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Author:   Esmée Quodbach (Assistant Director and Editor in Chief of the Center for the History of Collecting, Center for the History of Collecting in America)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.247kg
ISBN:  

9780271086088

ISBN 10:   0271086084
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Esmée Quodbach Introduction: Pleasure and Prestige: The Complex History of Collecting Flemish Art in America Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Part 1. The Early Years: The Formation of America’s Taste for Flemish Painting 1. Before Modern Connoisseurship: Robert Gilmor, Jr.’s, Quest for Flemish Paintings in the Early Republic Lance Humphries 2. Collecting the Art of Flanders in Antebellum New York Margaret R. Laster 3. The American Van Dyck Adam Eaker 4. A Family Affair: Bruegel and Sons in America Louisa Wood Ruby Part 2. The Gilded Age and Beyond 5. In Search of Major Masters: Boston’s History of Collecting Flemish Baroque Painting Ronni Baer 6. “Never a Dull Picture”: John Graver Johnson Collects Flemish Art Esmée Quodbach 7. Creating an Acquired Taste for Flemish Paintings: The Advice of W. R. Valentiner and Others Dennis P. Weller 8. Collecting Seventeenth-Century Flemish Paintings in the Midwest George S. Keyes Part 3. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The Dissemination of Flemish Art Across America 9. From Personal Treasures to Public Gifts: The Flemish Painting Collection at the National Gallery of Art Alexandra Libby 10. Collecting Rubens in America Marjorie E. Wieseman 11. “It Is a Great Painting for a Museum”: Collecting Flemish Paintings in Southern California Anne T. Woollett Notes References List of Contributors List of Artists’ Names Index

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America and the Art of Flanders is yet another excellent volume in an already impressive series on the history of collecting in the United States. It investigates the changing interest in Flemish art over time and what happens when private love of art becomes institutional collecting. It also deals with many different American museum collections as part of a greater national collection. This is rarely done, and it is great food for thought. -Peter Hecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

America and the Art of Flanders is yet another excellent volume in an already impressive series on the history of collecting in the United States. It investigates the changing interest in Flemish art over time-and what happens when private love of art becomes institutional collecting. It also deals with many different American museum collections as part of a greater national collection. This is rarely done, and it is great food for thought. -Peter Hecht, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands America and the Art of Flanders provides a thorough evaluation of the different forces that shaped collectors' taste for Flemish art in the United States, thereby furthering our understanding of the diverse processes and mechanisms that constitute the creation of collections, both public and private. As such, the volume is a milestone in the systematic study of collecting and taste in America, as well as an important contribution to the history of collecting as an expanding research field explored from the academic as well as museum perspective. -Ulrike Muller, caa.reviews

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Esmée Quodbach is Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library in New York. She is the editor of Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals, also published by Penn State University Press.

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