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Annual Report

The Gallery recently published its 2009-2010 Annual Report highlighting exhibitions, programs, collections, and other activities during the period. The report may be accessed by clicking HERE.


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Summer 2010 newsletter

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Other News

-Gallery acquisition featured in July 6 Times-Picayune
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-Newcomb Art Gallery hires new director
Charles M. Lovell has been named the new director of the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University. Lovell, who comes to Tulane from the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New Mexico, Taos, has a strong background in fundraising, art writing, grant writing and extensive experience with arts councils, national arts entities, family and corporate foundations and private donors. For the university press release, click here.

-Warhol Foundation Supports Gallery's 07-08 Exhibitions
The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has committed $50,000 to support original contemporary exhibitions presented by the Gallery through 2008. To date, the Foundation has supported A Spectral Image of Self and One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, photographs by Deborah Luster.

-Getty Foundation Funds Gallery Conservation Study
In October 2006, the Getty Fund for New Orleans awarded the Newcomb Art Gallery $15,000 to conduct a general conservation survey of Tulane University facilities and collections. Conservation specialist Paul Himmelstein, of Appelbaum and Himmelstein in New York, performed the survey from May 14 to May 18, 2007 meeting with the Gallery’s curator, registrar, and preparators to provide a general assessment of exhibit spaces, storage rooms, and campus loan sites.

-Lurcy Trust Supports Gallery Exhibitions
In August 2007, the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust contributed $20,000 towards exhibition costs for 2007-2008. To date, funds have been used for The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age.

-Gallery receives $20,000 through Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation
Following Hurricane Katrina, Newcomb Art League President, Mignon Faget, designated a percentage of sales from her Fleur de Lis collection to help support the Louisiana Rebirth Initiative of the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. In August 2006, these funds were awarded to five New Orleans arts and cultural organizations in a special ceremony hosted by the Lieutenant Governor, Mitch Landrieu. The Newcomb Art Gallery is honored to have received $20,000 through this important program. For more information about Mignon's contribution, please click here.

-Reiss Gift
Ms. Mary Reiss (NC '40, MA-Ed '46) recently donated to the Gallery a c. 1914 hand-built Newcomb ceramic tile by Henrietta Bailey. The piece depicts a cypress swamp at dusk sculpted in low relief with blue and green oxide washes and a satin glaze finish. Unique to the tile is the original label with the work's title (cypress), date (GK55), price ($3.00).