In the Vanguard

Diana Jocelyn Greenwold is the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art and holds a PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Berkeley.  M. Rachael Arauz holds a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and has worked as an independent curator of modern and American art since 2002.

• AcknowledgmentsM. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLDDirector’s ForewordMARK H. C. BESSIREIntroduction:The Generosity of an IdeaPAUL SACARIDIZPrologue: Mary Beasom Bishop andFrancis and Priscilla Merritt in Flint,1946–51STEFFI IBIS DUARTEThe Best Ideals of Socially Useful Living:Haystack, 1950–60M. RACHAEL ARAUZInscriptions in History:Haystack, 1961–69DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLDPlatesChronologyM. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLDWITH SHEA SPILLERHaystack Instructors, 1951–69ChecklistSources and NotesIndexLender ListPhotography Credits

"Churning out “great art” was not, finally, the school’s main contribution. What was created during those short, sweet summers had more to do with the very conditions of creativity. It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable."