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Newberry Library
$75,000
Chicago, Illinois
2016

To support the 2018 exhibition Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair, marking the 125th anniversary of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The exhibition explores the fair’s critical significance in the city’s history through an in-depth analysis of its visual culture, paying special attention to the dynamic between fine art and popular imagery, and the economic imperatives that underpinned the creation of much of the material.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
$31,250
Evanston, Illinois
2016

To support research and development for the 2018 exhibition Designers in Film: Avant-Garde and Commercial Cinema in Mid-Century Chicago (working title), which examines the intersection of mid-twentieth-century design and filmmaking in Chicago through the work of the Chicago firm Goldsholl Design & Film Associates.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$100,000
Chicago, Illinois
2016

To support the exhibition Chicago Calling: Art against the Flow, which examines the history and influence of outsider art in Chicago and the reasons for the city’s embrace of such work and its practitioners. Featuring work by Henry Darger, Lee Godie, Joseph Yoakum, among others, the exhibition opens at Intuit in 2018 before traveling to venues in France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Menil Collection
$75,000
Houston, Texas
2016

To support William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY, a retrospective of the artist’s work at the Menil Collection (Houston) and Fondazione Prada (Milan). The exhibition traces Copley’s stylistic and thematic development, examining the full arc of his career from the late 1940s to the 1990s. English- and Italian-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Art Gallery of Ontario
$7,000
Toronto, Canada
2016

Curatorial Travel Grant

To support Georgiana Uhlyarik’s three research trips to the United States to prepare for an exhibition on Florine Stettheimer.

Whitney Museum of American Art
$150,000
New York, New York
2016

To support In Full Swing: The Art of Stuart Davis, which examines with new detail and insights how Stuart Davis appropriated elements of European avant-garde painting to convey the experience of contemporary American life. The exhibition is co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art, and travels to the de Young Museum (San Francisco) and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
$200,000
Richmond, Virginia
2016

To support Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch, an exhibition that explores Johns’s awareness of and interest in Munch, and demonstrates the great thematic and formal shifts that can be attributed in part to the Norwegian artist’s influence. The exhibition is organized in partnership with the Munch Museum (Oslo) and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Tate Modern
$300,000
London, United Kingdom
2016

To support a retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg’s six-decade career, co-organized by Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and featuring approximately 250 objects, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and interdisciplinary projects. The exhibition is presented at Tate Modern, MoMA, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is accompanied by a catalogue.

Royal Academy of Arts
$275,000
London, United Kingdom
2016

To support a survey of Abstract Expressionism highlighting work by well-known artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman, while also giving attention to lesser-known artists. The exhibition travels to the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), and is accompanied by a catalogue.

NHK Promotions, Inc.
$300,000
Tokyo, Japan
2016

To support Mary Cassatt Retrospective, an exhibition held at the Yokohama Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. The accompanying English- and Japanese-language catalogue is published by NHK Promotions, Inc. (Tokyo).

Morgan Library and Museum
$220,000
New York, New York
2016

To support Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, co-organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and Fundación MAPFRE (Madrid). Comprising approximately 150 photographs, the exhibition presents a survey of the photographer’s varied career. The exhibition travels to Fundación MAPFRE and the Fotomuseum Den Haag (Netherlands), and is accompanied by a catalogue in Spanish, Catalan, and English editions.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
$300,000
Montreal, Canada
2016

To support The Western: An Epic in Art and Film, co-organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Denver Art Museum. The interdisciplinary exhibition considers the Western genre and its attendant myths within the context of painting, photography, prose, and film. The exhibition is accompanied by a two-day symposium, and English- and French-language catalogues.