Facet Autumn 2020

CONTENTS

board of ADVISORS

Exhibitions p.4

B. Heyward Allen Jr. * Rinne Allen Amalia K. Amaki ** June M. Ball Linda N. Beard Karen L. Benson ** Richard E. Berkowitz Jeanne L. Berry Sally Bradley Devereux C. Burch * Robert E. Burton ** Debra C. Callaway ** Shannon I. Candler *

Carl. W. Mullis III* Betty R. Myrtle ** Gloria B. Norris *** Deborah L. O’Kain Randall S. Ott Gordhan L. Patel, chair Janet W. Patterson Christopher R. Peterson Kathy B. Prescott Rowland A. Radford Jr. * Annemarie S. Reynolds *** Margaret A. Rolando * Julie M. Roth Alan F. Rothschild * Jan E. Roush Bert Russo Sarah P. Sams **

Remembering C.L. Morehead p.10

The Art of Giving p.11

Superheroes Make Art at Coile Middle School p.12

Faye S. Chambers Harvey J. Coleman Sharon Cooper James Cunningham Martha Randolph Daura *** Annie Laurie Dodd *** Sally Dorsey ** Howard F. Elkins Judith A. Ellis Todd Emily James B. Fleece Phoebe Forio *** John M. Greene ** Helen C. Griffith ** Barbara Guillaume Judith F. Hernstadt Marion E. Jarrell ** Jane Compton Johnson * George-Ann Knox * Shell H. Knox *

New Acquisitions p.14

D. Jack Sawyer Jr. * Helen H. Scheidt ** Henry C. Schwob ** Mr. Ronald K. Shelp Margaret R. Spalding

Museum Notes p.16

Dudley R. Stevens Carolyn Tanner ** Anne Wall Thomas *** Brenda A. Thompson, immediate past chair William E. Torres C. Noel Wadsworth * Carol V. Winthrop Gregory Ann Woodruff

In the Shop p.16

Gifts p.16

on the cover: Thomas E. Warren, American Chair Company, Troy, New York, centripetal spring arm chair, ca. 1850. Cast iron, wood, sheet metal, gauffrage velvet show cover, faux rosewood graining. Courtesy of the Thomas H. & Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D Foundation.

Ex-Officio Lacy Middlebrooks Camp Linda C. Chesnut William Underwood Eiland S. Jack Hu Kelly Kerner Marisa Pagnattaro

Andrew Littlejohn D. Hamilton Magill David W. Matheny, chair-elect Mark G. McConnell Marilyn M. McMullan Marilyn D. McNeely Ibby Mills David Mulkey

* Lifetime member

** Emeritus member

*** Honorary member

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