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May 17-31, 1999Volume 27, Number 32




























Endowed Professorships

Richard Lytle: Leffingwell Professor

Richard Lytle has been appointed the William Leffingwell Professor of Painting. The appointment is effective immediately.

Lytle, a Yale alumnus, has been professor of painting at the School of Art since 1981. He is particularly interested in color and, he says, the "sense of luminosity and emotion" hues can convey. Most recently, he has concentrated on floral subjects in the mediums of oil and water color; one of his floral forms currently hangs in the atrium of Yale-New Haven Hospital. In addition to color, his classes at Yale focus on painting, printmaking and basic drawing.

Lytle has been profiled in several books on American art and artists, including "Art in America: New Talent" (1959); "Art: USA: Now" (1963); and "Art in America: A Decade of Talent" (1964). He was among four artists featured in the 1964 school-distributed filmstrip "Famous Artists at Work."

Lytle's work has been featured in numerous one-man shows and group exhibits at institutions in Europe, Scandinavia and throughout the United States. His work is among the permanent holdings of several universities (including Yale), financial institutions, and galleries, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. His paintings also are in several notable private collections.

A 1955 graduate of Cooper Union, Lytle earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1957. After winning a Fulbright Award to study in Italy in 1958-59, he returned to Yale, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1960. He then joined the School of Art faculty, teaching color and drawing, 1960-63. He was dean of the Silvermine College of Art, 1963-66, and returned to Yale in 1966 to become associate professor at the School of Art.

Lytle was acting dean of the School of Art in 1975, 1980-81, 1990 and 1994; and associate dean 1975-76. He was director of undergraduate studies in art in 1969 and 1977-79. He has taught frequently at Yale's Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, and was the school's director of art in 1976 and 1977.

Lytle served on the Board of Education of Amity Region #5 1981-96, chairing the body 1987-94.

The exhibit "The Garden of Earthly Delights," with some of Lytle's most recent works, will open at Bridgeport's Discovery Museum on June 13.


David Pease: Street Professor

David Pease has been named the Street Professor of Painting. His appointment is effective immediately.

Pease came to Yale in 1983 to serve as dean of the School of Art and professor of painting, posts he held for 13 years. For the past two years, he has been director of graduate studies at the School of Art's department of painting/printmaking.

During his career, which spans more than four decades, Pease has been both educator and artist. Currently, using the medium of gouache on paper, he is working on a series of paintings involved with "the geometry of memory," as he describes it. "It's looking at how people can abstractly and in a pictorial way keep track of things they do -- the aesthetic of information." The series will be exhibited for the first time in November, at Vassar College.

Since 1953, Pease's work has been featured in approximately two dozen solo exhibitions and approximately 275 group exhibitions, including shows at Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the latter three museums, as well as in a host of other public and corporate collections.

Pease received his B.S., M.S. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1954, 1955 and 1958, respectively. He was an instructor at Michigan State University 1958-60. He joined the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, as an instructor in 1960, and was appointed assistant professor later that year and associate professor and chair of the department of painting in 1966. In 1970, he was named professor and chair of the department of painting, drawing and sculpture. He was acting dean of the Tyler School 1977-78, and served as dean 1978-83. In 1971 and 1972, Pease was a faculty member at Yale's Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut.

Pease has been a visiting artist, critic, panelist/presenter, consultant and program evaluator at a number universities and art schools. He has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his work.

Pease currently serves as a board member of the Tiffany Foundation in New York and the Lyme (Connecticut) Academy of Fine Arts.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

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Facility to enhance strength in environmental sciences
Guide again taps Yale as a 'must-see' attraction
'Under My (Green) Thumb': Rolling Stones sideman talks about life as a tree farmer
Summertime at Yale
Endowed Professorships
City-Wide Open Studios celebrates work of Yale and area artists
A Conversation About Welfare and the Media
Eleven honored for strengthening town-gown ties
Special award, Jovin Fund commemorate student's good works
From design to construction, program gives architecture students . . .
Graduate students cited for excellence in teaching
1999 Commencement Information
Beinecke exhibition celebrates the art of collecting books
New line of Yale ties and scarves combine architectural elements with heraldic shields
Studio classes again to highlight annual festival of arts and ideas
Project X Update
Leffell to speak about surgery for skin cancer
Kaplan honored for his work with children
Guide shows motorists where to park downtown


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