Date: Fri 05-Jun-1998

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Friends Endow Decorative Arts Chair At Yale

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. -- The Friends of American Arts at Yale, a group of

collectors, alumni, and others dedicated to supporting the Yale University Art

Gallery's outstanding collection of American paintings, sculpture, and

decorative arts, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

In recognition of the occasion, the Friends have endowed the curatorship of

American decorative arts held by Patricia E. Kane. She will become the first

to hold the position of Friends of American Arts curator of American

decorative arts.

In the past few months, two other gallery positions -- including one in

ancient arts and another in education -- have also been endowed.

The former chairman of the gallery's governing board and his wife endowed

Susan B. Matheson's position. Her title is now The Molly and Walter Bareiss

curator of ancient art.

The present chairman of the governing board and his wife endowed Mary L.

Kordak's position. Her title is the Jan and Frederick Mayer associate curator

of education.

"The art gallery is deeply grateful to the Mayers, Bareisses, and Friends of

American Arts for their thoughtful and tireless commitment to our future,"

said acting director Helen A. Cooper, who is also The Holcombe T. Greene

curator of American paintings and sculpture.

Other already endowed positions at the gallery in addition to Mrs Cooper's are

the director's and the European and contemporary art curator. Jock Reynolds

will become the Henry J. Heinz II director on September 1. Joachim Pissarro is

the Seymour H. Knox, Jr, curator of European and contemporary art.