librarians, and accessible on the El Paso Public
Library network.
In partnership over the last two years, the El Paso Museum of Art Head of Education and the El Paso Public Library have been
working together diligently to classify and catalog all 4,000 books.
The Algur H. Meadows Library will ultimately become the repository of art resources for the El Paso Public Library
system, and fulfill the promise of our founders to provide a much needed public reference center for El Paso artists, scholars
and educators.
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EXHIBITIONS
Through its exhibition program a museum fulfills, in part at least, its greater functions of inspiration,
recreation and education – (education being understood to mean, in this connection, the
single minded pursuit of knowledge by the human individual.)
Space has been provided by the recently completed building expansion project, in about
equal proportions, for both major types of exhibitions – permanent installations and changing
shows. The West Wing (Main Floor) with its three galleries will house the permanently installed
Kress Collection. The East Wing (Main Floor) with its two larger galleries will be devoted to
changing shows employing material selected from the Museum’s collections and/or borrowed
from other collections, as well as special traveling exhibitions.
The new large gallery on the Ground Floor (West Wing) is coming to be thought of as the
“Heritage Gallery” because of its proximity and inevitable relationship to the Junior Arts Center
also on the Ground Floor (East Wing). This gallery inherently takes on a function calling for
both types of exhibition practice.
Sano Di Pietro (Italian, Sienese, 1406 - 1481)
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, ca. 1460 - 1470
Tempera and gold on wood
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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THE EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART
CONTAINS 9 EXHIBITION
GALLERIES TODAY
Combined the El Paso Museum of Art has approximately 30,000
square feet of exhibition space, one third of which is used for temporary
exhibitions. Based on an ongoing balance from a broad range of art
historical periods, temporary exhibitions at the El Paso Museum of Art are
held in the Gateway Gallery, the Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery,
and the Contemporary Gallery. Each exhibit strives to continually engage
the public by introducing new artists, new media and historic masterpieces.
Also on extended-temporary exhibit, artworks are rotated in the Jonathan
Rogers Grand Lobby.
The space allocated for the exhibition of the permanent collection is divided
into galleries dedicated to European art, predominantly the Kress Collection,
Spanish Viceroyal art in the Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery of
Mexican art of the 17th – 19th centuries, American art in the Richard and
Frances Mithoff Gallery; and in the Tom Lea Gallery, Contemporary art
and the art of the American Southwest.
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INAUGURAL In observance of the opening of the Museum a special exhibition under the title, “FACES OF AMERICA,” has been assembled. Filling the five
new main-floor galleries, this exhibition divides into: U.S.A. – Colony to Nation; MEXICO – Through the Centuries; and THE WEST – Toward
El Paso.
Downstairs, in the ground-floor gallery, the El Paso Art Association presents its 1960 Sun Carnival Exhibition, while upstairs in the Trustees Room
and hall a show of commissioned works by El Paso and regional “Moderns” has been arranged under the title, “SEEKING TOMORROW.”
The wall cases of the ground-floor corridor contain exhibits by contemporary Rio Grande designer-craftsmen.
Outstanding works by more than fifty important artists from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries are included in “FACES OF
AMERICA.”
Among the artists of “U.S.A.” are: John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt
Peale, Jacob Eicholtz, Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt. Gainsborough, George Morland, John Hoppner, Meindert
Hob-Portraying “Colonial Backgrounds” are: Thomas Bema, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher and Jean Honoré
Fragonard.
The artists included in three sections of “THE WEST” are: In “Fabulous Land” – George Catlin, Charles Wimar, George Caleb Bingham,
Edwin Willard Deming, Conrad Wise Chapman, Joseph Hitchens, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington; in “Rio Grande Yesterday” – C.H.
Russell, Irving Couse, Joseph Sharp, Herbert Dunton, Martin Hennings, Oscar Berninghaus, Julius Rolshoven, Gerald Cassidy, Fremont Ellis,
Lloyd Moylan, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, Frank Tenny Johnson, Carl Redin and Urbici Soler; in “Rio Grande Today” – Barbara Latham,
Gene Kloss, Dorothy Brettt, Howard Cook and Doel Reed of Taos; Theodore Van Soelen and Randall Davey of Santa Fe; Kenneth Adams and
Ralph Douglas of Albuquerque; Dorothea Weiss and Kenneth Barrick of Las Cruces; Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth of Roswell; Roderick
Mead of Carlsbad; Vera Wise and Wilfred Higgins of El Paso, Felipe Herrada of Juarez; Cecil Casebier of San Antonio; George Rangel
of Monterrey, Mexico; Alberto Carlos of Chihuahua, Mexico; and Andy Tsinajini, Woody Crumbo and Quincy Tahomo, Southwestern
Indian artists.
“Mexico – Through the Centuries,” arranged through assistance of the Mexican Ministry of Cultural Affairs, covers Pre-Columbian Sculpture
and Architecture, Colonial Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture.
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50th ANNIVERSRY
In observance of the El Paso Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary, the Museum has launched a series of programs, reflective of our mission to
provide experiences in art of Europe, Mexico and the United States. The celebration will last through 2011.
Currently Border Art Biennial 2010, an all-media, juried exhibition of artists from the border states of the United States and Mexico, is being
staged in the Contemporary Gallery. This exhibition of forty-two artists will be shared with the Museo de Arte, Instituto Nacional de Bellas
Artes, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, demonstrating the Museum’s commitment to collaborations with our sister institution in Mexico, as well as, to
contemporary artists of the Mexico-United States border states. The Museum has also staged Charles M. Russell: Transportation in the West,
consisting of seven drawings by Russell and one by Tom Lea. The series examines the development of transportation in the American West,
and it is a portion of the inaugural exhibition that took place fifty years ago.
In the spring of 2011, the Museum will celebrate the European permanent collection with the publication of its first book dedicated to the
European works of art, accompanied by recent scholarship by internationally recognized academicians on painting and sculpture from c.
1200 – 1900. To further the conversation on European art, the exhibition Monet to Matisse from the collection of the Dixon Gallery and
Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee, will feature thirty paintings and works on paper at the Museum. Impressionist works by Claude Monet,
Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir will be featured alongside works by the Post-Impressionist artists Edgar Degas, Henri
Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, and Marc Chagall. The exhibition is complemented with works by Mary Cassatt and John Singer
Sargent, American artists in Europe, and has led the Museum to mount its permanent collection of over thirty American Impressionist paintings
and works on paper, including Henry Ossawa Tanner, John H. Twachtman, Ernest Lawson, Frederick Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase,
and Frederic Remington. A selection of twenty of the most significant of the European print collection will be exhibited and will include works
by Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Goltzius, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jusepe Ribera, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
In the summer of 2011, the Museum is presenting Paul Strand in Mexico from the Aperture Foundation of New York. The exhibition is
comprised of the complete photographic works made by Strand during both his 1932 – 1934 trip to Mexico and a second journey in 1966;
first editions of Photographs of Mexico and its 1967 reissue, The Mexican Portfolio; a presentation of Strand’s classic film, Redes (1936); and
film stills by Ned Scott taken during Redes’ production in Veracruz.
Finally in the fall 2011, the Museum will host from the Norman Rockwell Museum Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration
and Behind the Camera: Norman Rockwell. Twelve original paintings by Rockwell and forty other original works by artists commissioned by
the Health Care industry over 60 years, Picturing Health focuses on our impression of health care formulated by 20th Century artists of the
United States. Behind the Lens is a look at photography as a sketching tool in the works that made Rockwell famous, in particular those used
for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. Over twelve original paintings and hundreds of photographs and sketches are included in this
exhibition that reflects the new role of photography in the 20th Century. Closing out our year of celebration will be Tom Lea: The Turning
Point, an exhibition including six preparatory drawings and the final oil on canvas painting documenting a key moment in a historic University
of Texas at El Paso Miner’s football game in 1964.
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SHOWS Represented in “Seeking Tomorrow” are: John Tatschl of Albuquerque with a commissioned 4’ x 6’ carton-panel rendering in
color for a stained glass window of “Four Theologians – Maritain, Berdyaev, Buber, Tillich”; Jerry Romotsky of El Paso, with a
commissioned 6’ x 9’ cartoon-panel rendering in black and white for a mosic mural expressive of concern for ultimate fulfillment;
Peter Grivas of El Paso, with a commissioned 6’ x 9’ cartoon-panel rendering in color for a fresco mural expressive of concern
for “courage to be”; Jan Herring of Clint, Texas, with a 3’x 5’ easel painting expressive of concern for new approaches to
beauty; Cecil Casebier of San Antonio, Texas, with a commissioned 3’ x 5’ stained glass window expressive of concern for “atone-ment.” Invited works in “Seeking Tomorrow” include: a 3’ x 5’ oil canvas, “Para la Capilla” by Robert Massey of El Paso;
a 3’ x 4’ wash collage, “Translation” by Warren Travis of El Paso; and two color wood cuts, “Ceremonial” and “Pictographs”
by Frederick O’Hara of Albuquerque.
The designer-craftsmen exhibits include: jewelry and silver by Wiltz Harrison of El Paso; ceramics by Ellen Coogler of El Paso;
typography and book design by Carl Hertzog of El Paso; ceramics and mono-prints by Johnell Crimen of El Paso; models for
small bronzes by Jan Herring of El Paso; ceramic sculpture by Eugenie Shonnard of Santa Fe, and pottery by Harding Black of
San Antonio.
Fifty-eight paintings were selected from three hundred fifty entries for the national open competition Fifth Annual (1960) Sun
Carnival Exhibition. Award winners were: Walter McCown of Waco, Texas; Walter Hook of Missoula, Montana; Mary Koch
of El Paso; Inez Hill Bailey of Milwood, Washington; Phyllis Kornfeld of El Paso, and Jane Wyatt Fullerton of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Honorable mentions were given to Howard Cook of Taos, New Mexico; Aaronel DeRoy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Wilfred Higgins of El Paso; Sky Spaulding of Durango, Colorado, and Margaret Putnam of San Antonio, Texas. Judges of the
show were Otis Dozier of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; John Tatschl of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and
Kenneth Barrick of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
Acknowledgement is made of loans from the following museums, galleries and individuals: National Gallery of Art and National
Fine Arts Collection, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Paul Drey Gallery of New York City;
Boston Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis City Art Museum; Houston (Texas) Museum of Art; Dallas (Texas) Museum of Fine Arts;
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona; and Mrs. Josephine Clardy Fox, Mr. Robert E. McKee
and Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Ponder of El Paso. Special acknowledgement is made of the assistance of Mexican Consul General
Enrique Ballesteros of El Paso and Mexican Ambassador Miguel Alvarez Acosta in arrangements for the Mexican exhibition.
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SHOWS In the past fifty years the Museum has held a significant number of outstanding exhibitions.
A selection of highlights from over the years includes:
One Hundred Paintings and Drawings by Tom Lea - 1963
Mexican Iconographic Art from the Dorrance D. Roderick Collection - 1966
The Art of Remington and Russell -1969
The Phenomenon of Peter Max - 1973
A Round-Up of Western Art: Paintings from the McKee Foundation - 1977
Luis Jimenez: Sculpture - Drawings - Prints - 1979
25 Years of Acquisitions - 1985
A Century of Sculpture in Texas - 1990
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) - 1992
Rodin on the Rio - 1996
James Surls: Walking With Diamonds - 1999, 2000
Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting - 2002, 2003
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon - 2004
The Art of Toulouse - Lautrec - 2005
Light From the Sky: A Tom Lea Retrospective - 2006
Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century - 2006
Art Binational 2008 - 2008
Manuel Acosta: A Retrospective - 2009
Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Art - 2010
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry - 2010
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JUNIOR ARTS CENTER Education of the young must be a matter of first concern to all, for education is the means by which
civilization is passed on from one generation to the next, and its larger purpose might be considered
the transmission of those great symbols by which meaningful and productive lives may be lived in the
cultural milieu into which the individual is born.
In collaboration with the El Paso Junior League and under the League’s administration, the Museum
has established a Junior Arts Center to provide additional cultural facilities for young people and to
supplement public education in the field of the arts.
Organized on a membership basis, Junior Arts Center activities already include: “Boy Choir,”
“Experiencing the Arts,” and “Expressiveness and How to Paint It.” Additional activities are contemplated
as time and facilities permit.
Lavinia Fontana (Italian, Bolognese, 1552 - 1614)
Christ with the Symbols of the Passion, 1576
Oil on wood
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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EDUCATION DIVISION
The Education Department is at the heart of museum life and manages many critical
functions of the El Paso Museum of Art.
Interpretation:
We provide the tools for audiences of all ages to enjoy the intellectual and emotional
experience of interacting with art and each other in a museum environment.
Tours:
We coordinate and direct the docent program that enthralls and educates 12,000
students via guided tours each year.
Museum School:
We provide over 225 art classes annually for youth and adults, taught by professional artists and art educators. Classes and workshops have included life drawing,
sculpture, ceramics, oil painting, watercolor painting, photography and other specialty courses.
Lectures, Gallery Talks & Film:
Talks presented by artists and scholars provide a deeper insight into an exhibition.
We implement film, reading materials and touch stations to further expand and
complement art on exhibit.
Outreach:
Elementary students from local schools experience art and art making in a museum
setting multiple times throughout the academic year through the Neighborhood Kids
program. Without the program, many of the students would never be exposed to an
art museum or experience the joy of creating art.
Facilities:
Our programming utilizes three large classrooms, the El Paso Energy Auditorium,
exhibition gallery spaces and the Ginger Francis Seminar Room for professional
development, programs and classes.
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RENTAL – SALES
To provide a convenient means of bringing artist and buyer together, the development of a rental-sales service is planned by
the Museum.
A representative collection of current works of El Paso area artists from which selections may be made for limited term rental or
purchase by Museum Association members will be maintained.
Eligibility of artists to participate in this service will be determined through the artistic competence awards of the Museum’s
El Paso Artists Annual, the first of which is projected for June, 1961.
An initial rental-sales collection has been assembled and will be available to Association members after the Museum’s formal
opening on December 11th.
It is hoped that this activity will encourage the establishment of full scale dealer galleries within the Community.
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RENTALS
The El Paso Museum of Art is owned and operated by the City of El Paso, Texas. While the City does provide funds for
operational and physical plant expenses, the Museum supports its exhibition and educational programming, and some salaries
with private funds generated through rentals. The Museum depends on the generosity of its membership, donors, grants, and
rental revenue to fund these programs and keep its door open to the public free of charge. The Museum hosts dozens of rentals
each year for private receptions, dinner parties, fundraisers, galas, corporate banquets and events, business training seminars,
weddings and receptions, and tourist groups.
EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART STORE
The El Paso Museum of Art Store features art and design objects, books, jewelry, fun objects, books for children, many reflective
of the museum’s European, Southwest and Americas collection. The store has presented trunk shows, book signings and events
like the “Face It!” Collection of eyewear exhibition, and, at times, events in collaboration with the education and development
departments: lecture by a renowned authority on Mata Ortiz pottery, origami demonstration and workshop with a grand
master, Exhibition in Motion, featuring the work of student jewelry artists.
Since 2007, the principals involved in the new direction of the museum store, recipients of the highest awards in the national
gift and design industry, (for product, craftsmanship, exhibit design, collection) have been involved for 30 years in the arts in
El Paso.
Purchases in the store help fund education programs and exhibitions at the El Paso Museum of Art.
Comments on the store:
“The Jewel of El Paso!” — Julie Ford Oliver
“By far the best of any museum store I have visited worldwide. To see such incredible merchandise so beautifully
displayed is a true joy and a pleasure. I am coming back to El Paso just to shop here!” — Deb, New York City
“Best store in El Paso!” — Carroll Maxon
“What a unique and wonderful store. It is like a modern day museum displaying unique and beautiful works of art.
It was an unexpected surprise!” — L. Martinez
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COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR
It is an introverted and barren museum indeed which boasts of no cooperative undertakings with its Community and seeks no
volunteer assistance from its people.
By virtue of a contractual agreement between El Paso Junior League and the City, the El Paso Museum of Art, from the beginning,
has had the collaboration of the Junior League in the development of the Junior Arts Center. Junior League also provides
volunteers assisting in the care of collections.
The El Paso Rotary Club is the co-sponsor, with Junior League, of the Junior Arts Center Boy Choir, which has been named EL
PASO BOY CHOIR.
The El Paso Branch of the American Association of University Women lends its sponsorship to the Museum’s Rental-Sales
Service.
El Paso Chapter of National Society of Arts and Letters offers volunteer guides for special tours of the exhibitions.
The El Paso Art Association is bringing its annual Sun Carnival Exhibition for presentation at the Museum. The Museum will be
host to the new El Paso Jewish Community Center Forum Series to be presented in the Museum Auditorium.
Among those with whom the Museum has had cordial relations indicating the desirability of future cooperative undertakings
are: El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Pan American Round Table, Our Lady of Guadalupe Youth Center, El Paso Chapter of
American Institute of Architects, New Mexico State University, Texas Western College. Radford School for Girls, the Woman’s
Department of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce and other community civic groups.
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COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR The El Paso Museum of Art continues to be actively engaged with the communities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico, involving government, private and business sectors.
Local collaborative programming efforts have included organizations such as the United States Consulate in Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico; Consulado de Mexico in El Paso, Texas; County of El Paso; El Paso Convention and Visitor’s Bureau; El
Paso Community Foundation; El Paso Museum of Art Foundation; Museums and Cultural Affairs Department; Museo de Arte
INBA, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico; El Paso Pro-Musica; The El Paso Opera; Music Forum; University of Texas at El Paso;
El Paso Public Library and the Early El Paso Art Collectors’ Organization, just to name a few.
The El Paso Museum of Art is immensely grateful to our many volunteers and docents who give so generously of their time
and means.
DOCENTS
Georgina Alva
Joyce Anenberg
Larry Anenberg
Loraine Arriaga
Michael Austin
Margarita Barrio
Robert Belles
William Bolte
Jeannette Camacho
Dee Cameron
Bonnie Colton
Maria Luz Espinosa
Silvia Estrada
Gloria Fairbanks
Margarita Flores
Edgar Flores
Anita S. Gage
Alma Garcia-Bolte
Sheila Gardner
Sara Garza
Ann Gronich
Bruce Gronich
Beatriz Guerrero
Marty Hamilton
Cindy Harrington
Carol Irwin
Luz Jurado
Jan Kehoe
Phyllis Kratzer
Monica Longlet
Jimmie Lou Malone
Alma Oaxaca
Alice Parra
Rose Peinado
Minnie Peña
Gerry Portner
Eva Quintana
Teresa Reyes
Linda Rivera
Ruth Bishop Sapp
Debra Venegas
DOCENT EMERITUS
Betty Ann Dennis
Charlotte Edmunds
Mary Engler
Winfrey Hearst
Mary Hovel
Simma Leslie
Marie Livingston
Verne Malone
Evelyn McLaughlin
Carole Patee
Deirdre Portner
Hilda Rosenfeld
Charlene Vogel
STORE VOLUNTEER
Sally Gilbert
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MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
A generally accepted and widely employed contemporary museum practice is the organization of a supporting Museum
Association with various classes of membership offering special benefits and privileges in return for subscriptions and
contributions. It has become almost a standard policy among municipally supported museums that operating funds be provided
by municipal appropriations and acquisition funds be provided by the
Museum Association.
The El Paso Museum of Art is organized along such a plan, and offers several classes of membership for those wishing to
express their interest through added financial support for its services and program.
Memberships in the El Paso Art Museum Association – as the association has been named – falls into two groups: SUBSCRIBERS,
with two classes – Regular Members at $10 per year, and Sustaining Members at $25 per year; and PATRONS, with two
classes – Sponsors at $100 in one sum at one time for a special purpose, and Benefactors at $500 or more in a single sum.
(All memberships are considered to include husband and wife unless otherwise specified.) Each higher bracket offers all the
combined benefits of the lower brackets as well as those pertaining especially to it.
The El Paso Museum Association CHARTER SPONSORS (those making $100 contributions to the Museum Inaugural Fund) now
being enrolled, will participate in the special activities of the Museum Inaugural Season which will run throughout the period
from the Formal Opening on December 11, 1960 to the Receiving and Dedication of the Kress Collection in April, 1961.
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Collectors’ Club
On December 6, 2006, the El Paso Museum of Art created the Collectors’ Club (CClub) which was developed solely to support
the Museum and to provide a forum for art enthusiasts to gather and learn about art, art collecting, investing, and travel to
common places of interest. Recent travel has included trips to Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico; Chihuahua City, Chihuahua,
Mexico; Mexico City & Puebla, Mexico; Albuquerque/Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico; Santa Fe/Taos, New Mexico; Silver City,
New Mexico; New York City, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C.
MEMBERSHIP
The Museum supports its exhibition and educational programming, receptions, and some salaries with membership funds and
depends on the generosity of its membership to fund these programs and keep its door open to the public free of charge.
Currently the Museum has 1,000 active members. Membership Levels include:
Corporate Circle Membership Levels
(Business Members)
$20,000 – Director Level
$10,000 – CEO Level
$5,000 – President Level
$2,500 – Executive Level
$1,000 – Founder Level
Circles of Support Membership Levels
(Non-business Members)
$10,000 – Benefactors Circle Level
$5,000 – Patrons Circle Level
$2,500 – Donors Circle Level
$1,000 – Sponsors Circle Level
$500 – Collectors Circle Level
$250/$400 – Collectors’ Club Level
$250 – Supporters Circle Level
General Membership Levels
$100 – Contributor Level
$50 – Family Level
$45 – Military Family Level
$25 – Individual Level
$20 – Military Individual Level
$15 – Senior Citizen Level
$15 – Student Level
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MAYOR
Raymond L. Telles, Jr.
ALDERMEN Ted Bender
Ernest F. Craigo
Ralph Seitsinger
Jack C. White
LIFE MEMBERS - EL PASO INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Mrs. W. A. Adams
Mr. Edward Hines
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rector, Jr.
Mr. L. R. Allison
Mr. L. R. Hoard
Mrs. Dorrance D. Roderick
Mrs. Victor Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hoover
Mrs. C. F. Saunders
Mrs. C. N. Bassett
Mrs. C. M. Irvin
Dr. S. A. Schuster
Mrs. Luke Brite
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Kelley
Mrs. Ervin H. Schwartz
Miss Ann Bucher
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Leavell
Mrs. Maurice Schwartz
Mrs. F. H. Coles
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Mapel
Mrs. Paul O. Sergent
Mrs. Otis Coles
Mr. and Mrs. George Matkin
Mrs. Louise Poe Shelton
Mrs. H. M. Daugherty
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McAfee
Mrs. B. F. Stevens
Mrs. Charles Eckford
The Hon. and Mrs. Hugh McGovern
Mrs. H. Summerford
Mrs. R. H. Espy
Mr. Robert E. McKee
Mrs. J. A. Sweet
Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Feener
Mrs. John Melby
Mrs. W. W. Turney
Mrs. C. C. Fewel
Mrs. Sidney Meyer
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Vandevere
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Folk
Mrs. Jake Miller Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Wagner
Mrs. Josephine Clardy Fox
Mrs. R. F. Momsen
Mrs. L. P. Walker
Mrs. H. Gordon Frost
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Morgan
Mrs. Sam Watkins
Mrs. H. D. Fulwiler
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Murchison
Mrs. M. H. Welsh
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Galbraith
Mrs. M. Nagle
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Whyburn
Mrs. Arthur Gale
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. O’Hara
Mrs. C. F. Womack
Mrs. C. M. Grider
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Patterson
Mrs. W. H. Wooldridge
Mrs. Charles Hammond
Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Ponder
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Young
Mrs. C. M. Harvey
Mrs. Hart Ponder
Mrs. R. L. Ziegler
Mr. Newell R. Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Ponsford
Mrs. Luis Zork
Mrs. Paul Heisig
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Pooley
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Henderson
Mrs. Carl Price
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Attributed to Giovanni Buonconsiglio
(Italian, Venetian, active 1495 - 1537)
Saint Luke and a Carmelite Saint,
early 16th century
Tempera on wood
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER
John Cook, Mayor
Joyce A. Wilson, City Manager
CITY REPRESENTATIVES
Ann Morgan Lilly, District 1
Susannah M. Byrd, District 2
Emma Acosta, District 3
Carl L. Robinson, District 4
Rachel Quintana, District 5
Eddie Holguin Jr., District 6
Steve Ortega, District 7
Beto O’Rourke, District 8
QUALITY OF LIFE
Deborah Hamlyn, Deputy City Manager
MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
Sean Patrick McGlynn, Director
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