| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 545 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-522) and index. |
| Contents |
Directors' foreword -- Organizers of the exhibition -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Acknowledgments -- A private passion / Stephan Wolohojian -- French school -- German school -- British school -- American school -- Concordance of Fogg Art Museum inventory numbers and catalogue numbers -- Bibliography -- Index of former owners -- General index. |
| Summary |
Grenville L. Winthrop (1864-1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion was collecting art. He had the resources, the intuition, and talented advisers to help him create a collection that is distinct not only in its depth and breadth, but also in its quality. This catalogue features paintings, drawings, and watercolors by more than fifty French, British, and American artists from the legendary Winthrop Collection, bequeathed in 1943 to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Included are masterpieces by French artists David, Ingres, Gericault, Chassériau, and Moreau; British artists Blake, Rossetti, and Burne-Jones; and American masters Homer, Sargent, and Whistler. They works are discussed by more than sixty authors, all of whom are among the leading authorities in their various fields. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University," Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, March 15-May 26, 2003; The National Gallery, London, June 25-September 14, 2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 23, 2003-January 25, 2004. |
| Summary |
"For the Winthrop collection's international debut exhibition, curators at the Fogg Art Museum of the Harvard University Art Museums, headed by Stephan Wolohojian, organized the selection and invited more than sixty specialists to write on artworks in their particular area of expertise. Works include such highlights in their creator's oeuvre as Jacques-Louis David's sketchbooks for The Coronation of Napoleon and the Crowning of Josephine, Theodore Gericault's Mutiny on the Raft of the Medusa, Vincent van Gogh's The Blue Cart, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Odalisque with the Slave, William Blake's illustrations for the Divine Comedy, Dante Gabriel Rosetti's Blessed Damozel, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Silver. In addition, an essay by Wolohojian provides a fascinating and informative description of Winthrop and the growth of his collection."--Jacket. |
| Awards |
George Wittenborn Award, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2004. |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943. |
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Art museums. |
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Fogg Art Museum -- Exhibitions.
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Fogg Art Museum. |
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Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Art -- Private collections -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Private collections. |
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Massachusetts -- Cambridge. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Wolohojian, Stephan.
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Tahinci, Anna.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Musée des beaux-arts (Lyon, France)
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National Gallery (Great Britain)
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| ISBN |
1588390764 (hc.) |
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9781588390769 (hc.) |
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1588390772 (paperback) |
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9781588390776 (paperback) |
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0300098847 (Yale University Press) |
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9780300098846 (Yale University Press) |
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