Enchanted lives, enchanted objects : American women collectors and the making of culture, 1800-1940 / Dianne Sachko Macleod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macleod, Dianne Sachko.

Contributor:

Getty Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women art collectors--United States--History--19th century.

Women art collectors.

Women art collectors--United States--History--20th century.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press : Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Women Art Collectors, Luxury or Necessity? 1

1 The Politics of Cultural Space in Antebellum America / Eliza Bowen Jumel, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt, Mary Telfair 21

2 A Conspiracy of Silence / Mary Sexton Morgan, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, Marietta Reed Stevens, Anna Breck Aspinwall, Abigail Wheatley Blodgett, Cornelia Clinch Stewart, Anna Wilstach, Alice Sturgis Hooper, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, Susan Clarke Warren, Isabella Stewart Gardner 45

3 Art and Activism / Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Mary Ann Deming Crocker, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Bertha Honore Palmer, Alva Smith Vanderbilt, Louisine Elder Havemeyer 93

4 The Gendering of the Modern Museum / Eleanor Hewitt, Sarah Hewitt, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Katherine Dreier, Maud Dale, Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, Hilla Rebay, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 134

5 The Sexing of Taste / Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Mabel Dodge, Etta Cone, Claribel Cone, Emily Crane Chadbourne 176

Epilogue: Modernist Nostalgia / Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, Mary Hopkins Emery, Mabel Dodge, Marion Koogler Mcnay 206.

Notes:

"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Ser. t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-283) and index.

ISBN:

9780520237292

0520237293

OCLC:

213358181