New Director Joins Foundation

New Director, Corinne Woodcock welcomes Mike Carr and Eric Berman to the opening of the Jerome Hershey exhibition, April 9th.

Corinne Woodcock assumed her duties as Director of the Demuth Foundation on March 15th. With an art history degree from Wake Forest University, a broad knowledge of computers, employment as an analyst with J. P. Morgan & Company, and a year of experience as an intern in education, development, and collection management at the Reynolda House Museum in North Carolina – she is well equipped to take on the considerable responsibilities demanded of the Demuth Foundation director. Her activities thus far portend a happy future. In less than three months, she has been negotiating a major purchase for the Foundation: At Marshall’s. This 1915 watercolor is one of Demuth’s rare scenes of black nightclub life; it will add a work of not only distinguished lineage but great good humor to the Foundation’s permanent collection. Also, she has arranged for access to Charles Demuth’s letters to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, whose remarkable collection of modern art, at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania , includes over fifty examples of the artist’s work, including his extensive illustrations for books. She was responsible for hanging the current exhibition of Marc Lida’s watercolors for Proust’s A la recherche de temps perdu in connection with the Foundation’s annual meeting.