Such
good news, I wanted to share it! Sorry for cross-posting, I know it’s
been announced elsewhere as well!
NYU's Institute of Fine Arts
Announces $2 Million
Grant From Eugene and Clare Thaw For an Endowed Chair in Paper Conservation
Margaret Holben Ellis is Named the
Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation
The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA)
at New York University
has announced that it has received a $2-million grant from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Charitable Trust to support an endowed professorship in paper conservation at
the IFA's Conservation
Center. Margaret
Holben Ellis, professor of conservation at the IFA and director of the Thaw Conservation
Center at the Morgan
Library and Museum, will serve as the first Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper
Conservation.
Mariet Westermann, Judy and
Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, said, "Eugene
Thaw, a distinguished philanthropist, art collector, dealer, and scholar, has a
long-held interest and love of works on paper. His collection of European
master drawings dating from the 15th to the 20th century is one of the finest
in private hands. We are pleased therefore to be the recipient of this
important gift to endow a chair at the Conservation Center
in his name. His generosity will help in the Center's mission of the
study of the technology and conservation of works of art and historic
artifacts."
A distinguished scholar in the
conservation of prints and drawings and 20th-century materials and techniques,
Ellis has taught at the Institute of Fine Arts since 1987 and served as Sherman Fairchild
Chairman at the Conservation
Center from
1987-2002. She also serves as conservation consultant to NYU's Villa La
Pietra, in addition to her part-time post as director of the Thaw Conservation
Center at the Morgan
Library and Museum.
A prominent researcher who has
published widely on technical connoisseurship and conservation, Ellis has
authored most recently an essay on the artist Jackson Pollock's materials and
techniques, No Limits Just Edges: Paintings on Paper by Jackson Pollock, a
catalog accompanying a 2006 exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Her other publications include Daylight Florescent Colors as Artistic Media
(2002) and The Care of Prints and Drawings (1997).
Michele D. Marincola, Sherman
Fairchild Chairman at the Conservation
Center, remarked,
"Peggy's extraordinary commitment to conservation practice and education
is an inspiration. She is a brilliant teacher and mentor. In her
term as Chairman of the Conservation
Center, she put our
program on the map. I cannot think of a more appropriate incumbent of the
Eugene Thaw Professorship."
Ellis received her MA in art
history and diploma in conservation
(1979) from the Institute
of Fine Arts and her BA in art history (1975) from Barnard College,
Columbia University. Among her many
accolades, Ellis was the first Fellow in Conservation/Historic Preservation at
the American Academy
in Rome (1994)
and received the Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award from the American Institute
for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works in recognition of her
excellence in teaching (2003). Founded in 1960, the Conservation
Center of the Institute of Fine Arts
is dedicated to the study of the technology and conservation of works of art
and historic artifacts. It prepares students for careers in conservation
through a four-year program that combines practical experience in conservation
with historical, archaeological, curatorial, and scientific studies of the
materials and construction of works of art. Students complete a Master's
degree in art history at the Institute
of Fine Arts and receive
an Advanced Certificate in conservation.
The Institute of Fine Arts
celebrates its 75th Anniversary in 2007-08
as one of the world's leading graduate schools and research centers in art
history, archaeology, and conservation. The Institute has a permanent faculty
unrivalled in the breadth and depth of its expertise and unparalleled in the
range of its adjunct lecturers from top museums, research institutes, and
conservation studios. Since
the Institute awarded its first PhD in 1933, more than 1600 degrees have been
conferred. Its alumni hold leadership roles as professors, curators,
museum directors, archaeologists, conservators, critics, and institutional
administrators throughout the U.S.
and internationally.
Richard Pierce
Deputy Director for Public
Relations
New York University
Office of Public Affairs
25 West Fourth Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10012
212-998-6796
Fax: 212-995-4021
_____________________________
Paula De Stefano (destefano@xxxxxxx)
Head, Preservation Department
Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Dept.
Phone: 212/998-2563
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