Decision time

[Frank Dunn]

Friends,

    Thanks for your responses to my queries about the Mitchell Jamieson paintings.  

    As usual, we are all over the map!  Some say don’t accept them.  Others say accept them with a proviso that we not use them constantly, but have the option of displaying them from time to time.  Others say they would be a good investment.

    I don’t want to drag this out.  My inclination is to say to St. Philip’s that we do not have adequate space to display them nor adequate space to store them.  We like them and would not mind displaying them for a time.

    The lending library is a great idea—for someone else to pursue.  

    Sarabeth has measured spaces and she and I have discussed.  While both of us like the idea of accepting these paintings, it is clear that there is no adequate wall space in the church for the triptych.  The only option, as I see it, is to accept the triptych, use it on the reredos while we have a reredos that lends itself to that, store it the rest of the time, and display one or more panels on occasion.

    This is the last call.  If you think that we should accept them, let me know by Monday noon.  If you do not reply or say anything definitive to the contrary, I shall decline them with regret.

    Fair enough?

Frank

[Sarabeth Goodwin]

Fair enough. I quite like the paintings and would be happy if we could find a place for them at SSI. Frank has stated the options very well. I would like to add a thought: If we accept the paintings it should be with the intent to use them well, but if we cannot find the right way to display the triptych in our space and nobody can curate the proposed lending library then we should be at liberty to sell them.  My guess is that Mitchell Jamieson’s paintings are valuable and increasingly so. Perhaps this is a gift in disguise.  

 

Sarabeth

 

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[Carolyn Bluemle]

interesting idea to sell... that would be a gift

 I would be happy to see it on the reredos for a time

Carolyn

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[Gay Gellhorn]

I was in NY over the weekend, but weighed in earlier.  Re Sarabeth's message, fyi " Mitchell Jamieson (1915-1976)

Mitchell Jamieson was born in Linden, Virginia, in 1915. He studied at the Abbott School of Art and the Corcoran School of Art. In the 1930s, he traveled to Key West and the Virgin Islands to paint under the Treasury Department's Art Project, and received commissions to paint murals for post offices in Upper Marlboro and Laurel, Maryland; Willard, Ohio; and at the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. His works are in collections at the White House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. "

   Why can't we go see them in early January rather than saying "no" sight unseen?  I'm up for a road trip.

    Gay

[Michael Salmon]

Sorry, been thinking about music.  

It certainly is a strong piece.

I don't think it works as a permanent addition, given that we are considering how to use the space with a different reredos design.  Still exciting to consider in what is currently a more open space, but if have a deadline...

I wish we could consider it.  

Michael

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Seeing them in person is a good idea if we want to judge the art more carefully. But it still makes no sense to acquire them just to store them, nor to acquire them and then to risk damage to them by installing them and then taking them down and storing the repeatedly. That's OK for a gallery with expertise, but I don't think we measure up to that challenge. And I know we have no adequate storage space for them. So, if they are acquired, they need to be displayed and cared for. There are only two places to display them, realistically. North wall of Resurrection Chapel of reredos. If we are willing to consider that seriously, then by all means go and see them.

Joseph Casazza

[Frank Dunn]

Gay,

    This is perfectly all right.  If you’d like to arrange a suitable time for a road trip, I suggest that you correspond directly with The Rev. Shiela McJilton, the Rector of St. Philip’s, and Cid Collins Walker, with whom I have been corresponding, who is handling this on behalf of St. Philip’s.  If you set something up that suits you, you can communicate it to the rest of us who can then opt to be a part of it if we can and want to.  

    The only thing I’d ask, in deference to St. Philip’s, is that we move expeditiously.  Sheila’s email is  <mcji...@verizon.net>.  Cid’s is <b...@smart2.net>.

    Please let me know what the deal is so that I can let Cid know, as I’ve promised.

Thanks,
Frank