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Autumn 2007

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Spring 2007

• Editorial
• Director’s Message, 75th Anniversary
• News of Staff
• New Appointments
  
• Curating the Art Museum
  
• Dr. Dennis Farr Remembered
  
• Working with Dennis Farr
  
• Robert Ratcliffe
  
• Collecting and the Courtauld Collections
  
• The Restoration of Highnham Church
  
• Ivories Working Group
  
• Creating the Caroline Villers Fellowship
  
• Interview with Dr. Peter Stewart
  
• Klossowski at the Whitechapel
  
• Cold Cold Heart
  
• Research Forum Activities
  
• Publication
  
• Gallery News: Dorothy Scharf Bequest
  
• Gallery News: Developing the Collection
  
• Gallery News: Guercino Draws the Crowds
  
• Gallery News: Exhibition Dedicated to Drawing
  
• Future Exhibitions: Lucas Cranach, Walter Sickert, Empress Josephine’s Collection from
• Malmaison at the Hermitage
  
• New MA Programme: Modernism in Britain
  
• Alumni Focus
  
• Robin Simon: Hogarth, France and All That
  
• Alumni News: The Career Network, Alumni Summer Party, Celebrating Scholarships,
• The Courtauld Association
  
• Supporting the Courtauld: New Gifts to Support Posts, Annual Support, The Courtauld in the US
  
• Membership and Friends News, Samuel Courtauld Society, Gallery Dinner
  
• Conference, Lectures and Seminars: Ben Nicholson, Prof. Griselda Pollock; British Modern Sculpture
  
• Short Courses, Summer School, Study Trips
  
• Thanks to our Supporters and Sponsors. Thanks to our Exhibition Donors
  

Issue 22 : Autumn 2006

• Second-hand Booksale
  
• Oskar Kokoschka: The Prometheus Triptych
  
• Tom Philips Paints Sir Nicholas Goodison
  
• Prof. T.J. Clark Honorary Degree DLit
  
• Scholarship Graduates from the MA Programme
  
• Scholarships
  
• Academic Information Services
  
• CCSS; Dr. Sue Price Retires
  
• Witt – Watts: Investigating the Archives
  
• Exhibitions: David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting
  
• Guercino: Mind to Paper
  
• Hermitage Rooms: The Triumph of Eros
  
• Studying York’s Treasures
  
• In Memoriam: Michael Doran
  
• Leave a Bequest to the Courtauld Institute
  
• Frank Davis Memorial Lectures
  
• Modern and Contemporary Research Seminars
  
• Courtauld Association of Former Students
  
• Supporting Kokoschka; Friends and Patrons
  
• Friends Events: November to January 2007
  
• Short Courses: Tradition and Innovation
  
• Publications by Former Students
  
• Supporters of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Issue 21 : Spring 2006

• Rt. Hon. Sir Adam Butler Retires
• Innovative Research and Fruitful Collaborations
• Lillian Browse, Benefactress
  
• Inaugural Lectures
  
• Lindy Grant, Photography Seminars
  
• ICMA Conference
  
• Conservation: Visit of MOLAB
  
• Watts Gallery Project
  
• Research Forum News
  
• Prints & Drawings Study Room
  
• Support for Scholarships
  
• East Wing Collection, 2005
• All Spirit and Fire: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo
• The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity
• Funding the Byzantium Exhibition
  
• Kokoschka, Prometheus Triptych
  
• Obituaries, Giles Worsley, John Hayes
  
• Alumnotes
  
• CAFS News and Summer Party
  
• Friends’ Events
  
• Friends News
  
• Summer School and Study Trips
  
• Focus on Fundraising, Thanks to our Supporters
  
• Thanks to our Donors and Supporters
  

Issue 20 : Autumn 2005

• 2005: Challenges and Achievements
  
• History and Theory of The Art Museum
  
• John Bilson Collection in the Conway Library
  
• The Croft-Murray Archive
  
• Shared Space, The Witt and Conway Libraries
  
• A Medal for Caroline Villers
  
• A Courtauld Friendship: A Courtauld Garden
  
• A Portrait Bust of Philip Ward-Jackson
  
• The Nation’s Greatest Paintings
• A Memorable Visit: Carl Strehlke
  
• Conferences: The Year 1300 and Gabriele Münter
  
• Gabriele Münter Supporters Circle
  
• The SMart Programme
  
• Exhibitions: Spooner Collection and André Derain
  
• A Japanese Print for Van Gogh
  
• A Gift from Mrs. Lesley Lewis
  
• A New Prints and Drawings Study Room
  
• Future Conferences and Lectures
  
• Culture Bound: East Wing Collection
  
• Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series
  
• Friends Events and Study Trips
  
• Interns and Volunteers
  
• Birthdays for George Zarnecki and Peter Kidson
  
• Alumni Publications 2005
  
• Supporters

Issue 19: Spring 2005

• Letter from the Editor
• Caroline Villers 1948-2004
• Caroline Villers at ICOM
• Sir Nicholas Goodison wins the first CINOA prize
• Former Courtauld Student wins the Turner prize
• The Nightmare Behind the Vestry Curtain
• The Courtauld and the Getty on the Silk Road
• German Avant-garde Art
• European Trade in Painters’ Materials to 1700
• Wyndham Lewis: One-Man Avant-garde?
• Physical Performances Artist Talks
• Vasari With a Movie Camera
• John Virtue: London Drawings
• Gabriele Münter: The Search for Expression
• The New Curator of Paintings
• Russian Avant-garde Porcelain extended
• Learning Centre Supporters
• Van Gogh’s Lost Print
• The Library of Babel Exhibition
• Conference on the Art of Christian and Islamic Spain
• Alumnotes and Call for Publications
• CAFS Careers Seminar
• Summer Party and Entertainment
• Friends’ Events Programme
• Short Courses: Summer School and Study Trips
• Somerset House Art History Foundation
• Supporters

Issue 18 : Autumn 2004

• Supporting the Courtauld Institute
• Editorial
• New Director, Dr. Deborah Swallow
• Prof. James Cuno
• Honorary Degree for Prof. Thomas Gaehtgens
• Robin Cormack’s Retirement Party Speech
• Reassessing Cistercian Architecture
• Islamic Art and the West
• Alumni Research Project
• Photographs of Ancient and Islamic monuments
• Art & Architecture Website
• Digital Teaching and Learning
• Exhibitions: Face to Face Wyndham Lewis Drawings and Watercolours
• Russian Avant-Garde Porcelain
• Seven books Published: a Celebration
• Alumni publications
• New Appointments
• Research awards
• News from CAFS and the Development Office
• Frank Davis Lectures
• Study Programmes
• Friends Events
• Thanks to our Supporters

Issue 17 : Spring 2004

• Chairman’s Message
• Message from the Director
• Medal of Honor
• Research Forum
• Fifty Years of Photographic Survey
• Adventures in the Pursuit of Art
• John Shearman as Teacher and Colleague
• Gothic Lectures
• A Re-assessment of Prof. Anthony Blunt
• Illuminating the Renaissance Colloquium
• The Opening of The Learning Centre
• Learning Centre
• Heaven on Earth Islamic Exhibition
• A Collection of Collections
  The Witt Drawings Collection
• Alumnotes
• CAFS News
• Winter Soirée
• Book Purchasing Fund
• Study Programmes
• Temporary Sculpture Symposium
• Friends Events
• Thanks to our Supporters

Issue 16 : Autumn 2003

• Director’s message
• Peter Lasko
• John Shearman
• Jeanne Courtauld
• De Laszlo Collection
• Artists on Film Trust
• Conference Reports
• Joint Education Department
• No Fat Ladies — Rubens: A Touch of Brilliance
• Graduation Ceremony
• Exhibitions in the Gallery
• East Wing Collection
• Friends Events
• Students Research Journal
• Staff movements — Catherine Gordon
• Alumni publications — CAFS Party
• Study Trips — Summer School
• Supporters of the Courtauld Institute

Issue 15 : Spring 2003

• Editorial
• Director's Report: The Courtauld's Reach and Influence
• Eric Fernie’s Farewell Speeches
• Tez Quirke, Secretary and Registrar 2000-2003
• Michael Arthur, Secretary and Registrar
• Academic Information Services
• Conservation of Rare Books
• Envisioning the Modern Section
• A Convocation of Directors
• ICOM Conservation Committee Meeting
• Constantine Leventis, Quiet Philanthropist
• Romanesque Sculpture
• ‘Double Sight’ Conference
• Botticelli: Investigating a painter’s practice
• The Berger Prize
• Prints and Drawings Room Open Day
• New Displays at the Courtauld — A Media Triumph
• A Century of Silver: The Courtauld Silversmiths
• ‘Under the Influence’ Conference
• The St. Albans Psalter Project
• Alumnotes – CAFS Careers Seminar
• Barbara Robertson Memorial Party

Issue no.14 : Autumn 2002

• New Foundations of the Courtauld
• Two Decades on Mount Olympus
• The Way Forward
• John Murdoch’s successes at the Gallery
• John Sunderland, Witt Librarian
• Tim Llewellyn, Chairman of the Friends
• James Cuno, Director-Elect
• Barbara Robertson and the Summer Schools
• Symposium on Else and Ludwig Meidner
• Giotto: Santa Maria Novella Crucifix
• The Digitisation Project
• Into the 20th century: New Displays at the Courtauld
• Exhibitions, Friends Events, Conference
• Study Weekends
• Frank Davis Lectures
• Barbara Robertson Memorial Celebration
• Gallery Education Bulletin
• Publications by Former Students
• CAFS News, Staff promotions
• Michael Kitson Scholarship Fund
• Thanks to our supporters

Issue no.13 : Spring 2002

• Editorial
• New Foundations of the Courtauld
• Courtauld Tops League
• American Art Programme
• Positive Attitudes towards Negatives
• Art On The Line — Reflections
• Jim Hearnshaw Retires
• Jane Ferguson
• New Loans to the Gallery
• Lipchitz Gift
• FACE-IT A Gallery Education Outreach Project
• Forthcoming Exhibitions in the Gallery
• Events
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Summer School Expands to 3 Weeks
• CAFS Annual Reunion -— Book Sale
• Courtauld Research Papers; Vol. 2
• Alumnotes
• Children’s Workshops
• Supporters and Friends of the Courtauld

Issue no.12 : Autumn 2001

• Change at CAFS
• The Affiliation of The Courtauld
• The Witt Library: The story of the bequest
• The Courtauld on the Silk Road
• Will Self and Julian Stallabrass
• Six Years — The HOGARTH Project
• New Opportunities
• A New Course
• Art on The Line
• East Wing Collection
• The Botti Madonna Exhibition
• Events and Lectures
• Publications by Former Students
• Institute and Friends News
• Children’s Workshops
• Thanks

Issue no.11 : Summer 2001

• Letter from the Editor
• The CVMA at the Courtauld
• Profesor, critic, climber, politician: Lord Conway
• Life at the Getty
• John Newman retires
• Janet Balmforth retires
• The Fluxus Workshop and Mini Flux-fest
• Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge. (A Grin without a Cat)
• Gallery Exhibitions 2001
• Events
• Summer School
• Children's Workshops
• Alumnotes - CAF News
• Book Sale and Annual Reunion
• Supporters of the Courtauld

Issue no.10 : Autumn 2000

• Editorial
• Museum Review
• My Favourite Painting: Evocations of a vase of flowers
• Who's Who? The historiography of classical art in the 20th century
• Library Exchange
• Recovered Treasures: Venetian books and books about Venice in the Courtauld Institute Library
• The Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
• Building future links - A Trip to St. Petersburg
• The Van Eyck Project
• Sinai, Byzantium, Russia at the Courtauld
• A Rage for Exhibitions
• Study Day Programme
• Lectures
• Alumnotes
• Publications by Former Students
• Children's Workshops
• Thanks

Issue no.7 : Spring 1999

• Editorial
• My Favourite Painting: The Master of Flémalle
• Signorelli in British Collections
• Geoffrey Agnew and the Friends of the Courtauld Institute
• Michael Kitson Address at Memorial Service
• News
• Book News
• CAFS Scholars
• CAFS News
• Alumnotes
• Gallery Exhibitions
• Events
• Summer School
• Children's Events
• Acknowledgements

Issue 5 : Spring 1998

• Editorial
• My Favourite Drawings: The Head of a Boy and an Old Man, a work of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Jacopo Pontormo, Seated Youth c.1525
• A Memorable Meeting of Minds: Nikolaus Pevsner and Denis Mahon in the 1930s
• Assisi Disaster
• Images of Assisi in the Conway Library
• News
• Events at the Courtauld Institute of Art
• CAFS News, Annual Reunion and Book Sale
• Renovations at the Courtauld Gallery
• Acknowledgments