Walsh Library Gallery
presents

Joan of Arc in the Modern Imagination

November 3 – December 16, 2005

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Acknowledgements

Funding for this exhibition has been provided by a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment and made possible through the "Exploring Faith and Vocation through the Arts" grant program awarded by the Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership and the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University. Special thanks to David Foster and Miriam Lyons- Frolow for their enthusiastic support. We also take this opportunity to thank the MA Program in Museum Professions, and Dean Howard McGinn and the staff of the University Libraries, for their assistance with this project.

We are grateful to many institutions and individuals for their generosity in loaning objects for this exhibition. Special thanks to: Marianne Hansen, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library and Tamara Johnston, registrar, Art and Archaeology Collections, Bryn Mawr College; Peter Trippi, director, Roger Diederen, curator, and Jeremy Benjamin, operations and exhibition production manager, the Dahesh Museum of Art; David Burnhauser, collections manager, and Lauren Breyer, registrar, at the New York Historical Society; Jennifer B. Lee, public services, and Jean Ashton, director, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Alan Delozier, archivist, Special Collection Center, Seton Hall University; William Dane, curator of prints, Newark Public Library; Robert Hodge, curator, and Elena Stolyarik, collections manager, American Numismatic Society; Sam Sarowitz, Michael Brydon, Stanley Oh and Jamie Jarred, Posteritati Vintage Posters, New York City; and private collectors Dr. Daniel Leab, Rev. Walter DeBold, Seton Hall University and David and Constance Yates, New York City. A special thank you also to our reception lecturer, Nora Heimann, Catholic University of America.

Our grateful thanks to the many people who provided technical assistance for this project: Krista Fahey, Classic Design Framing; JoAnne Yuzawa, Cornerstone Spatial Design & Production Inc.; Janet Koch, Koch Conservation; and Eva Gale and Alsdair MacRae, TLTC/SHU. Continued thanks to members of the Seton Hall University community: Xueming Bao, Carol Ann Koert, Michael Trapani, Sergio Oliva, Christine Yzaguirre, Catriona Hill, Kate Dodds, and Justin Myzie. and to gallery assistants Keyla Sisco, Julissa Mero, and Tiffany Wheeler, for their ongoing assistance.

Curators’ Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Dr. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Mrs. Jo Ann Cotz for their invaluable guidance and support to put together this exhibit. The pleasant collaboration with them made this an even more rewarding experience.

                                                                                                                                                         A.N.E. and B.M.


 

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