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B. Consideration and Possible Action
to Adopt a Resolution to Approve the April 20, 2001 Report of the Acquisitions
Committee of The Fine Arts Museums Foundation; Accept the Works of Art
Acquired through Purchase, Donation and Bequest as Gifts from The Fine
Arts Museums Foundation; Approve the Resolution Recommending First Step
Deaccessioning for the Ovila Portal in the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
as an Initial Step Towards the Transfer of the Ovila Portal from the Fine
Arts Museums of
San Francisco to the University of
San Francisco; Amend the Resolution Waiving Second Step Deaccessioning
for Works of Art Recommended for First Step Deaccessioning by the Acquisitions
Committee at its Meetings on September 26, 2000, December 1, 2000, and
April 20, 2001 to Include the June 1, 2001 Acquisitions Committee Meeting;
Approve the Resolution to Sell Works of Art on Loan to the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco in Accordance with the California Abandoned
Property Statute; Approve the Works of Art Recommended for First Step
Deaccessioning Set Forth in Appended Lists A and B; and Approve the
Deaccessioning Statement dated March 6, 2001
1. Purchases - Acceptance of Gifts of
Works of Art from The Fine Arts
Museums Foundation
Chair Merriam reported that a sculpture,
Untitled, 1998, by Doris Salcedo was recommended by the Acquisitions
Committee for purchase for the New de Young Museum. The following purchases
were also recommended: a) Pool of Enchantment, 1999, a three
screen video installation by Harrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin; b) two
paintings by Cleve Gray, Carrion, 1940, and Reverend Quan
Duc, 1963; c) twenty-six works of art for the Prints and Drawings
collection; and d) six objects for the Textiles collection. A motion
was made and seconded to approve and accept these purchases listed as
Items 1 through 31a-f on pages 2980 through 2983 of Appendix I of these
minutes as gifts to the Museums offered by The Fine Arts Museums Foundation.
There was no discussion among Trustees. There was no public testimony.
The Executive Committee voted unanimously to approve and accept these
purchases.
2. Gifts Offered to the Museums
Chair Merriam particularly noted several
gifts: a) Mantelpiece for Thurlow Lodge, Menlo Park, Menlo Park,
California, Residence of Milton Slocum Latham (1827-1882) Family,
ca. 1872-73, by Herter Brothers; b) Moon and Two Figures, 1952,
by Rufino Tamayo; c) William Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas, 1990,
by Gottfried Helnwein; d) Cane, 2000, by artist Martin Puryear,
published by Arion Press, authored by Jean Toomer;
e) a major gift of artist illustrated books
for the Reva and David Logan collection of illustrated books; and f) three
objects, Baby Carrier, Hat, and Jacket, for the Textiles
collection. A motion was made and seconded to approve and accept the gifts
offered to the Museums. There was no discussion among Trustees. There
was no public testimony. The Executive Committee voted unanimously to
approve and accept with sincere thanks to all donors the gifts listed
in Appendix I, pages 2984 through 2989.
It was announced that Dr. Peter Selz,
a long-standing member of the Acquisitions Committee, has stated his
intention to donate his library as a promised gift to the New
de Young Museum. Dr. Selz’s library consists
of approximately 15,000 art books, catalogues and ephemera.
3. Bequest Offered to the Museums
A motion was made and seconded to approve
and accept the work of art bequeathed to the Museums listed on page
2990 of Appendix I of these minutes. There was no discussion among Trustees.
There was no public testimony. The Executive Committee voted unanimously
to approve and accept the work of art bequeathed to the Museums.
4. Resolution Recommending First Step
Deaccessioning for the Ovila Portal in the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
as an Initial Step Towards the Transfer of the Ovila Portal from the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to the University of San Francisco
Chair Merriam advised that the Acquisitions
Committee has considered the deaccessioning of the Ovila Portal in Hearst
Court at the de Young Museum at length at its recent meetings. He noted
that the plans for the New de Young Museum do not include the reinstallation
of the Ovila portal. In 1994, following approval by the Board of Trustees
of the Fine Arts Museums, the Museums and the Abbey of New Clairvaux,
located in Vina, California, reached agreement to transfer the monastery
stones of the Chapter House of Santa Maria de Ovila to the Abbey. Several
months ago, the Abbey expressed interest in acquiring the Ovila portal.
In keeping with the procedures followed with the transfer of the monastery
stones, the Museums notified six San Francisco public or nonprofit institutions
that the Ovila portal will soon be available and requested the organizations
to respond if they were interested in acquiring it.
Of the six institutions contacted (the
Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Episcopal Diocese of California, the
Recreation and Park Department of the City and County of
San Francisco, the San Francisco Redevelopment
Agency, San Francisco State University, and the University of San Francisco),
one institution, the University of San Francisco, expressed serious interest
in the Ovila portal and requested to be considered as a potential site
for it.
The San Francisco Administrative Code
(Section 2A.155.10.c) covers the transfer of works of art. The code
requires that works of art of San Francisco historical or other interest
be offered first to San Francisco public or nonprofit institutions.
Clearly, the Ovila portal should ideally remain in San Francisco and
be available to the public for viewing, given its historical connection
to William Randolph Hearst, the City of San Francisco, and the long
tradition of journalistic and public interest in the monastery stones
of the Santa Maria de Ovila.
The Acquisitions Committee unanimously
recommended to the Board of Trustees approval of first step deaccessioning
for the Ovila portal as an initial step towards its transfer from the
Museums to the University of San Francisco. A motion was made and seconded
to adopt the resolution on pages 2991 and 2992 of Appendix I of these
minutes to this effect. There was no discussion among Trustees. There
was no public testimony. The Executive Committee voted unanimously to
adopt the resolution on pages 2991 and 2992 of Appendix I of these minutes
approving first step deaccessioning of the Ovila portal in the de Young
Museum as an initial step towards the transfer of the Ovila portal from
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to the University of San Francisco.
5. Amendment of the Resolution Waiving
Second Step Deaccessioning for Works of Art Recommended for First Step
Deaccessioning by the Acquisitions Committee at its Meetings on September
26, 2000, December 1, 2001, and April 20, 2001 to Include the June 1,
2001 Acquisitions Committee Meeting
Efforts continue to identify works of
art no longer suitable to the de Young Museum collections to be proposed
for first step deaccessioning. Additional objects will be submitted
for first step deaccessioning consideration at the next Acquisitions
Committee meeting scheduled for June 1, 2001. Consequently, the resolution
adopted at the December 14, 2000 meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees, waiving second step deaccessioning for works
of art recommended for first step deaccessioning by the Acquisitions
Committee at its meetings on September 26, 2000, December 1, 2000, and
April 20, 2001, was recommended for amendment to include the June 1,
2001 meeting. A motion was made and seconded to adopt the amended resolution.
There was no discussion among Trustees. There was no public testimony.
The Executive Committee voted unanimously to amend the resolution adopted
at the December 14, 2000 meeting to include the June 1, 2001 Acquisitions
Committee meeting as stated on page 2993 of Appendix I of these minutes.
6. Resolution to Sell Works of Art on
Loan to the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco in Accordance with the California
Abandoned Property Statute
Upon the recommendation of the Acquisitions
Committee, a motion was made and seconded to approve the resolution
for the sale of works of art on loan to the Fine Arts Museums in accordance
with the California Abandoned Property Statute. There was no discussion
among Trustees. There was no public testimony. The Executive Committee
voted unanimously to approve the resolution on page 2994 of Appendix
I of these minutes.
7. Deaccessioning - Step 1 / List A and
List B
A motion to approve first step deaccessioning
was made and seconded for the works of art listed on pages 2995 and
2996 of Appendix I of these minutes as follows:
List A
a) Africa, Oceania and the Americas, First
Step, 13 pages; b) American Decorative Art, First Step, 107 pages; c)
American Painting, First Step, 3 pages; d) Ancient Art, First Step, 1
Page; e) European Decorative Art, First Step, 15 pages;
f) Historical Objects, First Step, 15 pages;
g) Oriental Art, First Step, 4 pages; and h) Textiles, First Step, 11
pages.
List B
a) Africa, Oceania and the Americas, First
Step, 7 pages; b) American Decorative Art, First Step, 132 pages; c)
Ancient Art, First Step, 1 Page; d) European Decorative Art, First Step,
20 pages; e) Historical Objects, First Step, 16 pages;
f) Oriental Art, First Step, 1 page; and
h) Textiles, First Step, 16 pages.
There was no discussion among Trustees.
There was no public testimony. The Executive Committee voted unanimously
to approve first step deaccessioning for the works of art included in
Lists A and B on pages 2995 and 2996 of Appendix I of these minutes,
and acknowledged the significance of the deaccessioning effort in preparation
for the move of the de Young Museum collections and staff to the interim
de Young Collection Management Center this summer.
8. Deaccessioning Statement
A motion was made and seconded to approve
the Deaccessioning Statement dated March 6, 2001, which will be published
in the June 25-26, 2001 Butterfields’ auction catalogue. There was no
discussion among Trustees. There was no public testimony. The Executive
Committee voted unanimously to approve the Deaccessioning Statement
on pages 2997 and 2998 of Appendix I of these minutes. The Museums’
active Trustees, Acquisitions Committee members, the Director, the curatorial
staff and their immediate families are prohibited from purchasing any
deaccessioned works. Invitations will be mailed shortly to an auction
preview on Sunday, June 24, 2001, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Butterfields.
9. Purchases Reported for the Record
These objects are listed in Appendix I
of these minutes, page 2999.
Chair Merriam presented the following
resolution:
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of
the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco does hereby approve the appended
April 20, 2001 Report of the Acquisitions Committee of The Fine Arts Museums
Foundation including the works of art acquired through purchase, donation
and bequest as gifts from The Fine Arts Museums Foundation; the resolution
recommending first step deaccessioning for the Ovila portal in the M.
H. de Young Memorial Museum as an initial step towards the transfer of
the Ovila portal from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to the University
of San Francisco; the amendment of the resolution waiving second step
deaccessioning for works of art recommended for first step deaccessioning
by the Acquisitions Committee at its meetings on September 26, 2000, December
1, 2001, and April 20, 2001 to Include the June 1, 2001 Acquisitions Committee
meeting; the resolution to sell works of art on loan to the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco in accordance with the California Abandoned Property
Statute; the works of art recommended for first step deaccessioning set
forth in the appended Lists A and B; and the Deaccessioning Statement
dated March 6, 2001.
A motion was made and seconded. There
was no discussion among Trustees. There was no public testimony. The
Executive Committee voted unanimously to adopt the above resolution
as Board Resolution 1374.
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