Modern art on display : the legacies of six collectors / K. Porter Aichele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aichele, K. Porter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cézanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G. David Thompson and Paul Klee. The case studies are linked by a thematic focus on the integral relationship between the collectors' acquired knowledge about the work they amassed and their innovative display models. This focus brings a new perspective to the history of collecting and interpreting modern art in America for nearly half a century (1915-1960). By examining the books the collectors themselves read and analyzing archival photographs of their displays, the author makes a case for the historical significance of how the collectors presented the art they acquired before their collections were institutionalized.

Contents:

Introduction: the collectors as connoisseurs and curators

Duncan Phillips, Augustus Vincent Tack, and a collection in the making

Albert C. Barnes, Chaim Soutine, and the art in seeing

Albert Eugene Gallatin, Juan Gris, and the patron as painter

Lillie Bliss, Paul Cézanne, and the making of an advocate

Etta Cone's collaboration with Henri Matisse

G. David Thompson, Paul Klee, and display as philanthropy

Conclusion: legacies of learning and display.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61149-711-6

1-61149-617-9

OCLC:

948286429