Technical Examinations and Art Historical Implications
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
Saturday, May 5, 2001
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall
Mondrian as Maker
Harry Cooper
Associate Curator of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum
The Transatlantic Paintings in the Laboratory
Ron Spronk
Associate Curator for Research, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard
University Art Museums
Framing Mondrian
Joop M. Joosten
Research Curator Emeritus, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Transatlantic Paintings Revisited
Kermit S. Champa
Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown
University
Discussion
Material Matters
Abstract Abstractions: Interpreting Technical Studies of Modern Art
James Coddington
Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Merging and Emerging Images: Layer and Metamorphosis in Picasso’s Art
Ann Hoenigswald
Paintings Conservator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Barnett Newman: Facture as Concept
Yve-Alain Bois
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
Newman’s Paintings: Insights and Challenges
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Director, Center for the Technical Studies of Modern Art, Harvard
University Art Museums, and Chief Conservator, Whitney Museum of American
Art
Discussion
Admission: free
The symposium is sponsored by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund