The art market and the museum : institutional collecting, display and patronage since the mid-nineteenth century / edited by Frances Fowle and MaryKate Cleary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fowle, Frances, editor.

Cleary, MaryKate, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Contextualizing art markets.

Contextualizing Art Markets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museums--History.

Art--Economic aspects--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.

Summary:

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it explores the role of dealers not only in selling directly to museums, but in influencing museum collecting priorities, as well as potential donors. It also examines the important but hitherto overlooked contribution of the female curator-agent. The book is divided into three sections, which address the relationship between art dealers and museums, women as art agents and influencers, and the strategies of entrepreneurial collectors. Featuring contributions from a wide range of international specialists in the market for decorative arts and antiquities, as well as European modernism, The Art Market and the Museum explores the origins and development of the modern Western art market and the global art networks that operated not only in Paris, London and New York, but in cities such as Glasgow, Vienna, Melbourne and Kansas City. It is perfect reading for scholars and researchers on the history of the art market, museum studies and art history more broadly.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Plates

List of Figures

List of Tables

The Editors

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Series Editor's Preface

Introduction The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century Frances Fowle and MaryKate Cleary

Part One The Museum and The Art Dealer

1 Trusted Agents of the Government: British Dealers and the Museum, 1850-1900 Diana Davis

2 Siegfried Bing and the Fin de Siècle Market for Japanese Art: Dealers, Collectors and Museums Tsukasa Kodera

3 Dubious Dealings and Issues of Connoisseurship: David Croal Thomson and the National Galleries of Scotland Frances Fowle

4 Étienne Bignou's Matisse and Picasso Exhibitions of the 1930s: The Gallery Show as Prototype for Museum Retrospectives Christel H. Force

5 The Middle Men of Art: Knoedler's and the Building of the Great American Collections Anne Helmreich and Sandra van Ginhoven, with contributions by DiAndra Reyes and Kylie King

Part Two Women as Art Agents and Influencers

6 From Executrix to Curator: Rosalind Birnie Philip and the Whistler Estate Collection, 1903-58 Alicia Hughes

7 Our Woman in Cairo: Lucy Olcott Perkins's Work as an Agent for the Cleveland Museum of Art Imogen Tedbury

8 A Seed of Desire: Effie Seachrest and Women Collectors in Kansas City MacKenzie Mallon

9 Impermanent Bliss: Deaccessioning and its Consequences Irene Walsh

Part Three The Entrepreneurial Collector and the Emergence of the Private Museum

10 Between Trade, Art Market and Museum: Chauchard's Legacy to the Louvre Morgane Weinling

11 Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood and the Vision from a Private Collection to Public Museum Rebecca Tilles.

12 Filling in the Gaps in his Collection? A Reassessment of Sir William Burrell's (1861-1958) Late Collecting Practice, 1944-57 Isobel MacDonald

13 The Private Museum: Evolving Models of Collecting and the Interplay between Collectors and the Art Market Georgina S. Walker

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350385382

1350385387

9781350385368

1350385360

OCLC:

1503845210