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Paul Mellon's legacy : a passion for British art : masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art / essays by John Baskett ... [and others] ; with contributions by Cassandra Albinson ... [and others].
LIBRA N5220.M55 P38 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mellon, Paul--Art collections.
- Mellon, Paul.
- Yale Center for British Art.
- Art, British--Private collections--United States.
- Art, British.
- Private collections.
- Art museums.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale Center for British Art, Royal Academy of Arts : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain' s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon' s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center' s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.
- Contents:
- Essays
- Paul Mellon: a remembrance / John Baskett
- Paul Mellon and the architecture of the Yale Center for British Art / Jules David Prown
- Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art / Duncan Robinson
- Paul Mellon and scholarship in the history of British art / Brian Allen
- Paul Mellon as a book collector / William Reese
- Gallery of works
- Fine arts
- Book arts
- Catalogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300117462
- 0300117469
- 9780979037801
- 0979037808
- 9781905711024
- 1905711026
- OCLC:
- 74916141
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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