Annual Report - Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Annual Report
FISCAL YEAR 2014
MISSION STATEMENT
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art was established through the generosity of Amon G. Carter
Sr. (1879–1955) to house his collection of paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M.
Russell; to collect, preserve, and exhibit the finest examples of American art; and to serve an educational
role through exhibitions, publications, and programs devoted to the study of American art.
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES
Karen Johnson Hixon
President
Robert M. Bass
Bradford R. Breuer
Stephen W. Butt
Michael Conforti
Walker C. Friedman
John P. Hickey Jr.
Mark L. Johnson
J. Luther King Jr.
Carter Johnson Martin
Richard W. Moncrief
Stephen P. Smiley
Benjamin F. Stapleton III
Nenetta Carter Tatum
Alice L. Walton
Andrew J. Walker
Director
Margaret C. Conrads
Deputy Director of Art
and Research
Lori Eklund
Senior Deputy Director
Stacy Fuller
Director of Public Engagement
TRUSTEES EMERITI
William E. Tucker
Evan H. Turner
MANAGEMENT
COMMITTEE
Andrew J. Walker
Director
Margaret C. Conrads
Deputy Director of Art
and Research
Lori Eklund
Senior Deputy Director
Carol Noel
Director of Development
Randy S. Ray
Chief Financial Officer
AMBASSADOR
COUNCIL
Connie Beck
Chair
Brad Alford
Judy Alton
Louise Appleman
Toni Boecker
Carter Bowden
Susan Butt
Thomas C. Campbell
Bill Campbell
John A. Chalk Sr.
Stockton Clemons
Rose Anne Cranz
Glenn K. Davidson
Mitzi Davis
Robert I. Fernandez
Taylor Gandy
Richard Garvey
John T. Gavin
David H. Gibson
Ronnie Goldman
Kenneth M. Hamlett Jr.
Kathleen Hicks
Tracy E. Holmes
Kelly Hunter
Roy W. Jageman
Anne R. Kelly
Jeff King
Scott M. Kleberg
Mollie Lasater
Suzanne Levy
Brooke Lively
Darlene Mann
Louella Martin
Melissa Mathis
Patrick C. McClanahan
Victor Medina
Elizabeth Mesch
Greg Morse
Philip Norwood
John L. Nugent
Ronald L. Parrish
Betsy Pepper
Nancy Phillips
Pam Pigman
Dana Porter
John M. Richardson
Mary Ripperton
Richard A. Russack
Dennis Shingleton
Chad Stephens
John Sutton
Mark Thistlethwaite
Sue Turnage
Cheryl Vogel
Blake Woodard
FISCAL YEAR 2014
Annual Report
“I have come to realize that they who acquire wealth are more or less
stewards in the application of that wealth to others of the human family
who are less fortunate than themselves.” —Amon G. Carter
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Letter from the President of the Board of Trustees
and Museum Director
FISCAL YEAR 2014
ACTIVITY REPORT
PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENT
Stefanie Ball Piwetz: Publications Manager; Lorraine Bond: Graphic Designer and Production Manager; Will Gillham: Director of Publications.
© 2015 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Amon Carter photography by Adam Neese and Steven Watson. All rights reserved.
An accessible sidewalk leads from Lancaster Avenue to the barrier-free main entrance. All galleries are barrier-free.
Around the Museum
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Outgoing Loans
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People Served
Collection
Acquisitions
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Conservation and Preservation
Front cover (detail) and p. 7:
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket, 1813, oil on panel, 14 11/16 x 17 9/16 in., Amon Carter Museum of American Art,
Fort Worth, Texas, Acquisition in memory of Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Board of Trustees, 1961–2013, with funds provided by the Ruth Carter
Stevenson Memorial and Endowment Funds, 2014.17
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Exhibitions
Research and Publications
External Affairs
Volunteers
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Letter from the President of the Board
of Trustees and Museum Director
FORREST GUMP CREDITS HIS BELOVED MOTHER FOR THE NOW CLASSIC
SAYING, “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” Akin to a lavish package of delectable treats, museums can be thought of
as curiosity boxes filled with delights of the mind and senses. In this report,
we share with you a glimpse of the museum’s accomplishments this year, a
confectionary bounty of work that promoted the value of our cultural heritage
throughout our community and beyond.
There are now 56,000 objects from the collection viewable on the
musuem’s website, our docents toured over 9,000 guests through the galleries,
and more than 26,000 people followed us on social media in 2014. Our doors
are wide open for people everywhere to experience the wonder of American art!
Karen Johnson Hixon
President of the Board
of Trustees
We are thankful to our donors, who provide the investment needed to
collect, preserve, and interpret the finest examples of American art. Our
work is a tremendous enterprise, made possible by the generosity of others
for the benefit all.
Join with us to experience what amounts to a full serving of American art.
(Sweet tooth optional.) We know you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
Andrew J. Walker
Director
“The Amon Carter Museum of American Art aspires to be a place
where everyone experiences the singular wonder of American art.”
—Vision Statement
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LETTER
DIRECTOR’S LETTER
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People Served
Collection
“One of the most venerable museums in North Texas, the Amon
Carter Museum of American Art is also one of the most vibrant.”
—Dallas Morning News
“I’ve visited the Amon Carter many times. It’s a lovely museum. It’s
one of the reasons to come to Fort Worth.” —Larry McMurtry
109,179
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visitors to the museum
distance-learning
broadcasts to
participating schools
and organizations
2,120
visitors to the library Reading
Room; 2,116 research queries
fielded; 1,966 items cataloged
236,486
unique and
unduplicated
visits to
cartermuseum.org
9,106
visitors in 643
docent tours
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ACQUISITIONS
56,000
works available to view at
cartermuseum.org/collection
33,542
works cataloged and digitized at the
culmination of a two-year grant from
the National Endowment for the
Humanities
3,000
501
21,661
works available through the Artstor
Digital Library (Amon Carter content
is now available to more than 1,500
university, museum, library, and K-12
subscribers in 46 countries via Artstor)
Advanced Placement teachers
from across Texas in professional
development programs at the
Amon Carter
students in tours
with the museum’s
gallery teachers
1,300
12,282
participants in
92 programs
10,298
adults, docents, staff,
and students served
by the Teaching
Resource Center
works from the collection launched on
the Google Art Project (access from
cartermuseum.org)
1 of 14
museums in the American Art
Collaborative (learn more at
americanartcollaborative.org)
COLLECTION
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Acquisitions
The museum’s mission “to collect, preserve, and exhibit the finest
examples of American art” is a continuous activity.
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653
photographs, including
paintings, sculptures,
and works on paper
51 VOLUMES (complete run) of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work,
which together contain more than 500 individual images
(gift of Doris Bry)
1,111
titles acquired by
the library, including
237 gifts
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ACQUISITIONS
19 DYE DIFFUSION TRANSFER PRINTS comprising Andy
Warhol’s Red Book F185 (gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts, Inc.)
86 PHOTOGRAPHS, including two portfolios, by Barbara Crane
(gift of the artist’s children Elizabeth, Jennifer, and Bruce Crane)
Opposite page: Alex Prager, Crowd #1 (Stan Douglas), 2010, c-print, 48 x 80.75 inches (print), 121.9 x 205.1 cm, 49 x 82 inches (framed), 124.5 x 208.3 cm
Edition of 3, © Alex Prager, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong; This page, clockwise left to right: Raphaelle Peale (1774–
1825), Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket, 1813, oil on panel, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Acquisition in memory
of Ruth Carter Stevenson, President of the Board of Trustees, 1961–2013, with funds provided by the Ruth Carter Stevenson Memorial and Endowment
Funds, 2014.17; William Eggleston (b. 1939), Untitled (Morton, Mississippi), dye imbibition print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas,
P2013.31; Andy Warhol (1931–1987), [Andy Warhol and unidentified woman], [from “Red Book F185”], 1971, dye diffusion transfer print, Amon Carter
Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., P2014.1.8; James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903),
Study (Maud Franklin), 1878, lithotint with scraping, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase with funds provided by the Cynthia
Brants Trust and Ken and Debra Hamlett, 2014.16
ACQUISITIONS
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Conservation
Exhibitions
In 1888, Friedrich Rathgen (1862–1942) became the first chemist to be
employed by a museum (the Royal Museums of Berlin) to care for their
cultural treasures. This date is considered the birth of art conservation
science—a discipline integral to the mission of the Amon Carter.
“I am not an art snob. I enjoy art that doesn’t need to be explained.
The Amon Carter has some of the best in the world, and it is
attractively displayed, comfortable to visit, and first-rate in every
way. Amazing that something so valuable, so pleasant, so inspiring
is available without charge!” —TripAdvisor, March 2015
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works on paper treated;
417 examinations
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paintings treated;
61 examinations
¡HOMBRE!
47%
26,061 visitors (or 47% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
32%
10,186 visitors (or 32% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
ART AND APPETITE
82%
27,052 visitors (or 82% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
UNDERGROUND
82%
30,234 visitors (or 82% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
NO PLACE
LIKE HOME
45%
19,200 visitors (or 45% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
ARCHIBALD MOTLEY
61%
Prints by José Guadalupe Posada
JAMES MCNEILL
WHISTLER
Lithographs from the Steven L. Block
Collection at the Speed Art Museum
American Painting, Culture and Cuisine
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photographs treated;
294 examinations
Photographs by Kathy Sherman Suder
American Scene Painting in the
Sinquefield Collection
Jazz Age Modernist
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EXHIBITIONS
13,139 visitors (or 61% of museum
patrons) viewed the exhibition
EXHIBITIONS
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Around the Museum
Left to right: Curator Shirley Reece-Hughes accompanies distinguished guest Bob Schieffer through the galleries; eye contact from a young guest in the
paintings galleries; educator Nancy Strickland engages children during Storytime; artist Richard Misrach signs books following his lecture; guests at the
entrance to one of the most popular exhibitions of the year, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine.
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AROUND THE MUSEUM
Left to right: Ambassador Council members Cheryl Vogel, Kirsty Buchanan, and John Nugent at a demonstration in the museum’s conservation lab; guest enjoying the opening of Archibald
Motley: Jazz Age Modernist; local artist Benito Huerta pauses in the Atrium during the installation of his Axis Mundi v. 2; participants in the museum’s ongoing New Parents Tour; artist Kathy
Suder and curator John Rohrbach during the artist’s gallery talk; participants at the museum’s popular Tea and Tours program.
AROUND THE MUSEUM
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Left to right: The museum’s populated lawn during the outdoor Sunset Cinema program; at the annual Association of American Museum Directors conference, held in Fort Worth in 2014,
museum directors from around the country participated in a hands-on art experience; a bouquet on display during the Fine Art and Flowers program in association with the Fort Worth
Garden Club.
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AROUND THE MUSEUM
Left to right: Gallery teacher Patricia Everett in action with young visitors; participants at the museum’s Summer Teaching Institute program; museum employees participating in the
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge; curator Maggie Adler with Robert Booker at the opening of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist; participants at the Evening for Educators in Fort Worth’s
Cultural District (last two pictures).
AROUND THE MUSEUM
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Loans
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art actively lends worldclass objects from its collection to sister institutions across the
nation and around the world. Last year, more than thirty such loans
traveled from Fort Worth to more than forty institutions; in the
coming months, traveling works will span the globe from the West
Coast of the United States to Italy’s Adriatic seaboard.
“Cultural diplomacy—the exchange of ideas, arts, and cultures—is
a long-term strategy to increase understanding among peoples
who are often divided. Portraying the United States through cultural
expressions presents America’s greatest strengths: freedom of
expression, democratic participation, tolerance and creativity.”
—Boston Globe
National Portrait
Gallery, London
McMichael Canadian
Art Collection
Musée de BeauxArts de Nantes, France
Art Institute of Chicago
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York
Ca’ Pesaro International
Gallery of Modern Art
Venice, Italy
Los Angeles
County Museum
of Art
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OUTGOING LOANS
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
OUTGOING LOANS
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Research and Publications
External Affairs
The Amon Carter dedicates significant resources to advancing
the study of American art, whether by general or project-driven
curatorial research, publishing, the Davidson Family Fellowship, or
lecturing on the collection.
“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let
people know you are doing the right thing.” —John D. Rockefeller
$2,736,000
approximate in print and broadcast editorial/advertising equivalencies
DAVIDSON FAMILY
FELLOWSHIP
Artist Sedrick
Huckaby researched
the museum’s Mary
Everhard photography
collection of black
portraits as a
springboard to creating
a new forthcoming
body of work
Jennifer Henneman,
doctoral candidate
at the University
of Washington,
researched the museum’s
photography collection
and presented her
findings in the lecture
“The American Cowgirl,
an Icon of Unintended
Consequence; or,
How Tomboys Tamed
the West”
Karen Barber, doctoral
candidate at the City
University of New York and
museum research fellow, is
funded through 2015; she is
facilitating the research of
curator John Rohrbach
Photography and Native
America: curator John
Rohrbach’s research to date
has produced a four-part,
chronologically driven project
outline; grant requests to go
out in 2015
To Unsettle All Things: Marsden
Hartley and the Mystical
Tradition: curator Rebecca
Lawton focused her research
on a project that will culminate
in the first exhibition and
catalogue ever to address the
role of mysticism in stimulating and shaping Hartley’s
modernist practice
Wild Spaces, Open
Seasons: Hunting and
Fishing in American Art:
curators Maggie Adler
and Shirley ReeceHughes focused much
of their research on
developing this thematic
exhibition investigating
topics of class
division, community,
environment, labor
and leisure, mythology,
and rites of passage in
paintings ranging from
the nineteenth century
to the middle of the
twentieth century that
have hunting and fishing
as their subjects
PUBLICATIONS
Program
Summer/Winter issues
Conversion of
cartermuseum.org to a
“responsive” site, earning
a grade of “mobile
friendly” from Google
237 print outlets
including
Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Time, and the New York Times
12 broadcast outlets
including
Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC
1,544 members
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NEW
members
1,414
RENEWING
members
1,673 donors
188 events
26,158 followers on social media
(Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter)
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VOLUNTEERS
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Volunteers
Financial Highlights
Covering the most recent three fiscal years
“Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.”
—Author Unknown
For the Years Ended September 30
201420132012
$41,045,354
Net Assets*
$42,647,161
$40,455,062
$14,800,822
$14,399,914
$12,652,276
Endowments
For the Years Ended September 30
Includes operating results, capital projects, and temporarily restricted activities
MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS
Kalee Appleton, Talat Ashai, Katie Balderson, Marilyn Browne, Libby Curtis, Mia Elvington, Krista
English, Fred Erisman, Phyllis Evans, Robert Foch, Peyton Frank, Anthony Gandara, Cynthia Gant,
Keaton George, Caroline Hardwick, Tiffany Hobson, Joanne Jackson, Mary Kelly, Brian Kennedy,
Madison Ladd, Alex Moch, McKenzie Moore, Andrew Palamara, Erica Quinn, Avery Rutland, Jodie
Sanders, Allyson Sekerke, Caitlin Sewell, Deanna Smith, Rachel Watson, Jessica Wester, Rebecca Young
201420132012
Contributed Revenue
Amon G. Carter Foundation
$8,608,807
$9,996,372
$8,351,329
Contributed Revenue Individuals, Corporations,
Foundations and Government
$2,070,099
$2,083,796
$4,485,584
$459,305
$191,760
$434,832
$1,741,372
$2,004,765
$2,112,102
$13,485
$20,773
$20,158
$11,440,785
$10,540,212
$10,426,028
$311,944
$2,019,537
$395,349
Earned Income Investment Return
DOCENT VOLUNTEERS
Bob Adamski, Kathryn Allan, James Archier, Tricia Arnold,
Glenda Barrow, Melinda Burt, Sandra Buswell, John Clay,
Karen Eckardt, Jeanette Ford, Patty Garsek, Christine
Guernsey, Ann Heinz, Norm Hoyt, Floyd Kinser, Alan
Laureyns, Carol Long , Morris Matson, Diane Prentice,
Janice Raoul, Gloria Richardson, Kathleen Rice, Kathryn
Rosenthal, Marsha Scholze, Vivian Spraberry, Joe Strain,
Jean Walsh, Nancy Wacker, Evaline Wright, Barbara Wyatt
Miscellaneous Income
Expenses
Excluding Depreciation
Capital Expenditures *Excludes the museum’s art collection.
Top, left to right: Library volunteers Mary Kelly and Joanne Jackson; above: museum volunteers at the docent appreciation luncheon
For a copy of the Amon Carter’s most recent audited financial statements, call 817.989.5065.
For other questions regarding contributed revenue, call 817.989.5066.
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VOLUNTEERS
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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