2015
Hermann Fuechsel
b. Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick (present-day Germany)
d. 1915, New York, New York
Keene Valley, Adirondacks
1876
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, Fulkerson Fund for Leadership in the Arts
M.2015.20
Keene Valley, Adirondacks is a depiction of an epic American landscape. Painted at the end of Reconstruction, it can be read as a meditation on the difficulties of national healing after the Civil War. The painting is in pristine condition despite its age, and retains its original frame, both of which make it a rare find in the market.
Dana Hogan ’16, Lillian Celestia Lancaster ’17, Kanishka Malik ’16, and Samantha Polsky ’17
2017
Marie Spartali-Stillman
b. 1843, Middlesex, United Kingdom
d. 1927, London, United Kingdom
A May Feast in the House of Folco Portinari, 1274
1887
Watercolor on paper mounted to panelMuseum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund
M.2017.20
Spartali-Stillman occupied a unique place in the art world as a female artist and intellectual amidst the male dominated and misogynistic culture of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England, and the Cornish Art Colony in New Hampshire. She was a prolific artist who created some of the most imaginative work of the late Pre-Raphaelites.
Spencer Allyn ’20, Krista Gelev ’18, Kennedy Kim ’19, and Alex Zilkha ’20
Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks
b. 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas
d. 2006, New York, New York
Willie Causey, Jr. with Shotgun During Alabama Violence
1956
Ilfochrome print
Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust
M.2017.19
This photograph embodies what the Gordon Parks Foundation calls his “ability to honor intimate moments of daily life despite the undeniable weight of segregation and oppression.” Parks’s images of Alabama caused a stir throughout the United States after Life Magazine published them as A Segregation Story. The print is one of only three made by Parks himself, after the negative was thought to have been lost.
Jack Coyne ’19, Caroline Hogan ’18, Gene Hong ’20, Brendan Rosseau ’19, and Emma Santucci ’19
2019
Bill Traylor
b. 1854, Benton, Alabama
d. 1947, Montgomery, Alabama
Bug [Boll Weevil]
c. 1939
Colored pencil on cardboard
Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust
M.2019.21
Trailer was born enslaved on a plantation in
Alabama, and after Emancipation remained on the property as a sharecropper. In 1909, the boll weevil devastated crops in Alabama, forcing him and many tenant farmers off the land. Throughout the college there is a heightened level of interest in animal studies and posthumanism, motivated by the pressing issue of climate change forcing humans to interrogate our relationship with the natural world.
John Damstra MA ’20, Emily Ham ’22, Kevin Silverman ’20, and Hannah Trager ’20
Martín Ramírez
b. 1885, Jalisco, Mexico
d. 1960, Auburn, California
Untitled [Black and White
Caballero No. 7]
c. 1950-1955
Graphite and tempera on paper
Museum purchase, Fulkerson Fund for Leadership in the Arts
M.2019.18
Martín Ramírez is considered one of the
self-taught masters of drawing in the 20th
century, a symbol of the Mexican immigrant experience, and an inspiration for Latinx artists and writers in the United States. A cross-border artist who produced his work in a transnational, marginalized and institutionalized third space, Ramírez’s work features traditional subjects from his past as well as modernist elements.
Cooper Bramble ’20, William Cozadd ’21, Catherine Powell ’22, and Madeline Wessell ’20
News & Press
Yuchan Kim, WCMA displays purchased artworks requested by students in ‘Acquiring Art for the WCMA’ course, The Williams Record, May 4, 2022