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America and the art of Flanders : collecting paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and their circles

Title
  1. America and the art of Flanders : collecting paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and their circles / edited by Esmée Quodbach.
Published by
  1. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
  2. ©2020

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Additional authors
  1. Quodbach, Esmée
  2. Frick Collection.
Description
  1. xviii, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm.
Summary
  1. "A collection of essays by twelve scholars and museum curators examining the allure of Flemish painting to Americans over the past centuries, chronicling the roles played by determined individuals in forming private and public collections"--
Series statement
  1. The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; volume five
Uniform title
  1. Studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 5.
Subject
  1. Painting, Flemish > Collectors and collecting > History. > United States
  2. Painting, Flemish > Appreciation > History. > United States
  3. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction : pleasure and prestige : the complex history of collecting Flemish art in America / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- Before modern connoisseurship : Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s, quest for Flemish paintings in the Early Republic / Lance Humphries -- Collecting the art of Flanders in antebellum New York / Margaret R. Laster -- The American Van Dyck / Adam Eaker -- A family affair : Bruegel and sons in America / Louisa Wood Ruby -- In search of major masters : Boston's history of collecting Flemish baroque painting / Ronni Baer -- "Never a dull picture" : John Graver Johnson collects Flemish art / Esmée Quodbach -- Creating an acquired taste for Flemish paintings : the advice of W.R. Valentiner and others / Dennis P. Weller -- Collecting seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in the Midwest / George S. Keyes -- From personal treasures to public gifts : the Flemish painting collection at the National Gallery of Art / Alexandra Libby -- Collecting Rubens in America / Marjorie E. Wieseman -- "It is a great painting for a museum" : collecting Flemish paintings in southern California / Anne T. Woollett.
Call number
  1. JQF 21-174
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (193-199) and index.
Title
  1. America and the art of Flanders : collecting paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and their circles / edited by Esmée Quodbach.
Publisher
  1. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America ; volume five
  2. Studies in the history of art collecting in America ; 5.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (193-199) and index.
Added author
  1. Quodbach, Esmée, editor.
  2. Frick Collection.
LCCN
  1. 2020020019
Other standard identifier
  1. 40030238229
ISBN
  1. 9780271086088 (cloth)
  2. 0271086084 (cloth)
Research call number
  1. JQF 21-174
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