Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, who takes over on Aug. 23, will be the first woman to hold the top job at the museum, whose roots date to the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society.
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, the incoming executive director and chief executive of the Peabody Essex Museum Peabody Essex Museum/Photo: Alex Paul
Four months after the abrupt departure of its executive director and chief executive, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts announced today that it had appointed Lynda Roscoe Hartigan of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to succeed him. She will be the first woman to lead PEM, and served there as chief curator and then deputy director until last year.
Hartigan, who assumes the posts on 23 August, is currently the deputy director for collections and research and the chief innovation offer at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is a leading expert on Joseph Cornell and specialises more generally in American art, especially modern, folk and Black artists, PEM says. The museum cited her “progressive vision” for the institution, the oldest continuously operating museum in the US.
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The University of Pennsylvania Libraries today announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress. Given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection – part of which has already been appraised at $4.2 million joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy, parents of a 1997 Penn graduate, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints.
Together these collections document Tress’s diverse and fascinating career and represent the largest collection of Tress photographic prints in the United States. In 2018, Tress, among the most original artists of his generation, gave the Penn Libraries his collection of Japanese illustrated books, which served as inspiration for his own artistic vision.
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Untitled (Radio) by Bill Traylor, c. 1940–1942. Opaque watercolor and graphite on printed advertising paperboard, 32 1/2 by 24 1/2 inches.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowmnent; photograph by Gene Young.
COLOR THEORY
Theory of Colors (1810), and way,
way before Pantone, A. Boogert set out to create a comprehensive manual of colors. His
nine-hundred-page anthology of color samples is unique, and is now available in digital high-resolution on the website of the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. (
An expanded version of
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours an 1814 guide to the colors of the natural world, organized by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner will be published next month as