Call for Submissions for the Fifth Annual Ricciardi Prize
1 March 2022 / New York
The periodical Master Drawings is now accepting submissions for the Fifth Annual Ricciardi Prize for Young Scholars. The winner will receive a cash award of $5,000. The deadline is 15 November 2022.
The prize is given for the best new and unpublished article on drawings (of any period) by a scholar under the age of 40. The winning submission will be published in a 2023 issue of Master Drawings and will be featured at our annual symposium.
For additional information about essay requirements and how to apply, click here. You can also learn about the broad range of research by past winners of the prize.
Charles Kang New Curator of 18th- and 19th-c. Drawings at the Rijksmuseum
23 December 2021 / Amsterdam
Effective 1 March 2022 the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has appointed Charles Kang as curator of 18th- and 19th-century drawings. Kang (41) is an American art historian, who studied at the University of Chicago (BA), Williams College, Mass. (MA) and most recently Columbia University, where he received his PhD. He previously held fellowships at the Frick Collection and Columbia University in New York, the Clark Art Institute and the Williams College Museum of Art in Wlliamstown (Mass.), the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute in Rome and the Cleveland Museum of Art / Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). His areas of interest include the intersections between drawing, natural history and early ethnography, the role of drawing in ornament and three-dimensional object design, as well as the links between drawing practice and gender inequality in artistic training.
Kang succeeds Robert-Jan te Rijdt, who retired earlier this month after 31 years of service, not only from the Rijksmuseum but also from the editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit. Unlike his predecessor, Kang does not specialize in Netherlandish drawings.
See the museum’s press release.
Jaap Bolten (1934-2021) Passed Away
8 November 2021 / The Hague
With sadness we have learned of the demise of Dr. Jacob Bolten at the age of 87. As chief curator of the Print Room of Leiden University, Jaap was the initiator and co-founder of our journal Delineavit et Sculpsit in 1989, and subsequently chaired its foundation for many years until 2012. He was also responsible for the design and layout of the first 35 issues. For 23 years he was the driving force behind our journal and we are forever grateful to him for this.
After his graduation at the University of Groningen in 1965 Jaap was curator at the Groninger Museum for a year, soon moving to Leiden University in 1966, where he became lecturer at the Institute of Art History and chief curator of the Print Room. In 1990 he was appointed extraordinary professor in the History of the Graphic Arts. He retired from both positions in 1999, but continued his personal research.
In 1979 Jaap received his PhD with his thesis Het Noord en Zuid- Nederlandse tekenboek 1600-1750 (1979), which was republished in an extended English edition in 1985: Method and Practice. Dutch and Flemish Drawing Books 1600-1750. In 1999 he published Dutch Bank Note Design 1814-2002. A Compendium. He is best known for his magnum opus, the two-volume oeuvre catalogue Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651. The drawings (2007).
The editorial board of Delineavit et Sculpsit on 22 February 1995,
from left to right: Jef Schaeps, Janno van Tatenhove, Thera Folmer-von Oven, Charles Dumas, Albert Elen, Jaap Bolten, Robert-Jan te Rijdt
New Member of the Editorial Board: Daan van Heesch
28 May 2021 / The Hague
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that Dr. Daan van Heesch has joined our team as the sixth member. The rejuvenation of the board is now accomplished. Daan is Head of Prints and Drawings at KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) in Brussels, and the first ‘foreign’ member of the editiorial board. He is specialized in early Netherlandish art and has received his PhD in 2019 with a thesis on the cross-cultural receptions of Hieronymus Bosch in the Habsburg world (1500-1700). One of his first publications was actually in our periodical: ‘New Evidence on Pieter Huys as a Draughtsman and Designer of Prints’, Delineavit et Sculpsit 37 (2014), pp. 2-11.
For more information, click here.
Van Gelder Prize 2020 awarded to Joyce Zelen
1 November 2020 / Utrecht
The Association of Dutch Art Historians (VNK) has bestowed Dr. Joyce Zelen with the prestigious Jan van Gelder Prize for her PhD thesis Blinded by Curiosity: The Collector-Dealer Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) and His Radical Approach to the Printed Image, which she defended at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in 2019. This biannual prize is awarded to a young and promising art historian as an incentive to further pursue his or her career. For more information (in Dutch), including the jury’s report, see the VNK website.
We are proud to say the prize winner is a co-editor of our periodical Delineavit et Sculpsit. Congratulations Joyce!