Holland's golden age in America : collecting the art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals / edited by Esmée Quodbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quodbach, Esmée, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history of art collecting in America

The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Dutch--17th century--Collectors and collecting--United States--History.

Painting, Dutch.

Painting, Dutch--17th century--Appreciation--United States--History.

History.

Collectors and collecting.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx unnumbered pages, 242 pages : illustrations (some colored), portraits (some colored) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : The Frick Collection ; University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : a taste for Dutch art / Peter C. Sutton

The early years : the formation of America's taste for Dutch art. "Pictures chiefly painted in oils, on boards" : Dutch paintings in colonial New York / Louisa Wood Ruby ; Robert Gilmor, Jr.'s "real" Dutch paintings / Lance Humphries ; Collecting old Dutch masters : originals, interpretations, copies, and reproductions / Annette Stott ; Wilhelm von Bode and collecting in America / Catherine B. Scallen

The gilded age : great collections and collectors of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Golden age paintings in the gilded age : New York collectors and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1920 / Walter Liedtke ; "They leave us as they find us, they never elevate" : John G. Johnson and the Dutch masters / Lloyd DeWitt ; Collecting Vermeer, 1887-1919 / Esmée Quodbach ; Collecting Dutch paintings in Boston / Ronni Baer ; The Dutch painting collection at the National Gallery of Art / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

The twentieth century : the dissemination of Dutch art across America and the Dutch reaction. The passionate eye of W.R. Valentiner : shaping the canon of Dutch painting in America / Dennis P. Weller ; Unexpected rivals for the Dutch : competing with the Americans for Holland's national heritage in Great Britain and elsewhere / Peter Hecht ; Golden opportunities : collecting Rembrandt in southern California / Anne T. Woollett ; Has the great age of collecting Dutch old master paintings come to an end? / Quentin Buvelot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780271062013

0271062010

OCLC:

858778226