   Anna Hammond |
The Yale University Art Gallery has announced the appointment of a new deputy director and a Luce Foundation grant for one of its curators.
Anna Hammond, formerly of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, has been appointed deputy director for programs and external affairs at the gallery.
In that post, she will oversee the departments of museum education, public information, graphic design and programs.
At MoMA, Hammond was director of the department of writing services and led the group that produced MoMA Magazine. She was also a member of the management team that helped determine the direction of the museum's marketing, communications and educational initiatives.
Before joining MoMA in 1997, Hammond was a project editor at Harry N. Abrams Inc., working primarily on the revision of H.H. Arnason's "A History of Modern Art," and at Christie's Inc., where she oversaw all aspects of publication for Michael Fitzgerald's "Victor and Sally Ganz: A Life of Collecting."
Early in her career, Hammond worked in the Bronx Public Schools for six years, running community mural projects and teaching art. She has written extensively for such publications as Art in America, ARTnews, and The Art Newspaper, and has written or edited several art books and catalogues.
A 1983 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in classical art and archaeology, Ms. Hammond did graduate work at the University of Chicago, studying South Asian languages and civilization, and in 1995 earned an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Hunter College, New York.
The Henry Luce Foundation has approved a grant of $170,000 to the Yale Art Gallery for Patricia E. Kane, the Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts.
The grant will enable Kane to take a year-long sabbatical to pursue research for a study of early Rhode Island furniture making and will support a replacement curatorial staff member. Her scholarly investigation will result in an exhibition and major publication.
Eighteenth-century Rhode Island furniture, particularly that made in Newport and Providence, has long been the subject of scholarly interest and publications. During her sabbatical, Kane will widen the field through her investigation of the craftsmen and furniture in other areas of Rhode Island. The basis for the long-term project is the documentary research, particularly in the Rhode Island Judicial Archives, that reveal in rich detail information about the occupations and everyday concerns of early Rhode Island residents. This resource, virtually untapped by decorative arts scholars up to now, will shed light on the makers of the more humble examples of early Rhode Island furniture as well as the acknowledged masterpieces.
Kane joined Yale's American decorative arts curatorial staff in 1968, immediately after receiving an M.A. from the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She was appointed curator in 1978, and her position was recently endowed by the Friends of American Arts at Yale. Kane, who earned her Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University in 1987, has organized exhibitions and written widely and definitively on American furniture and silver, especially the Yale Art Gallery's renowned Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.
The Luce Foundation's American Art Program focuses on American fine and decorative arts and is committed to scholarship and the overall enhancement of this field. The program is national in scope and provides support for all periods and genres of American art history.
"The Luce Foundation's steadfast support of the Yale Art Gallery's staff and programs is encouraging and deeply appreciated," says Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery. "It is particularly gratifying that Patricia Kane's project is deemed worthy of being among the first in their Curatorial Sabbatical Exchange Initiative in American Art."
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