The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: 100 Years of the College Art Association

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254 notes introduction 1. Minutes of the CAA Board of Directors, Oct. 5, 1985. See also chapter 12 in this book on advocacy. 2. The report was presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the WDMTA. Ankeney, Lake, and Woodward, Final Report of the Committee on the Condition of Art Work in Colleges and Universities, 1. See also chapter 2 in this book. 3. [College Art Association], “Constitution,” Bulletin of the College Art Association 1, no. 1 (1913): 13. 4. Ibid. 5. [College Art Association], “College Art Association of America Constitution, Article III: Membership,” Bulletin of the College Art Association of America 1, no. 2 (Jan. 1917): 31. There is nothing to indicate when the constitution was amended during the four years between publications. This is the only archival record for CAA’s activities during these years. The Membership Committee comprised the three writers—Ankeney, Lake, and Woodward—who wrote the report cited in note 2 that led to the founding of CAA. 6. CAA Constitution and Bylaws, as recorded in the minutes of a “Special Meeting of Members of the College Art Association,” May 17, 1930. Three categories of membership are listed: life, annual, and active. Active remains the same; the definition of associate— “all persons interested in the object of this Association”—has been applied to the categories of life and annual. 7. Walter W.S. Cook, professor at New York University and CAA board member (both starting 1926), was instrumental in securing funding for CAA from the Carnegie Corporation for research grants for scholars—graduate students and senior scholars—including himself ([College Art Association], “Awards from the Carnegie Corporation Grant,” 39, 45). According to the Dictionary of Art Historians, Cook “continued to spend six months each year in Europe as a research fellow for Spanish art of the College Art Association” (Lee Sorensen, ed., “Walter W[illiam] S[pencer] Cook,” Dictionary of Art Historians, http:// www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/cookw.htm, accessed Feb. 28, 2008). According to Mildred Constantine, CAA was able to expand in 1930, when NYU Dean James B. Munn let CAA occupy part of a house it owned at 20 West 58th Street, where “the first floor was Notes ∏ 255 used for [CAA traveling] exhibitions, the second floor for CAA offices, and the third for a research institute, a joint effort begun and run by Walter Cook that played a significant role in helping to bring over, support, and publish German and Spanish refugee-scholars” ([College Art Association], “Mildred Constantine,” 1, 6, in an article based on an interview with Constantine conducted by Martica Sawin, Art Journal reviews editor, on file at CAA). According to the Dictionary of Art Historians, Cook separated his research institute from the undergraduate department of NYU at Washington Square in 1932, confirming Constantine’s recollection that “CAA moved to 137 E. 57th Street and Cook moved his research institute to what became N.Y.U.’s Institute of Fine Arts, although there was still close contact between the Institute and CAA, especially its publication.” CAA journal mastheads indicate the office move took place in mid-1933. In Cook’s obituary, “Walter W.S. Cook,” in Art Journal, Craig Hugh Smyth, Cook’s successor as director of the Institute of Fine Arts, wrote that Cook had been made an honorary director of CAA not only for his extensive service to the association, but also for his contribution to art history: “He stands out above all for having brought the Institute of Fine Arts into being at New York University. There had existed a Department of Fine Arts. But the Institute was founded by Walter Cook. It was unique in that it offered only graduate study in the history of art and archaeology and that its faculty was made up largely of European scholars.” See also [Institute of Fine Arts, New York University], “The Institute of Fine Arts—A Brief History,” and Bober, “The Gothic Tower and the Stork Club.” See also in this book chapter 7 for a discussion of Carnegie Corporation research grants to CAA and chapter 9 for a discussion of Cook’s Research Institute. 8. CAA Constitution and Bylaws, as recorded in the minutes of the CAA Business Meeting of Annual Members, Mar. 31, 1934. 9. Ibid. This category was open to “any institution desiring to secure a membership in the College Art Association which shall be equivalent to the life membership of an individual and shall have force in perpetuity or for...