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The Collection's History |
The Simmons Collection was the
first of the Wake Forest University Art Collections. It was donated
in 1941 by Dr. Thomas Jackson Simmons, a Wake Forest alumnus,
with the one condition that it become the foundation on which
a still larger collection might be based. There are now nine
collections.
Many people contributed to the
development o the Wake Forest University Art Collections. A.
Lewis Aycock, Professor of English, first organized information
concerning the collections. This was continued by Mark Reece,
Director of Student Affairs, who began the Student Union Collection
of Contemporary Art in 1962; Sterling Boyd, Art Department Chairman,
who started the Print Collection in 1970; in the 1980’s,
Dorothy Welker, who wrote a master’s thesis on the Simmons
Collection; Anne Pollard, the first Collections Coordinator;
Harry B. Titus, Professor of Art History, and Lu Leake, Dean
of Summer Sessions, who modernized the organization of the collections.
In the mid-1980’s, Janine Cutchen, followed by Martine
Sherrill, served as Curators of the Art Department Print Collection.
David Faber, Associate Professor of Art, was appointed Faculty
Advisor for the Collections on the early 1990’s. In 1997,
Robert Knott, then Art Department chairman, and John Anderson,
Vice President of Finance and Administration, established the
Wake Forest University Art Collections Office with Kathryn McHenry
as the first Collections Curator. Margaret Smith, Art Department
Chairman, is presently serving as the chair of the Advisory Board
established in 1998. |
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