MAHS Presents First Annual Charles D. Cuttler Award
to Jean M. Green
Mrs. Jean M. Green was awarded the Charles D. Cuttler Award for Contributions to the History of Art at the April 9 Members Luncheon of the MAHS Conference in Omaha. This annual award is named for art historian and Midwest Art History Society Founder Charles D. Cuttler. It has been established to honor art historians, curators, museum directors, patrons, and others who have made contributions, national or international, to the history of art with special relevance to the Midwest. Mrs. Green is the very first to receive this award.
Mrs. Green has been recognized for her and her family’s generosity as supporters of civic philanthropic causes and as major contributors to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. MAHS is particularly grateful to Mrs. Green for her generous sponsorship of our own projects, notably the Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. The forthcoming volume in this series, the sixteenth-century northern drawings, will include the following acknowledgment: “The color illustrations were made possible by a generous grant from the Westport Fund, Kansas City, Missouri, arranged by Gail M. Harmon, Annie J. McGreevy, and Jean M. Green in memory of their parents Barbara James McGreevy and Milton McGreevy. Both Mr. and Mrs. McGreevy were devoted collectors of Old Master Drawings.”
As Mrs. Green was unable to attend the Friday luncheon to receive the award, board member Patricia J. Graham accepted the award on her behalf, and she and Burton Dunbar, editor of the Corpus of Sixteenth Century Northern Drawings, presented the award to Mrs. Green in Kansas City.