Overview

This catalogue was published in 1996 to accompany an innovative exhibition, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, organized by the Frick Art Museum and the Palmer Museum of Art. With works of art borrowed from numerous prominent institutions - including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago - the exhibition focused not on the objects themselves but rather on the motivations and methods that led collectors to bring medieval art to America. The catalogue for the 1996 exhibition, now newly available to the public, enables readers to revisit the pioneering display of objects, ranging from ivory statues to stained glass. With an illustrated catalogue of the 75 objects in the show and essays on well-known collectors and collections of medieval art, this volume is an indispensable reference for the study of both American collecting and medieval art.

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Author:   Elizabeth Bradford Smith
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Palmer Museum of Art
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.934kg
ISBN:  

9780911209457

ISBN 10:   091120945
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 May 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Elizabeth Bradford Smith, The Earliest Private Collectors: False Dawn Multiplied; George Grey Barnard: Artist/Collector/Dealer/Curator; Kathryn McClintock, The Classroom and the Courtyard: Medievalism in American Highbrow Culture; Academic Collecting at Harvard; Public Museums in the East: The Case of Boston, Arts of the Middle Ages and the Swarzenskis; R. Aaron Rottner, J. P. Morgan and the Middle Ages; Sarah Andrews, Academic Collecting at Princeton; Heather McCune Bruhn, William M. Milliken and Medieval Art; The Guelph Treasure: The Traveling Exhibition and Purchases by Major American Museums; Beth Lombardi, Raymond Pitcairn and the Collecting of Medieval Stained Glass in America; Marshall Price, Henry Walters: Elusive Collector; Cheryl Snay, Medieval Art in American Popular Culture: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Travelers in Europe.

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Elizabeth Bradford Smith is Associate Professor of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University, and co-editor of Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe (1997).

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