Research Catalog

Tastemakers, collectors, and patrons : collecting American art in the long nineteenth century

Title
Tastemakers, collectors, and patrons : collecting American art in the long nineteenth century / edited by Linda S. Ferber and Margaret R. Laster.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Frick Collection ; University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library JQF 24-773Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

Details

Additional Authors
  • Ferber, Linda S.
  • Laster, Margaret R.
Description
xvii, 222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, color portraits; 26 cm.
Summary
"A collection of essays examining the motivations and (sometimes) shared beliefs that led collectors to assemble significant holdings of American art in the nineteenth century"--
Series Statement
The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; sixth volume
Uniform Title
Studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 6.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Art, American > Collectors and collecting > History > United States > 19th century
  • Art patronage > United States > History > 19th century
  • Art, American > Collectors and collecting
  • Art patronage
  • Art, American
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Essays.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The patronage of Robert Gilmor, Jr. : the role of a merchant prince in defining an American school of art / Lance Humphries -- An art museum for Gotham : the Luman Reed Collection and the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts / Margaret R. Laster -- Power failure : the American Art-Union experiment / Kimberly Orcutt -- Daniel Wadsworth and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt : Connecticut's leading collectors of American landscape art / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Nicholas Longworth : early midwestern activist art patron / Lynne D. Ambrosini -- Patrons of reform : collecting the American Pre-Raphaelites / Sophie Lynford -- "Encouraging American genius" : the Corcoran Gallery of Art, from private collection to the nation's art museum / Sarah Cash -- Samuel Untermyer : the man who bought Whistler's Falling Rocket / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- "Caveat emptor" : the trade in American historical portraits in the early twentieth century / Richard Saunders -- A curator's perspective : William Preston Harrison, Childe Hassam, and a quest for legacy in California / Ilene Susan Fort -- The Grand Central Art Galleries : expanding the taste and market for American art in the 1920s and 1930s / Julie McGinnis Flanagan.
Call Number
JQF 24-773
ISBN
  • 9780271095240
  • 0271095245
LCCN
2023022649
OCLC
1381095850
Title
Tastemakers, collectors, and patrons : collecting American art in the long nineteenth century / edited by Linda S. Ferber and Margaret R. Laster.
Publisher
[New York, New York] : The Frick Collection ; University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; sixth volume
Studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 6.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Ferber, Linda S., editor.
Laster, Margaret R., editor.
Research Call Number
JQF 24-773
View in Legacy Catalog