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Description: Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
~At the Yale Center for British Art, our sincere thanks go to Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections, and Nathan Flis, Head of Exhibitions and Publications and Assistant Curator of Seventeenth-Century Paintings. We also thank Martina Droth, Deputy Director of Research, Exhibitions and Publications, and Curator of Sculpture; Elisabeth R. Fairman, Chief...
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At the Yale Center for British Art, our sincere thanks go to Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections, and Nathan Flis, Head of Exhibitions and Publications and Assistant Curator of Seventeenth-Century Paintings. We also thank Martina Droth, Deputy Director of Research, Exhibitions and Publications, and Curator of Sculpture; Elisabeth R. Fairman, Chief Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Molly Dotson, Assistant Curator; Charlotte Padden, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Prints and Drawings; and their respective teams for their tireless help and support. Thanks also go to Soyeon Choi, Head Conservator of Works on Paper, and Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Senior Conservator of Paper; Corey Myers, Chief Registrar, and Nancy Macgregor, Associate Registrar; Richard Johnson, Chief of Installation, Kevin Derken, Associate Installation Manager, and Greg Shea, Senior Museum Preparator. Shaunee Cole, Publications Assistant, and Chris Lotis and John Ewing, editors, have provided invaluable support. We are grateful to Melissa Gold Fournier, Head of Imaging Services and Intellectual Property; Anna Bozzuto, Digital Imaging Technician; Robert Hixon, Imaging Systems Specialist; Maria Singer, Imaging and Rights Assistant; Richard Caspole, Senior Photographer; and Bernie Staggers, Photographer. Lesley Zurolo is responsible for the wonderful book design; we also thank Lyn Bell Rose, Head of Design, for lending her expertise to the book and the exhibition text panels. Above all, great thanks go to Amy Meyers, Director of the Center from 2002 to 2019, who has led the institution with the utmost dedication and who has been an unerring source of encouragement for this project.
This exhibition has been supported by key loans from Yale’s collections, particularly from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. We extend our heartfelt thanks for their patience and generosity to Director E. C. Schroeder and Christine McCarthy, Director of Preservation and Conservation Services; Rebecca Hatcher, Preservation Coordination Librarian; Tim Young, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts; and Senior Photographers David Driscoll, Robert Halloran, and Meredith Miller. At the Yale University Art Gallery, we are grateful to Jock Reynolds, former Director; Stephanie Wiles, current Director; and Lynne Addison, Registrar. At the Peabody Museum of Natural History, we thank David Skelly, Director and Professor of Ecology, and Stefan Nicolescu, Collection Manager, who provided spirited support in translating Ruskin’s mineralogical terms to the twenty-first century. Our thanks go also to Erin Gredell, Registrar. At the Yale University Library, our thanks go to Susan Gibbons, University Librarian and Deputy Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communication. We also extend our sincere appreciation to Nicole Bouché, W. S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, and Cindy Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, & Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library. We are very grateful to Charles and Jessie Price for their generous loan. We also thank the faculty and students in the History of Art Department, especially Professor Edward Cooke, for providing key aid and advice. Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for Japanese Studies at Sterling Memorial Library, and Haruka Miki at Gakushuin University provided valuable knowledge on Ruskin in Japan. Equal thanks are due to Molly Brunson, Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and History of Art. Lastly, we wish to thank Gavriella Levy Haskell, who has designed the digital aspect of the exhibition, and Miriam Olivares, Geographic Information Systems Librarian at the Center for Science and Social Science Information, whose assistance has been invaluable.
Our thanks also go to the staffs of the Morgan Library & Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library. Namely, we would like to acknowledge Colin Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library Museum, as well as Jennifer Tonkovich, the Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Laurel Peterson, the Moore Curatorial Fellow in Prints and Drawings; Martha Tedeschi, Director of the Harvard Art Museums, and Mary Lister, Assistant Director of Collections; Geoff Ward, Acting Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Luke Syson, current Director; Max Hollein, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings; and Anthony Marx, President and CEO of the New York Public Library. Thanks are also due to their associated registrars, including John D. Alexander, Senior Manager of Exhibition and Collection Administration at the Morgan; Nicole Linderman-Moss, Associate Registrar for Loans Out at the Harvard Art Museums; David Packer, Museum Registrar at the Fitzwilliam; Aislinn Hyde, Assistant Registrar at the Metropolitan Museum; and Deborah Straussman, Head Registrar at the New York Public Library. Lastly, we’d like to recognize Jorge Otero-Pailos, for his stunning contemporary homage to Ruskin, and Laurence Lafforgue, his Studio Manager, for making possible the loan of Jorge’s work to the exhibition.
In 2000, the Center mounted an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of Ruskin’s death, Ruskin: Past, Present, Future, organized by former Curator of Prints and Drawings, Gillian Forrester. Her peerless research on Turner and Ruskin, and the legacy of her profound knowledge of the collections, were instrumental in making the current exhibition possible.
We are grateful to the Watts Gallery Trust, and particularly to its Director (Chief Executive) Alistair Burtenshaw, and Curator, Cicely Robinson, for their visionary involvement in the project, which will allow the exhibition to be shown in reconfigured form at Watts Gallery–Artists’ Village, one of the United Kingdom’s finest venues for Victorian art.
This project, like so many works on John Ruskin, would not have been possible without the efforts of Edward Tyas Cook (1857–1919) and Alexander Wedderburn (1854–1931), whose thirty-nine-volume The Complete Works of John Ruskin, published over a century ago, continues to be an invaluable resource for Ruskin scholars. The Complete Works have been brought into the digital age by Lancaster University and the Ruskin-Library, Museum and Research Centre.
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