This course meets in the IU Art Museum.
Since 1991 the Indiana University Art Museum has received more
than 350 paintings and drawings from the collection of Morton C.
Bradley, Jr.  Most of these items are American nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century pictures by artists active in New England
and the mid-Atlantic states, although the collection includes a
number of European and eighteenth-century items.  These gifts
offer many superb research possibilities as well as an
opportunity for students to gain experience in standard museum
cataloguing methods.
In  addition, the galleries in the permanent collection
dedicated to American and European nineteenth and turn-of-the-
twentieth century painting and sculpture will be reinstalled in
the late spring of 1999, to allow a larger selection of new
acquisitions to be displayed along with new interpretive labels.
Students in this class will have an opportunity to research
this collection and assist the curator in the reinstallation of
the gallery.  The class will meet to discuss art handling,
technical examination, condition assessment, registration
methods, and research tools.  Diverse strategies of investigation
and interpretation will be compared, anticipating different kinds
of publications or audiences.  Students will share their findings
with the class and prepare research dossiers, catalogue entries
and sample wall texts for 8-10 objects of their choice from the
IUAM's collection.