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Collecting and Connoisuership Flashcards

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Belvedere Palace

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1776

  • Viennese Royal Collection moved here
  • works organized by school, then category by Christian Von Mechel
  • No labels- walk through history
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The Louvre

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1792

  • Works organized by importance
  • Kings collection nationalized (after revolution)
  • open to public 3 days a week, no weekends
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Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

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1811-1817

  • no previous uses, built just to be a museum
  • combo of natural and artificial light
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Glyptothek, Munich

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1816-1830

  • greek and roman sculpture
  • greek façade
  • small building
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Altes Museum, Berlin

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1825-1828

  • larger than Glyptothek
  • Classical facade
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National Gallery, London

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1832-1838

  • not the royal collection
  • funded by bill in Parliament to buy collection of 38 works
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Colonial and Federal periods

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  • very few identifiable collectors

- use inventories and export records to get sense of collections

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Thomas Jefferson

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1771- designs plan for art gallery at Monticello

  • has wish list
  • 50 works, all copies
  • works included 4 paintings of “the thinkers”
  • advised by Dr. John Morgan of Philly to do Grand Tour
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Centennial Exhibition

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1876-breakthrough exhibition, introduces demand for new works in the states

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Hudson Fulton Exhibition

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1909 at MMA
celebrates 100+ years of exploration and development of Hudson and inventor of steam ship (fulton)
-used period settings
-over 180,000 visitors
-allowed met to acquire Bolles collection

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Hart Room

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acquired 1936 by MMA from Ipswich Mass

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John Hewlett House, NY

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acquired by MMA in 1910

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Oak Hill, Boston/Salem

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MFA

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3 ways of collecting

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  1. obtain piece from each date/period and each region
  2. only collect historically significant pieces
  3. collect ensembles-things that go together in a room
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Natalie Blair

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1887-1951

studies bolles collection at Met to start her own collection

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Alphonso T. Clearwater

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1848-1951
mostly silver
sends new acquistions straight to Met (Where collection is), hoped to inspire craftsmen

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Isaac Royal

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1739- inventory of his estate

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Isaac Smith and Elizabeth Storer

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portraits and silver

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George Palmer

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collected high style, Philly works- in Met

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Martha Codman Collection

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given to MFA Boston
colonial period stuff NOT from Boston
Husband collected paintings not from Boston

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C.W. Peale 1779

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commissioned to paint GW, starting point of his career, goes on to paint more great men

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C.W. Peale 1784

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displays great men portraits in his Philly home, soon adds landscapes and curiosities

  • adds skylight to home for natural light
  • 25 cent admission, open to public
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C.W. Peale 1794

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moves collection to Philosophical Hall, advertises that science and virtue go hand in hand

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C.W. PEale 1801

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exhumes Mastodon (painting 1806)

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C.W. Peale 1802

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Exhibits Mastadon bones at Philadelphia hall for 50 cents

Moves rest of collection to Phila State House-charges 25 cents, has published guidebook

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Peale 1821

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state lets him incorporate- board of trustees and staff of science lecturers

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Rembrandt Peale 1814

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Baltimore Museum
built by Richard Carey Long
first space in US built to be a museum
3rd story studio space 
given to bro Rubeuns-closes in 1830-content dispersed
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Benjamin West

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1820-sons open gallery in London, including Death on a Pale Horse
-try to get us gov’t to buy but they won’t

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Yale

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in exchange for paintings they give trumbull $1,000/yr

  • 1832-open gallery to display works
  • Neoclassical building with skylight, 2 rooms on upper floor one for trumbull paintings and one for other paintings
  • trumbull and wife buried under gallery
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Wadsworth Antheneum

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1844- opened to public, first public art museum

  • gothic revival building
  • large collection of trumbull paingings
  • works meant to define what was important to America
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New York Historical Society

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1804-founded no art, 1809 acquired art by donation
1858- luman reed collection
1857-permanent building- Italian looking

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American Academy of Fine Arts

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1802-1830
founded as place for artists, soon turned into a museum
had casts from louve
Trumbull became president and it went downhill
-Daniel Wadsworth acquires works upon closing (wadsworth athaneum )

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National Academy

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1863- new building gothic revival style (no permanent home for first 40 years)

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Harper’s Weekly 1859

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publishes articles describing collections in NY and calling for them to be made public, thinks American collectors won’t keep art for more than 2 generations

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Union League Club

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1869- first committee to establish met, 27 members including artists, no collection to start with

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Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the US Sanitary Commission

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1864- union square
precursor to met
features Washington crossing the delaware

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John Taylor Johnston

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1st president of Met- collects French Painters and JMW Turner’s Slave Ship

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Dodworth Building

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first home of met in 1872 on 5th ave

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William Boget

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1st VP of Met, goes to Europe and buys paintings

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first Met Exhibition

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1872 in Dodsworth building

  • only high style attendees
  • included catalogue
  • heavy influence of dutch and Flemish paintings
  • 174 works
  • not great works, but what was available
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Met 1771-72

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given 1million by city to build and space in park

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met 1880

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first building opened-ruscinian gothic- modeled after south Kensington museum in london

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Luigi Pala di Cesnola

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1st director of met, archeologist, sells things he discovers to met

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Henry Marquand

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2nd director of met, buys European REnaissance and Dutch paintings for met

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Met 1888

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Richard Morris Hunt designs 5th ave façade, adds skylight

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May 31, 1891

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1st sunday Met is open, 12,000 people come

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early met admission

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admission must be free 4 days a month and holidays

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Met starts vetting gifts

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1905

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J.P.Morgan

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President of Board of Met, has huge collection, can’t afford it when he dies-son sells a lot to Frick but Met has some dec arts stuff

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Met 1905 ANnual report of the trustees

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state they will not buy American Art but will take donations

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George Hearn

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gives collection of paintings and 150,000 to met in 1906 to buy American works

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Boston Athenaeum

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originally not open to the public, founded as a philosophical society

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James Perkins

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1827- gives house to Boston athenaeum, allow them to build gallery and lecture hall

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Washington Allston, A Landscape After Sunset, 1819

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Boston painter, included in 1st annual exhibition at Boston athaneum, 25 cent admission but open to public–the funds from these shows allowed them to acquire works

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Boston Athaneum 1849

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builds new building- Italian motifs, skylights, quickly overcrowded

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Colonel Timothy Bigelow Lawrence

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1869 bequeaths armor collection to boston athaneum and wife pledges 25,000 if they can come up with 75,000 for new building

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Charles Perkins

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writes new mission statement for boston athenaeum, publishes it in the journal of social science, large connection with science and American industrial production

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Martin Brimmer

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1st president of BA, stays for 25 years

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BA Model

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South Kensington Museum, London

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Copley Square

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MFA granted land there by city of Boston, must be built in 3 years and valued at $100,000 (takes 6 years)
-has to be open to public free 4 days per month

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MFA has objects…

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…but no money!!

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Washington Allston, Elijiah in the Desert, 1818

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gift to MFA

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architect for mfa Copley square

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Sturgis and brigham
gothic style (similar to Met built 4 yrs later)
opens 1876
similar to south kensington

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MFA ground floor

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sculptures
Thomas Crawford, Orpheus and Cerberus
Giulio Monteverde, The Young Colombus
Seated Sekhmet, Egyptian, New Kingdom

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mfa paying days

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43/day 5,551/year

66
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mfa free days

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33,000/year, after 1 year opens sundays as free day in addition to Saturday

67
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Edward Sylvester Morse

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scientist who becomes Japanese Pottery collector-given to MFA in 1802

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Ernest Fenollosa

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1st curator of Japanese art at mfa- not trained as Asian art expert but taught in japan

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Boston Back Bay 1809

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New MFA opens in more upscale neighborhood making it more exclusive, looks like Met

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William Morris Hunt

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served as art advisor to Bostonians, friends with Barbizon painters, therefore Bostonians bought French Art

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Corcoran Gallery

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Washington D.C. 1869

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William Corcoran

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Banker-started collecting in 1850-made conservative purchases

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Hiram Power’s Greek Slave, 1846

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collected by William Corcoran, displayed at Christmas Party in 1861

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Daniel Huntington, Mercy’s Dream, 1850

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one of 1st works acquired by William Corcoran

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William Corcoran 1855

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opens domestic gallery 2 days a week

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William Corcoran 1857

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published catalogue of 83 works, 1/3 are American

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William Corcoran 1859

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buys land, hires James Renwick to erect building to house collection, modeled after additions to the Louvre

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William Corcoran 1891

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building is too small, builds another neoclassical building designed by Thomas Flagg
has a rotunda in front, serious academic overall tone with heavy classical influence

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William Corcoran 1907

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holds exhibition of contemporary American Art, 400 works

-opened for a month-63,000 visit

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Winslow Homer, A Light on the Sea, 1897

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Shown at 1907 Corcoran exhibit

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Willard LeRoy Metcalf, May Night, 1906

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Shown at 1907 Corcoran exhibit

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William Corcoran Deaccessioned

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could not keep up with free museum (Smithsonian), works deaccessioned to the National Gallery, building taken over by George Washington University

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International Exhibition 1876

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founding of what becomes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, many colonial objects, pieces from exhibition start collection

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Original Name for PMA

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Philadelphia Museum and the School of Industrial Design

85
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PMA model and date

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South Kensington-London

Chartered 1876- opened 1877

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PMA Audience

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broad, 1/3 of philly’s population visits by 1890

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1903 guide to pma central rotunda

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  • practical objects used as models
  • huge range of objects
  • modern sculpture
88
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Wilstach family 1892

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gives collection of 300 paintings to PMA- shift in direction

89
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PMA current building

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construction 1919-1928
greek classical
open to public 1928

90
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Art Institute of Chicago

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original building -Romanesque revival architecture, in center of town
-rooted in academy of fine arts founded in 1879

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Art Institute of Chicago New Building

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1891-93 by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge

  • museum designed with idea of how to develop city
  • building is many different styles
92
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Art Institute of Chicago layout

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simple floor plan, ancient to Modern art

  • monumental staircase
  • room for casts
93
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Rembrandt (Workshop), Young Woman at an Open Half Door,1645

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acquired by Art Institute of Chicago by President Charles Hutchinson in 1894 with 13 other paintings

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Meindart Hobbema, The Watermill with the Great Red Roof, 1662

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acquired by Art Institute of Chicago by President Charles Hutchinson in 1894 with 13 other paintings

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1890s trend

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Old Masters begin to come available and all American collections collect them

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Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo

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Result from World’s Fair, roots in Buffalo Art Academy

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Albert Bierstadt, The Marina Piccola, Capri, 1859-

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one of the 1st works donated to Albright-Knox

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John Albright

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gives large monetary gift to Albright-Knox to found museum but it must be in Delaware Park

99
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Albright-Knox Gallery building

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completed in 1905 by Edward Green, elevated in park and received good reviews

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St. Louis Museum

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1st major museum w. of miss. river-opened in 1904

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St Louis Museum architect

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Cass Gilbert- focus on fine arts, central sculpture hall badly arranged

102
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st. louis museum collection

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sources from local collectors

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st louis museum 1909

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city passes legislation that states city tax money will go directly to museum for funding

104
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East Building, St. Louis Museum

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David Chipperfield, 2013

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Cleveland Museum of Art building

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Hubbell and Benes- completed 1916

106
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Cleveland Museum of Art funding origin

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3 wealthy Cleveland families all had same lawyer and lawyer convinced them to donate money to a museum

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Cleveland collection

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not large, but focuses on masterpieces and American Painters, focuses on temporary traveling exhibitions

108
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John Singleton Copley, Mrs. John Greene, 1769

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Cleveland Museum of Art

109
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National Gallery funding

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federal legislation

110
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National Gallery founding collection

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collection of Andrew Mellon

111
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Albert Cuyp, Hedsman Tending Cattle, 1655/60

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National Gallery

112
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Diego Valezquez, The Needlewoman, 1640/50

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National Gallery

113
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National Gallery architect

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John Russell Pope, located on Mall, designated by Congress, center portion looks like pantheon

114
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4 universities with museums before 1900

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Bowdoin College
Yale
Vassar
Smith

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Bowdoin College

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Land for college given by James BowdoinIII, named after his father
-1st museum part of a Univ.

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Bowdoin Grand Tour

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early 1770s, began to acquire works of art and had his portrait painted

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Bowdoin Friend…

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Trumbull- trumbull uses Smibert’s Studio in Boston, Bowdoin acquires Smiberts works

118
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Walker Art Building

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at Bowdoin College, Maine, 1894 by McKim

-neoclassical

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Yale 1858

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Professor Edward Salsbury organizes loan exhibition of over 250 works

120
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Street Hall

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1864, Yale University- designed by Peter Bonnet Wight, Ruscinian Design

  • called School of Art-functions as art school
  • replaces trumbull picture gallery, also houses art collection
121
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Jarves Collection

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installed in Street Hall 1887-1890

  • paintings are considered distasteful and won’t be bought by Boston
  • used as collateral for a $20,000 3 yr loan-cannot pay it back so Yale buys works
  • Jarves intend is to show complete history of art
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Egerton Swartwout

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1928 addition to Yale art gallery dedicated to displaying art

123
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Garvan collection

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1930-collection given to yale

  • high style objects from all regions
  • 10,000 works of art
124
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Louis I Kahn

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addition to Yale 1953 coffered ceiling, british art center

125
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Vassar

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museum founded at the same time as school, collection of Hudson River School paintings

126
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William Fogg

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gave money to Harvard for a building by advice of lawyer, no actual connection

127
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Charles Elliot Norton

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1st professor of Art History in US, 1870s, literary background

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Edward Waldo Forbes

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collector and Art Historian, becomes Director of Fogg in 1909 and gives collection (generation after Norton)

129
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Methods and Processes of Italian Painting

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Class at Harvard taught by Forbes, students use techniques so they have a better understanding of art

130
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Forbes other stuff

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-engages students directly with works in the gallery
-refers to Fogg as a Fine Arts laboratory
-brings other people in to teach students
(How Sotheby’s is set up)

131
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Fogg Art Museum

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1927-built by Charles Coolidge

132
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Paul Sach’s Museum Course

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1944

  • training ground for museum directors
  • taught from objects
  • introduced students to important people
  • model for Sotheby’s
133
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Reopening of Fogg

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Nov. 2014-additional floors added

134
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Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

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House Museum in Milan, Italy

  • opened to public in 1891
  • greatly influenced ISG
135
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Hertford House, Manchester Square, London

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  • inspiration for Frick
  • grand gallery
  • Wallace collection, opened in 1900
  • focus on French Rococo
136
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Isabella Stewart Gardner

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began collecting after death of a young son, she was advised to go to Europe and it has been said she replaced family with art

137
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Johannes Vermeer, The Concert

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one of ISG 1st purchases, bought without consultant

-shows she has own aesthetic taste, most of collection is influenced by Bernard Berenson

138
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait

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ISG decides to open museum after acquiring this painting

139
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ISG Building

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Back Bay (Before MFA), starts planning in 1896-opens in 1903
-Willard T. Sears- architect
140
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ISG admission

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2 weeks in fall, 2 weeks in spring, 200 tickets available/day, had to apply for a ticket, each ticket costs $1.00

141
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ISG 1914

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Spanish Court expansion
-not actually Spanish architecture, more what she likes
(dies in 1924-house opened to public in a greater extent)

142
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Walters Collection

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Baltimore, MD- 2 generations

Father William Walters and son Henry Walters

143
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William Walters collection

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supports American painters but also starts collecting European works after trip to Europe

144
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Walters Artist Reception

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1872- begins opening house to artists for reception, becomes a tradition
1876-starts opening gallery for charitable events

145
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Walters Admission

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open to public Wed and Sat first 4 months of year, Washington’s birthday, easter Monday. costs $0.50

146
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Henry Walters collection

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more global, represents more cultures, acquires at world’s fairs

147
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Walters Art Museum Opens

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1909 (also use Berenson as a consultant)

148
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Henry Walters dies 1931

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20,000 objects in collection, bequeathed to the City of Baltimore

149
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Frick

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in 5 years, collects 90 paintings, contemporary French artists, not at frick today

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Frick Retires 1899

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buys first Rembrandt, emphasis shifts to dutch/Flemish and british portraits

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Vanderbilt mansion

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Frick rents it on 57th st and moves collection there

152
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lennox library

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frick acquires location of lennox library on 5th ave between 70 and 71
-Thomas Carrere designs building, architecturally looking towards France

153
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Frick 1935

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Frick opens to public after death of him and his wife

154
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Huntington Collection, San Marino California

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actually Joseph Duveen’s collection- he plans interior and acquires art, british portraits, skylit grand gallery

155
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Gainsborough- Blue Boy

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Huntington Collection

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Phillips Memorial Collection, D.C.

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  • wishlist of 23 great pictures
  • collects modern works
  • shows Rothko in small room and small groups next to each other
  • important venue to see moder art in D.C. (collects 1910s-1950s)

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