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Pascale, Mark; Adler, Esther; Kopp, Édouard

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Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw

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Mark Pascale (Editor), Esther Adler (Editor), Édouard Kopp (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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ESTHER ADLER is Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Most recently, she organized the exhibitions Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl’s Window (with Christophe Cherix, 2019), Charles White: A Retrospective (with Sarah Kelly Oehler, 2018), and Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci. Curated by David Hammons (2017).

KATHLEEN ASH-MILBY is Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. She served as Associate Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, New York, from 2008 to 2019. Her recent publications include Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist (coedited with David Penney, 2015) and essays in Art in America and Art Journal. She is a member of the Navajo Nation.

MARY BROADWAY is Associate Conservator of Paper in Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studies and cares for the museum’s encyclopedic collection of paper-based artwork. Her recent contributions to conservation literature include Cast in a New Light: Surface Topographies of Paul Gauguin’s Transfer Drawings and Mastery of Materials: Examining John Singer Sargent’s Watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago, both in 2018.

CLARA GRANZOTTO is Assistant Conservation Scientist in Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago. She specializes in the analysis of traditional binding media by mass spectrometry, with a focus on polysaccharides and proteins. Her publications include Plant Gums Identification in Historic Artworks (2017).

WHITNEY HALSTEAD (1926–1979) was an artist, art historian, and professor who joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. In addition to teaching modern art, he developed classes focused on the art of non-Western cultures and self-taught artists as well as on vernacular culture and the so-called art of the insane. Halstead was a mentor and friend to many Chicago artists, including Roger Brown, Lorri Gunn, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, and Karl Wirsum, among others, whose work he wrote about in Artforum and other publications.

ÉDOUARD KOPP is the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. He was previously Curator of Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge (2015–18), and before that Assistant and then Associate Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2008–15). His recent publications include Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute (Houston, 2020, co-authored with John Elderfield, Richard Shiff, and Terry Winters).

FAHEEM MAJEED is an artist, educator, curator, and community facilitator. He blends his unique experience as an artist, nonprofit administrator, and curator to create works that focus on institutional critique and exhibitions that leverage collaboration to engage his immediate, and the broader, community in meaningful dialogue. Majeed received a Field and MacArthur Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago Award (2020), as well as a Joyce Foundation Award (2020) and a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2015). He is a Harpo Foundation awardee (2016).

LAURA K. MINTON is Curator of Exhibitions at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. She previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Bardo Arts Center, North Carolina; and Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Her recent exhibitions include Proof of Concept: Artistic Process in Contemporary Printmaking (2020) and Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper (2019). She was awarded a 2019–20 Tyson Scholar fellowship at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art for her dissertation research on the drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum.

EMILY OLEK is Research Assistant in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she works on exhibitions and acquisitions. Her recent projects include Hairy Who? 1966–1969 (2018–19) at the Art Institute of Chicago and, for the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, The Allied Race to Victory (2020) and the upcoming exhibition Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War.

MARK PASCALE has been active in the Chicago art world for forty years, as a curator, researcher, and professor. Currently, he is Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as Senior Lecturer of Art in Print Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His recent contributions to the field include the exhibitions and catalogue essays for Hairy Who?: 1966–1969, Charles White: A Retrospective, Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, Jasper Johns: Gray, and Force of a Dream: The Drawings of Joseph Yoakum, published by and/or exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently working on exhibitions focused on the work of Lygia Pape and Christina Ramberg.

KEN SUTHERLAND is the Andrew W. Mellon Director, Scientific Research, in Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago, where his research interests concern the analysis of organic materials in works of art to inform an understanding of their technique, condition, and appearance. His recent publications include Challenges in the Characterization and Categorization of Binding Media in Mummy Portraits (2020).

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