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PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
University of
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
and Sculpture Garden
Nebraska
P.O. Box 880300
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300
Lincoln
(402) 472-2461
August 17, 1994
Mr. Rex W. Scouten, Curator
The White House
Washington, D.C. 10500
Dear Mr. Scouten:
Enclosed please find a list of eleven (11) sculptures which Sheldon Gallery's Director,
George Neubert, has selected for installation in the "First Lady's Garden" at the White
House from October, 1994 through March 1995. Also enclosed are copies of the letters
forwarded to each institution requesting the loans. Attached to each letter is a copy of the
loan agreement and a Xerox image of the sculpture. I am also forwarding to you a layout
of the "First Lady's Garden" depicting the proposed installation site of each work. It is
Mr. Neubert's intent to place Alexander Calder's Five Rudders near the center of the
garden, and the two Manship sculptures will be placed on either side of the French doors
opening onto the garden. In the event that the Calder is not available for loan, the George
Rickey sculpture Four Rectangles Oblique, Variation II has been selected as an
alternative.
After the signed loan agreements have been returned to Sheldon Gallery, our Preparator,
Steve Jensen, will contact the appropriate personnel in each institution regarding
specific installation and handling instructions. Steve will then communicate any special
needs to you.
How shall we handle the payment of expenses incurred in preparation for the White
House sculpture display? Would you prefer to have the venders bill you directly
whenever possible, or shall we cover all of our expenses and request a reimbursement?
We will await instructions from you in this regard.
Sincerely,
Karen Merritt
Karen Merritt
Registrar
enclosures
cc: George W. Neubert, SMAG Director
University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska Medical Center University of Nebraska at Omaha University of Nebraska at Kearney
WHITE HOUSE SCULPTURE PROJECT
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
1911 -
OBSERVER
1947-49, bronze with white paint
76 1/4 X 29 X 10 1/8 in.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Olga N. Sheldon Acquisition Trust
1988.U-4087
ALEXANDER CALDER
1898 - 1976
FIVE RUDDERS
1964, painted sheet metal and rods
154 in.
Washington University Gallery of Art, gift of Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg, 1964
alternative: GEORGE RICKEY
1907 -
FOUR RECTANGLES OBLIQUE, VARIATION II
1972-75, stainless steel
h: 99 to 108 in.
The University of lowa Museum of Art
Museum Purchase, 1978.42
BRYAN HUNT
1947
-
SHIFT FALLS
1976, bronze
120 X 17 X 11 in.
Akron Art Museum, Anonymous gift
ELLSWORTH KELLY
1923 -
UNTITLED
1974, aluminum
120 X 20 X ? in.
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the Society for Contemporary Art
1976.107
GASTON LACHAISE
1882 - 1935
STANDING WOMAN
1932 (cast 1980), bronze
88 1/2 X 41 1/2 X 24 3/4 in.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Virginia Booth Vogel Acquisition Fund
M1980.172
1
8/18/94
PAUL MANSHIP
1885 - 1966
DIANA
1921, bronze with marble base
36 7/8 X 26 3/4 X 11 5/8 in.
Minnesota Museum of Art
66.14.103a, Murtha 138
PAUL MANSHIP
1885 1966
ACTAEON
1923, bronze with marble base
30 1/2 X 32 X 11 3/4 in.
Minnesota Museum of Art
66.14.103b, Murtha 155
LOUISE NEVELSON
1899 - 1988
TROPICAL TREE III
1972, aluminum
64 X ? X ?
Columbus Museum of Art
alternative: MALVINA HOFFMAN
1887 - 1966
BOY WITH PANTHER CUB
c.1915, bronze
66 3/4 X 14 1/4 X 19 1/2 in.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Gift of the Charles Lamson Hoffman Family and
the Cedar Rapids downtown Rotary
87.7
GEORGE SEGAL
1924 -
WALKING MAN
1988, bronze
72 X 36 X 30 in.
Walker Art Center, gift of the AT&T Foundation and the Julius E. Davis family
in memory of Julius E. Davis, 1988
88.389
JUDITH SHEA
1948 -
SHIELD
1990, bronze with limestone base
55 3/4 X 14 X 11 in. (base: 15 X 14 X 14 in.)
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Olga N. Sheldon Acquisition Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts
1990.U-4272
2
8/18/94
DAVID SMITH
1906 - 1965
CUBE|
1963, stainless steel
h: 124 in.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Founders Society purchase
66.36
3
8/18/94
Chronicles
America's Ambassadors of Art
By Sarah Booth Conroy
tion, or hospital, or church, or you name it."
Washington Post Staff Writer
The president, introducing Lee Annenberg,
chairman of the group and former protocol
R
oy Lichtenstein, wearing a slightly
chief, said he was grateful to her for founding
abashed air, watched as his signed silk-
the Friends organization and, with Walter, her
screen print "Composition III" was un-
financier husband, for donating "a staggering
veiled in the White House East Room last
sum" to improve public education.
week. At least "no one screamed or got sick,"
The Clintons, admirers of contemporary art,
the artist said to the president, the first lady and
were presented one of the limited-edition
the 250 Friends of Art and Preservation in Em-
prints. In 1991 Lichtenstein donated an edition
bassies.
of a print titled "The Oval Office" to Clinton's
Gingrich's
Later, he confided to the Chronicler, "I do
presidential campaign.
wish it had been put on the easel right side up."
Copies of the print, of swirling musical sym-
Before the art presentation, those gathered
bols, will hang in 175 U.S. embassy residences.
feasted on delectables in the State Dining
Room, magnificent with golden table decora-
Lichtenstein acknowledged that he had
Other
tions of classical figures.
thought about President Clinton and his saxo-
As if that were not enough, afterward they
phone when making the print. "I've had four les-
went to the State Department for a dinner of
sons myself, but he's the professional," re-
champagne, sea bass, guinea fowl and three
marked the artist, his long hair tied into a
desserts.
ponytail.
Mrs. Annenberg told the dinner guests that
Earlier, on the platform, Hillary Rodham
even though there are 29 more embassies today
Clinton, introducing her husband, said the orga-
Agenda
than when the friends were organized nine years
nization's efforts "showcase American art," so
ago, the State Department's funds are "more and
others will "know how significant and important
more scarce. The interior and design division has
He's Got Two Books to Sell,
art is to our democracy."
$4.4 million to spread across 353 ambassadorial
and deputy chief
And He Knows How to Do It
of mission resi-
dences."
She said the
By David Streitfeld
group, quiescent
Washington Post Staff Writer
for about two
years, has been
ewt Gingrich hasn't yet achieved his goal
"revitalized" and
N
of overhauling the federal government.
has raised
But give him credit for this: He's pushed
$450,000 in
the relationship between publishing and
cash. (Members
politics to a new level. Never before has a
donate anywhere
book by a member of Congress been a ma-
from $1,500 to jor media event.
more
than
Sure, some senators and a few representatives have
$100,000 to join been worthy and even prolific writers, but it almost al-
the nonprofit or- ways was small-scale stuff-a policy tome printed in an
ganization.) Mrs. edition of a few thousand, an autobiography that studi-
Annenberg esti- ously avoided any revelations, every now and then a
mated that the novel that never made an impact outside the Beltway.
The Clintons accept prints for U.S. embassies from Roy Lichtenstein.
Lichtenstein
On June 30, bookstores will receive a policy tract by
prints
were
"con-
the Georgia congressman, speaker of the House and is-
Bill Clinton, resplendent in black tie, told the
servatively valued" at $700,000. "The silk-
he-or-isn't-he presidential candidate. A week later,
audience that the "remarkable partnership be-
screens were not easy to print, needing 26
they will get a novel. If 50 percent of marketing a book
tween the public and the private sector in
press runs," said Sidney Felsen, owner of Gemi-
is letting people know it exists, both "To Renew Ameri-
America that almost no one knows about" had
put more than 2,200 American artworks in
ni G.E.L., the Los Angeles printmaking firm.
ca" and "1945" will do well.
Gemini and the artist donated their work.
For one thing, Gingrich has promised to flog them
more than 170 countries as well as raised some
(Speculation at the dinner was fierce as to
relentlessly. He made this point emphatically to the
$7 million to preserve and improve embassy
residencies at Beijing, Cairo, Rome, Singapore,
why Felsen kept on his handsome black hat dur-
See GINGRICH, D4, Col. 3
Tokyo and Warsaw.
ing the evening. He doffed it to the Chronicler,
"We're having such a raging debate in this
who rudely inquired, and explained that he wore
country today about whether public is bad and
the hat to protect his bald head from the air
1/2
private is good; whether all of our efforts should
conditioning.)
be directed at correcting personal conduct or at
Warren Christopher, as is common to secre-
changing economic or political direction
taries of state, was not able to attend the dinner
"And I think one of the most frustrating
because he was on the road, this time in the
things to me about going to work every day, in
Middle East. But Joan E. Spero, undersecretary
this otherwise exhilarating environment, is
of state for economics, business and agriculture,
knowing that what comes across to the Ameri-
told of the time she went to Madrid for a meet-
can people are these polarized choices and con-
ing and found the financiers from around the
flicts and rhetorical battles which don't reflect
world "as fascinated by the life-size cast of char-
the way any sensible person would run his or
acters in 'Party in Carreyes' by Red Grooms as
her family, or business, or charitable organiza-
with the meeting with American officials."
THE WASHINGTON POST
MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1995
212
GINGRICH, From D1
wing extremists, the Japanese launch
that there are two G
a set of weapons platforms into space.
hurt: Baen says one
country's booksellers, assembled last
Meanwhile, in America, there's a
week in Chicago for their annual con-
The Matchmaker
chain reduced its or
lousy president-a Democrat, natu-
from 20,000 to 11,000
vention. He also told them how much
Jim Baen, the publisher of "1945,"
rally-who is inept at foreign policy
"To Renew America" had
he liked their profession, exclaiming:
can't take too seriously any of the
but luckily is forced to do the right
uled for simultaneous relea
"This has got to be one of the most
competitive, entrepreneurial busi-
flaps that have erupted over the nov-
thing by the Republicans.
Unfortunately, the story hinged on
None of these figures can
nesses in this country."
el's salacious parts (removed in a re-
write) or an early draft's characteriza-
the Republicans being the minority
pendently verified and, as Baen says,
Competitive, yes: Why just last
tion of the youthful war hero George
party, which suggests Gingrich was
"lying is traditional in publishing." A
week, one publisher accused another
Bush as "goofy."
as surprised as anyone by the GOP's
first printing is in any case only an es-
of trying to sabotage efforts to get at-
That adjective was promptly jetti-
sweep last November. That election
timate of what will sell; it can also be
tention for a first novel. As it hap-
may have made him speaker but it de-
rapidly supplemented by a second and
soned. Gingrich hadn't even known
pens, that first novel is Gingrich's
about it. It was an element that Baen
railed, at least for the time being,
third, if demand warrants.
"1945." Accused of making trouble is
"The Faction." Baen says it's "in the
The fate of the novel is particularly
developed-tiny walk-on parts for
HarperCollins, proud publisher of "To
war heroes who later became politi-
shop for total overhaul."
unpredictable. "Most people read a
Renew America."
novel because we know the novelist's
cians. "God help me, I was thinking of
Already it's a messy scene, and it
The Like-Minded Professor
doing Dole as well," the 51-year-old
previous work or because someone
promises to get worse, or at least
publisher says. He insists the Bush
noisier. In fact, Gingrich's publishing
Two weeks ago, William R. For-
tells us it's pretty good," says Phil
reference was affectionate, but it
stchen was unknown, the author of 18
Pfeffer, chairman of Ingram, the
ventures resemble the man himself:
didn't look that way to Gingrich or
paperback science fiction novels that
world's largest book distributor. "We
daring, annoying, imaginative, ag-
the media.
no one had ever heard of. Last week,
don't know whether Gingrich is a nov-
gressive, unconventional, unprece-
Baen laughs. "All these political re-
he was watching television and saw
elist or not."
dented and, all through this summer,
porters go into this like it's a deep,
an anti-Gingrich demonstrator at the
S a cautious estimate: In spite
inescapable.
portentous thing. But it's like biting a
booksellers convention tearing up his
of giving away all the royalties from
The Sci-Fi Try
balloon. You finally get your teeth in-
19th novel, which is "1945."
the copies of "To Renew America" he
to it and it goes 'pop.' This is just a
Welcome to your 15 minutes of
signs on his tour, Gingrich will soon
On those very rare occasions when
story."
fame, Bill.
be, at least on paper, a millionaire.
a member of Congress decides to
Baen (rhymes with rain) is majority
"I was actually honored," the writer
Most of it will come from the nonfic-
write a novel, it's usually about a sub-
owner of the 11-year-old Baen Books,
says from his home in Black Moun-
tion book. Not bad for a few weeks'
ject he knows well: space travel (the
a New York company that does 55
tain, N.C. "Considering how many
work.
subject of one-time astronaut Jake
original books a year, most of them
books have been burned or torn up in
As for Forstchen, he's already
Garn's "Night Launch") or Washing-
paperbacks, many with multiple au-
the past, I think I was in good compa-
pleased with the way things are go-
ton politics (William Cohen's "Murder
thors. He is in the process of becom-
ny."
ing. "If this works out," he says, "no
in the Senate") or political intrigue
ing, as he puts it, "the world's fore-
Forstchen, 44, is not a long-
more mortgage."
(Cohen and Gary Hart's "The Double
most collaborationist publisher."
standing member of Gingrich's inner
Man").
"Give me any famous person,"
circle. They met only about 18
Houses Divided
Gingrich has written a science fic-
Baen likes to say, "and I will arrange a
months ago, after Baen figured that
tion novel. That might be expected of
collaboration." Musing on the subject,
Forstchen-who was, of course, one
Angry words have already been ut-
someone who is both a prominent sf
he seizes upon the nation's second
of his authors-might be a good col-
tered. Tempers are rising. Further
fan as well as keenly interested in the
leading sf buff, Chelsea Clinton.
laborator for a second novel by Gin-
clashes seem an increasingly real pos-
future, but Gingrich's science fiction
"We'd give her half of the royalties
grich.
sibility.
is set in an alternate past: a World
and a $20,000 advance. I'd have her
An assistant professor of history
Not between Gingrich and protest-
War II where Germany never de-
sit down-maybe in the Oval Office,
and teacher education at Montreat
ers who disagree with his policies.
clared war on the United States, leav-
just for fun-with her collaborator
College, Forstchen went down to
These hard feelings are between Gin-
ing the two powers uneasily coexist-
and moi, probably, and chat about the
Georgia to meet the then-minority
grich's two publishers.
ing.
kind of science fiction and fantasy she
whip. "My first impression? "Gee, he
Baen says he paid $3,000 to have a
This is less obscure than it may
likes, why she likes it, and what sort
paid about the same for his suit as I
copy of "1945" placed at every setting
seem. According to sf critic John
of characters she likes. We'd start to
paid for mine.' He struck me as a
during Gingrich's luncheon talk at the
Clute, World War II is an enormously
develop the germ of an idea. The talk
very ordinary guy."
booksellers' convention. At the last
popular point in science fiction stories
would become more and more specif-
They hit it off. Since neither was
minute, he was forced to settle for
for so-called "alternate histories" to
ic, with more detail about the way she
particularly well versed in mid-centu-
distributing them outside the hall. He
begin diverging from our own.
would like it to be. We would evolve
ry German history, an old Gingrich
blames HarperCollins for the setback.
"World War II excites writers for
an outline-a five-page treatment,
pal, Albert S. Hanser, was brought in
whom the rest of the century has tak-
as "technical editor." Forstchen didn't
"We're having an interesting com-
and then it would get extended. The
en a wrong turn," says Clute, co-edi-
co-author would write the first draft,
mind. He was writing his doctoral dis-
petitive experience between a small.
tor of the authoritative Encyclopedia
but all the final decisions would be
sertation-on an African American
entrepreneurial American publisher
of Science Fiction. "It's the last drama
Chelsea's."
regiment in the Civil War-and "the
and a megalithic foreign corporation
they can properly get their teeth into.
This is more or less the way it
last thing I wanted was to do more re-
controlled by the world's biggest me-
The Cold War just doesn't do it. My
worked with Gingrich, although by
search."
dia giant," Baen says, referring to Ru-
guess is Gingrich is going to rewrite
the testimony of all involved, the
The advance was $45,000, divided
pert Murdoch.
postwar American history so that it's
speaker got so carried away with the
into three equal parts. After the elec-
"This is a David-and-Goliath fight,"
more to his liking."
project that he wrote some of the
tion, other suddenly famous politi-
he adds, "and we know who won that
Another leading sf critic, Gregory
book too.
cians might have attempted to play
one."
Feeley, says that "alternate histories
Baen met Gingrich in 1983, at the
down their co-authors' role, but For-
Instead of a slingshot, Baen is using
seem to attract a type of dogmatic
World Science Fiction Convention in
stchen's name is almost as big on the
various stunts, like Federal Express-
ideologue," citing in particular the
Atlanta. They hit it off, and Baen soon
cover as Gingrich's. "Newt was very
ing 200 copies of the novel to New
works of S.M. Stirling, author of the
published Gingrich's first book, the
clear on that," says an admiring For-
Hampshire this past weekend for dis-
"Draka" series (the African continent,
nonfiction "Window of Opportunity."
stchen.
tribution to the media covering Gin-
controlled by a racist feudal state,
It was the typical sort of political pub-
While Gingrich spends his days de-
grich's moose watch.
joins with the United States to fight
lishing: The congressman was paid
scribing and attempting to implement
Jack McKeown, the HarperCollins
the Nazis). "They're catnip for people
$10,000, the book sank into oblivion.
his plans for rescuing America from
vice president who is head of the divi-
who want to make their own particu-
Publisher and politician stayed in
the abyss, Forstchen has a more mod-
sion publishing Gingrich, didn't return
lar theory of history the crank that
touch. A couple of years ago, they de-
est but perhaps equally unlikely goal.
a call Friday to discuss its attitude to-
turns the engine."
cided it was the right moment to do a
He wants everyone who reads "1945"
ward Baen. A company spokesman,
As a result, says Feeley, "any alter-
novel. Gingrich wanted to do it with
to forget about who its authors are.
nate history is going to be an illustra-
Jerry Pournelle, a well-known writer
"To me, the ideal situation is that
however, said Baen was trying to
tion of its author's political world-
in the field who has spent part of the
once people get into it, they'll read it
grab onto coattails that weren't there.
view-even more than a novel set in
past decade editing "There Will Be
and enjoy it and forget about every-
The upcoming book tour "is being
the 21st century."
War," a popular anthology series
thing else."
paid for by HarperCollins, and we're
To construct his alternate uni-
whose individual volumes bear titles
Does he really think this will hap-
using it to promote 'To Renew Amer-
verse, Gingrich had help from simpa-
like "Guns of Darkness," "Armaged-
pen? "Well, I said it was the ideal situ-
ica.' Period," says publicity director
tico souls. "Most people on the right
don!" and "After Armageddon."
ation."
Steven Sorrentino, adding for empha-
of science fiction, just like on the po-
"Sure," Baen remembers saying,
sis: "It's ourtour."
litical spectrum in general, think of
"but Jerry's pretty busy. We may re-
Numbers Game
And a hard tour it's likely to be.
themselves as beleaguered,' says
quire a trilaborator.' The third writer
Nearly anything the speaker does
Clute. "They tend to think they know
was Linda Evans-a National Rifle
Last winter, when HarperCollins
these days draws media, which in
the truth, and that people are lying to
Association activist in Florida who is
was briefly trying to justify why Gin-
turns draws protesters. "It could be
them. When they find other folk of
yet another Baen author. (If at all pos-
grich was worth $4.5 million upfront
very difficult," says Ingram's Pfeffer,
like mind, they band together in small
sible, these things are kept in the
for two books, it said it would print
750,000 copies of the first. That
voicing a common consensus.
societies. They know they have the
family.) The novel, "The Faction," is
right and true story, so it's natural to
number was clearly a hopeful guess;
"There's a good chance you'll have
set in the near future, more a con-
when it was time to print "To Renew
people who disagree with him disrupt-
work together."
temporary thriller than science fic-
The largest and most successful
tion.
America," by HarperCollins's own ad-
ing it."
group of like-minded conservatives
mission, it ordered only 500,000 cop-
Sorrentino says the tour will begin
The plot: After a coup by right-
working together in science fiction is
ies. After the booksellers convention
on Aug. 8 and will last two to three
THE WASHINGTON POST
last week, the publisher says it added
weeks. "Like any other author, he'll
Baen Books, Gingrich's publisher.
MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1995
another 100,000.
do TV, radio and print, as well as
At the convention, Baen said he
bookstore appearances."
had printed 200,000 copies of "1945,"
Does the publicist expect demon-
but now says he misspoke. The real
strations?
number is 150,000, he says, of which
"All I know is," he says carefully,
135,000 have been ordered by
"he's Newt Gingrich."
stores. In at least one case, the fact
In other words. yes.
THE WHITE HOUSE
February 21, 1997
Mr. James T. Demetrion, Director
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution
Seventh & Independence Avenues, S.W.
Washington, D. C. 20560
Dear Mr. Demetrion:
I am writing to express my gratitude for your decision to
extend the museum's loan of Judith Shea's Post-Balzac, 1991,
so that Exhibition V. may remain intact until September. It is a
very generous gesture, particularly because I understand your
plans to exhibit the piece have had to be deferred. Thank you
for your consideration and cooperation.
With appreciation and best regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Hillary Hillary Rodham Rodbam Clinton Clinton
cc:
Rex W. Scouten, Curator
Melanne Verveer, Deputy Chief of Staff