Research Catalog

Title

Obsession : Sir William Van Horne's Japanese ceramics / edited by Ron Graham.

Publication

• Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Graham, Ron, 1948-
• George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, host institution.
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

Description

xii, 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

"Sir William Van Horne (1843-1915), a gifted connoisseur most famously associated with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, amassed of one of the most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics in North America. Obsession is an illuminating account of the how and why behind his passion for studying and acquiring nearly 1,200 objects. Ron Graham assembles a profile of Van Horne's larger-than-life personality as well as essays about his place at the top of the art collectors in Montreal's Golden Square Mile and the afterlife of his collection following his death. Accompanying the texts are historical photographs and documents, a detailed catalogue of over three hundred individual pieces in the Royal Ontario Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and a selection of beautiful reproductions of Van Horne's personal notebooks and exquisite watercolours from the archives of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Obsession presents a remarkable collection in the context of the life and career of a nineteenth-century Canadian business giant."--

Alternative Title

Sir William Van Horne's Japanese ceramics

Subjects

• Pottery
• Van Horne, William Cornelius, Sir, 1843-1915
• Québec > Montréal
• Pottery > Japan > Exhibitions
• Pottery, Japanese > Private collections > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Exhibitions
• Japan
• Exhibition catalogs
• Van Horne, William Cornelius, Sir, 1843-1915 > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Porcelain, Japanese > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, organized and held October 18, 2018-January 20, 2019 at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, and held November 19, 2019-March 1, 2020 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Ron Graham -- The Nation Builder / Peter C. Newman -- Van Horne and Friends: Collecting European Art in Montreal's Square Mile / Janet M. Brooke -- Japan Contained: The Birth of the Asian Collections at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Laura Vigo -- The "Social Life" of the Van Horne Japanese Ceramic Collection / Akiko Takesue -- The Ninsei Tea Bowl / Akiko Takesue -- Van Horne's Notebooks / Akiko Takesue -- Ceramics Catalogue / Akiko Takesue, in consultation with Louise Cort -- Case Studies / Akiko Takesue.

Call Number

JQF 19-417

ISBN

• 0773554645
• 9780773554641
• 9780994912954
• 0994912951

OCLC

1028888476

Title

Obsession : Sir William Van Horne's Japanese ceramics / edited by Ron Graham.

Publisher

Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Graham, Ron, 1948- editor.

George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, host institution.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

Other Form:

Obsession (Montréal, Québec) Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press for Gardiner Museum, 2018. (CaOONL)20189020814

Research Call Number

JQF 19-417